Magic & Conjuring: page 52

The oldest, most pernicious, and insoluble problem in the history of magic was stated best by Henning Nelms, in his 1969 Magic and Showmanship: A Handbook for Conjurers ...

"No matter how astonishing a trick may be, it suffers from one major fault - it has no point."

This ebook is the long-sought-after answer to that statement.

[Please note that access to appendix 11 and 12 requires registration at the author's website.]

• Acknowledgements
• Foreword by Eric Evans
• Preface
• A Long Time Ago
• A Lot of Simple Tricks and Nonsense
• Best Star Pilot in the Galaxy
• Scum and Villainy
• Hokey Religions and Ancient Weapons
• What Are You Trying To Push on Us
• Tremor in the Force ...

The Master Routine Series first began in 1984 and over the next 20 years a total of 12 routines were released. Originally available as separate instruction booklets, all 12 have now been brought together into one ebook thus providing a worthy format for some of Mark's best work.

All the text has been looked at and re-written where necessary and every diagram has been completely re-drawn by magician artist James Fortune, and his excellent illustrations make a helpful and stylish addition to the text explanations.

The 12 routines encompass a wide variety of themes for both close up and stand...

Daniel teaches four card changes - so called color changes:

• The Fan Change
• The Wheel Change
• The Swing Change
• Delusion

The Fan Change
This is what Daniel considers to be a signature color-change and it is one of his favorites. A card is turned face up on top of the deck. The deck is fanned and before the fan closes the face up card has changed to another card.

The fan change is impromptu, it can be performed with any deck of cards and isn't hard to achieve. To stub a misconception...the top card is not being taken away from...

Written by paranormal entertainer Stephen Ward, this ebook is designed to help and inspire you to be original when performing paranormal entertainment. Inside the ebook you will find a wealth of information concerning subjects such as choice of material, character development and planning a show. You will find out about popular storylines, planning a script and the basics of writing it. Although there are no routines in the book there are plenty of ideas to help give you the confidence to write and perform your own material. All of the tips and ideas have been used to create real shows for real...

Dee Christopher's work on the John Riggs Add-A-Number pad from The Psychic Agenda^*.

With the Broken Wings device, you can easily:

• Predict impossible things
• Make writing appear, disappear or transform
• Create dual realities
• Force cards
• Automatic writing without special pens
• Peek information
• Drawing Duplications
• Switch billets or cards

There are no complex mechanisms to go wrong, no technology to fail,...

An Out Of This World variation, streamlined and ready for performing situations without a table.

BASIC EFFECT:

The performer talks about intuition, chance and that little feeling we get when we know something is right, or wrong. A deck of cards is introduced and legitimately shuffled. Half the deck is put away to streamline the demonstration. The other half is then handed to the spectator and the performer offers his/her outstretched palms as a surface to deal on to. The spectator deals the cards into two piles about equal amounts of cards in each, but in no specific order. Once all the...

A collection of thoughts.

Belief is the new ebook on mentalism by Dee Christopher. In this ebook, not only will you find some versatile techniques and a devestating full close up mind reading act, you will also find several essays on creating the most powerful demonstrations possible and making the demonstrations that you already do ten times more powerful.

The ebook also contains the full explanation of 2009's The Isolation Experiment video. A demonstration Dee devised using a readily available but under used prop to create the illusion of bending a fork while it's completely isolated....

This new ebook picks up where Belief left off, not only will you learn some incredible effects and techniques, you will also learn some of Dee's thoughts on performance and he'll teach you some of his techniques to improve your performances and make them ten times more powerful.

In this brand new installment, you will learn some brand new, never before published material, the ebook features:

Building Trust & Rapport: Getting over the first hurdle when approaching a new table or group of people, destroy any preconceptions they may have and get them on your side instantly.

Blinded: A propless...

This is a completely new, revised, expanded and updated edition.

The ebook contains most of the original material but virtually everything has been re-written and benefits from the skill of an expert editor. There is a host of additional material written by Lewis Ganson and previously published in the Routined Manipulation series published by Harry Stanley.

Along with Graham Jolley, Martin Breese has always been a follower of Al Koran and his amazing material. Al Koran’s name appeared on almost every page of the Gen. And thanks to Harry Stanley his material has been preserved for future generations to study and use.

Graham Jolley...

Four years have passed since I released the original Pieces at 3am. The book that came to be one of Dee's best selling collections and the single publication that spawned most variations by other artists of his original thoughts and ideas.

Dee has had the thought of doing a second volume for years, but he has never had the correct collection of effects and concepts that he felt could adhere to the original thought. All of the effects in the original book were ideas that came to him as he woke in a cold sweat at night. They were pieces that entered his conscious mind after dark, usually at around 3 am. ...

"Dee Christopher offers here a unique text focusing solely on the area of deception that he has come to dominate in recent years. This tome is a perfect example of why." - Daniel Madison (Deceptions Expert)

From the ebook's synopsis:

• Powerful.
• Easy to do.
• 100% Success rate.
• No markings or magnetics.
• Brand new method.
• Logical items to carry
• Can be performed in any situation.
• 1 minute set up and you're good for hundreds of performances.

"Dee Christopher has managed to find an exciting and original way to introduce a dangerous stage classic to the close-up arena. A marvel idea from an amazing artist." - Daniel Madison

"Great bit of original thinking mixed in with the prospect of burning things. Double win! Sadly, it always works...so it's terrible for pyromaniacs." - Paul Brook Mind Reader

From the introduction by Dee...

Das Off-Prinzip ist ein Universalprinzip für Kartentricks – ein Universalfooler.

Manchmal verwechseln wir Fortschritt mit Neuheit. Nicht alles Neue ist eine Verbesserung; Verbesserung ist Einfachheit. Das Off-Prinzip bietet weniger die Neuheit aber mehr den Fortschritt. Das Off-Prinzip versucht nicht Breaks oder Kontrollen abzulösen und dennoch werden sie so brauchbar wie ein Mp3-Player wenn man schon ein Smartphone hat. Das Off-Prinzip ist nicht nur für Fortgeschrittene und dennoch wird fast jeder Kartentrick dadurch fortgeschrittener.

Kontrollen verschaffen dem Performer Kontrolle...

In this new work from the underground man that we call Carlos Emesqua you will learn direct mentalism and psychic entertainment done with an ungimmicked, regular pack of playing cards.

Emesqua on Playing Cards is a treatise of effective, simple and powerful routines that you can do with any deck in use, although we recommend the beautiful Provot Deck, which will offer unique aesthetics and inherent mystery.

For years, Carlos was able to create a reputation as real psychic and psychic entertainer using these routines. Learn them and you will be able to offer realistic moments of mystery...

The underground Carlos Emesqua offers now in this new work a fantastic set of ideas for your repertoire the power of using PK also known as Psychokinesis. Realistic moments of mystery using natural objects, offering supernatural events. New approaches for bending, techniques, routines and more.

For years, Carlos was able to create a reputation as real Psychic and Psychic Entertainer using these routines. Learn them and you will be able to offer realistic moments of mystery

1. REAL PKMB: For the first time, you will learn the real secrets in doing metal bending as real psychic and not a...

Can you really send matter through Zoom? Yes! With Teleport. Perhaps the most amazing virtual effect invented yet. This is an effect for premium shows only. Do not include this in your regular gig. "Want to see me send a coin to your CEO? That'll be x-amount of dollars extra!"

In this new eBook by Vince Wilson, you will learn how to perform it and what you will need to do to prevent them from figuring it out.

1st edition 2020, PDF 6 pages.

Definition of DARE

As you read this ebook, "may your deceptions dare to dazzle and delight". May you find the imagination and boldness to take the mechanics of the tricks herein and find the dynamics to make them dazzle and delight.

In this ebook, you'll learn a diverse range of unique close-up and mental magic effects --- discover how to use a GPS Card with strategic roughing techniques, how to pre-stack a deck that can be freely shuffled, accomplish the pen-thru-bill trick with a borrowed pen, learn how to visually...

"Much more than a mere gambling expose, Catch 33 is almost an act in itself! Twenty-first Century magic needs more brains like yours." - Guy G.

3 cards. 2 of them lose. 1 wins.

"..simple! "... Or so your audience thinks.

Each time he plays the game with you, your spectator falls into subtle traps you've set. He receives an authentic lesson on the con game that is not a game at all. Using beautifully choreographed sequences, you continually manipulate your spectator into choosing the wrong card. He just can't help himself.

Perform this routine surrounded; at a restaurant, trade...

Diese Trilogie bestehend aus Roberto Light, Roberto Extra-Light und Roberto Super-Light ist die umfangreichste Sammlung der besten Selbstgänger Kartenkunststücke. Diese Kunststücke sind von jedermann erlernbar und verlangen keinerlei Fingerfertigkeit. Roberto, in seinem ausführlichen Stil, beschreibt jedes Kunststück im Detail mit vielen Tips und Ideen die den professionellen Schliff versetzen.

Roberto Light ist in sieben Routinen mit jeweils drei Kunststücken gegliedert. Roberto Extra-Light besteht aus vier Teilen. Wählen Sie ein Kunststück vom ersten Teil, eines vom zweiten Teil und eines vom dritten Teil um ein Programm zusammenzustellen....

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,...

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...

What do you do when asked to perform something new and amazing?

Do you have enough mentalism on hand to pack small and still have a 45 minute show? The latest book by Dr. Zodiac entitled 365, will train you to be ready for a full show anywhere and at anytime.

Effects taught:

Spin and cause to fall just about any pen. Similar to the PK Pen but a revolutionary new concept.

PK Taste X-Periment. Cause the thought of candy flavor to transfer from one persons mind into another's.

888-BER-GLAS. Still another take on the Dr. Zodiac any card at any number effect. Ideal for stand up or...

At a recent lecture at the Magic Castle where Stan sold all of his books and tapes, by far the best seller was this ebook. Everyone reads their horoscope in the paper or on the net. The interest in horoscopes, numerology and numbers has never been greater. In this ebook Stan tells you how to market this newfound skill the very first day you buy the ebook. Included are venues, the psych code and drawings of his fair booth set up. No other business in show biz offers so much return for so little investment.

1st edition 1987; 30 pages.

Collateral contains 12 new effects of magic and sleight of hand from leading underground magician Daniel Madison. Including a powerful transposing Torn & Restored card, two brand new Color Changes, and what is being deemed in the industry as "the best card blister effect ever."

Trip Signed - Torn - Transpo - Restored
A card is taken from the deck and folded in half. Half of the card is signed by the spectator. The other half is signed by the performer. The card is torn in half and the spectators half is placed in the spectators hand. The other half - signed by the performer - is waved above...