*Promote - because holy WTF - amazingness - My brain cannot comprehend

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People actually buy that Fushigi from the late night infomercials?

that thing is a ripoff

The Goblin King would be impressed!

The music is Solar Fields - Discovering.

Nice mustache.

I've never understood how they do the levitating object thing. How does it work?

Sorcery!

physics was not defied

fake!

I thought this one was fairly obvious.

How would you do it? What do you think the options are?

Uh... dunno. My guess is it hangs by a hard-to-see filament from his head somewhere (mouth?) and his finger never really goes over it. It's hard to imagine how you wouldn't see it, though, if you were present and near him.

Magician/contact juggler.

This video shows everything much better (feel free to sift it)


You can see that he has an indentation on the top of his head, his balls are not perfectly round, they have polished flat spot and the hovering ball works the same way as those hovering tops...there's a strong magnet under the rug and the ball has a magnetic disk in it.

And it's not just the smallest ball, it seems like every one of those balls is magnetized, that's what makes the head stack possible, and explains all the weird ball movement on the rug. I didn't know you could make what looks like a clear acrylic ball magnetic. Apparently I still don't know how magnets work.

Yep. You wouldn't believe how hard the filaments are to see. That's the trick.

Not magnetic (that wouldn't help with the balancing anyway). Each ball has a tiny flat top and bottom. And he's very, very good at balancing.

The small ball appears to be attached to a filament somewhere behind him. Probably at the back waist of his pants. When he wants to levitate it he drapes the filament over the top of his head or over the back of his hand or arm.