This download features six strong, audience-tested, stand-up effects plucked from his own cabaret act. Martin shows you, in a step-by-step hands-on guide, how to make the "props" on your kitchen table quickly and easily with only basic tools and materials, and needing no special skills. Then, in live performance, see how the apparatus is used to really make magic.
Includes artwork in three PDF files.
Routines:
Two Color Torn Tissue: In this version of the classic "Torn and Restored Napkin," two different colored papers are used to explain how it works ... but the audience is still no wiser.
Comedy Card Stab: At the end, it seems like the magician stabs the wrong card, but instead ends up with a visual knockout!
Crystal Gazing: A spectator slowly names the card that the audience is thinking of by gazing into a crystal ball. Martin's method is as amazing as the effect.
Halve-It: The "Three and a Half of Clubs" is taken from being a close-up gag to a brilliant stand-up routine. Along the way, Martin shows a great way to make giant cards.
Handscan: Show the front and back of your hand slowly and produce a fan of cards. Absolutely no manipulation required.
Card in a Bottle: The title tells all. Martin's presentation of an effect created by Harbin. This is a real fooler and a closer in anyone's book. Worth it for the card vanish alone!
1st edition 2003, video 1h 15min.
