hi all,

i've heard steve fearson's sawing for a long time, but was unable to view it......but some friendly guys from magic cafe posted d link.......so enjoy it guys. tis is real magic.......but dun ask me if u can buy this or not......david copperfield bought the rights to sawing for us$3m.......so......... ^_^

It's been mentioned so here it is, the most amazing ''Fearson Sawing' can be viewed here (click on Fearson Sawing)

http://www.angelfire.com/film/magicvideos/


http://cooper.freespaces.com/laser.rm

That is SO WEIRD i am not sure how i want to react. :)

Unf0rtunately, you won't get to see anyone (including Fearson himself) other than David Copperfield perform it anymore.

Copperfield bought over sole performance rights when Fearson fist presented this illusion to him.

Money well spent. This illusion is friggin' unbelievable!

hahahah thats hilarious :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: the copperfield one was great .. make me lmao when he started hopping with his legs... the trick looks quite angle proof to me

OH

MY

GOD

-Kev

Damn good.. lol ahhh... :o

That was awesome...

Hilarious... :lol: and Stunned... :blink:

That is just so.... freaky!!!! :blink: :blink: :blink: It just seems so humanly impossible... OMG!!! Thanks for sharing this erm, interesting, link with us Yujie! :wacko:

Aw man, that rocks! Remembering the good old Copperfield speicals days...

That's a freaking marvellous trick that i wanna learn ulimately : tricks to play around with my body parts and separate them in weirdest sort. Looks like that wish of mine is dashed! :(

Thanks anyway, yujie.

thats great. reliving the experience i had the last time i watched this (a few years ago on TV). the illusion is very nice and looks real? talking abt steve fearson, he's a very innovative and creative guy! although ive gotta say some of his stuff are pure crap.

WTF !!!! :o :o :o TAt was a Bloody F**King GOOD illusion !!! OMF !!!

ok....i did some research on tis sometime back....some of d things i said might not be true, but tis is wat i gathered......it's defintely not angle proof.....yes DC seems to be performing laser while surrounded, but hey, i believe some clever editing is involved.........there are some knock-off version available in d mkt, such as division & bisection, but none of it come close to tis real thing......lastly, i think d whole illusion does not require high-tech stuff, rather saying it's difficult, i would say it's 'thinking out of d box'.....but even u manage to derive it, DC would sue u if u perform....so.....enjoy tis illusion......frankly speaking, tis is d best illusion i ever seen.


yujie

I saw this live when DC was here a couple of years back. When he performed this, the stage was darken. The pants look kinda stiff to me. Don't really look magical to me back then.
Also, when he did this on his TV specials, there were specs behind him, I don't think this can be done surrounded. Fearson did this without anyone behind him.

well, imo DC likes to do illusions surrounded to show that all is fair. in some cases, when it seems impossible to be done surrounded, i suppose its stooges or yea, like yujie said, editing...

Yah, remember the TV special whereby he did this outdoor? The specs were like screaming (yeah right), even those behind DC.

He also did something I find hard to believe. Levitating specs seated on a sofa.

oh yes, he did the levitation in the streets right? with incredible reactions from the audience. and from the TV angle, most of the spectators that we could see were behind DC as he was more or less facing the camera.

then again, the use of stooges is debatable. whats your take on this? for me, i think that magicians shud not use stooges (else its not really magic, its like some grand conspiracy). of course, if a magic entertainer (not a magician) uses stooges as his modus operandi or to increase the effect, it might be ok. but he's simply an entertainer trying to do magic, not a magician trying to entertain.

I find that sometime using stooge is a good way to cover up your bad angle lol :D I may be wrong cos I am still learning and not as experience as some people here lol.. :D

i prefer not to use sleights which are too angle-sensitive. but if its worth the effort, i'll try to cover with body, body movement, body position, table or other objects. but i think use of stooges is just too troublesome and just not in the spirit of magic.

Stooge magic rocks!

Just don't depend on them... that's the difference :D

-Kev

Gordie, Stooge is everything that a magician have, even professional uses stooge in most of their performance. You cannot say that using Stooge isn't magic, it's Magic Entertainment.

Stooge help you from Misdirection, Attracting Crowd (If you are doing Busking), Cover up Bad Angles, Acting Skills.

So it actually helps magician alot, just don't look down on Stooge. Hahahaha Cause 1 day you will need it.

Peace ~

Winder is correct! Saying that stooge is not part of magic is like saying... Gimmicked decks are not part of magic!

Cos, even if you hate them, gimmicked decks are indeed part of magic. As long as a thing helps magic, I guess it'll be acceptable...

Hell, I used stooges in my competition act, with or without their knowledge :D

Anyhow, back on topic I guess... I think this effect is great if you have a backache or something, cause you can just give it a little *krik* *krak* and pain all gone!

-Kev

i very much agree.

using stooges is "Magic Entertainment", but not really "Magic". its quite hard to explain.

anyway, yes, use of stooges can prove useful (just dont depend on them, like what kev said)

but i suppose for some ppl who just dont like using gimmicked decks, stooges is a definite no-no. of course we should focus on effect and not just method, but i think for personal feeling of achievement and for other magis, i would rather use non-gimmicked stuff.

definitely though, gimmicked decks and stooges can greatly aid in your magic entertainment, i use them sometimes if its worth it, and will not rule them out for me to use in the future.

So Gordie, is it safe to assume you are a purist?

hmm.. i think using stooges is fun.... i used it once.. wif my fren... to fool another magician-----> the invisible deck... ROFL :lol: :lol:

Andrew Mayne has a ver of pocket sawing in half.
U can work upon that idea and maybe derive Steve's method.

not really a purist, but i self-admit to being quite like one. (im quite a purist on many issues, its either yes or no, black or white for me most of the time)

but if i've made myself clear enough earlier, i am not entirely against the use of stooges, or will rule out a possibility of me using them in the future.

It doesnt matter if ure black or white... LALALALALALA :P

Haha...how interesting. I watched Copperfield's Laser a few years back. Very very amazing. I think this is my all time favourite stage illusion. There is nothing more visual and direct. Why would you need a box if you are really sawing someone into two? Steve Fearson is sheer genius.

Huron

Look carefully at both performances again. It is definitely not angle-proof. I'll bet my virginity on it. :lol:

The point of time when the torso fuses to the body is when the lights are turned down. That's the clever use of lighting to enhance the seeming "fairness" of the effect. I've been watching DC's illusions carefully since I was 8 years old. DC utilizes lighting and pyrotechics fully to his advantage, and many-a-times the audience (that includes us) gets so amazed by the illusion that subtleties like lighting discrepancies under a rigged platform and dimming and re-introduction of lights are ignored. This is wonderful visual misdirection. Two thumbs up for the lighting crew.

As for the issue of using stooges, it's all part of the entourage that provides the entertainment for the audience. I seriously find nothing wrong with it at all. In fact, I wouldn't even refer to them as "stooges" in the first place. They're working staff who are paid to act as spectators in order to heighten the effect, and all of them have to sign a non-disclosure contract before given the task.

If a stage magician can hire assistants and dancers to perform the effect with him, what's wrong with hiring spectators as long as the entertainment criteria for the paying audience is met? If you're a parlour magician and you can do a Mother of God friggin' impossible effect but you need the help of a couple of "stooges," does it mean that you didn't fulfil your role as an entertainer?

We have to bear in mind that we're magicians...we're entertainers. That's the primary objective.

My 2 cents' worth...

yo all

honestly, i think this illusion is not that great. I kinda figured it out the first time I watched it, and i agree with magicdow about the pants thingie. perhaps if you applied the 'too-perfect' theory...

and yeah, dc uses stooges - but that does not make him a poor magician. he's great at presentation.

i agree wth u moondust, dc uses lighting in coule of his vanished too. anyhow, regarding the dc laser, i am truely impressed. i just can't figure it out! :(