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whats the name of an absolutley amazing card effect that will leave people mind boggled for days?

gymguy203 wrote:whats the name of an absolutley amazing card effect that will leave people mind boggled for days?

Do you want to vague that up a little bit?

if not, try Smoke?

gymguy203 wrote:whats the name of an absolutley amazing card effect that will leave people mind boggled for days?

Hell, I'll go one better... people are still amazed and blown away over the fact that George W. Bush managed to swindle his way into the White House for a second term and has yet to get shot


On a more realistic level... the only effect that can do this is the one that you make your own. It doesn't matter if it's a yesteryear classic or something new you've come up with, it's how YOU present it and sell it to your audience. Here's two examples...

The classic vanishing bird cage ala Blackstone. We've all seen it but in the hands of the late Billy McComb it was a work of art in that it vanished slowly from beneath a translucent silk, seemingly melting and dematerializing right before your eyes. It made jaws drop! ... and I'm talking about performances at the Magic Castle where he introduced the bit and had some of the greatest minds in the craft going gaga.

The other example was the old Orange Bowl production my mentor managed to preserve... a very old method that had been handed down and fairly well protected over the years. All that happens is that you have two tables (simple music stand tables with clear tops) atop which are ornate crystal bowls, one on each table. There is a cloth napkin in the bowls, so as to allow you to "dust" them out and a lace doily on the table top which is removed so as to show all things fair... the bowl is sat onto the table, the napkin and doily dropped quite gently and plainly within and yet, in all of this graceful and clean motion over three pounds of REAL oranges are caused to appear in either bowl... each and every one of them tossed out into the audience as proof to the miracle.

Chuck used to feature this about two-thirds of the way into a huge two hour illusion show and it never failed to bring down the house... it was the one piece people talked about for years. Though it is a very simple piece to do "technically" it is a difficult piece to do properly... let's face it, at some point you are actually lifting up 3 lbs of oranges and you must make it look as if there is nothing there.

The moral of the story is, YOU must find the effect that you are willing to invest yourself into so as to make it the best and most memorable part of your program. It's known as finding a "signature" piece and it takes time.

*cough* Sealed fateS *cough*

I got one for you. Have the spectator choose a card. Then loose it somewhere in the deck, then you the magician make it appear on the top of the deck with no fancy moves whatsoever and the deck never leaves the sight of the spectator, not only that the spectator can first sign the card, but its not 100 percent necessary. The secret to making it spectacular? Do it very, very well!

bmat wrote:I got one for you. Have the spectator choose a card. Then loose it somewhere in the deck, then you the magician make it appear on the top of the deck with no fancy moves whatsoever and the deck never leaves the sight of the spectator, not only that the spectator can first sign the card, but its not 100 percent necessary. The secret to making it spectacular? Do it very, very well!

You're wisdom in this case reflects a smartazz hippie I know living on the western side of your state... he lives in a bizarre chamber of sorts

Craig Browning wrote:

bmat wrote:I got one for you. Have the spectator choose a card. Then loose it somewhere in the deck, then you the magician make it appear on the top of the deck with no fancy moves whatsoever and the deck never leaves the sight of the spectator, not only that the spectator can first sign the card, but its not 100 percent necessary. The secret to making it spectacular? Do it very, very well!

You're wisdom in this case reflects a smartazz hippie I know living on the western side of your state... he lives in a bizarre chamber of sorts

Hmm, the biggest hippie here that I know personally is in Hatboro Pa, but I think that is east. Oh wait, I can think of a few others.

whats this trick called......



There is a red card and its folded in 4ths and rubber banded to a card box. the spectator picks and signs a card from a blue deck and places it back in the deck. The magician then takes the card from the rubber band and its the signed card but the card is now a red backed.......I added it to a shopping cart online but it got deleted....and i forgot what it was called.