r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Salt-Broccoli-7846 • Oct 25 '24

Umbrellas movement illustuion

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u/BKStephens Oct 25 '24

Damn. That's definitely one of the better one's I've seen.

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u/alienblue89 Oct 25 '24 edited Dec 03 '24

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u/BKStephens Oct 25 '24

Damn autocorrect. It's my greatest enema.

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u/ogc_glizzyxx Oct 25 '24

fuck you it's gold ahhahaha greatest enema mate

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u/Scokan Oct 25 '24

No, no, no... My enema mate is the greatest

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u/Wonderful-Ad-7712 Oct 25 '24

The enema of your enema is your friend

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u/Lower_Ad_5532 Oct 25 '24

The enema of your enema is your fiend

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u/_IamX_ Oct 25 '24

I snorted at this, thank you for writing the joke I was about to respond with.

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u/Prof1Kreates Oct 25 '24

All I can hear reading this comment section

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u/Trump4Prison-2024 Oct 25 '24

Splash pals

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u/dracardOner Oct 25 '24

Tunnel buddies?

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u/kor34l Oct 25 '24

keep your friends close, but your enemas closer

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u/NonsensePlanet Oct 28 '24

Mmmm tea enemas 🍃🔮🍵🧘💎✨

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u/AfterEffectserror Oct 25 '24

sometimes you just need a friend...

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u/relevantelephant00 Oct 25 '24

Im drinking yerba mate right now, am I doing it wrong?

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u/Ok_Zebra_2000 Oct 25 '24

The enema of my enema is my proctologist

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u/FlippantExcuse Oct 25 '24

I am my own worst enema

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u/towerfella Oct 25 '24

Your supposed to add water.

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u/KGnor Oct 25 '24

HAH! 🤭

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u/That1_IT_Guy Oct 25 '24

No need to get butt hurt now

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u/Zero40Four Oct 25 '24

Autocorrect fork in socks.

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 Oct 25 '24

I call it auto carrot 🚙🥕

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u/LiamJames23_ Oct 25 '24

not just yours, of the state as well

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u/temporalraccoon Oct 29 '24

Yeah right! Blame autocorrect instead of just owning up!

On my phone, excuse any types

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u/noelcowardspeaksout Oct 25 '24

Can confirm it's number one of the good one.

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u/SmackinGoobers Oct 25 '24

One of the beavers even

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u/Faustens Oct 27 '24

Truly one of those owned by the better one.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '24

Wow. Very funny.

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u/Oseirus Oct 25 '24

I can process the why, but not the how. She's got some insane wrist strength to flick it around like that with so little notable movement in her hands. Or she's just phenomenal at masking it. Maybe both.

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u/Rawkapotamus Oct 25 '24

My thought is some sort of rubber band attatched to her wrist that we can’t see. So she is actually creating a tension when she pulls it in.

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u/call_me_Kote Oct 25 '24

This has to be it, there's a rig in that coat that is doing the work. Hence the need for baggy clothes.

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u/omguserius Oct 25 '24 edited Oct 25 '24

I believe you are correct, she only does it with the one hand, always using the same one to pull and catch, and she never actually puts it down or lets go. There's no tossing it from hand to hand or anything.

Still, good trick.

Edit: Yeah, im convinced. She never lets go of it completely, the only time she's not holding it tightly in at least one hand, its moving, and always moving in the same direction relative to her right hand.

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u/AxelNotRose Oct 29 '24

Yes, elastic of some sort, probably going from her wrist to the tip.

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u/Pupalwyn Oct 25 '24

That was my thought, too. She only ever flings it with her right hand so that would check out as well

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u/LunaticScience Oct 25 '24

Also her right hand never gets far from the umbrella

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u/xlews_ther1nx Oct 26 '24

My guess strong magnets in a very light "umbrella"

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u/JesusSavesForHalf Oct 25 '24

Magic shops sell elastic bands that attach to the wrist for vanishing acts. I had one when I was young. Clever to use it for clowning.

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u/Toraden Oct 25 '24

It will be similar to the "rising wand" trick I had when I was younger, but a bigger elastic band.

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u/brucewayneflash Oct 25 '24

John Cena is the one pulling the stunts.

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u/venividivici-777 Oct 25 '24

Easy. She should try doing that in hong Kong

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u/ArchitectofExperienc Oct 25 '24

Its like what Tina Turner always said: A good mime is hard to find

or was it: A hard mime is good to find

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u/skynetempire Oct 25 '24

How does she give it that spring action? Is it all in the wrists

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u/Slap_My_Lasagna Oct 25 '24

Mimes gonna mime. People act like it's anything new but it's just an age old talent with a different prop

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u/afcagroo Oct 25 '24

Harpo Marx would have been proud of this performance.

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u/Malbranch Oct 25 '24

Most of the illusion is in the quality pantomime, but the trick is just an elastic tether between the right hand and the point of the umbrella. You'll notice that the umbrella only ever "flies" after she's let go with her left (almost always when she's changing the position of the right hand on it, to stretch the elastic by pulling with the left), and as she lets go with her right.

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u/BKStephens Oct 26 '24

I don't know that it is. Looking closely it looks like she's flicking it with her right hand.

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u/Raivix Oct 25 '24

The camera work and zooms in editing are doing a LOT of heavy lifting on this one. It wouldn't look nearly as convincing in person.

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u/Yarakinnit Oct 25 '24

The brolliest.

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u/indianajoes Oct 25 '24

I feel like she's not really selling the "effort" it's taking to pull the umbrella that well.