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Zooming Box

Zooming Box

This is a well-made gag which uses yet another property of the cell phone (zooming into a portion of a photograph) to create a visual surprise on a box of playing cards.

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Photo of Gay Blackstone

Coffee with… Gay Blackstone

Gay Blackstone began her magic career with her husband, the late Harry Blackstone Jr., and since 2015 she has been an executive producer of Masters of Illusion on The CW Network. Her comments were assembled from a conversation with Jim Steinmeyer.

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Missing Finger

Missing Finger

You may well wonder what sort of enhancement to “watch me pull my finger off” is waiting for you inside of the neat red box from Penguin Magic. Or indeed, whether “watch me pull my finger off” has been waiting for $25 of improvement.

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Super Picks

Super Picks

Josh Burch has seemingly replaced several different routines, like Scotch and Soda, or the Coin through the Coaster, or even Color Changing Knives, with a set of four special plastic guitar picks.

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Notion of Motion

Notion of Motion

This groundbreaking creation from Angelo Carbone allows you to make any freely-named card rise from a deck on your command. “Notion of the Motion” is a miracle-level effect that leaves people convinced they've witnessed real magic—even seasoned magicians.

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Mortenn’s Jumbo Card Trick

Mortenn’s Jumbo Card Trick

It falls into that delicious category where you’ll ask yourself, “Can it really be that simple?” It can. It’s an elegant solution and after playing with it in the mirror, you will be itching to put it in your show.

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Adam Blumenthal standing in Tannen's Magic

Tannen's Magic

Tannen's Magic was started in the 1920s by Louis Tannen and has been run by Adam Blumenthal since 2010. It serves as a major destination for magicians visiting New York, and as a meeting place for the city’s burgeoning magic scene.

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