Here’s Master Magician Kevin James performing at the Las Vegas callbacks on America’s Got Talent:
from p1r4t3s
Marcel Marceau: 1923-2007 [Spanish, French, English]
Hermosa entevista a Marcel Marceau en su gira del adios por México (4:11) / A beautiful tribute to Marcel Marceau in his farewell tour of Mexico (4:11). Mounted on YouTube by pabodo:
Here’s a tribute from Timothy W. Ryback, deputy secretary general of the Académie Diplomatique Internationale in Paris and former vice president of the Salzburg Seminar. Continue reading “Marcel Marceau: 1923-2007 [Spanish, French, English]”
Pavement Art
Epic street painting from the Web site of Manfred Stader and Edgar Muller, european-street-painting.com:
“Turning Riverstreet into a river” is the largest 3d-street-painting ever done (about 280 m² covered with paint).
What You See Ain’t What You Get
Sleights of Mind
by George Johnson
The New York Times
August 21, 2007
Teller demonstrated Miser’s Dream at the Magic of Consciousness symposium in Las Vegas.
The reason he had picked me from the audience, Apollo Robbins insisted, was that I’d seemed so engaged, nodding my head and making eye contact as he and the other magicians explained the tricks of the trade. I believed him when he told me afterward, over dinner at the Venetian, that he hadn’t noticed the name tag identifying me as a science writer. But then everyone believes Apollo – as he expertly removes your wallet and car keys and unbuckles your watch.
It was Sunday night on the Las Vegas Strip, where earlier this summer the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness was holding its annual meeting at the Imperial Palace Hotel. The organization’s last gathering had been in the staid environs of Oxford, but Las Vegas – the city of illusions, where the Statue of Liberty stares past Camelot at the Sphinx – turned out to be the perfect locale. After two days of presentations by scientists and philosophers speculating on how the mind construes, and misconstrues, reality, we were hearing from the pros: James (The Amazing) Randi, Johnny Thompson (The Great Tomsoni), Mac King and Teller – magicians who had intuitively mastered some of the lessons being learned in the laboratory about the limits of cognition and attention. Continue reading “What You See Ain’t What You Get”
Senju Kannon – The 1000-hand Goddess of Mercy
Once a year in Japan, a 24-hour televised charity event is held and the funds raised are sent out to various charities. This is one of the shows from the event, its the Senju Kannon, the 1000-hand Goddess of Mercy.
via Neatorama