I don't like seeing that either, but if you watch to the end they are actually in part of a larger area.

I'm hyper sensitive to that kind of stuff ever since i went to Beijing zoo. There was a really large enclosure, but it was really old, crumbling and in disrepair, cracks and holes in the floor here and there, all concrete, with one black bear inside pacing up and down by the only perspex window that was about 8 feet in length.

All the Chinese animals were in a special bit of the zoo - pandas and rhinos and all that, state of the art stuff. The 'rest of the world' animals were in the other bit that was old and poorly maintained. An American black bear was worthless to them I suppose.

Now even when i see animals in big areas, all i can see is that poor fucking thing almost dancing left and right for hours by the window to the outside. Really depressed myself writing this.

I left immediately and complained, but no one gave a shit or even understood.

I suggest putting something about soap and maybe perspex in the tags.

I never said the parked-upon sheet could get stolen, I said it would still have problems with wind since it could just blow up the edges that don't have any car sitting on them. I'm saying the illusion would be broken by the wind, not the wind would blow it away.

I hadn't considered peter venkman.. that's another problem entirely

>> ^dannym3141:

Hmm? You contradicted yourself, how are they gonna steal something that a car is parked upon? You said yourself it has the roady bit. So the car is sat on some 6ft by 10ft sheet of perspex(?) with white lines round the edges - how is that going to blow away or get stolen?
Unless peter venkman appears out of nowhere and whips it from under the car, announcing "The car is still standing!"

>> ^residue:

Just need something sticky or heavy. Unless someone is watching you, I don't think many people would think to try to steal painted lines off the road. Wind is just as much of a problem even with 2 giant sheets unless you manage to park directly on the white lines

Hmm? You contradicted yourself, how are they gonna steal something that a car is parked upon? You said yourself it has the roady bit. So the car is sat on some 6ft by 10ft sheet of perspex(?) with white lines round the edges - how is that going to blow away or get stolen?

Unless peter venkman appears out of nowhere and whips it from under the car, announcing "The car is still standing!"

The gif shows the difference in the ball placement just before Derren crosses from the right to the left of the screen and after.

This is how he did it (it's really rather simple despite sounding elaborate):

1. Derren records an intro sequence where he's standing outside and walks into the studio to the television. He waves at a second camera, and there is a cut to it (the only cut in the entire sequence) that shows he is being filmed by a handheld camera. He then waves his hands in the air in an exagerrated gesture.

2. Derren moves out of the way and they then place a completely stationary tripod camera in front of the studio set up and record the whole thing for 10 minutes with no action.

3. When it's almost time to go live Derren stands next to the television with his hands in the air while being broadcast by the stationary tripod camera, watching the monitor for it to cut to him live.

4. A post process shake is applied to the entire live stream to give the illusion that Derren is being filmed by the handheld camera. It's important to remember that he's not, it is the static camera on a tripod.

5. The intro sequence cuts to Derren on the static camera; Derren sees this on the monitor and lowers his arms. Derren is now live.

6. Derren talks for a bit then walks over to the television. At this point, the left half of the prerecorded actionless segment is overlayed over the left half of the screen.

7. Derren turns on the television and watches the numbers being drawn and does his usual showmanship. When the numbers are drawn he then takes a moment start writing them down on a piece of card.

8. An assistant now places stickers of the numbers in order on the balls. You cannot see the assistant because of the overlay. The balls are tightly packed into the perspex tray to ensure there is no movement that will be spotted when the overlay is faded out.

Unfortunately, the tight packing and touching of the balls makes one of them (the 39 ball on the left) push up a bit so that it's no longer resting on the bottom of the tray.

9. The assistant leaves shot left and the overlay has a 1 second fadeout (around 5:06 on this video but the quality is very low to see the difference on the 39 ball).

10. The post process shaking is then stopped (5:09) and a cameraman takes control of the tripod. Derren begins walking over to the left, hesitating for a moment as he seems unsure if the timing is right (if the overlay is still there it'll obviously be disastrous when he disappears behind it). He then reveals the balls and is hailed as our new psychic overlord.

lol !! THATS SO COOL although could be anoying when it rains personaly i would get a metal plate over it ore perspex cover 4 for it im suprized how mutch of the head u can remove. im guessing eathor trama cused it ore he had agressive skin fungus and thay had to remove it all. thats so cool.