I’m 60 and have watched and performed magic my entire life. Shin is the most fooling I’ve ever seen. I’m wracking my brain trying to think of how he pulled that off, but I honestly have no clue. I can watch Copperfield and know how he does nearly everything, but his shows are spectacular. Shin on the other hand can take a single card and blow my frigging mind! If you ever see this Shin, I think you are the best I’ve ever seen. You truly make magic seem possible. 🤯 ☮️♥️
Shin comes off as such a genuine dude... like an everyday kinda guy who just happens to do the sickest sh!t ever seen on the planet. Then he's like "oh thanks guys!" so genuinely as if someone just said "Hey, I like your hair." Dude is absolutely out of this world. I just can't get enough of his stuff. Such an amazing talent.
@@RequiemDream Camera trick, huh!! Bro, get some brain, it literally was a video conference, how on Earth(or Saturn) can you use camera on a live video.
@@RequiemDream I don't think it was a camera trick in a technological sense. It's a very low-tech method, as low as you can go in that room, and it wouldn't work on the set of Fool Us. So I think you're right that they weren't fooled. They loved the trick, but weren't floored by it. Perhaps someone else was!
Larry Travis If they were not fooled, Shin Lim will not put the “Fooler” in this video. But you’ll never know whether Penn and Teller are just throwing the dog a bone. Yes, it’s a TV Tropes thing. Anyway, until Penn and Teller (mainly Penn) confess that they were not fooled, they are considered fooled for now.
Green screen with an assistant wearing on green who doesn't appear in the camera but it's him who write into the card, that's why he gives him enough space in front of him that he can write into the card.
It has to be Said, Shin your presentation, your style, the artistry, everything about you and your magic makes me & my family feel like all magic is real magic. My daughter sat in silence for three minutes after your first performance on Fool Us. That’s the longest she’s been awake and silent in her life - no exaggeration. My 70yr old mother watched it and just said “How? What did I just see?!” I’ve been with her when she’s watched tons of magic shows and she’s never reacted like that. My wife said “That makes you feel like you’re a child seeing a Rainbow for the very first time” You are truly, truly, incredible.
*THE GIVE AWAYS* 🔹️The black shirt 🔹️The computer perspective advantage 🔹️The wide opening right side of his jacket 🔹️ 0:37 where he checks on his assistant (multiple times actually) Someone is assisting him writing on the card that's more likely wearing a black covering glove over the hand that's behind him with their hand coming through the jacket and shirt writing on the card holding it near the opening of the jacket, which is why you'll see him pull the card closer. The person assisting him has all colors of markers and is pretty knowledgeable because he could spell lol. Magicians use black shirts for camo. It's a simple internet performance trick, using the advantage of 3rd person perspective. And having them to choose the color is what really help sell the trick.
It's not that someone is writing it while flips it through his black shirt. Someone beneath him is writing them on black cards as they hear the stuff, they pick the color and write it. When he flips the cards and his hand, they hand it to him from underneath and he pulls it closer. And it's hard to see underneath his had
What I love about Shin is he’s humble, he’s unbelievably dedicated to the craft and method and he continues to get better and better. Shin, you’re going to go down the MJ of Magic and as of late some serious mentalism.
I love Teller's reaction when he realizes you didn't just have the number but you had it written too. The subtle pinky movement I'm assuming was to throw him off? I love this. Levels.
Teller's mic wasn't working again. But wow what a great trick. I think I have an idea how it was done. And for a clue search for a lady magician's trick on Fool Us with the name of magical katrina. She did something similar although this was more elaborate.
Shin Lim amazes me every time! His magic tricks have an eerie mischievousness to them. I'm not saying he's Loki, but no other person is claiming to be Loki either...
Great effect ! In fact, SO good, it made Penn's tongue drop off it's rollers @ 2:24. Thankfully, he managed to slide it back on after several attempts.. (a relief to us all) - Shin is a class act and an innovative, sleight of hand mastermind. Really nice.
An accomplice is off camera, below the frame, who has a set of 7 colored markers. After s/he writes on a card, it is passed up into Shin Lim's hand from below. The assistant is wearing a matte black glove, and the back side of the new card is also matte black. Notice how dark the background is at the bottom of the frame. Shin Lim then holds all the cards together and presents them as a single card.
Penn and Teller definitely know the technique (“black light theater”) so their “you fooled us” act was really just a professional tip of the hat to Shin Lim, and a token of their mutual respect as artists and magicians. This is a trick that cannot be done “live” using this technique.
I don’t get how he switched the cards out tho. He’s clearly holding only 1 card when he reveals the front. Even if he is holding them all together, I don’t get how the card that is passed up to him can get into his hands when his hands are still the entire time.
@@TrevJ91 he’s not switching cards; he is adding each new card to the one before. At the end he is holding 4 cards. Magicians can easily present multiple cards as one card (look up techniques such as the double lift). Notice how at the end of the trick his hands move off-camera so he can dump the whole stack. The new cards could click together magnetically to align, but Shin Lim doesn’t need that crutch.
Or that shin lim and pen and teller are good friends and business partners and the answers were already planned and shin lim just did good sleight of hand to reveal each diff card.
I love Shin's performances. Even when I'm pretty sure I know the mechanics behind the trick I can never catch even the tiniest flash of something off. Simply breath taking.
You’re greatness goes to *God Tier* when 2 of magic’s long time veterans don’t even attempt ‘code talk’ of at least a relatable principle of magic, let alone try to follow your moves. Shin Lim may just go down as *THE GOAT* of up close slight-of-hand card Magic.
0:55 you can see black over his jacket, cards are being written by someone and transferred from below the camera's view into his hands (back of the cards are black)
The trick was amazing but what was more amazing was the respect penn and teller showed Shin. Shin lim has proven to be one of the greatest and he’s no longer a contestant but a peer
When the card changes you can see his fingers move so that the new card that the assistant puts in to his hand is secure. For example... at 1:37 is where you see Shin's Middle, Ring, and Pinky finger shifts so that the card can be held in place again. Someone also wrote that all the cards from the assistant are matte black. Blending with the background of Shin's bottom half. You can't even see the assistant's hand or cards in the video of course, but the hand movements right after Penn and Teller make their decision is what gives it away. Amazing trick Shin!
Alright I have 3 working theories: 1: Shin Lim has blackmail material on literally every single person who works in television and can force them to react to things and edit clips however he chooses 2: Shin Lim has access to the kind of nanomachines that bad SciFi writers use to explain away pretty much anything 3: Shin Lim is a trickster god
Green screen with an assistant wearing on green who doesn't appear in the camera but it's him who write into the card, that's why he gives him enough space in front of him that he can write into the card.
@@silverlightsonSLS I thought you were joking, but seeing as this is your second comment, I assume you are serious. And if you are, you are wrong. Shin Lim always keeps the card in front of his body. If an assistant wearing a green costume writes on the card, their hand would obviously be visible. A green screen is not an invisbility cloak.
@@s.aslahahmadfaizi4687 The gays who write in the card puts his hand from the bottom wearing green. The green screen is just the technic of using a color, which is replaced by something else.
Those fingers, my man. You haven't just transitioned to another art form; surely, you've excelled any expectations you could possibly have had for your musical career. A yardstick for virtuosity in magic.
Look at 0:56 even his bottom left side of his jeans jacket which has whitish fabric color is LOST in that blackish environment... No wonder we couldn't see a card being supplied there to the hand. Good magic setup!
Wow, last time I saw him do a zoom trick, I assumed he used some kind of a printer or had his hand off camera. But this was flawless. Greenscreen is the only possible way I can imagine... but Shin Lim is a wizard so who knows? So good!
P&T are out here doing work for you. This is a retread of a classic P&T trick. So old in fact, that they sold it on vhs. It's lovely seeing a modernized version for a much younger generation, and frankly, I am glad they picked you for it.
He's not a wizard just good with slight of hand. When daivd copperfield was doing the imposs they thought he was linked with the evil side but everything is a illusion thing that makes shin lin one of the greats is that hes extremely smooth at what he does and his handlings are amazing
Great performance as always Shin! I think I figured most of this one out! Explanation: Basically, there is someone helping him out probably sitting behind Shin or in front of him(I think it's easier from behind? I have no idea). As soon as Penn and Teller mention something they start writing it very quickly, they would have different colored pens to use for different colors ofc. I'm not 100% sure, but I think the cards that Shin's assistant uses have black back covers so that it's impossible to see the card when it's being moved on Shin's black shirt as long as it's not flipped around. The assistant might also be using a tool to move the card automatically to Shin's shirt/hand instead of just using their own hand, although they might be able to their hand too just as long as their hand itself doesn't show up. Shin might be using his jacket to hide that tool or to hide his assistant's hand. Shin then covers his shirt using his hand which is holding the original card with red color back so that nobody can see him pick up the card from his shirt using his fingers, and putting it right on top of the card that is already in his hand. When Shin puts the new card on top of the original card in his hand, everyone will be able to see the face of the new card and the back of the original card. 0:58, 1:36 and 2:19 are the three moments where Shin picked up a new card, if you pay attention it's pretty easy to see that he's using his Pinky and Ring fingers to do something even though those fingers aren't holding the original card, which means he was using them to pick up the new card and put it on top of the original one. You can also hear a small sound in each of these 3 moments similar to the sound of drawing a card from a card deck, further proving that he's picking up a different card each time. This trick was most noticeable the second time at 1:36, especially the sound part. Because of how amazing Shin is, it's just so smooth and so impossible to notice him putting a new card on top of the original one. What really amazes me more though is how extremely fast the trick is done, I have no idea just how he does the trick literally a few seconds after they mention the word. As always, epic performance by the single best magician in the world!
bro, also i think that this can be true because shin is only using one earphone. Ik this maybe sound stupid but why would someone use only one?? still being a good analysis
You're correct, he has an assistant(s) in helping him with it. But his skill / slight of hand in handling the cards is what allows him to successfully do this transfer.
@@zaidelaymat797 damn so good trick I had no clue until I read your comment. It must be this way, and he does it so well even knowing how it's done, you just can't see it
Tremendous trick, it seems that behind there is an assistant who uses the marker through his jacket to write. The right hand always covers the same point while writing. Great use of recorded magic, very well executed.
Quoting Penn in the first one : "we didn''t even know how you vanished the F*** magic marker". But the Magic Marker Union was not pleased by these words... "mark my words Penn & Teller!" So it's just retaliation, Shin Lim isn't involved at all.
I believe the card top is actually green or something and he has an assistant that writes this stuff inside a video editing program and every time he flips the card the program detects the green color just like with a green screen and puts the text and white color on it
@@anymy980 That would have to have some next level tracking because green screen usually works only because the foreground moves and the background doesn't. Think to "invisible cloak" tricks done with green screen, how the background stays still rather than the green cloth having a moving imitation of the background that is slid into place.
You and DK are my fav magicians from fool us. I love u guys sooo much. ALWAYS a joy to watch. I always go back and watch you and his performance. Truly awe inspiring and amazing.
Person behind him, wrote it quickly and slipped it through his jacket from behind replacing the other cards. I mean, he's at home. No need to wear a jacket. That jacket and hand position have it's purpose. 😁
The only thing I can think of was that the card was actually a green screen and someone was helping him backstage drawing out the letters and placing it on the card digitally. Amazing performance glad you fooled P&T for the 3rd time!
Nah, I'm pretty sure this is an interesting take on a trick that's been going around lately (that Shin obviously took to an entirely different level) but, without spoiling things, I do not believe this trick could be performed quite as well with a shirt that isn't black.
What Fool Us and Penn & Teller taught me, is that for greatest magic tricks out there, you don't care how it's done at all, not even the slightest. You just enjoy the magic.
Okay, here's my guess. I think I figured it out! If you don't want this potentially spoiled, don't read any further! I think his shirt is actually GREEN along with the background behind him. I think there was a person wearing a green glove between Shin Lim and the blank card. They then chroma-keyed his shirt and the person's glove to be BLACK. Basically, I think it's a minor special effects job. That way, we don't see the person writing on the card - it's blocked out by the chroma-key. Either way, Shin Lim is a boss!
Shin, your magic is just incredible! You deserve all your success! I hope to be able to catch you at the Mirage once things in the world return to normal. You are far and away my favorite "Fool Us' performer. It was nice seeing you step outside of your silent, mysterious persona for this trick. Super cool! Still trying to figure out how you did it!
I figured it out. Shin was holding the card to his chest. He had a surgeon cut a card sized hole in his chest, then an accomplice reached through his chest and wrote on the card. Simple. 😁
At some point before God calls me home (hopefully many years down the road) I hope I get to see one of your performances live. Such a great act you've created! Blessings to you and yours.
This is fake... I've read an article about shin lim being friends with sun ra and hanging out in saturn and styling each others hair! I'm totally disgusted...
My guess is some sort of absolute black combo of his shirt and someone feeding him cards in a similarly absolute black glove/device. The dynamic range of a webcam would be no match against it. The way he is leaned forward looks like a good amount of space to play with, too.
someone is sitting behind him and his jacket has cutouts in the back, notice whenever pen selects a word/color whatever, shin has to place his arms at an angle which completely blocks left view or right view allowing a person to sneak the updated card. Youre welcome
Could be that. I wondered about someone with a black arm/hand cover handing up from below (the replacement card would have a black back as well). With the contrast turned up on his camera it would just blend in with his shirt. Regardless, it’s a great trick. Since there are no cuts, it’s a brilliant trick for video chat.
This one is cool. I think I figured this one out. Have someone sitting beneath the camera write on cards with a black back. Everytime Shin is given an answer from Pen, he repeats that answer multiple times to make sure the assistant knows what it is. After writing it, Shin moves his hand down near the bottom of the camera view as the card with the answer is passed to him. Because he is wearing a black shirt and there isn't much area between his hand and the bottom of the camera view, we can't see the card being passed. Shin, being an absolute master of sleight of hand, uses his pinky and ring finger to move the card over the previous without us seeing a thing, besides the slight movement of the fingers. The repeating of the answer and the bold around the R made me realize someone was writing this all down.
For anyone who's interested, yes, it was some kind of filter-technology behind it. If you look closely at 1:42 when he turns the card, you can see the edge of the '7' flicker a bit. :P
It's actually waaayyy easier to do magic over video chat. You have fixed angles, zero hecklers handling the deck, nothing can really go wrong. In fact if he's doing what I think he's doing then this trick cannot be performed in person.
Shin Lim is an absolute genius and annoying. Annoying in the fact that his tricks are just absolutely mind boggling unlike other tricks where you can have a good guess, but with his tricks, I can't begin to figure out how he does them. Absolute brilliance...
For me, watching magic videos as a magician is always a win win Getting into the audience minds imagining what they are thin-king Mostly I can figure out what's happening in these smokes mirrors and bling bling But this is pure sorcery out of the world realized by the great shin lim
There's nothing hard about it. My guess it's a digital card like a mini tablet that made to look plain white card. Then an assistant writes whatever on another tablet and it appears on the card too.
Someone is on the ground below Shin. They have all color markers. When they hear what needs to be written, they write it off camera. The card they write on has a completely black back-face. They are wearing a black glove. They bring the card(s) and black glove up and pass Shin the card. Ez Clap.
Can't believe you guys don't know this after previous performances. Shin holds the cards with one hand. Then misdirects the audience with his other hand. And then quickly writes on the card with his very small third hand that's shielded by the cards. This is the key to all his previous performances too.
Every time a magician says something like, "It's not a digital card," that's exactly what it is. His wife was writing it on her tablet behind the camera.
That’s actually very clever...it could totally work. A person is hiding behind the camera writing the words, maybe wearing a black glove which blends in with the black shirt, passing the cards up from below. The back of the cards being passed could also be black. It would work especially well on a web cam like this. Probably could actually work on stage in person too if he used an “ultra black” coating like Vanta Black on his shirt and the glove/ cards.
@@emaguire512 for me the hand is there since the beginning. You can see something black on the right over is jacket, then when Penn says RED the black thing (probably a hand) it moves to the center of the black shirt (where the card is) ;)
I think its a thin plastic card holder and there is someone feeding black backed cards into the bottom. The card doesnt ever bend and it looks like theres a bit of transparency over the card at the start. If you look at his middle finger everytime before he reveals the card, you see him push the end of the card flush in the holder. His black shirt makes it pretty much impossible to see it, and it is also the side that is covered by the red back of the card holder. Also the SunRa, you can see the R is written slightly thicker because the person who was writing it below him mispelt it but went over it again quickly.
If you ever feel useless, just think of Teller in a Zoom meeting.
😂
I mean he has the classic facial expressions. 🤷
Nice
😂😂😂😂
Breakout room with Penn that's how
He was palming 700 billion cards, that's how.
That would be 1.23 billion kilo's. I don't think we need to ask: do you even lift, bro!?
@@helderboymh you watch too much big daws
And a sharpie
Don't you just love it when people take your snarky answers seriously???
Makes the most logical sense
This was definitley a different performance situation than I'm used to, but also very fun and challenging!
Shin Lim you’re amazing bro!!! :)
The man, the my- The real, The legend himself ; n;
shin lim
I'm used to lol
That was unbelievable! 🤯
Makes me remember the first Penn and Teller you were on
I’m 60 and have watched and performed magic my entire life. Shin is the most fooling I’ve ever seen. I’m wracking my brain trying to think of how he pulled that off, but I honestly have no clue. I can watch Copperfield and know how he does nearly everything, but his shows are spectacular. Shin on the other hand can take a single card and blow my frigging mind! If you ever see this Shin, I think you are the best I’ve ever seen. You truly make magic seem possible. 🤯 ☮️♥️
Shin comes off as such a genuine dude... like an everyday kinda guy who just happens to do the sickest sh!t ever seen on the planet. Then he's like "oh thanks guys!" so genuinely as if someone just said "Hey, I like your hair." Dude is absolutely out of this world. I just can't get enough of his stuff. Such an amazing talent.
Penn and Teller didn't even stop and try to think about how it's done, they're just like "that's another fooler, isn't it"
It wasn't a fool, they said if he would have showed this on Fool Us they would be fooled, and said another planet, they know it was a camera trick
@@RequiemDream Camera trick, huh!!
Bro, get some brain, it literally was a video conference, how on Earth(or Saturn) can you use camera on a live video.
@@RequiemDream I don't think it was a camera trick in a technological sense. It's a very low-tech method, as low as you can go in that room, and it wouldn't work on the set of Fool Us. So I think you're right that they weren't fooled. They loved the trick, but weren't floored by it. Perhaps someone else was!
@@achreios0doulos nah they were fooled
Larry Travis
If they were not fooled, Shin Lim will not put the “Fooler” in this video.
But you’ll never know whether Penn and Teller are just throwing the dog a bone. Yes, it’s a TV Tropes thing.
Anyway, until Penn and Teller (mainly Penn) confess that they were not fooled, they are considered fooled for now.
The card was probably in on it.
Hahahahahahahhaa good 1
yes it is...
😂
the card is a paid actor
Account Residency haha, more like a slave though😉
Omggg shim lim is an actual magic user pretending to be a card magician
The secret is out!
He uses digital manipulation to appear non magical.
Common dude its very obious he edited the video
Green screen with an assistant wearing on green who doesn't appear in the camera but it's him who write into the card, that's why he gives him enough space in front of him that he can write into the card.
If this guy is shim lim. then who the hell is shin lim? My mind is blown
Some one should have tould teller that he is on mute
He doesn’t like to talk
Shattering Potato why
Hahaha..
O-T-B Tv he prefer not to talk during his performance, I’m not sure why tho...
ivan gmail bruh
It has to be Said, Shin your presentation, your style, the artistry, everything about you and your magic makes me & my family feel like all magic is real magic. My daughter sat in silence for three minutes after your first performance on Fool Us. That’s the longest she’s been awake and silent in her life - no exaggeration. My 70yr old mother watched it and just said “How? What did I just see?!” I’ve been with her when she’s watched tons of magic shows and she’s never reacted like that. My wife said “That makes you feel like you’re a child seeing a Rainbow for the very first time”
You are truly, truly, incredible.
It’s easy, he’s using the marker that he made invisible the first time he fooled them
Please make a video you do that trick and post on here .. Or are you trying to fool us with your words?
@@ThanhNguyen-tl6ve sounds like the joke went completely over your head.
@@ronalddang HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The ultimate prestige
@@ronalddang I really don't think someone needs to fool you.
2:24 look at Penn's tongue😂
:D wtf
something went crazy over there
like a lickytounge ha
lol
Actually, that's a worm.
*THE GIVE AWAYS*
🔹️The black shirt
🔹️The computer perspective advantage
🔹️The wide opening right side of his jacket
🔹️ 0:37 where he checks on his assistant (multiple times actually)
Someone is assisting him writing on the card that's more likely wearing a black covering glove over the hand that's behind him with their hand coming through the jacket and shirt writing on the card holding it near the opening of the jacket, which is why you'll see him pull the card closer. The person assisting him has all colors of markers and is pretty knowledgeable because he could spell lol. Magicians use black shirts for camo. It's a simple internet performance trick, using the advantage of 3rd person perspective. And having them to choose the color is what really help sell the trick.
Don't think si
There would be a budge if any hand was coming through. Plus the shadow on the left wall and the seat is solid
Plus if someone was writing it, how can they see what they have written is correct
It's not that someone is writing it while flips it through his black shirt. Someone beneath him is writing them on black cards as they hear the stuff, they pick the color and write it. When he flips the cards and his hand, they hand it to him from underneath and he pulls it closer. And it's hard to see underneath his had
Nah I don't think that is actually happening over there
I know how he does the trick, I’m here to expose him. The red marker is a paid actor.
What I love about Shin is he’s humble, he’s unbelievably dedicated to the craft and method and he continues to get better and better. Shin, you’re going to go down the MJ of Magic and as of late some serious mentalism.
I love Teller's reaction when he realizes you didn't just have the number but you had it written too. The subtle pinky movement I'm assuming was to throw him off? I love this. Levels.
Penn and Teller: 3rd times the charm, we got Shin this time!
Shin: Hold my 🍺 again!!
Stop at 2:15. Look between index and middle finger
@@guntodd Play it slow, that's just his finger cover up the card
@@guntodd what
Ridiculously brilliant. My jaw dropped. So engaging to watch another amazing act from Shin.
Teller's mic wasn't working again. But wow what a great trick. I think I have an idea how it was done. And for a clue search for a lady magician's trick on Fool Us with the name of magical katrina. She did something similar although this was more elaborate.
Shin Lim amazes me every time! His magic tricks have an eerie mischievousness to them.
I'm not saying he's Loki, but no other person is claiming to be Loki either...
Great effect ! In fact, SO good, it made Penn's tongue drop off it's rollers @ 2:24. Thankfully, he managed to slide it back on after several attempts.. (a relief to us all) - Shin is a class act and an innovative, sleight of hand mastermind. Really nice.
An accomplice is off camera, below the frame, who has a set of 7 colored markers. After s/he writes on a card, it is passed up into Shin Lim's hand from below. The assistant is wearing a matte black glove, and the back side of the new card is also matte black. Notice how dark the background is at the bottom of the frame. Shin Lim then holds all the cards together and presents them as a single card.
Man, I think that may be it.
Penn and Teller definitely know the technique (“black light theater”) so their “you fooled us” act was really just a professional tip of the hat to Shin Lim, and a token of their mutual respect as artists and magicians.
This is a trick that cannot be done “live” using this technique.
I don’t get how he switched the cards out tho. He’s clearly holding only 1 card when he reveals the front. Even if he is holding them all together, I don’t get how the card that is passed up to him can get into his hands when his hands are still the entire time.
@@TrevJ91 he’s not switching cards; he is adding each new card to the one before. At the end he is holding 4 cards. Magicians can easily present multiple cards as one card (look up techniques such as the double lift). Notice how at the end of the trick his hands move off-camera so he can dump the whole stack.
The new cards could click together magnetically to align, but Shin Lim doesn’t need that crutch.
0:48 dude. This is the actual frame of shin
It‘s so nice just to see Teller being super amazed and happy about that trick and getting fooled for the third time
Love your humility Shin. You're the best card magician on the planet, you know that and don't need to fuss about it...true class
Stuff like this is why Shin Lim is one of the greatest ever already. Talent plus hard work plus opportunity usually equals success.
The only possible option at this point is that Shin Lim is literally a wizard
I fully agree...
Or that shin lim and pen and teller are good friends and business partners and the answers were already planned and shin lim just did good sleight of hand to reveal each diff card.
uh i aleady figured out what happened but i wont spoil his tricks
I love Shin's performances. Even when I'm pretty sure I know the mechanics behind the trick I can never catch even the tiniest flash of something off. Simply breath taking.
You dont know.
Fax
Ok genius ..explain this one..
Explain pls
It’s been like 4 to 5 years since they’ve met but damn these 3 Magicians never ages I swear.
You’re greatness goes to *God Tier* when 2 of magic’s long time veterans don’t even attempt ‘code talk’ of at least a relatable principle of magic, let alone try to follow your moves.
Shin Lim may just go down as *THE GOAT* of up close slight-of-hand card Magic.
My family and I just watched several of your videos for Father's Day. Peace. Thank you for the craft and magical fun
HOW?!!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Shin you are the.. oh wait. I was gonna say you’re the shin lim of card magic.
This comment wins... forever...
That's like the "they didn't call him Einstein for nothing" joke.
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😂😂
I see wat u did there.......
This comment deserves 1 quatrillion likes
Penn shock face is hilarious at the end
Especially with his tongue spinning inside. Hilarious~ hahaha
0:55 you can see black over his jacket, cards are being written by someone and transferred from below the camera's view into his hands (back of the cards are black)
Correct!
Seems like the camera was set up with a simple brightness filter that makes all the brightness vaules below a set threshhold switch to zero
The blacks seem a bit off indeed. Maybe something simple like a ND filter.
i can't see it, but it's proalaly how.
@@mogtrader8 Well if it's true then it's amazing that they're able to erase things and write that quickly.
The trick was amazing but what was more amazing was the respect penn and teller showed Shin. Shin lim has proven to be one of the greatest and he’s no longer a contestant but a peer
When Shin amazes even magicians you know he's great
Shin is such a talented magician. Also love seeing his performances.
this wizard has the skill, and also the charm as well... never bored to watch him over and over again..
Agree. Handsome, charming and skillful
Yeah everybody says he's a wizard but he's definitely a Bard. He plays music, does magic, and has charisma leaking out of his ears.
This charm is because of Simon Cowell..
As always, love Shin Lim’s effects and performances! Can’t wait until things return to normal so I can see him perform live!
When the card changes you can see his fingers move so that the new card that the assistant puts in to his hand is secure. For example... at 1:37 is where you see Shin's Middle, Ring, and Pinky finger shifts so that the card can be held in place again.
Someone also wrote that all the cards from the assistant are matte black. Blending with the background of Shin's bottom half. You can't even see the assistant's hand or cards in the video of course, but the hand movements right after Penn and Teller make their decision is what gives it away. Amazing trick Shin!
So amazing, I have watched almost every show and it’s truly amazing 🤩
For the THIRD time! Nice Shin! I missed the premiere but it was still fun watching the video. Stay safe during these times! Love your work!
That was so amazing. My three favorite Magicians
Alright I have 3 working theories:
1: Shin Lim has blackmail material on literally every single person who works in television and can force them to react to things and edit clips however he chooses
2: Shin Lim has access to the kind of nanomachines that bad SciFi writers use to explain away pretty much anything
3: Shin Lim is a trickster god
I pray to Shin Lim.
Green screen with an assistant wearing on green who doesn't appear in the camera but it's him who write into the card, that's why he gives him enough space in front of him that he can write into the card.
@@silverlightsonSLS I thought you were joking, but seeing as this is your second comment, I assume you are serious. And if you are, you are wrong.
Shin Lim always keeps the card in front of his body. If an assistant wearing a green costume writes on the card, their hand would obviously be visible. A green screen is not an invisbility cloak.
@@s.aslahahmadfaizi4687 The gays who write in the card puts his hand from the bottom wearing green. The green screen is just the technic of using a color, which is replaced by something else.
4.Wizard
Those fingers, my man.
You haven't just transitioned to another art form; surely, you've excelled any expectations you could possibly have had for your musical career.
A yardstick for virtuosity in magic.
Look at 0:56 even his bottom left side of his jeans jacket which has whitish fabric color is LOST in that blackish environment... No wonder we couldn't see a card being supplied there to the hand. Good magic setup!
It's not fair, this man knows actual magic
Wow, last time I saw him do a zoom trick, I assumed he used some kind of a printer or had his hand off camera. But this was flawless. Greenscreen is the only possible way I can imagine... but Shin Lim is a wizard so who knows? So good!
You can actually see the green screen around his fingers, its strangely blurry where he holds the card
Penn and teller: Ok let’s figure this out this time
Shin: I’m about to end this mans whole career
Addyups 123 you copied another dudes comment
and penn and teller can easily fool shin while sleeping
cringe
P&T are out here doing work for you. This is a retread of a classic P&T trick. So old in fact, that they sold it on vhs. It's lovely seeing a modernized version for a much younger generation, and frankly, I am glad they picked you for it.
You have arguably the fastest flips, loads, steals, etc. that I've ever seen in my life.
this is not that impressive, considering im convinced Shin Lim is an actual wizard. He probably learned this on his first day at Hogwarts
hogwarts was actually just his playground. I am pretty sure he went to a realm to OWN magic.
He's not a wizard just good with slight of hand. When daivd copperfield was doing the imposs they thought he was linked with the evil side but everything is a illusion thing that makes shin lin one of the greats is that hes extremely smooth at what he does and his handlings are amazing
Great performance as always Shin!
I think I figured most of this one out!
Explanation:
Basically, there is someone helping him out probably sitting behind Shin or in front of him(I think it's easier from behind? I have no idea). As soon as Penn and Teller mention something they start writing it very quickly, they would have different colored pens to use for different colors ofc.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think the cards that Shin's assistant uses have black back covers so that it's impossible to see the card when it's being moved on Shin's black shirt as long as it's not flipped around.
The assistant might also be using a tool to move the card automatically to Shin's shirt/hand instead of just using their own hand, although they might be able to their hand too just as long as their hand itself doesn't show up. Shin might be using his jacket to hide that tool or to hide his assistant's hand.
Shin then covers his shirt using his hand which is holding the original card with red color back so that nobody can see him pick up the card from his shirt using his fingers, and putting it right on top of the card that is already in his hand.
When Shin puts the new card on top of the original card in his hand, everyone will be able to see the face of the new card and the back of the original card.
0:58, 1:36 and 2:19 are the three moments where Shin picked up a new card, if you pay attention it's pretty easy to see that he's using his Pinky and Ring fingers to do something even though those fingers aren't holding the original card, which means he was using them to pick up the new card and put it on top of the original one.
You can also hear a small sound in each of these 3 moments similar to the sound of drawing a card from a card deck, further proving that he's picking up a different card each time.
This trick was most noticeable the second time at 1:36, especially the sound part.
Because of how amazing Shin is, it's just so smooth and so impossible to notice him putting a new card on top of the original one.
What really amazes me more though is how extremely fast the trick is done, I have no idea just how he does the trick literally a few seconds after they mention the word.
As always, epic performance by the single best magician in the world!
This is good analysis though
@@delronmackay1473 Thanks :)
bro, also i think that this can be true because shin is only using one earphone. Ik this maybe sound stupid but why would someone use only one?? still being a good analysis
You're correct, he has an assistant(s) in helping him with it. But his skill / slight of hand in handling the cards is what allows him to successfully do this transfer.
@@zaidelaymat797 damn so good trick I had no clue until I read your comment. It must be this way, and he does it so well even knowing how it's done, you just can't see it
Sun Ra : ) His interviews are worth a listen, as well as the bands music.
@Time Warp If i remember, Sun Ra, the musician, claimed he was taken to Saturn and told to follow a path of music by extra terrestrials.
@@sbaxter4207 In other words, he took a lot of acid.
The only thing that stood out to me as strange is the fact that the R from Ra looked like it was originally a P. Amazing trick though!
Tremendous trick, it seems that behind there is an assistant who uses the marker through his jacket to write. The right hand always covers the same point while writing. Great use of recorded magic, very well executed.
Shin Lim is handsome, charming and talented.
Quoting Penn in the first one : "we didn''t even know how you vanished the F*** magic marker". But the Magic Marker Union was not pleased by these words...
"mark my words Penn & Teller!"
So it's just retaliation, Shin Lim isn't involved at all.
I believe the card top is actually green or something and he has an assistant that writes this stuff inside a video editing program and every time he flips the card the program detects the green color just like with a green screen and puts the text and white color on it
that's a misquote
@@anymy980 That would have to have some next level tracking because green screen usually works only because the foreground moves and the background doesn't. Think to "invisible cloak" tricks done with green screen, how the background stays still rather than the green cloth having a moving imitation of the background that is slid into place.
2:23 Penn and teller’s face after shin revealed the word lol. That was amazing.
You and DK are my fav magicians from fool us. I love u guys sooo much. ALWAYS a joy to watch. I always go back and watch you and his performance. Truly awe inspiring and amazing.
Person behind him, wrote it quickly and slipped it through his jacket from behind replacing the other cards. I mean, he's at home. No need to wear a jacket. That jacket and hand position have it's purpose. 😁
Bro that makes zero sense.
yeah must have been a perfect camera angle trick, there's no way he can do all that alone
Shin, can you make the Coronavirus dissapear?
Yours truly,
The world
(without killing anyone)
69 people support you now
Is the coronavirus a card?
@@brandonwei2430 is sun Ra a card?
How about no
Shin: Performs red magic
Teller: Performs misdirecting smile
More sinister than black magic? LoL
@@charmnGUY Yes maybe
The only thing I can think of was that the card was actually a green screen and someone was helping him backstage drawing out the letters and placing it on the card digitally. Amazing performance glad you fooled P&T for the 3rd time!
If only we could see the reflection in the glass panels behind him...
Nah, I'm pretty sure this is an interesting take on a trick that's been going around lately (that Shin obviously took to an entirely different level) but, without spoiling things, I do not believe this trick could be performed quite as well with a shirt that isn't black.
As a magician, me hearing that a card magician uses video editing sounds like a painter using photoshop , it is ridiculous !
@@itsuranus9479 haha true, black is a gr8 color
@@ousibn4040 as a non magician me hearing magicians dont actually use magic but sleight of hand is ridiculous !
What Fool Us and Penn & Teller taught me, is that for greatest magic tricks out there, you don't care how it's done at all, not even the slightest. You just enjoy the magic.
I have been seing magic. But not this entertaining. He brought this to another level. And so humble too.
Shin's cards are actually paid actors
Okay, here's my guess. I think I figured it out! If you don't want this potentially spoiled, don't read any further!
I think his shirt is actually GREEN along with the background behind him. I think there was a person wearing a green glove between Shin Lim and the blank card. They then chroma-keyed his shirt and the person's glove to be BLACK. Basically, I think it's a minor special effects job. That way, we don't see the person writing on the card - it's blocked out by the chroma-key. Either way, Shin Lim is a boss!
I picture a hand coming from below to write the words.
Shin, your magic is just incredible! You deserve all your success! I hope to be able to catch you at the Mirage once things in the world return to normal. You are far and away my favorite "Fool Us' performer. It was nice seeing you step outside of your silent, mysterious persona for this trick. Super cool! Still trying to figure out how you did it!
I figured it out. Shin was holding the card to his chest. He had a surgeon cut a card sized hole in his chest, then an accomplice reached through his chest and wrote on the card. Simple. 😁
He has a surgically implanted third hand. Everyone knows this.
or someone with black gloves
At some point before God calls me home (hopefully many years down the road) I hope I get to see one of your performances live. Such a great act you've created!
Blessings to you and yours.
AMAZING SHIN LIM! YOU’RE AMAZING! STAY SAFE TOO BRO! :)
@Tim John that was definitely not camera trick
No @Tim John it’s definitely not a camera trick. But it definitely fooled me. It was incredible
Maybe green screen/digital. No other way I can think of.
@@InvertedPieceSacrifice but he mentioned it isn't a digital card
The Ministry of Magic is gonna crackdown on this guy one of these days
This is fake... I've read an article about shin lim being friends with sun ra and hanging out in saturn and styling each others hair! I'm totally disgusted...
KimoNaEcchi Me too. Plus I can't believe P&T fell for the old "47" trick.
@@williameberle4250 You mean the old '37' trick. This has nothing to do with that :-D
DUDE! So *that's* where he gets his sick hairstyles from! Who knew Sun Ra is such a bro.
The real trick about that is Sun Ra is dead
@@cavemanrob RIP
My guess is some sort of absolute black combo of his shirt and someone feeding him cards in a similarly absolute black glove/device. The dynamic range of a webcam would be no match against it. The way he is leaned forward looks like a good amount of space to play with, too.
Defiantly. Even if this isn't the method, this would have worked just as well.
I was going to guess penis writing gimmick but yours makes more sense
@@Aaron-sy5yx one of the funniest comments i've ever read
@@bradbadley1 thanks man
2:11 Teller’s reaction 😂😂
The card was digital as u can see the thickness of the card, connected with wifi
I think they let it go because it is him.
@@James-tk9oy yup even i think so.
someone is sitting behind him and his jacket has cutouts in the back, notice whenever pen selects a word/color whatever, shin has to place his arms at an angle which completely blocks left view or right view allowing a person to sneak the updated card. Youre welcome
I thought the same thing 👍
Could be that. I wondered about someone with a black arm/hand cover handing up from below (the replacement card would have a black back as well). With the contrast turned up on his camera it would just blend in with his shirt. Regardless, it’s a great trick. Since there are no cuts, it’s a brilliant trick for video chat.
1:56- he is clicking the card- watch his thumb
This one is cool. I think I figured this one out. Have someone sitting beneath the camera write on cards with a black back. Everytime Shin is given an answer from Pen, he repeats that answer multiple times to make sure the assistant knows what it is. After writing it, Shin moves his hand down near the bottom of the camera view as the card with the answer is passed to him. Because he is wearing a black shirt and there isn't much area between his hand and the bottom of the camera view, we can't see the card being passed. Shin, being an absolute master of sleight of hand, uses his pinky and ring finger to move the card over the previous without us seeing a thing, besides the slight movement of the fingers.
The repeating of the answer and the bold around the R made me realize someone was writing this all down.
Nah that can't be it. The cards never leave view, and you can always see the bottom of his hands
Why do you come here and explain how you think it's done? That just looks like conceit.
Where are all the keyboard magicians explaining how this sorcery was done? You are bad ass Shin! Keep it up and happy for your success
You r actual magician,there's no trick,u r a real wizard,unreal magic.
There’s either an invisible marker, trillions of random cards thinner than atoms, or Shin is just a wizard.
I imagine Casey lying on the floor, writing things with hand in black glove :)
For anyone who's interested, yes, it was some kind of filter-technology behind it. If you look closely at 1:42 when he turns the card, you can see the edge of the '7' flicker a bit. :P
what is the filter called
Well caught.
i love how he's always right into it. no muckin about, just immediate amazement
Some people out there perform black magic.
Shin Lim performs magic in any color that you desire.
Shin lim is the best it’s amazing that he can do magic tricks on a video chat lol
It's actually waaayyy easier to do magic over video chat. You have fixed angles, zero hecklers handling the deck, nothing can really go wrong. In fact if he's doing what I think he's doing then this trick cannot be performed in person.
Nobody:
Shin: For my next trick * puts on fake looking infinity gauntlet* And....*snap*
i actually wanna see this 😂😂😂
hmm that looks like a pretty sturdy “card”
and the black clothes background is very convienent as well 😉
Yeah pretty sure there was someone underneath him with black gloves writing it as they told him
Shin Lim is an absolute genius and annoying. Annoying in the fact that his tricks are just absolutely mind boggling unlike other tricks where you can have a good guess, but with his tricks, I can't begin to figure out how he does them. Absolute brilliance...
You're just a real life Wizard, No tricks, Just pure magic!
For me, watching magic videos as a magician is always a win win
Getting into the audience minds imagining what they are thin-king
Mostly I can figure out what's happening in these smokes mirrors and bling bling
But this is pure sorcery out of the world realized by the great shin lim
Lol i m not a magician and i know how to do this trick cause of so many people that did it to me on what s up
It has to be that someone is writing it because while writing the 'R' in SunRa, you can see the marker got weird and it had to be traced 2-3 times
There's nothing hard about it. My guess it's a digital card like a mini tablet that made to look plain white card. Then an assistant writes whatever on another tablet and it appears on the card too.
I started to love this guy in 2015, my Madden 15 username was shinlim now look at him
Someone is on the ground below Shin. They have all color markers. When they hear what needs to be written, they write it off camera. The card they write on has a completely black back-face. They are wearing a black glove. They bring the card(s) and black glove up and pass Shin the card. Ez Clap.
Can't believe you guys don't know this after previous performances.
Shin holds the cards with one hand. Then misdirects the audience with his other hand. And then quickly writes on the card with his very small third hand that's shielded by the cards.
This is the key to all his previous performances too.
So he's basically like the mutant guy from Total Recall who grows an entire new human out of his stomach? That actually seems plausible.
Shin always has his own way to make us believe in magic lolz :>
Every time a magician says something like, "It's not a digital card," that's exactly what it is. His wife was writing it on her tablet behind the camera.
haha an even simpler explanation is that someone is just handing him the cards and you can't tell because he's wearing a black shirt.
That’s actually very clever...it could totally work. A person is hiding behind the camera writing the words, maybe wearing a black glove which blends in with the black shirt, passing the cards up from below. The back of the cards being passed could also be black. It would work especially well on a web cam like this. Probably could actually work on stage in person too if he used an “ultra black” coating like Vanta Black on his shirt and the glove/ cards.
@@emaguire512 for me the hand is there since the beginning. You can see something black on the right over is jacket, then when Penn says RED the black thing (probably a hand) it moves to the center of the black shirt (where the card is) ;)
I think this guy isn't doing sleight of hand anymore ..he got the freakin devil writing for him 🙃
I wouldnt say that...
You're right. This is not sleight of hand. It's just a scripted setup.
There might be a second person involved? Doesn't have to be the devil necessarily.
Shin used 3 cards! But how though is what amazes me.
CristianKirk Scripted? Lol it’s just a gimmick
You can tell teller has high respect for him he actually spoke to say hello if you listen carefully.
I think its a thin plastic card holder and there is someone feeding black backed cards into the bottom. The card doesnt ever bend and it looks like theres a bit of transparency over the card at the start. If you look at his middle finger everytime before he reveals the card, you see him push the end of the card flush in the holder. His black shirt makes it pretty much impossible to see it, and it is also the side that is covered by the red back of the card holder. Also the SunRa, you can see the R is written slightly thicker because the person who was writing it below him mispelt it but went over it again quickly.