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Derren Brown Walks On Glass

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Golgon : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

Golgon

14 votes NegativePositive

505 days 8 hours ago...

tihs looks like a fun thing to do when u are at home alone and bored... go check it out kids.

blizzloader : LVL 44: VP 5: said:

blizzloader

6 votes NegativePositive

505 days 7 hours ago...

he has some balls the size of the sun..

fuck that for a joke

boldfart : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

boldfart

4 votes NegativePositive

505 days 7 hours ago...

I saw that in the theater Southampton, it looked real to me.

Fuzzyman123 : LVL 30: VP 3.9: said:

Fuzzyman123

5 votes NegativePositive

505 days 6 hours ago...

This seems real, unlike his fake live russian roullete stunt he pulled on live tv. Seems incredibly dangerous though.

Tada : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

Tada

11 votes NegativePositive

505 days 6 hours ago...

I don`t think I`ve ever seen that many people holding a hand on their chin at the same time.

hydroquebec : LVL 25: VP 3.4: said:

hydroquebec

-2 votes NegativePositive

505 days 2 hours ago...

i bet if we bring him to the shaolin temple.. he be crying like a baby after 2 min

Csmack : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

Csmack

11 votes NegativePositive

504 days 23 hours ago...

I bet crackheads can do this too. But seriously, Derren Brown always has great stuff.

5/5

fryser_d : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

fryser_d

0 votes NegativePositive

504 days 20 hours ago...

[SPOILER WARNING]
1- There were 3 buckets of glass;
*Probably the second one was fake... That would explain why he kept the two of them at the edge. He was so cautious with every details, I found strange he didn`t ask any of them to sample the the whole batch.
*That would explain the twist in the middle.

2- The brain shut itseft up after 10 sec without oxygen, and auto-destruct after 4 mins, but you can learn to keep your respiration for a good 3 min without any problems.
* I propose that, he kept his respiration for few sec in the bag, and activate a device that blocked his blood in his left arm for few sec, to make his heart appeared stopped.

3- For the whole glass thing, walking on "ALOT OF GLASS" is not something as rare as he pretend. It`s a classic trick like walking on nails, the goal is to use as much surface possible to distribute your weight.

If you have other or simpler suggestions, go ahead I`m curious too ^ ^

5/5

Gumpster : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

Gumpster

3 votes NegativePositive

504 days 17 hours ago...

Anything to do with Derrens a auto 5/5.

exploder : LVL 48: VP 5: said:

exploder

6 votes NegativePositive

504 days 15 hours ago...

^ fryser_d, interesting points. We know he doesn`t hesitate to use deception (at his wages I wouldn`t either), and this one is pretty ambiguous. I have video of people chewing up lightbulbs, in poor enough circumstances that we can be certain they had no fancy tricks at their disposal. (third world countries, shaman / voodoo stuff). They probably just had some good drugs and solid mental illness. My point is that glass isn`t always as bad as our cringing would have us believe.

Drugs are a really possible option for Darren too. Takes the edge off the anxiety and pain. Inderal and/or Lorazepam, plus some good opioids, with a rag in his armpit to cut off the pulse, would all add up nicely. That and "I`m about to earn another $$$$$$$$$, so what the hell".

In any case, people pay well, and greatly love being tricked and made pleasantly uncomfortable at someone else`s expense. Looks like a good job if you can land it. Darren`s lack of in-your-face egomania, his pretentions of devotion to the job, his very real creativity, and his not artificially larger than life style, all add up to him being a very pallatable and respectable entertainer.

Siege81 : LVL 8: VP 1.7: said:

Siege81

5 votes NegativePositive

502 days 17 hours ago...

My Highschool physics teacher walked across a tub of broken glass much like this...

Distributed weight, it`s not that "magical"

ramicyprus : LVL 23: VP 3.2: said:

ramicyprus

3 votes NegativePositive

502 days 14 hours ago...

thats right siege81, i saw it in penn and teller bullshit episode last week, where they explain how its done.

Distributed weight, careful not to step on the glass turned upwards, not sth i expect from Darren brown really.

TeflonMonkey : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

TeflonMonkey

0 votes NegativePositive

502 days 9 hours ago...

Ive seen all this guys stuff, he is amazing.

ItsTheCrab : LVL 20: VP 2.9: said:

ItsTheCrab

1 votes NegativePositive

502 days 9 hours ago...

Stick a tennis ball in your armpit and squeeze it. You can stop you`re own pulse in your wrist pretty easily that way because the artery/vein you feel runs all the way up into your upper-under arm.

I don`t know about the rest of the trick though.

Gimli000 : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

Gimli000

1 votes NegativePositive

502 days 8 hours ago...

You can also shut down your pulse by clenching the mucles in your armpit. So his pulse would have "stopped" but if she`d checked his carotid artery it would have been pumping strong and hard.

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