Magic & Conjuring: page 11

This is the first half of the live lecture performed by Aldo and Rachel Colombini in 2011 on their Farewell Tour. It is one of the last filmed lectures of Aldo and is a great tribute to his artistry and memory and a wonderful keepsake.

Here you can go to Part 2. And here you can get the lecture notes covering Part 1 and 2.

This is the second half of the live lecture performed by Aldo and Rachel Colombini in 2011 on their Farewell Tour. It is one of the last filmed lectures of Aldo and is a great tribute to his artistry and memory and a wonderful keepsake.

Here you can go to Part 1. And here you can get the lecture notes covering Part 1 and 2.

Pop any balloon with your mind!

With this method you are able to burst any borrowed balloon at your fingertips. Even better, lay the balloon on the table and blow on it. A moment later the balloon pops without touching!

• No electronics
• No magnets
• No needles or other pointy objects
• No threads
• No PK rings

1st edition 2015, length 8 min

Inspired by famous magician Cyril Takayama. After eating some noodles you make the chopsticks levitate above the cup!

• No threads.
• No wires.
• No magnets.
• No loops.

1st edition 2017, length 38min

Borrow a pen, write with it, and then casually remove your hand, while the pen remains standing unsupported.

This is best performed as an off-beat effect where folks do not expect a trick, but the magic just happens. The pen is unprepared. The notebook hides the gimmick which is for all practical purposes invisible.

Bonus routine is a rubber band ring linking effect. A borrowed ring is linked into two rubber bands. This can be performed impromptu.

1st edition 2018, length 40 min

Magic is mostly performed with man-made products - cards, coins, silks, ropes, ... Why not perform magic with items nature provides? This is even more powerful, because there is inherently no suspicion of gimmicked objects. Ralf has created a stunning miracle that is easy to perform during a stroll in the woods, or during a garden party, or other places where plants are in reach. All you need is access to leaves growing on a tree or a shrub and a pen to sign a leaf.

Effect: You and your spectator collect a couple of leaves. The spectator tears one in half, and signs it. Miraculously the torn...

A straw floats from a cup or can into your hand.

The method goes back to Joseph Dunninger. Ralf explains the gimmick, setup and performance in detail in his video.

1st edition 2019, length 15min

With this tool, you are able to gently float small objects such as matches, feathers, playing cards, sponge balls or rubber bands, etc. a few centimeters above the table.

Easy to build. Not for live performances! Use the gimmick for Zoom, Instagram, or similar. Also very suitable for demo videos to let business cards gently lift off the table. Don't use it as a magic trick. Rather as a science experiment.

1st edition 2023, video 23 min.

"Ralph Felder has created a meaningful read for those interested in all aspects of magic ..." - Randall Eller

"Ralph has created a great system for beginners and semi-professional magicians to evaluate their performances and improve on their craft. This book truly shines for those looking to make the transition into magic with the goal of becoming a professional ..." - Maxwell Blade

• Application of creative and critical thinking concepts which can help you invent magic and...

Performed by Randy Wakeman before random, live audiences . . . then explained and taught in full detail.

Over the 1950s, 1960's, and through the 1970's a brand of bold and direct close-up magic was developed in Chicago, Illinois. These effects were known for simplicity, clarity, and strength of effect, and the powerful response they elicited. Chicago magical legends Don Alan, "Heba Haba Al" Andrucci, "Senator" Clarke Crandall, Frank Everhart, Jack Murray, Johnny Paul, James Patrick Ryan, and Matt Schulien forged their reputations with these effects, and now you can too.

While these quick, direct, simple, baffling effects...

A historical, extremely rare video: the only video ever released of one of Chicago's most beloved bartender/magicians, the "Great Heba Haba Al."

"How wonderful that this footage has been preserved for the charm, the methods, and the trick selection of the man Jay Marshall described as "the grandfather of bar magic in Chicago" are there to be studied and learned from. Even when you know what he is doing, and if you know card magic you will, he will still amaze you with the ease and the confidence with which he does it. Remembering that he may have had three tricks going on at once will only...

A variety of close-up magic: cards, coins, cups and balls, sponge balls, and dice stacking.

• How Did You Know?
• Watch Me Work
• Anything I Can Do, You Can Do Better
• The Big Red One (sponge balls)
• R.W. Flying Eagles (coins)
• A Personal Triumph
• Count Wakeman
• A Piece of Your Mind
• Randy's Wild Card
• Stacked Impact (dice stacking)
• R.W. Coins Through Table
• Randy's Cups and Balls

1st edition 1990, length 1h 30min

• The Abominylon Snowman
• Milk Go
• Three Blind Mice
• Hopping Hen Fruit
• Thread It
• Silk Blow - Silk Go
• The Cow With The Crumpled Horn
• Self - Service
• Peni - Sponge
• "Crash Thru" Production Box
• The Choice Of Cash
• Fantastrick

PDF 24 pages

Borrow a credit card and show the strips found on back of the card. Now just with your finger tips peel the identity strip completely off, restore it and return the card with your hands completely empty. A timely presentation around the issue of identity theft.

Ravi has a real knack for making use of normal, everyday objects as part of his repetoire. His tricks are highly visual, easy to do and they get great reactions in the real world. It won't take you an age to competently perform Ravi's effects - invest a short time to practice and then you can deliver accomplished results without any complicated sleight of hand or unnecessary, complex routining. In short, you'll be amazing people before you know it!

'Real Counterfeit Money' is a terrific money change effect and 'Corner Light' is a spectacularly devious little number - leaving part of a spectator's...

Ring

A ten phase, powerhouse visual routine, done with just one ring. Each phase is modular leaving you the opportunity to do each phase, one phase or mix them up.

Damn Gum

Remove a piece of gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe. Simply change it into the inner wrap of the gum package; change it again into a full, store bought pack of gum. Take out a piece of gum, eat it or give the piece to your spectator.

S.C.T.B (Signed Coin Thru Bill)

Borrow a bill, borrow a coin. Have the spectator sign the coin. Fold the bill in half and place the coin inside the bill. Crimp the coin inside...

This is a compilation of three lecture notes released during the 1980s by Ray Grismer: Short Notes, Magic, and Lecture. As the name suggests these are short notes on the items Grismer presented during his lecture. There is some overlap between these three notes.

• Short Notes
  • About These Notes
  • Queens And Fives
  • Separ-Ace-Ion
  • Flakie
  • Hooz?
  • Handy
  • Swivel Cutting Aces
  • Fan Spell
  • Psychic Game
  • Mental Stop
  • Bookie
• Magic
  • Fraces
  • Hooz?
  • Flakie
  • Fan Spell
  • Prep H
  • Mindray 2nd
  • Computer
  • B_J Demo
  • Hip ESP
  • E-Z Foxy
  • Bookie
  • Values
• Lecture
  • Quickwich
  • Idaho Poker
  • Tiger
  • Timeit Or Peekit ...

"Good tricks, good writing, good illustrations, good price." - David Regal (In the April 2004 issue of Genii)

This ebook is primarily designed for the current or aspiring restaurant magician, featuring practical effects with cards and coins, plus ring flite, with engaging presentations.

Raymond is a student of Scott F. Guinn who also edited this publication and published it as printed booklet in 2003. One can clearly see Scott's mentoring shining through. A unique feature of this book is that Raymond has organized his tricks in performances suited for particular situations. For example you will find 'Adult Set',...

California Gang Knives, Raymonde Crowe's routine for the color-changing knives, includes two new sleights. The routine includes a comedy presentation, bonus comedy lines, and ends strong when a knife magically shrinks into a miniature knife. At the finale you are automatically reset. California Gang Knives can be performed in short sleeves and jeans.

My aim in this routine was to move beyond repetitive color changes, and over-reliance on the paddle/turnover move, and to conclude the routine strongly. I also wanted to move beyond just describing black and white knives changing places, but...

Reginald Scot intended his Discoverie of Witchcraft as a sensible argument disputing the existence of witches. It also features a small section on magic. The magic section starts with Booke 13 and Chapter 22. You will find rich full accounts of charges against witches, witch trials and practice of the black arts. Further, interviews with convicted witches, excerpts from inquisition, astrology, alchemy, charms, the names of demons, angels and other "words of power", spells, rituals, sabbats, biblical and Egyptian magic, and more. The Discoverie remains a much quoted primary source for those interested...

Numbers have tremendous power. They rule life and the universe. There is no living being, molecule, event, evolution that cannot be described with an algorithm, a mathematical formula. Numbers, everywhere. From the speed of light to the circumference of the earth, to the inhabitants of the world, to the ATM pin. And then your lucky number, the number of destiny, bad luck, infinity ...

In my methodical (and obstinate) search for effects to be proposed on the phone, numbers are the absolute protagonist. Except for a few small tricks, they are all a consequence of one or more mathematical...

It is not easy to define, in a few words, Mariano Tomatis, but I want to try: he is a "Curiosity Generator". Because his books, his conferences, and, above all, his "pills" on Youtube (Mesmer in pills) are for me an inexhaustible source of information, culture (magical or otherwise), ideas, and, above all, a continuous stimulus to know, to seek, to try, to create, to "go upstairs".

Two pills, in particular, struck me and interested me (n ° 92: Coin, pen and cell phone, and n ° 228: Seeing with the third eye): once seen, I tried to analyze possible developments, discovering Masters, authors,...

Conducting effects on the telephone presents some "structural" difficulties:

You have to prepare a meticulous presentation and review it in detail; in close-up or on stage you have the viewer in your presence and you can check at any time if they are following your instructions correctly. On the phone no! You must therefore try to write simple, unique instructions and you must check periodically (if not almost every time) that these have been carried out as you expected.

You must prepare (as with all performances) an introduction that describes the purpose of the game, where you start...

This is number 4.5 of the Paul Diamond "Gems of Magic Book" series.

• Tic-Tac-Toe
• Okito Coin-Box Routine
• Transpo Silks Deluxe
• Rattle-Bars Are "Ringing"
• Produce The Load Chamber
• Case To Table
• Son Of King Tut - Levitation
• The Kraus-Kut
• Roll-Over Coin Sleight
• A Good "Music-Stand" Table
• Wrist-Coin Flip
• Block and Rope Penetration
• Thumb-Press Coin Vanish
• Simplex Salt Shaker
• "Super Coin-On" Variation
• Fishpole-Flagstaff Production

1st edition 1974, 23 pages; 1st digital edition 2015 PDF 23 pages.