“If I knew someone just getting into this business, it would be the first set of books that I would I’d recommend.” –John Bannon
“If you love card magic, you can’t do better. They’re just incredible valuable tools. If you’re very serious about learning magic, you can’t do better than study what Roberto Giobbi has put into these volumes for the serious student.” –John Lovick
“They’re excellent books. I’d recommend them to ANYBODY, especially those just getting into card magic.” –Michael Close
New York, NY • Lock the door behind you and draw the curtains; some mysteries are meant only for a privileged few. Open the pages of Foreseen and you’ll discover a secret, really a series of secrets, from one of mentalism’s foremost exponents. The pen of Mr. Nyman discloses his reputation-making finale after decades of performance. Kind is he not only to disclose the exact workings
Right out of the acts of two popular working performers – Jamie Preston from New Zealand and Paul Brignall from Scotland – comes a stunning book test designed for optimum ease of performance and audience impact It’s the same presentation Jamie Preston has used in his professional shows and. corporate work, as well as on TV. What’s different about The Working Mentalist’s Underground Book Test is that it is structured the way you would do a book test if you really had psychic abilities. You hand out three different paperbacks to three different spectators. One spectator names a page number – any number – and another spectator turns to that page Immediately, you are able to reveal the word or phrase he is looking at You set that spectator’s book
The door to magic is closed, but it’s not locked. And now Joshua Jay opens that door to reveal the artistry and obsessiveness, esoteric history and long-whispered-about traditions of a subject shrouded in mystery. “This book is my love letter to magic,” says Jay, “and it answers the questions people ask me every night after the show.” Joshua Jay brings us right into the mind of a magician—how they develop their other-worldly skills, conjure up illusions, and leave the rest of us slack-jawed with delight.
Along the way Jay reveals another kind of secret, one all readers will find meaningful even if they never aspire to perform sleight-of-hand: What does it take to follow your heart and achieve
While at an art gallery once, I found myself staring at a urinal. Context in this story is key though. You see, I wasn’t in the bathroom, but rather right in the middle of the gallery where, under bright spotlights, a porcelain urinal was proudly displayed on a pedestal for all the intrigued guests to admire.
Instantly, I thought, “I don’t understand art.”
In fact, I still don’t.
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Mind-Reading, My Sweet…………………3
She’s Gotta Have It………………………….8
X-Communication…………………………..13
In this single page PDF, I go over a hidden structure of extracting methods from ordinary objects. I use this framework in my daily work, through years of practice my assessment of an object happens in just a few seconds now. The purpose of this structure is to learn tools that can allow an illusion designer to discover illusion methods at a more efficient speed. I use these techniques in my daily creative process for designing illusion.
There is no magic formula to creating illusions but this might help you.
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