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"Who
need
s
thousands
of
dollars to perform
incredible
illusions?"
The magician asks
his
audience
this
question before he picks up
a beat-up cardboa
rd box
.
He places
it
upside-down
ove
r his head
and then rips
open a
hole
in
the front
so
his
face
his
visible.
The
magician then lifts the box
a
foot
above
his
shoulde
rs;
stretching
his neck in an impossible
manner. Next
he twists his head
360
degrees and back. Finally he removes his head
entirely
and then
puts
it back.
FACE
LIFT
ER is an incredib
le
(yet
easy to build and perform
illusion)
that will leave
your audience
baffled. Taking advantage
of
cutting-edge
techn
ology,
FACE LIFTER
allows any
performer to
create
an illusion that
would
have
cost
thousand
s
to duplicate just
a
few
years ago.
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I was
walking out of
KINKO's whe
n
I noticed
a
man
in
front
of me.
It
was
n't act
ually
a man, bu
t
a ca
rdboa rd
cutout.
It
took
me a
few
seconds
to realize
it.
I've
seen thousand
of ca
rdboa rd cutout
s of
people
(I
go to
the
movies
a
lot),
but neve
r one this
realistic. Why
was it so realistic? I thought about that while the
people
making copies
sta
red at me wo
ndering
if
the
idiot
was
going to try to
as
k
the
ca
rdboard man
a
question
.
There
were three reasons why
the
cuto
ut looked real.
Reason
numb
er one
was
that it was
the
right size.
The
man wasn't too large
or
too small. He
was
the
right
scale.
More precisely, his
features
were
the
right
scale
as
well.
Th
e
photographer
had
taken the
pho
to
the
right way.
T
he nose was
n't too big
co
mpared to the
rest
of
the face. Reason number two was that
I
was
standin
g
th
e
right distance away. From
just a co
uple
yards away
it
was
difficult 1 tell that the face
was flat.
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The
third
reason
it
looked
real
was
that the
cutout was
printed
on a matte finish
paper.
There
wa
s
no
gtossy
sheen.
T
he
ski
n looked
very
real.
Loc
king
at the
man
that wasn't
there,
I thought
maybe,
just
maybe
a
photograph
(with
a
little
tweaking)
co
uld
pass
for
an
actual
human
face.
Wou
ld
that
be enough
to fool
people? Fake
heads
(when
done
right) have
work
ed
very well
in
the Disembodied Princess illusion.
Maybe
a
fake head
made
with
a
home
co
mputer
co
uld
work
as wel
l. The
only way
to find
out was
by trying it.
Photographs
by
Matthew Barber
Co
py right
2002
Maynestream Prod
uctions
No part
of
this manu
script
may
be
reprodu
ced
with
out
written permission from the
author.
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I
went
home and made my
own
fake
face with
my
digital ca
mera,
some
matte
paper and cardboard.
I
put it
into
a
box
with a
hole
cut
in
the
front. The
experience
was weird. The box was
from
a container
for
a mechanical monke
y.
There
was
my
head in a
box
with
the
label
(appropriately) on front stating its
contents:
MISTER MONKEY.
Once
I
knew
the
concept
that
seemed
too
ridiculous
worked,
it
was
time
to
develop the rest
of
the
illusion;
my EZ-build head
stretching effect that
most
people
already
have all the materials
for:
FACE
LIFTER.
Read the directions. Build
your own.
Play with
it.
Video
tape
yourself
doing it.
It's
weird, very
weird.
Weird is good.
By
the way,
it's
a pertect companion
for
my
other easy-build
illusion,
The Pocket Sawing-
In-Half.
Sometimes we
shouldn't let the
ridiculous
get
in
our
way.
I learned that
lesson.
Trust me,
there's
more
insane
ideas coming...
Andrew Mayne
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the first effect
The magician picks up
a
beat-up cardboard box
He places it
on
his
head
He pushes up
on the
box
- stretching
his neck
in
an
impossible
way...
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Making the gimmick
The method behind FACE LIFTER
is
pretty
simple. A
fake face drops
into
place
in
front
of your own
face.
As
you
lift the box, the hanging flaps
cover your actual
face
.
This allows
you
to
perform a variety of effec
ts
involving
your
head
in various places and configura-
Step
2: Using a photo editing
program
,
enlarge the image to
actual
size
on
an 8
.5
by 11
sheet
of paper. Black out
all of
the
areas around
your face.
Use
the "smoo
th" function to
soften
the
pixels.
tions.
To
make this effect,
you'll need
to
make
the
fake
face
and
a
box
(plus
get
two pairs of
matching
sunglasses).
Slep
3: Print the photo
on a
sheet of regu
lar or
matte
card
stock. Com
pare the
photo
to
your
face
.
If
the
colors
need to
be balan
ced ,
adjust
them (try
the contrast settin
g).
Re-size
the
photo if the sca
le
is incor-
rect.
Congratulations
,
you
now have a fake face.
You're ready
to mount
it
and give
it
a slight curve. Incidentally, thanks to
21"
century technology, the quality of
it
far
surpasses any
kind
of
fake
head
that
came
before it. The ability to
match
skin
tone so quickly is something magic
builders never had
the option of
before. Feel
lucky.
PART 1: MAKE YOUR FACE
Step 1:
Using a
digital camera and a friend, take a
picture of
your
face
under
normal
indoo
r lighting
con-
ditions
.
Your face
should
take up the
entire
frame
.
Th
e
picture
should
be taken as far back
as
possible
and zoomed
in.
DO
N' T HAVE A DIGITAL
CAMERA OR
COMPUTER?
DON
'T SWEAT. Go buy a
cheap
dis-
posable camera.
Have
a friend take a
few
photos
of
your
mug
.
Next take
it
to
a photo process
ing store and
ask
them to make
you a life-sized vers
ion of your best
photo
.
It'll
cost you a couple extra bucks
(but
not much
more than $10).
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