If I wanted to bend a spoon "using my mind"

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CFLarsen said:


Ehhh....do I?



Dunno. Ask him.
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what I mean is, do you have to have another person with you or can you bend the spoon on your own ?


is there video of randi doing it ?
 
Right here is a spoon that was not only bent, but actually dissolved into two pieces by Randi at an annual meeting of the New York Area Skeptics about ten years ago. My wife, Ellen, served as his "girl assistant". He bent it above her head, so she couldn't observe the moves. We have a bad video (fixed camera, too far away) around here somewhere.
P&T in "How to play with your food" have a hint: Bend it when nobody's looking.
 
Jeff Corey said:
Right here is a spoon that was not only bent, but actually dissolved into two pieces by Randi at an annual meeting of the New York Area Skeptics about ten years ago. My wife, Ellen, served as his "girl assistant". He bent it above her head, so she couldn't observe the moves. We have a bad video (fixed camera, too far away) around here somewhere.
P&T in "How to play with your food" have a hint: Bend it when nobody's looking.
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I'd really like to see some vid of randi's bending style.

freestyle.
 
Crossdress said:
I'd really like to see some vid of randi's bending style.

freestyle.
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I was in the front row center seat and and had a closer view than the video camera, which was more than 10 rows back. There is nothing to be seen on the video that I was not better positioned to see.
It looked like magic to me.
 
A better source, IMHO, is the video Psychokinetic Silverware by Banachek, aka Steve Shaw, one of the spoon benders in Project Alpha.
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Indeed, I just got mine a few weeks ago, and it's great. And quite easy.
 
Technically not true. If you prep it beforehand, somebody could be looking, but they might not see.
 
Jeff Corey said:
Technically not true. If you prep it beforehand, somebody could be looking, but they might not see.
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Ok. True. But it could be said that's all that's required to perform the trick.
 
homunculus

Try Ben Harris' Gellerism. Never read it myself but it is reputedly very good.

Paul.
 
Oh, and it's a lot more difficult than "bend it when no-one is looking". Geller himself is a lot more subtle about it than this. His best spoon bends appear to happen right there between his fingers. He lets spectators "feel" the metal becoming soft...

This kind of bend needs some preparation, though. Nothing that takes very long.

Paul.
 
Forget 'Gellerism Revealed'. Approaches metal bending the way a close-up magician would approach it as a magic trick. Probably doesn't teach you what you want to know.

Forget the Guy Bavli video. Not the best you can buy.

The Banachek video is the best by far, but it won't do you any good unless you are willing to put the time in to learn to do this stuff properly and present it well.
 
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