Magic Balls
I just saw a guy walking down the street playing with his balls. You know, those little glass balls magicians and David Bowie and renaissance faire types make float on their fingertips and the backs of their hands all spooky-like.
What I want to know is this: Does this actually take skill and practice to work these things or is it something special in the construction of the balls themselves that makes this a stunt anyone can do, like all those self-performing magic tricks my brother and I used to get--you know, the mini-guillotine with the plastic blade, the little black box that spirits away wooden coins, and the coloring book that colors itself (you know the one)? If anyone has the answer, please tell me because I feel that, as a single woman, I need to know these things in order that I may only be impressed by that which is truly impressive.
Note to the single dudes: If you want to charm me, do a magic trick and do it well. I will be enchanted.
Alas, I can only make a 16 ounce beer disappear. Add to that simple misery the fact that it takes me about an hour and a half to perform that bit of magic and all interest tends to wane before the trick is completed.
Of course, my nieces think that I can make coins appear from behind their ears but they are only 7 and 11 respectively. I doubt this would work on an adult unless I was producing $100 bills.
I LOVE that trick too, I saw witch-ey type people in Salem, MA doing it last Halloween. So cool.
I can make coins vanish. :) And some people think I can levitate. But only the little'uns.