Video clips (download) in Magic & Conjuring: page 38

Balancing objects is part of visual magic. Many magicians try to make it clean and beautiful. M.O.Balance is a new approach to the effect of balance. Three very visual and simple effects.

Hand Balance: You make a card stand flat on your hand.

Angle Balance: The corner of a card balances on your index finger.

Balancing Cigarette: A very crazy and brain-breaking trick. You balance a card, and also balance a cigarette on the card.

After the trick, all items are handed out for examination.

1st edition 2020, length 9 min.

Visual and practical effects are rarely combined into one trick. Hallucination is a very practical and visual trick. Imagine you draw 4 points on a playing card, after which you shake the deck and they line up, and that’s not all, you shake the deck again and the points completely disappear.

1st edition 2020, length 6:27.

A clever, clean and visual sleight-of-hand disappearance of a finger-ring. A technique with which you can make a ring disappear or you can turn it into a coin. You will need a little practice, but it's worth it.

BONUS EFFECT: Put the ring on the table, cover it with a card and it disappears.

1st edition 2020, length 5:42.

A multiple shift allows you to control several cards inserted at different places in the deck to the bottom or top of the deck.

runtime 12min

Steven has a very good classic force and he shares his tips and tricks with you.

runtime 8 min

Erdnase on Edge is a finessed Erdnase top palm.

runtime 5min 10s

runtime 1min 42s

Steven teaches how to achieve a natural looking hand while a card is being palmed. You will learn Dai Vernon's Topping the Pack.

runtime 14min 24s

You will learn two versions for the classic Homing Card effect. The first one uses only one palm and is for the beginner and the second version uses two palms.

runtime 6min

This technique was taught to Steven by the late Paul Chosse. It allows you to do either a perfect In-Faro or Out-Faro.

runtime 6min

This is a side steal from a spread rather than a squared up deck. It combines ideas from Ed Marlo and the deliberate steal and Jack MacMillen. You will also learn how to side steal a face up card including a cover deck turn motion which will make this completely invisible.

runtime 10min 50s

Usually this force is described using a knife as in the Amateur Magicians' Handbook. However, anything flat that can be inserted into a deck works, for example another playing card or a business card. Steven includes several applications and finesses to this wonderful force.

runtime 6min 43s

The top change allows you to exchange a card held in one hand with the top card of the deck held in your other hand.

runtime 5min 20s

The Touch Force is an old idea that can be traced back to Hofzinser. It is described in many books among them The Royal Road to Card Magic.

runtime 5min 29s

The Zarrow Shuffle is a full deck false shuffle. Steven does it without the usual slip-cut.

runtime 2min 37s

Blockbuster Book Test is a movie theme book test that can be performed close-up, table hopping, in a children's show or on stage. There are several live performances followed by a full explanation of the variation principles used. There are three stages to my routine including a quick flashback revelation, a first letter type reveal, and a prediction ending.

The book can be purchased from most book shops including Amazon and can be fully examined. Furthermore, the movie title is in an extremely large font making it easy to read without glasses and from a distance. The movie revelation allows...

Please note that this video is in Vietnamese. There are some English subtitles, but for the most part you will get the instructions of how to make the gimmick and how to perform with it from the visual contents of the video.

The label changes to another one while it is under the plastic cover of the notebook. This is great for the back to school crowd.

1st edition 2016, length 12 minutes.

Please note that this video is in English but with a heavy Vietnamese accent. However, just following the visual instructions you can construct the gimmick and perform this miracle.

A coin gets absorbed into a notebook turning into a sketch.

1st edition 2016, length 13 minutes.

A card is selected and signed. The signature magically transfers onto a completely different card.

Recorded live at the Convention at the Capital 2001.

runtime: 6min 59s

A fun, short and original routine whereby one of the two half dollars changes to a quarter and the other half dollar changes to a silver dollar. Student of Shigeo Takagi, Shigeo is now considered the dean of Japanese coinmagic. Beautiful routine to work at the table. Beginner/Intermediate level.

length 9min

[Note that this method is not the method Richard Osterlind uses for his trademark penny bend effect.]

Imagine being able to bend a borrowed and signed spectator's penny, in their own hand in a visual manner. Your audience sees the penny bending in their hand!

You'll learn a secret technique to get a penny to bend as well as make it bend visually for the spectator. This method was inspired by James T. Cheung and Mentalism Plus. (Another description of the same method can be found in Steve Pellegrino's The Underground Penny Bend PDF.)

Does not use:

• pre-bent coins
• any kind of bending gimmicks which need to be palmed or introduced and ditched secretly

Turn your business card into a Swiss army tool that will allow you to read minds and reveal exactly what your spectators are thinking!

This peek comes with a magic square example and a lot of practical advice on how to make it appear that you can read minds.

No funny folds. No goofy handling. You can even let the spectator hold the business card. This video is a course in peeking under the nose of the spectator.

1st edition 2012, run-time 27 minutes

Learn the skills of the side show performer...

Within this 40 plus minute video, you will learn the skills to make a living as a side show magician and freak show performer.

• You'll learn the human block head routine, where you'll be able to hammer a nail into your head.
• Learn to gaff glass to make glass walking infinitely safer.
• Learn super human strength technique to tear an Apple into two pieces.
• A complete expose on making side show fire torches in a pinch, a flame fuel that is a solid and non-petroleum based and infinitely safer, you'll also see how a real freak show artist performs...

In this new video you will learn a new peak technique using a standard window envelope or a windowed wallet. It's completely clean and passes all scrutiny. It also justifies the need to peak. Also included is a whole section on zip ties you will learn three methods for escaping zip ties which will allow you to create new stage effects and publicity stunts. You can dress up all your existing escapes including the Cabaret Rope Escape by using this new 21st century handcuffing method. Also included is a new take on a Russian Roulette with water. This is great for family mentalism and always gets...