Using sleight-of-hand techniques and charming storytelling, techno-illusionist Marco Tempest brings a jaunty stick figure to life onstage at TEDGlobal. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2011, July 2011, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Duration: 5:45.)
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Augmented card tricks: Marco Tempest at TEDGlobal 2012TEDGlobal loves Marco Tempest. For the TEDGlobal stage he’s bringing something brand-new. (Behind him — the playable titles spelling out his name.) For the trick, he straps on a pair of augmented reality goggles wired up to the big screen, so we can see what he sees — and a little bit more. Nothing makes […]
Marco Tempest tells the secret story of a deck of cardsOn the TED stage, illusionist Marco Tempest has explored the nature of truth and lies, brought a stick figure to life, charted the meaning of magic and told the sad tale of inventor Nikola Tesla. In his latest performance, given this summer at TEDGlobal, Tempest turns his eye to a magician’s classic: a deck of […]
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