Magic & Conjuring: page 408

Si tratta di una vera e propria lezione di ARTE DELLA SCENA

Questo gioco è l'epitome del talento comico di Joe Karson. Oltre che per essere universalmente conosciuto per l'invenzione della palla volante "Zombie", questo trucco è l'unica altra cosa che viene spesso ricordata quando si parla di Karson. Quando scrisse questo opuscolo, Karson era sulla cresta dell'onda. Il gioco di carte più veloce del mondo era spesso il punto culminante dei congressi magici e degli shows cui partecipava Karson.

In questo opuscolo, Karson, spiega nei minimi dettagli l'intero funzionamento del gioco...

You will find in this ebook twenty wonderful old school card tricks.

Table of Contents

• SIMPLE STUFF
  4. Ace and Deuce
  5. Four Cards Down
  6. Dirty Do-As-I-Do
  6. Postal Card
  7. Finding the Right Filter
  8. The Invisible Card
• SOME SLEIGHTS
  9. Back and Forth
  9. Up and Down
  10. Name a Number
  10. Surprise!
  11. Surprise Again!!
• SUCH SETUPS
  12. Spelling Chart
  12. Cut and Spell
  13. Super Spell
  13. How to Find a Card
  14. Grand Finalle
• SEVERAL SPECIALITIES
  16. Four Aces
  16. Laugh Routine
  17. Giggle Routine
  18. Puppet Routine

1st edition 1962; 19 pages

Various tricks for the dinner table or other close-up occasions with sugar, matches and business cards.

• MY TWO FAVORITE QUOTATIONS
• MY CARD
  4. "Any Comment?"
  4. My Card - Your Card
  4. Follow the Leader
  5. Magic Square
  7. A Thought
• THAT'S SWEET
  8. Sugar Supply
  8. Card Cubes
  8. Sweet Smash
  9. Spot Everywhere
• HOT STUFF
  10. 20 plus 1
  10. "Allow Me"
  11. Matching Ads
• THINGS AND STUFF
  12. Fortune Stars
  12. Long John Silver
  13. In the Center
  13. Up with the Olio

1st edition 1962; 14 pages

During the settlement of the Wild West, entertainers followed along the trails to provide the very much needed distraction from the grueling voyage. This ebook describes their circumstances and stories.

Originally this work was published as miniature book.

1st edition 1999; digital version 22 pages

A small collection of three effects. First one out is an invisible cuing system, that can be used for spectator as mind reader effects of all kinds. They see writing appear on a card and then vanish.

Second one, and definitely a favorite, a memorised book effect. Any person selects a page in a book, you proceed with memorising it, you close the book and put it aside. Ask someone to name a "line number", and someone else to name a "word number". You think. You write. And place your writing out of sight. Take the book again and show that the word at the designated position is, say for example,...

Turn your Himber wallet, or more precisely your mini-Himber wallet, into a versatile weapon!

Daniel has been very uncertain whether or not to release this ebook. Mainly because it is hard to market, because you will know the secret before you even buy it, or so you think. "Alright, just a bunch of effects with a Himber wallet." But trust him when he says, this is not what you think it is. The few people who have actually read this so far, are all intrigued by it. It all started with one realisation, a concept that sprung to mind, a handling of the Himber wallet that has never been seen before....

This is a compilation of The Mixed Mind, The Sharp Mind and The Thinking Mind, plus the unreleased The Cerebral Mind (includes three effects for Cerebro, although the routines can be performed without the gimmick, it's only there as an enhancer. Definitely something for the seance worker).

The Thinking Mind
This is all theory, which means half of you won't be interested. No tricks. It's about believability, logic, structure and so on. Well worth a read for the aspiring mentalist, or anyone who might be interested in Daniel's thoughts on the subject of mentalism.

The Sharp Mind
It's...

If you like card flourishes or extreme manipulation, if you like what Dan and Dave Buck or Jerry Cestkowski do, then this is the ebook for you. However, this ebook is not just a collection of flourishes. You will learn the card punk's triumph routine. A lot of photos make the study of these flourishes and manipulations possible and accessible to dedicated students.

• Promiscuous Double Lift
• Card Punk Triumph
• Card Punk Triumph Kicker
• Another Freakin' One Handed Cut
• Machiavelli Production

1st edition 2006; 34 pages.

If your intention is to earn a living from magic, then corporate events are your best chance to succeed. Simply stated, they pay more and can often lead to repeat bookings by the same firms. But do you know how to entertain during a press party, an awards dinner or a fashion show? And what about trade show booths?

Leo Behnke has decades of experience in the corporate entertainment world and shares it with you in this ebook. This is extremely valuable advice you are getting from a pro who has done it all - TV, Magic Castle, trade shows, ...

Leo structered the ebook into five chapters. The...

A collection of 36 ideas and variations. Some are descriptions of substantial routines, others are merely an initial spark of an idea. Dale started this manuscript with a few variations on some work sent by Liam Montier. It continued to grow including variations of tricks Dale found in other ebooks and books.

In "Bits and Bytes", you'll learn:

D. D. Home PC: Prove the presence of the spirit of D. D. Home on a friend's borrowed laptop.

Mind Over Mint: A three phase bending routine using a tin of mints.

Tossed Out Wallet Ploy: Apparently give away $26 while keeping your trusty, lucky, $100...

Do you know the correct temperature for your library? What should the humidity be? Can you save rotting leather? What's the best method of storing playing cards? How do you recover computer disks that have been drowned? Just one reading of The Conservation of Magic will save you years of research and study in order to care for your artifacts so future collectors will find them in the best possible condition. Each chapter gives you the basics of understanding your magic collectibles, and then, step-by-step, how to care for them. You will learn how to look at your treasures like a professional,...

This routine made me dust of my cups after many years of dormancy. Read for yourself from the introduction how this routine came into being and you will understand that this is not your typical cups & balls. (This routine besides a few further comments already appeared in Pentalogy.):

Way Back in 1963 the Magic Castle opened its doors to the outside world so it could see the great variety and talent of magicians from all over the world. It began simply, but kept growing until today it is a world famous and beloved institution.

So it is with someone who wants to learn how to do card tricks. They begin in an easy manner with simple props and a minimum of skill. Slowly they grow in stature until someday they can hold their own with any other card magician in the world.

This booklet, small as it is, is the Open Sesame for people who want to learn to do card magic. It is...

Leo Behnke worked for many years for Paulson, a playing card manufacturer. He describes in this ebook the history of playing card production up to the process that is used for todays cards. He also describes in detail the 9 editions of the Magic Castle cards and how one can identify them.

Beyond the interesting historical and technical descriptions Leo is offering, this information can also be quite helpful in creating a script or interesting line of presentation for a trick or routine.

The contents of this ebook was presented at a Magic Collectors meeting in Las Vegas, April 8 2005. ...

This is a book of working knowledge using over 30 years of professional experience in the field of close-up magic. Some of the 15 specific subjects covered inside are

• How do you select the right tricks for your routines?
• What sales tools do you need to sell yourself?
• How do you find your own style?
• What can you do to increase audience reaction?

1st edition 1995; 77 pages.

This is side one of a digitally re-mastered (MP3) version of the original MagiCassette™ first released in 1986 by Martin Breese - now owned by Lybrary.com. You will hear Richard Webster who is one of the world's leading experts on the art of cold reading. Richard Webster is a New Zealander who has been involved with Magic and Cold Reading for many, many years.

Richard used to release his own exclusive publications but now that he has achieved international fame he is published by a leading American publishing house. He has written books on a diverse range of subjects from Hypnotism to Fung...

This is side 2 of the Martin Breese MagicCassete released in 1986. See Commercial Cold Reading side 1.

Recorded October 9th, 1986. Length 25 min.

This is an exposure of some of the greatest imposters of the 19th century. You gotta love this sentence:

Contents:

• The World of Dupes
• Slade and the Spirits
• Hindoo Juggling and Christian Credulity
• Spiritualism as an Infectious Mental Disease
• Materialization

Paul Fleming wrote what some consider the best book reviews in magic ever. This is the collection of all three volumes, in total 167 book reviews. Many reviewers then and now chose to write largely very positive reviews, more like an ad rather than a critical review. Paul Fleming on the contrary wrote his true opinion and slammed a book if he thought it was garbage. That makes the reviews so valuable, because you get an honest and informed opinion.

The only danger in reading these reviews is that you will find many more books you will want to read.

1st edition 1942; PDF 273 pages.

Warren places utmost importance on the effect and uses whatever method suits him to achieve it: mathematics, stacks, crimps, sleights, etc. He credits Ed Marlo for clarifying and simplifying his work.

Contents

• Packet Prediction
• Miracle Do As I Do
• In My Estimation ...
• Blindfold Poker Deal
• Card Illusion
• Double Separation
• Royal Mentalism
• Superstitious Mentalism
• Peek!
• Divination Supreme
• Think-a-card - Wiersbe version
• A Change in Number
• Fantispell
• Pasteboard Affinity - a complete routine with eight effects using the Si Stebbins stack.

1st edition 1946; PDF 39 pages.

This an ebook describing how you can create your own Psy-Connect Deck. So what is that, you're asking. It's a deck, or a stack of index cards which you use in your experiments. It allows you and a spectator to successfully send and receive words, pictures, colours, you name it. You can involve as many people as you like in this demonstration. This is really a no-brainer, no memorisation required, the cards can be shuffled. Just imagine the spectator picking up a card and successfully sending you that thought, but don't you think he/she would be happy to receive a thought as well? Of course,...

You get eight sound effects: applause, jeopardy theme, yaaawn, tick-tock clock, drum roll, one liner drum hit, crash and cell phone ringer. Each effect comes in its own MP3 file. Only the cell phone ringer MP3 has two fairly long sequencies of two different types of rings.

For an explanation track that allows you to listen to the main voice used in the Magic Enhancer tracks, please see our free ebook page under the Audio & Audio-Book heading.

You get three segues: intermission (15 min), show begins in 5 min, and show begins in 2 min. (Listen to the show begins in 5 min demo.)

For an explanation track that allows you to listen to the main voice used in the Magic Enhancer tracks, please see our free ebook page under the Audio & Audio-Book heading.

You get three audience chasers each about 1:30 minutes long. One is drum dominant, another one guitar dominant and the third is hard to put in words. All three sound great. (Listen to a demo.)

For an explanation track that allows you to listen to the main voice used in the Magic Enhancer tracks, please see our free ebook page under the Audio & Audio-Book heading.