Magic & Conjuring: page 22

Tricks, sleights, and routines with watches.

Paul Fleming wrote:

With this method, you can magically fold an origami bird in record time, animate drawings, or change your predictions. There are 3 applications included, though I'm sure you will think of more. And the box can be shown empty before and after the magic happens.

This includes:

• 30 minutes of instruction
• 3 applications
• A card routine
• The Enchilada Color Change

1st edition 2018, length 30 min

This is an updated version of the classic Tipover Box. It allows for a very casual and innocent handling. (Includes PDF and video.)

1st edition 2018, 4 pages.

As magicians we are hired to entertain. The show must go on is a harsh truth that we all accept responsibility for. The fact is performances do not always take place without problems. If you have ever found yourself standing in the lights, with a failed trick you know what I am talking about. The audience knows the magic was a complete flop. There is no one else on stage with you. When that happens, we all promise we will never put ourselves in that situation again.

Your magic may be "performance ready" but is it also "audience ready"? This text talks about conditioning for the unexpected....

Inside these notes you will find routines, thoughts, and short essays on the art of magic. These effects range from quick fun effects to full blown formal close-up routines. There is something for every close-up performer in here. Lessons in misdirection are found throughout this ebook. Principles explored with in this magic lecture can be applied to many effects you already perform. The effects are straightforward and hard hitting for real audience. Simple workable routines and ideas.

Magic Effects

TacsMan: One by one, a dime, penny, and quarter penetrate a tic tac box.

Sweet: A truly...

From the foreword by Fred Castl:

• Publishers' Preface ...

This ebook includes innovative sleight of hand routines for the modern magician. A familiarity with basic sleights is required. This is book one of a trilogy. The other two titles are The Shade and The Lizard Wizard's Diary.

From the Foreword by Doug MacGeorge:

• Foreword
• Bennett's Silken Sorcery Routine
• Perfected Silk Production
• Take Five
• Eight Ball Routine

1st edition 1978, 80 pages; 1st digital edition 56 pages.

Imagine being able to offer a challenge that you will do a trick with any object, any member of the audience might have on them. Yes, you can do just that and with complete safety and no fear of failure.

The advertising and publicity possibilities with this act are unlimited. Challenge your friends or family to stump you. Advertise that if someone in the audience stumps you, then they don't pay your show fee. This will give you a competitive edge over other magicians in your area.

HOW WAS THIS ACT CREATED: At a meeting of the I.B.M, Grant commented to another magician, "Wouldn't it be...

A kind of early Tarbell Course with its 21 lessons. However, it is obvious that Stanyon didn't put as much thought as Tarbell into it. It appears mostly a somewhat sorted and grouped list of magic tricks which were new back then.

1. New Coin Tricks
2. Bibliography of Conjuring
3. New Coin Tricks
4. New Handkerchief Tricks
5. New Card Tricks
6. New Miscellaneous Tricks and Memory Feats
7. New Juggling Tricks
8. New Card Tricks
9. The Original Tricks of Clement de Lion
10. New Miscellaneous Tricks
11. New Fire Tricks and Chemical Magic for the Stage
12. Great Paper and String Tricks
13. Great Handcuff Tricks
14. Stanyon's New Silent Thought Transmission ...

Baker was a funny and versatile performer who performed and contributed unique routines from mentalism to cards, from stage and parlor to close-up, including a hypnosis show.

Also check out Baker's Bonanza by Hugh Miller.

• Publisher's Preface
• Foreword
• Section One: Card Chicanery
  • Spectator's 'Impossible' Divination
  • Chance-It!
  • Spot On!
  • Bewitched
  • Spooky Sunday
  • Flash Card
  • Betyatis
• Section Two: Roy's Cunning Close-Ups
  • Non-Stop Stopper
  • Torn-Lit-Cig
  • The Match Fountain
  • Hokey Pokey
  • Condi-Mental
  • Sneaky Snake
  • The Missing Link
  • Spoonerism
  • A Date To Remember
  • Stamp-It
  • A Cheeky Cigarette Move
  • Crazy Coin...

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

Paul Fleming wrote:

The Handbook for Impromptu Magic

• Preface
• At The Dinner Table
  • Coin Through Saucer
  • Coin Vanish
  • Coin And Glass Of Water
  • Inflation
  • Coin Tester
  • Balancing Coins
  • Phoenix Matches
  • Smokeless Cigarettes
  • Multiplying Matches
  • Musical Cutlery
  • Telepathic Tapping
  • Psychic Steam
  • Burning Sugar
  • Production Of A Glass Of Wine
  • Bending A Spoon
  • Salt Transposition
  • Seven-Cornered Napkin
  • Surprise Penetration
  • Vanishing Shaker
• Impromptu Magic ... Anywhere!
  • Evaporating Scent
  • Disappearing Pen
  • Drink Cards
  • Horrific
  • Telekinesis
  • Vanishing Ring
  • Maxwell's Miracle
  • Coin Penetration
  • Optical Change ...

Mental Magic, Close-Up, Ropes, Money, Handkerchief, Cards, Stage and TV Tricks, Novelty Magic, and Behind the Curtain (tips on presentation, business, etc.)

• Preface
• Chapter One: Mental Magic
  • In The Crystal
  • Ball-Point Prediction
  • Palm Writing
  • Torn Centre Application
  • Blindfold Vision
  • Third Sight
  • Chalk Mark Telepathy
  • Think Of An Object
  • Think Of A Man
  • Find The Pin
  • Chairback Transmission
  • Getting The Chalk
  • Colours
  • Afterthought
  • Super Date Sense
  • Stage Version
  • Impromptu Version
  • Predicting The Winner
• Chapter Two: Close-Up Conjuring
  • Flame Up
  • A Glass Vanish
  • My Glass Through...

This ebook covers a wide variety of stand up, close up, and stage magic from the brilliant mind of Peter Warlock. Mentalism, Cards, Silks, Rope, Ball and Cone, and more.

• Aces Low
• Touchdown
• Kolar
• Mind Out Of Time
• Twang
• Android
• Android Two
• Tinker Bell
• Zodiac
• Slalem
• Tour De Force
• Jinx
• Five Chairs
• Trivu
• Tempus
• Nick
• Endora
• 3 Times Lucky
• Oldie
• A Matter Of Note
• Prize Winner
• The Cone & Ball Routine
• Willow Pattern Mystery
• Silks & Beakers
• Sympathetic Selection
• Red & White Mystery
• Triple Restoration

128 pages; PDF 79 pages.

Whether you perform on the stage, platform, or for more intimate audiences, there's sure to be something you can use in this terrific ebook. The author and his friends, including Edward Saint, provide a plethora of entertaining illusions and mysteries that you'll be proud to perform.

We liked the original book, but felt the editing left something to be desired. Now with a modern face lift, these effects are ready to amaze your audiences. Includes a mix of straight and comedic magic involving cards, rope, silks, an escape, a livestock appearance that's as nice as anything you can buy from...

Tired of just learning a bunch of tricks from books and videos? Now you will learn a terrific show that has three superb full-scale routines, all expertly spliced together by the author to produce an amazing close-up show. Whether you are performing for money, or at a party, or a gathering of any kind...you will now, always be ready to perform with these monster effects. Don't let the low price fool you. Plus a Bonus is included that has many different uses.

Video included with this e-book.

1) PASTEBOARD PRISON - This beautiful, colorful routine has many roots by Marlo, Mike Skinner, Alan Ackerman, Jim Surprise, and...

This is a two book series teaching principles and philosophy to bring you magic to the next level.

The first book analyzes secrets of Derren Brown, David Blaine and Penn & Teller's success and breaks them down into 13 powerful principles you can start applying to your magic now.

Here's what you'll learn in Secrets of Superstar Magic:

• How Derren Brown completely screwed up my magic for years
• The one true secret to magic and learning hidden inside Dani DaOrtiz quote
• How to use the power of Colliding
• The Louis CK method of creating material that will make you stand out from other magicians
• David...

Many effects from famous magicians such as Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller, Fred Keating, David Devant, T. Nelson Downs, Ross Horwitz, Nate Leipzig and of course Faucett Ross himself.

• PREFACE
• A Magician and his Magic
  • Faucett Ross
  • Letters to Charlie Miller
  • The Beginning
  • The Business Side
  • Rules and Common Sense
  • Practice
  • The Magician
  • Showmanship
  • A Bargain
  • Advice on Programmes
• Section One: HANDKERCHIEF MAGIC
  • A Glass and a Silk
  • The Colour Change
  • Handkerchief Box Routine
  • Cut, Burnt and Restored Handkerchief
  • Novel Addition
  • Handkerchief Cane
  • Producing a Silk
  • Fountain of Silks
• Section Two: AN ORIENTAL FLAVOUR
  • Snowstorm in...

You will get both a PDF and a video (download from your digital shelf).

PDF
3 Disk Monte is a variation of the street hustle often played with cards. Three black face down disks, one with a white dot, are mixed. The spectator tries to guess which disk is the one with the white dot. The disks have increasingly gained popularity due to their visibility and handling. This PDF illustrates and describes the various sleights that can be used while performing this effect. Topics include the basics plus some of the more advanced moves that can be used.

• The Disks
• The Mat
• Working Height
• The...

A pro stage performer opens his vault of treasured miracles, revealing his favorite magic and psychic effects, plus secrets to get your act booked.

As Nelmar, the author entertained thousands with his stage hypnotism, magic and psychic act. He reveals his favorite effects, ranging from mentalism to card effects to sleights with coins. But that's not all! Nelmar also reveals important business aspects, including how to get booked, how to make "cold" calls, and even two samples of letters he used to get more gigs.

Here's a look at what's included in this ebook:

Chapter I (MENTAL MAGIC)....

A wonderful selection of tricks illustrated by Harlan Tarbell with an introduction by John Mulholland. For each author a short biographical sketch is included at the end of the book.

THE FINGER KNOWS—AND TELLS (Al Baker) A truly amazing example of mind reading.

THE GLASS TRICK (Roy Benson) An instantaneous, and seemingly impossible, disappearance of a handkerchief.

SEVEN COINS (Al Flosso) A clever sleight to cause several coins to go from one hand to the other.

THE PIERCED CARDS (Robert Harbin) An excellent manipulative method by which selected cards are caused to appear on a ribbon.

DUO-FLIGHT (Leo Hartz;...

It's Not Just About the Cards is a brief look at performance skills for the magician.

It covers:

• The types of performing areas commonly used and how to utilise that space and engage the audience.
• The Physical and Vocal side of performing.
• An approach of how to build a 'stage' or 'performing' character.

1st edition 2017, 28 pages.