it’s all perspective.

Most of you under 50 will not be aware that David Copperfield once made the Statue of Liberty disappear. I remember it was pretty epic as a kid. And recently someone revealed how he did it. You can watch the video here.

The short of it is this: the live audience and the camera were on a stage with two pillars on each side. The statue was in the middle. A curtain went up and David started doing his magic dance. While he did, loud music played - with lots of bass - and David kept dancing so that the stage they were on - and the camera - slowly turned. When the curtain came down the audience and camera were looking in a different location, though they didn’t know it and the statue was gone.

In other words, perspective made the statue disappear.

Which is pretty good. Perspective can make lots of problems disappear too.