This hilarious
48-page book by Doc Wayne will make the Squeeker the most popular comedy prank
of the year! Includes gags, jokes, routines and offbeat ideas for the Squeeker
in every public situation-elevators, restaurants, work, school...even at the
chiropractor!
Put the squeeze on it today!
The
Card Classics of Ken Krenzel Harry Lorayne
There weren’t as many magic books available
back in 1978 as there are now. But one thing was the same then as it is now -
there weren’t/aren’t many magic books published that contained/contain
really great stuff. Wonderful stuff! Usable stuff! To-die-over stuff! Yes, it was some time back. And if anything can be said to have stood the
test of time, passed the test of time, it can be said of the ideas, effects,
routines, in this book.
They are as fresh and stimulating, as clean and
precise, as intriguing and clever, as exhilarating and important, today as they
were then, and have been through the years. And, you’ll fool (and entertain)
magicians and laymen with them now just as you could have done, or did, back
then. Over eighty items broken down into nine exciting sections. I’ve heard
and read, many times, that there is no better handling and description of the
Classic Pass than there is in Section Seven of this book. Along with eleven
other passes, including the Mechanical Reverse, which has become a standard of
card handling, The K-E Pass (beautiful, and so easy to do), The One-Card Middle
Pass, The Dribble Pass, and more. The Eerie Spin-Out which, if you’ll forgive
a rusty platitude, is worth the price of the book even if you paid five times
the established price. As I say in my Last Word, you’ll use it for the rest
of your life; there’s no way you can put a price on it. You’ll find
easy-to-do sleights like The Natural Double Lift, The Pressure Hideout, The
Invisible Reverse Transfer. The One-Card Double Lift is an exquisite fooler. So
is The Optical Sandwich, The Miracle Multiple Peek and, oh - The Magic Bullet!
There’s One-Hand Stop - the spectator ‘stops’ at his own card, The
Impromptu Haunted Deck and The Front Tilt - and Force-Eps, The Fan Steal, The
Squeeze Steal, The Broadside Steal. Do you like to practice? Well, Section
Eight includes Bottom, Center, and Second Deals - Ken’s handling, my teaching
(if that means anything to you). I’ve added my two or three cents with an idea
or two of my own and with my inevitable Afterthoughts.
I could go on and on, but
I won’t. I’ve had so many calls, requests, for this book through the years,
but it wasn't available. Aren’t you lucky - it is now!
Big Laughs for Little People
By Samuel Patrick Smith
This book features 15 complete routines of magic and comedy, guaranteed to get great audience reactions. You'll read Sammy Smith's complete patter, word-for-word, from start to finish for each effect. You'll learn how to say the patter -- when to pause and what tone of voice to use -- to get the best response. Of course, you'll want to adapt these routines to fit your own personality, but learning from the author's more than 20 years' experience in entertaining children will save you valuable time and give you crucial information on how to get big laughs from little people.
Routines range from original effects to new presentations of classics. You'll read Sammy's handling of time-tested classics such as Cut and Restored Rope, Multiplying Billiard Balls, and Miser's Dream. And you'll find his original effects such as Headband Blendo, all updated from the first edition of Big Laughs for Little People with the latest improvements for the 21st century!
In addition to the kid-show routines, Sammy shares his best tips and advice for entertaining children, learned from literally thousands of performances. This is a textbook on entertaining children with comedy and magic which every kid-show performer should own and use. The comments which a prominent children's performer made about the original edition of this book are even more valid with this newly revised and updated edition:
"Big Laughs for Little People gives readers an opportunity to go backstage with a real pro and watch the show from behind the scenes. In a word, the book is tremendous." -Fetaque Sanders
Routines include:
Headband Blendo (new version) Super Frog Vanishing Candle Snake Cake Bake Jasper the Friendly Ghost Skip It! (Cut and Restored Rope) The Magic Knot Tube (updated) The Extra-Celestial (hilarious puppet routine) Tricky Bottles (updated) Invisible Flying Silk Scarf Polar Thermometers Ball Brothers' Traveling Circus (Strat-O-Sphere) Maxwell the Monster (Soft Soap) Multiplying Billiard Balls Cash Surprises (coin routine)
The
Magic of Ascanio Volume 1
The Structural Conception of Magic by
Ascanio and Etcheverry
The Maestro left us the 6 of April, 1997, but his magic remains
alive. The magic of Ascanio, in four volumes. His theories, his
thinking, his philosophy, and the entirety of his card magic,
including his legendary routines (with over thirty previously
unreleased tricks), full of the Ascanian touch, and his magic with
pocket knives.
This First Volume Includes:
Technique
Construction
Cover
Presentation
How to Study Magic
Ascanio's previously unpublished essays
Thoughts on Creativity
Theory Notebook of 1970
His Classic Articles on Theory
Conception of the Magical Atmosphere
Analysis of a Trick
On Misdirection
The Fundamentals of Timing
Know Yourself
The Psychology of Palming
The Interviews
Interview with a Genius of Magic, by Juan Tamariz
A Biographical Interview and My Character, by Docampo
Three Juicy Conversations
Arturo and Juan Chat
An Essay by Aurelio Paviato
Magic
Of Ascanio Vol.2 - Studies Of Card Magic
by Arturo Ascanio
The Magic of Ascanio offers you, in four volumes, the complete work
of the Maestro who changed the direction of magic in Spain and influenced many
successful performers. Learn all about the legacy of a true master of our art:
his ground-breaking theories, his legendary card routines and sleights, and his
magic with pocket knives.
Studies of Card Magic
This second volume, with forewords by Roberto Giobbi and Aurelio Paviato,
contains an exhaustive study of the Ascanio Spread and its variants, and all the
lay-downs. These sleights, the cornerstones of Ascanio’s magic, have never been
explained so thoroughly before. Careful study of this section alone will give
you a complete understanding of these marvelous sleights.
Get ready for the pleasant journey of studying the early versions of Ascanio’s
classics. Oil and Water using the Ascanio Spread (a three-phase routine) and
Father Ace and Sons (versions 66 and 67) will take you into the wonderful world
of Ascanio's routining. See the theory in action, with examples of concepts
explained in the first volume, such as the Parenthesis of Forgetfulness, the
Anti-Contrasting Parenthesis, Stressing the Initial Situation, Slow Execution,
misdirection, and the In-Transit Actions.
The next three chapters include magic by Ascanio's mentors, Kaps and Carles, by
his colleagues Dany Ray and Fu Manchu, and by one of his idols in magic: Ed
Marlo, all with the Ascanio treatment. This section contains tricks shown to
Ascanio by these great masters.
Chapter Seven includes Ascanio’s favorite routines: If You Don’t Pay Attention…,
Aunt Enriqueta’s Aces, The Trick I Would Show Dai Vernon, Sleightless Oil and
Water (or so it seems), and Aces with Love.
In Chapter Eight two other Ascanio favorites are described: The Wriggling Aces
and Don’t Blink! Revisited. The Trick I Would Show Dai Vernon is a lesson on
Conditioned Naturalness, and The Wriggling Aces was part of his winning act at
FISM in Amsterdam 1970.
Chapter Nine includes two Ascanian classics: A Baroque Transposition and The
Mechanical Strength of Thought.
Chapter Ten finally brings you some of Ascanio's minor masterpieces such as:
Dolores’s Trick, The Pathology of Cards, X - 1 = 0, Triumph, Eight-Card Oil and
Water, The Nine Facts, Antagonistic Aces, and A Hunger for Dreaming.
Pages 320 and 390 illustrations
Price…………$69.95
The Magic of
Ascanio Book Vol. 3 "More Studies of Card Magic" by Arturo Ascanio
Arturo
de Ascanio y Navaz (1926-1997), is regarded as the father of Spanish
card magic. A lawyer by trade and an amateur magician, he devoted a
good part of his life to magic and was one of the founders of the
prestigious Escuela Mágica de Madrid.
The Structural Conception of Magic, which is the first volume of The
Magic of Ascanio, is devoted to his theoretical thinking. Studies of
Card Magic and More Studies of Card Magic include all of his card
creations, while the fourth volume Knives and Color-Blindness is a
treatise on magic with pocket knives.
The Third Volume
Includes some of his signature pieces like The Restless Lady,
Alternating the Colors, and his legendary All-Backs routine. These
routines were part of the act that Ascanio performed at the
Amsterdam FISM Convention, where he won First Prize in Card Magic.
Also included are his classics Sequacious Spades, and Cards Through
the Table, The Ten Cards Up the Sleeve, The Aces of My Exam, Freddy
Fah’s Wallet, Mentalism by Elimination, The Magical Nine, Stranger
Ambitious Card, and The Nudist Deck. The book ends with Black Days,
a masterpiece of magical thinking, as Arturo himself described it.
Pages 400 - Hardbound w/ Dust jacket
The Magic of
Ascanio Book Vol. 4 Knives and Color Blindness by Arturo Ascanio
Arturo
de Ascanio y Navaz (1926-1997), is regarded as the father of Spanish
card magic. A lawyer by trade and an amateur magician, he devoted a
good part of his life to magic and was one of the founders of the
prestigious Escuela Mágica de Madrid.
The Structural Conception of Magic, which is the first volume of The
Magic of Ascanio, is devoted to his theoretical thinking. Studies of
Card Magic and More Studies of Card Magic include all of his card
creations, while the fourth volume Knives and Color-Blindness is a
treatise on magic with pocket knives.
Fourth Volume
Knives and Color-Blindness is not just a repertoire of sleights and
routines. Above all, it encapsulates an extraordinary philosophy of
magic, in which the love for detail, for naturalness and psychology
alike, are given as much importance as technical skill. Ascanio’s
remarkable in-depth study of the psychological aspects of the
“Paddle Move” and the “color change” with knives is a fundamental
contribution to the magic of the color-changing knives. Arturo de
Ascanio shows two specific qualities that very seldom go together:
he is an extremely clear writer and also an excellent performer of
sleight-of-hand. You will no doubt find that Ascanio is very good at
writing about what he knows, and knows very well what he is writing
about.
Big Laughs for Little People
By Samuel Patrick Smith
The
Magic of Ascanio Volume 1
Magic
Of Ascanio Vol.2 - Studies Of Card Magic
