The amazing colour changing card trick

[Ron Obvious]

Richard Wiseman is an interesting guy. I highly recommend his book Quirkology on quirky phenomoma. This is a classic youtube video, if anything can be said to be a classic in that relatively new medium. Be sure to watch it to the end. It isn't what you think it is....

[flamin lib]

1. I have a master's degree in photography and am very visually oriented.

I now feel sooooooooooo stooppid.

[Ron Obvious]

6. I missed everything myself.

But I've always known I was unobservant...

"You see, Watson, but you do not observe" -- Sherlock Holmes

[stopbush]

2. Pretty much what I expected.

Most on-camera magic tricks are conceived with the camera shifting or narrowing focus to allow the "magic" to happen in previously visible areas that are now conveniently off camera. He slight of hand depends on our reconstructing what we thought we had already seen, even though signifucant details have changed.

[hibbing]

3. Cool, but what is the gorilla doing? n/t

[Brother Buzz]

4. Waiting for the paycheck from his last gig?

[MowCowWhoHow III]

5. Fast Close Up Card Tricks

[Ron Obvious]

7. Cool!

When I was about 9 years old, my grandfather gave me a magic set for my birthday. It's really the perfect gift for a nerdy 9 year old, quite possible the best gift I ever got!

[progressoid]

8. I noticed her shirt.

Mostly because after the change, it looked like a Star Trek uniform!

But I missed the other changes.

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. My thought also

[malthaussen]

10. Yep, there's a moral there somewhere...

... if I could just work out what it is.

-- Mal