This guy, Jason Latimer, is supposedly the "World Champion of Magic" and, after watching these videos -- especially the one with the laser beam -- I'd say he just might be!

Glass cups and balls: (a little over 4 minutes)

Laser beam: (under 3 minutes)

How the hell does he do it??

 

That light beam thing was pretty damn cool.

 

cool. too bad that laser beam thing can't cut through things like a light saber.

 

that was awsome

 

 

that was pretty sweet but his facial expressions are kinda gay.

 

 

You can see with his first glass trick that he hides a 2nd green ball under the middle glass with his left hand, real quick (16 sec mark), although you can't really see it because he keeps the other glass in front of it, and that frosted glass hides it.

He then pulls and tilts the other glass towards him (with the visible green one) with enough tilt to have it fall on his lap or off the table...to where you can't see it come out. Then you think it ends up in the middle one, when there was really one there all the time....not too impressive. That cloudy bottom part is there for a reason.

His facial expressions are classic.

In the first laser trick, the ring doesn't slide down anything.....he moves the laser & his body forward and just drops the ring, giving the optical illusion that it's sliding down it. It was all pretty weak if you ask me. It's dark for a reason. All in all, this kind of magic does not impress me. If you knew how they did it, you'd be pretty disappointed with the slight of hand and basic gadgets used.

I'll stick with Chris Angel. You wanna see him cut off a guy's arm??
Someone explain this one! They never do show the guy afterward.

 

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww... can cimply not be real though.. thats what my head tells me

 

not to sound like a complete magic nut because i'm not. but that ball trick is explainable to me that there are areas on that surface that allows the ball to fall down and wait for him underneth. this is why he's constantly putting his hands back down whenever a ball moves from cup to cup. to get the ball back under the glass, he lifts the cup slightly and just rolls over the felt ball quickly and it pops back into the cup. atleast that's my take on it.

also this chris angel thing is a joke. chris angel uses staged audience members who constantly remind you of how awesome he is. "i thought it was a trick saw"...really you never thought maybe it's a trick arm? but you gotta love his choice of "mindfreak consultant". i love the shirt unbuttoned with the cross necklace.