The Universal Language of Magic | Nomad | TEDxCanberra

How's everybody? I'm so sorry, my pants came unzipped when I went on stage, yeah, so what's

magic

? My name is

nomad

and yes, I am a

magic

ian. My acting career never started in magic, it did start when I was about seven years old. As a ballet dancer, I also performed magic from the age of seven to twenty-eight, but it was always my hobby. I took my ballet career to Melbourne, to the Australian Ballet School, where I studied ballet for two and a half years and unfortunately had to drop out due to an injury to the meniscus in my left knee, but before that I was lucky enough to dance at the Opera House.

Sydney at the biggest ballet competition in the southern hemisphere where I was one of the top three guys, I was really out, yeah, thank you, that was, it was an out-of-body experience, you know, I mean, the Sydney Opera House, one of the Wonders of the World. Now my magical career began shortly after finishing. ballet I used to spend a lot of time in the magic shop across the road from the Australian Ballet School, much to my parents' chagrin. I sent myself off to do ballet and came back like a magician, but um, yeah, that's how I did it.

I spent a lot of time in the magic shop playing cards with other magicians learning the tricks of the trade. I found it very mysterious and I really loved magic, so let me ask you, who here has ever seen a magic trick? Sure, yes, everyone has seen a magic. trick, yes, I remember my first magician and I saw him do a trick. I know with fire he used these little things here, balls. I am sure that you will remember your first experience as a magician. Mine was with balls, just look closely. Yes, that's number one. But.

Not all magic has balls in its stomach, but that was my first experience seeing a magician. I just had to know how it was done. I mean, I found it very interesting and yes, I'm sure you guys are probably wondering how it's done. Unfortunately, I'm not going to tell you because then I wouldn't be a magician, yes, but what I need you to do now is I need help during my act, if you can check your wallets, I need a $50 bill. Joking, what are you laughing at? No, seriously, if anyone would like to help me during my act, find a 50 love note in your wallet while you do that.

I'm going to count to ten right here, yes, I'll even be very fair, take off. my watch is a little skeptical over there the sleeves are up two balls one two three four five six seven eight nine ten did you see the ball a meatball? look closely here one two three four five six seven eight nine ten so yes, I believe magic is

universal

it is a

universal

language

no matter where you come from in the world what race you are also how old you are so I imagine this room has been filled with three people from every country in the world, okay, different range of rage from four years old to 104 years old magic is a universal

language

, although we may not be able to communicate, we would be using a lot of sign language if we introduced magic in the equation a disappearing ball is a disappearing ball in all languages ​​now who has that 50 dollars come on down here what was your name Suzy let's give Suzy a big round of applause now if I speak during a magic trick I only speak English only the English speakers would understand me but I'm Obviously, no one else would understand it, but if I do magic without speaking, I'm sure everyone would understand.

Sorry, I'm a wizard or a thief. Well, you'll get $50, thank you, yeah, so, um, yeah, I firmly believe that. That magic is one of the very special things that remain within this world. We can all share our journeys with each other in the world. You know what I mean? But magic is one of those last things that I think is universal. I mean, music is universal. Money is universal, time is universal, but in those moments when I didn't speak, I think that would have meant something to everyone, no matter what language they spoke, therefore, by performing magic without words, you can speak all the languages, if we try something different.

I would like to be fair, look at this for me, look at this, but look at this for me, all I have done is hand out three pieces of rope, one of these ropes was long, one was medium and the other was short, let's begin. with the long piece of rope, yes ladies and gentlemen, this is the long piece of rope, short rope, ladies and gentlemen, size does matter and of course the medium piece, three pieces of rope, three different sizes, This is what you do, your wave, you click and pull. right here, when I pull that, I don't know if you guys can see what just happened, but all those ropes have gotten to this length, there's a medium piece number one, here's a medium piece number two, and of course, a medium piece number three.

Now don't worry. It's confusing to me too, yeah, so I like to remove one of the strings. The rope trick is much easier than a three rope trick. Let me assure you, a single rope trick is what Jelena is all about. The trick with the rope, now you only see me. with two strings number one number two I can always take two strings and merge them like this into one. Let's not forget that one of these ropes was long, one was short and the other, of course, medium. I'm going to try it long short around my medium neck, if I click here I can show you that this is the long one and the other one is the short one, so what fits around my neck is perfect, yes on my hands of course I have the long and the short, now I can take the long. and the short one and even just merge it into one piece of rope, but just look at the ends because it's not really about the ropes, okay, the ends come off right at the bottom and you put it back on top Yes, they always come off at the bottom. and you're ready to get back to the top, let's not forget it wasn't a trick with one or two ropes, it definitely wasn't a road tree, it definitely wasn't a trick without the ends, they were at the top, they would do it. trick with one, two and of course three pieces of rope, ladies and gentlemen, one was medium, one was long and now here it was short, short, confusing, so I have a prediction here, it's been on stage the whole time.

I need someone with a cell phone. That hasn't turned off I guess it's silent Who has a cell phone ma'am? How is she? That's good, just stand up for me and do me a favor, go straight to her stopwatch, where's the stove?, you have to stop looking, happy. days I would like you to start the stopwatch, have you started it correctly now, ladies and gentlemen, I have a deck of cards here, there are 52 cards inside a deck of cards, that is if you take out the Joker now, madam, I will give you the freedom to choose when you want to stop the stopwatch, but do not go over 52 and keep in mind that they have given me 18 minutes and I give you one minute.

Are you sure Jean lets me influence you? I didn't mean to be so rude at that moment, are you sure you want to stop? Yeah, okay, so ladies in German and she stopped. I still don't know where she stopped. Okay, you can keep it a secret, but if I delete it. the cards, yeah, split it up and let's draw some cards, what do you think? Yes, if I were to draw, say, a top one somewhere, it would be a three of diamonds, if I were to draw a bottom one somewhere, it would be a three of diamonds.

Of course, the seven of hearts, one from the middle, somewhere, would be a two of spades, three cards from anywhere in the deck, random, no, ma'am, it has stopped where exactly 17, point 11, ladies and gentlemen, count with me 17 letters. ready 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 everyone agrees that is card 17 here there is no sleight of hand card 17 is the nine of hearts I'm going to leave that right there I have it I had a prediction here all the time, you could have stopped anywhere you wanted to, that's right, I licked up the good stuff, it says

nomad

s prediction and ladies and gentlemen, here's a piece of paper I made last night just for you because we're in TEDx Canberra. and I have the nine of hearts our magic show is not a magic show without clear ladies and gentlemen and I thank you very much I am nomads the magician yes just keep in mind that magic is universal you