El legendario Bob Cassidy solía terminar su famosa actuación de mentalismo con una demostración que dejaba boquiabiertos a propios y extraños: era capaz de memorizar una baraja realmente mezclada por los espectadores en menos de quince segundos.
Este breve manual es la síntesis de décadas de trabajo para lograr ese efecto, al alcance de cualquier persona con unas capacidades mentales estándar. El sistema que aquí se describe permite memorizar secuencias completas no solo de cartas, sino de palabras nombradas al azar por espectadores, listas de objetos o cualquier otra información...
The meaning of Kabbala, translated from Hebrew, means something received and handed down. This definition resonates. Knowledge of magic, after all, is handed down from generation to generation, from magician to magician, and from teacher to disciple. Prior to xerography and personal computers, most magical knowledge was transmitted in this primitive, semi-private, and intimate means. Word-of-mouth reigned supreme and to a certain extent still does.
The magic scene in the Seventies was a blooming, buzzing place, atwitter with contentiousness and creativity. Close-up magic, particularly with...
From the introduction:
You will find that most of my mterial is suitable for the stand-up performer. This is due to the fact that in Europe there aren't too many opportunities to work restaurants, bars and other close-up situations. We have to deal with small stand-up shows, birthday parties, wedding parties, smaller theatres and cabarets, and the like. Naturally, if you want to survive as a performer, you will have to adapt to this situation and develop suitable material. Above all, the material must be direct and to the point, because the European audiences generally don't have too much...
You show four Queens of heart with a red back. Suddenly the backs become blue and then all four backs change again into four completely different back designs.
You will need four Queens of Heart with four different back designs. One double backer (one back matching one of the Queen's back) and one blank face card where the back matches the other back of the double backer.
1st edition 2019, length 2min 50s
From the Foreword:
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.
The format follows Gregg's established style of illustrations and hand-lettered text.
This ebook continues where Ian stopped with his Five Kinks series. His tinkering with classic routines continues.
Too Easy Ace Cutting sees Ian reducing sleights to an absolute minimum for this timeless favorite, adding a surprise ending.
Distinctive Side Steal describes a handling for this sleight which resolves the one fundamental problem with the move, making it far easier to acquire.
Brown's Wandering Card: Ian describes his own version here and includes a subtlety which significantly enhances the deceptiveness of Brown's routine.
1st edition 2019, 17 pages.
Two complete scripts and very simple handling for the Triumph effect, which not only fools people, but entertains them immensely. No difficult sleights, no gaffs, no problems.
Many versions of Triumph are either complicated and hard to follow, or gaffed, or even a knuckle buster.
Well, the author of How To Write A Script shows how he used his methodology to write 2 different scripts that explains and entertains with the Triumph effect, while technically putting it well within the reach of every magician. This ebook gives you every line, joke, piece of timing, setup and nuance of the routine.
The ebook...
Night club performer Tony Kardyro (Senor Torino) reveals his favorite card mysteries in this clever collection. Drawing heavily from eighteen years' experience in the night club and banquet field, Kardyro created these effects to fill modern day demands for magic, as well as professional demands of the performer. Some of the effects depend on well-known sleights that are within the capacity of any adept magician. These proven, audience-pleasing effects will prove that you're a master of mystery.
Two of the ten effects, Strange, Very Strange and Two Ace Change were called out by Walter B. Gibson as being...
Aus der Einleitung:
Diese Schrift handelt von einer schönen Force einer Farbe mit Hilfe eines Quadrats von 16 Feldern. Die Force taucht verschiedentlich in der Literatur auf und findet auch heute noch ihre Liebhaber. In seinem Artikel "Nirvana Numbers" im JINX 70, 1939 hat der Autor Fredric Kolb angegeben, sie stamme vom britischen Zauberer Stanley Collins (1881-1966).
Kürzlich hat der bekannte englische Zauberer David Berglas eine neue Version der Force gezeigt; ob sie von ihm selber stammt, wissen wir allerdings nicht. Angeregt durch Berglas hat der eine von uns (Olaf Spell) ein sehr handliches Requisit geschaffen,...
A compilation of three manuscripts Super Dupes, Odd Lifts, and Secret Subtractions.
Note that different moves and techniques have been called 'Gypsy Switch' over the decades. See for example a technique to switch bills using an envelope: Gypsy Switch. The technique described here by Jon Racherbaumer uses a handkerchief and is mostly used with coins, but the basic technique is flexible and utilitarian, which means any object that is conveniently flat and compact can be switched for a similar object, using a handkerchief. This includes objects such as coins, poker chips, billets, cards (business and torn playing card pieces), and folded currency.
In its antecedent form this move appeared...
A very easy to do routine in which a black card repeatedly flies from hand to pocket leaving spectators amazed again and again, despite the performer trying to simplify things. All can be examined.
Imagine deliberately counting five cards....four of which are red with only one black. Each and every card is called and shown - without a single false move four cards are tossed to the table and the black card is seen to have vanished. It is reproduced from the pocket. Now Imagine that you can do it again and again each time eliminating one red card to make it easier for the public to follow the...
Alexander de Cova zählt seit vielen Jahren zu den innovativsten Zauberern im deutschsprachigen Raum. In jedem dieser sechs Bände sind viele Tricks und Ideen beschrieben, die er sich die letzten 15 Jahre ausgedacht hat. Das Material ist in der Praxis entstanden und hat sich in unzähligen Vorführungen bewährt. Viele professionelle Künstler haben seine Kunststücke bereits fest in ihr Repertoir eingebaut.
Die Methoden der Kunststücke sind so einfach wie möglich gehalten, damit Komplikationen bei der Vorführung vermieden werden. Der Schwierigkeitsgrad wurde bei den meisten Tricks auf...
Aus dem Vorwort:
Jede Kunstform, in der live vor Publikum vorgeführt wird, braucht von Zeit zu Zeit wieder neue Gesichter, frische Interpretationen und Innovationen bzw. Varianten, damit die Kunstform frisch bleibt. Ich bin der Meinung, dass Zauberkunst nicht aussterben wird, solange es gute Performer gibt. Die Menschen werden noch viele Jahre gute Zauberei sehen und sich verblüffen lassen wollen.
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In diesem Band der BURNERS Reihe geht es weniger um die Tricks (obwohl von denen sehr viele vorhanden sind), sondern um die Ideen und Gedanken dahinter. Ich werde dir ein paar meiner...
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Aus dem Vorwort:
Wie man es bei meinen Publikationen gewöhnt ist, zeichnet sich mein Material durch eine gewisse "Einfachheit" aus. Ich habe schon immer großen Wert darauf gelegt, dass die Sachen in der Praxis leicht umzusetzen sind und vor allem funktionieren. Allzu komplizierte Apparate und Vorgehensweisen mag ich nicht besonders. Das Risiko der Fehlfunktion und oftmals auch bei der Vorführung damit verbundene Streß widerstrebt mir zutiefst. Je einfacher, desto besser ...
Es müssen auch nicht immer "brandneue" Ideen sein, die mich von einem guten Zaubertrick überzeugen. Wenn man...
An amazing induction from the Devin Knight hypnosis show designed for experienced hypnotists only. The performer invites certain people from the audience to come forward and sit in a row of chairs. To the utter amazement of the audience, the moment these people sit in the chairs they all immediately go into a hypnotic trance. A real show stopper with full directions on how to do this. This is as strong as you can get and will create much talk.
There is no pre-show work by the performer. Not recommended for beginners. This is for the stage hypnotist only and not for hypnotherapy. No stooges...
A romantic-comedy novel about a failed magician.
"Poignant comedy genius at its best" - The GuardianWhen twenty-something James Valentine seeks refuge from the rain, the only shelter he can find is under the canopy of a fortune teller's dilapidated shed in Whitby. Madam Lulu invites him in and reveals that he's going to meet three women who will influence his life in ways..."The perfect summer tonic! Hilarious!" - Uri Geller
"Reading the hilarious story from the bus, where James unsuccessfully fights his biological urgency, I only narrowly escaped pissing myself from laughter." - Chris Wasshuber
From the Foreword:
"Tosheroon" is an odd but memorable name. It sounds amusing and somewhat incantatory - especially for a card trick. Bob Driebeck, who dubbed it, knew that the word was Cockney slang for a half-crown, which is also the type of coin he used to perform this offbeat card trick.
The basic effect is a transformation done with an impediment in place - the impediment or obstruction in this case is a coin, which is placed onto the face of the card that eventually changes.
Effect: A card is selected and lost in the deck. Then a borrowed coin is marked and placed onto the face...
Wonderful biographical information about magician Baron Hartwig Seeman, and juggler William D'Alvini. Also includes a chapter on the German magician Bellachini and a fascinating chapter on the psychology of conjuring.