Stasis Balancing Act

[Richard W]

Here is a balancing act you can ponder.

Create an impossibly balanced tower that can collapse on demand... using borrowed objects!

How it looks in real life who knows.
Says you can perform it naked.
Let the show begin.

https://www.penguinmagic.com/p/12531

Richard

[Simon Layland]

Looks like its done using a thread running down from the back of the card to the performers thumb, you could easily pass the balancing card to an audience member by guiding their fingers etc. I noticed when the performer takes the cards back he gets it to fall, it only collapses in the performers hand.

[ØyvindK]

In the ad video he says it doesn't use thread, though.

[Richard W]

He insist twice there are no magnets or invisible thread. Spec holds up "his" credit card then a selected playing card is balanced and then a folded bill then a card box all while the spec is holding it magicians hands are not touching anything. Can be done with various borrowed objects. One 360% camera shot while one card is balanced nothing to see. Must be magic.

[Rob Rand]

Let me be the dinosaur marching into the tar pit:

I am totally uninterested in these kinds of floating object magic. Although I do like the floating lady, the floating blocks of Magic Wagon ...

I am absolutely not impressed by pencils, card decks defying gravity.

Do I need a psychologist now?

[PeterW]

I'm guessing the card has the gimick, a hinged piece of thin plastic that is sticky on one side to stick to spectators credit card. When card is pealed away the structure crumbles.