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Balducci levitation has some problems with it's angels.But I think if anyone practices the angels perfectly and then perform it,this levitation can blow the minds of the stectators.

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MagicDiscoMan...

That was a little too close to exposure of the effects mentioned on this page.

Personally I prefer the king rising for three reasons:

1) The angles are better.
2) It's a better illusion.
3) Balducci is over exposed.

mike brent zero gravity.

Well I started out with the balducci levitation (and practiced and practiced the angles)and did it for a couple friends and it blew their gord.This led me into more advanced areas of levitation(king,hummer card,etc)
so every thing no matter how exposed leads into something better

It was in trouble at one point from overexposure and too many people doing it badly (it almost became like a parlour trick as word got out around the net), but the magic was always in the setup and not giving spectators enough time to think about it rather than the method itself; present it right and it's still a goodie.

Many performances I've seen of the King's Rising suffer from a very awkward looking inward lean that upsets the illusion, again a product of people taking this sort of thing too lightly (Ellusionist-style sales pitches of "easy" and "you can do this" do not help this situation).

My own exprriments with the Balducci and related methods led to me wanting to do it over a tray of water. This then became a paddling pool, and led to the first version of The Floating Gypsy, as I decided to call it.

My initial prototype photos are at http://groups.msn.com/Illusionsathome/i ... 0215151591 . The routine as it stands now allows me to swish around the water to demonstrate the pool contains only water before standing up and stepping out onto the water, floating above it in a standing position for a short while and then stepping back onto terra firma to finish.

I have made one attempt at filming this outdoors but I wasn't satisfied with the results, so I'll try again soon. I'm toying with ways of adapting the method to allow me to perform this over an actual stream instead of a paddling pool, but this is a lot more complicated.

wow nice man sell it, sell it man.

looks like you have a very comercial effect there, speak to tom he sells his own stuff and maybey able to help you.
your photo is confusing me now??.

why sell it, give it out for free thats what most people into magic look for on the internet free magic, when i first started it was because i saw blaine levitate so first thing i searched for was free levitation, i got the balicci thing (sorry about spelling) its not worth selling diffinatly not, if you make the time to set up a cool website with loads of tricks on it, u will be more famous than for selling it. well its up to you, but my last point all these tricks you have bought would you not have liked to learn them all for free? if you would have then odnt sell it help the world of free magic.

Balejben...



...Nevermind.

protik wrote:Balducci levitation has some problems with it's angels.

Tickled me, that.

So, THAT's how it's done... a flock of angels lifts you off the ground

QKD... (your name is SOOOOO long hope you don't mind the abbr.)
Those pictures look absolutely awesome. The effect is seemingly real magic. It would be a wonderful thing indeed for you to market this.
I wholeheartedly agree about the Balducci still having mileage, despite it's exposure and also despite the amount of parasites who've made it public knowledge.
I still drop a Balducci in now and then to 'prove I am a magician' (lol)... and being honest, because I knew it before a certain monotonic American street magician made it famous, I know the subtelties of performance... and I believe it still looks ONLY as good as the performance... i.e. if performed bad, it looks bad.
I've never been a fan of KR... and although Bent's Zero G is a very convincing effect, it's far to contrived and 'proppy' for my liking, and in fairness, achieves little more than a simple impromptu Balducci.
Time and place are the keywords here. Keep the Balducci in your back pocket and do it on an offbeat, rather than using it as a mainstay, and it works well.
WE WANT VIDEO mate... that looks too good to be true. And the Gypsy/mythology plotline is fantastic. Dark, scary, and oh-so contemporary. Doing this 'street style' over a puddle, if possible, would be very strong indeed.


BEN!!!
I think you are missing the point about magic. IT'S NOT FREE! It's like anything else which people invest their own time and money in... why do you feel that it should be delivered to the world FREELY????

The very reason magic costs money is the IT CAN ALSO MAKE MONEY! If you were a serious performer, who relied on magic for a living, you wouldn't hesitate in investing money in a trick such as the Gypsy effect spoken of by QSKD.

I have also written magic effects which are now available to the public—and you would not begin to appreciate the time, effort, knowledge, research, money, negotiating and the likes which goes into bringing these items into the world.

In my experience, mostly the only FREE magic is either pirated or is magic which is public knowledge anyway. Anything you've got in your collection at home in the ways of eBooks or DVDs which are NOT in their original form and you DON'T have claim to the purchased rights of are NOT yours. You are CHEATING the creators.

Finally, the Balducci...
This is perhaps the spawn of the most internet 'magic exposure' questions I ever received. "How did Blaine levitate?".
It's a childhood dream—to be able to 'fly'. And as such, the very thought of a person 'levitating' is something which gives us a magical feeling.

The Balducci, as mentioned above, is still alive and kicking. It's possibly one of the most jaw dropping impromptu effects you can do...

...at the right time, in the right conditions.

Abuse the angle restraints or over use the Balducci, and you will be caught. Simple.

Like I say, practice it and keep it in your back pocket until it's needed. And then, it will have amazing effect.

re: selling tricks

Maybe eventually, but not yet; for one thing, none of my stuff is properly audience tested yet and still needs more research and experience to develop properly, plus for all I know someone already published something similar and I'd like to avoid accusations of plagiarism.

The other thing is at the moment no-one knows who I am, so if I've got anything truly good and different I want to use it myself before I let anyone else get their mits on it. These things inevitably get nicked, so I want to at least have established myself enough so that those in the know will know where it came from.

The Floating Gypsy has it's own special problems anyway, and as such is nowhere near finished; its live performance is hampered by the fact you need a paddling pool full of water, which is a bit tricky to move in and out of a performance space (good luck busking with it if you get moved on) and your audience also needs to be on the same level or above (so forget doing it on a raised stage), otherwise it just looks like you're standing in a paddling pool. These are problems I'm working on; like I said, I'd really like to be able to do this over real streams and pools.

THAT's how it's done... a flock of angels lifts you off the ground

Now you've gone and spoiled it all!

Now the cat's out of the bag;

Those angels can be a pernickity lot. Sure, they're really enthusiastic when they think it's all just looking pretty in fancy costumes, but they soon change their mind when you make them do some work. And don't get me started on their "holier than thou" attitude.

You never get that sort of trouble from forklift drivers. The problem there is stopping them from giving away their position by scratching their *rse after you've got them in the camoflague.

It also explains why there are a lot of levitating street magicians in Los Angeles.

Quicksand Kerry Devile wrote:giving away their position by scratching their *rse

What makes you think angels don't scratch their arses?