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Re: Derren Brown: Marrakech
I noticed that in the first episode of the series, but in later episode he does make it clear that it is an ambigram or whatever they're called. In those earlier episodes i guess he wasn't expecting people to realise. And even in the second series when the cards are clearly different, his powers of manipulation are still good enough for him to be able to make the participant choose whichever card he wants them to.
By: hojumoju
Re: Colbert Report: Jan 7, 2008
Uh, I'm in the UK and these videos always work for me, so it's not that.
By: hojumoju
Re: Derren Brown: Inside Your Mind
Also, at the start when he says "Don't think of a black cat", he uses that principle later on when telling participants that "If you don't want to do this, that' fine, but once you're in, you're in. There's no going back." "There's no going back" is the last thing he said, so that's the bit people remember.
By: hojumoju
Re: Derren Brown: Inside Your Mind
If you find this interesting, you should buy his autobiography. He basically tells you these amazing memory tricks, and also how to hypnotise people. It also gives you an interesting perspective to analyse his pieces from.
For example, the "forgetting in a train" segment at the start uses many similar cues from the infamous Zombie segment, and also when he made the taxi driver forget the London eye. He says, and repeats "Thinking about it now, what stop...", telling the peoples brains to stop subconsciously. The hand gesture, which, very deliberately, is similar to the wiping clean of a slate goes hand-in-hand with the vocal cues. This gesture becomes associated with the notion of forgetting, and the more he does it, the harder it is for participants to remember.
I think the reason it doesn't work on that one guy is because Derren seemed to forget to do the hand motion as he said the words. He seemed to do it hurriedly as he was finishing speaking, as if he forgot.
So in short, he's amazing.
For example, the "forgetting in a train" segment at the start uses many similar cues from the infamous Zombie segment, and also when he made the taxi driver forget the London eye. He says, and repeats "Thinking about it now, what stop...", telling the peoples brains to stop subconsciously. The hand gesture, which, very deliberately, is similar to the wiping clean of a slate goes hand-in-hand with the vocal cues. This gesture becomes associated with the notion of forgetting, and the more he does it, the harder it is for participants to remember.
I think the reason it doesn't work on that one guy is because Derren seemed to forget to do the hand motion as he said the words. He seemed to do it hurriedly as he was finishing speaking, as if he forgot.
So in short, he's amazing.
By: hojumoju
Re: Pat Condell: Why does faith deserve respect?
That was quite fantastic. Really refreshing to see an atheist not pull any punches, and to say what he actually thinks instead of sugarcoating it. I'd like to show this to some of my religious friends, but they would undoubtedly switch off the second they heard "Your god is illusionary".
By: hojumoju
Re: Siskel and Ebert Review of Star Wars
Wow, that news reporter's head in incredibly immobile.
By: hojumoju
