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About Super Nova
I selected Super Nova for this great ad
and the trick I would give away. I had been
working on this effect for about 6 years at
the time. It began when I was watching a
DVD of someone doing a kind of reverse
matrix. In this effect the performer
attempted to create the illusion that the
coins suddenly moved from one corner to
the other corners instantly. Somehow an
Okito Coin box was involved. I liked the
idea of things kind of exploding and some
coins suddenly appearing over a wide
area. That was the idea. Or rather, that
is what I saw the effect to be. Eventually
the name Super Nova occurred to me and
I attempted to find a solution to the
problem.
I created the trick and the ad. I got a
picture of a super nova from NASA. It
wasn't quite flashy enough so I used a
computer art program to put a white ball of
light exploding in the center of the nova. It
looked quite spectacular. I looked in my
files to locate an old copy of it but couldn't
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find it to show you. It did appear in Genii
and looked very good.
Richard Kaufman, the editor of Genii, was
kind enough to comment on the trick in his
editorial section at the beginning of the
magazine. He suggested watching the routine
before reading the explanation. I thought
that was cool.
While I had the ad well under control,
getting the trick to go was quite a bit more
difficult.
Before we go further, let's watch the
performance clip of Super Nova.
Click here to see it in Windows
(wmv)
format.
Click here to see it in Real
Video (rm,rv)
format.
Click here to see it in Real Video (rm,rv)
format low resolution for faster load.
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