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The sell-out 2006 underground lecture notes. Exploring a more serious and astonishing side of modern and underground street magic

Nineteen new high-impact eye-candy street magic effects for the modern showman

EFFECTS TAUGHT IN TWO

Eccentric Tourist - A SELECTED CARD VISUALLY APPEARS ON TOP OF A FACE-UP DECK RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE SPECTATOR

Blaze 1

Blaze 1.1

Blaze 1.2

Blaze 1.3

Blaze 2

Blaze 3

A SERIES OF HIGH-IMPACT VOO-DOO EFFECTS – SOME OF THESE EFFECTS HAVE SINCE BEEN USED ON TELEVISED PRODUCTIONS

Graffiti 2 - ACCURATELY PREDICT BOTH THE THOUGHT OF CARD AND THE FULL NAME OF ANY UNKNOWN SPECTATOR

Bad Hat - A DECK VANISH WITH A STUNNING REVELATION

FukinAces - A 4-CARD FLOURISH-REVELATION

ONE - A CARD TRANSPOSITION USING ONLY ONE CARD – MAKE ANY SINGLE CARD BECOME ANY NAMED CARD

Through - PUSH ANY SELECTED CARD THROUGH ALMOST ANYTHING!

Prophecy - PREDICT WITH 100% ACCURACY ANY THOUGHT OF WORD

Stigmata 2 - A THOUGHT OF PLAYING CARD APPEARS MARKED ON THE PERFORMERS ARM

Breakout - A BREAKTHROUGH COIN TRICK FOR THE SERIOUS STREET-MAGICIAN

Repocket - CARD TO SPECTATORS’ POCKET

Execution - A TORN, VANISHED AND RESTORED PLAYING CARD

Angle Zero - A TORN CARD VANISHES AND APPEARS ANYWHERE THE PERFORMER DESIRES

Rematch - A PERFECT TRANSPOSITION BETWEEN TWO TORN CARDS

Cost

£10 instant download PDF file

Difficulty
(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)

3

Review

The second series of lecture notes by Daniel Madison contains a number of solid effects but no real killers. A few of the effects I didn't really like, namely the Blaze effects and all the torn corner effects. Some Bad Hat Henry, FukinAces, One and Graffiti 2 are all nice effects but hardly anything revolutionary. Eccentric Tourist is a nice, fun effect that I've done a few times already always to a good reaction. Personally I like to take a "the magician fails miserably, wait, what?, the cards been there all along" approach but that may not fit everybody's style.

Unlike his other lecture notes (One, see my other review) it seems like on this one Daniel has just gathered up every little idea he had and just piled them together in Two. For example Breakout just feels like filler to me.

Interestingly, Daniel says that he had been doing Stigmata (released by Ellusionist) for years now, though with a different method which he gives here. FWIW I think the Ellusionist method is clearly better.

Overall

5/10, some solid effects, lots of filler.