Last week, our featured magician was Channing Pollock – the suave, handsome magician in a tailcoat performing flawless slight of hand. This week we feature Lennart Green demonstrating his own “precision” at the famous TED talks.
From the TED blurb:
Like your uncle at a family party, the rumpled Swedish doctor Lennart Green says, “Pick a card, any card.” But what he does with those cards is pure magic — flabbergasting, lightning-fast, how-does-he-do-it? magic.
Lennart is also a World Champion Magician, having won the grand prize in the Card Magic category in 1991. He competed in the previous FISM in 1988 but was disqualified because, after watching what he did, the judges reasoned that he must be cheating (he wasn’t-he’s just that good!)
I’ve heard different accounts as to what the alleged cheating was. Some say the judges thought he was using a trick deck, others say the judges thought he used confederates in the audience to shuffle the cards (may have been both). Either way, when he returned he had the judges shuffle the cards and he also created a shuffle that would entirely disprove the use of a trick deck.
Whoa!!!! I’m blown away.