Saturday, January 26, 2008

Quirkology

After following a series of links from Wikipedia's cold reading page, I ended up at Professor Richard Wiseman's Quirkology YouTube Channel, which includes some fun illusions, like his Corkology demonstration:



Did he really do that in one continuous shot, with no editing and no CGI? Yes:



After the fact, it's obvious how he does the psychological card trick, but that doesn't mean it isn't fun the first time through:



I also enjoyed the colour changing card trick:




Swing by his Quirkology site to learn more.

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