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frankdenbow on April 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hacking The Status Game

I've watched tons fo Derrin Brown videos. His experiments are pretty interesting. Subliminal advertising and the chess grandmaster ones were the most interesting.

See what happens when you leave a wallet on the ground: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxYCh_p2Mjs

barrkel on April 18, 2011 | [–]

Just don't forget that he's a showman, and explication is part of his act.

kami8845 on April 19, 2011 | [–]

I agree, the advertising one was pretty cool. But the chess grandmaster thing was just a lame trick. He let all of them play against each other through his memory and beat some random scrub (which was probably planned).

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