tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71249067517140431792012-02-12T02:24:58.392-08:00Here you can find info on card magic, rope magic, coin magic, street magic, stage magic, magic shows, magic tricks, magic secrets and magicians.George Fhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14717407456220651377noreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124906751714043179.post-11556769127010897402007-08-29T12:47:00.000-07:002008-03-03T11:17:51.419-08:00

This trick is a classic. It was one of my first purchases. I still amaze people at parties with it. Some even think I have supernatural powers.The Effect: An opened, emptied and crushed soda can slowly and visually heals itself, returning to it's original state-the hole in the top even magically reseals itself closed! To top off this mind-blowing routine you can even open the can with a pfzzzt!

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I haven't read anything about David Blaine for a while so I did a quick search last night. What I found? A few things, nothing new, but I came across the card trick that helped him close the deal on his first network tv special : Street Magic. It must have been good, right?Effect: You show someone a batch of twenty cards... all different. You give her ten of the cards to hold.You now have her

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Here's a DVD that I talked about earlier when I first wrote about Zoom, Bounce and Fly. Some people were asking if it is worth getting it. Well, it teaches you very good techniques on card spinning, card juggling, card throwing and card flourishes. So if you are interested in that kind of stuff, you want to add some incredible moves to your act or just want to learn great flourishes from one of

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Right hand has a half dollar classic palmed, while the fingers flip another coin into the air a time or two. This is merely a disarming move which tends to show, without saying so, that the right hand holds only one coin. The spectators reason that there is only one because it seems impossible that a second coin could be hidden in the hand flipping a coin in the air so naturally.Image A shows the

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This dvd consist of the complete multiple bill change routines with 4 incredibly visual segments including the best ending that leaves everybody laughing. If you love magic involving money, then I highly recommend Greed by Daniel Garcia - DVDWatch a preview here:

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Ingenious mentalism presented in a uniquely entertaining style! Featuring 16 effects guaranteed to hit them right BETWEEN THE EYES! Mind-blowers with clock faces, photographs, playing cards, billets, business cards, coins, pay envelopes, locks and keys.This DVD also features revealing interview segments during which Boris Jay! shares his unique views on predicting the future, reading minds, ESP,

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For all of you magic lovers, I found a new magic e-store. It offers over 7000 magic tricks which is an incredible amount. They pretty much cover every category: card tricks, coin & money magic, close-up magic, mental magic, street magic, etc. Also it is a good source from where you could buy your beginner magic and magic for kids.It offers same day shipping, ships worldwide and for US order over

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Who is he? Criss Angel's fans might remember him from the Mindfreak series, but worldwide magicians know Jeff McBride as one one the world's renowned magicians. He combines magic with mime, dance, Kabuki theater and martial arts to produce a very enterntaining magic show.He also set the Guiness World Record in 3 categories.Most coin rolls in a minute – 31 using a single silver dollar. (record is

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Here's a nice little "trick". You lay down on 3 chairs. One at your feet, one at your head and one at the center. Your partner removes the center chair and then climbs on you. Can you stand his/her body weight and not fall down?Please watch and see how (compliments of Sam Noyoun).Iron Body - You Can Too! - The most amazing bloopers are here

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Here's a very cool video I received from Dave (from 5min.com) on how to immediately win with a blank lottery ticker. Very cool trick, take a look:

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Hello everybody,Take a look at this video and learn a very nice magic trick to entertain your children. It's called Captain Jack's shipwreck.All the cheers (and rights) go to the talented Sam Noyoun who created this video.So here it is:Cool Trick For Kids!! - The most amazing videos are a click away

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After seeing Coperfield on stage I was very intrigued of all he did. I knew he is only human and he must have done all those things through skill, knowledge and gimicks of some sort. Therefore I started a quest to find the answer to some of his secrets.My first stop was obviously the internet and it took me a few full days until I found something relevant to my searches (nowadays it's a lot

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This is for all the people who could not stay up the entire night (I was one of them) and did not see the last moments of the escape.

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The effect: A deck of cards is shown and is shuffled. Three spectators are required to help you demonstrate your mastery of the past, present and future. The first spectator selects a card, looks at it and returns it in the deck."A card was chosen, but now it is back from where it came from. It all took place in the past", you tell your audience.You write a message on a paper, fold it and write

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I still remember the day when my friend took me to see David Copperfield for the first time. It was a gift for my birthday, a gift that changed my life and welcomed me into the world of magic.We both knew about Copperfield, we also saw him on TV from time to time and obiously we heard a lot about his illusions. We kept talking about how he passed through the "Wall of China" or how he made the

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Here is a card throwing technique that you could learn to impress your audience. It shows you two methods on how to hold the card and how to throw it at a fair distance.http://rapidshare.com/files/39347087/Throw_cards.pdfIf you want to learn more about it, I would recommend you buying the DVD of Rick Smith Jr. He is the master and actually world champion at card throwing. His DVD is informative

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The coin is held horizontally in the fork of the thumb by pressure of the latter and the base of the first finger pressing together against opposite edges. Image A shows this position but from a different angle than viewed by the audience (the image does not get to see your hand as in image A).To bring the coin to this position, hold it vertically between the tips of the first two fingers, as in

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Here you can download David Copperfield's video that shows the best illusions and magic demonstrations that he performed in the last 15 years.It is worth watching.You need to download all 8 files and unrar them in order to get the video.http://rapidshare.com/files/37280551/D1http://rapidshare.com/files/37287926/D2http://rapidshare.com/files/37311111/D3http://rapidshare.com/files/37317864/D4http:/

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Effect: The magician picks out two cards. He has a spectator cut the deck. He flips over the cards that he picked, then he flips over two cards of the deck that was cut. The cards match.Secret: Before you begin the trick it would be good to shuffle the deck so the specator doesn't think you have rigged the pack in any way.Tell them you will pick two cards. Go through the deck making sure you look

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If you want to draw a crowd of spectators or just impress your friends, then you should learn how to do a card flourish.Here you can download a video that teaches you a very cool card flourish. With a little practice you can master it by next day. It is a very well done video with a very good step-by-step explanation.http://rapidshare.com/files/37106145/learn_tb.rar

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Here are 3 ebooks I found that teach you some cool magic tricks.1. The levitation book. It teaches you not one, but five ways in which you can levitate.2. Head twister - create an illusion of how you twist your head 360 degrees.3. Soda can - This is mostly a party trick. You pick up a can of sodaand open it. A stream of soda shoots out (nearly) hitting someone. You shake the can, but there

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The coin is clipped by its edge in the fork of the thumb by pressure against the base of the first finger (figure A). The coin should be held rather loosely to permit the thumb to assume as natural a position as possible. Practice this in front of a mirror.To place the coin in this position, begin with it between the tips of the first two fingers (figure B). Curl these two fingerss inward until

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This is another of Cyril's street magic tricks. He performs his lowering of his head down to the chest trick. It is amazing!

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Cyril Takayama is a renowned magician. I would personally put him all the way up there with Criss Angel and David Blaine. He was born in California, but he mostly performed in Japan where he is now getting more and more popular due his street magic performance.He has lots of amazing tricks up his sleeve. My personal favorites are, card through sumbarine window, making a hamburger out of an image,

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The coin is held in the center of the palm by the contraction of the muscles at the base of the thumb and little finger. Basically is like trying to hold something in your hand, but without getting a grip on the object by using your finger.Not just one, but several coins may be held in this manner. This is one of the most difficult of concealments to master, but it is worth learning it because it

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Here is the link to an e-book that teaches magic tricks for the beginning magician.http://rapidshare.com/files/35852648/Anonymous.-.Magic.Tricks.for.the.Beginning.Magician.pdfIt teaches you how to perform tricks with a hankerchief, a rope, a rubber band, coins, cards and some every day household items.Good book for a beginner.Enjoy!

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If you read my previous post on how you can make money with magic, you might remember that I mentioned that you could pull out a light out of your Christmas Tree and have fun with it.If you're looking for some street magic, stage magic or you just want to impress someone then I would really recommend D'lites. You could master it in a couple of minutes, though if you want it to look excellent I

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Here are a few ways to combine your hobby with your job and be praised and better paid for coming up with the idea.1. If you hand out flyers/brochures, or do any kind of business promotion...You can incorporate some tricks into it. For example the rip and tear of a flyer only to make it become whole again. Stuff like this will attract viewrs that in turn you can hand out stuff too.2. Bar magic.

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Get a break below the top card (maybe by using your thumb). Cut the deck once, holding the break. Now take everything below the break, and transfer it to the top, making another cut. This leaves the deck the same, except the top card is now on bottom.

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On the table is a face-down Ace and in your hand, a blank-faced card or any other card except an Ace.The right hand takes its card by the lower right corner, thumb on top and first (i.e. index finger) and second (i.e. middle finger) fingers underneath, the second (i.e. middle finger) finger being bent inward a little of the inner end of the card. The right hand scoops the card by going underneath

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June 4th, 2007.Criss Angel is attempting a death-defying demonstration in New York City’s Times Square. He is encased in a 4x4x4 feet glass box with steel bars and cement that is raised 40 feet above the ground. He will try to escape from it in 24 hours. Either if he can escape the block or not, it will drop after 24 hours.He arrived in Times Square at 6:45 am (local time)and at 7:30 the

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The Effect: A 1m, 1m and a half of rope is held tightly between theperformer’s hands. The performer proceeds to balance a ball on the rope and mystically the ball rolls from one end of the rope to the other.The Secret: A thin piece of black thread almost as long as therope is used to build a track for the ball to roll on. Tie both ends of the thread near the ends of the rope leaving just a little

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The Effect: A white shoestring is held up for everyone to see, the magician passes his closed fist down the string, instantly changing it from white to black. The shoestring is then handed out for examination.The Secret: Two shoelaces are used in this performance, a black shoestring and a hollow white shoelace. Cut a small opening in the white shoelace and thread the black shoestring through the

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Imagine that you divide your pack into 3 smaller (try to make it equal) packets. Let's call them from the top to the bottom, X, Y and Z.Hold the original pack into your left hand and with your right middle finger and thumb bring packet Z into the right hand. Take Z over XY and with your right ring finger and thumb get packet X.To recap: in your left hand you have the remaining packer Y (the

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For all of you who know the card to ashes to arm technique, this is a nice alternative.Get some ALUM (Amonia Aluminum Sulphate) and mix it with a pint of vinegar. You paint a 5 of Hearts (or anything else) on an eggshell and leave it to dry for an hour. After, you boil the egg so it hardens and let it go cold (don't put it in the fridge). After you crack the egg, the 5 of Hearts can be seen now

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I would like to start a few tutorials on how to perform some card sleights. This is the first in this series and I hope it will be useful to beginners in card magic.Double UndercutLet us suppose that the top card is to be moved to the bottom of the deck. The right hand holds the deck from above (in the Biddle Grip/Count). A break is held beneath the top card with the right thumb. The left hand

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Sometimes last week I came across one of the blogs of Mr. Glenn Bishop.http://glennbishopbishthemagish.blogspot.comIf you have not heard of Glenn Bishop then I will tell you a little about him now. He is a famous sleight of hand artist, award winning close up magician and hypnotist. He has over 25 years of experience as a magician and he performed in numerous places, one of which being the famous

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I was just browsing theInternetyesterday and I stumbled upon a website that revealed quite a few magic tricks. There were quite a few complaints about the revelations, but there were also people that appreciated them. I agree with both.I agree that the Internet is a medium through which information should be shared freely. Some magic secrets could be revealed, but not most of them. I have no

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Are you ready?Finally, the day we will all be waiting for: Tuesday, June 5th 2007. Criss Angel - Season 3 premiers on A&E, 10 PM /9C.What will be new? Well, it is already known that the master magician and illusionist will be seen levitating 500 feet above the ground over Las Vega's Luxor Hotel and Casino. It will be an impressive illusion since he will levitate inside the 800-degree light beam

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This card trick is simply incredible.Trick: You shuffle the deck, then deal down the first 10 cards on the table. Your "victim" can shuffle them all he/she wants. You pick up the first card and the he/she picks up his/her card. Anything that you pick will be the winning hand.You can really convince your audience that you are influencing them in what to chose.Watch this video here at you tube:I

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This self tying shoelace is incredible.Imagine walking down the street and someone notice that your shoelace is untied. You say thank you and instead of bending down to tie it you just shake your leg and in a matter of seconds your shoelace ties itself. The person that told you about your untied shoelace will remain astonished. Anyone that sees this will be amazed. Just think about it. Your

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Effect: Tris is a very easy card trick. A spectator shuffles a deck of cards and hands it to the magician while his back is turned. The magician holds the deck in front of him, showing the bottom card of the deck to the audience only, and the audience to name that card. The magician does this a few times, shuffling the cards behind his back and showing the bottom. After the about the third time,

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The Effect: The magician sets twenty randomly selected cardson the table, face up. While the magician is out of theroom, each of the spectators mentally select a different pairof cards. The performer randomly places the cards in rowsof five. Each of the spectators point to the two rows thattheir cards are in, and the magician immediately picks uptheir pair of cards.Secret: The cards are not

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