{"id":1698,"date":"2017-11-22T12:23:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2017-11-21T20:44:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T01:44:26","slug":"this-trick-is-incredible-because-it-isnt-even-a-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/11\/this-trick-is-incredible-because-it-isnt-even-a-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"This Trick is Incredible Because It Isn&#8217;t Even a Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I&#8217;ve seen several recorded performances of this trick, and watched it live at least once\u2014and yet this is the first time it dawned on me that there is no trick to this trick.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 (i.e., I&#8217;d bet that if you take just a moment to think about this\u2014even if you&#8217;ve\u00a0<em>never touched a nail gun before\u2014<\/em>you can think of at least two totally different ways to modify a stock nail gun or fabricate a fako, and once you accept that the nail fun is gaffed, then there isn&#8217;t a memory trick at all, just some patter).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In fact, there&#8217;s a degree to which\u00a0this trick is about the trick&#8217;s tricklessness, if you catch my meaning: It&#8217;s about delivery and panache and the fascination that comes with the risk of grievous bodily harm. It is an amped up, thoroughly Modern America version of Barnum&#8217;s wonderful(!), stupendous(!!!), incomparable(!!!) <em>Egress<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jko5BGhc-Ys\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><small><b>BONUS<\/b><\/small>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mwkmgqbYXdE\">Penn &amp; Teller&#8217;s greatest of misdirections<\/a>\u2014They get you caught up on the idea of being live and doing camera tricks, thus distracting you from the obvious explanation revealed at the end\u2014AND\u00a0THE FACT THAT THEY <strong><em>DO<\/em><\/strong> USE CAMERA TRICKS[1]!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">[1] Specifically, they play with what areas of the camera frame you naturally assume are and are not accessible, and thus where you do and don&#8217;t look for them ditching &#8220;vanished&#8221; items.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen several recorded performances of this trick, and watched it live at least once\u2014and yet this is the first time it dawned on me that there is no trick to this trick.\u00a0 (i.e., I&#8217;d bet that if you take just a moment to think about this\u2014even if you&#8217;ve\u00a0never touched a nail gun before\u2014you can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/11\/this-trick-is-incredible-because-it-isnt-even-a-trick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Trick is Incredible Because It Isn&#8217;t Even a Trick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[76,52,77,226,225,227,121,209,224],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}