Magic & Conjuring: page 151

Magigram magazine ran from 1966 to 1995. It was printed by Supreme Magic Co. and edited with superb ability by Ken de Courcy. The collaborators were the best ever, just to name a few: Ken de Courcy, Edwin, Ian Adair, Peter Warlock, Max Maven, Lewis Ganson, Maurice Fogel, Arthur Carter, George Blake, David Britland, Pavel, George Johnstone, Billy McComb and a certain Aldo Colombini (I had a column for over 20 years on card magic written by Lewis Ganson).

CONTENTS:

• CARD LOCATION (Mark Weston): A spectator selects a card. The deck is dealt in three packets. A spectator selects a packet and on top of it, the selected card appears.
• THIMBLE THRU (Ken de Courcy): A thimble,...

"Remote Viewing Miracle uses a very clever principle to learn a thought of city in a very disarming way. Nothing is written down, yet the mentalist gets the thought from across the stage! Highly recommended." - Richard Osterlind

The performer invites on stage five people. Four of them sit in front of the audience while the fifth is given a list of names of ten different cities. The performer asks the spectator to mentally select one of the cities and to communicate his choice to the four seated. When everybody knows the chosen city, the mentalist distributes to each spectator an envelope...

"Alfonso Bartolacci's Boxed Clairvoyance is a great principle. I tried it with a number of different style boxes and it works as explained. You will have to practice a bit to get it all natural, but once you have it down, it looks great! You need to have this tool in your arsenal." - Richard Osterlind

This is a Gellerish experiment, which should not be part of a regular program, but could be an extraordinary event during a show or, better, an impromptu performance.

A cardboard shoe-box (only the box, no shoes needed) and a deck of cards are borrowed. Everything can be examined and...

You are probably familiar with the "Head Twister" act. This can be presented to the audience in a serious or comic way, however, it has always been done with obsolete objects such as boxes with knobs, boxes with oriental designs, sequins, and so on. Paolo thought to use a modern object: a motor-cycle helmet! It is a common object of everyday use!

The conjuror or his assistant sits and puts on the helmet and from this moment the magic begins. The helmet and person's head, which is visible, is rotated 360° various times. At the end of this demonstration the assistant stands, the conjuror blocks...

Practical audience tested magic

In this ebook Tony Griffith shares with us some of his best routines. There is something for everyone. You can find card magic (both close-up and stand-up), entertaining mentalism and stage magic. All effects are easy to prepare and easy to perform. Interesting background information and useful notes are provided for every trick.

In this ebook you will find:

Cuff Link Prediction: A cuff link is placed freely by a spectator on one of three cards. You demonstrate to have predicted the choice. Only the 3 cards and the cuff link are used.

Thanks for the...

Only 4 mental effects are explained by Grant in this old manuscript but they are really strong ones.

Read carefully the effects:

1. Watch Reading Test: Any three people take ordinary watches to a far corner and set them at any hour, minute and second desired, then seal them in small boxes. These are hung or placed anyplace and you can tell the exact hour, minute and second on each one.
2. Card & Boards Test: Any number of sealed decks that have never been opened are given to committee. They select any deck, break seals and shuffle same and remove any ten cards and seal them nailing between...

Un petit ebook mais au contenu tellement tellement excitant ! La routine utilise seulement deux jeux de cartes ordinaires. Lewis Ganson a écrit dans les pages de Magigram,

« C'est réellement une formidable routine du genre « Faites Comme Moi ». La routine commence de manière classique, puis développe le thème, le spectateur et magicien continuant à faire correspondre des cartes à partir de leur jeu respectif jusqu'à ce que toute une série de coïncidences évidentes ne soit intervenue. L'étalage final des cartes assorties est à la fois incroyable et spectaculaire ».

L'effet...

Vingt-cinq routines impromptues incroyables réalisées simplement avec un jeu de cartes ordinaire (et bien sûr, toutes différentes des autres ebooks d'Aldo).

Contributeurs : Howard Adams, Gene Castillon, Aldo Colombini, Tom Daugherty, Ken de Courcy, Karl Fulves, Martin Gardner, Dougie Gibbard, Paul Gordon, JK Hartman, Tom Hubbard, Marty Kane, Werner Miller, André Robert, Lin Searles, Tom Sellers , Floyd Shotts, Stephen Tucker.

1ère édition 2008, 30 pages.

[Traduction et adaptation en langue française par Patrice Bernard.]

Voici un recueil d’incroyables routines des cartes impromptues compilées par Aldo Colombini. Le meilleur de la magie des cartes à présenter n'importe quand, dans n'importe quel endroit, n'importe où avec un simple jeu de cartes, sans préparation d’aucune sorte et très facile à faire.

Contributeurs : Ian Adair, Gene Castillon, Aldo Colombini, Tom Craven, Tom Daugherty, Peter Duffie, Karl Fulves, Stephen D. Gervais, Paul Gordon, JK Hartman, Marty Kane, Ryan Matney, Max Maven, Joe Riding, Mike Rogers, John T. Sheets, Nick Trost, Richard Vollmer, Roy Walton, Andrew Wimhurst. 35 tours au total.

1ère édition 2007, 39 pages.

[Traduction et adaptation en langue française par Patrice Bernard.]...

Una stupefacente routine di tre effetti concatenati con carte tagliate a metà

Effetto

Un mazzo di carte tagliate in due è mescolato e distribuito in due porzioni. Una di queste è scelta da uno spettatore che la taglia e la lascia a parte. Dall'altro mazzo uno spettatore tocca una carta qualsiasi che viene lasciata a faccia in alto nella posizione originale tra le altre. I due mazzetti sono distribuiti prendendo nello stesso tempo le rispettive carte in cima distribuendole fino alla fine contemporaneamente. La carta che corrisponde alla rovesciata nell'altro mazzetto è lasciata...

Una bellissima serie di quattro effetti concatenati con corda anelli ed un orologio preso a prestito.

EFFETTO

Le estremità di una corda vengono annodate in modo da formare un largo cappio. Un anello penetra la corda ed entra nel nodo (o viceversa!). Quindi l'anello passa nuovamente nella corda (o viceversa!). Poi un anello scelto tra due viene magicamente liberato. Infine l'orologio di uno spettatore si trova istantaneamente annodato nella corda in modo 'comico'!

Intratteni il tuo pubblico con questa ormai introvabile routine di facilissima esecuzione, spiegata e illustrata nel consueto...

di Nick Trost traduzione di Aldo Colombini

Se sei appassionato di Cartomagia, questo testo tradotto in Italiano da Aldo Colombini, fa proprio per te. Contiene una bellissima routine con due mazzi di carte di quelle che il tuo pubblico ricorderà ed è anche facilissima da eseguire! La routine è del famosissimo Nick Trost uno dei geni della cartomagia moderna!

Effetto :Il prestigiatore mescola un mazzo di carte a dorso rosso, quindi invita uno spettatore a scegliere quattro carte qualsiasi. Queste carte sono inserite nel centro di un mazzo a dorso blu. Ora l'artista estrae quattro carte diverse dal blu e...

Aldo thought he published all of his one-liners. But he kept collecting and finally he had so many new ones that he decided to put together this new ebook.

Please keep in mind that some of the jokes is blue material. Use with care and when appropriate.

1st edition 2013, 24 pages.

You might also be interested in Aldo's complete line of comedy material:

• MAKE' EM LAUGH
• COMEDY MIND READING ACT
• FUNNY STUFF
• LAUGHING OUT LOUD
• LIFE SAVER LINES
• KEEP'EM LAUGHING
• FIRST AID LINES
• PUT COMEDY IN YOUR MAGIC
• YOUR HOST FOR TONIGHT
• INSULTS and COMEBACKS
• SIDE SPLITTERS

Once Removed is a hands-off approach to the think-a-card plot.

You will be taught a method for revealing a mere thought of card in an extremely fair manner. There are no peeks or forces, and the deck can be given away after the performance if you so wish. Unlike most handling's, the spectator can truly think of any card, and can do this before the deck is even introduced. The clever principle at play allows you to easily discern the thought of card with very minimal memory work (no more difficult than, say, an "invisible deck"), allowing you to focus fully on presentation. The nature of the...

This fifth issue of volume 2 of The Gimmick MagiZette is one more miscellanea of magical omnium-gatherum contributed by eminent artistes of the art of magic...

• Let's have a chat – Here the editor opens his heart and talks whatever he has to say … not even realizing that he possibly evokes boredom!
• Past Glory of India - L. K.Roy features in this issue a neglected and vanquished Magician K. D. Mukhuty.
• Magic as Entertainment – an article by late Harold Taylor of U.K. is a section from his book Magic as Entertainment based on his experiences.
• Chetoric – is about Doug Henning by...

All three Punx ebooks for one low price. Learn magic as theatre from the master who created this style of magic.

"Your wonderful book is entertaining, informative and inspiring. It is written in the humorous, intellectual style that is so uniquely yours ... You will live on in the history of Magic - forever." - Siegfried and Roy

These routines are taken from Punx's full evening show. This material is not only audience-tested, it is the material that one of the greatest magicians of the twentieth century used to earn a living. It is not a book for beginners. Some of the routines have only partial explanations. This is because most of this material consists only of presentations, many of them for...

"Frankly, this is one of the most exciting and inspiring books on magic and mentalism I have ever read for Punx does both magic and mentalism as theatre ... and with great entertainment value .. A MUST READ for the serious magician or mentalist." - Phil Willmarth

Punx shares and teaches his way of performing mentalism. You can't read this without starting to think and apply some of Punx's ideas.

In the late seventies, Punx released material he had been performing for various decades as a series of seven booklets (in German): Experimente mit dem Überraum. In 1980 one of them, Der Wahrtraum, was...

"This book is going to be a classic. Punx takes the simplest of effects and weaves an 'entertainment factor' about them that makes it a delight to read and easy to perform. His artistry blends magic and fantasy. A true example of making magic - magick!" - Masklyn ye Mage

Punx was the acknowledged master of 'Magic as Theater', actually the creator, where the performance takes center stage and method only serves the role to support and enable the performance. There are wonderful stories, excellent tips on tricks and handling, and deep insights into the Art of Performing Magic.

Punx...

"REPEAT BILL IN LEMON is simply PURE SIMPLE GENIUS and to think that 2 years ago I invested $250 dollars in Doug Malloy's THE LEMON GAME. I paid less than $10 for Devin's method and I can do it twice!" - Carl de Rome, Norway

Here is something that Devin Knight kept under wraps for more than 25 years. Imagine doing the bill in lemon with a borrowed bill and immediately repeating it with two lemons that have been in full view on the table at all times. The lemons are NOT concealed in a bag. Both lemons can be examined before the effect begins and there is NO SWITCHING of the lemons. No...

Un grande classico finalmente tradotto in lingua Italiana con l'aggiunta di importanti note nell'introduzione. A metà strada tra il comedy e il trasformismo, l'arte di ottenere una lunga serie di cappelli piegando semplicemente un tondo o anello di feltro o di altro materiale, impersonando istantaneamente in tal modo una moltitudine di personaggi diversi e creando una serie di situazioni comiche, è davvero stupenda. Permette di intrattenere il pubblico da soli o con l'aiuto di spettatori ai quali vengono fatti indossare i cappelli man a mano che vengono prodotti. La Chapografia è un aggiunta...

15 splendide routines cartomagiche di sicuro impatto sul tuo pubblico ! Ti basta un semplice mazzo di carte per entrare subito nel mondo dell'illusione Aldo stesso scrive "I giochi descritti in queste pagine sono tutti abbastanza facili e di sicuro impatto sul pubblico. Nessun gioco è stato inserito tanto per riempire una pagina e posso dire con assoluta franchezza che ritengo di offrirti una raccolta di giochi cartomagici che potrai usare nei tuoi spettacoli, siano essi di close-up o da ... salotto. " Eccoti un elenco parziale delle routines che trovi nell'ebook

Non ci credo ! Ecco cosa...

A superior force where a spectator stops the magician anywhere during a running cut. Yet, that card is forced without any sleights or slip cuts.

One of the cleanest card forces ever created. Perfect for the mentalist looking for a natural force that doesn't scream card trick. Imagine showing a regular deck of cards and repeatedly cutting them until someone tells you to stop. You very cleanly deal off the card you were stopped at and believe it or not that card was forced! Once you stop you can ask the person if he wants you to cut again. If the person says, "Yes," you cut the deck again and...

Confession

Have you ever thought seriously about lying? How about catching someone every time they lie? Though this is a bit far-fetched (You'd be considered Superman if you could), offering a serious demo to your viewers wouldn't be that far-fetched. With the New Confession Principle, you can catch just about anyone lying. Introducing a brand new principle in mentalism, with tons of applications, Confession by Avik accomplishes just what the name suggests; let them lie, but the truth behind that will be clear as daylight to you, as if they were confessing their lies. The ultimate Truth/Lie...