Magic & Conjuring: page 386

This is one of the oldest magic tricks in history. The routine was developed by Ed Marlo and allows the performer to discard the shell during the performance. See video below.

1st edition 2017, 4 pages.

Ancora un volumetto con grande cartomagia dalla fertile penna di Aldo. Aldo ha raccolto in queste pagine una serie di effetti tutti splendidi che da molto tempo fanno parte del suo repertorio. Materiale testato in pubblico di sicuro successo e di semplice esecuzione.

Il materiale trae spunto da effetti e metodi di grandi della cartomagia quali Marlo, Duffie, Harthman West, Mentzer, Walton, Leech e altri ricostruiti e trasformati dal “tocco di Colombini”…

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• AUTOGRILL - Quattro Re sono mostrati. Le facce dei Re spariscono e infine si trasformano...

From the preface:

This is a lovely balloon modeling primer. It covers all the basics from how to care for your balloons, the various balloon types, twists, artwork, marketing, and 39 models. The twists explained are:

• standard tie off
• standard bubble twist
• locking bubble twist
• ear twist
• locking pop twist
• slit bubble twist
• hook bubble twist
• nose bubble twist
• bubble eyes twist
• apple twist
• baby bubble twist
• bird beak
• parrot beak.

19 pages

For many years, Devin Knight's Balloon Detective has been a runaway best seller with magic shops. Due to many requests, Devin is offering his Balloon Detective as a PDF along with the cards you can print out. This way when they wear out, you can print them as you need them without having to buy the trick over again.

This is a great tool for both family entertainers and mentalists. You can use this even if you have never made a balloon animal in your life. One of the effects doesn't even use real balloons!

Until now, there have been few ways to tie in your magic with balloon sculpturing....

Instructional download DVD that teaches 33 different modelling balloon creations - most of which are single balloon animals which Stephen gives out to the children at the end of his show. He also discusses his A1 Balloon Poster / A-Frame backdrop and provides the PSD and JPEG file for it for you to make your own (see your digital shelf for the zip file to download). Almost all the models feature both front and over the shoulder shots of the creation process.

1. Dog
2. Hat
3. Ladybird Bracelet
4. Rabbit
5. Parrot
6. Ray Gun
7. Sword
8. Butterfly
9. Spiderman
10. Flower
11. Aeroplane
12. Giraffe
13. Mouse
14. Butterfly Bracelet ...

Complete instructions for 16 different figures.

Joe La Monica, magician, hypnotist and a leader in the balloon-sculpturing field has added many new ideas to this fascinating hobby. He has proven that it can be fun and profitable to create balloon figures. The color and the action of sculpting with balloons entertain children and adults alike. With the advent of shopping malls, balloon sculpturing has been found to be a traffic-builder and an exciting addition to a shopper's routine. Children, the primary market at the malls, carry the balloons around. Before retirement Mr. La Monica could...

A full stage balloon show adds another options for booking, and can really set you apart from the competition!

Here are just some of the benefits you can offer your clients with a full-stage balloon show...

• COLOR: That's an obvious benefit, and an attractive one. Never underestimate the power of a colorful stage.
• SOUND: The sound of balloons being twisted is anything but "boring". Add fun background music, and you're set.
• MOVEMENT: When balloons are being tossed about, shot off fingers, twisted and balanced, you have a non-stop sea of movement throughout the room.
• AUDIENCE INTERACTION:...

Another super visual penetration from the twisted brain of Nefesch. This time the spectator selects a balloon, he signs the balloon and you visually push your cell phone through his signed balloon.

This is one of these 'No way!' effects that have become the signature of Nefesch. Just coming up with these ideas and then finding a workable method is amazing by itself.

I have to add that you will need two phones, preparation and practice. However, the achieved effect is very strong and convincing.

1st edition 2008.

Balloons: Basics to Business not only teaches the basics of making balloon animals, but includes business advice that will make you a better entertainer with balloons and help increase your revenue from performing.

Authors Windy Douton and Thomas Blacke have almost 100 years combined experience as professional magicians and balloon artists. Windy was one of the first balloons makers in the early 1950's and pioneered many balloon techniques that are used by entertainers all over the world. Windy also was the first person to hold a world record in balloon animal making. Thomas Blacke has over...

A method in mentalism so bold you will never believe it works – unless you have the balls!

So what is Balls?

Basically it is a no-budget version of the famous Master Prediction System, that everybody loves but only the pros are able to afford:

A sealed cardboard box is seen standing in full view or hanging from a stand – it can also be given to an audience member at the beginning of the show. Random people call out random things: dates, the amount of money in their pocket, holiday destinations – whatever you (or they) like.

The box is retrieved and opened by a spectator. Inside...

Eine mentalmagische Methode, von der Sie nie glauben würden, dass sie funktioniert – es sei denn Sie haben die „Eier dazu in der Hose“!

Was also ist Balls?

Im Grunde handelt es sich dabei um eine No-Budget Variante des berühmten Master Prediction Systems, das alle unheimlich toll finden, sich aber die wenigsten leisten können:

Ein versiegelter Pappkarton steht in voller Sicht auf der Bühne oder hängt an einem Ständer – er kann auch zu Beginn einem Zuschauer übergeben werden, der darauf aufpasst. Zufällig ausgewählte Zuschauer nennen völlig beliebige Dinge: Daten, den...

Headline prediction.

Here's publicity for you. Predict a newspaper headline weeks before publication. Predict an event that is to take place in the future. Can also be used on T.V. No locked boxes and no elaborate chests. This is a simple, straightforward method that is sure-fire and 100 per cent. convincing.

Performer visits the local newspaper office, or he may 'phone to inform the editor that he is sending a letter through the mail, addressed to the editor and marked "Prediction." "In this letter," he tells the editor, "is a prediction of an event or a news happening, or a front page...

A couple of years ago, at the Genii and 31 Faces North conventions, I was showing some in-the-hands packet effects that used a new technique and getting amazed reactions quite out of proportion with what I expected. Though I reckoned I had little chance of fooling the cognoscenti with what I was doing (because the new technique was so simple), I noticed a lot of jaws dropping and exclamations of "Whoa!" as I demoed the effects, so I knew I'd hit on something really deceptive.

In one effect, the Ace, 2, 3 and 4 first turn face up, then, one by one, they all turn face down. Counted again, each...

McDonald's Aces with the Bammo Touch.

"... how diabolically good ... Bammo Aces is!!! ... I really love your presentational angle. ... Each vanish is better than the one before it." - Glen Guldbeck

"... displays and touches during the vanish sequences that are particularly clean and deceptive ...." - David Regal

Running the voodoo down: here's what's new: innovative deceptive sequences that are extremely visual using some easy moves not previously featured in this effect.

There...

An astounding encephalonic effect. Combines telepathy, teleportation and ancient Egyptian witchcraft (well, okay, that last thing about the witchcraft, that's not true, but the other stuff is). Officially this is the first addendum to Bammo Gaffus Maximus. Uses your brain and the brains of others. Two spectators think of cards. The first spectator's card vanishes from the deck. The magician removes one face-down card from his pocket and places it on the table. For the first time, the spectator names his card - the magician turns over the card on the table - it is the first spectator's card.

But now for the...

Not your magic dealer's Brainwave. Entirely new and revolutionary. Complete instructions to easily make it yourself.

1. Predict the ending in writing before the card is revealed. One prediction in full view. No switches or indexes.
2. Show a "regular deck" top and bottom before the face-up card is located.
3. Predict three choices in writing. All three choices are absolutely free. No forcing.
4. Destroy the spectator's free will as he selects a card from a deck he has shuffled and examined.
5. Cause a selected card to vanish and appear elsewhere.

Includes four non-Brainwave miracles by the legendary...

Routines with the Howard Adams' Ramasee Principle - a self-working method.

The Bammo Crambazzled Dossier is a deep-dive examination of a very strange and magical principle. You will fool yourself and, of course, everyone else. It works automatically, maybe even automagically. How it works may not be capable of an explanation from this world, but Bob Farmer does offer his ideas and those of many others.

The routines involve magic words, runes, Tarot cards, antique keys,...

When Teller saw this he said: "A work of mad genius."

Here at the Mad Genius Institute (MGI) we spend our days chasing the elusive butterfly of love and when we realize it's just another of the many delusions that sent us here in the first place, we get back to our real work: creating mind-bending magic so far outside the box it's a long-distance call to reality.

What happens when you decide to use not one or two Chop Cups but three? Three Chop Cups and three magnetic balls: you can't get farther from the mundane than that.

• Phase 1: Ball vanishes and appears in a Crown Royal bag. ...

A collection of new and novel gaffed decks, which you can easily all make at home, and strong effects that go along with them. Requires little to no sleight-of-hand.

From the introduction:

Bob Farmer's Bammo Gaffus Maximus book has a five-star rating from verified purchasers. Now there is an addendum with even more amazing, gaffed decks you can make easily at home.

The effects are brand new and like nothing you've seen before: two astounding predictions, "Stoned," and "The Turn of a Card," involving Chinese mysticism and Las Vegas gambling - themes that are catnip for audiences.

No sleights. Automatic working. No rough and smooth. Instant reset. No angles.

If you have Gaffus Maximus, you'll need this addendum. If you don't have Gaffus Maximus, then this is your chance to sample the quality...

This is a routine for those who want to elicit screams from their female spectators at the final revelation. They are thinking of a card, the only card in the deck with a secret message, a message so profound and emotionally connecting that a scream of disbelief is the only reaction possible. At least that's what road tests of the routine have shown.

Also included, is a bonus routine with magic eyeglasses, invisible writing made visible, and a kicker ending that will baffle all.

1st edition 2023, PDF 7 pages.

The spectator names a Poker hand. He can change his mind. The deck is spread face down and the five cards for the named hand are the only face-up cards. The deck is squared and spread again: the face-up cards have vanished. For the kicker, the deck is spread face up and all the cards are blank. It was all an illusion.

Uses a special gaffed deck you can easily make at home. No sleights. No memorization. Idiot proof. Automatic reset. No angles. Killer kicker.

1st edition 2023, PDF 12 pages.

For those who wish to fool those who know all the other gaffed montes (Skinner's, Deland's "Pickitout," the British "Chase the Ace"), the "Bammo Queen Monte" is here and ready to serve.

Those other versions use two gaffed cards, the Bammo Queen Monte does not - which means that there are deceptive displays possible that the others cannot match.

There is no sleight of hand: the special cards do all the work.

The entire routine happens on the table just like the real monte. Alternately, for maximum visibility, larger cards can be used with some card holders.

Three cards are shown,...