The magician's secret: Why everyone should embrace child-like wonder | Francis Menotti | TEDxPenn
Fifty-two cards: this disordered mess can be ordered with a little sleight of hand and a lot of audience imagination. Magic is all about perspective and misdirection where viewers are as much a part of the experience as the magician himself. Francis Menotti ignites our hidden childlike wonder and stresses its importance in the most unexpected place - full-grown adults.
A full time professional magician since 2000, Francis Menotti has over 30 years experience practicing sleight of hand. Whether entertaining on six-star cruise lines, U.S. Presidential Inaugural Balls or intimate private events, Francis consistently impresses. He has also earned respect as an international industry leader, inventing, writing and lecturing on new magic for fellow magicians. He artfully draws upon his education in psychology, advertising, and theatre to captivate and charm audiences across five continents. He is constantly adapting to different languages and bridging cultural barriers with a universal language of wonder.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
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One of the most underrated magicians out there, not only an expert in sleight of hand but also aware of principles for how both the psychology and principles affect performances for laypeople. In this case, he talks of the precondition of laypeople and how it should be challenged.
underrated and brilliant and one of the best personalities while doing good sleight of hand that I've seen in a long time
@sajeedashaker8285
7 жыл бұрын
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@fruious2402
7 жыл бұрын
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One of the few thought provoking magicians I've seen while managing to be technically sound and entertaining.
The idea was that magic are not supposed to be only for children and that, through magi, we can be childlike again: wondered, impressed, transported, happy, and, for the time being, believing that magic magically exists!
I'm beginning to love and hate this guy he's charmingly flamboyant
I had the pleasure of watching this just at a time I needed to be reminded of wonderful things. Thank you.
Awesome! Thank God for magicians like this man!
awesomee...great skills
Really awesome!
Well done!
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Francis, thankyou for quoting Jerry Andrus ! ! ! Truly he was a special man .
I helped Francis with a magic trick in Troy PA once
I love magic Definitely brings out the "kid" in me
This guy is really good. Although some of his moves, especially the coin tricks, are relatively easy to see. Of course, the tricks themselves are not the focus of this presentation anyway.
@chody5840
7 жыл бұрын
Coin magic is hard as fuck to pull off clean in front of cameras. Definitely harder than the false shuffles or the cups and balls.
1:12 Lennart Green like shuffle
@aerox_odyssey
5 жыл бұрын
T*****e shuffle
This man is the real life Loki
watch in slow motion at 17:19 , you can clearly see him putting the pen behind his ears .
Is it palm Sunday? Hand motions too identifiable, but misdirection was good.
He is a real life fantastic beast guy.
wow
I believe I saw a gentleman in a "forest" one time use very similar patter with a Rubik's cube before? 😊
Man, that camera angle shows him not putting the coin into the other hand the first time
Perfectly done ᵔᴥᵔ ★★★★★ Katalyzt
he just damaged my brain
@qozia1370
7 жыл бұрын
slow down the video and you can see ts all basic tricks. its not magic, its tricks
@user-zl9cv7gb5u
7 жыл бұрын
alex gage wait magic doesn't exist
@fragmaka
7 жыл бұрын
oh shush and just enjoy
I feel like his palming is pretty easy to read. Maybe it's on purpose.
Hi
Can someone explain to me that sleight of hand at 15:50? :o
@TheSkipper.
7 жыл бұрын
Felipe Silveira could be a gimmick coin set, where one clicks into the other
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
he went from cool to what the heck i dont understand towards the end!!
Hey Ted Mosby
@VamaSpielt
7 жыл бұрын
I think he also looks a bit like Mike Mikkelsen :)
The coint stuff wasnt the best sleighto fhand Ive seen but the cups and balls surpassed what Ive seen before.
@patrickoriley8382
7 жыл бұрын
The cups and balls suck.
@quin2910
7 жыл бұрын
Dean Ocko after the first couple of times I saw what he was doing.
@quin2910
7 жыл бұрын
Dean Ocko didn't see the vegetables though
@RoscoeKane
7 жыл бұрын
size of the fruits used was impressive
@Master0fLight
7 жыл бұрын
+Patrick O'Riley no, they don't.
How did he get 3 balls under the same cup? I didn't get that one ;_;
@ph4252
7 жыл бұрын
well some say he had 6 balls in the first place...
The cards are not back in the original order in the 1st trick
Any guess to how many red balls was he using? My guess: 5 balls
@marcellbourgla8634
7 жыл бұрын
MuDasir Yaseen all of the ones he's had
TEDx is the realm for amateurs
the coin tricks were lame but the I love the balls
well he aint the greatest magician Ive seen (well at least this performance was not great anyway) but I am also not a late person. I have trained my eyes to catch lots of the moves going on so I do not know how fair it is for me to say that he is not the greatest. But he is genuinely thought provocative and he is taking magic into a really new place. You see that mosts magicians are split into 2 groups. one group that tries to make people dumber by pretending that they have super powers and one that makes people smarter or leave them the same by explaining that are actually tricks. He falls definitely under the second group but his ideology varies a bit. And as a person who loves magic I can say that Im really happy that there are people like him who take the art form in a really nice place !
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Your coin handling was a lot worse than your ball handling. You are quite a fine ball handler.
The finicky spot partly flower because factory complementarily comb vice a male tower. wicked, uninterested air
Nearly 10 min.s to get on with the trick?! Get on with it! and "yes", I started skipping ahead after about 5 minutes!.....Did I say, "Get on with it?"!, And "NO:, I couldn't watch 'till the end
he talks to much
cup trick sooo lame. beginner
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