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  • I like this guy's magic, it's easy to see his trick but his videos are fun to watch.

  • whao

  • at 1:18 u can see that he is not there!!!

  • Is simplr thn u thnk. Marco (as n many ocasions) hs a confederat (no twin). Th tape playr he's carrying has Marco's voice recordd. As they start they both run upstair to the 1st flor and Marco show his face. Then the confederate runs upstair as Marco does it downstair. As he gets upstairs we c Marco for a split of a second. Tis' simply a picture. I dnt know if the actually threw the phone, but it culd b attached to a string to avoid break. Marco is already wating for it downstair and "catchs it"

  • you have a twin!!!!

  • Everyone is over simplifying this. Marco actually has a twin brother named Polo. That is why you can see his face running up the building and at the top of the building. If you look closly one of them has a unibrow and the other one does not

  • no he doesnt have a unibrow

  • Marco, and his "twin" is Polo? Marco Polo?

  • lol

  • notice tht he says are you ready then a nother voices says im ready can you explain that to me plz

  • dont know if your being facisous but theres no editings, its just a clever trick, think about whos holding the camera

  • If you want to know how he did it... check out his video on how he did the Tokyo Tower. Hint: it may have to do with video, but there's no editing.

  • sorry squefrey its not the same trick as the tokyo tower one. thers no tv involved, i think this is a buch better trick than the tokyo one

  • oh snap

  • before he throws the phone off the roof, you can see his face-this was pasted in

  • thats a lifesize cut out on the top of the building

  • ok this is so obvious. for starters he never goes in the building. but he needs to prove that he is still with the boom box all the way to the top of the building right? well he is..in voice. that's right he recorded his voice on the tape track talking. but i bet you're wondering about when you saw his face right before the leap... a picture, that's right a picture that the camera pans to. so when the camera is tossed down the building viola! he's right there to catch it. and tha's the "trick".

  • were is your radio? yur really good! but maybe there was someone with you? i have no idea but yur amazing!

  • Damn! How did he do that?

  • He just had someone record half a second on levels of the fire escape.

  • ok, there is someone behind him 2 drop the camera AND marco tempest only goes half way coz he says "hi here i am!" then he goes down quick and wen he gets up, u can still hear him coz theres a microphone! so wen he gets up on level 5 its just another guy with marco tempest talking loud on the microphone!

    its FAKE

  • marco shows his face again when he's on topof the building explain that

  • EDITING FINAL CUT WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER not justbecause he said there is no editing it means there really is no editing

  • yeah. .ur ryt. and there's an image of "marco" on the rooftop. with no facial expression at all cuz it's just an image.

  • it takes too much time for the phone to fall

  • it takes too much time for the fall to fall

  • When "he" jumps you can see him on the pavement. Someone threw the phone from the building and he just catches it...

  • the phone has string on it, thats why it rolls, i think you can see it in some bits too

  • HUAUAAUAHA very nice man!!!!!

  • hey you can see the fishing rod at the last second when the camera looks up lol still a good idea... that pic of him at the top is kinda freaky tho

  • man, dont stop, please make more, it's getting my brain to work..but i dont get it lol

  • the voice was just recorded. and it was only a picture shown on top of the building... but still, it's awesome.. keep it up marco!

  • okay this is how it works

    1. he has a twin waiting to catch it

    2. theres a wait on the phone so it doesn't roll

    it's very easy to find out how to do these stunts

  • i dont know if anyone has said this, but i think i might've gotten it. his voice is recorded with the music, except for when way on the stairs, he switches the phone with someone and then runs back downstairs while the other guy keeps going up, and when it has the last shot of him before the camera falls, that is really a cardboard cut out image of him cause i saw a behind the scenes picture of it somewhere, and he catches it. thats my theory

  • oh man I figured it out. THis is so much fun

  • so uh, how DID he do it then?? wanan tell me this? i can't fig it out lol

  • and the other guy dosnt have white hair

  • if u notice when the phone falls down the camera keeps looking the bottom of the building... dunno u but when u throw something down a building, it keeps rolling and it is very difficult to keep it still :)

  • good job!

  • 3- He follows the guy till the third floor just to say "Im Here" and then run the way back to the sidewalk.

    4- The Marco showed on the roof is a picture of him...If u look carefully, when his face is shown, the background changes.

    5- This one i didnt get yet, but my guess is that the phone is tied up in a wire.

  • I got it completly. Im gonna explain this trick although im late here.

    1- The voice is recorded as you can notice it in the first seconds of the video.

    2- The arm that catches the radio IS NOT his arm...is someone elses arm that is hidden behind marco.

  • naw man he really jumped and caught his phone.

    i saw it with my own eyes

  • happy new year marco, my first comment on any vid in the new year. 7 minutes into 2007!

  • I reckon he gave the phone to someone else. Then at the top it looked at a photo of Marco, and his voice was with the music.

  • this one was really obvious, the soundtrack had ur voice and please... that picture??? lol, someone just showed a pic of u, threw it down and u caught it..

  • ITs a fake...the first guy was someone else then they switched places!

  • All magic is fake....we know it...the miracles doesnt exist...whats the purpose to say that is fake?

    We all know...just enjoy the pleasure of magic!

  • In the very last frame, you can see the guide rope in the upper right corner of the frame. Very nicely done, Marco - I'm your newest fan!

  • As other said - his voice is recorded on the player. He hands phone and player off to helper who goes up the stair while he comes down. The quick shot of Marco on the roof is a picture on the wall (doesn't move).

  • lol! so true! That pic was kinda creepy the second time I saw it.

  • wonder what woulda happened if he didnt catch his phone...(FUMBLE! SMASH! oh...crapstix)

  • lol then there wont be a Marco tempest cell-phonecam #5 lol

  • hey hey i got that one he he yay!

  • DID U SEE ME GROW? DID YOU?

  • 1 The voice was recorded on the damn soundtrack.

    (WHY WOULD HE NEED ONE ANYWAYS?!)

    2 IT IS a diff guy because the first person

    HAS MORE WRINKLES xD

    Lol

  • Doesn't matter how it's done, it's still fantastic!

  • he hands the phone and boombox off on the third floor to hois look-alike.

  • thisb is what he did he went up with the radio the last time he showed his face while goin up then its all on the record a switch of hands marco comes down man shows picture of marco drops campphone marco catches man runs

  • WHAT FONE r U USING?! like the model.. jus wondering...

    nice work!

  • nokia N73

  • good one marco, simple but good one...btw do you have differente phones?

  • HAHAHA "everything is recorded in real-time" nice, didnt saw the hint the last 20 times :D

  • Genius! Keep 'em coming!

  • Hey marco...remember me. Anyway, i really liked this trick. Since last night i have been not stop watching your videos. My hat is off to you sir. Keep up the good work.

  • fun :)

  • when "he" is on the roof i think it's just a photo of him the guy is showing

  • 1-he pre-records the track WITH HIS VOICE recorded on the track

    2-on the third floor he shows himself and the voice is comming from HIM.Then he goes back down

    3-then the recording goes on with his voice, even on the roof is sounds like bad quality

    4-on the roof when he shows himself but its not really him its a different guy look that looks like him look at the head its shaped different

    5-then its either thrown or lowered down with a rope

  • Feel better now? More powerful and riteous for exposing a trick? Getcha all tingly? I bet it does. Now go tell all the children you can find that Santa Claus doesn't exist and that there's a guy in a suit for Big Bird. They'll thank you, I'm sure of it.

  • wow cameras have phones now

  • People, let him be! Just watch. I've done magic tricks before and everyone sasy they know how I did it. I know what it's like. Please, leave him alone.

  • yea ok pretty simple like the other one's but this one's pretty creative. not like the shrinking stuff.

  • ur vids are sooo cool i thought u were using diferent phone until i figuredout how u did it becuz at first ur audio didnt sound as good lol but i get it now great work keep it up marco

  • I Liked this one, it was goood :D

  • I think people who think they're smart just because they know how the tricks are done are idiots.

  • RE. I think people who think they're smart just because they know how the tricks are done are idiots.

    You are 100% right, theyre noobs, who need shooting, if it was fun to watch, why ruin it for somebody else.

  • cool! how does he do it?

  • i think some 1 els droped the fone tht looks like u

  • they lower it with a fishing rod, you see it a few times, and at the very last second when the camera looks up

  • do u have a twin?

  • why do so many people have to try to explain how an illusion is done. It was fun to watch! I believe that a little bit of magic in my day makes for a better world

  • i love his vids omg

  • It's two different people.. Marco before he goes up the steps looks and sounds different, then when the phone goes back to the bottom, it looks and sounds like the real Marco.. Look and listen closely and you'll see it..

    And how do they get the phone down? Rope or something like that..

  • ok, first of all, this video is NOT EDITED, but...

    this is how he accomplished this.

    1-he pre-records the track WITH HIS VOICE recorded on the track

    2-on the third floor he shows himself and the voice is comming from HIM

    3-then the recording goes on with his voice, even on the roof is sounds like bad quality

    4-then they just lower it down with some rope or something

  • He is brilliant for coming up with this stuff... This one is really easy to figure out Jeremymia nailed it.. But how creative do you have to be to do these types of things.? I mean I know I could never figure out a way to pull that sort of thing off..

  • i also think his work is brillant, people just always try to explain so that they seem important. The illusion is the trick no the trick itself

  • there are no camera tricks if you see closer the last time you see marco he doesn't look real... maybe he's real but it seems like a photo

  • no camera trix, just really good timing and creativity

  • U disapoint me!! i no there are camera trix

  • Wow - his videos are so fun to watch! Thanks for the study break Marco!

  • Sure he can SAY that it isnt edited...

  • Assuming he's telling the truth about not editing, he is truly an amazing man with amazing skill. How I think it was done:

    1) At the third floor, he proves he's there and then he runs back downstairs while his assistant keeps going up!!!

    2) After the third floor Marco's voice comes from the recording.

    3) Marco at the top seems like a cardboard cutout. How did he GET it there? Another assistant?

    4) The phone is lowered by a well-measured string. Gravity takes over most of the way.

  • Wow, I actually figured one out :-)

  • There is a life sized picture of Marco strategically placed on the rooftop which the camera guy briefly pans to before attaching the camera to the fishing pole line and lowering it down to Marco.

  • ...he didnt go completly up, and someone else was holding the "phone" and player w/e.. he just went up to the part were he said here i am.. and the top "him" was actually a picture... and i think he might've recorded the whole thing in audio cuz the player wasnt really necesary... but then again who knows =\

  • he picked up the stero and walk to the third floor on the third floor he hand soff the camera to another guy the other guy points the cam at him and he says im still here or here i am w/e marco runs back down while the other dude runs back up on the roof the other dude turns the camera around showing a picture of marco against a white cement wall then either lowers with a string or drops the phone for marco to catch

  • Yeah it was a fishing pole. Not real magic.

  • And this disappoints you?

    Theres no such thing as real magic, this is as close as it gets. Marco is a brilliant magician and I think you people don't give him enough respect by posting comments like these.

  • hehe very tricky marco =P

    fantastic trick

  • sweetness

  • woa good job! =}

  • I got this one marco! But thank you for the puzzle! =)

  • Very obvious how he did it, but it was very well executed. Enjoy all these phone cam tricks as they are so simple to figure out and very fun at the same time. :D

  • if you supposedly know then tell us

  • i think in the very last frame you can see a fishing pole at the top of the building... marco you're very creative! thanks for posting these videos !

  • what! someone tell me how he did that!

  • wtf ? how does he do this ???

  • Please post a vertigo warning next time!

  • yeah, its easy to solve the magic

  • His voice is recorded onto the tape thats playing the soundtrack!

  • the audio was on the radio playing mission impossible, when you see him at the top its a quick flash of a picture mounted on the wall next to his assistant that actually caried the camera up the stairs, then droped it of the top with string attached.

  • what i dont understand is that you see 2 frames before the camera gets lowered where you see the magician standing upon the roof..

  • lol its a cut out of his face and shoulders

  • Ehi Marco, will come someday in Italy ?

  • Rather clever and certainly inspiring :-)

  • marco you are so creative. please make new videos soon.

  • yeah this one was easy I could tell by the bad audio from his radio

  • Fantastic. Sure you can work out how he did it fairly easily, but he still thought up a great trick, and its tremendously entertaining!

    This kind of stuff is perfect for the YouTube generation. Short, puncy, and really cool!

  • Exactly what I thin, too, Zut50.This is really innovative.

  • Who needs a lift?

    Idiots thats who!

    Great video!

    Mez

  • jbh

  • Hahaa... On the half way he gave the phone to someone else... And on the top you see that his face is somewhat strange... Like on a photo :O. And then he lets the phone down from a rope.

  • his voice was recorded on the radio.. the 3rd door is when he switch with other guy.. the last part when on the top floor it was a a life size-stand of him-self.. when the camera falls down from the top floor i think it was attached to a wire/ and also maybe a box fits in with a camera phone..(why would someone catch a phone like it was a big camera or big phone)or maybe both.. that one really is puzzling well done.. :D did i get it right marcotempest? ofcourse i did ;)

  • *SECRETS REVEALED*

    his voice was recorded on the radio.. the 3rd door is when he switch with other guy.. the last part when on the top floor it was a a life size-stand of him-self..

    when the camera falls down from the top floor i think it was attached to a wire/ and also maybe a box fits in with a camera phone..(why would someone catch a phone like it was a big camera or big phone)or maybe both.. that one really is puzzling well done.. :D did i get it right marcotempest? ofcourse i did ;)

    KiNG

  • twins...voice are different

  • His voice was recorded on the tape/CD that was playing on the radio. He followed someone that looked like him to the 3rd floor, let his look-alike (the guy on the roof has darker hair) continue to the roof while he went back down to the street to "catch" the phone.

  • love it.

  • How does your camera phone record for that long? and how does it get such good quality?!?! Please tell me what kind of phone you use! :D

  • the Nokia N73 records in MP4 format.

  • No.1 rule to remember when listening/watching to an illusionist/magician .. and that is they LIE .. end of story.

    An magician that never lies is not an magician, as you can't decieve anybody without lying. The trick is to cover up/distract your viewers from the truth, whatever that may be. The better an illusionist the better the liar. If they say there are no edits/camera tricks then you better believe there are more than you could imagine .. you can't trust them you see.

  • HOW THIS WAS DONE - He's last seen moving on the 3rd floor of the 6 floor building. At some point he hands the phone to an accomplice. His voice continues but it's dubbed over the M:I soundtrack of the boombox. The last image of him before the phone drops is a photo. Clever.

  • Good job!:) hehe.

  • Thank you Marco for all of your videos. They are so entertaining and I love watching them. I think that you should have your own show in the States--or do you already?

  • I think he has somone else hold the radio and his voice is on the cd. He is in the building up to the 3rd floor where you last see him. He then goes back out. There is a cardboard cut out of him on the roof then the phone is thrown down to him.

  • he stuck his hand out each window.... or down the latters to make it look like the phone was falling. if it was real the phone would be spinning or at the very least, not pointing down the whole time. Let me see anyone drop something that far and have it stay the same direction without some sort of tail like a dart

  • agreed

  • It messes with my mind... make it go away!!!!

  • no editing my ass. it's edited big time

  • too easy.. hints: 2 guys, picture of Marco.

  • i like this video and i want to post it in my friendster's profile . how do i do it?

  • no there's a cardboard box of him, after he shows himself on the stairs he switches with someone and runs down the steps. Then the recording on the radio does the rest of the talking and just as he is about to jump down (or his partner) he shows a cardboard box picture of himself and drops it down to marco tempest.

  • At the top the camera is quickly turned toward a photograph cardboard cutout of Marco, then lowered down to the real Marco, probably with a fishing pole, which I think I caught a glimpse of beside the cardboard cutout. I think I want to try this one!! Very COOL Marco!

  • Marco DID enter the building, showed himself on the 3rd floor, ran back downstairs as his partner ran upstairs with the phone and Marco's PRE-recorded voice.

  • the track he plays already has his voice pre-recorded. he gets someone else to run up the stairs while holding onto the boombox which is playing the mission impossible theme, and his pre-recorded voice, [giving the illusion that he's talking to you as he runs up], once the dude is on the roof, he turns to a quick peek at a picture of marco, and then he throws the camera phone off the roof down to the awaiting marco.

  • twins

  • His voice is recorded on the CD, the player gets passed off to a second person, when you see him on the roof it is a cardboard cutout.

  • If you hadn't caught the phone, would we ever see you here again? :)

  • The last time you see Marco is on the third floor, then he hands the phone and the cd player to another person, the CD player has his voice recorded over the mission impossible music that narrates the rest of the trick. Marco then goes back downstairs and waits to catch the phone. The second person flashes a picture of Marco (its a pose) just before the phone goes over the edge of the building.

  • magicians perform TRICKS. you can't trust them when they say there is no editing. if there is not enough time to get to the bottom of the building, then the video must have REALLY started when somebody ELSE dropped it from the building where the magician catches it, says his outro, says his intro, then runs up the building. then it is simple editing to put the beginning (until the intro) at the end.

  • Okay, I think the his voice was recorded on the tape...but then you see him at the top?!?! Maybe it was a "cardboard guy"...that's the only way I see he could do it. Pretty cool stuff!

  • His voice is on the recording and the "guy" on the roof is just an image of him. ;-)

    Innovative performance but the video quality is really annoying haha

  • I gotta say something to all the haters. Sure you can spot how he does all these tricks, but how many people can actually think up camera tricks like he does?

  • A second person was carrying the cd player, marco was with him until the third floor when he said "here i am". From then on his voice was layered in the soundtrack. Not sure about the few frames of him at the top, a poster maybe?

  • If there is no editing, you have a twin. That's definitely not a photo, in 1:15 second, we have two frames, and we can see the light on is face change. The sound of his voice on the top sounded differently, like recorded. But he wouldn't have time to get down there, so my hit is that the recorded part was to fool us, the one talking in the stairs is his twin, he never entered the building. Of course he is never going to say how so my hint is just has good has the next one.

  • Also what's up with that:

    "Are you ready"

    "I'm ready"

  • no editing and no twin. i promise ! ...and yes somhow you are so close... thanks for watching.

  • tell me how you did it...

  • Well, you use something to talk throe the radio (at least on the top, wile the radio plays music)

    Of that I'm shore... :)

  • Nokia phones are known to be pretty tough.

  • lol, I figured that one out the first time I saw it. Entertaining though.

  • the stereo and phone goes to someone else mark follows them halfway up the stairs, the stereo plays pre recorded talking and the picture at the top is a picture. oh well

  • This is what happened. The audio track with him speaking is pre-recorded. Notice a split second before he actually presses the play button on the stereo, the music has already started, hence there must be a 2nd sound source with his voice and music together. The shot of him at the 3rd floor is obivous, the shot of him on the roof is a picture. Thanks Marco for the great puzzle!

  • He's voice is prerecorded on the musictrack, and he has a photo of himself against the wall (pause at 115) Look at his shirt---its one-dimensional. Its a second person running the whole time. Pause at 27 sec---left hand free.  30 sec---right hand free.

  • very goddamn creative tho... NICE JOB

  • SIMPLE.. the first guy he shows is not him. u can tell because he has white hair on the side.. the second time the camera gets his face for a second his hair is fully black.. pause the video on his image when he's ontop of the roof..

  • at first i thought that when the camera turned they replaced him with a doll that looks like him then he would run down but im cluness now

  • the one on the root look more younger

    and i think he is using nokia N93, cuz ONLY that phone can take clear video...or tht is not a phone he is using for recording

  • geek talk: the N93 is to good quality (DVD) for what i am doing here. i do not like the flip design. i use the Nokia N73 candybar... :-)

  • WOAH.

  • Very nice and original as always! Didn't figure it out until i read a hint in a comment.

    Please make some more :) You're easy the one doing the best homemade videos on youtube.

  • HOLY CRAP!!!

    That was awesome.

    I am just completely clueless on how you did that.

  • I think i got it. The picture of him at the top is simply that, a picture or a cut out.

  • By far the best of your phone camera tricks. While with enogh thought you might figure it out, what I'd like to figure out is how you come up with the trick in the first place. Very inventive and fun to watch which I believe is the point you're trying to make with this video. You embrace the virtual medium gracefully.

  • lol there was plobably another person and then they paused the phone and then zoomed in

  • no pausing

  • Don't tell me you have a Marco Tempest cardboard cut-out of yourself on the roof! That would be kind of... creepy.

  • he is known to have people beside the phone pretending to be his hands and what not.. possibly someone on the roof took the phone.. he maybe went down a ladder or slide that was set up.. the phone was zoomed in to look as if it was falling for a bit.. then dropped once marco was down there to catch the phone.. probably with a parachute.. it didn't look like it fell too fast.

  • I know how its done!!! WOW!

  • Ahh I think I know how he did that. I guess there was another guy looking like him, and he recorded his voice on the stereo thingy before all of this, since his voice sounds all digital when he's about to "drop" the cellphone down to himself, but the rest, I ono.. xD

  • I have no clue how you did it.

  • Amazing!! =D

  • I have information that Mr.Tempest had cloned himself for this trick. This is confidential! Dont tell anyone, or his clone will get you.

    ;)