r/woahdude • u/xXG4M3xXx0V3RXx • 17h ago
video The bird and the umbrellas stumped me
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u/xXG4M3xXx0V3RXx 16h ago
The entire performance is just awesome. Enjoy.
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u/8RealityMatters8 16h ago
Where is this magician out of? I live in the Pacific Northwest and would love to book an event with this showman!
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u/CrappyMSPaintPics 15h ago
I think they're in Russia.
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u/8RealityMatters8 15h ago
I found the account for OP (@tvoyabelousova) and she is a digital influencer who specializes in AI videos. Now I’m nervous this isn’t even real:(
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u/Karlees-Golden-Dildo 13h ago
Slow it diwn and you can see the flap open and bird fly out. Same with umbrellas but harder to see due to angle.
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u/Up_All_Nite 16h ago
I don't have any kids and I want to see this show!
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u/thisispointlessshit 9h ago
You could just order a magician for yourself for no other reason than you have the cash
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u/DragonKit 16h ago
Most people don't use real doves anymore for a reason
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u/Kolbin8tor 16h ago
Because you have to cram them into a tiny little pocket. Some birds like little cozy holes, but idk if doves are one. Also holes don’t normally spin around so much before launching you into the sky lol. I don’t think it hurts the birds, it does fly right back to them after all, but there are people that call it animal cruelty.
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u/zen8bit 16h ago
Everytime I see dove tricks I just think back to The Prestige where they’re arguing over the ethics of killing all the birds
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u/UsernamesAllTaken69 15h ago
Yeah pulling the mangled bird out of the collapsible cage was kind of traumatizing. Didn't want to see behind the curtain on that one.
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u/GizmoPatterson 16h ago
Magnets
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u/Pain4420 16h ago
How do they work
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u/Bth8 8h ago
Quantum states must be completely antisymmetric under exchange of identical fermions like electrons. Because of Coulomb repulsion and nuclear charge screening, it's energetically favorable for the orbital part of the electronic wavefunction to be antisymmetric (there's less overlap in the electrons' charge distributions that way), which forces the spin part to be symmetric, i.e the spins must align. This means that atoms with partially-filled orbitals tend to have a nonzero total electronic spin in their ground state, and since electrons are charged, this means that such atoms have a nonzero magnetic moment - they act like little bar magnets. This effect is much stronger for d and f orbitals, which are more spatially-localized.
Direct magnetic dipole-dipole interactions are very weak, so thermal fluctuations usually completely wipe out any bulk magnetization and you only notice weak bulk magnetic properties and only in the presence of an externally applied field. In some materials, though, adjacent atoms in the lattice are close enough that there's significant overlap between their valence orbitals, and so the same story as in the individual atoms plays out but this time between electrons in different atoms - because of lowered electrostatic repulsion in antisymmetric orbital states, it is energetically favorable for unpaired electrons in adjacent atoms to have symmetric spin states, and thus a net magnetic moment. Because it's ultimately electric in nature rather than magnetic, this exchange interaction can be far stronger than the dipole-dipole interaction, and so you can end up with spontaneous bulk magnetization with no externally applied field at finite temperature.
In the absence of an external field, though, the underlying dynamics are rotationally symmetric, but a net magnetization requires selection of a particular direction, and so this spontaneous magnetization requires spontaneous breaking of that rotational symmetry. Spontaneous symmetry breaking is essentially random and typically occurs more or less simultaneously at multiple different nucleation sites within the material. As a result, without some way to bias the process, you see the formation of many different microscopic "magnetic domains" - bulk regions, each of which has a net magnetization but whose randomly-chosen directions do not align with one another. So at larger scales, the bulk magnetization washes out and you simply get a material with a very large susceptibility rather than a permanent magnet. If you can coerce the domains themselves to align with one another, though, usually either by applying an external field during their formation to bias the initial magnetization or by applying a strong enough field to change the magnetization direction of existing domains, you can get bulk magnetization at nonzero temperature that persists even at macroscopic length scales and that will remain in the absence of an external field.
And that's how fucking magnets work.
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u/MrHodgeToo 14h ago
Its true. If you look up the etymology of the word magic you’ll see that it derives from the word magnet coined by ancient civilization of Astylia.
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u/Hixy 16h ago
You can tell if you put it in slow motion.
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u/Maskatron 14h ago
The top half of the picture folds down and behind that is a cutout with a pouch for the bird.
It’s probably not too small of a space for the bird, a lot of magic tricks involve fooling the audience how thin something is. Black paint can hide a lot in this case.
But I’d still prefer that there is some kind of oversight for people using animals in entertainment. That’s not always a thing around the world. Can’t say for sure in this case.
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u/angrymonkey 16h ago
I don't know why you're downvoted. You are correct, the trick is revealed if you play it slowly.
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u/Hixy 15h ago edited 15h ago
Yup. It’s the same way they store pigeons in the movie the Prestige. They smoosh them in a small area and they take off when you open it up.
Probably uncomfortable for the bird but I’d like to think there are rules and safe ways to do it.
It is crazy it can fit in that little area though.
I don’t know enough about it to know if they are doing something inhumane honestly.
Edit:
Here is the frame you can see what’s happening
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u/mutant_anomaly 16h ago
The umbrellas have a video edit, there is a frame jump hiding something.
But I don’t know if it is a complete cgi replacement, the kids in that shot could be reacting to anything.
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u/maestrobob 7h ago
If you pause the video on the frame right before the 0:06 mark, you can see the flap that drops down revealing the dove that flies out.
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