Magicians can amaze people like no one else
in our world.
And one of them is Dynamo, who impressed one and all with his blockbuster show, "Magician Impossible".
So, be it his famous lean back levitation
or the fountain ice trick,
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we are gonna unlock the top secrets behind
Dynamo's greatest magic tricks of all time.
So, let’s get started.
Dynamo, the magician beyond magic,
performed the trick in which he froze the
complete water fountain by defying all the
rules and laws of physics.
You might be even wondering as to how come
he was able to do that.
The trick is very much a planned trick of
Dynamo, as usual.
To begin with, he touches the water and the
water starts to freeze into ice.
But that did not actually happen, and here’s
the secret.
There was already a layer of ice at the bottom
of the fountain water, which was made to rise
above by pulling the water downwards.
Also, to amaze the audience more so, Dynamo
even froze the fountain water source.
Well, if you look closely, the ice flow is
actually narrower than the stream of water,
which makes it possible that the frozen stream
of ice was already present, and water was
made to flow over it.
Which was later stopped, that made it to look
like the stream of water was also frozen.
Dynamo once performed a trick, in which he
takes an iPhone from a woman and in one quick
moment turns it into a small phone.
He then takes a glass bottle from a man, puts
that small phone in that bottle and here comes
the final part of the trick:
he converts that small phone back to the original
bigger iPhone.
Someone then calls the number, to verify if
it is indeed the same iPhone of that women.
So, how did dynamo actually perform this trick?
Well, here’s the secret:
Before this trick was performed, Dynamo had
already taken the woman’s iPhone, may be
during a previous trick or somewhere else,
and gave her an identical copy of iPhone.
Then, they started filming this trick, with
the woman already holding a fake iPhone.
So, Dynamo takes her iPhone, with the audience
thinking it’s her real iPhone.
With an impressive sleight of hand, he inserts
the iPhone into his jacket using a gimmick
called Gecko, which pulls the phone into his
jacket using elastic bands.
At the same time, he pulls out a smaller version
of the phone from his left sleeve which he
had already prepared, and then fits this small
phone into the empty bottle given by the man,
who is also a stooge.
For the final part of the trick, the bottle
you see now has been exchanged with
the previous bottle.
And it was during this camera cut when the
bottle was exchanged by the third stooge in this trick.
Now, this already prepared bottle has a black
card which separates the replica of small
phone and the woman’s original iPhone which
was taken before the trick.
Here, the iPhone is hidden behind the card
which blends with Dynamo’s black T-shirt.
If we pause here, you can see the outline
perfectly.
Now, to convert the small phone back to the
original iPhone, Dynamo just rotates the bottle
and shows the original iPhone, with the small
phone hidden behind the card.
Here, you can also see Dynamo’s thumb going
down which confirms that he rotates the bottle.
At the same time, he makes that black card
and small phone disappear using the gecko
technique explained earlier.
He finally returns the iPhone left in the
bottle to that women, and of course it rings
when her friend calls, because it is indeed
her original iPhone.
You all must have seen Dynamo’s famous video,
where he was seen walking on the water of
Thames River.
But how did he do it?
Well, the answer surely lies in the plexi-glass.
Plexiglass, when submerged into water is almost
hard to find,
Because the density of plexiglass is almost
like water.
Plexiglass are clearly supported by plexi-tubes,
and many magicians have tried the same variant
in swimming pools and water lakes.
But no matter where it’s performed the answer
surely and always is plexi-tubes and plexi-glasses.
Dynamo performed one of the greatest levitation
acts ever performed by any other magician,
of levitating 1,016 ft above the streets of
London at top of the Shard.
But if we take a closer look at what actually
happened while filming this trick,
Then it’s not a magic trick, but a clear
result of filming and photography.
The set was already prepared to film this
trick with cables attached to Dynamo, to pull
him upwards and make the sense of levitation
to the audience.
Dynamo stood in a mysterious position, seeming
to gather his supernatural powers.
He was then lifted in the air using the cables
attached to him and finally making him to
levitate in between the clouds.
An obvious question that might struck your
mind is that, where are the cables in this video?
The video before being aired had went through
complete color correction and editing, which
hides the cables and gets them merged in to
the background.
Here’s the comparison of actual image and
the image after editing.
The entire trick was shot from a helicopter
hanging up in the air above Dynamo, through
various camera angles, to avoid the cables
being appearing in the video.
So, this makes it clear that it is no more
a magic to levitate in the air, but
hat’s off to Dynamo who made it look real.
Have you ever tried to twist your iPhone from
its center?
Obviously not, but Dynamo has done it in front
of people on streets.
He took an iPhone and magically twisted it from its center to half screen and half back position.
That's insane!
But how did he do it?
Well here’s the actual trick behind it.
Dynamo took an exact half back cover of iPhone,
and placed it carefully holding over the screen.
Now showing the audience the back of iPhone
at first, he covered the iPhone with both
his hands and instead of twisting it, he just
rotated the iPhone entirely to the screen
side with half back cover placed over it.
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We all remember the iconic Matrix scene which
was quite incredible!
Here, you can see Dynamo, the famous magician
who is performing this amazing trick
with quite ease.
He leans back slowly, till his body becomes
parallel to the surface,
then he raises his left leg in air, and then
all of a sudden gets back up, without any problem.
Ever wondered, how Dynamo performed this gravity
defying trick?
Well, here’s the secret.
And it’s all hidden in the specially-designed
shoe, which has a heel that locks into the
pegs on the floor.
To support his full leg, the heel is connected
to the steel-framed dual leg brace, that locks
out when he is just about parallel to the
surface.
This locking mechanism combined with the heel
mechanism, supports his body weight and shifts
his center of gravity away from his upper
body.
This allows him to stay balanced, while leaning
backwards at an impossible angle.
Once he feels him being supported and balanced
by his right leg, he lets everyone know that
he’s suspended in mid-air, and then slowly
lifts his left leg.
The interesting part here is that, when Dynamo
lifts his left leg straight out, it actually
helps him balance by shifting his center of
gravity even further towards his legs.
In this trick, he also makes sure that his
pants are long enough to prevent any exposure
of the steel framework attached to his leg.
After impressing the girls with his matrix
stunt, he slowly and steadily gets up.
In this trick, Dynamo appears to be flying
through the busy streets of London next to
a double-decker bus.
In this well-known trick, Dynamo stuns hundreds
of spectators walking around, as they watch
him levitating, with one of his arms holding
onto the bus.
So, how did Dynamo manage to pull off this
amazing feat?
The secret here is quite simple and obvious,
once you pause and notice how his right arm
holding onto the bus never moves.
Not even vibrates or bend even slightly!
This implies, he uses a fake arm!
And it isn’t really his arm, because his
so-called right arm is actually a firm metal
rod attached to the bus and disguised as an
arm.
While his real arm is hidden under his clothes,
squeezed tightly against his body.
To support his body, he even wears a harness
which is connected to the metal rod, and that
is how he stays in the air.
To make the illusion look even more convincing
to the viewers, his legs and his left hand
are free to move around easily.
You can even notice the bump in his shirt
that looks like an art around his front.
He intentionally wore this artistic shirt
to hide the bump; It also explains why he
uses a phone in his other arm, and that is
to move and divert the crowd’s attention
to his other hand.
Coming to the bus and the bus driver, that’s
not any random bus roaming around in London.
Rather, the bus driver knows everything that
is going around, and Dynamo didn’t just
float up there.
It was all pre-planned, with him first attached
to the bus and only then the ride through
London started.
Coming to the final scene, it was just a neat
camera trick, which gives the illusion of
Dynamo letting go off the bus and levitate
gently to the ground.
