Mental Magick of Basil Horwitz Vol. 2

Wizard HQ Product Search       Mental Magick of Basil Horwitz Vol. 2 get it here Seven more incredible demonstrations of the paranormal that will entertain and perplex the most demanding audience. When I met Basil many, many years ago (well over 20 years ago) I saw him demonstrating his brilliant Poker Deal. He dealt cards to himself and to a spectator and then put a UKP50 note on the table and if Basil could beat the spectator he kept the money and if he lost he would lose UKP50. This is repeated over and over again with new hands being dealt and the spectator having more and more choice yet the magician never loses any of the money at all. The final part of the routine allows the spectator to see cards face up and being given the choice to choose the cards for his hand as they are dealt. Again the magician keeps his money. I was baffled by this effect and asked Basil to let me put it in the first volume but he refused. I plagued him for a year or so and it is now released h! ere in Vol. 2 along with 6 other effects all of which would gain any good mentalist a brilliant reputation. ISBN No.: 0-974533-03-06 Pages 76 - Softbound see more new items... Join Our Mailing List   Email:      You'll receive one weekly email with the latest magic releases. We won't share your email with anyone else! www.wizardhq.com

Mental Magick of Basil Horwitz Vol. 1

Wizard HQ Product Search       Mental Magick of Basil Horwitz Vol. 1 get it here details a method of linking a show with charity and using it to make a big income for the charity and a big income for the performer. During Basil's lifetime he was also involved in investment and finance. He used to perform for charity and demonstrated mental miracles that stunned his audience. When each member of the audience left the show Basil ended up with the name, address and telephone number of hundreds of people desperate for him to ring and discuss financial plans, investment and insurance. The seven tricks in the book are all total stunners. The best I have ever published. Over the years I have heard of top magicians around the world who have each used one or more of the effects on TV or to close their shows. So for sure I know that every effect in the book has been used by big names on TV! One man whose name I forget wrote to thank me and Basil for providing an effect that had! gained him a brilliant reputation as a closer! Basil worked on five books with us and so far we have published four of them and have one more ready to release and a further title to be gathered together from tapes and notes left to us after his sad demise. A classic of mentalism. Pages 64 - Softbound see more new items... Join Our Mailing List   Email:      You'll receive one weekly email with the latest magic releases. We won't share your email with anyone else! www.wizardhq.com

Horwitz Wallet by Basil Horwitz

Wizard HQ Product Search       Horwitz Wallet by Basil Horwitz get it here The World's Most Fantastic Card-In-Wallet All the action takes place in the spectator's pocket - not yours! Martin Breeze writes about Horwitz Wallet: I have been trying for a long time to find another maker. No one seemed able to get it right until Tony Curtis came up with just the job and made for me in Thailand.. I have a quantity of the wallets but I am just finishing off a complete rewrite and re-design of the instruction booklet and packaging and I hope to have the artwork from my designer ready for printing during the coming week. The price of the wallet and instructions is $90 plus whatever it costs for post and packing. Any of the rip-off merchants many of whom are receiving publicity in this newsletter had better be warned that if they attempt to copy the wallet they will be in trouble as the wallet is the subject of a patent application in the US and the UK. Rip if off at your peril. Take the instructions and you will be in breach of copyright. So beware. This protection has cost more than I would like to say and rip-offs will be the subject of legal action! For those who don't know; the Horwitz Wallet enables the performer to perform a number of effects including the miracle card in wallet effect. What makes this wallet so different that all the changes and the tricky business all takes place when the SPECTATOR put the wallet in his own pocket. Everything is done openly and there is no palming involved. The wallet has inspired a number of effects many of which are in the book of instructions. There is a brilliant Just Chance with Bank Notes and Envelopes which are burnt. One of the best effects with the wallet baffled everyone when Basil first demonstrated it. A card is selected and signed and placed in the wallet and then put in a spectator's pocket. the spectator is then blindfolded The spectator is asked to hold his arm or hand over the pocket containi! ng the wallet. The performer openly pickpockets the spectator and removes the signed card from the wallet and put the wallet back in the spectator's pocket. The crunch is that the spectator has no idea how he has been pickpocketed until the performer shows that he now has the signed card and the spectator discovers to his amazement that the wallet in his pocket is completely empty. Be warned that this great effect requires two Horwitz Wallets. Back in 1982 Basil Horwitz gave a special seminar on the wallet here at the IBM Convention which was held at my new home town of Brighton. The Seminar was unusual in that all participants had to be the owners of one of these wallets. At least fifty people turned up for what might well be described as the most exciting event of that IBM Convention. 'The perfect wallet for real magic, beautifully made, with an excellent collection of routines too. I loved it!' Beautifully made in black leather, yet innocuous enough s! o as not to draw attention to itself, the wallet instantly feels 'just right' (in fact it's very tempting to start using it straight away - but don't!). The 20 page A5 instruction book includes interesting background information, together with five powerful routines to get you started: Signed Card in Wallet, Just Chance Routine, Mind Control, Mental Hypnotic Pickpocketing (requires two wallets, or one Horwitz and one mock-up) and Do as I Do Gamble. But the wallet's really more than just 'five routines' - it's a brilliantly simple and very versatile prop, that you'll be just as happy to use (very) close-up or on stage, for magic or 'mental' presentations. And it's one with which you can perform real miracles... -Duncan Trillo, MagicWeek.co.uk, October 2005 What Others Say: 'I received my new Horwitz Wallet today and although I haven't read all the routines I can already see the potential. It amazes me to think there are still wallets out there that are t! his cool and different to the tons of wallets I already own - It's wonderful quality too. Thanks so much for having these remade. They are worth every penny - I look forward to finding the time to really work on this and hope to get a routine together for my Christmas holiday season - Thanks also for the super fast service.' -Andy Martin, Texas, USA 'Hi Martin: two words - absolutely bloody awsome! - okay, thats three! Heres a few more: Thanks so much for the Horwitz Wallet, I'm gonna have some fun with one of those routines...' -Roger Kelly, UK 'I have killed 12 people so far with the Horwitz Wallet and I am not in jail. I am going to kill even more!!!!' -Alan Mehta, UK 'I bought the Horwitz books six months ago and discovered his fantastic magic. As a professional magician doing Mentalism, I love and use Mr. Horwitz's routines... just gold! So I'm really looking forward to discovering the wallet.' -Patrick Walter, Switzerland 'The Basil Horwi! tz Psychic Pickpocket effect is one of the most brilliant routines I can imagine.' -Bill Taylor, California, USA Includes Horwitz Wallet and Instructional booklet. see more new items... Join Our Mailing List   Email:      You'll receive one weekly email with the latest magic releases. We won't share your email with anyone else! www.wizardhq.com

Secrets : The Original Magic of Terri Rogers

Wizard HQ Product Search       Secrets : The Original Magic of Terri Rogers get it here This recording was made many years ago by Patrick Page and released as a Trik-a-Tape Video. I was able to purchase the full rights to the tape and it has now been converted to DVD format. The material on this DVD consists of demonstrations and explanations of the following effects: The Razor Blade Trick, Last Second Ring on Rope, The Flying Ring, The Aggravating Arrows and Smaller Than That.. Some of these effects plus many others have been released in the three Terri Rogers books that I published Secrets (1986), More Secrets (1988) and finally Top Secrets (1998). Terri Rogers had an ingenious mind and released a number of effects commercially and probably the best known of all is The Master-Key which many performers consider to be the best book-test ever created. Despite being a talented creator and inventor of magic Terri Rogers was better known as a ventriloquist and she! and Shorty Rogers (her vent doll) traveled the world together. Terri Rogers and Val Andrews were lifelong partners and friends and together they made a major contribution to the art of magic. Running Time Approximately: 34mins see more new items... Join Our Mailing List   Email:      You'll receive one weekly email with the latest magic releases. We won't share your email with anyone else! www.wizardhq.com

Cartel Coins (Coins and DVD) by Chastain Criswell

Wizard HQ Product Search       Cartel Coins (Coins and DVD) by Chastain Criswell get it here are precision crafted and designed to appear normal in all respects. You can show both sides of the coins before and after your routine! Visual magic at your fingertips! Beautiful magic. Effortless impact! Look like a master in days not years! Cartel Coins by Chastain Criswell isn't a Sun & Moon set. In fact, it's not like anything you've ever seen before. Here's just a taste of what's possible with these awesome new gaffs: Sky-Eye Kaps: A new twist on a Kaps' move; a silver and a copper coin are shown in each hand. As the magician brings the coins to eye level, they change places! Two Fly: Magician shows the copper and silver coins in one hand, but they jump to the other hand one at a time, right before the spectator's eyes! We May Never Pass This Way Again: The magician tosses the coins from one hand to the other, but the silv! er coin stays in one hand and the copper coin stays in the other no matter how many time the magician tosses the coins! Bonus Effect! Cartel Coins also contains Coin Explosion... produce six coins from two! An amazing routine made easy with Cartel Coins! Running Time Approximately: 23mins see more new items... Join Our Mailing List   Email:      You'll receive one weekly email with the latest magic releases. We won't share your email with anyone else! www.wizardhq.com

Chan Canasta - A Remarkable Man Vol. 2 by David Britland

Wizard HQ Product Search       Chan Canasta - A Remarkable Man Vol. 2 by David Britland get it here This is the long-awaited follow up to the first book. It is a quality soft back publication, perfect bound. It contains a lot of information that arrived too late for inclusion in the first volume. We are grateful to all those who have helped us produce this set of books on the Remarkable Chan Canasta. ISBN No.: 0-947-533-69-9 Pages 45 - Softbound see more new items... Join Our Mailing List   Email:      You'll receive one weekly email with the latest magic releases. We won't share your email with anyone else! www.wizardhq.com

Chan Canasta - A Remarkable Man Vol. 1 by David Britland

Wizard HQ Product Search       Chan Canasta - A Remarkable Man Vol. 1 by David Britland get it here This was the first book in the series and it caused a complete sensation. We sold out but our printers found several boxes that they had forgotten to deliver to us. So we are back in stock now. This book attracted a great deal of attention and many wonderful feature reviews. For example Peter Zenner: Martin, has excelled himself with the production values. It looks beautiful; maybe it is the most attractive looking book I have ever seen. If you are interested in Canasta then you will have to buy the book. Bob Gill: I'm not sure that there have been other books quite like this. You know those reviews you read which say of novels, 'I couldn't put it down 'til I'd read it through from cover to cover'' Well, I'll cheerfully admit to devouring this ! volume at one sitting until well into the early hours; it's it a comparative rarity in contemporary magic publishing: a rattling good read. Sal Franchino (USA): It is superbly produced. The binding and cover are absolute dynamite. Thank you for such a good work. It is a delight to receive a product that lives up to its promise and delivers value! ISBN No.: 0-974-533-044 Pages 111 - Hardbound see more new items... Join Our Mailing List   Email:      You'll receive one weekly email with the latest magic releases. We won't share your email with anyone else! www.wizardhq.com

Breese Double Reel by Martin Breese

Wizard HQ Product Search       Breese Double Reel by Martin Breese get it here I managed to persuade the guy who used to make these reels for Harry Stanley to produce one more run for me. And as he is such a lazy guy by the time all these have sold out he probably won't want to make any more ever again. All the fuss and bother and how long they took and how many cups of tea he had to have whilst he was making them! Oh Dear! The world is in recession and we should be glad to have an order however big or small... you tell him! Anyway all joking aside - these are the best double reels ever made and you will not be able to find them anywhere else. You know what you can do with a double reel' Hmm. Well you can take a pack of cards and spread it out left to right between your outstretched hands and move your hands further and further apart and the cards just seem to rest in space. You can take a ball in one hand and it glides through space from left to right or right to le! ft as if floating in the air. Don't tell me you are going to need a set of instructions as well! - Martin Breese see more new items... Join Our Mailing List   Email:      You'll receive one weekly email with the latest magic releases. We won't share your email with anyone else! www.wizardhq.com

Blockbuster by Terri Rogers

Wizard HQ Product Search       Blockbuster by Terri Rogers get it here The incredible penetration miracle created by the late Terri Rogers is now available. Even when you know how it works, Terri Roger's BLOCKBUSTER is probably going to fool you. You are the performer so just imagine how a spectator is going to react. The effect is brief and to the point. The magician shows a polished block of wood with a slot cut deeply into it. At right angles to the slot a hole is drilled right through the block. Through a block a ribbon has been threaded and the ends of the ribbon are tied in a knot. The spectator can see that the ribbon passes through the entire block by looking through the slot. The spectator is handed a small metal ring to examine and is asked to extend his hand palms upward. The magician places the threaded block onto the spectator's hand. The spectator is asked to push the ring deeply into the slot and the hold the ring firmly and release the block from his hand. He hesi! tates expecting the block and ribbon to drop to the floor - it doesn't as he discovers to his amazement that the ring has penetrated the ribbon. Read that again. It is impossible. And remember that the ring and block are totally unfaked. The effect takes place on the spectator's hand. There are no threads, pins, or magnets. This is the nearest you are going to get to a self-working miracle. The method will intrigue you as much as the effect will astound the spectators. Includes block, ribbon, ring, and instructional booklet. see more new items... Join Our Mailing List   Email:      You'll receive one weekly email with the latest magic releases. We won't share your email with anyone else! www.wizardhq.com

Add-A-Pad by Basil Horwitz

Wizard HQ Product Search       Add-A-Pad by Basil Horwitz get it here An amazing utility prop which enables the performer to force any number. Perfect for forcing a phone number or special date. This new add-a-number pad is based on the principle of the Basil Horwitz Wallet and locks firmly using rare earth magnets. The instructions supplied include details of four stunning routines that you can perform with the Howitz Add-a-Number pad including a brilliant effect where a members of the audience are asked to write numbers on the pad and when written a fourth spectator is given the wallet and asked to add up all the numbers. The total arrived at, which could be 051206, is written up on a large white pad and shown to the audience who are asked to call out today's date. It just so happens to be the 5th of December 2006 and that is just what the sum total indicates 051206 (of course you modify the total for each performance so that it reflects the date of the actual performance. Another gr! eat routine starts when you hand a member of the audience a sealed paper bag with a big question mark on it. Once again the pad is passed around and the final spectator adds up the sum and calls out the total which the magician writes on a large sheet of white paper. The performer asks for someone in the audience with a mobile phone to phone the actual number now written on the large sheet of paper. He or she phones the number and a mobile phone can be heard ringing in the audience. It is the mobile phone which was in the sealed paper bag and when answered the two spectator find that they are speaking to each other. Full performing details of these effects plus others are provided in the comprehensive instructions supplied. The Horwitz Add-a-Number Pad can be used without the physical intervention of the performer. The pad is passed from one spectator to the next and each is asked to write numbers in sum-form, and until the wallet is actually closed nothing happens. Once ! the wallet is closed the real numbers and the sum are exchanged for the fake sum which will add up to the number to be forced by the magician. The last but one spectator is asked to CLOSE the pad and then to throw it on to someone else in the audience. The very act of closing the wallet causes the magnets to lock and the next time the wallet is opened the sum facing the spectator is the forced sum and the real sum is tightly locked away. Credit for the creation of this brilliant pad should go to Tony Curtis in Thailand who makes the Horwitz Wallet for me and it is Tony who came up with the idea of using the same principle for the Horwitz Add-A-Number Pad. Thank you, Tony. What Others Have said: 'I have been using a variety of add-a-number pads over the years and I have to tell you Martin that absolutely none of them can compare with the Basil Horwitz Add-a-Number Pad that you have produced. It is an absolute joy to use for many reasons and as far as I am concerned ! it is the ultimate of its type. It is beautifully made in leather, it is very discreet, natural looking and completely innocent in appearance. What I also love about it is the ease of preparation which can be achieved in literally ten seconds. Magicians who have already purchased this particular item and have used it will already know that you can hand it out and not have to worry about having to retrieve it yourself. It would require a very incompetent mentalist to come unstuck with this amazing prop. Thanks so much Martin.' - Graham Jolley, UK 'I thought I would drop you an email to let you know how much I love the THE BASIL HORWITZ ADD-A-NUMBER PAD. It is a dream to use, I perform a comedy mind control stage act in the comedy clubs in the UK...I recently did the routine and had the spectator come up on stage and call my mum who had the prediction. The reaction was amazing. It is so nice to be able to hand the pad out without any fear. The quality is amazing.' - Ash! ley Turner, UK 'A huge thank you for the pad, now gratefully received. Well, I do love it. It's beautifully made as I would expect from you and Tony Curtis. In fact, it's a really elegant prop, without, of course, looking like it's a prop. I've never really got on with the old pencil-on-a-string method, (found them not as reliable as I'd hoped and the necessary move a little big, but maybe that's just me), but this pad eliminates the sellotape and string and snagging, which I think is a good thing. The reset is a doddle too.' - Daniel Lander, UK Includes Leather Pad and Instructional Booklet. see more new items... Join Our Mailing List   Email:      You'll receive one weekly email with the latest magic releases. We won't share your email with anyone else! www.wizardhq.com

Stone Frixion Fire by Jeff Stone

Wizard HQ Product Search       Stone Frixion Fire by Jeff Stone get it here Jeff Stone just doesn't know when to quit, lucky for us! His books are like finding a chest filled with gold, then discovering a secret compartment in the chest filled with diamonds, then discovering there's a false bottom in the chest that's filled with emeralds. Yep....they're like that, but better. At first glance, Stone Frixion Fire plumbs the depths of what can be accomplished with these ingenious pens to entertain your audience. But it goes farther: it cultivates directions in which these pens can take your performing. The effects presented are smooth and very reachable for nearly any performer. Good, solid material all the way around.....and that'll never disappear! With the coming of Frixion to America, now is the time to ride the wave. Stone Frixion Fire is the most comprehensive study of this fascinating new tool for magicians. This book covers every aspect of the Frixion Pen imaginable. From simple things ! like where to get them and how to conceal their use from the audience to things that you cannot even imagine. For just a couple of bucks at a stationary store, you can purchase a tool that will revolutionize your magic. This may sound like hype to you, but once you read this book, you'll see how powerful this is. Imagine making a drawing on a piece of paper come to life, literally. What about turning a picture of money into the real thing visually with no sleight of hand. How 'bout a picture of a scrambled cube that can be examined. This same picture visibly solves itself, no switches. The spectator can keep it. With over 20 effects, ideas and contributions from Wesley James, Brad Gordon, Diamond Jim Davis and more, you will be richly fed with clever and original presentations and performance ideas. If -as the saying goes- 'God is in the details' then Jeff's book, Stone Frixion Fire, is one of the more divine little manuscripts I've read in a long time. He breaks do! wn everything from presentations to crediting with the fervor of an obsessive 16th-century monk. Best of all, he also shares some extremely MAGICAL effects! -Jay Sankey see more new items... Join Our Mailing List   Email:      You'll receive one weekly email with the latest magic releases. We won't share your email with anyone else! www.wizardhq.com

Sorcerers Scimitar by Magic King

Wizard HQ Product Search       Sorcerer's Scimitar by Magic King get! it here Display a metal Scimitar with a large shiney blade & begin to rub it on your forearm. The Scimitar penetrates halfway through you forearm! The blade is halfway through your arm! Finally the Scimitar is withdrawn from the arm and shown once again. Of course your arm is also shown unharmed. see more new items... Join Our Mailing List   Email:      You'll receive one weekly email with the latest magic releases. We won't share your email with anyone else! www.wizardhq.com

Worlds Beyond by Paul Curry

Wizard HQ Product Search       Worlds Beyond by Paul Curry get it here Do you remember the first time you saw Paul Curry's 'Out of This World' performed' Do you remember how badly it fooled you' Know now that you can own a book full of such magic by the only man who could imagine it. In Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond you will find the original version of 'Out of This World', which some still consider the best of the many variations that have been devised. You will also find all the other Curry classics, 'Touch', 'The Sliding Knot', 'Open Prediction', 'The Color-changing Deck', 'Never in a Lifetime', 'The Power of Thought', 'Probability Zero' and 'IOU'. But these are just the beginning. Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond contains original Curry card sleights, including his turnover change, and almost seventy tricks and routines that would have brought back that feeling of complete amazement 'Out of This World' aroused in you-had you seen them performed before you read their secrets. Now you can arou! se the same sense of astonishment in others, when you perform the other-worldly magic of Paul Curry. Pages 400 - Hardbound with Dust jacket see more new items... Join Our Mailing List   Email:      You'll receive one weekly email with the latest magic releases. We won't share your email with anyone else! www.wizardhq.com

Relaxed Impossibilities by Stephen Minch and Ken Krenzel

Wizard HQ Product Search       Relaxed Impossibilities by Stephen Minch and Ken Krenzel get it here RELAXED IMPOSSIBILITIES is what result when an acclaimed master of card magic sets out to explore how advanced sleight-of-hand can be made far easier to attain through a perceptive study of economy of action married to efficient placement of cards. By applying a lifetime of study and ability, world-respected expert Ken Krenzel has developed innovative methods that will place techniques long perceived as extremely difficult into the hands of card magicians possessing average skills. Such advanced sleights as palms, steals, switches, side steals, bottom deals and top changes, sleights previously used by only the most dedicated and gifted card technicians, are ingeniously modified and re-imagined to put them into your performing repertoire within a few weeks! , rather than years. After providing a variety of sleights capable of wide utility, Krenzel delivers a collection of tricks and routines that apply these tools and others. The result is magic that ranges from eye-popping visuals to logic-defying card mysteries, many of which take place solely in the hands of the spectator! Indeed, this type of hands-off card magic, designed to leave no easy answers for audiences, is a special focus of Dr. Krenzel in this book. RELAXED IMPOSSIBILITIES teaches material designed for those who desire to broaden their skills and give their audiences an experience they've never before had. In its pages many new pathways are opened and some stunning destination points are provided. Facial - A Wild-Card printing effect like no other. Four blank-faced cards magically duplicate the face of a selected random card. Each transformation is visual and instantaneous, all the cards are inspected before and afterward, and with each performance a different c! ard is duplicated. Fan World - A new approach to the Out-of-This-World effect in which the deck may be shuffled at any point during the procedure, you do not look at the faces of the cards, the duration of the test may be as short or as long as wished, there are no packet exchanges and only two pilesone red, one blackare formed. Yet, you have complete control over a spectator's ability to correctly guess the color of each card. Strange Hummer - Anyone shuffles the deck (which may be borrowed), deals off ten random cards and mixes them face up and face down under the table, where no one can see what is being done. The mixing procedure becomes more and more random, until everyone, including fellow magicians, must admit you have no control over it. While the packet is still out of sight under the table, you announce the number of cards that are face up and face down, which proves to be correct. You also point out that the spectator has mysteriously separated the red cards from! the blacks! AUTOMACAAN - The Any-Card-at-Any-Number effect is given three new treatments, including one in which the deck may be borrowed and you never touch the cards. The spectator does everything. This trick may even be performed over the telephonea genuine and exciting breakthrough in both method and effect. These are just four of the more than thirty new items in KEN KRENZEL'S RELAXED IMPOSSIBILITIES. All are thoroughly taught, aided by over 170 expert illustrations by Earle Oakes. When you add streamlined and accessible manipulation to new principles of sleight-less card magic, the result is RELAXED IMPOSSIBILITIES. You now can relax too, they are awaiting you. Pages 254 - Hardbound with Dust Jacket see more new items... Join Our Mailing List   Email:      You'll receive one weekly email with the latest magic releases. We won't share your email with anyone else! ! www.wizardhq.com

Magic With Slush and Snow Powder by Chastain Chriswell

Wizard HQ Product Search       Magic With Slush and Snow Powder by Chastain Chriswell get it here On this DVD, professional magician CHASTAIN CRISWELL will demonstrate how to use SLUSH & SNOW POWDER in your magic routines or as a stand alone trick. In addition, CHASTAIN will show you covert ways to deliver SLUSH & SNOW POWDER so your audience is never aware you are using one of the industries's best kept secrets! On this DVD you will learn how to: Make a bottle of soda freeze with one touch Make items balance in water with ease Make water turn into a silk or confetti Make water disappear Make snow appear from no where see more new items... Join Our Mailing List   Email:      You'll receive one weekly email with the latest magic re! leases. We won't share your email with anyone else! www.wizardhq.com

Digital Conviction by Robert Smith

Wizard HQ Product Search       Digital Conviction by Robert Smith get it here Digital Conviction is an amazing effect that can be performed anywhere and anytime with all borrowed objects. Everything is completely ungimmicked and examinable and the spectator keeps a souvenir that will surely make you unforgettable. Here is what happens in the effect. You approach the spectator and remove a joker or any card out of the deck. 'We will use this as the wild card but we'll get back to that in a moment. Please will you select any card'' The spectator has a free choice of any card, nothing is forced. The selected card then gets lost in the deck. 'Let's get back to the Joker.' You remove the joker and place their initials on the corner of the joker. 'Remember the joker is the wild card. Let's make this moment more memorable and take a picture.' You now borrow their camera phone and take a picture of the joker with their initials. The spectator confirms that the picture on the camera phone is the initialed ! joker. The phone is immediately handed to the spectator and placed face down in their hand. 'If I take the joker that we just took a picture of and give it a shake you can see that it changes to your selected card'. With a closer examination the spectator sees that her initials are now on the selected card. Now you go in for the kill. 'If that card changed in my hand then the picture in your hand should have changed too-' BIG reaction as the spectator just realized that they saw you take a picture of a joker with THEIR initials on it and it changed to their selected card with their initials on it. This effect is huge and it's a worker. Here are a few important points to remember: Uses no gimmicks Easy to do Freely chosen card Uses all borrowed objects Requires no setup Use any phone with a camera functionAlso as an added bonus you will receive an additional bonus effect using cards and a camera phone. If you are looking for an effect whe! re you don't have to carry any extra material and an effect you will actually do, then Digital Conviction is for you. see more new items... Join Our Mailing List   Email:      You'll receive one weekly email with the latest magic releases. We won't share your email with anyone else! www.wizardhq.com

Derren Brown - Enigma Tour 2009

After ‘The Gathering’ (2005), ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ (2006) and ‘An Evening of Wonders’ (2007) Derren Brown teamed up with Andy Nyman once more to produce his fourth stage show ‘Enigma’ (2009).

On July 16th, 2009 I had the distinct pleasure to attend the Enigma show in the Adelphi Theatre in London. I happened to visit some family and friends in Europe at the time and was able to make a 1 day side trip to London to see Derren’s new show - it was worth every penny.

I have seen many of great magic performers live on stage, in close-up settings or simply on TV. I saw David Copperfield fly live, have seen numerous, wonderful performances in the Magic Castle, where I am a member and enjoyed TV specials of all kind including Derren Brown’s amazing TV specials on Channel 4 in the UK (buy the DVDs on Amazon or hunt shows unavailable in the US down on YouTube until TV stations in the US come to their senses and air these feats around here).
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Complete Stage Hypnosis Training Course by Richard Nongard

Wizard HQ Product Search       Complete Stage Hypnosis Training Course by Richard Nongard get it here Do you want to learn how to hypnotize people professionally' Would you like to know how to do a complete stage hypnosis show, just like the stars in Las Vegas' Richard Nongard's Complete Stage Hypnosis Training Course is now available on 8 full-length DVDs! This is the exact same start-to-finish content that Richard teaches at his live seminars -- except this version was specifically designed and produced for the at-home student. If you are looking to perfect your existing skills - or even if you have never hypnotized anyone or have no stage hypnosis training at all - this instructional set will teach you exactly how to do what, when, and why. Here are just 15 of the valuable things you will learn: The 8 biggest blunde! rs that can kill a show, and how to avoid them. The structure of a successful stage hypnosis show, no matter the venue. How to master your pre-talk language and get participants to volunteer and fill the seats on stage. How to hypnotize anyone - individuals or large or small groups - on stage, with an effective, professional stage show induction - like the one Richard Nongard has performed on the Strip in Las Vegas - and what to do with those who resist induction. How to start each show with a powerful demonstration of hypnosis to wow the audience. The 'transition' - the secret to moving from the induction into the first skit, without losing participants. How to interact with and use the audience while managing your volunteers on stage. What kinds of skits to perform when, and how to structure them, with annotated clip demonstrations from live performances. How to please the audience by making participants speak and understand foreign languages, forge! t their own names and experience hallucinations, and how to easily incorporate props into any stage hypnosis show. Understand the importance and function of stage lighting and sound. Richard will show you exactly what equipment you need - and don't need - to perform a show at any venue. How to do an all-adult show to cash in on this lucrative club market, as well as G-rated family shows and everything in between. Stage hypnosis safety - a comprehensive discussion. This information can help minimize your liability. Where to buy performance insurance, how to handle contracts, and how to make sure you get paid. How to get gigs at comedy clubs, corporate events, reunions, colleges, high schools, and earn big money on door-deals in your own community. Richard will even tell you the secrets of getting your very own Las Vegas Stage Hypnosis Show! Remember - You can learn all you want about hypnosis, but if you don't book shows, you won't earn any money. How you and ! a friend or spouse can do a two-hypnotist stage show, for double the fun.Many stage hypnosis video training programs are poor recordings made from the back of a classroom, complete with dumb questions and endless hours of watching others practice in small groups, perhaps infused with footage from shows performed twenty years ago. This 8-disc DVD set, however, is based on content from Richard Nongard's live training classes, but it has been produced specifically for the at-home learner. There is no wasted time and no unedited footage or discussion tangents meaningful only to those who actually attended the live class. As a master hypnotist, a 25+ year on-stage entertainer, and an educator who has taught literally thousands of training classes to both brand new beginners and seasoned professionals, Richard Nongard knows how to impart the information you need to actually perform stage hypnosis professionally. He will guide you step-by-step, with embedded video of recent performan! ces, and teach you exactly what you need to know. In addition to the easy to follow instructional DVD set, you will also receive access to: Complete stage hypnosis course notes Word-for word pre-talk scripts, so you can study exactly what to say the minute you get on stage to create a powerful opening and insure that people want to volunteer. A complete transcript of Richard Nongard's Las Vegas Stage Show Induction patter, word-for-word, so you will know exactly how to be successful at hypnotizing people in a group on stage. Follow-up support. Ask Richard questions anytime and interact with other hypnotists.If you are ready to make money as a stage hypnotist and enjoy the stardom afforded to those who can perform stage hypnosis professionally, this course is for you! see more new items... Join Our Mailing List   Email:      You'll receive one weekly email with the latest magic re! leases. We won't share your email with anyone else! www.wizardhq.com

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