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00:00 My name is Sean Fields and welcome to Kinetica.
00:04 Kinetica is a project dedicated to the idea of psychokinesis or telekinesis,
00:09 the ability, or apparent ability, to move or alter matter with nothing more than a thought.
00:15 This has been a very popular theme in magic for a long time and with good reason.
00:20 Psychokinetic demonstrations are amongst the most believable illusions you can perform.
00:26 Kinetica focuses on three of my favorites, the kinetic ring, the kinetic bill, and of course the kinetic coin.
00:35 All three effects use the exact same method, but in slightly different ways to create three wildly differing effects.
00:44 In case you haven't suspected, invisible thread is the method at play here.
00:50 All three effects use invisible thread, but as I said, they use them in a different way to create three completely different effects.
00:57 Traditionally speaking, invisible thread has been used to levitate something.
01:02 And that's cool. Levitation is a really cool looking illusion.
01:05 But, when an audience sees something float, when they see a bill floating in space, there's only a few methods that they can comprehend.
01:15 It has to be magnets, or wind, or the most popular idea that they come to when they see something floating is thread.
01:22 There has to be some sort of a string.
01:25 And that's what makes Kinetica a little bit different. We're not making anything float.
01:30 Animations are much, much more believable, and ultimately more effective and more powerful to an audience.
01:38 Kinetica uses invisible thread to create animations in an unorthodox manner.
01:44 Unorthodox animations in an unorthodox manner means the audience has no capability to backtrack or reconstruct what they just witnessed.
01:54 The only thing that they can believe is that you do somehow have some psychic power, some ability to alter matter with your mind.
02:03 It's pretty powerful.
02:05 So when we come back, we're going to take a look at the types of invisible thread you can use,
02:10 how to set it up, and how to prepare for the illusions taught here on Kinetica.
02:15 All three effects in Kinetica utilize the same gimmick.
02:20 All three effects utilize invisible thread.
02:24 Now, I've got a nice white piece of paper here, because invisible thread is invisible,
02:28 so hopefully this will make it show up a little bit better on camera for you.
02:33 Many people ask what kind of invisible thread I use. Do I use a reel? Do I use loops? Do I use Kevlar?
02:41 None of the above.
02:43 I use a super, super simple thread setup that gives me far more practicality and convenience than any other device I've ever used.
02:52 I've worked with every invisible thread gimmick and setup known to man, and I always come back to this one.
02:59 It's simple, it's efficient, it's practical, and reset should you break the thread is much, much quicker.
03:06 I've tracked this thread setup back to Bob Hummer, I'm sure of the whirling card fame.
03:12 You know, the thing where you flip the card and it sails around your body?
03:15 He was the first guy to use the setup I'm about to share with you.
03:19 Since then, other guys, such as John LeClair, have put a lot of work into it and made it something even more special.
03:26 They've taken it and done their own work with it.
03:29 So here, the invisible thread I use is nothing more than standard magician's invisible thread.
03:40 Now, if you've never worked with this stuff before, you're probably wondering, "What am I on? This doesn't look very invisible."
03:49 It actually kind of looks like wool.
03:52 The secret is, this isn't the invisible thread. The invisible thread are the fibers that make up this string.
04:00 So, Alan, I want you to come in real close. See if you can get a shot of this.
04:06 Because to get the invisible thread, you need to strip it or tease it out of the larger string.
04:14 You do this by grabbing the end and just sort of pulling at the end.
04:21 As you do that, you'll get a hold of a fiber.
04:26 You might get a hold of two or three fibers, but if you continue to tease, you'll get a hold of just one.
04:35 Now, I'm putting a tiny little bit of putty so I can keep it on the table so you can see.
04:42 Hopefully, if you come in real close, you can see that fiber there, Alan.
04:46 Yeah, there we go.
04:49 Now, when you're stripping the thread out, you have to remember never to touch the end and never to touch where it bunches up.
04:57 I'll show you what I mean.
04:59 As you start to tease the thread out, you'll see it begins to bunch up in the middle.
05:07 Never touch that bunch and never touch the open end.
05:11 That's just going to get the thread all tangled up and make it more difficult to strip out later.
05:17 You simply continue to pull the string away from the thread and work from below the bunch.
05:25 I pull, and by pulling below the bunch, I'm moving the bunch down.
05:34 You continue doing this until you get the length of thread that you need.
05:43 In our case, the length of thread you need for me is about two feet.
05:49 The thread is going to run from behind your ear to about your belly button, give or take.
05:57 We strip out as much thread as we need.
06:02 In this case, it's going to be two feet.
06:05 What I like to do, and I'm not going to do it here because you need to see this on camera,
06:09 but what I like to do is once I've got six or seven inches stripped out,
06:14 I take one piece and I stick it behind my ear.
06:19 I'll stick it just behind my ear.
06:21 I'll take this end and stick it behind my ear.
06:29 Hopefully you can see that.
06:30 Now you'll notice the thread is hanging off my face.
06:33 This makes it a little bit easier for me to strip out the right length.
06:38 I'll just pull and continue to pull,
06:43 always working below the bunch
06:48 until I get the amount of thread out that I want.
06:53 Once you've got the amount of thread that you want,
06:56 you need to put some putty or some wax at the other end.
07:02 I've got a little bit of putty here.
07:05 I've also got some beeswax, which works just as well.
07:09 For right now, we're just going to use regular putty.
07:14 Once you've got the thread stripped out,
07:21 one more time here, there we go.
07:25 Now, this is a little short, but it doesn't matter.
07:29 Just to show you how this works,
07:31 take the other end of the putty and wrap it into the thread.
07:38 I'm just sticking the putty onto the thread above the string.
07:44 Once that's done, break it off.
07:49 The invisible thread will hang from your ear down.
07:53 With the string, just pull it all the way out from the end.
07:58 You can re-wrap it around your card, and you're set to go again.
08:05 It's going to be very difficult for you to see me work with invisible thread.
08:10 For the rest of the DVD to explain how these illusions work,
08:14 we're going to use white thread.
08:16 When we come back, I'll have the gimmick set up with white thread
08:19 so you can clearly see the length,
08:21 and we'll get rid of the white paper
08:23 to make sure that the white thread stands up
08:26 so that you can learn these effects easily.
08:29 I've made a gimmick out of white thread.
08:34 That way, it's a little bit easier to see against my black jacket and shirt.
08:39 The first thing I want you to notice is the length of the thread.
08:44 The length of thread you're going to use
08:46 will be completely dependent on your height and your body.
08:49 For me, about 2, maybe 2.5 feet works.
08:53 What you want is you want it to run from its anchor place behind the ear,
08:57 which we're about to show you,
08:59 to roughly your belly button, give or take just a couple inches higher.
09:06 On one end of the thread, I've got a fairly large ball of putty or wax.
09:12 In this case, I'm using putty, but putty, wax, it doesn't matter.
09:17 On the other end, I've got a much smaller ball of, again, putty or wax.
09:23 It doesn't matter, whatever you're more comfortable with.
09:30 Now, to set this up, to anchor the thread,
09:32 we're going to take the larger ball of wax,
09:35 and we're going to stick it behind our ear against our skull.
09:40 So, Alan, if you want to come in,
09:42 I want to be able to show you exactly where this goes on me
09:45 so you know where to put it on yourself.
09:48 If you fold your ear back, right here, behind the fold of the ear,
09:53 right against the skull, and right against the ears where you want to pin it.
09:57 So watch.
10:00 It comes here, and I stick the putty right there,
10:04 right against my skull and my ear.
10:08 From there, I'm going to push my ear against my head.
10:12 I know it seems a little weird, but I want that putty to stick really, really firmly.
10:18 And when you push your ear against it,
10:21 the putty will also stick to your ear, almost pinning it.
10:26 The last thing to do is to bring the thread up and over the ear.
10:30 Oops, there we go.
10:32 You don't want it hanging out the bottom.
10:34 You want it hanging off the top of your ear, right here.
10:40 The reason for that is it gives you a tactile feedback.
10:44 You can feel the thread.
10:46 Any tension on the thread, you can feel it.
10:49 And that's critical.
10:51 Knowing the tension of the thread and the condition of the thread
10:55 is integral to all invisible thread work.
10:58 So having the thread coming over your ear gives you a tactile sensation.
11:02 You know how much tension is on the thread.
11:06 You can feel it, and it's very, very useful.
11:11 The other end of the putty, you can just stick to the inside of your jacket.
11:15 I'll just stick it against my zipper or in that area behind, and that's it.
11:23 That's where the thread is going to hang.
11:25 Now, you'll notice--one thing I should mention is I don't recommend using a zipper jacket.
11:31 I'm okay with it because I'm comfortable with thread,
11:33 but for most people, I would avoid zippers.
11:36 The thread can get caught, and it can get tangled.
11:39 But the idea is that when the thread is behind your jacket and running from your head,
11:44 it's completely out of the way.
11:46 You have full motion. You have complete range of motion, and the thread is in no danger.
11:51 You can shake hands with people. You can hug people.
11:53 Nobody is going to see it. The thread is safe, but it's there the minute you need it.
11:59 Telekinetic demonstrations are amongst the most powerful effects you can perform for your audience.
12:05 Imagine removing your ring or borrowing one from an audience member
12:10 and laying that ring flat on your palm.
12:15 Begin to focus, and the ring stands up.
12:21 It begins to spin and hover above your palm.
12:25 Just when they think the effect is over, bam, the ring flies back to your finger.
12:33 That's the kinetic ring.
12:35 Start with the ring on your finger.
12:37 I'm left-handed. I've got the thread set up on the left side of my body,
12:41 so I'm going to put the ring on my left third finger.
12:44 You can put it on any finger you want.
12:48 I just happen to use the third finger because I think it looks nicest.
12:52 When you want to perform, all you have to do is get control of that wax from the inside of your jacket.
12:58 Just peel it off with your nail, so you've got the ball of wax in your hand.
13:05 Now just stick that wax underneath, against the fingernail of the ring finger,
13:14 and press it in there very well.
13:17 It doesn't have to be invisible.
13:24 You don't want a huge chunk of putty or wax.
13:29 The last thing here is you want to make sure that the thread,
13:33 when you straighten your hand, comes out over the middle of the finger.
13:39 You see how it's splitting my finger in half?
13:42 It's coming right up the middle.
13:44 That's critical to the end of the solution.
13:47 If the thread is off to one side or the other,
13:51 that final moment where the ring jumps back onto the finger,
13:56 and you can watch the demo to see that,
13:58 but that final moment won't happen unless the thread is directly over the middle of your finger.
14:06 Now, the performance proper.
14:10 You're set up. The only thing you need to do, and this is beautiful,
14:15 is reach over and take your ring off.
14:19 That's it.
14:21 If you want to do the spinning and the animation like I like to do,
14:26 just twist the ring two times,
14:29 and you do that under the guise of examining their ring or displaying yours.
14:34 I'm going to go a third time just for fun.
14:38 Now, you hold the ring,
14:40 and you'll see with the white thread that the twists are very loose,
14:46 so the ring can move up and down on the thread.
14:48 That's important because when you're twisting it,
14:51 it's probably going to be much closer to your fingers,
14:54 but when you put it on your hand, you want it to be on the palm.
14:57 So you can pull back,
14:59 and you straighten your fingers and place the ring on your palm.
15:08 You'll notice the thread is still splitting the middle of my third finger,
15:12 and it's been wrapped around twice.
15:16 Now, the animation is dead simple.
15:18 All you have to do is slowly straighten your head.
15:24 The ring will stand up and begin to spin.
15:27 If you're gentle, you can make it stand up on its own accord,
15:30 and then a little bit more tension, and it'll spin.
15:34 So one more time.
15:36 From here, you twist once, twice, three times for good luck.
15:43 Pull back, straighten your hand out, and lay it on your palm,
15:48 and slowly tilt your head back.
15:51 The ring will stand up and begin to spin, and then it'll fall again.
15:55 That's exactly what we want.
15:57 The slower you move your head, the slower that will happen.
16:03 Now, when you want to do the big finale,
16:07 again, all you have to do is straighten your fingers.
16:09 This time, you need to curl your fingers in a little bit,
16:11 and you're still going to straighten your head back.
16:13 So you curl your fingers in so the fingertips are pointing up,
16:17 and you tilt your head back,
16:19 and the ring will jump right onto your finger.
16:24 One more time.
16:26 From here, we'll do it right from the animation.
16:28 A couple of twists.
16:30 Put the ring on the finger.
16:33 Straighten your head.
16:35 The ring stands up.
16:37 Pause for a minute.
16:38 Straighten a little bit more.
16:40 And the ring twists and falls down.
16:43 And for the last one, just relax your hands a little bit
16:46 so the fingertips are pointing up,
16:49 and then you're going to pull your head back,
16:51 and the ring jumps right onto your finger.
16:55 Clean-up is just as easy as the rest of this routine.
16:59 All you have to do is put the ring all the way on your finger.
17:03 What I do is I come over,
17:06 and you'll notice as I'm covering,
17:09 as I'm pushing the ring on my finger,
17:12 the middle finger of my right hand automatically covers
17:15 the fingernail of my left third finger.
17:18 So as I push the ring on, and under the cover of pushing the ring on,
17:22 what's going to happen is my middle finger of my right hand
17:26 is going to contact that putty and just pull it off.
17:30 So it goes on.
17:33 The wax gets pulled off.
17:35 Now, the hand that's got all the heat on it,
17:38 the hand that would be suspect, is the one with the ring.
17:41 People are going to think there's a string attached to the ring,
17:43 or a magnet, or there's something gimmicked with the ring.
17:47 But this hand is completely free and clear.
17:49 You can extend it and say, "Look. Take a look. Nothing."
17:53 This hand has the putty stuck to the finger,
17:57 and that's attached to the thread.
17:59 So while you're doing this, this hand can just relax,
18:03 let the putty go, and stick it back to the inside of your jacket.
18:09 You're clean, and you're ready to go again.
18:15 They can examine you, your hands, the ring.
18:18 There's nothing for them to find,
18:20 yet you can do the trick again on a moment's notice.
18:23 Energy can't be created or destroyed, only transformed.
18:31 What if you could borrow a bill from a speck hitter
18:36 and harness the energy stored in the folds of that bill,
18:41 causing the bill to fold?
18:45 Not just once, but twice.
19:09 This is the kinetic bill.
19:11 This is kinetic bill.
19:16 This is my interpretation of the classic haunted or self-folding bill illusion.
19:21 This effect, the self-folding bill, is ancient.
19:26 I'm sure many of you remember the old gaffed bill
19:30 that you would put on your hand and it would fold up.
19:32 And then you'd have to do a shuttle pass to hand it out.
19:35 It was a beautiful illusion,
19:37 and it's still one that I like to break out from time to time.
19:40 But the problem is the bill is so heavily gaffed,
19:43 and you need to switch the bill out before you can hand it out for examination.
19:48 It can't be borrowed.
19:50 There are other versions that other guys have done
19:53 where it happens on the table or under a glass.
19:58 There's many variations of this effect,
20:01 but not one of them allows you to do it with a borrowed bill.
20:04 Kinetic bill does just that.
20:07 And it is simplicity in action.
20:10 Take a bill, borrowed, and just fold it in half once.
20:15 Give it a good crease.
20:17 And fold it into quarters the same way.
20:19 Again, give it a good crease.
20:21 Open it up and just sort of straighten it out
20:27 so those creases are not horribly-- so they're not too noticeable.
20:33 A softer bill works better for this than a newer bill.
20:36 It just makes the animation a little bit more fluid.
20:40 After you've done that, you need to get control of the end of your thread.
20:44 So as you're showing the bill, just as before,
20:47 take the wax, just peel it off with your finger--
20:51 whoops, there we go--
20:53 and stick it to the back of your thumbnail.
20:56 You can see that there.
21:00 I just stick it to the back of my thumbnail.
21:02 I just peel it off of my jacket.
21:04 I get it there.
21:06 Now, holding the bill face towards you--
21:11 because we folded it in half this way,
21:13 so with George facing me--
21:16 I'm going to take my thumb and press it.
21:20 I'm going to press the wax against the end of the bill,
21:23 right in the middle.
21:25 It doesn't have to be. You can put it on either corner.
21:28 It makes-- depending on your preference,
21:31 on either end might make it a little bit easier to clean up later.
21:35 But for me, I like it right there, down the middle of the bill.
21:39 So once I've scratched it off, I cover it with my thumb.
21:44 So now I can show the bill all around.
21:47 It's not going to disrupt the thread.
21:49 The thread is just going along for the ride, behind my hand.
21:53 So there's nothing to see.
21:55 Now, to set this up, what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn the bill
21:59 so that the wax end, or the putty end, is facing the spectator.
22:04 Now, I'm going to run my hand back,
22:08 but my first finger goes over the thread.
22:12 And I use my first finger and thumb to pinch the other end of the bill.
22:18 So from here, again, from here, we show the bill around.
22:24 My first finger is going to run over top of the thread,
22:28 pinning the thread against the bill,
22:30 and then I'm using my first finger and thumb to pinch the bill.
22:34 Now, when you want to perform the animation,
22:40 all you have to do is pretend like you're sending some sort of kinetic energy
22:45 towards the bill and tilt your head back.
22:48 That will cause the bill to fold along that first crease,
22:54 all the way up, and once it hits the back of your first finger,
22:59 reach over with your middle finger and close it shut.
23:02 You can come back with this hand and crease it closed.
23:07 You'll also notice that I'm pinching the wax.
23:11 I grabbed the wax between my middle finger and thumb,
23:14 so now it's waxed closed at the open ends.
23:18 Now I'm going to do the exact same thing I just did.
23:23 I'm going to turn the waxed end towards the audience.
23:26 My first finger is going to pull back on the thread and then pinch the bill.
23:32 And just as before, all you have to do is pull your head back
23:38 and move your hand forward, and now the bill begins to fold into quarters.
23:43 Pinch it closed, crease it shut.
23:49 You can show the bill all around, and remember, the thread is invisible,
23:52 so they don't see anything.
23:54 So this display already looks incredibly clean.
23:58 To clean it up is super simple.
24:01 All you need to do is open up the bill and scratch off that wax with your thumb.
24:10 So you can just fold it back, scratch it off,
24:14 and stick it to the back of your thumbnail again.
24:21 Scratch it off, stick it to the back of your thumbnail,
24:23 and now you can hand it out.
24:26 Your hands are clean, there's nothing for them to see.
24:28 There's a little wax there, but nobody ever notices that.
24:32 And all the way back, you can get it onto your first finger,
24:36 adjust your jacket, sticking it back against your zipper, the inside of your jacket,
24:41 and you're clean and you're good to go again.
24:45 Now the beauty of this effect is, again, it can be done with a borrowed bill,
24:50 but it can be done with more than just bills.
24:52 You can do it with pages from a book, or receipts from a gas station,
24:57 from a restaurant, or whatever.
25:00 Any paper that's roughly bill-shaped can be made to fold in on itself.
25:07 It's a beautiful demonstration of PK.
25:10 When you play it correctly, and you play it as if you really had psychic powers,
25:15 it is a staggeringly beautiful and simply wonderfully deceptive effect.
25:22 And it is truly, truly believable as a demonstration of telekinesis.
25:27 Metal-bending demonstrations are among the most powerful possible in all of telekinesis.
25:35 Imagine borrowing a coin from an audience member,
25:38 laying it on your palm,
25:41 and then, with nothing more than a gentle touch of your fingertip,
25:45 causing that coin to begin to warp and distort and bend,
25:51 forever leaving the coin in an altered configuration.
26:00 There's nothing to hide.
26:07 There's nothing to see.
26:10 This is the kinetic coin.
26:12 This illusion is known as kinetic coin.
26:19 It is a bending coin illusion.
26:22 You borrow a coin, and just wave your hand over it, and cause it to melt and bend.
26:28 It's one of my favorite effects.
26:31 It's based loosely on an old idea I had years ago for a ring flight called Flight 204.
26:39 In turn, that was based on John Cornelius' fickle nickel idea.
26:45 Now, I should tell you there is no shortage of ways to bend a coin.
26:52 There is countless ways to cause a coin to bend, both sleight of hand and gimmicked.
26:58 This method is incredibly clean,
27:01 and it uses invisible thread as a kind of a hidden hand, almost like a thumbtip.
27:08 I'll show you what I mean.
27:11 The first thing you're going to need to do is get a bent coin.
27:15 Now, you can certainly buy these from different magic shops, such as magicplace.com,
27:22 but you can also make them very inexpensively, very efficiently yourself.
27:27 There's tools that magicians have invented for bending coins into this exact configuration,
27:32 but the easiest and most convenient way to do it is get a couple of pairs of pliers and some towels.
27:39 You wrap the coin in the towels, and you grab each end with the pliers, squeeze hard, and just bend.
27:46 It's very, very simple.
27:49 If you're under 18 or working with tools, get some parental assistance with this, should you need.
27:56 Now, the other thing you need to do is borrow a quarter.
28:01 So here's how we get into this.
28:03 As you're asking for a quarter to be borrowed,
28:07 all you need to do is get this coin out of your pocket, the bent coin,
28:12 and you just sort of clip it with your fingers.
28:15 That's it. Just clip it between the first finger and the middle finger.
28:20 Your hand can be super relaxed, but it can also open up straight.
28:29 So get it clipped between your first finger and middle finger and relax.
28:34 As they're reaching for a coin for you, also get control of the end of your thread,
28:44 that tiny little wax ball, and just get it to the back of your thumbnail.
28:55 You don't want it really, really in there. You just want it loosely on there because you need control.
29:01 When they hand the coin back to you, immediately take it in my left hand.
29:08 That's the hand that's got the wax on it.
29:11 With the right thumb, I'm going to go and pull the wax off of my left thumb and squeeze it against the coin.
29:19 Squeeze it against the borrowed coin.
29:22 So again, I take it, pull it off, squeeze it against the borrowed coin, and now we're good.
29:27 The borrowed coin is attached to the thread.
29:31 Place the borrowed coin into the palm of your right hand, or if you're right-handed, your left hand.
29:41 This hand, again, they never see the bent quarter. The hand is relaxed.
29:47 It opens up flat, and I like to turn slightly to the right.
29:53 So I'm not doing this dead on, but I'm facing slightly to the right.
29:58 So my left side is slightly more exposed to the audience than my front.
30:03 That's going to give me the cover I need for this to work really, really well.
30:09 Also, tilt your right hand just slightly.
30:13 You don't want it perfectly flat. It has to be somewhat tilted.
30:17 Now this hand is going to come over, and as it does, it catches the thread in the space between the first finger and the thumb.
30:27 Now I'll pull my hands away from me a little bit because I want some tension on that thread.
30:34 Not a lot, but it needs to be a little bit more tense.
30:38 If I keep going, that's going to pick the coin up.
30:43 You can't see that because my hand is blocking it, but what's going on, Alan, if you can come in real close,
30:50 is as I move this hand up, it drags the other coin off my hand, and it falls behind.
31:00 So now that coin is hanging behind my right hand.
31:07 So again, we're here, the thread gets caught between my first finger and thumb, and the coin gets dragged around to the back.
31:16 Now as I come back, I'm going to drop the bent coin on my palm, and just touch it with my finger.
31:27 And it looks like it bends, and I turn both hands palm up.
31:32 So what they see from the performance angle is this.
31:37 They see a bent coin and two empty hands.
31:40 But from the other side, the borer coin is actually hanging behind my hand.
31:47 Now this is the part that absolutely fries magicians.
31:55 I drop the coin from one hand to the other. So I drop the bent coin into my waiting left hand.
32:02 But I don't stop. My thumb comes under the thread, and keeping the thread at full tension,
32:09 you can close your fist and continue turning over, which keeps the coin on the back side.
32:16 This is the fickle nickel idea.
32:18 So from here, I'll let you see it from the back.
32:22 We're here, and here.
32:25 So from the back, I've bent the coin, the coin drops into my hand, and I continue going to show the other side of my hand.
32:35 From performance, we're here, the coin's been bent, it drops, and I show the other side of my hand.
32:44 And now you can come back the same way.
32:49 You always want to keep the thread, and you really should look directly at your hand while you're doing this,
32:54 because that will keep the thread perfectly in line so that your thumb doesn't get in the way.
33:00 And you can keep the coin behind your hand and turn your hand back and forward all day.
33:09 So the coin gets dumped, the hand gets turned over, and I turn it back this way.
33:15 And I start to relax, and I turn towards them.
33:18 But as I relax, this hand starts to come down and keeps tension on the line.
33:24 Remember, their attention is over here on the bent coin.
33:27 They realize this hand is empty.
33:30 So I turn and I look at the bent coin, this hand relaxes.
33:35 See how the fingers just relax?
33:39 And as I turn to hand this one over, that coin just gets pulled right back into my palm, behind the fingers.
33:46 So we're here, these fingers just relax, and the coin gets just popped up.
33:52 So here's what it looks like from the wrong side.
33:55 You're here, fingers relax, and the coin just gets pulled into the palm.
34:00 But again, from the audience's perspective, we're here.
34:07 Oops.
34:08 From the audience's perspective, we're here.
34:11 There's nothing to see. Nothing seems to happen.
34:14 The coin can go into finger palm.
34:17 I can flick off the wax with my thumb as I'm handing this out.
34:21 And just as before, I can let it go, and the wax will swing under my jacket.
34:28 Or, just stick it to the...
34:30 Because I've got the coin in finger palm in my right hand, this is the one time where I'll stick the wax to the right side of my jacket.
34:38 They're examining this.
34:43 This hand, which has been seen empty the entire time, pins the wax to the jacket and can just go south with the gimmick.
34:49 It can just go south with their coin, dump it in the pocket, you're clean.
34:55 Simple, direct, and it's a lot of fun to do. And it has a huge impact on lay audiences.
35:01 It's going to take a little bit of practice to get right, but try it out. I'm sure you'll love it.
35:06 Well, that's it guys. That's Kinetika.
35:09 Three psychokinetic effects, all reliant on invisible thread.
35:13 I don't want you to stop your studies of invisible thread with what I just showed you.
35:18 It's more than just a trick. It's not just the thing that makes the bill float.
35:23 Invisible thread is an invaluable tool to the working performer.
35:27 These three effects, I hope, will spur some creativity in you and inspire you to look at the other things that can be done with invisible thread.
35:37 It is such a fantastic tool. You can move things with it, you can make things vanish or appear with it.
35:44 There's no limit to what the creative performer can do with invisible thread.
35:50 So take these effects, make them your own. Go out there, have some fun, and make some people believe.
35:56 We'll see you next time.
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