Close-Up Magic

Magicseen is pleased to announce the release of an eBook featuring the magical thoughts and routines of pro entertainer, Andrew Normansell, called The Man Who Would Be King. Readers of Magicseen will be familiar with Andrew, as there have been a couple of features on him and he has also appeared a few times answering...

This eBook contains virtually every magic effect Wayne published up to 2011, and all have the hallmarks of Wayne's creative thinking. The methods are always simple and direct, and included amongst the selection of around 100 effects are some of the tricks that helped to establish Wayne as one of the top stage, cabaret and TV magicians....

Presentation and Script are the key elements that differentiate an amateur from a professional, hobbyist from an expert, trickster from a magician.

TIMELINE works to establish just that. It is a short 3-minute close-up act, scripted and theatrical. It uses a borrowed deck of playing cards.

With only 2 basic sleights...

Effect

(Vanish/Production/Transposition/Multiplication/Transformation)

A magic wand disappears and re-appears. Then suddenly a lump of coal magically appears. The lump of coal disappears and re-appears three times and, on the third complete disappearance, it jumps into the pocket. Then the lump of coal multiplies into...

Imagine this. You walk up to your spectator and show them a list of twenty different songs. You then ask the spectator to imagine seeing its title in the air. You then ask them to sing the song in their head. The performer proceeds to successfully divine the song.

You'll learn the Flood Principle; this principle is an exciting...

Imagine this -- you leave your house without any mentalism routines and someone asks you to amaze them. You've somehow forgotten your anagrams and you want something sure-fire and snappy. Well, The Committee is the answer!

Paint this scene in your mind: You explain to the spectator that you are incredible at predicting...

Every Trick in the Book is an encyclopedic, large-format (A4), photo-illustrated publication with 600 pages of magic tricks, mentalism and mind reading routines. It even contains cold-reading and pseudo hypnosis secrets -- all written, devised, and compiled by Jonathan Royle.

This book is made up of 36 of his different eBooks...

What if you don't have ANYTHING? NADA? No pen, no paper, no cards, no phone, no wallet... Just you, your participant and an audience.

You have the opportunity to create memorable and direct mentalism! Propless mentalism allows you to create mentalism literally with nothing, just your performance and the psychological and verbal...

Pins and Needles isn't your average Russian Roulette. First of all, it's funny! Until it becomes shocking! This mix of comedy and sudden drama is guaranteed to leave your audiences highly entertained!

Most effects in this plot tend to use disposable items, such as cups or bags, making them impractical for a close-up...

Liquid Transmutation, a new and ingenious way to turn water into cold tea.

Dan Alex thought this opening routine for the stage, and in Italy, more specifically Naples, in Campania, this effect has become a real mind-blower!

The magician shows a plastic cup empty and clean, then a spoon and a bottle of water.
Pour the water...

As close to real billet-less name guess.

Imagine... In the course of a routine, during a close up performance, you get the spectator to focus on the name of someone close to them. They name a few random letters, including letters from the name. The name is not written down anywhere and exists only in their mind. And you instantly...

"We humans have a long history of using writing instruments to record and transfer our thoughts and impressions.

We magicians have a long history of gimmicking writing instruments to deceive thoughts and create magical impressions."

If each of the pens and effects in this book were sold separately at market value, the...

A sweet revelation of a selected card. The Magician offers a beverage to the spectator. The spectator selects a card and the magician explains to him that he found out that cold beverages are much better if you apply some sugar in it. The reaction of the sugar causes the sugar to form the shape of the selected card.

* Definition of Dare

1: An act or instance of daring.
2: Imaginative or Vivacious boldness.

As you read this book, "May your deceptions dare to dazzle and delight". May you find the imagination and boldness to take the mechanics of the tricks herein and fine the dynamics to make them dazzle and delight.

In this book,...

In This Manuscript You will learn two effects, one of them is my CAN effect in which I make a volunteer looses its weight, they can feel it, they can feel themselves becoming lighter and lighter till they weight less than a feather, you can prove to the audience that your spectator has indeed looses its weight, as a hypnotherapist that I...