During a recent trip to Serbia, I delivered three presentations: IT and the Economy, IT Cost Cutting and the Hype Cycle.
Talking for two and a half hours takes it’s toll so Petar Kocivc and our local team kindly arranged for an entertainment interlude between presentations by local TV magician and VIP Big Brother contestant ‘Big Lale’ ( Lazar Antić ). After some very slick rope cutting and ping pong ball tricks, he decided to take on our Hype Cycle book!.
1) He tears our book to pieces..
2) He works some magic..
3) He produces 3 fresh copies from the wreckage!
Big Lale told me he has been doing magic on TV for so many years, he started out in black and white. All that practice certainly pays off. It made me wince to see him tear up a copy of our book ( and it takes some strength too ) – he even asked me to tear up some pages. Then he placed them in a magic box which was filled to overflowing. Even at very close range I just could not figure out how all the torn material could be replaced by three copies within that small magic box he had on the table. Amazing!
