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.
Jimmy Nuzzo and Edward Marlo Collaborated on card magic that is visual and confounding because of sophisticated sleight of hand. It is these secrets that have formulated some of the most fooling magic ever created.“Any pulse-checking, hard-core cardmen in the late 60s, knew about Jimmy Nuzzo. If they didn’t get to see him in person, they were familiar with the select ideas he published—ideas that probably seemed celestial at the time but were nevertheless interesting and enticing.” - fr...
Sponge balls magically appear from a purse frame, and then take on a life of their own! The balls disappear, multiply, and jump into a spectator's tightly closed fist. For a huge final three balls transform into one jumbo ball.Ever since its creation in the 1920s, "Sponge Balls" has undoubtedly become the most popular close-up magic trick. Professional and amateur magicians around the world have added the Sponge Balls to their repertoire, and have developed many handlings. We at Tenyo are proud ...
The book contains 93 pages and takes virtually every Al Koran effect as performed on TV. It analysis the effect and the method, then provides the exact words of patter as used by Al Koran.There is a listing of all the books in Al Koran's library by Terry Seabrooke and Jack Avis contributes material on Al Koran. Al Koran is introduced by Goodliffe and Billy McComb also provides a comprehensive article on Al and his lifetime.
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.
Ring Flight is a classic in magic that combines a borrowed object to an impossible location with the emotional hook of the object itself. Ring In The Bell is an astonishing ring flight with a sure-fire method that allows you to vanish a spectator’s ring and make it re-appear on the clapper of the bell they are holding.Reynold Alexander has been refining this method for years, and now he is sharing his brilliant method with the world. Not only is it easy to do, but the method is also practic...
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.
Dealer's Choice: A masterful routine of visual magic! Six cards, shown blank on both sides, are dealt out in pairs. As each pair is picked up and pushed through the performer's hand, winning cards for various games are "printed" visually:• Two red Threes for Canasta• The Ten of Diamonds and the Two of Spades (Big and Little Casino) for Casino• An Ace and Ten - 21 - for BlackjackThe face of one card then vanishes leaving a five-card Poker hand. The hand is worthless, however, but when the ...