oops, killed my first attempt as they removed it. Found this one immediately after. My bad. Lets give it another try *promote
I'm guessing this one may also be removed. You know, that whole copyright thingy

Just finished watching his special and it was just great. Can't remember the last time i actually sat through anything that was longer than an hour.

No - the square thingy is an episode 7/8 sensor dish - not a spoiler.

My bad, it works. I just have to click the shield thingy in the address bar after i try and use it.

Unless i missed something, nothing about that was a "trick shot"(absolutely anyone could have done that). More like Rube Goldberg thingy.

The little grabber thingy reminds me of the mouth-in-mouth from Alien - http://tinyurl.com/hpuy3pe

The entire arm seems to twist and fails at the joint of the arm on the camera which seems offset from the center of gravity of the weight and camera. Probably the cutting and snapping of a 1/4th steel bolt or something. Camera-weight need to be completely leveled flush (+/- 0.6°) by the awesome weights as a closed object system. I believe correcting this torsion by putting that universal joint center in line with the center of gravity of the camera-weight would prevent that torsion. This would mean that the joint center would have to be somewhere central in that column tube thingy. The over extension and over snapping can only be fixed with built-in stops, I dunno.

I like that little extra shell-ring thingy he's got on the shotgun you can see him using to reload right before the slow motion bit. I've never seen one of those before and at first I thought he was pushing a mis-fired shell back into the chamber (or whatever you call it in a shotgun, the breach?), which asking about was the reason I started this comment until I watched it a third time.

I've never fired a semi-automatic shotgun (or any kind of shotgun since I was 15 or so) but I do recall a 12-gauge having a not insignificant amount of recoil, and I've heard from a SWAT guy that semi-automatic shotguns are frowned upon because people in panic-firefight-mode tend to pull the trigger too fast and end up shooting the ceiling. He seems to have no problem though.

Here is a video from their website showing the machine that makes the punch card thingy. Even though it's automated it still looks like a very long process to make.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmgWVRod5EY

I really, really hope the punch card thingy was made by some automated process and he didn't do the whole lot by hand.

I think most of the sound comes from there. It's one of those resonance thingies and the fingering changes the response of the column of air in the flute. Er, or something like that.

I don't think the purpose here was really about being tricked or not. These are illusions, people know their eye/brain are being tricked.

He just wanted a deeper understanding of "Why?" the eye is tricked, which far less people would be aware of.

The spinning thingy you may be able to "see the trick" because it's a rather raw implementation. I don't think you can say you can "see the trick" of a normal movie, you just know it's made of still images in quick succession.

The Professor does say the eye has the ability to tweak the parameters, so perhaps this is what your experiencing but I don't believe it goes as far as you being able to just stop your eyes from being eyes.

Or maybe you've got super powers?

I like the little oscillating thingy-ma-bob that's visible in the head on shot. It makes it look like the driver is pedaling the car like a bicycle.

edit: Oh, it's the license plate. Serves me right for not watching in full screen.

That guy has mad touch. I like the technique he uses supporting his brush hand with the bar thingy. That's clever.

ed: Anyone know what the thingy is called? I may have to buy one some day.