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Sos is a trick producer and author of magic books and articles about the art of quick change. Sos and Victoria have been awarded by the Magic Circle in Germany the "Best Writer of the Year 2010" for the books: "Women's Dress Transformation" Part 2 and "Men's Suit Transformation" Part 1.
This article contains a list of magic tricks. In magic literature, tricks are often called effects. Based on published literature and marketed effects, there are millions of effects; a short performance routine by a single magician may contain dozens of such effects. Some students of magic strive to refer to effects using a proper name, and ...
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.
Each trick is divided into logical sub-sections: Effect What the audience is intended to see; Secret and Preparation Setting up the props, and how they work. Method How the performer achieves the effect, step by step. Comments and Suggestions Tips, pointers, and hard-won experience from the authors.
How it works in a magic trick: “It’s rare that a magician straight-up lies to you,” Barnhart says. “Instead, they encourage you to lie to yourself through your assumptions.”
Spending most of his time in the magical warehouse of the priest, Brachetti learnt all kinds of magic tricks. At the age of 15, using costumes borrowed from the seminary's theatre, he invented and performed his first quick-change act, an art introduced to the world by Leopoldo Fregoli (1867–1936).
Ambitious Card Routine – A common trick where a card seemingly rises to the top of the deck. Also called ACR. Angles – the lines of vision of people sitting at certain position in the audience which enable a secret to be spotted* usually extreme left or right or behind. If a trick is "angly" it can only be done with limited audience viewpoints.
be done at any time of the time of the year with equal success. Don't think of this as a book that's only about January through December --- if you're reading it now, then now's the time to answer the questions, believe you can do it, and get on with it. This book is divided into three parts: Part One An introduction to the principles on which Best