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.
A rectangular puzzle fits perfectly inside of a frame. The magician adds a new piece and rebuilds the puzzle, yet somehow they still form a rectangle that is exactly the same size, a Perpetual Puzzle. The puzzle still fits perfectly in the frame. When you add another piece and rebuild the puzzle again, the puzzle impossibly still forms the same exact size rectangle, and fits perfectly within the same frame.
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.