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When David released The Optical Opener he had no idea that it would be so wildly popular. It is an effect that David has used for quite a long time, but it is not his first application for the Thatcher Illusion. David released the effect as he did because it is a great opening effect for any show. But that is kind of the issue. It is for a show. It is not something that can be apparently done impromptu (unless, of course, you put the images on your electronic device).

This is the original application that David came up with for this great optical illusion: The magician removes a Dollar bill from his wallet....

Sure, this has been done before, but those methods required hard work, difficult sleights and mind-numbing mental calculations. You don't need any of that - You only need to CHEAT! You can find bourbon and wild women at the biker bar down the road from the auto plant. ...

George Washington was indeed a magician. This is accomplished with a regular dollar bill that hasn't been gimmicked or cut in any way. No gimmicks and nothing neither added nor taken away. 100% impromptu. Complete details on every aspect of this effect.

1st edition 2018, 7 pages.

[S]Witch is a great impromptu billet technique, created by Julien during years of performances on cruise ships and in theatre shows. The effect is simple: You ask someone to draw or write anything on a small paper/business card. In only two very fair moves, you can duplicate their thoughts.

Yes we're talking about a switch, but such a good one. It's done in front of your spectator's eyes, and even though you magicians know there is one in play, you can't see it. It is that strong. This method is a real worker, performed hundreds of times by Julien for real audiences. A powerful secret kept underground...

• Broca a través del brazo
• Biografía: Shimada
• El juego de las bebidas
• Carta en la pompa (impromptu)
• Curiosidades de catálogo: Sequencia de colores
• Pañuelos con nudos
• Libros, videos y gente:
  • The bold and subtle miracles of Dr. Faust - David Hoy
  • Stevens magic emporium - Charlie Miller
• Vudú.
• Origenes y anécdotas: Die Box
• La pesca mágica
• Hasta luego...

12 card tricks based on the same principle.

Sneak is a collection of tricks based on an overlooked principle that allows you to find a selected card under impossible conditions. Thanks to the use of one readily available fake card, every trick in the book is technically effortless. This means most of them are self-working while a couple of them require the ability to hold a break or execute a double undercut. Also included for the sake of completeness are impromptu versions (except for New Deck Joker), based on a variation of a well-known card force.

1) GOOD LUCK: A spectator cuts the...

Every four years we like to publish a collection of all the great magic that has appeared during the period in Magicseen's Masterclass section, and from the issues which appeared in volumes 9-12 we offer you 51 effects and ideas from such well known and respected performers as Andy Nyman, David Regal, Chris Rawlins, Boris Wild, Mel Mellers, Pit Hartling, John Bannon, Vincent Hedan, Thomas Fraps, Dan Garrett, Anthony Owen and many others.

Contents:

• Trapped Prediction - Alexander Erohin
• Roll and Slide Vanish - Radek Makar
• The Great Escape - John Breeds
• More ESP - Arun Bonerjee
• Moneyball - Fritz...

Il titolo di questo eBook, che letteralmente significa “La Mia Carta Inquietante”, ne nasconde l’ispirazione ... L’effetto è totalmente impromptu, di tipo automatico, facile e veloce ad eseguirsi (si usano solamente otto carte), non richiede alcun tipo di tecnica cartomagica ed introduce per lo spettatore la possibilità di scegliere segretamente se mentire o dire il vero in risposta alle poche domande che il Mentalista gli rivolgerà durante l’esperimento. Nonostante tutto questo, una carta solamente pensata verrà puntualmente ritrovata al termine dell’esperimento!

E la...

This impromptu semi-automatic effect can be immediately performed in any situation in which a simple deck of cards is available. After having a spectator shuffle the deck, the magician will have her choose a number and a card in the most casual manner possible (by randomly raising two small packs of cards), have the viewer shuffle again and cut the deck several times, reassemble it, and propose to find her chosen card. But, after practically proving its impossibility by relying solely on chance or luck, he will remember that the spectator also secretly keeps a number in her mind and challenge...

Questo eBook, il cui titolo letteralmente significa "La Mia Carta Inquietante", contiene a mio parere l'evoluzione dell'effetto precedentemente trattato nel I Volume, ma la sua comprensione ed esecuzione non richiede la lettura del precedente, sebbene sia caldamente consigliata.

L'effetto è totalmente impromptu, di tipo semi-automatico, veloce ad eseguirsi (si usano solamente otto carte), non richiede alcuna complessa tecnica cartomagica ed introduce per lo spettatore la possibilità di associare segretamente il "Si" e il "No" ad un singolo o doppio battito di mani, in risposta alle poche...

Un incredibile Rituale Magico che, eseguito con il pubblico, immancabilmente porterà sempre al successo! In realtà un effetto Automatico di Cartomagia Impromptu, che utilizza quattro semplici carte prese a caso dal mazzo e comporta uno stupefacente “Rituale”, eseguibile anche in close-up o su di un palco, oppure a distanza, persino al telefono, a che non mancherà mai di stupire tutto il pubblico coinvolto!

Si utilizzano quattro comunissime carte da gioco, prese a caso da un mazzo di carte, e con le quali l’illusionista, in contemporanea ad uno come a decine o centinaia di spettatori...

An intriguing and fooler card effect, completely impromptu and self-working.

This is a new self-working, impromptu, card effect, always performable, even with a borrowed deck: the illusionist briefly tells the story of the very famous criminal couple Bonnie & Clyde, who operated in the 1930s in the United States with their own gang. The deck of cards, shuffled by the spectator, will represent the inhabitants of the state of Louisiana, among whom hid the men and women who were part of the gang of gangsters most hunted by the police. The magician will thus form three piles of cards to represent...

What you will learn

• A Card at Any Number routine that fools both laymen and magicians.
• An impromptu method - no complex sleights, no secret setups.
• Subtle psychological techniques, inspired by Dani DaOrtiz, to subtly guide your spectators.
• A three-phase construction designed to blur memory and make the outcome feel utterly inexplicable.
• A two-deck version that creates a cosmic coincidence,...

This is the favorite 'book' of Gaetan Bloom. This monthly magic journal only ran for two years (24 issues) but it is filled with wonderful ideas largely on close-up magic. Although most of the effects described are from Frank Chapman, there are a few contributions from people like Charlie Miller, Nate Leipzig, etc.

To give you a sense of what Frank had in mind, here an excerpt from the first issue:

Jackie McClements
Dicychometry: Four spectators + four colored dice = a knockout prediction!
Killer Finish!: Simply that - a Killer Finish that can be used for the above, or at another time.

Peter McLanachan
AL Together Now: Peter's impromptu version of the Card at Any Number. A spectator names a card, a second gives a number between one and fifty-two and a third spectator takes the cards and deals down to that number in the deck where the named card is found.
Snap!: An inexplicable matching effect. A card is placed face down...

Techniques and effects for the modern mentalist.

"Dee has outdone himself with this one. It is literally filled to the brim with practical working material. One of the best mentalism ebooks I've read in a long time." - Matt Mello

• Esoteric - Impromptu Wallet Peek:
  A number is thought of by a spectator and written upon a business card. This card is slid face down into the magician's wallet and the wallet closed so that there is no way for the magician to see what is written.

  The magician hones in on the spectator's thoughts and commits to what he thinks by writing it on a business...

"Moment's Notice contained a superb collection of impromptu card effects. In this second volume, Cameron has done it again ... in fact, this second volume might even be better than the first, if that is at all possible!" - Peter Duffie

"This is the kind of material I like, not the difficult to do and with the EFFECT in mind!" - Aldo Colombini

"Cameron's material from the Moment's Notice series makes me want to go for a swim in Antarctica. It's that freakin hot!" - Donny Orbit

"I didn't want Moment's Notice 1 to end. This one picks up perfectly where the last left of. Filled with brilliantly commercial impromptu effect...

This is an ebook of card effects for the magician who's looking for strong impromptu card magic. It contains twenty-five new routines with just a regular deck of cards and as mentioned before, strictly impromptu.

Contributors: John Bragoli, Stephen Clark, Aldo Colombini, Tom Daugherty, Ken de Courcy, Paul Gordon, Tom Hubbard, Joe Hustler, Stewart James, Kinos, Paul Marcus, Max Maven, Peter Rees, Joe Riding, John Yeager.

1st edition 2008; 18 pages

This publication is in my opinion among the best books on cards ever written, but it is rarely mentioned or recommended. I am not sure why this is. Perhaps one reason is that Jack Merlin himself has not left a large footprint in the magic literature besides this one publication. He has a published trick in Expert Card Technique and if you read Card College 1 you will have learned the Jack Merlin's Riffle Shuffle. Farelli mentions in his Farell's Card Magic: "I agree with Mr. Jack Merlin that the custom of continually practicing in front of a glass is the cause of the unfortunate habit many magicians have of blinking at the precise moment of performing...

A brand new thing to do with a water bottle. Looks freaky and leaves a lasting impression. You could start a religion with this!

IONIZE THE WATER IN A DRINKING BOTTLE, MAKING IT ALMOST LIGHTER THAN AIR!

Aqua-imp is one powerful piece of “incidental” magic. It appears almost impromptu. This illusion of spontaneity actually enhances the mystery—for it is at this magical (and supposedly offhanded moment) you give your spectators a thought-provoking, gentle, and fun glimpse at an un-imagined world of possibility.

Here’s what Aqua-imp looks like: You join friends or clients at a...

Performed by Cameron Francis himself. Stacks can allow you to perform miracles under the fairest and cleanest conditions imaginable. Stuff you just can’t do impromptu. Stuff that will seriously blow your spectator's minds. This download DVD contains three such effects. Each trick requires a full deck set up and each one is self-working. Just add presentation and stir vigorously. The three effects use completely normal decks which, after the trick is over, can be shuffled up and used to produce all sorts of impromptu miracles. All of them make very good openers. Give at least one of these effects...

Learn a super practical 3 coin routine suitable for walk-around and impromptu performances. 3 invisible coins appear and behave in a magical way. Instant Reset.

"I like it, nice idea." - Marion Boykin

"Keep up that absolutely fantastic coin work you do." - Mickey Silver

• ... hand STILL WARM. With this simple gimmick in your pocket, it's now possible.
• WHY I NEVER HAVE COINS SIGNED - Thoughts on why having coins signed before bending is a BAD thing.
• DREAMCATCHER - A full multiphase mind reading routine that involves dreams and memories. Very direct, completely impromptu and phenomenally powerful.
• THE PICK-UP BEND - A spoon or fork bending technique.
• THE TIP SWITCH - A versatile technique for switching billets or predicting 50/50 outcomes with apparently empty hands!
• THE ISOLATION EXPERIMENT - The FULL explanation of the 2009 Isolation Experiment video...