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Atop a sketch pad, two pieces of folded paper are stood upright and a pen is balanced across the top of the papers. Slowly, the papers are removed, one by one, until the pen is seen floating in the air.
It’s not a Monte so much as a magical transposition, using two black threes and a red ace. In this incarnation, Moser is completely successful.
A stack of three cell phones is picked up by the spectator, who evaluates their weight. When the performer removes one phone, the other two become heavier than three!
Two cards are fused into one card that is not simply card-shaped, but slightly off-set, as if the cards are in a spread, creating an impossible magic moment.
A page is freely chosen from a book. A sharp knife stabs the book. The knife is pulled straight down, cutting through every single page, except one!! Impossibly, the page your audience thought of is clearly seen impaled on the knife!
A beautiful travel magazine which is, in fact, the Swiss Army Knife of mentalism effects. Woven into the pages of the magazine are 10 intriguing mentalism and perceptual effects.
Unseen Force Pro is the latest system to improve your thread work, and TCC has done a remarkable job with this gimmick.
Here’s multi-phased close-up prediction that will delight a diligent beginner, and is surprising enough to find a spot in a pro’s performance.
The idea of having a piece of rope lasso a selected card has been around for many years, but this is a really nice updated handling and gimmick from Rubén Vilagrand.
Rubén Vilagrand’s Unplugged XLR is an excellent take on the Walking Knot premise explored by Pavel and Paul Curry, but using an XLR cord.
Rubén Villagrand’s salt pour gimmick brings a great deal of R&D to a classic stage and platform effect.
Babu is a nest of wallets effect from Ari Phillips, produced by Grum Leather Crafts. The method is basically the same as the early ones, including Nicholas Einhorn’s, but it has Velcro loading from the side, so the spectator can open the wallets freely, which is great.