To all the haters:

If you'd read an interview of her, you'd understand that she did not sell out to become what she is today. She loves the showmanship and style of Freddy Mercury and pop art, which she incorporates into her show and videos.

If anything, staying the girl in this video would have made her a sell-out.

Agreeing with zomgunicorns, it's fantastic that she didn't become the next Snor-ah Jones.

Raaagh, what the olympians do requires more skill. But more showmanship and tricks, plus a soundtrack of course, would indeed make it more fun to watch.

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.

Am I the only one that finds magic acts like this kinda douchey? I mean it definitely takes talent and showmanship, but I just can't watch it for too long. The shit-eating grin is what gets to me...

So my guess is that the black guy in scrubs is actually 2 people, the head/arms/torso being a little person or amputee, and the legs being a taller person (maybe contortionist), whose upper half is inside the cart until the end, when he's actually holding the other guy to do the jumping and walk off the stage.

I agree, it is much harder to see with the cut-aways to the judges.

great showmanship though.

"I don't care if Michael Jackson freaked off with little boys or not. It doesn't bother me. Fuck those kids. And fuck their greedy parents too. What's important to me is that Michael is the greatest entertainer who ever lived. Bar none. Watch him dance; pay attention to the showmanship. No one ever came close.

Elvis was a bogus white guy with sex appeal and good looks who ripped off a lot of great black music, watered it down, and made it safe for a lot of lame whites who couldn't handle the experience of raw, emotional black music. Never grew as an artist; remained an entertainer. Fuck Elvis.

Sammy Davis Jr.? Nice try. Ordinary dancer, ordinary singer, second-rate impressionist. I also didn't like the insincere sincerity. But he was a nice man, personally; I give him credit for that.

Frank Sinatra? Great singer of songs, among the best. Superb musician. Grew as an artist. No showmanship though. Arrogant too. And mean to ordinary people. Fuck him.

Michael Jackson buries them all. I say give him a bunch of kids and let him dance."

-George Carlin

Just one thing, this is awesome and all, but why does it say she's an eight year old girl in the description. I lost track of the number of times the clip tells us she's ten!

I know it shouldn't, but this bugs the hell out of me.

About the clip, great, great showmanship.

Great Showmanship!

From a fellow trombonist, here's a *promote for the brilliant musicality and showmanship!

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

^Idiotic reaction => excellent showmanship

yeah simple magic trick brilliantly executed. this is what derren brown talks about in 'the devil's picturebook'.. showmanship.. entertainment.. mystery..

I'm gonna catch hell for this, but . . . as a life-long liberal; as someone who would ban every gun in America; as someone who believes Beck is a complete F5 tornado of crazy; as someone who really enjoys Olberman -- I can't agree with his premise or conclusions on this one.

The NRA (the best friend to criminals, paranoids and hysterics) are fanning the flames. So are Beck and Limbaugh and all the other shrill voices who trade being right for being loud. So are the idiots on blogs who repeat and amplify all the lies the NRA and their fellow travelers tell. Pinning it on Beck alone is showmanship. Olberman should have gone after the whole rotten lot.

He's got some showmanship and style. Who's his tap teacher?

>> ^xxovercastxx:
If that is you, as you say it is, you're about to be banned for violating posting guideline #1.
Might want to kill this before one of the sift-grownups sees it.


Calm down, he's quoting the Simpsons, that's just what Moe says in it when he's pretending he invented it.

According to the Youtube this particular insane bit of showmanship is called the flaming Dr Pepper... so by rights would taste horrible

In his book Tricks of the Mind, Brown writes, "I am often dishonest in my techniques, but always honest about my dishonesty. As I say in each show, 'I mix magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship'. I happily admit cheating, as it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what's real and what isn't. I am an entertainer first and foremost, and I am careful not to cross any moral line that would take me into manipulating people's real-life decisions or belief systems."

-Wikipedia