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What effects or items do you bring with you when planning on performing? Is there somthing you keep with you no matter what?

I always bring the following:

Self Tying Shoelace- Always hooked up and ready to go.

Deck of Bikes- I never leave home without them!

Handful Of Coins- To do whatever coin tricks I know.

Assassin's Pouch- I often hook this Sankey utility item up to my belt and load it with Holy Moly, Razor's Edge, Astral Projection, a TT, Gordon Bean's Entourage, Fenik's Mexican Revolution, and Sankey's Moving Violation.

I also bring a small silk to perform my Time Warp Coin routine or Coin Through Silk.

So, what do you bring with you? Anything you never leave home without?

Thank you!

Michael Kras

My Heirloom wallet. That is loaded up with goodness. Pyschologicoin. Esp deck and a deck of bikes. Oh and a sharpie and a tt.

Several pens for ReCap
A twisted pen for "Reality Twister"
The Lubor Lens for the above named trick
A deck of studs
A ring
A ton of half dollars
And a giant coin in my back pocket.


Sounds like a lot, but it really isn't.

Hmm.. Nice load. I like it!

Usually just a couple decks or cards and a couple of TTs and FTs, and sharpies and some times a M-ring.
Other times I will add and ITR and some loops and some matches.

Thats all I really need, and I can entertain for hours.

Deck of Bikes
Bitten 50p Coin
STS occationally (Depending on what shoes I'm wearing)
TT
Small Silk
Colour Monte Cards

And then sometimes....

Haunted Key
ID

These are just what i have in everyday life. Saying this i also carry most of them along with other things when performing.

Its funny you should ask this, as I've recently been working on a mentalism routine that can be carried in a wallet. I dont want my pockets weighed down, and dont want to be ensuring that all my props are sorted before I go out just in case someone asks if I can show them something (innuendo thread here I come!).
So far it contains five ESP cards (one with a red back) for a psychological suggestion routine.
One tarot card for another psychological ploy and one ordinary playing card.
Also a few pieces of card. When asked to do something, I have been recently starting with a magic square demonstration using the specs birthdate, from which I show them there lucky number. This lucky number is then used to create a magic square (I dont think this is original to me, maybe berglas, but I'm not sure). Its good to start with a demonstration of a skill that is believable to draw them in, and then go on to the ever more impossible effects. I have started initialing and dating the corner of the card, and people have been keeping it in their wallet. When I first started dabbling in mentalism, I discounted magic squares as mathamatical puzzles, and wondered why it was in 13 steps to start with (I wanted the real stuff...!). Now its an important starting point to what I do.
There is more I will be packing in to it. I was going to include between the lines, but have decided against it (it didnt work the way I wanted for me). The more I work on my own stuff, the less I enjoy using other peoples creations.

As I also mentioned in an earlier thread, I have been working on creating my own stack. I have now devised one that works well for me. Whats important about this stack, is not where all the cards lie (except about 10 of them, but the way the deck is structured. It allows a routine of about 6-8 short effects where the spectator controls the deck most of the time, and shuffles it 2-3 times themselves (even though the routine relies on the stack up until the end), yet all the effects link into a running theme up until the last revelation. Its in its early days yet, but when I leave the house with a deck of cards in my pocket, it will be in that stack from the start.
There is a couple of everyday items that I am investigating that i will wear on me (as are on everyone else) that will allow a nice mental effect. Be this ones a secret!

Went a bit off tangent I think, but the question is something I have been giving a lot of thought to recently. It will be interesting what others carry around with them.

I almost always carry

TT
Deck of Bikes
Matching ID
Permanent marker
and some business cards

A TT and a deck of bikes with a couple of gaffed cards in the plastic cover of the case.

My business cards.

A pencil.

Depends on the gig.

For a paid strolling gig, I carry:
A 9-inch silk
TT
One half dollar
Two decks of cards
One Sharpie
A stack of business cards
A quarter-inch carriage bolt with matching nuts (for a Doc Eason trick)
My lighter

For a parlor gig, add cups and balls and/or ropes, along with my closeup pad.

For casual performing, I carry:
Nothing.

Well, I do keep a healthy supply of Monopoly money in my wallet for a torn/restored mismade bill idea I saw on (your favorite magician) Jay Sankey's "Supernatural." Now, whether I remember to bring a mismade bill with me is a different story... I also have business cards wherever I go.

You can improvise cups and balls with some restaurant coffee cups, borrow change for some coin effects, and do a torn/restored napkin or cut/restored straw. You can wow audiences with simple vanishes and reappearances. In a crowded room, at least one person is bound to be a smoker, so you can use their cigarettes to do cig magic. I once improvised a TT from a bright red rubber tube... Of course, someone did say once that, if you want to hide something, paint it red (was that Dai Vernon?) and I couldn't agree more!

Ciao,
Rob

ElliottB wrote:My business cards.

A pencil.

and my outlaw wallet.

A pack of bikes and a pack of tarot.

Deck of cards
TT
4 dollars
business cards
stealth assasin or fire wallet whichever a take out at the time

depends on how im feeling and what routine i fancy doing.


i never leave without

a deck of bikes, either red masters, or Black tigers, these days
home made ID version of above deck
a sharpie or two
sts
invisible pen


last night i went out with

JK's mind power deck, with Derren Brown's 'Smoke' setup
ET
2x STS
interlaced
2x sharpies
Bang on
a TT
my D'lites (havnt used in AGES)
a red deck set up for bang on
my red masters plus a few gaff cards
some flash paper
a bitten 10p
invisible pen, and a notepad
and for the 1st time ever, my Monster Bertha