Magic & Conjuring: page 389

Viaggio nella Comunicazione

Calabria 2016: mi trovo in un piccolo paese nella provincia di Crotone, dove ho passato parecchie estati, essendo questo il paese nativo dei miei genitori.

Non mi sento costretto ad andarci, anzi, quando possibile ci torno volentieri, richiamato dal fascino e dalla bellezza della costa ionica.

Sono passati tre anni e mezzo dal mio primo eBook “Oltre le parole” ed è cresciuta la voglia di proseguire con un altro capitolo, di creare e passare nuove informazioni sulla comunicazione e sul linguaggio del corpo, arricchendo tutto ciò con nuovi esperimenti...

We are a for-profit business, but we do work on non-profit projects, which we do simply because we love magic. For example, many of the old books we convert cost much more to convert than we would ever hope to make selling digital versions. Nevertheless, we have chosen to digitize and preserve many of these books and magazines as a service to the magic community. We are also thinking about making some of these ebooks free if we can raise enough money through donations.

Any donations made here will flow directly to preserving magic literature. If for whatever reason we are not able to use...

Cover: Léa Kyle

4. Welcome to Issue #108 - Editor's comments
4. The Team
4. What's Inside
6. Reader's Letters
8. Léa Kyle - Changing Magic - cover article/interview by Phil Shaw
14. Masterclass
    14. Tour de Force - Michael O'Brien
    16. Spirit of the Pendulum - Brian Johnson
    18. Any Page Number Book Test - Ian Adair
20. Why Solving is Essential - Kev G
    21. 5 QR Codes (and links) for solving a Rubik's Cube
24. The Bochord Club - Ian Moran
27. Worker's Corner - Chris Congreave
30. Alarna Love - The Secret Magician - interview by Phil Shaw
34. Memories of Entertaining - Brian Johnson
37. Deliberate Practise...

Life in Digits is a collection of number divination effects and word divination effects using a single card. The card supplied to you is used by a participant to select a random 7 or 8-digit number. And the performer starts divining the number instantly and very cleanly. Or the card is used by the participant to think of a country, color, state or star sign, etc, and again the performer cleanly and instantly divines the thought.

There are 2 cards supplied to you. One is about postcard size and another is poker size. Both can be comfortably carried in your pocket.

You can perform over...

Routines, visual gags and priceless advice from the top comedy pros.

If you want to create a comedy act, or are a comedy performer looking to supplement the fun that you already have, this ebook will provide you with all the inspiration, advice, effects, one-liners and visual gags that you need.

We have tapped into the knowledge and expertise of top comedy performers such as Scott and Muriel, Gaetan Bloom, John Archer, Alan Hudson, Nathan Kranzo, Andy Reay, Michael Finney and many more, all of whom have revealed what it takes to make your magic appealingly funny.

Reading this ebook will help to find the comic...

Excerpt from the Foreword:

• Tricky Tidbits
• For The Green Chlorophyll Card
• Our Magician Of The Yearbook For 1954 - Del Ray
• The Royal Assembly
• Fourteen Effects With The Fourteen Of Clubs
• Mickey Mouse And His Magic Coats
• The Jackpot Cigarette Trick
• The Magnetic Ball
• Golf Ball To Silk
• The Human Volcano
• The Spectator Does A Card Trick
• Perfect Diminishing Pack Of Cigarettes
• Felix The Snake
• Torn Smoke
• The Ireland Handling For A Jumbo Two Way Forcing Deck
• Bamboo Chinese Sticks
• Sockard
• What To Do With A Slick Ace
• Sez You Giant Card Trick
• The No Gimmick Slate Gimmick
• The Foolproof Necktie Trick
• The Ghost...

In this, the second all-cards issue, of Triplets, Gregg Webb describes some old and some new in the news section, including a review of a rather old book Gregg thinks has good patter ideas for poker-themed card tricks, and some others that are quite recent, and a few things that are yet to come out but will soon.

Next Gregg describes a novel vanish of a card for standup manipulators, and then a card trick based on Schrödinger's Cat theory (from quantum mechanics), and a very direct new incarnation of Real Gone Aces, called Real Gone Queens, which includes a way to do it as Real Gone Jokers. ...

A deep dive into Elmsley's Point of Departure.

The original effect is the following. A card is chosen and placed face down on the table. The two black aces are then removed from the pack and with the utmost fairness, the chosen card is placed between them, and this sandwich is handed to a spectator to hold. On the magician's command, the chosen card vanishes and is found in the performer's pocket.

• Point of Departure / Alex Elmsley
• Card Vanish Supreme / Edward Marlo
• A-E-I-O-U / Sam Schwarz
• Last-Minute Departure / Jon Racherbaumer
• Escapade / Max Maven
• Between Your Points of Departure / Earl...

If you enjoy simple to do magic that never requires a re-set and which you can do anytime, anywhere, you will love this two-stage routine using a 10p and a £2 coin. (Any two coins of different sizes can be used for this effect.)

Both coins are borrowed from spectators and placed into your fist. The 10p is openly removed, shown freely and genuinely placed away in your pocket. Instantly it jumps back to your hand to join the £2.

Then the £2 is removed, but instead of both coins reappearing in the hand, they both vanish and are produced from the pocket. Very clean handling, easy to do,...

Vanish a plastic drinking straw.

The vanish is accomplished with a pull. The details of the hookup and presentation are taught in the video.

1st edition 2023, video 10 min.

The title sums up the spirit of the guide, in fact with this eBook the purpose was precisely to give an overview of the art of mentalism, talking about the techniques used, psychology, cold reading and much more, not getting lost in descriptions of details that only the individual performer can and must necessarily learn and refine by trying and trying again.

For this reason, no room has been given to the presentations. It seems a paradox not to mention the presence of an illusionistic effect when this is probably more than 90 percent of the effect itself, but, as said little, the presentation...

Effetti di magia per bambini, metodi e presentazione

Graziano Roversi, in arte “Zio Pota” , artista intrattenitore dalla grande esperienza con questo libro condivide con te i particolari che rendono efficace una performance. In particolare in questo libro viene trattata la magia per bambini.

Un prestigiatore può controllare l’attenzione di un adulto semplicemente guardandolo negli occhi ma con un bambino non basta. I prestigiatori sanno bene che i bambini sono un pubblico molto difficile.

Graziano Roversi ti insegna come coinvolgere il pubblico di bambini e genitori, trasforma...

Come lo scriver battute può cambiarti la vita

L’autore Emiliano Moroni, formatore esperto in meditazione, yoga, shamanesimo e costellazioni familiari mette a tua disposizione la sua esperienza maturata anche nei villaggi turistici dove ha lavorato per diversi anni, in un libro umoristico ma che ha anche forte valore in un percorso individuale di crescita personale.

Come sempre Emiliano non tralascia il lato pratico e tratta in questo libro anche la tecnica e da indicazioni preziose su come si può sperimentare nella disciplina del cabaret. Le parole di Emiliano descrivono benissimo...

Guida pratica alle tecniche di Comunicazione più Efficaci

Ogni volta che decido l’argomento da trattare nel mio nuovo ebook cerco di farlo seguendo una semplice regola: Proporre al pubblico qualcosa di nuovo e di utile.

Avevo in mente questo libro da diverso tempo, un libro in cui sintetizzare tutto ciò che c’è da sapere sulla comunicazione.

Immagina un libro dove poter trovare la versione più moderna del meta-modello (uno dei modelli più famosi sulla comunicazione efficace tratti dalla Programmazione Neuro Linguistica), tecniche di ipnosi conversazionale e la nota e apprezzatissima...

Giochi di prestigio e scommesse

Confesso che leggendo questo delizioso manuale di giochi di prestigio non ho fatto altro che muovere ripetutamente la testa da destra a sinistra pensando: ah, se lo avessi avuto tra le mani ai miei esordi… avrei perfezionato più velocemente l’arte della prestidigitazione.

Il libro aperitivo con il mago rivolto ai principianti e appassionati di magia, contiene informazioni ed esperienze vissute, grazie al supporto culturale del suo autore Paladino, ottimo e poliedrico prestigiatore conosciuto a livello internazionale che non esita a trasmettere fra le...

Guida pratica alla costruzione di aerei di carta.

Esistono passioni alle quali è difficile avvicinarsi in quanto talvolta poco conosciute e proprio per questo è difficile trovare chi le può insegnare e trovare materiale che ci aiuti ad imparare in modo semplice e divertente.

Questo ebook scritto da Jacorpo Furci e Simone Bianco, due veri appassionati dell’arte di costruire aerei di carta va incontro proprio all’esigenza degli appassionati di imparare autonomamente a realizzare tanti stupendi aerei di carta divertendosi e ottenendo un oggetto che può essere collezionato, usato per...

A bit of sleight-of-hand that is usually used for playing cards is used here to effect a very simple and bold peek for business cards.

Experience the power of Lightning Peek. With this incredible magic trick, you'll be able to astound your audience with your psychic abilities. Simply have a spectator draw or think of something on a business card, then place it in the middle of a stack of business cards. You'll be able to accurately reveal the secret thought while the spectator holds the business card stack.

• Lightning fast
• Full card peek
• No gimmicks or DIY arts and crafts
• Business cards...

Past Life Prediction is a very unusual effect. Whether you or your audiences believe in the concept of past life or not, you can either perform this as a serious effect or a fun routine. This is totally propless. This is interesting. This is fun. And this is very impressive. Your participant will be left with an unforgettable experience.

You meet an utter stranger and directly tell him about your intuition by giving a few concrete bits of information about his past life. And you will then go on to present him solid proof of that past life information which will totally convince him. He...

Clever tricks with standard gaffed cards such as double backers, blank faced, etc.

Excerpt from the introduction:

• Introduction
• The Elmsley Count
• The Jordan Count
• The Experimental Elmsley Count
• Instant Printing
• Supersonic Joker
• An Oddity!
• Turncoat
• ’simpossible
• Notes

1st edition 1978, 16 pages; PDF 20 pages.

This "Scrapbook" is a small, haphazard collection of some of my contributions to the Art of Magic, over the past 50 years. Since the late 1960's I have contributed hundreds of my ideas to over a dozen national and international magic magazines, run a magician's service producing over 2000 magic items, (some hundreds of which were my own creations and which sold over a million Dollars worth a year around the world at one time), and for which I wrote over 2000 "instruction sheets." Many of these instructions had "ideas" for the use of the props that enabled our customers to get the maximum mileage...

Excerpt from the introduction:

A potpourri of great Marlo tricks.

All kinds of magic good for close-up or parlor, comedy or drama, technique or presentation. Excerpt from the conclusion:

This is a wonderful participation routine for children's entertainers using the simplest of props - a wand, a silk, and an unprepared bag. Two children come up to assist. A silk is made invisible and handed to one child, while the second helper examines and then holds onto a bag. The invisible silk is 'blown' up into the air, caught on the end of the magic wand, which is then used to flick it over to the child holding the bag. The silk is supposed to now be inside the bag, but the child holding the bag seems to be unable to find it inside. Realising that the silk must still be invisible, the...