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On a regular outing to the mall or to work, which gimmicks do you carry with you?
I personally like to have my STS with me most of the time...one of the best tricks I have ever purchased.

There have been several threads like this before, but oh well!

I don't personally carry many gimmicks; typically though I might carry Maven's Positive Negative along with Miller's Keyed Up in my wallet. I'll probably whack a few Crazy Eights in there as well. I don't always carry a pack of cards but sometimes do. Oh yes and sometimes I carry all of that in my Card to Wallet Wallet. It's compact, and more than enough if someone wants to see something quick.

I most often JUST carry a TT and a deck of cards, and that's about it.

I often add an ID but recently I've also been carrying Third Degree Burn.

pyro perception, a deck of cards (already set up for a joker sandwich trick), revelation (wayne dobson) and sometimes a self gimmicked post-it pad for a jeff sheridan revelation

I don't carry gimmicks, just my cards.

what's a gimmick?

hur hur...sorry pi55ed again

a magical prop or ready-made trick

a magical prop or ready-made trick

dat8962 wrote:I most often JUST carry a TT and a deck of cards, and that's about it.

I often add an ID but recently I've also been carrying Third Degree Burn.

Im the same just tt and a deck of cards, sometimess i might have a certain 10p peice with me as well

For me it is a Raven. TT, a few decks of cards and a Pen through anything, sometimes I have my M5 and a wizard ring!

Here's a Great Idea :idea:

Learn How to Do Magic... then you won't need to be overly concerned about carrying "props" or even gimmicks.

Years ago I was working and handing out with the Bit O'Magic gang in Chicago. We had this buck-toothed, pimpled-faced string bean (this kid was so dang skinny, you'd think he was Karen Carpenter) that had this huge Afro hair-cut... he knew he was a geek and to compensate he became one of the most amazing slight of hand and impromptu workers I think I've ever seen in my life... he could do magic with just about anything you handed him. I don't mean simple vanishes and reproductions, I mean complete routines that were amusing and involved little other than good ole slight-of-hand.

That was nearly 30 years ago and today that same kid is one of the more noted close-up pros out there -- Bill Malone.

I learned the hard way, the various reasons to NOT have a pocket filled with junk and having to depend upon said junk. The past ten years or so, I've done all I can do to avoid the use of gimmicks and gadgets, striving to give my audience something more "real" in feeling and persception. I believe that is where today's audience is; wanting a magickle experience vs. a bunch of corny tricks as has been done for the past 90 years or better.

Just my two-cents worth.

It's only junk if you're presentation is junk. Some people don't have the time to devote themselves to honing their abilities as a sleight of hand master. Some people lack the dexterity. I do a mix of sleight of hand and gimmicked gaffed stuff. As such that is where most of my sleight of hand abilities lie. Given that I don't often carry a pack of cards around with me I carry some stuff that I can do without backpalming table lamps or whatever.

It depends with me if Im out an about I'll probably have a deck of cards (regular) but wrapped up by 2 rubber bands (CMH ) and a TT.

If Im actually going somewhere where I will have the opportunity to perform I make sure I have 4 coins the same but aside from a TT I don't really use any gimmicks but I did just order Darwin's encyclopedia so doubtless I'll soon be using my TT even more.

Cardza wrote:backpalming table lamps.

Hehehe that made me chuckle

But take Malini - the preparation that he would go to was extreme. The things he would carry around with him or the things that he would set-up just in case someone asked to see some magic - and they would get something miraculous.

So yes, while a true magician may be able to do anything with no set-up and with only the props to hand and/or given to him or her, you cannot deny that someone like Malini was or is a magician - to the audience, you are performing the miraculous.