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.
16 COMMERCIAL CARD ROUTINES USING NORMAL CARDS, GIMMICKED CARDS, JUMBO CARDS AND PREPARED DECKS! Featuring: Ken de Courcy, Gene Castillon, Arthur Carter, Trevor Lewis, Cameron Francis, Jozsef Kovacs, R. Paul Wilson, Edwin Hooper, Sam Schwartz, Raphael Czaja, André Robert and Ryan Matney.
Street tricks, slight of hand and illusion.Street Magic teaches you the secrets of close-up, under-your-nose, in-your-face magic - the sort you commonly see on television. There are tricks with coins, paper, cards and all sorts of other great ways to impress people! You will learn nearly 100 great tricks and illusions from easy-to-follow diagrams and text. There's no elitist jargon and no skimping on all-important detail. The illusions are arranged so you can comfortably progress from one to the...
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 ...
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.
Most Cube Magic revolves around solving the cube, but is there one that revolves around spinning it?Tornado cube is the long-awaited answer to introduce a brand-new effect to the cube magic. Following the footsteps of cube in bottle, it breaks through the stereotype of cube magic by neither being a matching nor solving cube effect.From the minds of Dima Polyakov and Henry Harrius, Tornado cube allows you to spin your cube on your fingertip at high velocity and without difficult sleight of han...
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...