A merge of ACCAN and Do As I Do.
ACAAN is one of the most loved card plots and Do As I Do is one of the most ignored. ACAAN meets a Monkey is a unique cross-over between both of them.
Here two cards get chosen, one by the performer and one by the participant. Both cards are then lost and the cards get shuffled. Both cards are later found by the participant at the number that the participant decides on.
Flow of Events:
A subtle system for card workers. Four card miracles.
Excerpt from the introduction:
In the Winter of 1928, or early in the following Spring, Messrs. Bagshawe & Co. issued a catalogue entitled "New Magic," in which an item called "Card Control" appeared. Briefly, the effect was that any card (not forced) could be taken from a pack - if desired, in the performer's absence - and the performer was able always to locate in the pack a card of the same VALUE and a card of the same SUIT, as that chosen.
Being struck by the novelty of the effect I wrote to Mr. Bagshawe, requesting him to send...
Excerpt from the foreword:
Unless I am mistaken, the routine explained in this modest little volume is the first sleight of hand trick I learned. I was then at school - over sixty years ago - and as I have been performing it constantly ever since, I have had, obviously, a lot of practice!
Although I have always done the trick fairly well, I have added, quite recently, a number of improvements which make it, I think, a routine not unworthy of the attention of any close-work magician.
Broadly speaking, it is similar in effect to the Chinese Marble Trick described by Edwin Sachs in...
You wrote this professionally produced audiobook. That's right. No author is mentioned in the recording. The audiobook is called: "M A G I C - A T R A N S F O R M A T I V E A R T"
The file you will download is 23.9 MB. I keep it on my phone so it's easy to immediately send to potential customers. The audiobook is 12 minutes long, and narrated by a female voice, we felt it sounded better that way, more pleasing to the ear.
So what's the point?
A collection of 15 effects with ropes, silks, balls, cards, ribbons, paper, glasses, canes, dice and other objects.
1st edition 1974, PDF 27 pages.
A spectator freely names a card (e.g. 5D) which is cut into the centre of a blue deck. The performer cuts a card of his choice (e.g. AS) into the centre of a red deck. The spectator and performer are now going to attempt to make their chosen cards reverse themselves while the packs are still inside their boxes.
Having mimed the removal and turning over of cards, the performer fans the spectator's blue deck only to discover that there is one card face up, but it's the AS! The magician then fans his red backed deck - and to everyone's surprise, the only face-up card in that pack is the one...
Freakey is an ungimmicked keychain with a miracle built into it. Ungimmicked in any mechanical, electronic or magnetic way. So it will last you for many years of performances without the need for any refills or consumables. The size is about 2 inches square. So it can be easily and comfortably carried in your pocket.
But it is designed in an unusual manner. It is bound to be a conversation starter. You can carry your car keys, house keys or any other keys on this keychain.
With this keychain in your pocket, you are always ready to perform a miracle for anyone at any time and anywhere....
Sette facili routines con le monete
Di Aldo Colombini
Prima edizione italiana
Fresca fresca di traduzione ecco la prima edizione italiana di un delizioso volumetto di Aldo Colombini dedicato a sette routines di facilissima esecuzione e di grande effetto. Ora è il momento di inserirne qualcuna nel tuo repertorio. Ecco un breve descrizione del contenuto .
Dall’introduzione:
“Gli effetti magici con le monete sono solitamente piuttosto difficili da eseguire e spesso richiedono particolare destrezza di mano, oltre che l’uso di complesse manipolazioni. Tuttavia, in questo...
DVD
A docu-drama (dramatized documentary) on the identity of the mystery author of a classic book on sleight-of-hand with cards.
The best magicians of the 21st century set out on a journey to search for the lost author of the most legendary book about the art of sleight of hand. S.W. Erdnase is the pseudonym of the man thought to be the most notorious card shark of the 19th century. His book The Expert at the Card Table is now considered the card conjurer's bible, making it compulsory reading for any magician. It took more than 30 years after its publication for the true value of the book to be appreciated. His true identity remains...
Way back in 2005, I began broadcasting a world-first: an hour dedicated to magic, live from London. At the time, I was presenting my breakfast show on commercial radio. Every Monday evening at 7pm GMT, the airwaves went live with Radio Magic. Each episode featured a ten-minute interview with a famous star of magic (see The Magic Interview Series ebook). As a spin-off from that year-long project, I recorded a few long-form interviews with magicians and these recordings became available as CDs: thus, the Magic Interview Series was born. Looking back, I was podcasting before podcasts! Now, for the first time ever, these...
Ten card mysteries Annemann would have loved.
This book was part of a two-person three-hour lecture session given by Harry Anderson that Jon gave at a Daytona Magic Conference.
Excerpt from the foreword:
Anneman believed that the effect is the most important thing and, to paraphrase Vince Lombardi, the effect is the only thing.
Anneman believed, as deists believe in a god, that a magician must do something extraordinary with the ordinary…and what is demonstrated must also have no practical use or relevance in the real world. It is a demo, not an application of real power.
Anneman...
Effects involving the number Pi.
The number Pi is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, approximately equal to 3.14159. This is also a very fascinating number from a magic and mentalism point of view.
The day of March 14 which represents the Pi value of 3.14 is celebrated across the world as Pi Day, which occurred recently in this year. Some amazing effects can be performed using this Pi number.
Epic Spin is a collection of routines using the Pi number. Although the effects involve numbers of Pi, there is no math involved, largely. And...
Over 50 years, I have run a Magician's service, producing and supplying several hundreds of thousands of pieces of over 2500 varieties of props to magic dealers and magicians worldwide, with retail sale value exceeding a million dollars a year over several years, so I figure we have been doing something right!
Many were "classic props" - my favorite sources being books like Hoffman's Modern, More and Later Magic, the many excellent magical secrets series and other illusion books by Will Goldston, and of more modern times, the World of Magic trilogy by Jack Hughes - with an effort to some times modify the props and their use to present...
Mentoring at your fingertips. Inspirations, musings and creative insights.
Letters To A Young Mentalist is a compendium of epistolary wisdom, advice and musing born from the proficuous letter exchange between a seasoned professional and an eager receptive protégé.
In these pages, you will find thoughts on creativity, mentoring, writing, staging and much more. The contents are both practical and inspiring, encouraging a dialogue on what mentalism is and how we can make it more meaningful, artful and reverberating. Some of the insights are thought-provoking, while others are invaluable...
This effect is intriguing. Not only will the magician find two chosen cards under impossible conditions, but there will be a series of incredible and numerous predictions. Look at the full performance. The effect is simple to perform and semi-automatic. We are certainly within the magician-fooler category. Everything is done with a normal deck of cards.
1st edition 2023, video 16:03.
Learn about mix and mingle magic the easy way.
This 55-minute audiobook is perfect for listening to in the car or while jogging or at the gym. It contains a reading of the contents of the hugely useful information ebook entitled Going Walkabout, in which I explain exactly how I go about performing at informal mix and mingle events and how to make a success of working close-up magic at reception style events where the spectators are all standing or where there is, at best, only a very informal arrangement of seats, but no tables.
The 7 chapters included are as follows:
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
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:
In this book, again you will find not only tricks that work, but more important, entertaining close-up routines, with the accent on entertainment. Some of the effects may not be new, but they all have a most unusual twist, or that little something that makes them different.
As long as I have known Tony Griffith, which is over ten years now, he has never been contented to purchase a trick and do it as per instructions. He is a firm believer in reading the mechanics of the trick, then throwing the working and routine away, and starting from scratch. These then...
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. ...