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Archive for February, 2010

Star of Las Vegas & Network Television!

Magic & Comedy from a Real Professional! Featuring The Watch Steal!

Comedy Magician Extraordinaire, Jeff Hobson has done it all! From headlining in Las Vegas to feature performances on network television (NBC’s World’s Greatest Magic) and cable networks such as Showtime. A sought-after performer for Fortune 500 corporate events, trade shows, and motivational speaking, Jeff Hobson is known worldwide as one of the funniest, and busiest, comedy and magic performers in the world. Here is your chance to see him strut his stuff!

On this very special DVD, you’ll see Jeff Hobson perform his zany brand of comedy and magic for a live audience, highlighted by the incredible ‘multiple watch steal!’ Then Jeff teaches you his pet magical secrets and routines, including the watch steal! Read the rest of this entry »

The centers of any two cards are openly torn out creating a pair of impromptu “rings.” These cardboard rings, which can be signed, are instantly linked together! The two cards are actually seen to be connected through one another. The linked cards are then magically disconnected and are both immediately handed out for examination. A new principle in penetrations enables you to perform this close-up linking ring routine under test conditions without resorting to special gimmicks, gaffs, switches or key rings. Read the rest of this entry »

Four of the most incredible card effects you’ve ever seen! Start clean, end clean – and in between is pure MAGIC!

Allan Ackerman is one of the world’s foremost experts at sleight-of-hand magic and gambling moves with playing cards. On this amazing DVD you will be treated to four of the most incredible card routines ever created – absolute stunners that simply defy explanation. Normally, a brother magician might exclaim, “You’re using gaffed cards!” To which you reply, “Go ahead, take a look!” Examine to their heart’s content and they will find nothing. That’s because Allan has devised extremely devious and elegant methods for switching in and switching out the gaffs, leaving no trace of their existence! Prequel/Sequel is a truely unique DVD experience! Allan also teaches numerous invaluable sleights and moves. Read the rest of this entry »

Two cards are freely selected and are then replaced into a shuffled deck. The deck is ribbon spread face down across the table, and a spectator takes an advertising card and freely inserts it into the spread, wherever she desires. The spread is flipped face up and the two cards on either side of the advertising card are the selections!

In addition to being a fantastic stab effect, Ad-jacent can also be used as an easy, fool-proof way of forcing two cards on a spectator. Read the rest of this entry »

A DVD that teaches you how to stack dice in just a few short hours! Dice Stacking is not only magical, but it’s fun too! The art of scooping up a series of dice and stacking them one on top of the other is not nearly as hard as it looks. Professional juggler and entertainer Todd Strong has developed a method to easily teach you how to stack dice. In fact, using Todd’s methods, you can learn to stack dice proficiently in just a few short hours. Dice stacking makes for a wonderful, magical interlude.Being a juggler, Todd has created numerous unique and visual stacking techniques, many of which magicians have never seen before, including fantastic aerial dice moves and two- handed dice stacking. You’ll also learn how to stack 12 dice at a time! And host Michael Maxwell performs and explains Senator Clarke Crandall’s Dice Stacking Routine. Hilarious, magical and entertaining, this one-of-a-kind routine is perfect as a unique magical showpiece. Read the rest of this entry »

Allan Ackerman is considered one of the top cardmen in the world. In Las Vegas Kardma you’ll find over 50 choice Ackerman masterpieces, ranging from completely self-working effects to the knucklebusters that cardmen love to study. Allan’s routines are designed with one main goal- to totally devastate an audience! Read the rest of this entry »

This book is about a strange being from the West Coast possessing miraculous skills and incredible ideas. SUPER MAGIC. Able to create innovative routines at a single bound. Faster than a speeding billet. More powerful than a gross of TV Magic Cards. And who, disguised as Paul Harris, a mild mannered close-up worker, continues to fight a never-ending battle for better effects, stronger presentations, and the American magician’s way of life. Read the rest of this entry »

The Most Important Book On Magic Theory Since Strong Magic!

In Designing Miracles, Darwin Ortiz continues the task he began in Strong Magic: to explore and raise the level of craft in magic. This time he presents a groundbreaking study of how laymen think and what it takes to amaze them.

Darwin has earned a reputation for creating some of the strongest card effects in modern magic. In Designing Miracles, he reveals for the first time the principles and techniques that he follows in doing so. These insights will help you choose stronger effects, create stronger effects, and strengthen those effects that you’ve already performing.

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Question: What do you get when you cross a 92 m.p.h. fastball with a young man from Ohio who harbors an intense love of card magic?

Answer: The Guinness World Record for throwing a playing card further than anyone else in history. The young man is Rick Smith, Jr. and on March 21, 2002, he obliterated the world record for card throwing with a laser beam toss of 216′ 4″ eclipsing the previous longstanding mark by over 15′!
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