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The okito box is a cylindrical box fitted to the size of a coin, used to perform coin magic. Invented by Tobias Bamberg, better known by the stage name Okito, who first discovered the effect using a pill box for indigestion tablets. In effect, one or more coins placed in the box seems to vanish, appear and penetrate the box.
The method of this trick was partially explained by Masked Magician Val Valentino as part of a Fox TV series called Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed. [4] The trick hinges on two things: that people will not suspect the woman is key for the trick to work, and that the box is larger than it appears.
The performer takes a deck of cards, and places on the table two face-up "marker" cards, one black and one red; the black on the left and the red on the right.The performer tells the spectator that he or she is going to deal cards face-down from the deck and the object of the exercise is for the subject to use their intuition to identify whether each card in the deck is black or red.
The simplest versions of the trick rely on the object in the lemon being merely a copy of the one provided by the audience member [2] [3] — that is, the trick becomes simply an elaborate way to reveal the result of a magician's force. For example, the audience member selects the two of clubs, their original card is destroyed, and the lemon is ...
Will Goldston's trick of passing a coin through his sleeve. Coin magic is the manipulating of coins to entertain audiences. [1] Because coins are small, most coin tricks are considered close-up magic or table magic, as the audience must be close to the performer to see the effects. Though stage conjurers generally do not use coin effects, coin ...
Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed is a series of television shows and specials in which the methods behind magic tricks and illusions are explained by a narrator and are performed in a warehouse in the United States with no audience, by an unknown "world class" magician known as the "masked magician" who does not speak and wears a mask on the show to ...
Box of Pain (Magician sticks a sword and daggers through an assistant's head in a box) Water Torture Escape; Episode Three May 5, 1998 (US) October 3, 2010 (HK) Bed of Spikes (Death of Cora) The Stretch (Magician stretches an assistant's arms & legs to the breaking point) Daggers of Death (Knife-throwing at an assisant while strapped to a wheel)
Blackstone created four levels (beginner to advanced) of magic kits that were the best selling in the field. [5] In the early 1970s, he promoted a "PF Magic Wedge Kit" on a television commercial for PF Flyers sneakers, [6] and he appeared on several commercials for Jiffy Pop popcorn. Harry Blackstone Jr., Pittsburgh, 1981