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~::~ Magic Roadshow ~::~ December 18th, 2006 Issue# 61 Rick Carruth / editor (C)2006 All rights reserved worldwide Street Magic's #1 free newsletter for magicians, street performers, restaurant workers, close-up artists, and mentalists, with subscribers in over sixty four countries worldwide. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Hello All
Well, it's one week till Christmas, and I hope you're ready. I am, sort of, as long as you don't include wrapping and all that stuff. I must first say a heartfelt 'Welcome' to all the new subscribers who have joined our community since the last issue. I hope you find something to help with your particular brand of magic in each issue. Always feel free to write with any comments, request, rants and raves. I listen.. and I always try to respond. Email Me.. I know that all of you who celebrate the birth of Christ will be busy this week, in preparation for Christmas. But I hope you can find time to read this issue, download your special gift, and still finish your shopping... There are many religions, and for those of you who do not celebrate the Christmas Season, I wish you a Blessed week.. Look for another abbreviated issue in ONE week. I'll include another gift in that issue as well. Just as with this issue, the download link will be included in your email notification. Yes, I could publish it right here, but then anyone searching Google or Yahoo could get it freely, and they wouldn't have to put up with my emails to get the gifts. These eBooks were purchased for YOU, regular Magic Roadshow readers, and not everyone with access to a search engine.. -------------- In This Issue -------------- (01) Sonic Switch - An impossible vanish (02) Secrets of the Fortune Telling Racket (03) Card Magic Secrets - Video & secret to several card tricks (04) A Google Trick - Great laptop magic effect (05) Card Thru Window - Video instruction & gimmick (06) Card Tricks Online - Magiczilla link to tricks & instructions (07) Magic Roy - His $6900.00 magic video (08) Let's Say Thanks - It's just the right thing during the Holiday Season (09) Christmas Bonus # 1 (10) Erdnase Download - for new subscribers (11) Elf Yourself - As if I need any help looking silly... (12) Roadshow Resources _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Sonic Switch The Effect: The magician begins with two decks of cards on the table; one blue back and one red back. After calling someone from the audience to assist, the magician ask the spectator to name a card. Lets say the Six of Hearts was named. The magician then looks through each deck and removes the chosen card from each. The red-backed card is then openly placed on top of the blue-backed deck. The blue-backed card is placed on top of the red-backed deck. This is done very fairly, and the magician can show that each deck is exactly what it's proposed to be... Both decks are then undercut to bury the odd-backed Six of Hearts into the middle of the deck. Now, the magician does what good magicians do, and performs a little hocus pocus with the intent of making the odd backed cards travel back to their mates... without touching the decks. After waving his hand over the decks, they are each spread to show that there are NO odd backed cards in either deck. The magician then flips each deck over, face side up, and looks for the Six of Hearts, removing each from the deck, one at a time, and showing that it's back matches the deck it's in.. The Method: With the decks laying face-down on the table to begin the effect, you need a Joker on the bottom of each deck. Each Joker should have a couple of strips of double sided tape stuck to it's face. Make sure when sitting the decks on the table that you sit them down gently, so as to prevent the Jokers from sticking securely to the table. When the odd-backed Six of Hearts is placed on top of each deck, and then undercut, the Joker is placed on top of the Six. Make sure the deck is squared nicely. Put a little pressure on the deck to make sure the Joker and Six stick together firmly. (You can also perform this effect with a little magicians wax, instead of double-sided tape.) Now, the trick is self-working from this point on. You can spread the deck now and show that all the backs match, as well as flip the deck and find the Six of Hearts, remove it from the deck and flash the back to show that it's color matches the rest of the deck. Of course, you're actually showing the back of the Joker stuck to the back of the Six... but I won't tell if you don't. I'm not sure who to credit this effect to.. as I can trace it back to the Linking Ring, September 1952. File: Learn Free Magic Tricks ==================== Secrets of the Fortune Telling Racket MEVPRO Shop has reproduced a copy of Popular Science Monthly from January 1931, an expose' of sorts, that states that in the previous year over $ 125,000,000 was spent on charlatians, psychics, tarot readers, and the like.. I've had an interest in the fortune telling racket since my youth. I think it started when I got my little hands on a couple of books by Dr. J.B. Rhine, and things sort of rolled on from there. I watched as adults would line up at the annual county fair to have their fortune's told or their palm's read, and I wanted to go behind the curtain too, as much out of curiousity as anything. Later in life, I got involved in the 'Fortune Telling Racket' on a more personal level while working in law enforcement. Yes, there are Tellers out there who's sole purpose is to fleece their customers out of as much money as possible, and I became a student of the con. In fairness to all, I'm aware that there are Tellers who do not attempt to con and/or deceive others, and this is not aimed at them. Since fortune tellers are first cousins to magicians, as far as the public is concerned, it's wise to understand your neighbor.. http://www.mevproshop.com/secrets/secrets-of-the-fortune-telling-racket.html ==================== Card Magic Secrets - (video) Here's a nice seven minute video detailing the performance and secrets behind several card tricks. Most involve nothing more complicated than a double lift. I keep telling you... the future is video. That certainly doesn't mean that the written word is going by the wayside, but it does mean that the favorite way of communicating an idea on the web will be via video. http://www.metacafe.com/watch/309044/magic_exposed/ ==================== A Google Trick OK, fellow magicians, here is your 'trick of the month'. If you don't bookmark this one, then you totally have no business reading this newsletter... please go back to whinst you came.. To quote the author and designer, Edward Bain: "The Magician while browsing the internet brings up a Google search engine on the computer screen. The Magician instructs a spectator to watch the screen carefully and then lightly places two fingers on the computer monitor screen, just over the two "O"s in the Google logo." "When the Magician's fingers are removed from the screen the two "O"s in the logo have vanished. The magician then invites the spectator to place his fingers on the screen and magically the "O"s reappear upon the Logo." Personally, I can think of several other uses for this effect. The only secret is accessing Google through the link provided on the web site. 'A Google Trick' is only part of a much larger web site called DevilsTrampingGround.com, which isn't as sinster as it sounds. It primarily features a number of artistic and emtertaining video's, in a comic format... http://www.darkartsmedia.com/Instructions.html ==================== Card thru Window - video instructions David Blaine can be credited with the current interest in the Card Thru The Window. Although that was ten years ago, he started the 'thinking' process amongst new, young magicians who saw this as an 'impossible' effect, and thus desirable to perform. This video version relies on a 'gaff ', and I have no problem with that.. The instructions are good and the production values steady for a homemade video. Try it.. improve upon it.. and then send me your version for publication.. http://www.301url.com/cardthruwindow ==================== Card Tricks Online Web sites with instructions are getting harder and harder to find. Everyone either wants to publish video's or set up sites optimized for Google AdSense in hopes of making a nest egg.. Although Magiczilla has followed the latter route, it still has a few good effects for those willing to tip toe around the ads to get to the fruit.. Sections include information on sleights, flourishes, mentalism, hypnotism, beginner magic and patter. http://www.magiczilla.com/index.php ==================== Magic Roy - (video) Who is magic roy? Well, he's a dude on MetaCafe with a little card trick that has 'earned' him almost seven thousand dollars so far. (After I publish this, he'll make a little more..) The trick itself is a very nice effect. I can do it myself, but not as fast as MagicRoy. It's basically a series of multiple lifts and counts that fool the viewer into thinking you have cards that you don't actually have. MetaCafe will now pay you for each view of your online video over 20,000. They have added a ten second ad to the beginning of the video and share the profits with the magician. So.. if YOU have a killer effect, could you stand to earn a few extra thousands..? http://www.metacafe.com/watch/25532/card_trick/ ==================== Let's Say Thanks I really don't get involved in politics in the Magic Roadshow. But, that doesn't mean that I won't attempt to steer readers toward something that is just plain right.. 'Let's Say Thanks' is a web site sponsored and set up by ZEROX, at their expense. What they do is this: "The mission of Let's Say Thanks is to provide a way for individuals across the country to recognize U.S. troops stationed overseas. By submitting a message through this site you have the opportunity to send a free personalized postcard greeting to deployed servicemen and women." "The postcards, depicting patriotic scenes and hometown images, were selected from a pool of entries from children across the country." "All you have to do is click on your favorite design and either select the message that best expresses your sentiment or draft a personal note. The postcards are then printed on the Xerox iGen3® Digital Production Press and mailed in care packages by military support organization Give2TheTroops®." Whether you agree with their presence overseas or not is not the question. The fact is, a lot of young men and women are going to miss Christmas with their families this year as they are exposed to hostilities on foreign soil. Take a moment and tell them you care about THEM... http://www.letssaythanks.com/Home1280.html ==================== Christmas Bonus #1 Advanced Memory Techniques for Magician's & Mentalist's - eBook My very first article for the Magic Roadshow was about extreme memory. I'm talking about the ability to memorize thirty to forty decks of cards. Although this eBook may not have you performing at that level, it may well have you memorizing a full deck of cards in a matter of minutes, which is a pretty mean feat to most folks.. From the author... "Research has shown that by remembering creatively not only will you be able to remember AND recall more with less effort, with more fun and interest, but you will ALSO start to THINK more creatively and be able to connect information in such ways that you can answer questions more fluidly. But memories shouldn't just be used for remembering facts, you can also achieve amazing stunts with very little effort! One of the most important parts of stage magic is to convince the audience that you have gifts and talents beyond that which are naturally available to the average human. And even though most of the time they know there must be some trick to it, jaw dropping power will have them eating out of your hand. A stage mentalist often relies on tricks, plants and words, though the amazing Derren Brown has blown the lid off of psychological mind bending principles. What is revealed on every page of this book adds to this new tradition of pure skill, which cannot be faked or duplicated, and yet is so simple it is a joy to both show and learn. After just five minutes of reading the first few pages of this book you will have the skills to memorise and recall a list of 10 items forwards, backwards, or at random, and with very little practice be able to do so in under 20 seconds. But that's not all, you will soon be able to move on to memorise 100's and then 1000's of pieces of information - whether it be the patter to a new trick, complex moves or the order of the tricks to your stage performance and no longer have to refer to written notes. Perhaps even the memorization of a deck of cards. Or even more! You can even develop this to card counting … - the bain of every casino. Look at what you will be able to do Study and learn quicker Read a book JUST ONCE and be able to recall the text months, even years later Remember important key dates Memorise incredibly long strings of numbers Memorise a deck of cards - and learn ideas for magic tricks using this knowledge Remember complex directions given to you by complete strangers Once you have become familiar with all of these techniques you will be able to choose the most appropriate for the job in hand and amaze those watching. Even in the smallest of gatherings the I have had people beg me to tell them the secrets." The link to download this eBook will be live for ONE WEEK ONLY for subscribers. ( Sorry.. the link has been removed. The link will be included in your next email..) If you are not a subscriber to the Magic Roadshow, sign up HERE, and I will include the link in my email to you, notifying you of new issues.. ~::~ Christmas Bonus #2 will be along in One Week... ~::~ ==================== Erdnases' Expert at the Card Table - Download If you're a new subscriber, you can download your free version of Erdnases' classic ebook at this link.. http://www.301url.com/erdnase If you have a problem, let me know and I will send you the ebook as an attachment.. ==================== ~::~ Elf Yourself ~::~ Here's a little something to brighten your day, courtesy of Office Max. ( Yes, that's me.. ). Thanks to PeaceLove for the link.. http://www.elfyourself.com/?userid=b1cd7980083de6c5d355625G06121418 ==================== That's all.. for now. Look for another issue in ONE week, and not the normal Two. I'll include another eBook in the next issue, one strictly related to magic and an all-time classic.. Questions? Rants? Raves? Comments? 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