How the hell does this guy do this?

Oriel · 16-09-2005 11:00AM #1

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 · 16-09-2005 11:02AM

Superglue.

KdjaCL · 16-09-2005 11:04AM

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 · 16-09-2005 11:16AM

Gordon wrote:

Superglue.

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

stagolee · 16-09-2005 11:25AM

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 · 16-09-2005 11:39AM

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 · 16-09-2005 11:40AM

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 · 16-09-2005 11:43AM

Whoa!

whiskeyman · 16-09-2005 11:44AM

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 · 16-09-2005 11:51AM

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

Roddy23 · 16-09-2005 11:57AM

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 · 16-09-2005 11:57AM

Phew!

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

Mossy Monk · 16-09-2005 12:00PM

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

nesf · 16-09-2005 12:00PM

10 ton apoxy?

Ann Elk · 16-09-2005 12:05PM

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 · 16-09-2005 12:07PM

nesf wrote:

10 ton apoxy?

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

Endurance Man · 16-09-2005 12:09PM

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: .

16-09-2005 12:41PM

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 · 16-09-2005 01:38PM

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

TerrorFirmer · 16-09-2005 01:42PM

Cool though...

electric69 · 16-09-2005 04:33PM

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

Endurance Man · 16-09-2005 05:47PM

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

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

Spunog UIE · 16-09-2005 06:03PM

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

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

electric69 · 16-09-2005 06:27PM

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

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

Endurance Man · 16-09-2005 06:34PM

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 · 16-09-2005 06:46PM

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 · 16-09-2005 06:50PM

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

Links dont work

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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 · 16-09-2005 06:55PM

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 · 16-09-2005 06:56PM

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 · 16-09-2005 06:59PM

like this

Endurance Man · 16-09-2005 07:02PM

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

How the hell does this guy do this?

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