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Vol. 9, No. 4, September 2013; 60 pages

Cover: Dynamo

5. Welcome – editor's letter
6. Letters
8. Phillip Escoffey: Full Steam Ahead - interview
12. Ben Hart: Setting the Pace - interview
16. All In Character, Part 3 – Writing in Character - Morgan and West
20. Pros and Cons – It's All a Metter of Opinion – Mark Leveridge
    • Should card magic contain overt exhibitions of skill, or should all handling appear move free and natural?
24. Ali Cook Gets Lucky! – interview by Graham Hey
28. News
29. Magic In The Movies – Why Magic Movies Don't Work! – Nick Schager
30. Dynamo, Magician Impossible –...

From the introduction:

Another great trick by Ken. You can do it anytime, anyplace with any deck. You can perform it even if the deck is incomplete. It is a perfect impromptu trick. It has all the elements of a great trick: an entertaining patter, comedy and a surprising finish.

THE EFFECT

A pack is shuffled and a card is selected by a spectator, shown to a few other people, then returned. The magician shows the face card of the pack and asks whether it is the chosen card. This is denied. The performer tries to right the things.

He drops the pack face down on the table but the top card is face up. But once...

Eine tolle jedoch technisch anspruchsvolle Routine bestehend aus drei Teilen. Jeder Teil kann auch alleine vorgeführt werden.

Effekt:

Vier Damen werden auf überraschende Weise produziert. Sie verwandeln sich einzeln und sichtbar in die vier Asse. Diese werden unterschrieben und verschwinden aus den Spiel, um anschliessend aus vier verschiedenen Taschen des Vorführenden hervorgeholt zu werden.

Erstausgabe 1987, erste digitale Ausgabe 2013, 44 Seiten.

TARBELL CORSO ORIGINALE IN 60 LEZIONI

Di Harlan Tarbell

SE VUOI STUDIARE SERIAMENTE LA PRESTIGIAZIONE IN OGNI SUO CAMPO

"FINALMENTE!" Questa, siamo sicuri sarà la prima espressione di moltissimi di voi lettori quando avrete fra le mani questa prima lezione del "Corso Originale Tarbell".

Si , era ora che qualcuno si prendesse l'onere e l'onore di tradurre quello che per decenni è stato definito il più organico e completo corso di giochi di prestigio in esistenza.

Quella che avrete tra poco fra le mani è la prima lezione di quello che in origine venne preparato e pubblicato...

Have you ever been asked, "Hey, can you float like that guy on TV?" Well you finally can with On Thin Air. This is a very practical method of levitating. This self levitation can be preformed indoors as well as on the street. Imagine being able to levitate anywhere and anytime. Levitate at parties, on the sidewalk and even at the mall.

You will be able to walk up to a group of people and levitate! After you are done levitating you can stay and talk or just walk away. The levitation is completely under your control.

This is a great way to cause a sensation at your next walk around magic...

More new mathbased and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller.

• Separated Bedrooms
• Royal Surprises
• Quest for the Truth
• Tracked Down
• Oops!
• Faroing
• Milk & Spell
• Royal Sandwiches
• Rotary Traffic
• Brute Force Square I
• Brute Force Square II
• Signed
• diES P
• Escalero II
• Pasillo III
• Equalizer Sandwich
• Odd – Even
• French Sandwich II
• Windmill
• Vis-à-vis

1st edition 2013, 28 pages.

More new mathbased and self-working magic tricks from Werner Miller.

• Famigliola
• DC Speller II
• E4tless
• Progressive Assembly
• Puzzling Progression
• Quarter Final
• The Jinx Card
• en passant
• Sigma – amgiS
• What Became of the Queens?
• No Big Deal
• French Sandwich
• And the Color Is
• The 17-Card Trick
• Multilingual
• Pasillo II
• dESPatch I
• dESPatch II
• Five Matching Pairs
• Reverse Faro ESP

1st edition 2013, 28 pages.

Eine Idee von Ron Jaxon.

Ein geliehener und unterschriebener Geldschein wird um ein durchsichtiges Feuerzeug gewickelt und mit einem Gummiband fixiert. Das Feuerzeug wird in die Hand gelegt, welche geschlossen wird. Wird die Hand wieder geöffnet, ist der Geldschein verschwunden und die Zuschauer sehen nur noch das durchsichtige Feuerzeug mit dem Gummiband!

Bill Burner Clear ist sehr einfach vorzuführen und bei vielen diversen Kunststücken einzusetzen. Eine durch und durch professionelle und praktische Methode ohne Fingerfertigkeit. Das raffinierte Gimmick übernimmt alle Arbeit und ermöglicht...

Having traveled nearly 2 years with a side show while first developing his show, Scott Xavier worked as a magician and a pain proof man. In this video you will find two unique demonstrations of his pain proof act.

You will learn:

• How to slam a mouse and/or rat trap against your tongue and survive unscathed...
• How Samurais can take a scalpel sharp samurai sword, grip it, and pull the sword against their flesh and not get injured!

1st edition 2013, runtime 16 minutes.

Ever wanted to make money as a psychic reader? Want to spice up your mentalism by adding depth with accurate cold readings?

Scott Xavier presents a basic course which teaches the secrets of psychic cold reading, numerology, and palmistry. You find out how to present readings from an actual professional psychic reader. Also included are the unique venues where Scott performs his skills to make extra money when times are tough.

1st edition 2013, runtime 34 minutes.

"I really like how you put different principles all together and the expanded 10/20 principle is overlooked in my opinion. I like that there is no apparent move and it looks fair." - Raphaël Czaja

You tell two spectators that one of them will select a card randomly from the deck, and the other will find out the name of the selected card using numerology. You ask one of them to turn his back while the other chooses a card.

The first spectator now selects a card in a...

Effect:

You remove 10 cards from the deck and play a Poker game with your spectator. Here the magician deals cards and allows a spectator to freely choose the face down cards that they wish to build their hand from. During the last deal, the spectator gets to look at his existing hand and choose from the remaining cards to build the best hand. Alas, the magician wins even though the spectator did all of the choosing. The magician will always get a royal flash.

• perform it with any deck of playing cards
• without difficult sleight of hand
• use only ten normal playing cards
• force the card...

This effect will get you more publicity than any other headline prediction. It has many features that you cannot do with other headline predictions. THIS NEW METHOD INVOLVES NO SWITCHING OF THE HEADLINE PREDICTION SLIP. There is only one headline prediction slip and it is signed by the VIP! Best of all, no gimmicks are used.

This method involves so many people and has so much hoopla, it will almost ensure you front page coverage in most local papers. This headline prediction will have you on the 6 o'clock and 11 o'clock television news. It will also be discussed on local radio stations;...

Crowd funding is 'in'. Many try it. Many think it is an easy avenue to raise money, but often it leads to disappointment. Carl E. Jones aka Topper explains how he was successful in his first attempt to crowd fund a project. He covers:

• Why?
• Research
• Doing it!
• Pre-Launch Activities
• National Publicity
• Launch Day
• Focus On Your Donors
• Updating Donors & Others
• Campaign Management
• At The End & Beyond

1st edition 2013, 50 pages

These are portions from Dave Arch's magic keynote where he uses several of the effects taught in his "Tricks for Trainers" series:

• Tricks for Trainers 1
• Tricks for Trainers 2
• Tricks for Trainers 3
• Tricks for Trainers 4
• Tricks for Trainers 5
• Tricks for Trainers 6

Ein einfacher, kleiner Mentaleffekt zum "Immer-dabei-haben". Verblüffend und ein kleines Bisschen anders:

Sie zeigen dem Publikum einen Umschlag mit einer Vorhersage, die ein Zuschauer an sich nimmt. Nun darf ein weiterer Zuschauer sich aus einem Päckchen mit Karten eine Karte aussuchen. Der Witz dabei: Alle Karten sind gleich, jede Karte ist z.B. eine Herz 8! Wenn der erste Zuschauer die Vorhersage aus dem Umschlag nimmt, stimmt diese mit der gewählten Karte überein, es ist ebenfalls eine Herz 8.

Der Effekt kommt aber erst, nachdem sich das Gelächter der Zuschauer gelegt hat. Sie...

One of the first effects by Stefan Olschewski that were released to the magic market – finally available for instant download.

An easy, small mental effect to take with you wherever you go. Entertaining and just a little bit different.

You show an envelope to the audience containing one single card as your prediction. A spectator is asked to keep the envelope. A second spectator chooses one card from a packet of ten. The funny thing is: all card faces are all the same, showing, for example, the 8 of Hearts. When the envelope is opened, the card inside also is the 8 of Hearts, of course. ...

Tre - a unique video featuring three easily constructed mentalism effects that will fit any show.

Pocket Impressions - a pocket sized impression device. Create predictions or mind reading with a pocket sized anytime anywhere impression device. Taught is the Epic mental Epic which is Xavier's mental epic effect.

Russian roulette - learn to create a spiked Russian roulette using a lazy Susan costing under $20 in props.

Tie Loops - Learn to tie elastic invisible loops any time anywhere. The easiest method around.

1st edition 2013, runtime 33 minutes.

"Cameron's Rehab is great… it does take into consideration the angle issues with most restorations. He has cleverly made these adjustments without sacrificing the effect and artistry. It is as bold as it is beautiful and I highly recommend it to those who may have not considered the torn card premise. Some of the sequences genuinely fooled me and where I would think 'are yes but you can't show that bit cleanly', but then he does which is great." - Marc Spelmann

"Rehab is cooler than a snowman's icy bits!" - Liam Montier

"This is one of my favourite C.F. routines. I believe that many people will...

"Really interesting combination of principles in there. I especially liked Eight Envelopes, Asymmetric Oil & Water, Yet 2 and Coin and Card ESP. The Plaid Eared Rabbit contains a very clever use of an old Tenyo prop." - Raphaël Czaja

Appreciation: Jozsef thanks those who have helped him.

Amazing Prediction: You table a prediction deck. A lady randomly (and fairly) chooses two cards from another deck. The two cards generate a card and a two-digit number. You hand her the prediction deck, and she deals down to her randomly generated number. All the cards dealt are face down except for...

"I'm not an ordinary magician: I LOVE card tricks with two decks! I really dig the apparent fairness of the trick. The spectator is asked to do many fair choices and the outcome looks impossible. A worthwile variation on the ACAAN plot." - Raphaël Czaja

1st edition 2013, 2 pages.

As Aldo Colombini says... "A wonderful routine with so many climaxes!" This is based on the famous theme of the Whispering Queens.

Effect: Two people each select a card and sign them. You now introduce a packet of three Jokers. The two selections are touched by the Jokers who then "whisper" their identities to you! One of the selections is cut into the deck, but instantly reappears between the Jokers! The other selection is now placed among the three Jokers from where... it vanishes... only to reappear seconds later in your pocket! No palming. No extra cards. The selected cards can even be signed if you...

You introduce a deck of cards and five different coloured pens. You have a spectator freely select a card, after which the card is lost back into the deck. They are now invited to select some, or all, of the pens. Let's say they pick three pens: RED, ORANGE and GREEN. The remaining pens are discarded. You ask them to take each pen and write a single-digit number with it. This results in three written digits, each of a different colour. For example: 7 3 5.

Turning to a second spectator, you ask her to mix the three pens so that they are in a random order. The three written digits are now re-arranged...

Here is another parody of magic and some of its characters. The parody was published by Geoff Maltby of Repro Magic. It was a supplement to one of the Club 71 issues.

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