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Stunning routines using ordinary dice and a deck of cards!
From the Preface: Dice and cards - what a nice combination! And what incredible effects they can produce when they team up! In this book you'll learn some of the best routines in the field using nothing but regular dice and (except for one routine) an ordinary deck of cards (it doesn't even need to be complete!). All the tricks explained use simple manipulations and subtle principles, rather than difficult sleight-of-hand.
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Pages 52
ITEM BK0111 PRICE $20.00
Illusion: wrong interpretation of sensorial information. Humans have 5 senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, and ...taste. Do you know a lot of tricks playing on the taste buds of the spectators? That’s what you’ll be able to do with HypnoCup.
Under the pretext of a demonstration of hypnosis, this ingenious gimmicked paper cup allows you to influence the taste of your spectators without any rudiment knowledge of hypnosis: The magician shows the inside of a fast-food paper cup filled with cola and ice cubes. He closes the paper cup with the lid and the spectator drinks from the paper cup with a straw. "Sure, that tastes like cola." After a brief demonstration of hypnosis, the spectator drinks again from the same straw and in the same paper cup: Surprise! The drink now tastes like water! The magician opens the paper cup and pours the contents into a glass revealing that the paper cup is still filled with cola and ice!
Prop cup is easy to make. The same gimmicked paper cup can be used several times.
Richly illustrated 16 page booklet.
ITEM # BK1210 PRICE $10.00
THEATER OF THE MIND by BARRIE RICHARDSON
Barrie Richardson is a thorough mystery, a mystery that goes beyond his baffling performances. Although long a successful mentalist in the United States, he is better known in England, where for the past twenty-five years he has published a remarkable body of work, drawn straight from his professional repertoire. Readers of such British journals as Pabular and Club71 are well aware of him, but in his own country he is perhaps mentalism's best kept secret, familiar to only a handful of mentalists and magicians, most of them professionals themselves.
With Theater of the Mind all that is about to change. This omnibus volume collects fifty-three of Dr. Richardson's finest mental mysteries, featuring single effects and complete routined sequences, many with full presentations, for close-up, platform and stage. This is fresh, practical material, tested and perfected before thousands of audiences. You will find astonishing feats that use only ordinary items, and few of them, mental experiments that entertain and involve the whole audience, that pack small and pay big, and that exploit a devilish combination of simplicity and cleverness.
Barrie Richardson's mentalism is a collection of rare and shining things, some of which have been closely guarded and quietly shared among professional mentalists for years. In 1999 those professionals expressed their respect behind closed doors by presenting him with the Psychic Entertainers Association award for extraordinary creativity. This book provides a detailed record of why Dr. Richardson is held in such high regard by his peers and the public alike. Extraordinary and entertaining mentalism permeates every page, lifting the curtains finally to reveal the secrets behind Barrie Richardson's Theater of the Mind.
ITEM # BK0123 PRICE $42.00
THEATER OF THE MIND ACT 2 by BARRIE RICHARDSON
When Barrie Richardson's Theater of the Mind was published in 1999, it drew immediate acclaim from mentalists and magicians, professional and amateur alike, and quickly became a bestseller. In it, Richardson, a longtime professional performer and speaker, exhibited an unerring track record for fashioning astonishing effects and routines, dressed in powerful and engaging presentations and supported by ingenious, practical methods.
In Act Two, Barrie Richardson shows that he has lost none of his gentle thunder. His new book features 54 tricks, ideas and routines, with all the attributes for which his work has become known and admired. Most include full presentations that use humanity, humor and an unfaltering sense of drama, that culminate in feats that are clearly impossible and thoroughly amazing.
Along with some of his most prized routines, Richardson includes valuable examples taken from his professional repertoire of motivational talks for public and business audiences.
The scenes in Act Two amount to what might be called a modern "miracle play." Here is a scant sampling of the action:
Frequently, sequels fail to live up to their predecessors. That is not the case here. You won't want to miss Act Two.
Hardcover, 382 pages
ITEM # BK1212 PRICE $40.00
TRAIN YOUR BRAIN & ENTERTAIN ON CD ROM by SCOTT CRAM
With the help of Train Your Brain and Entertain, you'll learn how to handle a wide variety of memory challenges, and many classic memory feats, such as The blindfolded Knights Tours, giving the day of the week for any date, and much more. This is also available in PC or MAC version. (Please State your preference in comments section on order form.)
ITEM # CDR011 PRICE $40.00
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