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Magic
by Robert Neale
Bob Neale has been playing with wired pearls and the result is this
26 page book with more than 3 dozen photos teaching how to transform
the pearls into giraffes, camels, bunnies, fish, robots and more.
Additional ideas by Larry White.
A fresh alternative for those ready
to move beyond balloon animals.
Pages 26
 Kids
Think It's Funny by Greg McMahan
Greg McMahon is one
of the true professionals in magic and clowning. He's now revealing
some of his best kid-show material in his new book, KIDS THINK IT'S
FUNNY. In 27 unique and entertaining chapters, Greg teaches
hilarious gags and routines to make you funnier than ever to your
kid-show audiences! His tips on how to make a small show look big or
his chapter on top hat juggling or his Rocky the Raccoon routines
are easily worth much more than the price of the entire book.
KIDS THINK IT'S FUNNY includes:
- The Value of
Repeating Material
- What Makes a
Good Website
- Ideas for
Organizing Your Show Case
- How to Make a
Great First Impression
- Entertain While
Setting Up
- Make a Small
Show Look Look Big
- Getting the
Audience on Your Side
- 15-minute
Opening Routine (Thumbtip and wand)
- Pop-Away Wand
Ideas
- Running Gags
- The Monkey Bar
- Professor's
Nightmare (Very different routine!)
- Shoelace Magic
(Rope routine kids identify with)
- Four Great
Sponge Ball Routines
- Using and
Teaching Scarf Juggling
- Top Hat Juggling
(Remove bunny before attempting!)
- Rubber Chicken
from Canon (A strange routine, but funny!)
- Nothing Grinder
- One Hundred
Balloons an Hour
- Balloonology
Seminar
- Rocky Raccoon
Routines (15 pages of ideas!)
Greg has packed all
of this into a neat book of 106 pages with a full-color cover.
Designed and typeset by the Wizard of Odd himself with illustrations
by Mrs. Odd (first name: Pretty), and published by SPS Publications.
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Entertainment by Ken Weber
There are no tricks in this book, but it’s loaded with secrets!
The most important secrets- techniques for mastering your audience!
Product Details:
- How to Be Your Own Director!
- How to climb the Hierarchy of Mystery Entertainment!
- How to target the "Big Three" Reactions!
- Discover the Six Pillars of Entertainment Success!
- Learn powerful tips for Scripting and Rehearsing, and
Choosing the Most Powerful Material!
- Discover invaluable Voice tricks and Language Skills!
- Do you know the best way for magicians to be Funny? This
book will show you!
- Immensely practical tips on Sound and Lighting!
- Find out what the most successful performers do Before,
During, and even After every show!
- Plus bonus chapters zeroing in on the special problems faced
by Close-up magicians and Mentalists!
"Insightful and inspiring...fun to read...destined to be a
classic. I can think of only a few performers a very few who do
not NEED this book! It’s packed with more nitty-gritty,
real-world advice than a whole shelf of magic books."
- Charles Reynolds
Award-Winning Magic Consultant/Producer
“Finally! A well-written book by someone who has been there and
knows what he's talking about. If you are seriously interested
in making an impact with mystery entertainment, your money would
be so much better spent here than on the latest trick or video.
Read it, digest it…let the material inspire you, provoke you and
ultimately make you a better performer."
-Craig Karges
Six-Time "Entertainer of the Year"
National Association of Campus Activities
"The ultimate guide for the entertainer of the 21st
century"deceptively simple, practical, and fun" highly
constructive advice for any performer. With deep insight and
gentle guidance, Ken Weber breaks a critical silence about the
flaws within our art form.
A stroke of genius in concept, and a joy to read!"
-Marc Salem
Star of the international smash hit,
"Marc Salem’s Mind Games"
Ken Weber:
While still a teenager, Ken Weber was the "Official Magician" at
the RCA pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. After receiving
two university degrees in theater, he went on to a successful
career as a full-time entertainer. Ken has appeared at over 500
colleges and universities, and for hundreds of corporations,
associations, and resorts. Newsweek magazine named him "one of
the most frequently requested" performers on the college
circuit. In 1993, the internationally respected Psychic
Entertainers Association awarded him their most prestigious
honor, the Dunninger Award for Excellence in the Performance of
Mentalism.
This Book is a must for every magician / mentalist /
entertainer. It should sell for thousands.
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 Magician's
Magic by Paul Curry
"No recent book on magic . . . reveals so many inside secrets."
- Martin Gardner
Known among veteran magicians for his invention of many new
tricks and his imaginative twists of old ones, Paul Curry
incorporated thoroughly engrossing material with a style that was
truly elegant. This book by a "magician's magician" discloses the
secrets behind a collection of close-up marvels--including the
author's "Out of This World," reputed to be the best card trick of
the past century.
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Artful Mentalism of Bob Cassidy
It has taken more
than twenty years, but Bob Cassidy, a founding member of the Psychic
Entertainers' Association and one of the most influential and colorful creators
of modern mentalism, has finally written a worthy successor to The Art of
Mentalism! When the latter was first published in 1983, it was immediately
recognized as a classic in the field and is on the "top ten" lists of many
leading mentalists.
We predict that this volume will eclipse the acclaim as the
first. The first half of the book, reprints his Art of Mentalism 2 (a complete
professional performance thoroughly explained), and his four Principia Mentalia
volumes. As if that were not enough, the second half gives permanent form to 3
limited distribution manuscripts:
Theories and
Methods for the Practical Psychic
Strange Impressions
But Stranger Still
 Inside-Out
by Christopher Taylor
The effects in this book have been designed form the inside out. In each case,
Christopher began with some concept drawn from nature or metaphysics that he was
strongly attached to. Then, like a magnet invisibly organizing iron filings, the
concept acted as a nucleus around which technique, method, and devices gathered
to produce the form of the effect.
In this manuscript, Christopher applied this empirical perspective to the
classic effects of magic and found that many of them expressed principles found
in nature or archetypal ideas from the human imagination. This Inside-Out
perspective allows the performer to get deep into the heart of an effect, and
truly understand it. Once that is achieved the performer can truly amaze the
audience with effects that appear to be a natural extension of the performer's
mind and body.
Inside-Out is certainly not the only perspective that can be applied to
finding/creating magic and mental effects. Simply looking or a cool way of
showing off one's dexterity with coins or cards can lead to entertaining and
recognizable magic. What adopting the Inside-Out perspective can do is add
another dimension to our enjoyment of the magic of nature and the nature of
magic.
Features Included:
- Introduction: The Inside-Out Perspective.
- Getting There and the Double-Writing Wallet: Cognitive geography
and way finding
- Being There, a Special Pen and a Billet Index: An archetypal
dream.
- Three Minds, One Thought and the Thought Recorder Deck: Mental
telepathy with a deck of cards.
- Room 7 and the Pocket Printing Press: Taking an imaginary journey
and returning with something real.
- Mental Catalyst: The mage as a catalyst for a participant's
latent psychic abilities.
- Flash of Color and the Pellet Index: The color of thought.
- A Marked Deck and Three Effects:
1)Perceived Imagination: Where does imagination stop and perception
begin?
2)Marked Mental Miscall: What is the difference between the mind and the
imagination?
3)Flash of Imagination and the Pocket Writer: "The mind makes it real."
- Number in a Flash and a Pocket Writer: "The mind makes it real,
yet again."
- Pebble in the Storm: The butterfly effect with cards.
- Mind Reading 101 and Equivoque: Telepathy and the opposite sex.
- Liar: What does automatic-writing look like?
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