Rebuttal to eatonmagic's video "Re: Derren Brown's -Rapport- Explained"

It's that time of the month kids, eatonmagic got his period and goes on a rant aimlessly throwing slander at people who are innocently trying to explain how people are influenced.
I give him my thoughts...

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[mirrorimage345]

Your suggestion that sleight of hand does not involve psychology is not entirely accurate. Physical magic may take skill, but the audiences interpretation of that is completely psychological. If that is not the case then it can't be called magic, it would simply be juggling or as you stated "Manipulation". Derren Brown's performance is extremely relative to the demonstrations of the average conjurer.

[NedTheDread]

I agree that sleight of had does involve psychology if you want to include the audiences interpretation of things. In that case, I would say that EVERYTHING is psychological, magic, juggling or otherwise. I was trying to make the point that there is no simple 'trick' to Derren's performance, you can't say he does a double lift, cut the deck and forces it to the top, rather it is purely psychological. There are physical cues, but without the psychological understanding, they mean nothing.

[mirrorimage345]

Its a bit off base to say that juggling is an art involving psychology. In Derren Brown's performance he uses subtlety and ruse and in some cases he does use sleight of hand. However these things go unseen and the audience interprets those things in fascinating and amazing ways. In Juggling what you see is what you get, there is no way to imagine it into something other than what it is. Magic, hypnosis, mentalism, are examples of art forms where the audiences interpretation is the art.