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Here's my new video!

As usual, all comments welcome

Bizarre Twist

Great video mate, up to your usual high standards!

Looking good Rune

Just one thing is that it is possible to do the Cros Twist and line the cards up quite squarely. I've found that less pressure is needed rather than more. Hope that helps.

I know - just an old deck of card

But having said that - I really don't see the reason for them to be perfectly squared. Well yes, they are before your shake it, but think about, if you shake a couple of cards, the possibility for them to get a bit messy, should be quite large, and no one would EVER consider this to be "weird".

Nice!

However, I do think that it would be better if the cards were more squared near the end. I mean, after the second twist, the cards were pretty much parallel - so it looks quite obvious what is going on. (Then again, this may just be me so if you do get away with it let me know.)

I've never really liked this effect very much as it's always seemed to me that there are much cleaner ways of getting the same effect (albeit admittedly not as visually).

Kati

rcarlsen wrote: I really don't see the reason for them to be perfectly squared. Well yes, they are before your shake it, but think about, if you shake a couple of cards, the possibility for them to get a bit messy, should be quite large, and no one would EVER consider this to be "weird".

That's true, but it depends what immage you want to leave in the spectator's mind. If you want them to think that you are physically twisting the cards to change them then you're right, it doesn't matter if they're not square. However, if you want them to think that you just shake them and they change, then you should try and keep the cards as square as possible. This will give the illusion of just shaking the cards and the centre card changes. In my opinion, this is the stronger effect. However, that's just the way I try to do this effect and I'm not saying it's the only way to do it .

Yes, I agree with you all, but what you all should be aware of, there are no thumb rules on how a trick should be done. Even if Paul Harris, Dai Vernon or any other great magic inventor developed a trick ONE way, that doesn't matter that THAT is the only correct and perrect way of doing it. I believe some magicians are spending too much time performing tricks "just like the inventor describes in the booklet". Of course, the inventors have given their tricks a lot of thoughts and of that reason, they might be "correct", but again, minor details doesn't really matter, if you have the moves, the technique and patter coming...

Thanks for comments, I totally agree on most of them

Great job, as usual.

I'm a bit torn - I think the effect is strong either way you finish it. I'm thankful for that, because I can't always get the move perfect, like Goldfish explained (I WISH I could). While I agree it might give just a bit more to the effect, I can't imagine anyone not enjoying the performance Rune gave here.

Just out of curiosity, Rune - Since this is more a "demo" type video, I'm interested in hearing how you do this in a real-life situation. Do you allow the spectator to choose and sign the card, or do you perform the effect as shown?

Hello Demitri, thanks for your nice comments.

When performing it, I have the first red king signed by the spec (use your favourite force). Then, I usually say,

"Oh, the King of Hearts. That's a very happy King ! You know why? It has certain abilities, that the two black kings are very jalous of"....

As you say this, you get the 2 black kings, and do the setup as shown on my video. Then you conitnue the effect as I do on the video, and show them the abilities the Red King has, to turn around, just by shaking the cards. I also tend to say that the black kings are "Sad and jalous of the red king because of the abilities of the red king".

Now as the last twist happens, you can say,

"... but only this time, the red king turns red !.... while the black kings, they remain sad.... jalous.... and blue...."

"Blue" should in english terms also mean "sad"....

I developed this patter myself, but you are welcome to use it !

Nice. Simple patter but very effective - and it really gives a purpose to the color change.

Oh man, it doesnt work for me! Sounds like a good effect as well! I dont think its anything wrong on your part, its probably just this ancient computer! Stupid thing is hindering my magic knowledge!!!

Nicely done Rune.

Very very nice little trick. And a great ending! Keep em coming...

I just registered, and I am from the U.S., but aside from holding those things against me, I suggest that the ending would look better if you first turned over the two blue-backed kings together and spread, and then revealed the middle red-backed king alone as "The End."

What say you?

I just registered, and I am from the U.S., but aside from holding those things against me, I suggest that the ending would look better if you first turned over the two blue-backed kings together and spread, and then revealed the middle red-backed king alone as "The End."

What say you?