On this, his first DVD, he fully explains how to construct and fit the gimmick to your trainers, then how to perform the effect. It features live performances of Dynamo showing the effect on the street and one of his many trade show bookings, plus bonus footage.
Running Time Approximately 25min
An indepth examination of the Stripper Deck.
FORGET EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW!
Jon Thompson introduces you to a world of card magic that you never thought possible with the most venerable deck that you never use - THE STRIPPER DECK.
Jon's 'Simple and Subtle' approach will open up a wide array of incredible effects that will leave all who witness them completely baffled - and that includes magicians!
This DVD is not just for beginners folks - it's serious stuff. Mastery of the Stripper Deck is within your grasp. Get ready to STRIP!
The DVD comes with a FREE Bicycle brand Stripper Deck!
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The Secrets of Thumb Tips
Learn a classic of card magic that your audience will remember forever.
If you could have one set of magic DVDs, this would be it! This benchmark collection features just about all of magic’s most enduring and classic effects and routines. It's a fabulous compendium with many of the top masters in the world of magic teaching their handlings and routines for some of magic’s classics. Linking rings, sponge balls, metal bending, cups and balls, thumb tips, Zombie, color-changing knives, and many, many more topics are all gathered in this one terrific DVD reference set. Each volume covers a specific subject and features new, old, and sometimes rare footage by some of the top video producers in magic.
The thumb tip is one of the most utilized and valuable gimmicks in magic but it also wins the title of perhaps its most badly used. However, the thumb tip, despite repeated exposures, can still create miracles when used properly and judiciously.
On this DVD, you’ll see ways to use a thumb tip that you’ve never dreamed of. Michael Ammar presents a poignant story with just a few coins that your audience will always remember. Richard Osterlind tears open a signed packet of sugar substitute and miraculously restores it while Roger Klause conjures silver coins from thin air with just a borrowed dollar bill. If you think you know the traditional vanishing handkerchief, you’re about to be badly fooled by Alexander de Cova and Paul Wilson. Jeff Sheridan offers his versions of two classic thumb tip pieces while Ted Lesley and Dan Harlan demonstrate effects suitable for a stand-up performance. Larger stage tricks like 20th Century Silks and Blendo are turned into powerful close-up effects by Fernando Keops and Steve Dacri and Al Schneider performs a quaint mystery with nothing more than a borrowed dime. Rounding out this set is Paul Diamond with a post-graduate course in thumb tip work with finesses that will vastly improve your own handling of this marvelous tool.
Don’t be misled by those who dismiss the thumb tip as “old school.” There are a dozen performers and 14 performances and explanations here that provide conclusive evidence that there’s still a lot of magical life left in this wonderful utility gimmick.
Running Time Approximately 1 hr 40 min
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If you could have one set of magic DVDs, this would be it! This benchmark collection features just about all of magic's most enduring and classic effects and routines. It's a fabulous compendium with many of the top masters in the world of magic teaching their handlings and routines for some of magic's classics. Linking rings, sponge balls, metal bending, cups and balls, thumb tips, Zombie, color-changing knives, and many, many more topics are all gathered in this one terrific DVD reference set. Each volume covers a specific subject and features new, old, and sometimes rare footage by some of the top video producers in magic.
No one knows who invented dice though the oldest known dice were discovered as part of a 5000-year old backgammon set. Dice used as conjuring props is of decidedly more recent vintage with one of the earliest records being Hofzinser who used mispotted dice to force a number as early as 1842. However, the allure of these simple six-sided cubes have not escaped the attention of magicians in intervening years.
In this unprecedented collection, you’ll find completely different approaches to conjuring with dice. John Mendoza begins by performing and then explaining Senator Crandall’s classic dice stacking routine. Daryl is up next with a Chink-A-Chink routine that requires only four dice and a cup – a wonderfully visual assembly and no fifth die is required! Steve Dacri also offers a dice assembly routine (and if you don’t know how it’s done, it’s a real fooler) while Mark Leveridge’s Wild Dice is an eye-popping combination of the Three-Shell Game and the Cups and Balls. Daryl follows with the classic Sack’s Dice Routine and if you take the time to learn it, you’ll never leave the house without a pair of dice. Finally, everything you always wanted to know about dice stacking is ably demonstrated and taught by James Zachary. In The Art of Dice Stacking, the video companion to his seminal book, Zack Stacks, you’ll learn how to create a stack fourteen dice high, in addition to dice cup final loads, taking the stacks down one die at a time, and lots more.
Dice are intriguing and romantic props that guarantee spectator interest and these routines represent the best dice magic ever created.
Dice Stacking Routine – John Mendoza
Four Dice Chink-A-Chink – Daryl
Dice Routine – Steve Dacri
Wild Dice – Mark Leveridge
Sack’s Dice Routine – Daryl
The Art of Dice Stacking / Zack Stacks – James Zachary
You're about to learn one of the most visual and versatile techniques in all of coin magic. It's difficult to master, but the payoff is huge.
The Muscle Pass is a technique that makes coin magic as eye-poppingly visual as any magic on earth. But, it's also a technique that takes many hours of practice to perfect. Just knowing how it works isn't enough. To get the height and control that's gonna make your reputation, you've got to practice and refine your technique beyond what most think is possible.
Without the DVD, most magicians give up on the technique and quit before they benefit from its power.
With the DVD, you'll save countless hours and frustration. You'll practice properly and make steady gains.
Noblezada takes you step by step and in detail. He shows you all of the inside work behind this revolutionary piece of magic. You'll learn all of the coolest applications of the Muscle Pass. You'll be able to make a coin appear from a completely empty hand, vanish completely, and even pass a coin through solid objects.
The Muscle Pass will add a new dimension to your coin magic, and Noblezada will help you master it faster than ever before!
Manufacturer Says
The Muscle Pass was made popular by magic inventor and FISM Award Winner, John Cornelius. John Cornelius was the first person to defy gravity with a coin using the Muscle Pass. He took an existing, under-the-radar coin sleight and created an original, visual piece of coin magic--"The Coin That Falls Up". In Kaufman's Coin Magic, John Cornelius also published "Glass-topped coin through table", which is the basis for the coin through table in this DVD. The original technique, The Muscle Pass was used as far back as the 1800's and was first published in a book entitled "Principles and Deceptions", by Arthur Buckley.
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AS PERFORMED ON TV BY CYRIL!!!
What the audience sees:
1. You show two REGULAR AND UNPREPARED rubber bands, each held between a thumb and finger. The bands and your fingers make rings. You show that there is no way to link these rings.You rub the bands against each other, and make them VISUALLY penetrate each other. This is a compelling illusion, with exactly the same visual as crazy man's handcuffs- except the bands are going IN!
2. You show that now there is no way to get out. Then, the bands visually penetrate out- ONE STRAND AT A TIME! When they are half way through, the bands can be pulled to show that the bands are REALLY HALF-WAY THROUGH! Then, the last strand pulls on the other rubber band and VISUALLY POPS THROUGH!!!
3. You offer to repeat the effect, bringing the bands up to chest height. Again, the bands penetrate IN AND OUT!
4. You then ask an audience member to hold one of the bands between their two hands. You show that the bands are definitely outside each other, and there is no way to get through.Now YOU TELL THEM EXACTLY WHERE TO LOOK! The bands immediately and visually penetrate each other RIGHT AT THAT SPOT!!! Then, they penetrate back out and you take your applause.
The above routine is 100% commercial, and has been audience tested over thousands of performances. PLUS, you will have all the tools you will ever need to construct your own personalized version of the crazy man's handcuff's:
Running Time Approximately 2hr 5min
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Have you ever wondered how magicians can stun audiences so effortlessly? Have you ever seen an amazing card trick and wondered how it was done? If so, this is the video for you!
Get inside the mind of Stephane Vanel, champion card magician, as he teaches 12 incredible tricks that anyone can learn with an ordinary deck of cards and a little bit of practice. Learn to perform incredible card tricks and impress your friends!
You will learn these incredible tricks:
The Four Aces Production - No matter where someone initially cuts the deck, after they divide the cards up into 4 piles, you'll be able to make an ace magically appear on the top of each pile.
The Magic Zone - A family favorite, when you move the deck through the "magic zone", one card will separate itself from the rest.
The Prediction - Only with magic can you accurately predict the top card of three random piles, no matter who cuts them.
The Impossible Location - Find a person's card anywhere in the deck even after they cut the cards multiple times!
Strong Connection - Using two separate decks, you somehow pick the same exact card as your spectator even after cutting the deck.
The Magical Straight - Once a card is randomly taken from the deck, 3 separate shuffles and a little bit of magic make a straight miraculously appear - missing only the card originally taken.
The Levitation - No matter what card is chosen, once it is placed back in the deck, learn how to make its companion card levitate out of the pack and reveal itself to your audience.
Ace Elevator - People will be amazed when you somehow make 4 Aces move through the deck at will!
The Magical Jokers - If you can't find a card randomly chosen and replaced in the deck, you can always count on your magical jokers to help you out.
The Accordion - After a spectator chooses their card, you have them shuffle it back into the deck. You then mix the cards face up and face down but somehow their card reveals itself!
The Flash Production - A trick that has stumped professional magicians for years, now unveiled to you. In a flash, even you will be able to make 4 aces appear on the top of 4 random piles.
BONUS TRICK: The Card Morph - This trick is so special, we have hidden it somewhere on this DVD... Can you find it?
Stephane also teaches these easy to learn, essential sleight of hand techniques:
• Criss-Cross Force
• One Card Break
• Slip-Cut Force
• Misdirection
• Palming
• ...and much, much more!
Additional Features:
Visual Glossary of Magic Terms
The Rules of Magic
7 Tips for Better Presentation
Hidden Bonus Trick - Can you find it?
3 Viewing Modes: Standard, Tricks Only, and Explanations
Running Time Approximately 1hr 5min
The effect is : whilst holding a borrowed wine glass in both hands your spectator gets to witness the impossible as the stem bends visibly before their eyes. The glass is then given to the spectator to keep as a souvenir that freezes the moment of magic perfectly.
Bonus Material: David’s Cabaret handling presented by Rodney James Piper and a method to bend the spectator’s own key which can be used to enhance the REFRACTION effect.
Features three live performances and a two camera, studio style explanation filmed at ‘The House of Illusion’ in Spain.
NOT TO BE SOLD TO ANYONE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE
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by Joshua Jay
From the pages of MAGIC Magazine to your TV screen, the "Talk About Tricks" DVD Box Set is one of the most eclectic, unexpected collections of magic and magicians ever captured on DVD.
The concept is simple: Joshua Jay writes the critically-acclaimed "Talk About Tricks" column every month in MAGIC Magazine, and this set is the column come-to-life! Every month, Joshua Jay features original effects from the world’s greatest magicians. There are hundreds of fantastic tricks buried in those pages. Now we can finally see how great these tricks look at performance speed.
From close-up to parlor, from cards to Q-tips, from money to mentalism, from easy to difficult, this collection boasts over seven hours of the best magic ever published in "Talk About Tricks." Better still, many of these effects are performed live by their originators. See magicians Felipe Abreu, Paul Cummins, Joel Givens, Rune Klan, John Lovick, Raj Madhok, Rick Maue, Francis Menotti, and more, all performing and explaining their creations. You’ll also see magic created by Eric Buss, Bob Farmer, Martin Gardner, Larry Jennings, Ed Marlo, David Parr, Gaston Quieto, David Solomon, Gregory Wilson, and dozens more!
This box set boasts over seven hours of close-up magic from the industry’s leading thinkers. Hosted by magic performer, author, and lecturer Joshua Jay, you don’t want to miss out on the most comprehensive, exhaustive DVD release of the year!
Originators of all the tricks are credited in parentheses. (Performers are introduced on the actual DVD.)
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Paul Harris talks impromptu about technology mastery and astonishment
"Try This At Home" with Garrett Thomas - this episode Garrett looks at the fake take
"Off The Shelf" features John Lovick's new hundred dollar bill switch book "Switched"
Andrew Pinard's Continuum a look at those who influence magic from the past, the present, and the future - this installment is Harry Lorayne on Memory and Magic Tricks Of The Trade with David Regal - a hilarious look at four effects that are new on the market
"Choice Cuts" magic.about.com's Wayne Kawamoto looks at the world of DVD's
Plus bonus material, performances, and explanations
John Lovick's $100 bill switch
Dan Tongs Chop Cup routine
Potassys bill to potato
Running Time Approximately 120min
