Magic & Mentalism: page 333

From the preface:

• Preface
• Magnetised Cards
• Blue Sympathy
• Dissolving Knots
• Cups And Balls Notion
• Parasol Exchange Tube
• The Egg Bag Again
• Diminishing Coins
• Double Fan For Fan Workers
• The "T.S." Knife
• The Match Jumper
• The Quickie Handkerchief Tube
• Postal Order Restoration
• Note In Beer...

Jerry Clowin has made a significant improvement to the method published in Golf Ball in Glass. It builds on that same basic method, but introduces an important refinement which allows you to overcome a bigger difference between golf ball diameter and jar opening. With this new method it is much less of a hit and miss, and the search for the proper jars has become a lot easier, too.

Besides safety equipment (safety glasses and gloves) you will need in particular three tools to accomplish this task. One tool pretty much every normal household has. The second tool is found in most workshops, the last one you...

Tear off the end of a straw and visually reattach it. Tested on hundreds of spectators. Gimmick fits easily into your pocket. Learn two methods for restoring straw. Before and after the show, you can hand it out for verification.

1st edition 2020, length 6 min.

The spectator chooses one card and signs it. The magician tears off the corner of that card and places the card in the middle of a deck. The corner visually disappears and appears on top of the chosen card - right in the middle of the deck.

1st edition 2020, length 15 min.

Aus dem Vorwort:

Aus dem Nachwort:

• Vorwort / Rudolph Braunmüller
• Aaa-Kellen / Paul Maurer
• Fischkonserve
• Colour-Chip-Capriolen
• Bank Night "verkehrt"
• Amore
• Variationen zm Schaf-Diebstahl
• Rendez-vous mit MONI
• Mord in Arizona
• Rubik Magic Cube / Peki, Magiro, Eckerhard Böttcher
• Chip-Sinfonie ...

A tremendous amount of thought, study and development has gone into the routine and presentation of this effect, the result of many years of refinement and actual performance before paying audiences. Maurice has performed this effect literally thousands of times under all sorts of conditions, in cabaret and on stage. It has been an unfailing highlight of his performances, talked about and remembered. So many mental effects give the audience nothing to look at and use the same old plots. Certainly, from the very moment the audience see the arresting sight of a gallows before them the effect must...

Here's a rare opportunity to obtain 50 of Thayer's ideas for tricks that they planned to release in the 1940s, but due to wartime restrictions, were unable to produce in large quantities. Back in the day, hundreds of magicians said: "Thayer, I wish I could go through your files. You must have hundreds of ideas stored away: tricks that magicians have sent you for sale and manufacture." And Thayer listened. In their files and desk drawers were literally hundreds of ideas. Some they sought out and paid for. Others were given to them. But because of wartime government priorities, it was impossible...

When your audience cannot come to you, you need to take your performance to them. Using equipment and materials you already own, you can get started. Pending the success you can grow your online magic as big as you wish. This text will help you get started with webcams, microphones, recording environment, planning your show and other things to consider.

• Overview
• Camera and microphone
• Lighting
• Camera angle
• Production, performance assistance
• Show
• Sponsors
• Recorded shows
• Pricing
• Wrapping it up
• Sources

1st edition 2020, PDF 28 pages.

On November 2012 the first European Close-up Magic Symposium brought 20 magicians from all over the world to Milan for 2 days of non-stop close-up magic, with lectures and performances, private sessions and gala shows. The routines in this issue selects among the best routines. Expect some knuckle busters as most of the contributors in this issue are some of the best names in the close-up magic. All routines are complete with performance and explanation.

DANI DAORTIZ: "Forcing card"
One of the best cardicians of our time shows us and explains a beautiful routine with detailed explanation teaching every...

The ace assembly effect is a plot that has been done to death in the annals of card magic. The following is my version of an ace assembly effect with a twist at the end. The method is so simple that even a beginner can master and perform it.

Four aces are dealt face down next to each other. Three indifferent cards are added to each pile. The magician says that he will attempt to move all the aces from the different piles into one pile. After some mumbo jumbo, the aces have disappeared from three of the piles. When the fourth pile is turned over, to everyone's surprise, it contains ... the...

• End of Year
• Market to Market
• Creativity
• Intentionally Revealed Trick
• Personal Library
• Chain Letter / Email
• Pandemic Impact

1st edition 2020, 10 pages.

This was the catalog for Max Holden's Magic Shop. He had two stores, one in New York City, and one in Boston. He specialized in books. The 8 issues run from 1948 to 1951.

PDF 36 pages.

The master of the 'impossible' folded card reveals how you can incorporate initials into your designs, allowing you to personalize these unique one-of-a-kind give-aways.

The special folded cards include the initials of you or your spectator or anybody else for that matter. Create an impossible gift you can hand out as a souvenir. You get the video instruction and the templates (see the digital shelf). Ralf also teaches you how to change the initials seen in the templates. Below you see one design example.

1st edition 2020, video length 31 min.

Take two cards, fold them length-wise, and stab one card into another. (Gimmick requires elastic thread.)

1st edition 2020, video length 10:14.

A collection of basic information about circuses small and big, their names and when they were in operation.

• War Time Circus
• Shows Harry Bowman was connected with
• Famous Firsts in Circus History
• Circus Wrecks and Accidents
• Circuses and Tent Shows (in alphabetical order)

1st edition 1942, 31 pages; PDF 75 pages.

This is a marvelous ebook on mostly sleight-less card magic. The only skills you will need to bring to these effects are presentational. Pros will tell you the presentational aspect of a trick is more difficult to master than any sleight or move. That probably is true, however, these effects have been selected and re-worked so as to have built-in impact so that your presentation can even be as direct as simply stating exactly what you are doing. This is the most basic form of presentation, but it remains effective for those who do not have the creativity or inherent comedy to develop entertaining...

"Within the inner circle of coin magic, the work of Giacomo Bertini has been known and respected for years." - Stephen Minch

1st edition 2020, length 10 min 20s.

GIACOMO BERTINI: "Cylinder & Chips"
This is his easy version of the famous coin routine. Giacomo uses poker chips instead of coins and his own gimmick, which you can buy from him. He created this routine for professional use, such as when working at event dinners, and in any difficult situation, anywhere. The effect is amazing, like the classical version, but in this case, the routine is really easy to perform, and the hands are really empty, in front of the spectators. Very beautiful routine for stand-up workers. Beginner level.

DARYL: "The Manly Matrix"
This is a wonderful version of the classic...

On November 12th and 13th 2011 the second European Coin Magic Symposium brought 16 magicians from all over the world to Milan for two days of non-stop coin magic, with lectures and performances, private sessions and gala shows. The routines in this issue is a selection of the best. They were shot live at the symposium, and they are very impressive and strong. Expect some knuckle busters as most of the contributors in this issue are the best names in the Coin Magic genre. All routines are complete with performance and explanation.

GIACOMO BERTINI: "Matrix Colors"
You can see this amazing...

Robert Walker was a unicycling, high-school student. Looking five years younger than he was, he was a dyed-in-the-wool card guy tutored in Marlovian ways. He was also a precocious writer-creator, obsessed with false counts and packet tricks. He spent many hours "twisting the night away," taking voluminous notes, and developing new methods and approaches. His first mini-treatise dissected a marketed packet trick by Larry West ("Wild, Wild West") which he passed onto Jon Racherbaumer to publish. It became the second installment of the loose-leaf Avatar, printed on pink paper and unadorned by illustrations...

A seemingly "impossible" book test.

George Arrowsmith wrote:

Visual movement of holes on a playing card.

Show a playing card which has random holes in it. This is best done by putting it in front of a light source, such as your phone's screen. In an instant the holes rearrange to something meaningful. It could be a simple image, the name of a card, a spectator name, a date, anything you can think of. It is a great way to reveal a prediction.

1st edition 2020, video length 17 min.

It's not a trick, it's a system ... Imagine that you have an option to change the color of a freely chosen and signed card. Mario Tarasini introduces his new portable flap system. You can place a special portable flap system on any card to immediately change its color and hand it over to the spectator.

1st edition 2020, video length 10 min 51 s.