Magic & Mentalism: page 100

Harlan's greatest hits with previously unreleased material. A handpicked collection of the highest quality original magic that has defined Harlan's incredible career. It's a long, strange trip through a creative mind filled with cards, coins, ropes, rubber bands and processed cheese. So, turn the pages to discover how a legendary magical genius thinks.

Includes:

• All Clear
• Hologram Hare
• Snappy Penetrations
• Traveling Cash
• Burnt to the Core
• Meltdown
• Whiplash
• One of These Days
• Joint Venture
• Psychotic Surgery
• Rising Dough
• Newsline
• Equalibrium
• Tight Rope
• World's Saddest Trick ...

So, you want to be a good magician? Get these performance, routining, and creativity notes, which detail step-by-step instructions to make your magic better. Packed with time saving tips and techniques that you can use to quickly elevate your routines to a professional level. Learn how to use the Triple-Trilogy Structure and the powerful Series of Three Principle to plan your entire show. Then, you'll learn how to fully script your routines (forget about "patter"), organize your props, practice and rehearse (yes, they are different!), and conduct your business professionally.

Plus, you'll...

Innovative! Brilliant! Impossible! As seen on TV! So, what is Crazy-8? A signed piece of paper is torn, rearranged, and restored MIS-MADE... and it's still signed. No tape, no glue, just magic! The spectator keeps the cool souvenir of your awesome magical powers. Plus, you'll learn how to do it with a borrowed dollar bill. Imagine that!

Includes: Fully illustrated instructions with the professional script written and performed by Harlan. Original artwork for making your own gimmicks... no refills needed. Full instructions for Crazy-Cash with information on how to obtain the secret materials...

This is a two part routine - vanish three coins, one by one, and reproduce the same three coins again one by one.

The reason Radek prefers to first vanish coins and then make them reappear, as apposed to have three coins appear and then vanish them, is the fact that you can do this routine with borrowed coins. You start with examined coins and then show a miracle which is much stronger than the other way around. You borrow coins or take them out of your pocket – at this point there is no doubt these are just three regular coins. Magic starts when you vanish them. When the coins are re-produced...

Like a nail writer only more practical. For years mentalists have been racking their brains trying to find the perfect solution as to how to make an ink writer. Scott Xavier has found a practical solution you can make yourself.

Unlike other systems, there's no cutting of ink cartridges, instead everything needed can be picked up at a local office supply store! You will also need an old thumb tip. In this video Xavier takes you through the steps to constructing the ink writer as well as how to use it in action.

1st edition 2011; runtime 15 minutes

In this set of notes you will find several tricks and routines that have served Aldo well during the last few years as a stand-up performer. In fact, the tricks explained here can all be done standing up as no table is required and are great for walk around or strolling magic. Done this way you simply use the hands of the spectators to help you.

Aldo has written these tricks and routines with the assumption that you already know some basic magic such as a card control, a Double Undercut, an Elmsley Count and the like. Aldo's purpose here is not to teach you ‘sleights’ but rather ‘routines’...

Here’s another ebook from Aldo containing 21 routines using sponge balls, coins, newspaper, cards, jumbo cards, balls, ropes, rubber bands and more. Aldo has been using some of these routines during his acts for quite some years; “Jumbo Jumble” for example, is still one of his favorite effects, so is “Real Danger” which he uses a lot. For close-up workers, do not overlook “Heart 2 Heart,” “Nose Out” and “Another’s Bet.”

You also have a couple of very strong routines here for children’s entertainers, namely “Kaleidoscope Ropes” and “Knot Knots.”

• Countdown ...

For several years Aldo had a column in the Linking Ring magazine. At the time Phil Willmarth was the editor and he was so kind and open minded enough that he basically let Aldo make fun of everything and everyone.

The columns not only contained some good magic but Aldo was able to include some funny stuff as well. Also, between tricks and gags you will find suggestions on how to improve your presentations with regards to our art of magic.

The structure of the column was an easy one: 1) Some fun and 2) some magic and it worked. Aldo has collected in this e-book many of his favorite columns...

This is Victor Farelli's answer to: "Can you tell fortunes?"

As magician you will occasionally encounter this question. Farelli describes and teaches a strong effect that can be done with a borrowed deck of cards. At the end Farelli includes some practical advice on fortune telling.

Briefly, the effect is as follows. Having been requested by a lady in the company to tell her her fortune, the magician asks her to give him the date and the month (not the year - never ask the age of a woman!) of her birth. Pretending to make some intricate calculations, he informs the sitter that her "lucky"...

Here you have thirteen effects with a ring and a rope, both ordinary. Aldo does not recommend to perform all 13 in a row as it may be too long of a routine, but select the ones you like and create your own sequence.

Ring and rope effects are always popular with any audience. They take little room in your pocket or performing table and are always ready to go. Both routines are also available as a download DVD of the same name: Still Ringing Around (download DVD)

1st edition 2011; 17 pages.

Practical effects with cards, flowers and silks. Here is Verrall Wass in his own words about the motivation of this book:

First advertised as The New Conjurors' Magazine and dropped the word "New" after Vol 1, No. 1. Houdini's brother, Hardeen, helped get this magazine launched, but he passed away shortly after the magazine started. It was selected as the official organ for the Magician's Guild of America. It eventually changed hands to Ed Dart in 1947 (Volume 4, #10), with Robert Lund as editor (Gibson still continued as a columnist).

Genii magazine absorbed The Conjurors' Magazine and from November, 1949 until 1974 as Genii became Genii, The Conjurors' Magazine. It was eventually changed to Genii The International Conjurors'...

Vol. 7, No. 2, May 2011; 68 pages

Cover: John Bannon

5. Welcome - editor's letter
6. Letters
7. Magic Frankenstein - humor
8. News
10. Colin McLeod: The Boy Wonder - interview by Chris Rawlins
15. News
16. Welcome to the Fellowship - Fellowship of Christian Magicians - UK 2011 Conference review by Matt Pritchard
20. 8th South Tyneside International Magic Festival Convention - review by Stuart Bowie and Paul Preager
24. Magic in The Netherlands - article by Fritz Alkemade
28. Comedy Cavern - article by Graham Hey
30. Magic Seen Online! - Column by George Luck
    • Vanishing Inc.
34. John Bannon: Hitting the Target - cover article/interview...

If you are planning to add an illusion to your show this is required reading.

Is this ebook for me? Here is David in his own words:

Die Magische Notizen war die Vereinszeitschrift der Zauberfreunde Berlin. Sie wurde zwischen Februar 1982 und September 2001 publiziert - 1149 Seiten, 40 Ausgaben in 20 Jahrgaengen. Mehrere fantastische Schmankerln befinden sich in dieser Zeitschrift.

This is one of the earliest publications which has Burling Hull's Svengali deck described. Hull called it originally the "Cards Mysterious". Even in this early publication he complains about unauthorized copies being sold by unscrupulous dealers. A hundred years later and nothing has changed. We still have magic retailers and manufacturers producing and selling illegal and unauthorized copies of magic products.

One thing has changed though over the last 100 years - the use of Bicycle cards. Hull writes:

"Stellar, practical and definitely holds it's weight on deserving to be on the market." - Lloyd Barnes (The Magic Cafe)

"The effect here is brilliant and fits into so many different areas of performance. The ability to transfer the effect from cards to photos is what did it for me. Im obsessed with photo magic and this will be a great one to add to the mix! it truly rocks!" - Jamie Daws (Phantasm, Scared)

"This is truly brilliant and well worth the money." - Darren61 (The Magic Cafe)

Foreword by leading card cheat and deceptions expert Daniel Madison.

The Ashes concept is a combination of versatile...

A spectator forms a five-figure number from freely chosen digits. The mentalist successfully divines the spectator's number.

"some very clever thinking" - Banachek

• Completely impromptu!
• No force of digits or number.
• No complicated calculations or difficult memory work.
• No props or gimmicks - just pen and paper.
• No peeks necessary.
• Works every time.
• Can be performed over the phone.
• Clever mathematical principle.
• Concept can be used to develop other routines.
• Includes a browser App (for computer, tablet or smartphone) which guides you through the process (no memory of calculation...

The ultimate assembly!

Four Kings are placed on the table and three cards are placed onto them. The first King vanishes and now you have two Kings in the second packet. They vanish and you now have three Kings on the third packet. They vanish and in the fourth packet you have….the four Aces! The Kings are found on top of four other packets!

Routine with cards that you will use. Includes Aldo's famous Jumbo Coincidence with a cut in half packet of jumbo cards. Special guest appearance by Cameron Francis who performs his two effects.

• ACES UP (Lin Searles): The four Aces are lost in the deck and they reappear on top.
• LOST AND FOUND (Nick Trost): You find a selected card under impossible conditions after the spectator shuffles the deck.
• JOKER DILEMMA (Aldo Colombini): A card matches your prediction and the whole deck turns out to be all Jokers.
• CARD LIE SPELLER (Marty Kane): One of the best versions of the 'Lie Detector' theme.
• A 'LESSEN' IN DISHONESTY...

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...

Table of Contents

11. The Principles Of Natural Magic
13. Manner And Gesture
14. The Conjurer's Clothes
15. The Wand
16. The Table
17. To Palm A Coin
18. The Back And Front Palm
24. To Change A Coin
26. Coin And Glass Trick
27. A Coin Wrapped In Paper Disappears
29. To Pass Ten Coins Held In Left Hand Into A Glass Held In Right Hand At Arm's Length
32. The Aerial Mint
34. Production Of Handkerchiefs
37. To Produce A Number Of Real Hen's Eggs From A Handkerchief
39. The Handkerchiefs And Soup Plate
42. Wonderful Torn And Restored Paper
43. The Mysteriously-Joined Handkerchiefs
47. The Changing Handkerchiefs
50. A Ring Passed On To Stick Or Wand...

Take a bit of “Miraskill,” a twist each of Mirabill and “A View To A Skill” and mix with “Minimal Miraskill.” Between Stewart James, Herb Zarrow, John Bannon and Dr. Bill, you will have one of the strongest effects possible to perform over the telephone.

The good doctor had been seeking a way to perform Mirabill over the phone ever since its release but it seemed impossible. Until now.

Telephone Bill looks and sounds different than any of the above but utilizes James’s original brilliant principle and is every bit as squeaky-clean as Mirabill. Live and in person it is mind bending. But over the phone? Your audience...

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...