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Close-Up Magic |
A regular invitee at Fechter's Finger Flicking Frolic, and a frequent guest on David Acer's MagicWorks shows in Montreal, Michel Huot is one of the industry's best kept secrets. His material has appeared in Genii, Magic and Natural Selections, Vol. II, but this is his first solo collection, and it contains simple riches the likes of which are rarely seen!
And more! Seven By Michel Huot is the first in a new series featuring exciting close-up miracles from innovative magicians working on the front lines! Written by David Acer, with a foreword by Richard Sanders. |
Paul Wilson's currently very busy at work as Technical Advisor for a new movie starring Sylvester Stallone, but he's not too busy to create more brand-new card and coin magic. 13 is a 32-page, beautifully illustrated booklet which contains:
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Professional Effects for the Stand-up Restaurant Worker After his wildly successful Restaurant Worker's Handbook, Jim Pace now shares his favorite pet routines. This top notch material will make you the toast of dining rooms, bars and bistros and have your audiences eating out of the palm of your hand! This is the material Jim uses nightly and each bit has been honed to perfection over the last 20 years, presented with all the nuances and handling tips plus options for various endings.
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In Act Two, Barrie Richardson shows that he has lost none of his gentle thunder. His new book features 54 tricks, ideas and routines, with all the attributes for which his work has become known and admired. Most include full presentations that use humanity, humor and an unfaltering sense of drama, that culminate in feats that are clearly impossible and thoroughly amazing. Along with some of his most prized routines, Richardson includes valuable examples taken from his professional repertoire of motivational talks for public and business audiences. The scenes in Act Two amount to what might be called a modern "miracle play." Here is a scant sampling of the action:
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Amazing Miracles Of Shigeo Takagiby Richard Kaufman BACK IN PRINT! "My friend, Shigeo Takagi, is an excellent performer who shows a keen knowledge of magic with all its subtleties. His work is direct and to the point, with no superfluous moves. Even if you are acquainted with the various techniques, he will still deceive you. I greatly admire this Japanese wonder worker." - Dai Vernon, Hollywood, California - February, 1990 Contents:
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Yigal Mesika is an incredibly talented young magician from Israel. He has created many powerful new effects with the loop. He also found it necessary to improve the quality of the loop and so, for the past seven years, Yigal searched until he found a better way to manufacture the loop. The product can now be stretched up to 400% of it's original size and is perfectly suited, in strength and invisibility, for the routines found in this book. Until nowthere has been very little information available on the loop and that kept the subject relatively unknown and rarely used. The aim of this book is to guide you through the techniques of working with the loop, as well as to give you some applicable routines for stage, close-up and mentalism. Most of the effects were created by Yigal Mesika. The rest of the effects, as indicated, were compiled from the repertories of working magicians, Yigal's friends.
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What is Apocalypse? Some of the best close-up magic of the lates 70's and early 80's. Apocalypse made its debut as a magazine in 1978. It was an immediate hit and the big-name contributorskept coming: Vernon, Marlo, Slydini, Garcia, Ortiz, Mullica, and the list goes on... This bookis the first of a series and contains the magic orignally published from January 1978 to December 1982. It is 720 jam-packed pages ---- 20 pages of indexes, over 250 card effects, over 140 coin effects, plus 145 other tricks, good tricks! When you consider the number oftricks explained in this book you'll realize what a tremendous value it is. Every magicianshould have this in their library. |
While Ed Marlo was famous for his ingenious creations with cards, he also devoted a great deal of creativity to magic with other objects including coins, bills, cups and balls, silks, mentalism, dice, linking pins, sponge balls, chop cup, and various small tricks usually sold to kids such as the ball vase, magic frame, snapper, and much, much more. 67 effects and routines, some never before published. |
The complete, ultimate Paul Harris. The material is the best of the best. All of Paul's classics, updated and refined, as well as 73 BRAND-NEW creations! Over 900 pages of Paul Harris! In addition to the 73 new effects, Paul Harris' The Art Of Astonishment contains the very best of 13 previous Paul Harris books, many of the effects refined, revised and updated. The Art Of Astonishment also contains the very best methods from 8 separately-marketed manuscripts. Taken together, these 8 effects alone cost nearly as much as the 3-volume set of The Art Of Astonishment. In addition, there is a groundbreaking essay where Paul reveals that astonishment is our natural state of mind. And.. six conversations about over-the-edge effects that are even too weird for Paul! Volume 1 Highlights The Light & Heavy Dime - A re-make of Robert Houdin's famous Light and Heavy Chest using a common dime which ends up permanently stuck in the most uncommon place. This will become the "Card-on-the- Ceiling" of Coin Magic. Lip Balm - An organic, "naturally-gimmicked" coin box (a special brand of Lip Balm) that climaxes with a container full of Lip Balm. Ultimate Rip Off or Dancing with the Last Piece - The ultimate bluff ending for Paul's Torn 'n' Restored Card twenty years later, a way to restore the last piece. Creation - Patrick Martin's practical "workers" approach of producing a live moth to create maximum astonishment. Shell Shock - Gregory Wilson's practical technique for blowing a hardboiled egg right out of its shell then finding a marked coin inside its yolk. Tunnel Vision - A just-barely-possible way to make yourself disappear using a rolled-up paper tube and more nerve than most of us possess. Volume 2 Highlights Counterfeit Spectator - On a borrowed dollar bill, the printed signature of the treasurer of the United States transforms into the spectator's name. Swiss Movement - An ingenious P.H. discovery enables you to mysteriously animate an ungimmicked Swiss Army Knife. Completely impromptu, works with any Swiss Army Knife ... anytime. Cincinnati Two-Faced Blues - Two of those pesky advertising cards that clutter up your deck are accidentally selected ... and then transformed into an impossible object that was secretly already there. Fizz-Master - Cause the carbonation to travel magically from one soda to another. Absolutely killer ... completely impromptu. McGimmick - You levitate a milkshake using only your finger ... then you completely vanish the milkshake leaving only its crumpled container. Osmosis - European genius, Sylvain Miroug's four-phase Linking Card masterpiece using just two single cards! An incredible new principle. Is it better that Immaculate Connection or Cardboard Connection? Volume 3 Highlights The Shape of Astonishment - The imprint of a quarter in a piece of foil instantly changes from heads to tails. Awesome and totally impromptu. Hot Chocolate - You bring out a flat, folded Hershey wrapper out of your wallet and inflate it into the real thing. The Anything Deck - Place a small packet of cards under the case ... any word or name is called out ... you spread the packet to reveal the exact same word, written in thick black marker across the backs of the cards. A completely new principle for releasing deep astonishment. Peanut Butter & Jellyfish - An anytime levitation of your favorite snack. Works just as well with burgers and fish fillets. Bat Fishing - A spectator brings out any dollar and fairly selects eight cards. The number on the eight cards astonishingly match all eight serial numbers on the dollar ... and you never touched the bill or the cards! Leaf - You tear a leaf off of someone's houseplant ... then press the torn stem back against the branch ... where it takes root and restores itself back into a healthy, growing leaf. The Shuffling Lesson - You sit back and enjoy the show while you induce a spectator to unknowingly stack, false shuffle, then false cut a deck all by herself ... so that she can deal herself the winning hand. |
QUESTION: What happens when you lock Steve Fearson, Dan Harlan, Gary Darwin and five underground magicians in a sealed room? ANSWER: You get the best book ever written on floating effects! Includes:
You will also learn eight other dynamite routines that levitate ordinary objects such as rope, Tootsie Rolls and borrowed bills! Includes Over 100 professional illustrations and Bonus Routine in which you will learn to make Fearson's thread reel in a matter of minutes for just pennies! Volume 2 - No Strings This volume focuses on methods and routines for floating objects without threads. Includes:
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A wonderful new book of magic routines for restaurant performers by my Raymonde Crow. Included here is magic with cards, coins, candy, sponges and a borrowed finger ring. 17 fully routined items, carefully explained and profusely illustrated. In addition, Raymonde has included the RC Cop, an original move, and a Q&A chapter on the business of performing magic in a restaurant. Valuable advice from a working restaurant magician! This book is 8.5 X 11 inches, comb bound, 99 pages with 281 clear photos. |
From the man who will tip his hat, but not his thumb! The old "dollar bill stunt" of folding and unfolding a dollar bill to turn it upside-down gets surrealistic when the magician defies certain secret rules of Origami, which temporarily turns the carefully creased currency inside-out! BONUS: Features Mike Powers' Inverted Bill, so you don't need a Mismade Bill. 36-page staplebound booklet. |
This short but sneaky version of the Cups and Balls is a good way to get acquainted with the essential handling and presenting of this classic of magic. Although the following is designed as an introduction to Cups and Balls for the student of magic, it is a complete and audience tested performance piece as well. Ron Bauer has used this act since the very beginning of his magic career, and it is as amusing to the public now as it was back then. You can use it sitting or standing. With the main version of the trick, you never go to your pockets. And, that's just one of the reasons the angles used are so safe. Although this technique takes more than a dozen pages to explain, this entire presentation runs fewer than two minutes. It's slick and quick. You'll have a lot of fun performing it. And, your audiences will, too. Cups and Balls Principles Covered: |
Scores of beautiful, close up photographs along with concise descriptions take you through the world of sleight of hand magic. Drawing from years of experience, the author shares with you, routines developed by the masters of the art of magic. Over 250 pages filled with magic you will love to learn. |
by Harry Lorayne 20 Years in the making now yields volume 3 of Harry Lorayne's Best of Friends. Some of the contributors in this volume are: Allan Ackerman, Richard Vollmer, Max Maven, J.K. Hartman, Peter Duffie, Michael Ammar, David Regal, Martin Nash, Joshua Jay, Howie Scharzman, Bob Farmer, Simon Lovell, Aldo Colombini, Doug Edwards, Jeff Altman, Nick Pudar, Sol Stone, Paul Gordon, Kostya Kimlat, Gregory Wilson, Ian Baxter, Bob King, Joe Rindfleisch, Justin Higham, Michael Vincent, Steve Cohen, Tony Noice, Tom Craven, Randy Wakeman, Harry Lorayne…and more! Pages 522 - Hardbound |
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