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Magic Performance | Cedrik Ruiz | TEDxUTSC


is this thing on all right so good
morning guys
so you guys probably know that every
magician needs an assistant but I don’t
have them with me
so I’m gonna need a volunteer but don’t
worry I’m probably not going to saw you
in half today and so uh uh here we’ll
take this gentleman here yeah so you
have a pack of cards all right here just
stand over here all right all right so
just take one card it doesn’t matter
which one all right I’m going to show
you the very first trick that I ever
learned when I was 14 I think everyone
knows it so you put it in like that
you tell them not to look and you just
take it straight out it’s like magic so
this is what we’re actually gonna do
here let me know when you want me to
stop all right here
now here okay perfect so Sharon and card
it doesn’t matter if I see it I’ve seen
it before
so we’ll take the card face-up right put
it right here in the middle this what I
do watch closely you do a little move
like this and it jump straight to the
top alright so we’ll do it extra slow mo
because maybe there’s like too many
cards people aren’t paying attention so
we’ll do is we’ll take half the cards
away – we’ll even push it in slowly and
you can hold on to it and I’ll jump
straight to the top all right you can
check that’s not the top look it’s the
top of the deck is over here maybe that
was maybe that was still too quick so
I’ll do it one more time we’ll do it one
more time
there’s a card center diamonds right
I’ll push it in we’ll put it over here
this time I’ll push it in and you hold
on to the top it’s not over here though
cuz so talking to see over there I guess
so there it is alright so we’ll do one
last time we’ll do a face up this is
actually like you’re not supposed to be
doing it this way but I guess I’ll do it
this way just for camera sake so you
guess and see how quick it is there it
is right face up we do a little move
like this and jump straight to the top
okay
it’s pretty quickly well sort of so
we’ll do is we’ll take the cards put it
away we’ll take a balloon will randomize
it actually you can pick whichever
pudding you want
yeah all right so blow up the balloon oh
yeah like maybe like this big yeah that
was quick all right yeah tie knot all
right perfect
yeah it should be good alright so we’ll
do is we’ll actually take the deck all
right we’ll take take a look alright
they’re all different right cuz like
that first trick would have been easier
they’re all the same
tell them all different they’re all
different yeah they’re all different
okay so they’re all different cards
right we’ll do is we’ll take it we’ll do
it one last time look you do that move
your car jump straight to the top right
we’ll take it give it a little rub on
the balloon like this and it passes
right through the balloon you see it in
there no it’s definitely in there you
see it’s invisible he/she/it
of course you can’t see it’s invisible
alright see like this isn’t the card
anymore right so yeah it’s definitely in
here I’m telling you it’s in here so
we’ll do is we’ll take this pop it right
I was scared and supposed to appear oh
you know what
now here you guys aren’t watching close
enough it’s actually in the pen so we’ll
cut this open this is going to my ear
the entire time oh MIT so overwhelmed by
magic
is that why you volunteered
oh yes obviously so I’ll take it well
unravel it what did you pick seven
diamond all right there it is
senator diamonds you can keep that oh so
all right so for the next trick we’re
probably we’re going to use this beach
ball
imagine me coming in today I scared of
beach balls and balloons and a present
it looked hilarious the thing I was
going to like some crazy party so I’m
going to throw this beach ball randomly
into any area and then the first person
to catch it just stand up so I’ll toss
it over here no no just stand up so um
you can pick either imagine you have a
pack of cards right you’re looking
through the cards so imagine you have
either red or black cards in the deck
right so pick one doesn’t matter yep
red cards okay so toss it somewhere else
doesn’t matter
alright so between the red cards there
are hearts and diamonds right so you can
pick between hearts or diamonds hearts
okay so toss it somewhere else so we
picked hearts so pick a number between
let’s say two to ten doesn’t matter
which one seven so we’ll do seven hearts
right oh that’s pretty close with seven
or diamonds okay we’ll do seven hearts
you can toss it somewhere else I have no
idea how I’m going to get that back
someone have it alright so you want to
do seven of hearts right so you can I’m
going to give you the choice to change
the entire card completely to a car
that’s between two to ten it doesn’t
matter if you want to change it or if
you don’t want to change it it’s up to
you do you want change it okay what do
you want to change it to number between
two to ten two to ten pardon
five five of diamonds do you want to
change it one more time or is that it
that’s it okay so I guess you can keep
the ball just sit back down so we we
said five diamonds right so I wrapped
this gift up a bit before Christmas and
it was for this trick specifically
imagine what would it be like if I open
this up and there was only a five
diamonds in here
that’d be a pretty cool trick but I
can’t do that so
so let’s say five of diamonds right we
we initially had seven of hearts and
then we switched it to five of diamonds
so I’ll give it one more chance if you
just want to change it just a race of
hands to see if you guys want to change
it again anyone want to change it mmm
okay here we’ll change it one more time
doesn’t matter who let’s say this lady
here six of spades
okay so we’ll keep it out of six of
spades so this box has been here the
entire time hasn’t moved so the thing is
about boxes and magicians is it’s easy
for you to take something behind the box
to make it look like you’re reaching
into the box but I purposely you wrap
this gift so that it should open up once
I cut everything and the only thing left
inside is another gift so we’ll take
this so we set six of spades
right we’ve changed it twice so if we
open this up this pack of cards have
this wrapped a long time ago see so
there’s a pack of cards there it is what
we’ll do is if you look closely to the
cards it’s like brand-new cards you feel
nice so brand new cards if you look
carefully there’s actually only one card
flipped over through the entire thing I
have this wrapped so far before the
trick so we set six of Spades right so
if we look at it it’s actually six of
spades
[Applause]
and that is it I’ll disappear now
[Applause]
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