Gregg Webb

The effect, "The Key on the String," was originally published in Gregg Webb's ebook, The Shade.

1st edition 2019, 3 pages.

Magic is changing and a lot of the reason for this is that people's attention spans are shorter because of the pace of life today and more distractions.

We don't have the luxury of people dying for entertainment. There is too much entertainment and to compete, we have to get to the point quicker.

If you look at my magic a certain way, it is a direct result of chipping away at long tricks trying to distill them down.

• Dedication
• Introduction
• Bill in Lemon XYZ
• Three Minus One...

This is a celebration of our art of getting people to look at us! Hopefully they'll be mystified or entertained or both ... but first they have to watch.

• 4 Word
• Introduction
• #1: Thoughts on "Hanging Coins"
• #2: "Hanging Coins" with the Nowhere Palm
• #3: New Handling on the "Squeeze"
• #4: Revamping of Darwin Ortiz's "Jumping Gemini"
• #5: A Good 2-Part Card Trick
• #6: Look At Me Savage a Slydini Trick
• #7: 'Improve' or at least Shorten another Slydini Trick
• #8: Re-Tool a Coin Trick from the new The...

"I found the latest E-books from Gregg Webb, S.O.H.O., The Shade, and Lizard Wizard's Diary, to be refreshingly different. The books are "hand-written" in journal style and contain simple but clear illustrations. Not only are they a fun read, but also contain top notch practical magic." - John Luka

• 4 Word
• 1 Ping Chien
• One-way Pip
• Wee-Jah
• Coin Productions
• The "Real Work" on Vanishing a Card or Block of Cards
• Torn and Restored Cards Revisited
• Another Torn and Restored Card
• A Platform Coin Trick ...

From the introduction:

People always ask me, "Where do you get those wacky ideas?". I'm finally going to reveal just where they do come from. It turns out that there is a whole town where future magic is invented. They are way ahead of us. It is called Magicville and it exists in a parallel dimension as it were. And it just so happens, I invented a phone with which I can call Magicville directly! It is a direct line to Magicville! In Chapter 1 I'll show and tell how...

"Gregg Webb is one of the great underground sleight-of-hand innovators of our age. I've had the privilege to work with him in person... now YOU have the opportunity to learn from him in his pages of S.O.H.O." - Jeff McBride, creator of "McBride's Magic and Mystery School"

"Gregg Webb's brand of magic spans the full spectrum to include closeup, mentalism, manipulation, and stage. He spins his magic web - always inviting spectators one step closer to his inevitable moment of no explanations we call magic." - Doug MacGeorge

• Foreward
• Chapter I
• Chapter II: Rattle Caps
• Chapter III: Poker Dice and Poker Cards
• Chapter IIII: Nate Leipzig X
• Chapter V: Harry and Bess - Love and Bondage the Card Trick
• Chapter VI: Blinded by the Lack of Light III
• Chapter VII: The Lizard and...

"Gregg Webb has been marching to the beat of a different drummer for the past couple of decades. His wonderful handcrafted magazines contain great magic that is fun to perform. Why sweat the hard stuff when you can fool laymen - and your magic buddies - with stuff that is sneaky rather than difficult?" - Joe McKay

• The Key on the String
• There's the Rub II
• Heads I Win. Tails I Win.
• Real-Gone Queens Revised
• What is Shade?
• Coins Across 2017
• "Hocus" plus "Pocus" Equals "Presto"
• Egg and Salt
• 3-Ball...

From the Foreword by Doug MacGeorge:

Gregg is a professional artist and teaches very high-level courses on drawing and animation, always coaxing the best from his students and instilling an appreciation of nuance and - this is important - helping them unleash their own individual styles. As you read this collection of tricks, you'll see the same level of encouragement as he guides you through his thinking...

"Gregg Webb has written an unvarnished, tell-it-like-it-is memoir of his life within and on the fringes of New York City's subculture of magic and magicians. If you want to know what it was like growing up for over half a century with David Roth, Charles Reynolds, Jeff McBride and other magic luminaries of New York, Gregg lays it all out, frankly, as he saw it." - Stephen Minch

"Gregg Webb is one of the Zen Masters of close up and parlor magic. He is a master of minimalism. His effects and streamlined thinking inspire me to do more with less!" - Jeff McBride, Las Vegas Headliner

"To begin, I feel...

Illustrated by the author.

1st edition 2015, 120 pages.

It is hard to categorize this ebook. Gregg's ideas span a big arch from close-up to stage, from cards, coins and other daily items, to mental magic, gaffs, gimmicks and...

Chapter 1

• Introduction
• No Other Card Quite Like It!
• Lead-In to Wallet
• The 30 Second Memorized Deck
• Backspin

Chapter 2

• Casino Style Zarrow Shuffle + Revised Poker Deal
• New Works on Marlo/Gardner/Webb Poker Routine
• New Ending for the 4 Bikers of the Apocalypse
• Doug MacGeorge - Magic Square as a Card Trick
• Backspin

Chapter 3

• The Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy
• Changes in Philosophy
• Poor Man's Raven III...

Chapter 1:
• Blinded Deluxe
• Comedy Mental
• New Experimental Grip for Webb's False Count with Coins
• A Handling Variation of the L'Homme Masque Load
• New Shamanism

  Chapter 2:

• Leaf Rejuvination
• Bubble-Pop Corn
• Tierra Del Fuego Leather Strap Stretch: a real shaman's trick
• Imaginary Friends
• Clay Tablets and Beyond

  Chapter 3:

• Variations on Chanin's Production
• Chanin Production to get into 3-Fly
• Next: A New Ending for 3-Fly
• 3 At Once
• On Shamanism
• Original Spin

  Chapter 4:

• Gellerbound
• Shades of Geller
• Some from the Fingertips
• Postcards from the Edge (of Hell)

  Chapter...

Contents:

• Foreword (Doug MacGeorge)
• Table of Contents

• S.K.I.S.S.E.S.: Simplified Poker Deal
• Retouches: Simplified Poker Deal
• Key and Card: Idea for the Ghost Key
• The Haunted Bookshelf: brief thoughts on the upcoming Juan Tamariz' Mnemonica book

• Wild Card Trick: Using Cartoons on Cards
• Retouches: Adjusting Your Presentation
• New 1 to 4: Coin Multiplication
• Retouches: Coin Angles ...

The Book That Doesn't Exist is the new name for the continuation of [lc=4152 FEEN-X Magazine, an underground newsletter read by some of the top names in magic. Now it can be yours!

2002-2003, 178 pages.

1. Table of Contents

7. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 1 - 5 pages
7. Twistin' The Night Away - A New Twist to Card Twisting Effects
9. Slowly I Turn - Thoughts on Quick Moves Vs. Smooth Moves
9. Johnny CardTrickSeeds - A Short Story
10. Brian Higgins Alternative to the Rub-A-Dub Vanish - A Different Card Vanish
11. Old Business - Thoughts on Stigmata...

105. Feen-X: 2001 - Issue 13 - January - 9 pages
105. Metal-ism - Mind over Matter ... The Mental Kind
108. Bluff in Depth - Cards
109. Hit & Run with Odd Coin
111. The Womb

114. Feen-X: 2001 - Issue 14 - February - 8 pages
114. The Frying Pan - Chanin's Disarrange
116. Mental Thoughts ... The Best Kind - It's Alive
118. Change-O Presto - The Odd Coin
119. The Nagual
121. Addendum to Change-O Presto

122. Feen-X: 2001 - Issue 15 - Special Issue - 6 pages
122. Odd Coin - another look at the Chanin Production
     • Gregg Webb's work on the Chanin Production
125. Mental Thoughts & The Frying Pan Combined...

1. Table of Contents

6. SOSOHA - Society of Sleight of Hand Artists - Issue 1 - 7 pages
7. Death and Rebirth - A Torn & Restored Card, Method 1
8. A Torn & Restored Card, Method 2
9. A Torn & Restored Card, Method 3
11. The Library - An Introduction
11. Dark Frickin' Humor
12. Theoretical Theories - Thoughts on Restoration Themes

13. SOSOHA - Society of Sleight of Hand Artists - Issue 2 - 5 pages
13. David Roth Click Pass False Count and Production Combo
16. Dark Frickin' Humor
16. Theoretical Theories - About Sleeves

18. SOSOHA - Society of Sleight of Hand Artists...

This ebook is beautifully illustrated by the author himself.