En 1978, Martin Breeze enregistrait des Magicassettes avec Basil Horwitz, détaillant ses travaux et ses routines. Devant le succès de ses dernières, le tout fut retranscrit et publié sous forme de 5 livrets entre 1981 et 2004.
En 1978, Martin Breeze enregistrait des Magicassettes avec Basil Horwitz, détaillant ses travaux et ses routines. Devant le succès de ses dernières, le tout fut retranscrit et publié sous forme de 5 livrets entre 1981 et 2004.
Extrait de l'introduction d'Andy Nyman au volume 5:
Lorsque j’ai eu entre les mains le premier livre de Basil, je n’en revenais...
This guide will take you step by step through the process of learning the thirteen absolute best DIY thumb tip modifications for magicians. These modifications will allow you to make your thumb tip a lot more sneakier. You will be able to move your handling to a whole new level.
Some of the modifications will allow you to handle liquids. Some modifications will allow you to handle granules like pepper, sand, or salt. And yes, some modifications will allow you to do both within one modified tip.
You will discover modifications that will allow you to handle the thumb tip in incredibly...
A collection of really nice card tricks that require no sleight-of-hand. Additionally, you will get an informative biographical sketch of Fred Roner written by Richard Hatch.
1st German edition 1929, 1st English translation 2022; PDF 20 pages.
Aus dem Vorwort:
Die Vorführung der Kunststücke ist an die Beherrschung der wichtigsten Kunstgriffe gebunden, doch habe ich bei Bearbeitung des zur Verfügung stehenden Materials darauf geachtet, alle überflüssigen Kunstgriffe und Schwierigkeiten zu vermeiden und die ganze Vorführung so einfach und logisch als möglich zu machen. Die Beschreibung der einzelnen Experimente wurde absichtlich sehr ausführlich gehalten um sicher zu sein, daß die Leser jede einzelne Phase vollkommen verstehen und in der Lage sind, jedes Kunststück in der wirkungsvollsten Weise vorzuführen. Wo die schriftliche...
This is an incredible ACAAN with two completely normal decks of cards. Really powerful and semi-automatic, so easy to do. A very important point is that it only takes 5 seconds to reset.
The spectator has the choice of one of two decks. She thinks of any card (totally free choice). This card is taken out of the deck, signed, returned, and the deck is cut several times. Then the second deck is shuffled and cut. The spectator cuts this deck into four piles which are arranged around the other deck of cards. The spectator has a free choice to either turn face-up two packs, and for the other...
Can we move beyond the basic silk vanish? Can we do anything more magical than the old bill change? Can you improve on the basic salt vanish? The answer is, "Yes!". It all starts with your handling of the thumb tip.
I have almost 200 very magical effects that I perform with the basic thumb tip and people never see or even suspect a thumb tip. The secret to skyrocketing your thumb tip skills is to learn how to handle the thumb tip.
Not a day goes by that I don't get asked about how to match a thumb tip color to an individual skin tone. Everyone is concerned about someone seeing it. My...
An easy and effective multiphase routine with a Svengali deck. A spectator is correct continually in finding a previously selected card which the performer underlines with the punch line "How Right You Are."
From the introduction:
To begin with, I will confess that a Svengali pack is used throughout and...
Cybercup is a fast attention grabber with nothing but a pen that sits in your pocket. Based on a well-known handling, this effect will fool your spectators.
Do it for yourself in front of a mirror. You'll fool yourself, so strong is the illusion.
Cybercup is a fast, visual, and interactive effect. Whether you are a miracle worker, salesperson, event host, or public speaker, this will help you break the ice and engage people in an instant.
The effect has been created to be remarkably visual on camera - whether that's using Zoom, FaceTime, Instagram Live, YouTube, or Skype. Your (digital)...
Australian card man Ian Baxter has nailed it once again! Here is a straightforward, anytime, anywhere mystery that will leave audiences scratching their heads.
No fakes, gaffs or stranger cards are employed. An ordinary deck, borrowed or supplied by you, is the sole requirement. Ten-Four, a radio call sign, means "everything is okay" but in this case, it also spells out what is involved. The four tens end up cavorting from the deck to the table and back again, with a jaw-dropping finish. And there is room for a spot of humour as well.
Acknowledgment must be made to Tom Ogden of Hollywood, California,...
This fifth part of my card project (each volume is, in any case, totally independent of the others) includes 3 new original A.C.A.A.N. effects requiring no sleight of hands:
It's a new series of hands-off self-working card magic effects, that will all happen in your viewer's hands. No particular skill is required, just the ability to instruct and pay attention to what the viewer is doing... In this third...
Questa quinta parte del mio ultimo progetto cartomagico (ogni volume é, in ogni caso, totalmente indipendente dagli altri) include 3 nuovi effetti A.C.A.A.N. originali che non richiedono alcuna manipolazione:
A collection of mentalism-type demonstrations based on the framing of the treatment of witnesses in a courtroom setting, and the premises of influence, empathy, clairvoyance and telepathy.
Any similarity to actual practices and techniques of practicing attorneys at law or assistants is coincidental and grounded in mirth. These effects and scripts are for the legal system of the USA and may need modifications for congruency (or sanity) for the systems of other nations.
Truth Test
A defense attorney sometimes has too many witnesses willing to testify. Their eagerness to help often clouds...
Bird One - Kingside Castling
Simply put, a spectator's signed king from a packet of four kings vanishes from underneath her hand. As a kicker, the other 3 kings in the packet become blank even though she just saw all four of the kings. There are no switches.
Bird Two - Brainwave: Card 8
This is a variation of Nick Trost's 8 Card Brainwave that does the effect in reverse.
From a packet of 8 cards with 8 different colored backs, the spectator freely (no force) chooses one of them without knowing the values of any of the cards. Yet, the one she freely chose is found to be the only...
A mathematical range force with routine and application ideas.
The Trinity Force is an easy yet powerful force but very little known in the field of magic or mentalism. As with any force, here too the applications of the force are limited only by your imagination. A few interesting routine ideas are shared here. But you can surely come up with many of your own routines using this beautiful force.
The actual process to force is very fast and direct. Maybe, depending on your presentation, it may take all of fifteen seconds to perform the force. Or you can stretch it for as long as you want....
Mathematical Fooler is in fact an impossible location effect. It really is a fooler. The principle appears as already known but will succeed in deceiving even fellow magicians.
First of all, it is possible to proceed with a borrowed deck, a real selling point. The magician borrows a deck. He looks through the deck with faces up and inquires if it is a full deck. Then he asks the spectator to cut a third of the deck and count how many cards he has in his hand. It will certainly have a two-digit number. The spectator adds the two digits together and looks at the card that corresponds to that...
A linking rings enhancement module as a substitute for the traditional false count of four rings. (Odin Count)
NIDO = (Neat-Oh) as Odin spelled backwards. A very visual and casual series of actions that verifies that the four rings are separate. It was primarily designed for smaller ring sets, not a 12-inch sized set. Its advantages include:
Mostly conjuring applications. Magic theory.
This is a collection of experience thoughts about performance magic. What is magic? What role does it play in our culture? What does impossible mean today? The theme is being "more than able" in live as well as pretending at the impossible on stage. Each section and page is meant to inspire reflective musing on one's abilities and limitations. Together they provide a mirror in which each magician can view self and chosen magical effects in a different light or perspective. They are not a formula for self-improvement.
Part of this is the notion...