![]() ![]() Robbins held up a thin, cylindrical object: the cartridge from Jillette’s pen. Jillette removed his ring, put it down on the paper, unclipped a pen from his shirt, and leaned forward, preparing to draw. He instructed Jillette to place a ring that he was wearing on a piece of paper and trace its outline with a pen. In a hilarious demonstration, Robbins samples the buffet of the TEDGlobal 2013 audience, showing how the flaws in our perception make it possible to swipe a wallet and leave it on its owner’s shoulder while they remain clueless. Apollo’s performances utilize pick-pocketing and sleight-of-hand to demonstrate proximity manipulation, diversion techniques and attention control. Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals your watch. He first made national news as the man who pick-pocketed the Secret Service while entertaining the former President. A pioneer in the application of deception to real-world environments, Robbins uses pick-pocketing and sleight-of-hand to demonstrate perception management, diversion techniques and self-deception. #APOLLO ROBBINS PICKPOCKET SERIES#“Steal something from me.”Īgain, Robbins begged off, but he offered to do a trick instead. Apollo Robbins is a master pickpocket, a Las Vegas magician, and a Hollywood consultant on crime flicks like Margot Robbie’s Focus and Timothy Hutton’s series Leverage. Apollo Robbins is a master pickpocket, a Las Vegas magician, and a Hollywood consultant on crime flicks like Margot Robbie’s Focus and Timothy Hutton’s series Leverage. Apollo Robbins is a unique combination of performer, speaker and consultant. Apollo Robbins is a performer, speaker, consultant & one of the worlds leading experts on pickpockets, confidence crimes and deception. He pointed out that, since Jillette was wearing only shorts and a sports shirt, he wouldn’t have much to work with. ![]() Robbins demurred, claiming that he felt uncomfortable working in front of other magicians. Jillette, who ranks pickpockets, he says, “a few notches below hypnotists on the show-biz totem pole,” was holding court at a table of colleagues, and he asked Robbins for a demonstration, ready to be unimpressed. Which is why I found A Pickpocket's Tale particularly interesting.Ī few years ago, at a Las Vegas convention for magicians, Penn Jillette, of the act Penn and Teller, was introduced to a soft-spoken young man named Apollo Robbins, who has a reputation as a pickpocket of almost supernatural ability. The details, mechanisms and men who make their living through crimes, cons and confidence games are endlessly fascinating to me, both in real life and in fiction. One of my favorite non-fiction books is Thirty Years A Detective by Allan Pinkerton (yes, that Allan Pinkerton ). ![]()
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