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Barry Jones and Stuart MacLeod are a duo of Scottish BAFTA-nominated [1] magicians and comedians whose work has been seen on television and on stage around the world. The double act are known for their comically dark performing style, for taking as inspiration the accounts of Biblical miracles and faking paranormal phenomena to form the basis for some of their illusions.
Stuart MacLeod is a Scottish-born professional magician, television producer, writer, comedian, and television personality. He is best known for Magic for Humans on Netflix, [1] The Magicians [3] and working in the Scottish BAFTA-nominated duo Barry and Stuart. [4] [5] Stuart was also a judge representing Scotland on CBS's The World's Best. [6]
In the first series, this was decided through audience participation; however, for the second series, a phone vote was introduced. The first series was hosted by Lenny Henry, and featured magicians Luis de Matos, Barry and Stuart and Chris Korn. At the end of series 1, Luis de Matos was deemed series champion. [citation needed]
A ganzfeld experiment (from the German words for "entire" and "field") is an assessment used by parapsychologists that they contend can test for extrasensory perception (ESP) or telepathy. In these experiments, a "sender" attempts to mentally transmit an image to a "receiver" who is in a state of sensory deprivation.
Barry and Stuart and Tyger Drew-Honey and Daniel Roche: Grand Illusion, Making Barry and Stuart appear from an empty sealed box in the guise of two ghosts; Location Grand Illusion, Asking a woman to choose a random CD from an HMV store and then creating subliminal art prediction using Joe McElderry; Close-Up Magic, Using predictions made using ...
While Louisa Rhine concentrated on collecting accounts of spontaneous cases, J. B. Rhine worked largely in the laboratory, carefully defining terms such as ESP and psi and designing experiments to test them. A simple set of black and white cards was developed, originally called Zener cards [6] – now called ESP cards. They bear the symbols ...
The duo are four behind the 1,001 scalps Shane Warne and Glen McGrath took in 104 games together
It was promoted as "television's first ESP game". Art James was the host, with Johnny Jacobs as the announcer ( Johnny Gilbert filled occasionally). Packaged by Jack Barry , this show was the first produced by Barry on NBC following the quiz show scandals of the 1950s, and the first of three games Barry produced at NBC in Burbank, California ...