Thursday, September 13, 2007

Derren Brown - My newest celebrity crush

This guy is amazing. According to wikipedia, he's a psychological illusionist. He goes around using Neurolinguistic Programming and brief hypnotic states to control his subjects and do cool tricks. He's really popular in England and has had a bunch of TV shows.

In this first video, he stops a guy on the street under the guise of asking directions, and gets the guy to willingly hand over his watch and house keys. The second video is an explanation of the trick, which is called The Russian Scam:



And the explanation (which is fascinating):



A big muchas gracias to Senor Moss for this!

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