And it just was-- I mean, everything I did was-- I was acting and I was doing my job, but I was involved in misdirection and sleight of hand and just finding ways to lean on desks and to-- because my tremor, if I did something, it would rest. So if I moved this-- so I would be doing a scene and I would just do that for no reason.
She also-- Jessie Rob is our other choreographer. But Queenie is about sleight of hand because Queenie is the clown's dog.
She also-- Jessie Rob is our other choreographer. So she's sleight of hand .
I don't know if they've asked you, Haley or Eddie. But your deft little sleight of hand use of your selfie situation, that's something that we take for granted. And here's Sancho Panzo from 1400s in love with his selfie.
working those front desks. But the sleight of hand with the fathers, I have two kids. And you know, they've grown up completely differently than I have.
A lot of willpower when you first start eating carefully. was all the sleight of hand , all that stuff is so practiced.
And then joining us today is Helder Guimaraes. Helder is a world renowned sleight of hand magician. He's received top honors from the Academy of Magical Arts in Hollywood, and in 2006 became the youngest ever world champion of card magic.
And eventually, at that time-- now I'm going to go a little bit technical-- but when you are a kid, your hands are smaller. So you can't really do sleight of hand the same way you can do when you start growing up. But when you are 12, you start going to that phase.
What I learned instead was that that's not how magic works. But I found a book of sleight of hand , and I learned my first really great piece of magic. And it's very simple.
and go crazy, and they want to be famous. feel like a competently done piece of sleight of hand .
lately there's a lot of religious questions or conclusions being drawn. And it sounds like they're very different from the questions and conclusions of the people that you interviewed, Latin America and Asia and he's sleight of hand magician as well. And he actually sees his connection as a magician to, there's something similar between that and what shamans do in
I don't want to be him, but I know that these two things are going to be part of my journey. And so then I start to focus on playing cards and sleight of hand . And then it evolved from there.
But there are some great examples of people that have had this approach are like Penn and Teller, who for decades have acknowledged that it's all trickery and some of the great sleight of hand artists as well. Which is why I wrote this book, "The Seven Principles of Illusion" Don't call them magic police on me.
Now, let me show you a card trick. And to make sure that I don't use any sleight of hand , I'm gonna use some very big cards. And this is something we can all play along together.
I mean, just totally fictional? Well, I did a little sleight of hand with the father, actually. I mean, I'm ashamed and proud of it in the same breath, to say the main character is, more or less, the idealized version of me,
Mhm. All clear over here? If the audience is burning your hands, it's very difficult to do sleight of hand tricks.
Thank you. So first off, I'd like to get into your background a bit. How did you get into magic, and what drew you to sleight of hand in particular? So my father was kind of the reason why I started in magic.
And this is something that it's easy to relate, but it's not necessarily easy to explain. So then does having you bring your expertise in kind of physical misdirection, sleight of hand ,
What is magic? And why do magic tricks fool us? Now, magicians are often thought of as being masters of sleight of hand . The quickness of the hands deceives the eye.
They don't want to hear me talk. So getting back to your shows-- and sounds like you're very practiced creating shows-- much of what you do, sleight of hand , it's very up close, very personal, as opposed to you're on a stage making cars disappear.
And this is something that it's easy to relate, but it's not necessarily easy to explain. And so then that's when I found out that I was going to be working with Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett, teaching them some sleight of hand ,
So I kept emailing back and forth, and he kept dropping me little hints, little more hints, a little more hints. And it finally turned out-- he explained it to me, and it was just plain old normal sleight of hand of which we knew every single move.
We just wanna do it but don't bring it up." Junot Diaz: And I think part of what happens when you create these sort of books where you're trying to wrestle with these issues is that you need this sort of, what we call, ledger domain, you need this kind of sleight of hand so that people are lured into the conversation without them even knowing they're in there. And that's the plan, it never works, I'm not kidding, it never works.
no gorilla there." Or, in the original experiment where we had video tapes, they said, "Well, show me the tape again," and we would rewind it and play it again and they'd say, "Well, that wasn't there in the first place. Maybe you switched the tapes on me or used some kind of sleight of hand or something like that." On the other hand, people who see the gorilla, or probably the people who saw the color change or the person walk away this time, think it's very clear and obvious and they are surprised that other people missed