Magic & Mentalism: page 11

This is currently the most complete and thorough work on the use of Frixion pens (heat sensitive ink) in magic.

At first glance, Stone Frixion Fire plumbs the depths of what can be accomplished with these ingenious pens to entertain your audience. But it goes farther: it cultivates directions in which these pens can take your performing. The effects presented are smooth and very reachable for nearly any performer. Good, solid material all the way around.

With the coming of Frixion to America, now is the time to ride the wave. Stone Frixion Fire is the most comprehensive study of this fascinating...

From the introduction:

Darren McQuade and Liam Montier's superb ebook features seven new ideas using a Frixion pen. You can obtain a Frixion pen from most stationary stores worldwide. You will learn some superb and off-beat magic using the Frixion principle in totally commercial and practical routines, as opposed to half-baked pipe dreams that similar publications on the same topic offer.

This ebook takes you through what the Frixion principle is, how to conceal it, how to activate it, and then six killer real-world routines. These include:

Visual Voodoo - Help a spectator out by performing a visual voodoo...

Here's a great change of pace routine for the magician -- an act that parodies the medicine pitchman. Audiences love it ... and you will, too.

The author includes his exact routine, including every bit of the hilarious patter and bits of business that made Tommy's act a laugh riot on stages from coast to coast. Not burlesque, but a clean comedy "pitch" act that can be performed in churches and schools as well as lodges and clubs. Full of laughs, but not a "blue" gag in the lot. A riot of fun but contains nothing to offend anyone.

You sell and demonstrate "Dr. Presto's Magical Medicines...

A fantastic lecture by the king of street magicians, Jim Cellini. While you will learn a number of wonderful routines, the really special stuff is everything else, the equipment he uses, the way he performs, etc.

• Hank Routine
• Coin Routine
• Cigarette Routine
• Rope Routine
• Cups and Balls Routine
• Color, Sound and Movement
• The Pitch
• Costumes
• The Pouches
• The Rope
• The Table
• How to Get a Crowd?
• Working in Restaurants
• Inside the Costume and Topit
• The Hats
• Keep It Simple - The Gypsy
• Passing the Hat
• Slydini's Thumb Tip
• Coin Magic
• Vanishing Coins
• Cigarette Magic
• Cigarette Eating ...

• The Call of the East
• The Wandering Bottle
• The Repeat Six Card Trick
• Es-Ta Burnt and Restored Handkerchief

1st edition 1949 (Calcutta, India), PDF 4 pages

Excerpt from the introduction:

This is part one of the Studies Series.

Stuff is a beautifully designed and produced book (now available as ebook) of top quality magic and contains detailed descriptions of several marketed props and routines. These include the Beta Wallet, the Breese-Mason Wallet, Cummupence, the Silver Retriever, the Golden Retriever and Pandora. Eric Mason was not only a brilliant inventor and magician; he was a creative and talented illustrator. You will find several examples of Mason's skill as illustrator in this ebook.

Eric Mason was a highly talented and exceptionally creative magician and illustrator. He was the Art Editor of Pabular magazine and illustrated...

Stunts, gags and puzzles, some new and some very old, with which to amuse your friends when called upon to "show us a trick". Many of the tricks are old and well known, but they are included in the hope that they will be fresh to some of you.

Photographs by Lewis Ganson.

• Mathamatchic
• The Big Blow
• Have-A-Light
• Rocket Match
• Eternal Triangle
• Economy Matches
• Match-Up
• Heads Or Tails?
• Condiments Of The Seasoning
• Suspendid
• Passing Coin
• Shooting-Match
• Change-About
• Suit Changing
• Light Humour
• Gone!
• Coin Spin
• Go-Go Coin
• Long Stretch
• Salted
• Heads And Tails
• Holey
• Push
• Silly Scissors

• The Flying Coins
• Ball Production For Club Workers
• Thimble Production
• Choice Restored
• The Web Handkerchief Production
• Black Art Milk Vanish
• A "Stag" Party Pack
• Tele - Refreshment Bar
• The Hoop Un-Looped
• The Surp-Rising Cigarette
• Which End?
• Finding A Card At Any Number
• The Girl Behind The Door
• Silk Sympathy
• Bar And Chains Escape
• Sleight For Gloved Workers
• The T.S. Sack Escape
• Date Plus Your Age
• Lay-Out Speller
• A Mental Tip
• Entertaining With Words
  • (1) Marriage And Divorce
  • (2) Lazy Bones
  • (3) Backwards And Forwards
• Effective Four Ace Trick
• Leap Year Card Trick

A collection of 15 effects with ropes, silks, balls, cards, ribbons, paper, glasses, canes, dice and other objects.

• The Instant Silk
• The Ribbon Prediction
• A Rope Circle Routine
• Rainbow Balls
• The Black Die Prediction
• The Knot Off The Rope
• Newspaper Knotting II
• The Ribbon Transposition
• The Zebra Trick
• Encore The Silk In The Knot
• The Spotted Card
• Six Ideas For Cane Workers

1st edition 1974, PDF 27 pages.

• Introduction
• Foreword
• Mecca
• Hindoo Rope And Rising Card
• Grant’s Super Rope Trick
• Pearls Of Persia
• Magic Hand And Mystic Rings
• Grant’s Super Die Box
• A Bedtime Story
• Sambo The Human Hen
• Mah Jong Mystery Sticks
• Super Prediction
• Vanishing Die And Appearing Girl
• Dr. Jeykell And Mr. Hyde

PDF 20 pages

Each ebook in the series will feature a single effect from Gregg's vast oeuvre. Whenever applicable, Gregg will present new handlings, suggestions, and presentations. The series follows Gregg's established style of graphics and hand-lettered text.

The effect, "The Key on the String," was originally published in Gregg Webb's ebook, The Shade.

1st edition 2019, 3 pages.

This effect was originally published in Gregg Webb's various newsletters as "Hit-and-Run" before landing in Genii Magazine as "Coins Across 2000." This Super Session is an improved and updated version. This ebook has hand-lettered text.

1st edition 2019, 5 pages.

This effect, "Nate Leipzig Poker Deal X," was originally published in Gregg Webb's ebook, The Lizard Wizard's Diary as part of his SOHO trilogy. This ebook has hand-lettered text.

1st edition 2019, 2 pages.

I did a series of monographs at one time, one trick at a time, that I felt had unusual ideas I hadn't seen before, and sometimes variations on ideas that had been around, but handled a different way. My thinking about these went back to the New Stars of Magic which Tannen's put out. These of course were one routine explained well. Lately, I thought of bundling them together and this is the result. I used drawings and not photos.

A compilation of effects by magic notable H. Adrian Smith including Modern Card Miracle, Magic Square, Twentieth Century Billiard Ball Trick, and an Effective Handkerchief stretch. 16 effects in all plus a introduction from Percy Abbott.

• Introduction
• Twentieth Century Billiard Ball Trick
• New Card to the Pocket
• A Modern Card Miracle
• A Different Conclusion
• Sympathetic Aces
• Matching the Aces
• A Sucker Mental Effect
• A New Click Pass
• The Coins Up the Sleeve
• Passing Four Coins to a Glass
• A Further Variation of the Passing of the Four Coins
• An Effective Handkerchief Stretch
• Untying a...

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...

• Preface
• INTRODUCTION
• PART I: THE TRUE SECRETS OF CONJURING
• PART II: TRICKS AND ILLUSIONS
  • Section I: CARD TRICKS
    • Palming Cards - Improved Method
    • Naming a Card that has been removed from a Pack
    • Improved Method of finding a Card in a selected Position in the Pack
    • An invisible Flight of a Card
    • Rising Card without Apparatus
    • Card Photography
    • The Four Ace Trick - A New Method
    • Two Cards placed in Envelopes Made to Change Places
    • The "Foreman and Miners" Trick
    • Magical Disappearance of Three Cards
    • A New Card Frame
  • Section II: MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS AND ILLUSIONS
    • The Drawer Box ...

Inspired by a recent internet challenge, Ben Harris has "Le Pauled" the regular baggie! This creates a clever and practical alternative to the traditional Card In Wallet plot.

With Sweet Spot, a card, a coin, a borrowed ring or a credit card is made to vanish only to appear seconds later IN THE MIDDLE of the contents of a sealed baggie.

This can be filled with sand, candies, stamps, money, oregano, or whatever you want. The presentation angles are up to you. We give you a few to start with like the "Magic Sands of the Sahara," "Mr Blonds Revenge," "The Stamp Collector," "My Favorite Coin...

Invisibly switch a folded playing card (bill, cash, sugar pack, ...) against another right in front of their eyes.

Destined to be in your EDC (everyday carry). A real crowd-pleaser. A perfect close-up and table-hopping effect. A very fast, angle-proof, and up-close transformation with spectator involvement. Not a thumb-tip. This effect uses a homemade gimmick that most homes would have. The gimmick takes about five minutes to make. Both playing cards can be inspected.

You can also change bills, billets, cash a check, change sugar to sweeten low, etc.

Absolutely incredible misdirection...

2002 and a small lecture tour. Harris needed an oddity that would contrast his card work. Some visual and aural distraction. TacTics was the answer. 150 units were assembled, fingers burned, and instructions written. The item was quite popular and did end up in an issue of Genii. Here is the original manuscript, re-edited and with clear photos. Ideas with color-changes, sound-based illusion and the "Milk Pitcher" application allowing you to vanish tictacs, half a container at a time, till they're ALL GONE!

1st edition 2002; 14 pages

Take a Chance is a collection of five entertaining and unusual magical routines all based around the Monopoly board game.

Lucky or Not
After you and the spectators mix the Community Chest cards you can decide who is going to be lucky and who will be unlucky.

In the Money
The spectator has a free choice of any property on the board. Yet the prediction envelope contains the correct amount of money.

Hotel Okito
An Okito box routine where a little green house always finds it's way to the red hotel. Penetrating the brass box and even going through a full box of playing cards. Eventually...

Magic for everyone: Close-up, parlor and stage. Rachel and Aldo Colombini are performing and explaining the following routines:

• RING TWICE (Aldo Colombini): Two rings are threaded on a piece of rope. One is selected and it becomes free (or vice versa!).
• SORCERER’S STONE (Rachel Colombini): Five ‘stones’ are shown and a spectator selects one. While you are back to the audience you find the selected stone. Can be done with any objects (even with people) and over the phone.
• CONTROL COINS (Subir Kumar Dhar): Great impromptu coin routine. No sleights at all, yet, you predict the chosen...