What do you guys make of magic tricks like this?

[Blackstream]

http://www.wimp.com/parrottrick/
http://www.wimp.com/levitates/

I know a great deal of magic tricks are really misdirection and the such, but I can't see any way people could have done these things without staging the whole scene and some video editing (or, obviously, the guy really is levitating people and teleporting objects around).  Then again, I'm most definately not a magician so maybe there's something I'm missing.

[intergalactic]

I'm not a magician either but I noticed there aren't many people around so it wouldn't  be that hard to stage and you notice that the camera stays in 1 place doesn't swing around 360 around him and the girl  is sooooooo staged no person would go for that unless they knew 100% they wouldn't just drop and the first one is just slight of hand tricks they have been doing for a 100 years.

[Blackstream]

How do they do those slight of hand tricks I wonder.  He 'transforms' some rather large objects.

As for the girl, I think you'd be surprised at what people would be willing to try.  Really tho, it's gotta be an all or nothing thing.  Either everyone is in on the trick, or it's real.  I can't see how they can raise a girl in the air like that otherwise.  There's no platforms below her... unless there's like a helicopter above her pulling her into the air with a string, but I highly doubt that.

[intergalactic]

Well it has to be staged since there isn't a supernatural thing holding her up I just think they used a crane and a staged audience in a secluded place I notice when the magicians levitate they always go right up then back down you think they would fly around a little lol. Did you see the Penn and Teller special? (Hope I spelled there names right) Where they show you how they can convince 20 or 30 people to play along really easily and show off for the camera  or he might have just had a few people help him by keeping them away from the action. The orange/lemon/egg was obviously either planted or his friend was holding on to it for him.The owner  probably knew what was going on beforehand or he would have kicked that guy right out of his place I'm sure. then its just slight of hand  putting things in/taking them out of his jacket but the apple in to an orange is a cool trick.

[bmw]

Has anyone here heard of the TV show called Mind Freaks?  It seems related to this.  For those of you who haven't heard of it - a guy has made a living performing street magic, but he does crazy stuff  on a whim.  He levitates random people in a park, walks through solid glass windows, predicts outcomes on a roulett wheel, et cetera.  I was just curious as to how plausible you think it is that he is doing these ligitimitely...  penny for your thoughts.

Don't always trust your own thoughts...

[Blackstream]

A thing that has always bugged me is these magicians always cover up the area where they are doing their crazy tricks, such as walking through windows.  To me this says that there is a trick behind it and not magic.

But then again, there's videos like this

http://www.wimp.com/transformation/

No covering up.  Most magicians I've seen would turn the card around, then turn it back and bam, it's the right card.  But this guy transforms it in front of everyone.

Only 2 options I can think of for this one.  Video editing, or it's the real thing.

[AndrewTheSinger]

My friend noticed him taking and putting objects in his pockets. The green apple could have had a red coating, so he really peeled it off by rubbing it .

The levitation was cheap, they were in some sort of hole, they could have strings above them. The people seemed to be pretending and not really shocked by the trick.