he would have a lot of audience members write a celebritiy’s name on a piece of paper and fill a basket; a randomly chosen audience member selected a piece of paper and Derren, from holding the man’s hand, painted a picture of the celebrity’s face.
This doesn’t sound like a trick that’s psychological in nature. It probably involves switching the piece of paper somewhere.
Yes, but the emphasis is on the psychological showmanship. The shortest description of the trick would be “Derren painted a picture from the imagination of an audience member just by holding their wrists and asking them to think about it” but the trick is that the magic is already over when he forced the celebrity’s name.
This doesn’t sound like a trick that’s psychological in nature. It probably involves switching the piece of paper somewhere.
Yes, but the emphasis is on the psychological showmanship. The shortest description of the trick would be “Derren painted a picture from the imagination of an audience member just by holding their wrists and asking them to think about it” but the trick is that the magic is already over when he forced the celebrity’s name.