BOOKS
USING MAGIC IN CHILD SAFETY PRESENTATIONS
This is a new book is a collection of award winning safety routines assembled over a period of ten years. Each routine is completely audience tested for children ranging in age from preschool through fifth grade. None of the routines are based on theory all have been used thousands of times in child safety presentations. A chapter is also included on tips for the child performer.
The professional magic tricks were selected to give maximum effect with little or no practice. The routines are fully scripted so the performer needs only to concentrate on the dialogue. Perfect for the magician wishing to add safety messages to an existing show or to offer a complete safety magic show. Schoolteachers and police officers can benefit by using the routines as object lessons in the classroom. Routines include: Protecting your valuables, police officers are our friends, pedestrian safety, stranger danger, dangerous items around the home, water safety, what to do if you are lost and good citizenship.
ITEM # BK0823 PRICE $10.00
MAGIC OF FOLDING MONEY by BILL CARUBA
Magicians, other entertainers, Playboy magazine readers, and the general public can all unite in buying this delightful brand new book on The Magic of Folding Money, by Bill Caruba. Playboy magazine publishers were so pleased that in their December 1979 issue, they wrote, "Some people like to have fun with singles." Bill Caruba has more fun than anybody," and then they printed the procedure for folding Bill's BUCK RABBIT Playboy bunny fold. But that's only one of Bill's many magnificently original Billfolds. (Play on words intended.) They include: SHRUNKEN DOLLAR, ACE OF DIAMONDS, DICE CRAP TABLE, DOLLAR BILL RING (Ladies love it - as mad money protection!), SPADE, GUNS, ROCKET SHIP, GUM (size), TEXAS LONGHORN, and CHRISTMAS TREE.
Some 20 years ago it seemed that all possible money-folding designs had been exhausted. Hah! You can quickly prove that's wrong by instantly buying Bill's book and delighting spectators, friends, and yourself.
ITEM # BK0334 PRICE $8.50
MILK PITCHER MAGIC by HEN FETSCH
Well over a hundred routines, tips, suggestions, gags, presentations and new ideas in this most complete work on the 'Vanishing Milk" Pitcher. It is divided into three parts, covering the care and handling of the pitcher; effects, and new uses for the pitcher. A nicely printed book of 32 pages with more than 40 illustrations and a board cover.
ITEM # BK0368 $2.00
COMPLETE WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND SEARCHABLE INDEX
The Phoenix brought 3 to 5 well versed, practical ticks on a biweekly basis from 1942 to 1954. The most talented magicians of the time contributed their best ideas to The Phoenix, effects that fooled magicians and lay people alike.
Houdini Picture Corporation is proud to present for the first time, the complete six volume set of CD ROM! Search through over 1,200 pages with our interactive index. Just type in the search word or phrase and the interactive Phoenix will find it. You can also browse through a searchable index sorted by type of effect. Usable on both PC and MAC computers!
As a bonus are included Michael Skinner's notes on Phoenix issue 1-300! and The New Phoenix from 1954 - 1965 The New Phoenix has over 420 pages of great magic effects complete with instructions and illustrations. Edited by Jay Marshall, Don Tanner and Karl Fulves.
ITEM # CDR002 PRICE $20.00
DESIGNING MIRACLES by DARWIN ORTIZ
This is the Most Important Book On Magic Theory Since Strong Magic! In Designing Miracles, Darwin Ortiz continues the task he began in Strong Magic: to explore and raise the level of craft in magic. This time he presents a groundbreaking study of how laymen think and what it takes to amaze them.
Darwin has earned a reputation for creating some of the strongest card effects in modern magic. In Designing Miracles, he reveals for the first time the principles and techniques that he follows in doing so. These insights will help you choose stronger effects, create stronger effects, and strengthen those effects that you've already performing.
If you've ever been puzzled by an audience's reaction or lack of it, this book will dispel the mystery. It gives you a new set of tools for understanding how magic works, why it sometimes doesn't, and how to make it work better. Never again will you be at a loss as to why an effect isn't playing well. Never again will you be at a loss as to what to do about it.
If your goal is to provide your audiences with an unforgettable experience of impossibility, you'll find Designing Miracles filled with insights to help you do so. It will teach you how to use the audience's own thinking patterns against them. It will show you how to turn puzzles into miracles. It will do something that few magic books can: change with way you think about magic.
"Here we have an outstanding new book by one of the modern-day masters of card magic, Darwin Ortiz. Darwin lays out a new way of looking at how the mind is fooled. You will look at magic effects differently, and your thinking about magic will be stimulated and challenged. Without studying the principles set forth in this book, no magical education can be complete. Books like Designing Miracles, and Strong Magic that came before it, are more rare and important today than ever before." - Whit Haydn
Darwin Ortiz is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading sleight-of-hand performers with playing cards. He is also the author of some of the most popular and important books on magic ever published, including the best-selling book, STRONG MAGIC. He also serves as an international consultant to the casino industry on the prevention and detection of cheating. His eleven DVDs and six books, including Darwin Ortiz on Card Cheating and Gambling Scams, are widely used as reference and training tools in casinos throughout the world, and he is called to testify as an expert witness in casino cheating cases. As an entertainer and expert consultant, Darwin has performed on every continent except Antarctica.
Pages 200 – Hardcover
ITEM # BK0122 PRICE $45.00
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