Visual Street Magic

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Visual Street Magic

Postby Jayrd1290 » Sep 24th, '14, 19:57



I'm looking for some quick(ish), really strong visual, street magic that can be performed in fairly loud places (no long story/patter) such as Daniel Garcia's Greed (One of my favourite tricks to perform).
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Re: Visual Street Magic

Postby Lady of Mystery » Sep 25th, '14, 09:19

What is your experience level, what have you studied so far? What sort of magic are you interested in? Sponge balls can be great in a noisey environment, or coins.

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Re: Visual Street Magic

Postby Jayrd1290 » Sep 25th, '14, 17:58

I usually do card tricks (prefer not to carry around too much) but I have a reasonably decent sleight of hand skill level for both coins and cards.
I have never tried sponge balls or any other 'classic' magic items because I mainly do card tricks or cash tricks.
I have been through Daryl's encyclopaedia of card sleights and have also picked up various moves from Gregory Wilson (coins, everyday items), penguin live lectures and a few DVD's on tricks that use sleight of hand.
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Re: Visual Street Magic

Postby Lady of Mystery » Sep 26th, '14, 09:53

If you're looking for cards magic, the best book to get hold of is Royal Road to Card magic. There's a ton of material in there which is very visual and well worth looking at. If you did want to try out some other areas of magic, Mark Wilson's Complete Course covers everything from cards and coins to ropes, sponges and just about everything else you can think of. Don't be put off by sponge balls and their reputation as kids magic, for clubs they are brilliant and get some of the best reactions of anything that I do. They're easy to follow, very visual and can get the spectators involved (although becareful which balls you use as I've known some to glow under UV lights and that can obviously make them difficult to work with but the usual red Goshman ones should be fine).

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