Saw Derren Brown live last night!

Yeah you can walk on broken glass anyway if the pieces are relatively small and relatively flat. I think I remember an article on it where they said only to use the main part of bottles to ensure it's flatness.

What was clever about DB's act was that he got some specs to smash up bottles to add to the pile of glass which appears to remove the slight preparation as detailed above. Of course all he needed to do was to avoid the few pieces that didn't conform.
 
Dr Aardwolf said:
... I'm reading Brown's book 'Tricks of the Mind' right now to glean some insights, and it's an excellent read and goes into skepticism and pseudo-science as well as some fascinating psychological tricks.:wide-eyed
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I read Derrens book and found it very interesting.

It did occur to me while reading it that given he is a 'master of deception', perhaps I shouldn't take everything he writes at face value.

Then I had a paranoid moment and had a vision of Derren broadcasting a show called 'Trick of the Book' in which he causes all the thousands of people who've read his book to send all their money to his bank account while he does a piece to camera pointing out all the subtle psychological tricks in his book that have achieved this effect.

In my defence, it wasn't a very long paranoid moment.
 
3point14 said:
Then I had a paranoid moment and had a vision of Derren broadcasting a show called 'Trick of the Book' in which he causes all the thousands of people who've read his book to send all their money to his bank account while he does a piece to camera pointing out all the subtle psychological tricks in his book that have achieved this effect.
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You haven't sent him all your money yet? You must really be at the bottom end of the suggestibility bell curve!

(although in reality he probably just pick-pocketed all my bank details)

:D
 
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Love DB but noticed he used same 'ad libs' of "count the buttons" and "dont answer it, its really bad news" at Southport show as well.
Does he walk on REAL broken glass?
 
Yes he probably does walk on broken glass because, as explained above, it's possible for anyone to do it.

Anyone have links to his button counting effects on video? I had a few ideas about it but need to see it again to be sure.
 
I also have ideas about Count the Buttons but they are a bit high tech but doable. Don't want to fall foul of disclosure rule.
 
I think there is probably a much simpler explanation for counting the buttons, involving the use of accurate weighing scales. Remember he was very careful to say 'don't drop any of the buttons' and then gave a reason like 'I might slip on them'?. Maybe there is another reason behind why he doesn't want any buttons dropped?!
 
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