Written by male model/master magician Handsome Jack (with footnotes by John Lovick), this treatise is a rarity in the magic world: it's as funny (and attractive) as it is instructive. Handsome Jack, etc. details twenty stand-up (and close-up) routines with complete scripts, histories, and commentary on their development and performance.In addition to Jack's urbane descriptions, Lovick provides two essential essays on the subjects of scripting and persona.
1. Show a deck of playing cards to your audience, and invite a spectator to freely select one card. Place that card face-up onto the deck.2. Magically, the card slowly floats upward! You can even remove the card below the floating card, and the selected card remains suspended in mid-air.3. The selected card slowly returns to the deck. You can immediately spread the deck to show the faces of all the cards.
Selling a used copy of Slydini Encores by Leon Nathanson. This is a perfect-bound paperback book. Book shows yellowing and wear from age and use. There are some cracks along the spine, the type of damage expected from an ~60 year old book like this, but all pages are still connected, intact, and fully readable.
A spectator selects a card from the deck, and remembers it.The magician pours water into a container, and asks the spectator to concentrate on her card as she gazes at the water surface.An image of the selected card magically appears below the water's surface!