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Coins
Gentle... gentle...
What happens when you combine boredom and plastic plates? Answer: Balance.
What happens when you combine patience, spare time, 20 cents Australian and a glass of water? Answer: Balance.
No camera tricks, just magic. (and patience)
Apparently some sort of Buddhist practice involves making such elaborate, delicate works of art taking months, even years to complete. Then, when they're done, they knock the whole thing down. It teaches them "impermanence". Ah, the arts of wasting time.
If you want to do the glass yourself, all you need is patience, time and steady hands. I also used an old 20 cent Australian coin with a groove between the Queen's head and the rim to make things easier - if you can find such a set-up, then you should probably use it.
Even more patience
Okay, the last balance stunt was pretty hard. I was sitting/standing there for an eternity before the glass would stay, and I had a world of patience behind me as I stacked the plates. But these stunts actually needed the finest in meditation, calm breathing and almost as much patience than Mendel himself. These are 20 cent Australian and 1 dollar Australian coins, by the way. At the time I thought lighting was pathetic, but it didn't turn out all that badly. You can actually see in the photos below my evolution of patience and confidence from two rim-balanced coins to ten standing ovations to my patience. Plenty of photos below for you to enjoy.
Even more coin action!
Coin-on-coin action, B-shaped dominoes and houses of cards coins! Hours (well... not really) of delicate precision and, again, steely nerves for you to enjoy. Spot the photo with mirrored flash. All pics after the jump.
UPDATE: New 3-coin-stack image added!
And still *even more* coin tricks!
Uncredbile! An even bigger house of coins and nicely fitting vertically stacked fifties! Time well spent? Who knows. CLICK THE LINK BELOW FOR THE PICTURES (Unfortunately, a lot of the people on my site don't realise that 'Pics after the jump' actually means the above)
