Criss Angel: Mindfreak

[Kevin71]

I'm watching season 3's opener right now. It's insane the stuff this guy does. His levitations and just the stuff he does that isn't natural. A lot of it seems like he really doesn't do it.

[Ghs]

There's a lot of stuff on the show that seems very, how do i put this, cut-sceneish? However, there are also elements that make you wonder whats really happenening lol

Yeah, the stuff he does is insane. My wife was like "he does things that you can't do. It makes me think he is the Devil" and I just laughed my *** off.

[queviva]

I just saw an episode of that show for the first time. It is crazy what happens on that show (I refuse to pass judgment on whether it's real or not, it seems, well, far-fetched to me). In the episode I saw he got an entire restaurant to fall asleep at the same time. I just have trouble believing that could happen. I want to be a part of it just to see if it's real now lol.

[Chaos6]

Its a cool show to watch but frustrates me when I can't figure out how he does something. There is a scientific explanation for everything.

Yeah, the things he's doing are no way supernatural. There's just no way he's doing this stuff without like scientists and everybody else wanting to flock to him to find out what he's doing that superhuman.

I just can't figure out how he does them....

[cashpath]

OK most of the stuff he does are tricks that as GHS says are 'cut sceneish'.

Other things he does there are people in on it.. part of the audience..

Then there are a few things he does that are cool and it's hard to figure them out.

Examples:

There is an episode where he pulls a woman in half. The camera gets turned off and they insert the props and the woman who only has half a body.. Nothing but video editing here.


In an episode I watched last night he uses a guitar string and a ring.. if you pause the TV you can see when he moves his head to show the girl the ring is not in his mouth.. if you SLOW MO it you will see she grabs the ring out of his mouth. This is hidden by ZZ Top dudes head.. but at the end you can see it if you look close. (she then obviously puts the ring in his hand and he slides it onto the end of the string) SLO MOing the video shows the ring is not on the string till after it is pulled out of his neck and comes to the end of its downward motion.

The strings from body parts is done with makeup and 'fake skin'.

Him floating in the lights at the Luxor was probably done with mirrors and an image projector.


Now floating down into the luxor is crazy of him.. he had light wires like fishing strings attached to his shoes... thus why he keeps his feet straight out with knees locked the whole time, and he rests back on the string... that string has to be barely strong enough to hold his crazy *** though to be as hard to see as it is. You can see him lift his feet to remove the strings when he gets to the ground.

Anyway.. its fun to watch.. but a lot of it you are being tricked into believing something happened in real time that didn't.

Yeah, hence it being master of illusions. Its just amazing to watch though.

He is crazy as hell, I wouldn't be stupid enough to do half that crap like the fishing string thing.

[Nish4x]

I mainly like the part in his shows when we does a trick and teaches everyone how to do it.

[SicK NasTy]

Can you guys help me out on this.. On what channel does his show come on and what time/days of the week? I've seen his stuff on youtube and such, him and David Blaine both, but never seen there shows on TV. We did a segment for our Media class on magic tricks, all of my friends were more impressed with Blaine's stuff then Angel's, but I'd like to see either's show.

[cashpath]

uh A&E not sure when the new shows are on but the channel is A&E

[Kevin71]

Originally Posted by SicK NasTy

Can you guys help me out on this.. On what channel does his show come on and what time/days of the week? I've seen his stuff on youtube and such, him and David Blaine both, but never seen there shows on TV. We did a segment for our Media class on magic tricks, all of my friends were more impressed with Blaine's stuff then Angel's, but I'd like to see either's show.

Well
A: Angel>Blaine
B: It's on Tuesday for new ones and I believe it's on at 10 p.m.

[Ghs]

I thought it was interesting that he's in such great physical condition that he was able to hold his breath underwater for 4 minutes, granted it was warm water which allows more air to stay in the lungs, but that is still an impressive number

[Chaos6]

Originally Posted by Kevin71

Well
A: Angel>Blaine

I like to watch David Blaine more so than Angel. Blaine's stuff looks more real and he also does stuff that is just pure endurance stuff and not "magic".