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Hi all!

My latest offering is a Paul Harris effect called Bushwhacker. Well, it's more of a 5-second trick than an effect, but it's still fun

Kati

Nice little effect, but abit easyer to work out than voodoo zone! maybe you could use then both as part of a routine?

Good stuff!

Is it an impromptu effect?

StEvEbO!

Can't be impromptu. In fact, it's kind of easy to figure out. But, you should also add to your routine a way to show all 3 cards as "normal". Add some fake count or something, and show them all normall.

katrielalex wrote:My latest offering is a Paul Harris effect called Bushwhacker. Well, it's more of a 5-second trick than an effect, but it's still fun
Kati

Hi Kati

I've played with this myself and wonder how you'd work this into a routine in practice. I've read the description in Art of Astonishment about how the cards are set up and, whilst I managed, I found it difficult to follow. I suspect that if I performed it close up, I would be caught out.

Any ideas - or from anyone else, for that matter?

No, it is impromptu. It can be done with most cards, and the cards can be borrowed, no setup.

rcarlsen: no gimmicks!

Kati

Hmm, well, the version of this, which I once did, was gimmicked. That of course makes it a little bit more interesting.

.... need to ask... how do you define "gimmick" ?

dunno, vodoo zone is much better, but thats nice and simple, easy to work out and maybe went on for too long but thats good simple and didnt show the effect. WellDone.

rcarlsen wrote:.... need to ask... how do you define "gimmick" ?

I would have thought 1 card need some preperation, so I would class that as a gimmick!

The version in Art of Astonishment uses normal cards - although the design may cause concern. As I implied earlier, I found it difficult to get the setup right although I guess it's down to practice. In Kati's video, he held the cards very firmly and, when you've read Art of Astonishment, it's obvious why this is necessary.

I saw a clip of a handling from scratch on magicvideodepot and have searched elsewhere but other clips have been removed from servers.

This reminds me of a trick on Ammar tapes, called Close-Up Illusion. With the setup of this trick, with minor changes, I would do exactly the same effect. So, I guess your definition of "ungimmicked" is important here. "Close-Up Illusion" doesn't have "gimmicked" cards either, but I would never be able to do it with 3 unprepared cards....

Ungimmicked: the cards are unprepared, borrowed, and anything else.

Most brands work but not all just to puzzle y'all a bit more.

EDIT: To be even crueler, I'll just say that you seem to have made an assumption about the trick which I never said .

Kati

1 card must get 'hurt' though...

Nope...no surgery . That's the tricky part .

Kati