You display a four-of-a-kind to your audience. One-by-one, the cards jump from one to the pocket, to the other hand, instantly and right before their eyes! After the cards have traveled, they visually change in a split second into a completely different four-of-a-kind!
Zapping is a type of “hypnotic induction” that utilizes techniques developed by Master Hypnotist Hon Wong and his son Gordon Fang-Wong. Hon and Gordon teamed up with Jay Noblezada to further refine the technique. Sought out by many of today’s top hypnotists and NLP practitioners, The Zap is the fastest induction ever created. The Zap enables the performer to perform an instant induction on a total stranger within 30 seconds of meeting. There’s no lengthy pre-talk, music, or lights. This is a hypnosis in its purest form.
Imagine shaking someone’s hand and watching them hit the ground like a sack of potatoes, HYPNOTIZED!
This process has been tested, perfected and kept secret for years!
After Adrian Lacroix recently released “Virtual Triumph”, it went straight into the repertoires of some of the best working magicians in the world (Luis De Matos even performed it on national TV.).
Now Adrian brings a revolutionary way to perform a totally hands-off version of one of the best card tricks ever published: Paul Curry’s “Out Of This World”.
The spectator grabs a deck of cards, they shuffle it and then use their intuition to separate reds cards from black cards placing them all face down. At the end they find out every decision they made was correct! All this happens miles away in their own hands at their homes!
The perfect addition to your live AND virtual performances!
Continue reading Virtual Out Of This World by Adrian Lacroix
A spectator signs a card. They’re given an undeveloped photograph to hold. The card is lost back in the deck. Before their astonished eyes they watch as the photograph develops into an image of a hand holding their signed card.
Photosynthesis is a powerful way to reveal a word, an image or a signed card.
No special Polaroid camera required!
No refills needed!
Comes complete with the Photosynthesis gimmick and a 24 minute instructional DVD including several routines.
An incredible collection of packet tricks!
PREDICTION GONE WILD (Cameron Francis): A great trick. A card is selected. You show four blank cards with different names of cards on them. All of a sudden all the cards have the name of the selection. At the end the selection vanishes from the deck and appears in the packet.
BOXING ACES (Aldo Colombini): An Ace-assembly that will have their jaws dropping. Four Aces vanish from packets of cards and reappear inside the card case.
GHOST FLIGHT (Peter Duffie): Eight double blank cards and four Queens are used. The Queens trapped between two blank cards vanish and reappear under a ‘cover.’ Great handling, an incredible effect.
OILS WELL THAT ENDS WELL (Stephen Tucker): A version of the classic “Oil and Queens” where at the end the four Queens vanish and leave four blank-faced cards.
“Everything that is invisible to the eye is often difficult to believe. For this reason, many people still question the existence of the spirits and energies…”
Say the above during your performance, or perhaps the following: “Spirits do not show themselves where there is much light.” You could illuminate the scene with candles, or even the light emitted by cell phone screens, creating even more mystery.
With such a creative presentation, MEDIUM can cause chills in your audience.
Effect: A small object is placed on your hand. With your and your spectators’ concentration, the object slowly and visibly moves onto its side – and sometimes even flips over! Especially powerful when placed under a glass during this eerie demonstration! MEDIUM allows you to achieve this. Is the spirit making its presence known via the object?
A Game of Life & Death is a playfully macabre piece of close-up magic in which someone from the audience is invited to play a game of cards with the Grim Reaper. It’s like a little one-act play, a refreshingly different card routine that engages the audience in a fun and suspenseful narrative.
Care to join the Grim Reaper in a friendly game of Cut the Cards? Take care: the Reaper has played this game many times…
What’s this? You’ve won! A mortal has cheated Death!
Continue reading A Game of Life & Death by David Parr (video+Pdf)
After you draw the wrong card you add a few lines to make a box. Then the chosen card rises out of the drawn box.You wave the sketchpad very slowly and the card changes in a blink of an eye! Give it away as an impossible souvenir!
Note: This effect is inspired by Martin Lewis’s Cardiographic.
Akira Fujii is known as a modern master of sleight-of-hand, and in Microtechnica you will get to see how he gained that reputation. Akira has spent over two decades working on the minutae of complex sleights, dissecting and analysing every last detail.
In Microtechnica we get to see the fruits of this research, as Akira tips the work on some of the most useful sleights in the card repertoire.
In nearly an hour of crystal-clear instruction, Akira teaches the following:
1mm Diagonal Palm Shift – Akira has taken this so-called difficult sleight to a level of unrivalled mastery. Every aspect of the move is covered in amazing detail.
One-hand push through – The cleanest, fairest method of obtaining an injog, apparently using just one finger. Three routines using the sleight are also included.
Convincing Control Bottom Palm – Akira goes over his handling of the convincing control, before explaining a beautiful way of using it to get directly into palm.
