Hottest 100 Magic

January is Triple J Hottest 100 month when the national radio station asks the country to vote for their favourite songs and broadcasts the big countdown on Australia Day. It’s dubbed the world’s biggest musical democracy!

 

The theme this year is Magic, so they asked obsessive magic-tragic Lawrence Leung to direct a series of cunning and tricky web videos to help encourage voting and pop a few eyeballs.

 

 

Lawrence teamed up with his old magic buddy from Uni days, the world championship award-winning illusionist Simon Coronel to conjure up a series of mind-bending videos.

 

 

The videos feature jaw-dropping “right-under-your-nose” sleight of hand magic - WITHOUT any sneaky CGI or post-production FX trickery and were heavily featured on triplej’s online channels and Hottest 100 voting campaign.

 

 

Videos shot/directed by Lawrence Leung

Magic Routines Devised/Performed by Simon Coronel & Lawrence Leung

 

 

 

 

 

Lawrence vs Zombies

 

Lawrence and a motley crew of survivors face a horde of zombies in one of the most ambitiously over-the-top 90 second student films ever made.

Written and directed by Linus Koh.

 

Lawrence Leung’s Unbelievable

A mind-bending six-part documentary comedy series that you will have to see to believe. Starting June 15, 2011.

Wednesdays, 9:30pm on ABC1 and repeated Thurs 9pm ABC2

 

Lawrence Leung’s Unbelievable is a globe-trotting comedy documentary series that investigates the impossible and irrational. With a rare formula of science, psychology and silliness, the ABC1 comedy series has been billed as “Ghostbusters meets Mythbusters”.

 

Photo: Ben King

 

The first half of the series is about the paranormal and asks whether the truth really “out there” or inside our minds?

 

EP 1: Psychics

EP 2: Ghosts

EP 3: UFO

 

The second half of the series takes a look at deception and illusion in more familiar worlds.

 

EP 4: Magic

EP 5: Manipulation

EP 6: The Experiment

 

Tell us what you think of the show by joining the conversation at the

Official Facebook page and on Twitter using the hashtag #unbelieve

Fight Cube

Extreme Rubik’s Cube Solve

Lawrence Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure

 

Nominated for Best Television Comedy at the 2009 AFI Awards, Lawrence Leung’s “Choose Your Own Adventure” is a 6-part comedy documentary that aired on ABC1 in 2009. It’s a series that asks two questions:

 

“What did you want to be as a kid but never got around to? What if you could do it now?”

 

Lawrence goes on an adventure of a lifetime to attempt to achieve his childhood dreams… it’s poignant, personal and piss funny.

 

 

Can he be a real man in a hardcore pro-wrestling ring? Can he beat the world’s fastest Rubik’s Cube speedsolvers in an underground Fight Club? Can he find MacGyver in Los Angeles? Will he prove he’s cool by breakdancing with Shabba Doo, star of cult classic “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo”? Can he survive a rap battle on the mean streets of L.A. or rock out live on MTV? And will he find true love with his childhood crush after more than twenty years?

 

Guided by mentors and scrutinised by his loving but concerned parents (Lawrence’s real mum and dad), Lawrence tries to make his naïve dreams come true as an adult. Lawrence’s quest is hair-raising, heart-warming and hilarious.

 

The Audreys – Banjo and Violin Video

Directed by Charlotte George (2007)
Lawrence makes a cameo. You can find out more about The Audreys here or at their myspace page here.

Jedi Census (2006)

 

In this very old clip, (young) reporter Lawrence investigates a member of a vilified religious group that the authorities wouldn’t recognise on the last Australian Census.