A real balancing act...

A real balancing act...  The two videos below show “balance artist” Rocky Byun balancing various objects in very unlikely-looking positions.  It's visually very compelling, even when you discover (as I did with a little googling) that there's a trick to what he's doing.  You can see it pretty easily in the second video – the objects all are inserted into a cup-shaped depression in a stone, usually a piece of soft pumice.  That means he's not really balancing on a point, as you might think, but rather on a small supportive surface.  It's still an impressive performance, but a bit shy of the magical performance it starts out looking like...