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Magic Roadshow March 7th, 2006 Issue# 66 Rick Carruth / editor (C) 2007 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 seventy countries worldwide. Learn free magic tricks online. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Hi All..
Sorry for the delay. It's been a hectic couple of weeks, but very rewarding. First.. I must WELCOME all the new subscribers to our newsletter. There have been large numbers of you guys and ladies, and I want you to know that you're more than welcome at the Magic Roadshow. I hope each of you takes an active roll in helping me share magic resources with others.. We are an international publication, with subscribers in over 80 countries worldwide, and welcome your imput.. I've spent the past few days in Tennessee at the Winter Carnival of Magic, and had the pleasure of running into several subscribers, not to mention more than a few world class magicians. Among those who have agreed to interviews with the Roadshow are.. Close up legend John Carne, master of hip hop magic - Jay Mattiolo, and fism winner and master of the marked deck - Boris Wild. I hope all of you got your free 'Easy Mentalism' eBook download. If you didn't, the link is still available, until Friday, at http://www.StreetMagic.info . Look for the Easy Mentalism ebook image, then look in the text links below the image for the link 'Easy Mentalism', right next to the Michael Finney link.. _________ In This Issue _________ (01) Stapled - Version One (02) Stapled - Version Two (03) Magic Bunny. net - Learn to Perform Magic Tricks (04) Mac King on the Road - 7 PDF's by Mac (05) Mind Blower Card Trick - Video (06) The Biddle Trick and Move Explained - Six plus minute video (07) Penn and Teller Reveal the Secrets of Magic - What's new (08) Torn and Restored Cigarette Tutorial - Four plus minutes (09) Card Fan To Silk - Effect by Subhajit Chattopadhyay (10) The Floating Note - Window's Media Player version (11) Erdnase' Expert at the Card Table - Download (12) Pricked Cards - Cheaters Secret Weapon __________________ " I yam what I yam.." - Popeye _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ [[ Stapled ]] Here's two versions of the same effect. Actually, I suppose if it's two versions then it's NOT the same effect, is it.? Part One is a 'little' closer to the version performed by John Scarne. Part Two is.. different. ------------- Version One ------------- 'Stapled' was first introduced in issue# 36. It is one of my favorite effects, and like many effects, has evolved over time. Below is how I currently perform this little miracle, which is my version of an effect introduced many years ago by one of my favorite magicians.. John Scarne. You're going to have to create two gaffed cards: Get two jokers, two indifferent cards from an old deck, and a staple gun. For the sake of simplicity, lets say you're using a five of diamonds and a jack of clubs. You will need to force a five of diamonds or a jack of clubs on your spectator. It doesn't matter which. Lets assume the five is forced. Put the joker/five in your rear pocket and the joker/jack in your shirt pocket. Ask the spectator to select a card and force the five of diamonds. Cut the deck and ask the spectator to place the selected card on top of the lower portion. Now, catch a break and bring the five to the top of the deck. You can also take it to the bottom of the deck instead. ( The important aspect is knowing where the five is located and being able to remove it from the deck without looking..) Lay the deck on the table and tell the spectator that you are going to find their card using a combination of two cards that are special to you. Remove the joker/jack from your shirt pocket and give it to the spectator, asking them to check it out thoroughly. Tell them when you were a little boy your grandmother always called you 'Jack', constantly confusing you with your brother. She also told you that you were going to be quite the 'joker' when you grew up.. so the joker/jack combination has been special for you throughout the years and you are going to use that combination to create a 'locator' card. Tell the spectator that you are not only going to find the chosen card with the locator card but you're going to do it under almost impossible conditions. Take the deck in one hand and the locator card in the other hand and place both behind your back. " I don't want you to think for a moment that I can see your card in the deck or that I'm using some kind of marked deck and can identify your card from the back." While the deck is behind your back, place the joker/jack in your trouser pocket, as well as the five of diamonds off the top of the deck. Remove the joker/five from your trouser pocket and stick it into the middle of the deck. Make sure you know which way the joker is facing so when the deck is spread later, the spectator will see the joker and not the five.. Bring the deck from behind your back and place it face down on the table. Explain to the spectator that you put the locator card into the deck at the exact location of their chosen card. Spread the deck and let the spectator see the locator card and remove the card from under the locator card.. " With any luck, this will be your chosen card." Flip the card and ask if that was their card. Of course, they will say "No", and you will appear surprised.. Remove the card above the locator card and say that maybe it's the correct card. It won't be either.. Apologize for your failure - as you slide the locator card from the deck and move it to one side. Ask the spectator to please find their chosen card in the deck. After a brief search, they will not be able to find the five of diamonds anywhere in the deck. When they tell you that they can't find it, ask them to name their card. "Five of Diamonds.." "Five of Diamonds ??.. That's strange.. I suppose my grandmother was right when she said I'd grow up to be a little joker.." Flip the joker over to reveal the five of diamonds stapled to the back. I promise you, the spectator will be thoroughly impressed.. ------------------------ Stapled - Version Two.. ------------------------ Have a spectator select a card at random from the deck. Give them a permanent marker and ask them to sign their name across the face of the card. Cut the deck and ask the spectator to place the chosen card on top of the lower portion. Catch a break and bring the chosen card back to the top of the deck. The only real 'preparation' is.. you will need a pair of jokers. Personally, I have two jokers in the card box, and I'll reach for the box and remove the two jokers, under the pretex that I don't want to ruin two perfectly good cards. Hand the jokers to the spectator to inspect, and when you get them back casually drop them, face up, on top of the deck. At this point you have two face up jokers on top of the deck and the selected card face down under the jokers. Bring a small stapler from your pocket and sit it on the table. Pick up the deck and casually thumb the top joker off onto the table as you tell the spectator that you're going to create a locator card. Pick up the second joker and double lift the signed card with it.. Keeping the face of the second joker toward the spectator to prevent them from noticeing the double card, pick up the first joker from the table, show both sides, and put it behind the joker/signed card. You now have from top to bottom, a face up joker, face down signed card, and face down joker. Making sure to keep the packet very square, reach for the stapler and quickly put three or four staples in the packet. Be sure to perform this move as casually as possible, talking and looking at the spectator as you do.. If you don't seem overly concerned about the packet.. they won't either.. Now, ask the spectator to take the deck, make sure it's thoroughly mixed, and then sit it back on the table. Study the deck, visually size it up, and then cut the deck and put the jokers into the deck. Close the deck and announce that you hope your locator card has found the signed card. Spread the deck and look at the cards over, under, and around the locator card, none of which will be the signed card, of course.. Ask the spectator to help you look for the signed card. Turn the cards over, revealing the faces, none of which have a signature. You are now ready to slide a finger under the bottom joker and rip it from the packet, revealing the signed card between the two jokers. Patter is so important, and I will not bore you with mine. Use your imagination to create an interesting reveal, and this effect will serve you well... R.Carruth ===================== Magic Bunny - Learn to Perform Magic Tricks This is my resource of the month, no doubt. For those of you who have never visited Magic Bunny. net you're in for a surprise. They have dozens and dozens of moves, changes, effects, vanishes, and just good tricks... And it's far from being all about cards and card magic. There are sections on Magician's tools, Sham mesmerism, and clairvoyance, Memory tricks, Tricks with animals, tricks with rope, rings, handkerchiefs, eggs, bank notes, coins, knives, needles, wine, water, marbles, watches, and dice.. To mention a few.. And of course, there are card tricks like... -To Force a Card -The Second Deal -The False Count -The "Ruffle" -To Spring the Cards From One Hand to the Other -The Slide -The Forcing Die -The Prearranged Pack -The Color Change -To Make a Card Disappear from a Glass -The Transformation of the Jack of Clubs -The Prediction -To Discover a Card Drawn from the Pack -A Flying Card -A Greek Cross Most of these effects were originally published in the book "Magicians' Tricks", a classic that Henry Hay called the 'first American general textbook' of magic. http://www.magicbunny.net ===================== Mac King on the Road Mac King has long been one of my favorite magicians and performers. He has what everyone considers the best magic show - for the money - in Vegas.. The Mac King Comedy Magic Show at Harrah's Las Vegas. Mac has published many articles and interesting stories in all the major magic magazines, but I have a selection of articles that first appeared in MAGIC magazine and detail Mac's life on the road, so to speak.. -Mac’s first time performing in a Comedy Club -Mac, Magic Shows, and Natural Disasters -Mac and His Thumb Tip -Some Useful Advice -Mac King, Tough Guy -Mac and a Drunk Woman -A bunch of pals at Abbott's Get Together Each is a PDF file and can be accessed at Mac King's " Magician's Only " web site.. http://www.mackingshow.com/html/magicians/ ===================== Mind Blower Card Trick I'm not going into detail about this effect, but I'll just let you go to Metacafe and find out yourself. Learn a simple technique for making a shimmed card and another simple method for forceing this card on a unsuspecting spectator. This four plus minute video is one of the better ones, and one I'm sure you'll enjoy. http://www.301url.com/mindblower =============== The Biddle Trick and Move Explained This weeks special video is a full six and a half minute tutorial of the Biddle Trick. Using the biddle move and very little else, you can perform a nice looking effect with a minumum of effort. I'm thankful that we have access to vids like this that offer viewers a chance to learn and watch an effect perform without paying a single cent.. What worries me though is this.. video's use so much bandwidth, so much of the internets resources, that there WILL come a day in the near future when sites like metacafe and youtube will be a much more exclusive of the video's they allow to be published on their sites. Look for these sites to begin charging for files to be published to their servers. What do I recommend? Save these files and learn the effects QUICKLY.. they may be gone tomorrow.. http://www.301url.com/biddletrick =============== Penn and Teller Reveal the Secrets of Magic In typical Penn and Teller fashion, the duo fancy themselves the Keeper of the Keys to magic's cupboard of secrets. In this video they explain to the audience the science of magic via the appearance and disappearance of a cigarette. Watch Teller perform the seven keys to magic.. "Palm, Vanish, Steal, Load, Simulation, Misdirection, and Switch." in tandem with Penn's narrative. http://www.301url.com/magicreveal =============== Torn and Restored Cigarette Tutorial While we're on the subject of cigarette's, John Kennedy has put together a nice tutorial on the torn and restored cigarette. I featured a couple of cigarette effects two issues back, and this is the perfect compliment for those video's. I'm not advocating we all run out and buy a pack of cigarettes to master these moves, but the premise is a number of us perform in restaurants and/or bars where one of the readily available props is the infamous cigarette. Some folks look down on playing cards as evil, so I'm not making judgements here.. only sharing resources.. http://www.301url.com/cigtutorial =============== Card Fan To Silk - Subhajit Chattopadhyay Magician takes a dozen or so cards off the deck. He fans these cards, and with a flourish, tosses them into the air.. only to see the cards completely vanish and a single silk cloth remains in their place.. How does he do it? Secret and Presentation- Take about a dozen cards in one hand and fan them. Punch a hole in the point where all the cards meet. Take a brass fastener, those small fastener's with a head and two pointed tips that are commonly used to hold paper in binders, and put it through the hole, bend the two ends, and loosely secure the cards. Secure a piece of elastic, rubber band, or reel to the pack of cards as well. If using elastic, you can attach it to a safety pin and pin it up your sleeve. If using a reel, secure it at the proper location to allow you to pull the string down the sleeve. Now, these cards can be placed on top of the deck and you're ready to perform 'Card Fan to Silk'. Palm a rolled up silk in the hand that holds the card fan. Remove the packet from the top of the deck and fan it. Make an upward throwing motion, catching the corner of the silk with your fingers. Let go of the fan. The cards will swivel into a thin package and fly up your sleeve, leaving the silk in your hand. A special 'Thanks' to my friend, Subhajit Chattopadhyay, for devising this effect and sharing it first with the Magic Roadshow readers... =============== Miracles for Mortals I have two videos I want you to watch. Yes, these are Ellusionist products, and yes, I sell Ellusionist products. I'm confident that if you want it, you'll buy it... and if you don't - you won't. But I really want you to see it anyway. This is magic, and I cannot figure it out. I take great pride in watching trailers and figuring out the magic without actually buying the dvd. I promise you.. if you see me performing this effect.. I bought the dvd. There ain't no other way.. My friend from north of the border, E webmaster David Mitchell said... "The two preview videos shown on this page demonstrate just two of the effects you'll find on these DVD's. When the core team of Ellusionist got together recently, we screened many products for the site. One team member was watching this DVD and could not believe he was seeing what he was seeing. This is what real magic ought to look like. That staff member ran and brought in another member, and they watched it together, and the reaction was just as powerful. Finally they brought Brad in to watch this effect, and the look on his face made it clear. A WINNER." This will give you something to think about.... http://www.ellusionist.com/cart/?aid=1018 =============== The Floating Note (video solution) The passing last year of Mike Bornstein brought to mind Mikes famous "Mike Bornstein's Original Floating Dollar Bill Levitation". I knew that effect would be something very suitable for the Roadshow readers, so I wrote up a description of the Floating Note effect in notepad and moved it over to my 'briefcase' file, intending to use it one day. Then, about a year ago I received a link in my email from Pubtricks featuring the floating note trick. After watching it I realized I didn't need to write up my description of Mike's classic. There it was, in video form, for me to share with the world. This is a simple trick to set up. After seeing the video, you'll realize just how simple. I used to perform this effect from behind a counter, where the spectators couldn't grab for the bill, and it worked nicely for me.. Windows Media Player required.. http://www.streetmagic.info/floatingnote.html ----------------- If you liked this effect, check out some of the other effects at PubTricks http://www.streetmagic.info/Pubtricks.html =============== 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.. ========================= Pricked Cards - Cheaters Secret Weapon An excellent method for detecting given cards is to have them pricked in the corners, very nearly through, with a needle. The hole, or, more properly speaking, the indentation, should be made on the back of the card, so that the face presents a little mound to the touch. The card should be marked in each corner, so that it will not matter which end of it comes to hand first. When it is desired to mark more than one card in the same pack by this method, one card should have one hole in each corner, another card two holes, another card three holes in a triangular form, another card a line of holes along each end, and so on. It will, however, be seldom necessary to mark many. Card cheating is to this day often practised by this means, cards of value of a certain suit being detected by the dealer as he deals them out. Originally published in "Magicians' Tricks" ========================= Going to Paris ? - Special gift from the Roadshow I have a very nice ebook with a list of two-star hotels in the Paris area. Big Business does NOT want you to have this book, as it cuts into their profits. This is NOT an ad and I don't make a single penny off the distribution of this ebook. This ebook will actually give you direct and immediate access to the hotels and their owners, enabling you to get the very best deal possible... NO middle men or travel agencies to pay commissions to... Check it out and let me know what you think.. http://www.301url.com/visitparis ======================== That's it for this issue of the Roadshow. I hope you found something among our resources that will add a little something to your performances. I've discussed with one of my regular contributors.. Carson K .. about the possibility of setting up a special page that can only be accessed by readers who have contributed either published resources, articles, or effects. I haven't made my final decision yet, but I'm definitely considering the possiblility.. Go ahead and get a jump on things and submit your material. If you have articles, resources, or effects you would like to see published.. send it to the Roadshow and let me see it.. ----------------- Interested in what Wikipedia has to say about the Magic Roadshow? http://www.301url.com/wikipedia-1 ----------------- Questions, comments, rants or raves... 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