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by **Anjorno** » Jul 14th, '13, 23:28

the tricks that dynamo has performed in the most recent show on watch are any of them commercially available tricks for any one to use like the basket ball morphing into a American football or the top coming off the soda bottle. im not looking to copy his style its just he does so many tricks with random and original objects like a while back with the ring on wine glass stem and bending wine glass stem or the first series when he linked the flip flops.
What I want to know is if its available then where or if its a variation of a well known principle reimagined what is the principle called.

by **Poppadom** » Jul 15th, '13, 06:53

The Merchant of Magic has a section devoted to tricks that have been performed by or suggested to Dynamo, which may be worth a browse:
http://www.magicshop.co.uk/DYNAMO_MAGIC ... index.html

by **MatCult** » Jul 15th, '13, 09:46

Anjorno wrote:the tricks that dynamo has performed in the most recent show on watch are any of them commercially available tricks for any one to use like the basket ball morphing into a American football or the top coming off the soda bottle. im not looking to copy his style its just he does so many tricks with random and original objects like a while back with the ring on wine glass stem and bending wine glass stem or the first series when he linked the flip flops.
What I want to know is if its available then where or if its a variation of a well known principle reimagined what is the principle called.

Ted Lesley has some excellent work on bending wine glasses in his book Paramiracles.

by **bmat** » Jul 15th, '13, 17:42

MatCult wrote:
Anjorno wrote:the tricks that dynamo has performed in the most recent show on watch are any of them commercially available tricks for any one to use like the basket ball morphing into a American football or the top coming off the soda bottle. im not looking to copy his style its just he does so many tricks with random and original objects like a while back with the ring on wine glass stem and bending wine glass stem or the first series when he linked the flip flops.
What I want to know is if its available then where or if its a variation of a well known principle reimagined what is the principle called.

Ted Lesley has some excellent work on bending wine glasses in his book Paramiracles.

But have you tried them? Most are excellent ideas but not overly practical. I don't mean to downgrade the book because I am a Ted Lesley fan and there are great ideas, but...but.

Have you read Mind Myth And Magic? Kind of the same problems. The book itself is probably worth the cost if you are looking for ideas. But the effect that he uses to sell the book, (where you produce a four foot demon) is totally out of reach for just about everyone. Many of the effects are great ideas but many of the methods are not workable most have probably never been tried.

by **MatCult** » Jul 16th, '13, 08:33

bmat wrote:
MatCult wrote:
Anjorno wrote:the tricks that dynamo has performed in the most recent show on watch are any of them commercially available tricks for any one to use like the basket ball morphing into a American football or the top coming off the soda bottle. im not looking to copy his style its just he does so many tricks with random and original objects like a while back with the ring on wine glass stem and bending wine glass stem or the first series when he linked the flip flops.
What I want to know is if its available then where or if its a variation of a well known principle reimagined what is the principle called.

Ted Lesley has some excellent work on bending wine glasses in his book Paramiracles.

But have you tried them? Most are excellent ideas but not overly practical. I don't mean to downgrade the book because I am a Ted Lesley fan and there are great ideas, but...but.

Have you read Mind Myth And Magic? Kind of the same problems. The book itself is probably worth the cost if you are looking for ideas. But the effect that he uses to sell the book, (where you produce a four foot demon) is totally out of reach for just about everyone. Many of the effects are great ideas but many of the methods are not workable most have probably never been tried.

To my shame, I must admit I don't even have Ted Lesley's book in my collection - I just know he's considered one of the masters of that particular effect and it's one of his signature pieces.

I suspect the method Dynamo used was heavily influenced by Ted Lesley's techniques though even if it was achieved differently.

I hear you on the demon effect from MM&M though, not practical at all.

by **daleshrimpton** » Jul 16th, '13, 22:46

Ted, only has one trick on bending wine glasses in his book. The Bending wine glass. And Its very practical, if you use the in the hands variation that Dave Penn went on to develop and publish as refraction.
However this effect has nothing to do with the ring on wineglass, which was created by Fred Kaps . It was sold through a number of dealers, and is still available. Its drawback is, It's an expensive effect to do because you break a glass each time, and you can smash the gimmick if your not careful.

by **Magical_Trevor** » Jul 25th, '13, 09:59

SSS By Shin Lim is one that would get you 'Dynmamo reactions' I think. It screams 'new hip magic' and with the right style of trick gives you a very 'street magic' vive, if that is what you are going for?

I cant remember who sells it, but there was a trick our AGES ago called 'Screwed Deck' by Paul Harris - My thoughts when I saw some of Dynamos iPhone work was that it was just a reworking of a common (well, readily available) gimmick / idea which had just had a special prop made for the TV show.

http://www.emagictricks.co.uk/images/Lp2674.jpg

I dont want to start an argument, as its just my opinion, but I think that a lot of the stuff on the TV is gimmicked a LOT more that would be practical to ever perform if you weren't on TV and had the HUGE benefit of an edit suite ... Saying that, on an episode of 'Never mind the buzzcocks' he did a polo trick where he got a polo through his neck which he had swallowed, which I think used a bit of palming and a few other magic gimmicks. Not sure if he just has a CRAZY good PR team to help modify tricks for TV or if they are just tricks that haven't ever been released with his presentation?

Dan

by **UndergroundSvengali** » Aug 5th, '13, 08:41

Oh, any magic shop or internet magic shop should help you.

I don't blame you for trying to copy Dynamo, he definitely does those effects justice.

Good luck, on your search.

by **jonathanr678** » Sep 1st, '13, 23:20

Don't get SSS by shm Lin as I had it as it wasn't with the money u have to buy extra stuff for it

by **bmat** » Sep 11th, '13, 17:32

Magical_Trevor wrote:SSS By Shin Lim is one that would get you 'Dynmamo reactions' I think. It screams 'new hip magic' and with the right style of trick gives you a very 'street magic' vive, if that is what you are going for?

I cant remember who sells it, but there was a trick our AGES ago called 'Screwed Deck' by Paul Harris - My thoughts when I saw some of Dynamos iPhone work was that it was just a reworking of a common (well, readily available) gimmick / idea which had just had a special prop made for the TV show.

http://www.emagictricks.co.uk/images/Lp2674.jpg" target="_blank

I dont want to start an argument, as its just my opinion, but I think that a lot of the stuff on the TV is gimmicked a LOT more that would be practical to ever perform if you weren't on TV and had the HUGE benefit of an edit suite ... Saying that, on an episode of 'Never mind the buzzcocks' he did a polo trick where he got a polo through his neck which he had swallowed, which I think used a bit of palming and a few other magic gimmicks. Not sure if he just has a CRAZY good PR team to help modify tricks for TV or if they are just tricks that haven't ever been released with his presentation?

Dan

Not to have an argument but to keep a conversation going. I understand what you are saying about tv being 'more gimmicked' I'm not sure if that is the correct term or not. I think you can use many effects that would be harder to use live simply because of angle issues that the camera won't pick up. Also the camera has lousy depth perception (it only has one eye) and if you are going to perform on TV then one would be a fool not to take advantage of the situation. After all isn't that what we do live?

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