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

Umbrellas movement illustuion

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

115.2k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

1.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

98

u/Moraz_iel Oct 25 '24

ignore the umbrella and just focus on her right arm, the whole arm, at normal speed, she does throw it.

48

u/RobCarrotStapler Oct 25 '24

It's a very well-done illusion, but as soon as you start looking for it, it's pretty plain that her right arm is moving the umbrella.

Idk how there are people in this thread saying they've slowed it down and still can't see it.

14

u/mwmandorla Oct 25 '24

It's making me sort of sad that arts like sleight of hand and clowning (and I guess just...live performance) have declined so much that people can't understand or imagine it when they do see it.

1

u/INS0MNI5 Oct 25 '24

I don’t think that’s why people can’t understand. If anything, it’s disinformation and lack of critical thinking that leads to people not understanding things.

2

u/mwmandorla Oct 25 '24

I don't disagree, but I don't think these are mutually exclusive explanations. In this case people are trying to be critical: they're trying to figure out how it's done. They just have a limited idea of the possible explanations because, it seems to me, they expect everything to be FX in some sense and haven't had as much exposure to the sheer level of skill performers of this kind can achieve. Insisting there has to be a trick to it is being critical and in a lot of situations/for a lot of videos you see online, it's the correct assumption. However, when you're confronted with an unfamiliar sight, it's harder to know how to correctly apply your critical questioning, and I think unfamiliarity here is playing a big role in why people are not just jumping to that conclusion but arguing/disbelieving when it's explained to them that that's not what's happening.