Prepare to be intrigued, delighted, elated Random Acts of Magic is an inspired and inspiring collection of more than 60 brand new, bread-and-butter goodies, tightened and refined over thousands of shows, lectures and television appearances!
You’ll find astonishing tricks with cards, coins, markers, cell phones, matchbooks, matches, receipts, elastics, bottles, balls, bills, wallets, ties, spoons and finger rings, plus anecdotes, road stories, and the first 12 hilarious, thought-provoking essays from David’s column in Genii magazine!
Random Acts of Magic is overflowing with new plots, new tricks, new sleights, new utilities, and definitive versions of previously published work, all written in the clear, concise, immensely entertaining style for which David has become known.
Hardcover Book Dustjacket, 352 pages, over 500 photographs! Click Here for what's included
Another great Alakazam UK Exclusive
The book features the following effects:
Touching on Hoy:
Which is in my opinion the best thing I have ever come up with. Simple, direct and strong. Three people think of different things. You then reveal what each person is thinking of. No
pre show work, no props, no stooges, no kidding
The Dangerous Opener:
The performer influences a spectator to select the safe bag for him to crush. He slams his hand down on the selected bag revealing under the bag left, an upturned razor sharp knife. A
100% safe version of the modern day classic. No pre show work, no danger, no stooging.
Pre - Show Scripting:
A powerful model to be used for pre show work. It allows the performer to reveal much more during performance with no extra effort.
The Psychic VS Psychological Performance
An essay that features a model of scripting to allow the performer to involve all types of audiences in his performances. This scripting allows the performer to appeal to both the sceptical members of the audience and the true believes without offending either party. It also means the mentalist has the potential to work within both market places.
Blowing Bubbles:
The performer reads the mind of a spectator who is visibly seen to react the moment the thought leaves their mind. They also confirm the fact that they felt you reach into their mind and remove that very thought.
Phone Prediction:
A novel and entertaining prediction effect with a very different climax. We will let you discover this one for yourself!
PK Lip Stick
A stunning twist on the modern day classic. Bridging the world of the unreal and the magickal.
Blindfold Sequence.
A member of your audience is blindfolded while another focuses on a number they think of. Amazingly and with no pre show work or stooging the blindfolded spectator accurately reveals the number focused upon. This could be used as much more than numbers.
It has taken more than twenty years, but Bob Cassidy, a founding member of the Psychic Entertainers' Association and one of the most influential and colorful creators of modern mentalism, has finally written a worthy successor to The Art of Mentalism!
When the latter was first published in 1983, it was immediately recognized as a classic in the field and is on the "top ten" lists of many leading mentalists. We predict that this volume will eclipse the acclaim as the first.
The first half of the book, reprints his Art of Mentalism 2 (a complete professional performance thoroughly explained), and his four Principia Mentalia volumes. As if that were not enough, the second half gives permanent form to 3 limited distribution manuscripts:
Theories and Methods for the Practical Psychic
Strange Impressions
But Stranger Still
We are proud to offer "As the Crow Flies", a new book of magic routines for restaurant performers by 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. Each photo is always on the same page as the text referring to it
Just released, Natural Force Books I printed edition, a few years back Ken Driscoll released a handful of these as ebooks and they were well received. To explain them a little better we’ll just say that with Natural Force Book I you’ll easily be able to perform book tests like Max Maven’s Autome from vol. 1 of his Videomind DVD series In fact this book came about in large part because of what Max taught in those DVDs The idea of turning nearly any book into a force book was exremely appealing, however the idea of searching books for commonalities seemed like it would be impossible or at the very least time consuming however while doing it Ken devised this system which helped in making nearly every book he opened a force book. Out of about 20 books he was easily able to come up with 15 or 16 force books by changing the prediction, or as Max recommends in Autome doing a simple drawing after they read the first two or three line of text on the page turned to. This could be quite easily the best money you’ll ever spent on book test material, because here you’ll be able to use nearly any paper back book you pick up as part of your act; with this system the book could become a precious souvenir at the end of your performance try that with some of the high end book tests. We call this Natural Force Book I because there will be a book II, in it we hope to add your ideas, more books, and better yet more prediction ideas.
As a bonus, you’ll receive our Canasta Re-Visited this is an idea based on one of Canasta’s effect in which he would have audience members call up letters of the alphabet, after so many letter were called up, he and the audience would rearrange the letters to form a word then his prediction would be opened and the words would match, with our version a member of the audience calls out a three digit number (this is truly a random number, no math is used to cut it down to the number you want. no stooge is used to assure it being the number you want, and there is no pre-show work the number is random and could be called out by anyone) now you begin having letters of the alphabet called up to you as you write them on a board or pad. When the board/pad is filled with letter you and the audience begin searching the board (like a giant word search game) for any words that may have been formed randomly by the audience (again the letters al called up randomly there are no stooges no pre-show work nothing is handed out to the audience they are simply asked to think of a letter and call it when you get to them) as words are found they are circled and written in the margin now a member of the audience turns to the page number matching the three digit number previously called out by an audience member and reads aloud the first three or four lines much to everyone’s surprise the words they formed match the words in the text on the page also randomly called out.
This is a great instruction manual as you not only get the information on how to turn any book into a force book, but you’ll also get the ins-and-outs of our Canasta routine along with some other forcing ideas.
