How the hell does this guy do this?

Oriel

Balancing!

Click on the gallery and have a look.
I can't see any trickey whatsoever, but it appears to defy the laws of physics...

:-/

S.

Examples:
http://gamma.fnphoto.com/stories/rock-balance/images/Rock%20Balance%2013.jpg
http://www.rock-on-rock-on.com/images/gallery/bdrocks9-0306cf.jpg

Gordon

Superglue.

KdjaCL

Suppose its possible as everything has a point where its weight can be halved and balanced but that pic it looks a windy day so would imagine the balcne be so delicate they would fall over.


kdjac

Oriel

Gordon wrote:

Superglue.

The contact surface isn't large enough for superglue.
And surely people would see him putting it on?!

stagolee

personaly i would suspect him of drilling small holes in the rocks and putting wires through, or else photoshop.
but then again maybe its true.

fade2black

On the video we don't actually see him place any rocks upon other rocks. We just see them already atop of them and him trying to balance them.

He has some kind of a system. You gotta have a system.

BigEejit

there is a picture in one of the galleries of a bird standing on top of one ... very suspect ...cant remote link ...bleh .. its in the second gallery

thejovialhost

Whoa!

whiskeyman

fade2black wrote:

We just see them already atop of them and him trying to balance them.

He has some kind of a system. You gotta have a system.

Like that guy on the south side of College Green with the chalk drawing on the footpath.
Every time I walk past that guy he's always just finishing off another picture.
Anyone ever see him start one?!?!

BigEejit

actually ... after looking at the videos it all looks legit ... not bad at all :cool:

Roddy23

seen this done before on the beach in Toronto.
Got talking to the chap who was doing this, after I gave him a free ice cream, he proceeded to tell me how it was done. All I'm saying is that every rock has a power and through the User of knowing which rocks have how strong a Power, can ye determine which rocks will be strong enough to balance another one.
The chap was a hippy and he was using the Karma of the rocks!!!
I just walked away......

Ann Elk

Phew!

Thought that the 'Rock on Rock' link was going to lead me to a WWF porn site!!

Mossy Monk

its WWE, unless you want animal porn :eek: :eek:

nesf

10 ton apoxy?

Ann Elk

Mossy Monk wrote:

its WWE, unless you want animal porn :eek: :eek:

Whoops!!! Still - I reckon we could be on to something - The Rock vs That Big Fat Panda - who'd win??

Einstein

nesf wrote:

10 ton apoxy?

it isn't poxy it's very good..!

Endurance Man

There is nothing fake about this .
Iv seen it done before, and me being very suspicious of these types of things i took a good look at the stones and the surrounding area.
There aint no string and no glue, he balances those :eek: .

D

whiskeyman wrote:

Like that guy on the south side of College Green with the chalk drawing on the footpath.
Every time I walk past that guy he's always just finishing off another picture.
Anyone ever see him start one?!?!

Actually most of the time he just lands early inthe morning and unrolls the picture and tapes up the side of it. He is an artist and can draw well, he's just lazy and uses the same one over and over.

JungleBunny

Are they magnetic stones??
Whatever it is, it looks pretty cool!

TerrorFirmer

Cool though...

electric69

Quite simple...photoshop! end of that debate...

Endurance Man

Quite simple...photoshop! end of that debate...

It is not photoshop!!
Iv seen it in the flesh, explain that ?? :cool:

Spunog UIE

your obivously one of "THEM"!!! :eek:

thats pretty cool, must have crazy patience to do it tho

electric69

It is not photoshop!!
Iv seen it in the flesh, explain that ??

Eh...your talking through your a*se....

Endurance Man

HAhahaha, why dont you believe me m8?
Im not the only person who has seen this, if you read back another person has seen this in america, think you need to chill and stop calling me a liar :cool: .
I didnt see it to this extent but it was the same type of thing, its not impossible!

Edit: Actually , looking a little closer these pics do look a little sketchy , im still not 100% sure.

omnicorp

http://www.rock-on-rock-on.com/images/gallery/RockBalance3.jpg
at the top of the top rock i think i can see a wire...

Endurance Man

at the top of the top rock i think i can see a wire...
Today 18:34

Links dont work .

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=52895

Look at that ^^, if sum1 can stack 10 bowling balls on top of each other why couldnt he do this ?

Sparky

some people know rocks better than others

all this is in the same league as the plate balancing on sticks and that guy who spun 20 basket balls.

Roddy23

Ye i did see this in Toronto. He used to use the good energy between the rocks whatever the hell was. But he would sit there for ages everyday trying to balance them He would come onto the beach in the morning say 10am, and by the end of the day he'd have all these rocks on top of each other some of them nearly as tall as myself, and then he'd go home.
When I was talking to him, he was telling him that a lot of people across America do it as a form of near meditation.
I just thought hippy.....

Roddy23

like this

Endurance Man

Ye, look around the intereweb, this is done all over the world.

Rantorama

The best balancing act involving wire has to be Philippe Petit.
Walked between the Twin Towers in '74.
Without a saftey net.http://www.bruner.net/blog/img/petitwtc.jpg

Roddy23

according to the people who do this they see the world as the following

mystical vision of a world swimming in energy and flows.

whihc was taken from the site which advertises that chaps video, Andy Goldsworthy

JazzyJ

Saw this guy in person while in San Fran outside the exploratorium.

Stopping off to see him was part of the alternative tour that we gave to mates coming over to visit... that, the water flowing uphill*, and the Irish/Indian bar/curry house with probably the cheapest Guinness in the world...

It seems legit - he'd even ask the crowd to find rocks and he'd use them. He can use bottles too. I still think there must be some sort of "trick" to it though.





* this may have been an optical illusion but shhhhhh...

Hobbes

JazzyJ wrote:

that, the water flowing uphill*
* this may have been an optical illusion but shhhhhh...

Actually in Korea on jeju island they have a road called "Dokkaebi road", if you stop the car and take off the handbrake you actually roll uphill. Pouring water on the ground does the same.

electric69

There is a hill somewhere on the Mourne mountains in Louth that you can take of your handbreak and roll up hill...dont have 2 go to korea 2 do that

Dave!

Wow... cool...!

electric69

yep...ive never tried it but i know loads of ppl that have all they all said it works.....strange but true....

OfflerCrocGod

D wrote:

Actually most of the time he just lands early inthe morning and unrolls the picture and tapes up the side of it. He is an artist and can draw well, he's just lazy and uses the same one over and over.

Thanks for that! I've always wondered about him; now I hate him even more!

electric69

Endurance Man

It is not photoshop!!
Iv seen it in the flesh, explain that ??

I didnt see it to this extent but it was the same type of thing, its not impossible

Edit: Actually , looking a little closer these pics do look a little sketchy , im still not 100% sure.

LOL....you really dont inspire confidence with your claims do you?....How could u not be "100% sure" if you have "seen it in the flesh"?...Someone needs to get their story straight before they make a total fool of themselves....oh wait...you already have made a fool of yourself!

Gordon

There's "Electric Brae" in Scotland too, another optical illusion hill.

Supercell

electric69 wrote:

There is a hill somewhere on the Mourne mountains in Louth that you can take of your handbreak and roll up hill...dont have 2 go to korea 2 do that

In the same mountain range near Forkhill in South Armagh there is such a hill too (on the slopes of Slieve Gullion) , I remember the parents driving up there many years ago to try it and apparently it worked.

I do recall at the time thinking it was an optical illusion as the local trees etc lean in a direction away from the wind giving the impression of sloping where there may not be any..though the others on the same trip seemed to be convinced.

quarryman

I've seen this too in Vancouver.

Was walking along the beach and saw all these rocks balanced like that. I was convinced they were glued somehow so went over and tipped a few over.

They're just perfectly balanced, amazing to look at.

nedoo

The same happens in Sligo on the side of Benbulben. It is due to the iron ore content in the hill and its magnetic quality.
If you look through the site you can see footage of kids doing the rock thing, just a question of finding the point of balance, mes thinks. Looking forward to finding some rocks and trying it!
Electro69...you are a pain in the ass huh?

electric69

And who are you to say that....learn how to spell properly and come back to me in about 20 years when you may be slightly more mature(which i doubt), and i may think about dignifying your response with an answer.

nedoo

twat

Jimi-Spandex

electric69 wrote:

Quite simple...photoshop! end of that debate...

No, you sir are wrong.

I have seen this exact guy in San Francisco. I saw him doing it in real life.

electric69

Ok...fair enough Jimi-spandex.

nedoo: twat

Well done...you have just proven your lack of maturity and intelligence to everyone...anything else you would like to add to dig the hole your in any bigger?

Pet

It's much easier for a rock to stay put once it's balanced because of the weight.

4Xcut

whiskeyman wrote:

Like that guy on the south side of College Green with the chalk drawing on the footpath.
Every time I walk past that guy he's always just finishing off another picture.
Anyone ever see him start one?!?!

i never noticed that before, but yeah........