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Card Magic |
Rarely does card magic come along as strikingly original as that found in this book. Its creator, Earnest Earick, has refrained from publishing his groundbreaking material for years - until now! When you flip through the pages of "By Forces Unseen" you will encounter chosen cards that fly from the deck when you clap your hands, cards that materialize at your fingertips when someone concentrates on them, selections that pop from the middle of the pack with the flip of your wrist...and seventeen other extraordinary events. |
There weren't as many magic books available back in 1978 as there are now. But one thing was the same then as it is now - there weren't/aren't many magic books published that contained/contain really great stuff. Wonderful stuff! Usable stuff! To-die-over stuff! If anything can be said to have stood the test of time, passed the test of time, it can be said of the ideas, effects, routines, in this book. They are as fresh and stimulating, as clean and precise, as intriguing and clever, as exhilarating and important, today as they were then, and have been through the years. And, you'll fool (and entertain) magicians and laymen with them now just as you could have done, or did, back then.Over eighty items broken down into nine exciting sections. I've heard and read, many times, that there is no better handling and description of the Classic Pass than there is in Section Seven of this book. Along with eleven other passes, including the Mechanical Reverse, which has become a standard of card handling, The K-E Pass (beautiful, and so easy to do), The One-Card Middle Pass, The Dribble Pass, and more. The Eerie Spin-Out which, if you'll forgive a rusty platitude, is worth the price of the book even if you paid five times the established price. As I say in my Last Word, you'll use it for the rest of your life; there's no way you can put a price on it. You'll find easy-to-do sleights like The Natural Double Lift, The Pressure Hideout, The Invisible Reverse Transfer. The One-Card Double Lift is an exquisite fooler. So is The Optical Sandwich, The Miracle Multiple Peek and, oh - The Magic Bullet! There's One-Hand Stop - the spectator 'stops'at his own card, The Impromptu Haunted Deck and The Front Tilt - and Force-Eps, The Fan Steal, The Squeeze Steal, The Broadside Steal. Do you like to practice? Well, Section Eight includes Bottom, Center, and Second Deals - Ken's handling, my teaching (if that means anything to you). I've added my two or three cents with an idea or two of my own and with my inevitable Afterthoughts. I could go on and on, but I won't. I've had so many calls, requests, for this book through the years, but it wasn't available. Aren't you lucky - it is now! |
Card College is a modern classic. It is without a doubt the most important work on sleight of hand with cards. This is the first volume in a series of five. The speciality of this electronic book are its 89 video clips, which show how Giobbi executes each and every technique described. This ebook has also been nominated as a finalist in the prestigious EPPIE 2004 ebook award in the category non-fiction/how-to. This is the first magic book to be nominated for a non-magic book price. Please note that there are significant differences between the latest printed edition of "Card College 1" and this ebook, beside the video clips this ebook has a somewhat different selection of chapters than the print version. Beside the chapter differences between the paper edition and this ebook, Giobbi added about 20 new pages to "Card College 1" since the latest printing. There have been numerous additions particularly to the 'Final Notes' and 'Check Points' sections. Chapter 1 has a new section on the card case.You might think that opening a card case is a trivial matter. Not so, says Roberto, who disects this process into its smallest part and gives you plenty of good reasons why you should know all these details. A new routine 'Further than that...' was added to Chapter 5 'Force Techniques Part 1'. And finally the 'Bibliographic Notes' have been updated and extended. So even if you have already "Card College 1" the book, there are plenty of reasons why you want to have this ebook. The inclusion of several dozens of video clips extends and completes the description of moves and techniques and allows the student a deeper and quicker learning. Altogether 89 video clips are present. These show Giobbi's hands without any comments, since one can find all comments already in the text. It would anyway be futile to try to capture all written information as a monologue in video. Video clips have to be understood as an addition and not as standalone. Each form of expression is used in its most efficient way. With the written word one can provide a lot of searchable details and present them in a clear and precise manner. Illustrations capture important moments and positions. And video clips convey the timing and motion of a technique. Video clips also allow one to acquire a basic understanding and overview in a few seconds. |
This Is Not Your Father's "Self-Working" Card Book! From the author of Card College , the world's most acclaimed course on sleight-of-hand card magic, comes Card College Light, Roberto Giobbi's first text focused entirely on professional caliber card tricks requiring no manipulative skill. For whom is this book intended? It is for beginners, of course—but by no means in total. This book is intended for everyone who has always wanted to perform card tricks, but who didn't have the time necessary to learn complex routines, or the years necessary to master difficult techniques. So, yes, this book is certainly meant for beginners. However, it is also directed at those who are already proficient in the craft. Card College Light is in a class apart from other books that focus on sleightless card tricks. When it comes to artistic considerations—interpretation, staging, communication and psychology—other books seldom even recognize such concepts. Card College Light strives to remain as simple as possible, yet to identify concepts and to open doors that put sleightless tricks into the context of artistic and utterly baffling card magic. Although other books consider the same type of material, their approaches to it are quite different from Giobbi's. Most of the tricks taught are from Mr. Giobbi's active professional repertoire, with which he baffles the public and magicians, too. Every trick can be done with any deck of cards of average quality, and many can be done under all performance conditions, with a borrowed deck and no preparation. With these sleightless tricks, you can easily acquire a reputation as a magician who can really make magic. When It Comes to Great Card Magic There Is More to the Secret Than Just the Secret! Countless books on card magic promise tricks that "require no skill" and are "easy to do" or "self-working". They expose the method behind the tricks, but they fail to explain how the tricks are made genuinely amazing. Card tricks that allow the fingers to remain idle require that their methods be cunningly protected through presentation and psychology, which in turn amplify the feeling of real magic. Without these things, all you are left with are mere puzzles. Giobbi brings his widely respected talents as both teacher and full-time performer to bear on tricks he has selected from time-tested classics and little-known modern miracles by world masters, taught with a thoroughness that includes psychology, presentations, scripts and invaluable performance tips. 21 Tricks - 7 full routines! Giobbi has also organized these tricks into powerful routines, which teach the reader how organization and combination can be used to make good tricks even more inextricably baffling. These lessons serve not only the beginner, but also the advanced card-magician who wishes from time to time to include a trick wherein the audience can stare relentlessly at the fingers without discovering a thing. Pages 170 - Hardcover |
Roberto Giobbi's Acclaimed Course On Sleight-Of-Hand Card Magic! Never before has a course in card magic been so thoroughly illustrated for clarity and ease of learning. Clear, engaging, detailed writing is coupled with over 1,200 professional drawings to aid the student in attaining mastery over a deck in the shortest possible time.Card College contains up-to-date developments in the craft, giving the reader the best methods for creating amazement with an ordinary deck of playing cards, ranging from classic sleights and ruses to the most sophisticated modern techniques. Card College is the first course of its kind written by a full-time professional magician, consisting of material selected from his own repertoire. Giobbi offers his readers hard won knowledge obtained through experience, and teaches the best sleights, methods and tricks, along with the psychology, misdirection and theory essential for successful card magic. Giobbi has selected only the best sleights and handlings from thousands of books on the subject, saving his readers countless hours of research and wasted effort spent on inferior approaches and ideas. Card College is written as both a course for the beginning student and a retraining course for the experienced card magician who wants to improve their skills. Volume 1 Overhand Shuffle, False Cuts, Hindu Shuffle, The Glide, Key Cards, Riffle Shuffle, Forces, Top Change, Double Lift, and more Volume 2 The Glimpse, The Crimp, False Cuts, The Pass, Flourishes, Palming, False Counts, Double Turnover, and more Volume 3 Biddle Steal, Breaks, Steps & Injogs, Card Controls, Advanced Double Lifts,Faro Shuffle, Side Steal, Color Changes, and more Volume 4 Forcing Techniques, False Deals, Deck Switches, Flourishes, Advanced Passes, Laping and more Volume 5 begins with a meaty chapter of new techniques and strategies then diverges from the established Card College formula. Judging that the reader now has more than a sufficient number of tools in his grasp, Mr. Giobbi provides eight chapters filled with tricks and routines that illustrate how various techniques are applied to create world-class card magic. These effects, however, are not mere constructions meant for teaching. Most have been drawn from Roberto Giobbi's professional repertoire-and because of this, even the classics of card magic are given a fresh gleam as Giobbi adds refinements won from years of performing experience. Making Secret Setups, False Shuffles, Obtaining Duplicate Signatures, Quick Tricks, Openers and Routines with the Aces, Favorite Effects, Gambling Demonstrations, Mental Mysteries All in all, Volume Five features 34 professional-caliber routines that have astounded audiences the world over. |
Large format - 125 pages 12 Chapters - 50+ tricks 150+ illustrations by Joseph K. Schmidt.
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Imagine having a card signed and inserted into the deck, stopping when the card is sticking out of the deck 1/8th of an inch, so the spectator can see it (his actual card), going in. The card is pushed in the rest of the way, then the spectator is asked to name a number between 1-15. You, without ANY cuts, shuffles or 'moves' of any kind, legitimately count to the named number and find the signed card! This, and dozens of other miracles, are taught in this two volume, 176 page set of books. Volume one contains the updated and reformatted text. Volume two contains over 1,050 line art illustrations by the author. |
Card Duperyby J.K. Hartman When Hartman meets your deck, first he will teach it to talk—then he will teach it to lie! Seven years in the making! J. K. Hartman's newest collection of card magic—more than 90 tricks, routines and sleights—over 400 pages and 600 illustrations! The published history of J. K. Hartman's card dupery began in 1969 and has continued unabated for thirty-eight years, producing along the way three large, significant, and widely respected works: Card Craft, After Craft and Trickery Treats. In the seven years since the appearance of the last Hartman tome, the creative mills have continued to turn, resulting in CARD DUPERY, a collection of more than ninety new card tricks, routines, and sleights. The well-known Hartman touch is ever-present in this new compilation of astonishing effects made possible by elegantly direct methods, extraordinary cunning, and moves within the skill range of the intermediate card-magician. What is more, the ideas and sleights embedded in these duperies have a utility that will inspire the reader toward fresh creations of his own. If this book feels heavy in the hand, it isn't just the paper; there is deep thought and high entertainment packed inside, all carefully and fully explained, with the aid of more than 600 drawings by one of magic's greatest illustrators, J. K. Schmidt. In these pages you will have delivered to your hands such events as these— • Someone is asked to separate a mixed deck into black cards and reds, dealing the cards face up—but with his eyes closed. When he opens them, he sees what everyone else has been watching: the piles he has created are a random jumble of colors and he has utterly failed. Or has he? The performer reveals that he has assembled the cards from two decks—and his helper has somehow perfectly separated the cards by their different back patterns! • Two spectators are each asked to think of a card as the performer spreads through the deck. The cards are shuffled and held behind the performerÃs back. As he brings out one card at a time, one of the spectators silently spells the name of the card he thought of and slaps his hand down on the card dealt as the last letter of its name. When he turns it up, it is his mental selection! The cards are shuffled further and the second spectator pushes a cocktail sword anywhere into the deck, only to find it lodged exactly where his thought-of card lies! • Anyone shuffles the deck, cuts it in half and gives one half to the performer. Both of them look through their cards and think of one. The performer shows his selection to someone else to keep things fair. He then deals the top card of his packet face down onto the table, after which the spectator deals his top card face up. They continue to deal cards, the performer always preceding the spectator. When the spectator deals his thought-of card face up, he announces it. The other spectator names the performerÃs card and, when the top card of his dealt pile is turned up—this card having been dealt just before the spectator dealt his—it is the performer's! • The performer spreads through a face-up deck, showing it to be in completely random order. Then, without a suspicious move, he widely spreads the deck on the table, showing that the black cards have suddenly separated from the reds! These effects are the scantest sampling of the wonders in CARD DUPERY to be discovered by you and enjoyed by your audiences. Pages 400 - Hardbound with Dust Jacket |
Imagine....
It may sound obvious, but it is this simple realization that makes magic as a performing art possible in the first place: Evoking the feeling of impossibility does not require actually doing the impossible. However, it will always require a team-effort. A fiction is created in somebody's mind. Equipped with those marvels called human perception and the human mind our spectators play a necessary and active part in the process. All that we performers do is to provide adequate input. Then we lean back and relax as the spectators themselves spontaneously and effortlessly complete the job and create fascinating, impossible - magical - fictions. What People Are Saying: "High-caliber thinking at its best. Highly recommended" – Michael Close "This stuff is beyond clever" – Max Maven "Somebody like Pit Hartling comes along only once in twenty years – at best" – Roberto Giobbi "Quite simply one of the best card books I've read in years" – Simon Aronson |
For the card technician who appreciates the new moves and subtle touchesthat make card magic look impossible. Sleights explained include new passes,changes, cuts, turnovers, palms, switches, and innovative moves. Also a chapter on Marlo's Controlled Faro-Riffle Shuffle is included. Book concludeswith a selection of beautiful card routines. |
Basic text on modern card conjuring describes for specialists and amateurs alike exact methods for perfecting the Instant Reverse, Three Queens Monte, The Ambitious Card, and many other sleights of hand. Also includes advice on manipulation, the art of presentation, audience participation, use of patter, and much else. Clear explanations and detailed drawings enable performers to add polish and excitement to any presentation. |
Intended for the advanced card worker, this book is heavily illustrated to explain some of the more difficult sleights.You will learn; The Pass, Side Steal, Palming, Double-Lift, Changes, False Dealing, False Shuffles and more. Paul then teaches many great tricks using these sleights. The book is considered one of the most valueable texts oncard sleights. It should be a part of any serious card workers library. softbound 217 pages |
The Card to Wallet effect is one of the strongest possible close-up effects with cards. Properly performed, it is incomprehensible to spectators. Ungimmicked wallets are featured in one large chapter of the book. Other chapters are devoted to many of the fine gimmicked wallets available including Himber Wallet, Mullica Wallet and LePaul Wallet. Methods described range from those requiring virtually no skill to more advanced methods that require familiarity with basic card handling methods. |
For those who have been looking for the first 5 books that Jerry Sadowitz and Peter Duffie published through Martin Breese - there is good news. All five books have been reprinted in one volume called CardZones. These are:
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The first volume of the real world Cardician Trilogy, John Racherbaumer's Cardfixes is a thought provoking collection of fresh tricks and ideas for today's cardman. Designed for everyone who loves card magic, whether they perform, watch, collect or simply read about what's happening here and now in the field. There are tricks requiring no skill, some skill,and exceptional skill. There are miracles with and without gaffs. Hardbound, over 200 pages, more than 50 items, and sumptuously graced with 156 crystal-clear photographs, Cardfixes combines top quality production with professional state-of-the-art magic. |
Cards on the Table contains some wonderful card magic. New plots, new methods, all with the distinctive Sadowitz flair for ingenuity. If you haven't used any of Jerry's material before, this book will convince you why Jerry is regarded as a highly talented cardician on both sides of the Atlantic. Cards on the Table contains a variety of effects including Fetch which is an animated card discovery which you will use as soon as you read it. There is much more including Name a Card Triumph. When Jerry did this trick for us for the first time we asked him to repeat it. The card was located so fast we thought it must be coincidence. He did it five or six time more times but each time, from a shuffled deck and Jerry could produce any card named within seconds. Cards on the Table - Soft back - contains 25 items in all. Top class card magic by Jerry Sadowitz. |
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