Thursday, 27 June 2013

London ‘levitating’ magician’s secret revealed

Dynamo appears to levitate alongside a London bus. (Facebook)
Earlier in the week we published an article on Dynamo, the magician who caused a stir in London earlier this week by appearing to levitate alongside a double-decker bus, was not, in fact, levitating. It was an illusion.
According to a crowdsourced investigation conducted on Australia's news.com.au Facebook page, Dynamo's "arm" was actually a steel prosthetic that was fastened to the bus. A harness lifted Dynamo into position, the site concluded, as his hand was tucked inside.


Of course, Dynamo's not the first illusionist to pull off a levitation stunt using a fake arm. As news.com.au notes, Johan Lorbeer, a German street performer, has been "hanging off walls in all sorts of impossible locations, including the sides of street buildings and shop facades since 2002."An Agence France-Presse photo showing one of Lorbeer's fake arms was held up as proof of Dynamo's trickery. But like most magicians, Dynamo refuses to reveal how he did it.
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