"Liam Montier-UV-Ultaviolet"
WHAT THE WORD ON THE STREET SAYS....
Effect: This is the latest DVD from Liam Montier and the Big Blind media company. Like all there DVD's this one is no exception, brilliant effects presented fantastically!
This DVD explores the unknown world of ultra violet light!
Description: Liam Montier takes you into the amazing world of Ultra-Violet!
With your special UV light "hidden" in the plain sight on your keyring, and pen in your pocket, you'll be ready to unleash mind-melting magic at ANY TIME!
Combining the amazing properties of the UV light and the UV marker, your magic aresnal will be stuffed to the gills with great material.
And best of all, the gimmicks do all the work for you.
Over the course of 90 minutes Liam Montier and Owen Packard teach you more craziness with the UV gimmicks than you'd have thought humanly possible.
Your creative juices will be gushing after you witness tomfoolery with playing cards, forearms, watches, coins, business cards and anything else Liam can get his hands on.
All props are supplier with the DVD
WHAT I SAY....
Well I would like to start with opening the package that this was delivered in...I opened my padded letter and inside I found my UV DVD, instantly this thing screams second to
none on production values, with its sexy cover, graphically thought out and has a clever "memoirs of an invisible man" kinda feel to it...
Big Blind Media certainly are a slick competetor for other Magic companies who produce dvd's. The dvd cover gets 10/10 and Ive not even opened this yet...!!!!
After the rather flashy dvd opening, the menu pops up with the usual, Menu -Effects- Routines explained etc....
Now I feel here that Im not giving anything away by saying this uses U.V ink here people! so most the effects your doing will already set up but invisible to the spec...
(If the title dont give that away then, sorry for any expo lol)
Now the effects are both performed and explain sat around a nice bar stool table, studio back lighting helps keep the room dark enough for the UV torch to work but light enough to
see what Liams upto....A very clear and concise explaination follows each trick, and none is particulary taxing to any level of magician...However dont now think this is an
amateurs effect! Oh no I performed this saturday night much to a rapture of appalause....
Now the great thign about these effects are theres so much more you can do with it....Liam gives you an open door of oppurtunities (feel free to quote that lol)
.....I think off my head there is about ten effects, mainly card based, on the DVD although there is a downloadable free pdf from Big Blind at request for further reading.
The effects get 8.5/10 the reason for not a ten being that although this is fresh ideas the idea that its still a pen and a uv light isnt new gimmic wise...
TO CONCLUDE....
I feel that both Magicians and mentalists can defo fit this into their act......as I said I performed this sat eve and it wet down very well, although Im afraid to say i used none of
Liams effects, in a way thats great that Ive already thought of so many things this has to offer....This shud defo be CUPS if your not cured yet...its great, plus its keyring based you
can always have it on you!
BORING BITZ....
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http://www.alakazam.co.uk/
MY EFFECT-
So at weekend I decided to test run Liams gizmo....I didnt want to use his effects as I wanted to see what else was possible with this effect....
I was walking up to folk and asking them to either pick/think of a card....have them hold my hand, and then go on to tell them about the blue lights you get in the toilets to stop
drug users shooting up, as they cant see the veins......(ok thats dark but it worked great) as they held my hand I got them to grip tighter so eventually after the story
their veins are very prominent....I then followed their veins with the uv light and as the light came down their arm and wrist then across their hands and on to my mine,
I then started to shake the light around my wrist as specks of white started to appear...until eventually the light came to a stand still on my wrist and in my veins read their card....
Now this may sound lame and just a simple force with a uv marker, but bl**dy hell the reactions I got where unreal...To be fair I got better reactions from that than some of my other
effects Ive been performing ages! Just goes to show simplicity is always best....Oh and Ive called the effect "Pulse"....you heard it hear first.........
MASSIVE BIG THANKS TO LIAM FOR YET ANOTHER GEM................
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