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Seth Special user 566 Posts |
The great thing bout the Iain Banks bit is just that it's how I thought predictions should be done. They should be Open predictions.
Also don't you somewhat think that he didn't hide the work in the card effect so that something like the Iain Banks effect would play stronger because we would think everything's on the table. |
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Top Hat Inner circle We peed on you! 1077 Posts |
All very mysterious, Seth. Personally, I thought that it relied on a f*** b****.
TH
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cougar261084 Elite user 460 Posts |
As I live in belgium I don't get to see many of derren's shows,
which show was it in? I only remember him doing a book test under the guise as a memory test |
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Top Hat Inner circle We peed on you! 1077 Posts |
Are YOU the belgian?
Not only that, but Banks was told that if he didn't feign amazement at the end, he would be introduced to two belgians.
TH
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discjockey Elite user 451 Posts |
What exactely happened with this book test? I havnt seen it performed.
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Top Hat Inner circle We peed on you! 1077 Posts |
First of all Derren wrote the word "pop" on a sheet of paper and placed it face down. Then Iain Banks was rolled in on a sort of trolley.
At that point, a curtain was pulled back to reveal a belgian man, and Iain Banks was told that if he didn't pretend to choose the word "pop" from one of his books, he would be obliged to kiss the belgian's bald head and take him out for dinner. Iain Banks then proceeded to choose the word "pop" from one of his books. It was bloody amazing.
TH
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ElliottB Inner circle 3250 Posts |
On a side note, what’s the story with all the “Derren Brown Style Mentalism” ebooks all over ebay? They’re dirt cheap, but are they any good?
Elliott |
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magic in mind Special user 851 Posts |
No.
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PK Regular user 131 Posts |
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On 2005-05-14 09:16, Top Hat wrote: This item is about to be sold commercially using a set of Iain Banks books. It's called The mother F*****r of all book tests. First 50 orders get an Iain Banks cardboard cut out to practice with. PK |
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Roki Special user London 749 Posts |
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On 2005-05-15 19:03, ElliottB wrote: The ones I have seen are simply bits of his books without the useful explanations and pretending to be secret knowledge. Its something to buy if you want to rip off Derren Brown and yourself at the same time . This is a small market of newcomers who have been personally ridiculed by experienced magicians . Get Derrens book and try to find a magician who will talk to you like a human being. |
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Scott Xavier Inner circle 3672 Posts |
I'll reveal all for a hug, first you'll have to find me.
<---I was kidding, My price is $1000 US |
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Daffyd New user Llandewi Breffi 87 Posts |
Seriously, the method can be found in a set of Derren's lecture notes (Subterfuge of the Mind) which he sold at lectures many years back. Very clever, very bold. What you come to expect from Derren.
"The layman is such an idiot." salsa_dancer
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Roki Special user London 749 Posts |
Thanks Daffyd , you are a real person .
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baker street New user 25 Posts |
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On 2005-05-16 07:45, Daffyd wrote: Gentlemen, I'm sorry but I only have a few moments. I've actually got a gig tonight. Hurrah! There is probably a great deal I could add to this thread, but can I just say that probably 'Roki's' answer was perhaps the best of the bunch? Except for the fact that another magician other than DB would NOT be able to tell you 'the exact method' that was proferred in this instance. I would also like to inform 'Daffyd' that yes, although it was very bold & very clever (isn't Derren wonderful?), this method is NOT in any of DB's lecture notes (although it might be in a set he 'may' release in 2006). And finally, yes Ian was very well conditioned. But don't tell him! baker street. |
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The Gentleman Regular user SCOTCHLAND 102 Posts |
Oh, Baker. Be 'round the back of the Edinburgh gig; I want a copy of Derren's book signed "Baker Street"; it can be hung up in the PFYT corner of the next Convention
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Top Hat Inner circle We peed on you! 1077 Posts |
What do you mean, he was "was very well conditioned"???
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Daffyd New user Llandewi Breffi 87 Posts |
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On 2005-05-16 12:30, Top Hat wrote: Top Hat, just ignore him. He's pretending to be someone who he's not.
"The layman is such an idiot." salsa_dancer
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magic in mind Special user 851 Posts |
Kettle calling the pot black eh daffyd?
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Roki Special user London 749 Posts |
To begin at the beginning:
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters''-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. The houses are blind as moles (though moles see fine tonight in the snouting, velvet dingles) or blind as Captain Cat there in the muffled middle by the pump and the town clock, the shops in mourning, the Welfare Hall in widows' weeds. And all the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are sleeping now. Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler, schoolteacher, postman and publican, the undertaker and the fancy woman, drunkard, dressmaker, preacher, policeman, the web foot cocklewomen and the tidy wives. "Young girls lie bedded soft or glide in their dreams, with rings and trousseaux, bridesmaided by glow-worms down the aisles of the organplaying wood. The boys are dreaming wicked or of the bucking ranches of the night and the jollyrodgered sea. And the anthracite statues of the horses sleep in the fields, and the cows in the byres, and the dogs in the wetnosed yards; and the cats nap in the slant corners or lope sly, streaking and needling, on the one cloud of the roofs. You can hear the dew falling, and the hushed town breathing. Only your eyes are unclosed, to see the black and folded town fast, and slow, asleep. |
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the ruse New user 5 Posts |
Ah, and then Being coldly lifts its head to give it another shot, and wouldn't you know? it still hasn't found its way out of self-mimicry. its mimicking a mimic of a mimic of a mimic of a mimic... eventually becoming pure vertigo bereaved of its primary authenticity, unable to trace its way back to a revocation, lost in a cycle of...no, not inauthenticity, because there no longer lies anything geniune of which it could faithfully be representative-the authentic-inauthentic dichotomy collapses in on itself, reference becomes self-enclosed, suffocated, feverish, claustrophobic...the center we held dear floats off into the gluttonous belly of oblivion, and finally... the dragon awakes from its sleep, licks its lips, brandishes the glimmering of its scales in the (s)unlight, readies itself to don whatever haunted garb it whims, much to the panic of the running hunted, the us...
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