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Month: August 2016

How Magic Routines Trick The Brain..

How Magic Routines Trick The Brain..

Magic is about misdirection and sleight-of-hand. Magicians twirl the fingers of one hand to distract you as they flick it away with the other. Or, on a larger scale, they distract you with a curtain and lights to make the Statue of Liberty seem to disappear.

In the past decade, researchers have begun devoting serious study to explaining how these routines trick our brains. And some of them are now stripping magic tricks down to their bare essentials, to isolate and describe how they “hack” the very mental processes that help us understand the world.

In new research published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, a group of psychologists recruited 420 participants to watch several short, silent videos on their computers and report on what they saw. Read more…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/10/this-magic-trick-can-make-you-see-something-thats-not-actually-there/

Google’s elite sickened after David Blaine swallows live frog..

Google’s elite sickened after David Blaine swallows live frog..

Google’s elite “Camp” has returned to Sicily, Italy — and the collected Masters of the Universe were stunned to see magician David Blaine swallow a live frog during one session.

The most exclusive conference in tech, called simply “The Camp,” is back for a third year, and VIP guests at the invite-only retreat hosted by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were treated to a performance by Blaine, who spit up, then reswallowed, the unlucky frog.

One spy told us, “David Blaine came to stage with a live frog in his stomach, and he regurgitated it on demand. Then, he swallowed it back. He says he’s training himself to create an aquarium in his stomach.”  Read more…

http://pagesix.com/2016/08/02/david-blaine-regurgitates-live-frog-at-google-camp/

PENN & TELLER are DEAD (on the cover of Girls and Corpses Magazine..)

PENN & TELLER are DEAD (on the cover of Girls and Corpses Magazine..)

PENN & TELLER  –  appear magically on the cover of Girls and Corpses Magazine’s Vol 10 Fall issue, also featuring:

LouLou D’vil  –  , Las Vegas burlesque dancer of the year. 

This issue is no illusion as we include a wild photo spread with the world’s sexiest magician  KRYSTYN LAMBERT  –  and the worlds most bloated corpse; an exclusive interview with shock magician and anti-conjurer, DAN SPERRY; 

An exclusive interview with Face/Off judge, SFX wizard and dark magick aficionado…GLENN HETRICK

; An interview with the elusive, magical-mystery avant-garde band The Residents

; Scat Magic; The Suicide Forest; Hitler The Magician; The Bunny Killer; My Favorite Mortician; Scream Queen  Mindy Robinson

; Vintage Magic and Terror Toons. Girls and Corpses is a matter of Laugh and death, so order this Special Magic issue featuring….. Penn & Teller

. This is no trick! But it is a treat.

Order this issue now here: http://www.girlsandcorpses.com/store/index.html

FREE preview here:  http://www.girlsandcorpses.com/

Watch exclusive Behind-The-Screams video and interview with

KRYSTYN LAMBERT  at her Girls and Corpses cover shoot:

https://youtu.be/V82jdZT4gkw