Vanish & Productions Secrets Revealed

Top Color Change

March 3rd, 2010

For a great visual effect, a sleigh-of-hand that’s a color change, the top color change is one of the killer moves in the ambitious card routine. It’s almost a card magic trick in itself but it’s best combined with other moves to create a great performance.

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The idea is simple, you flip the card on top of the deck so it’s face up and cover it with a face down card. Now you’re free to create the illusion at any moment when you cover the card with your hand.

I hope you enjoy this one, it’s definitively worth being in your card magic arsenal!

Have fun!

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December 28th, 2007

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December 23rd, 2007
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Card Vanish (backhand “palming”)

December 23rd, 2007

To avoid confusion; this is not backhand palming. I do not know the name of this sleight of hand (do you?). The performer in the video is not fluid enough to say he’s mastering this sleight but it gives you a good idea and a chance to practice the move on your own.

This is great when combined with other vanish effects and productions (I’m a big fan), pretending to perform only of an easy card trick and adding these effects obtains good reactions due to surprise.

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Good luck!

Quick Card Flip

December 22nd, 2007

This is also known as “The Fastest Card Trick In The World” due to the speed at which you create the illusion of flipping a card upside down inside the pack of cards without opening it at all.

All that to say; It’s a great secret to be revealed on a Monday morning ;-) there is a small sleight of hand needed in its performance… Have a look:

As you saw, it is an easy magic trick to perform once you become fluid at reversing the entire deck without anyone noticing!

James-Ellis Insert Move

December 22nd, 2007

This is a beauty used to bring a card back to the top of the deck in one of the most convincing way; watch it in the next video (at 00:34):

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Still wondering how it is done?

  1. The magician is holding a break at the very last card of the pack of cards from which the selected card is taken from its top and then placed on top of the other packet (at 00:30).
  2. While pushing the selected card to let it stick out of the deck (00:36 to 00:38) the bottom card held by the magician’s break is dropped on top of the selected card.
  3. The magician then shows the card that is sticking out of the deck (Ace of spades) while hidding the card that was dropped on top of it. (00:39 to 00:41)
  4. The top card, that appears to be the card just shown is then inserted in the middle of the other pack of cards, this pack of card is then inserted in the middle of the other pack of card (with the ace of spaces on top).

The selected card was put back on top of the deck in front of everyone without a single fancy, suspicious move. Simply efficient!

Did you find the instructions clear enough? Let us KNOW!

The Marlo Tilt & Tilt Color Change

December 21st, 2007

This goes hand-in-hand with the Push-off Double Lift double lift, it is one of the basic sleights of hand used to perform a handful of different routines. In the following video, you will see two sleighs of hand: The Marlo Tilt and the simple Tilt Color Change.

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Marlo’s Tilt

  1. Get a pinky break right under the top card.
  2. Use one of the following convincers:
      Convincer 1: Poke some cards in the middle of the deck to create the impression (this is a convincer) you are going to put the card somewhere near the middle.
      Convincer 2 (harder): While holding your break, seperate the deck or card aproximately in the middle of the deck and convince your audience “This is about the middle of the deck”.
  3. When inserting the card it is recommended to bend it slightly to add to the illusion that it is inserted near the middle (not under the top card!). Depending on your angle you can easily insert it normally under your pinky break, under the top card.

Tilt Color Change

  1. Place your hand on top of the deck.
  2. With your fingers push the top card by about an inch.
  3. As you show the top card, pull the undercard with the heel until it is no longer under the top card.
  4. As you cover the deck bring back the undercard on top of the deck.

You have now switched the top card with the second card in the deck.

False Transfer & Coin Melting Theory

September 22nd, 2007

Staying around coin magic, here is a good tutorial showing a simple false transfer that will require a bit of practice to get down perfectly everytime. The presentator also discusses coin melting (coin through glass).

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Keeping on the coin melting theories discussed in the video, it can be done using 3 coins .However two coins should be sufficient. Preferably at least one of the coins should be magnetic and the performer should be equiped with a neodynium magnetic ring (which has many interesting abilities such as stopping wristwatches and cellular phones).

You can see and find out for yourself how it is done in this (superb) video of Cyril Takayama (one of my favorite magician) where he does not only melt coins through but also inside a glass table he also forces a considerably big saltshaker through. Must see

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