Reviews of products by Daniel Young
1 ★★★★★ reviews
Holy Blood Holy Water
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Mark Williams
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 19 September, 2010)
Daniel's Oil and Water effect is quite unique. Daniel discusses many phases of his Oil and Water routine which can be added or subtracted, as you wish. Daniel also takes meticulous care to cite references and credits others, which led him to develop his routine. I can tell you that Daniel has included photos in his written explanation which help the reader visualize checkpoints, throughout the routine. Let me assure you this, Daniel's Oil and Water effect uses some of the most visually stunning sequences I have seen in this type of routine. This will wow an audience!!
Best Magical Regards, Mark Williams
Polaroid Memories
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by McAig
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 07 March, 2008)
This is really good, very good value for the price. In a relatively short document, there are a couple of very strong and very simple tricks, which are easy to learn, require no difficult sleights but will allow you to appear to have memorised a whole deck more or less instantly. I thought these were terrific. There is also a more difficult trick, and a nice CAAN effect (kind of Any Card-ish) which again is straightforward, although a little misdirection has to be pulled off at one critical point, but hey, that's half the basis of magic.
Very nice ideas, a hit in my opinion.
Psy-Connect Deck
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by McAig
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 07 March, 2008)
You'd be best to have an idea of Max Maven's "Mind's Eye Deck" in advance of reading this, as the best part of the text gives thoughts on how to present this kind of effect strongly, rather than detailing the way to make up the deck. Maven's "Videomind 1" dvd gives the basics. (Daniel Young refers to the Maven deck in the notes, so this is not intended as a criticism of a lack of crediting). Overall it didn't really grab my attention in the way one of Daniel Young's other items did. It would make an interesting chapter in a book, but perhaps isn't strong enough to stand as a single item, in my opinion.
From The Other Side
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Richard Hanson
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 09 November, 2007)
This is a truly wonderful book. Don't be fooled by how short it is. There's plenty packed in here to think about. For those new to the Himber wallet, this should be required reading. For those who have used the Himber, there's new food for thought. Dig out that Himber, stop thinking about it as just another prop and read this book!
Compendia
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Todd Landman
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Saturday 20 January, 2007)
Daniel Young is a fantastic young mentalist with superb ideas that take 'lateral' thinking to a new dimension. This collection of works is outstanding and should be in every mentalist's collection. I have read these through and through, and I have adopted one of his methods in the development of my own ideas. These are fresh and strong effects that will play well in a variety of performance settings. His work is akin to that of Looch, author of Simple and Direct (SAD) mentalism. Get this collection now and start performing the impossible.