Here's a nice Christmas Gift that I was unaware of!!! The Imperium Envelope was also published in a free online ebook. Thanks to Larry Darbonne for pointing this out to me--> After some searching, I found through a Google search, that led me to the green pages, Mohamed Khaled's The Imperium Envelope in the free book The Anthology of Dynamic Minds compiled by William Patrick, available at Dynamic Minds website (www.dynamicmindsonline.com/).
04:36 Honorable Mention: Christopher Carter's Three Billet Routine 09:00 5) The Imperium Envelope 12:45 4) Animalistic 14:50 3) Zephyr 19:45 2) Cut to Score 22:28 1) The Structured Portrait
Just made it back to give this a watch-through, kind of breezed past it in the past. What a gem. so many killer finds in here, thanks for all your hard work!
Merry Christmas! Thank you for this list. There were one or two I was aware of but didn't know much about, so thank you for providing a genuinely useful service.
Thanks - It's definitely the best three billet effect currently available. I've seen a live performance of another REALLY good version, but it is not commercially available and requires much more sleight of hand.
I'm very grateful and honored, to mention my effect in your channel. I really hope you enjoy performing it as I do. Also I am very appreciated that you improve the effect in your way that works best for you. For anyone who owns my effect and other mentalism effects. Be sure to practice, practice and perform it many times once it becomes second nature. Also once your performing any effect, don't think about being perfect all the time and finish the effect quickly. Try to enjoy the experience and take some time to meet your audience because you never know if they had a bad day. I really believe to have a nice talk and getting to know that person. Anyways, Thank you and have a happy new year 🎉
Thanks for stopping by! I tweaked the routine, so you supposedly don't know the starting animal. It's a great effect and I'm sure many people will enjoy it!
Thanks so much for all those reviews, those are always a joy to watch and the new discoveries we make thanks to you are just amazing ! Hopefully you'll go on next year, it's so generous from you ;-)
As usual, a stellar and extremely valuable review. If you do not mind, I agree with Mr. Knight, below--what a wonderful Christmas present. How many materials would you have to go through and compare and contrast, to get a review like this? And as David noted, the best things are usually "hidden in books," not in the latest releases. You can tell that these reviews are unbiased. Why? They do not refer you to the commercial junk that often does not even work right out of the box, as in a recent item that he reviewed. But believe it or not, the paid shills for the big magic corporations keep on praising junk like those tricks! Instead, David is doing the work of a committee of 5-10 geniuses, alone. Of course magicians/mentalists do not agree on everything. But David is truly giving us the ability to find the gems in a mega haystack of questionable magic. Mentalism is even harder to judge in an objective way. But Unbiased Magic Reviews does it. We all should realize the debt we owe David!!!! Thanks again!!! Because of this masterful set of reviews (Top 5 Mentalism Effects of 2022) and some of the searching and thinking I did after seeing it, my mentalism became literally supercharged. As Mr. Hari says below--so generous of you to share this with us!!!! We all wish you the best year yet!
Thanks so much! Some of my choices may not be for everyone but my motivation is to try to provide some stuff that will hopefully be relevant and useful much farther down the road for the long term!
Hi great stuff as usual thank you and merry Christmas. Could you possibly tell me your top 5 workers you always go to from not just 2022 please ? I woukd appreciate that a lot
Those change pretty regularly but there are some super gems that are like 'old reliable' that I go back to all the time and have taken a lifetime to discover! That's a great Top 5 topic for a review.
Great review David, as usual. Thank you for traveling the smaller paths far from the magic motorways where effects pass by faster than cars … all the best an looking forward to your reviews in 2023
thanks for this review David... what a wonderful Christmas present! I have enjoyed performing each of the top 5 effects in your list. Another effect I loved reading and performing is "Three Moments in Time" by Pablo Amira in his book "Simply Mental". It uses 3 billets and a few ordinary objects that you can borrow from your spectators.
David, Just an FYI… the routine “Cut to Score” appears on page 133 in Aazan Makdoomi’s book, Mental Presentations, and is in the S**** section which some might consider to be a prop. However, the routine “Spectution” on page 71 has a similar structure using only billets which I like for this category of mentalism.
@@afk21117 Yes sir! Every serious mentalism should be using that age old device which actually isn't a prop because the spectator never sees, smells, or even should suspect it exists!
Thanks David, for this labour of love of reviewing gems in an ocean of gimmicks. Where whould you recommend buying the Panthera book. I m in Canada. Keep up the great work !
I can go over effects I purposely use with those type of people. They can be either funny or annoying, I have shut them down quickly with simple effects that they can't figure out.
One question about “structured portrait” if the spectator chooses a 3 digit number that results in the only 2 digit result possible, doesn’t that crash the trick? I’ve read and re-read Creasey’s explanations in the book and I don’t see how it will work with the resulting three digit number that Scott explains you help the spectator create. I’m being a bit vague only so I don’t give the method away…. But David--I think what I’m saying will make sense to you. If this is true, do you just not worry about it because the chances of that outcome are so small? Or am I missing something about how the trick will work in the case that the 2 digit number is created?
Mark is correct - Scott Creasey has made an error in his book. So there is a rare issue that can arise but there is an easy work around. If anyone runs into this feel free to message me.
@@MarkFeldman Mark is correct - Scott Creasey has made an error in his book. So there is a rare issue that can arise but there is an easy work around. If anyone runs into this feel free to message me.
Most of them will. The Structured Portrait can be done in multiple languages but probably not all languages. Animalistic supposedly can be done in any language although I only use it in English. The other Top 5 effects are language independent and can be done in any language.
I used to carry a DS envelope but I got lazy and now just use a regular size 1 coin envelope. If you are interested exactly how I can do that with an ungimmicked envelope, then send me an email and I will show you. There are a ton of places that you can learn how to make a DS envelope if you want something completely self-working or just use a Quiver/Himber wallet. So many options but the simplest is my choice because often I don't even have to touch the envelope ever again after I place it on the table.
hi great stuff as usual. I was thinking, would anamalistic gel well to perform right after Billet Chi from the modern mind reader series ? I think billet chi is strong but wasnt so keen on the animals premise, but if this worked with it and didnt detract then i could consider that. Thanks.
Probably not because with Billet Chi you want the person to think of an obscure animal which will make the revelation even more impossible whereas you are doing the opposite with Animalistic - you are having the person think of a common animal. It would not be easy to steer the person from one extreme to the other without it seeming that way.
I’ve picked up both structured imagery and animalistic and I have to say unfortunately I’m disappointed in both. Structured portrait I would never perform. It’s very wordy, hard for the audience to follow, and associating a detailed picture with hundreds of pixels to something so binary feels saddening. It’s pretty much feels like a calculator trick with a reveal in the form of an image. I didn’t like it at all. A 3 digit number used in the binary sense has just 8 outcomes; anyone that has done high school math will pick up on this. The only way I see this going good is you pick an easily amused spectator who is happy just to be involved in the trick and they give a good reaction for the rest of the audience to get behind. Animalistic has some potential but they failed to include a lot of the potential animals so if you use it as is you will get yourself into trouble. There is definitely some phishing so the affect can lose some of its reaction. It has some decent impromptu potential or filler and can sometimes hit big depending on the chosen animal. You can of course force the base but it feels not impactful enough to use up a force method. I’m interested in your handling to see if it improves the affect.
Structured Portrait is not good as an opener but rather something for a group that wants to see more. The procedure is dead simple and since they have a completely free choice of whatever number they use it feels fair. I have had good success with using it. Maybe it’s just not for you. Regarding Animalistic- I cleans up the effect by adding some elements to it. Send me an email if you want to learn my handling that makes it much more deceptive.
Here's a nice Christmas Gift that I was unaware of!!! The Imperium Envelope was also published in a free online ebook. Thanks to Larry Darbonne for pointing this out to me--> After some searching, I found through a Google search, that led me to the green pages, Mohamed Khaled's The Imperium Envelope in the free book The Anthology of Dynamic Minds compiled by William Patrick, available at Dynamic Minds website (www.dynamicmindsonline.com/).
i believe in Santa claus right now, thank you very much David!!!
Thank you, nice gift indeed :)
This really is mental, thanks for sharing ❤
04:36 Honorable Mention: Christopher Carter's Three Billet Routine
09:00 5) The Imperium Envelope
12:45 4) Animalistic
14:50 3) Zephyr
19:45 2) Cut to Score
22:28 1) The Structured Portrait
Just made it back to give this a watch-through, kind of breezed past it in the past. What a gem. so many killer finds in here, thanks for all your hard work!
Great list. Will have to pick some of these up. Thanks for the suggestions.
Glad you enjoyed the review and found it helpful.
Another excellent review. Great job.
I don’t know of any other review channel that selects topics based on what the community asks for!
Thanks Thom!
This is amazing. I've been waiting for this video ever since that poll went up. Thank you so much for making this video.
Glad you enjoyed the review.
Merry Christmas! Thank you for this list. There were one or two I was aware of but didn't know much about, so thank you for providing a genuinely useful service.
Happy Holidays! Glad you enjoyed the review.
Thank you for putting such hard work into this review...as are all of your reviews. Have a great year.
You too! Glad you enjoyed the review.
your videos just popped up in my feed, and they are fantastic, thanks!
Glad you like them!
What a treat! Thanks for these great suggestions!
Glad you enjoyed the review.
Thank you for your input in Christopher Carter 3 biller routine. That’s very useful information 😎
Thanks - It's definitely the best three billet effect currently available. I've seen a live performance of another REALLY good version, but it is not commercially available and requires much more sleight of hand.
I'm very grateful and honored, to mention my effect in your channel. I really hope you enjoy performing it as I do. Also I am very appreciated that you improve the effect in your way that works best for you. For anyone who owns my effect and other mentalism effects. Be sure to practice, practice and perform it many times once it becomes second nature. Also once your performing any effect, don't think about being perfect all the time and finish the effect quickly. Try to enjoy the experience and take some time to meet your audience because you never know if they had a bad day. I really believe to have a nice talk and getting to know that person. Anyways, Thank you and have a happy new year 🎉
Thanks for stopping by! I tweaked the routine, so you supposedly don't know the starting animal. It's a great effect and I'm sure many people will enjoy it!
Hello Alexander, just a short question - is the effect "language dependend"?
My favorite end of the year video. Thanks David!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks so much for all those reviews, those are always a joy to watch and the new discoveries we make thanks to you are just amazing ! Hopefully you'll go on next year, it's so generous from you ;-)
Glad you enjoyed the review.
Thank you sir. Always learning due to your research and passion to find out what is out there :)
Glad you enjoyed the review.
Another incredible list, happy holidays
Happy holidays!
Great list and nice golden nuggets! 🔥
Glad you enjoyed the review.
It looks like I'll be buying myself a large box of late Christmas presents.
Merry Christmas and many thanks for your videos David
Happy Holidays!
So helpful. I will definitely be checking out a couple of those effects. Many thanks David.
you're welcome!
As usual, a stellar and extremely valuable review. If you do not mind, I agree with Mr. Knight, below--what a wonderful Christmas present. How many materials would you have to go through and compare and contrast, to get a review like this? And as David noted, the best things are usually "hidden in books," not in the latest releases. You can tell that these reviews are unbiased. Why? They do not refer you to the commercial junk that often does not even work right out of the box, as in a recent item that he reviewed. But believe it or not, the paid shills for the big magic corporations keep on praising junk like those tricks!
Instead, David is doing the work of a committee of 5-10 geniuses, alone. Of course magicians/mentalists do not agree on everything. But David is truly giving us the ability to find the gems in a mega haystack of questionable magic. Mentalism is even harder to judge in an objective way. But Unbiased Magic Reviews does it. We all should realize the debt we owe David!!!! Thanks again!!! Because of this masterful set of reviews (Top 5 Mentalism Effects of 2022) and some of the searching and thinking I did after seeing it, my mentalism became literally supercharged. As Mr. Hari says below--so generous of you to share this with us!!!! We all wish you the best year yet!
Thanks so much! Some of my choices may not be for everyone but my motivation is to try to provide some stuff that will hopefully be relevant and useful much farther down the road for the long term!
Very appreciative of your efforts on our behalf. Thank you
It's my pleasure
Excellent review...thanks, David!
Thanks!
Great review, will need to look into some of these books. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed the review.
Great review! Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome!
Another unbiased review without any agenda. Thanks David.
That's how we roll! =D
Hi great stuff as usual thank you and merry Christmas. Could you possibly tell me your top 5 workers you always go to from not just 2022 please ? I woukd appreciate that a lot
I second this
Those change pretty regularly but there are some super gems that are like 'old reliable' that I go back to all the time and have taken a lifetime to discover! That's a great Top 5 topic for a review.
Merry xmas David
Merry Christmas
Great review David, as usual. Thank you for traveling the smaller paths far from the magic motorways where effects pass by faster than cars … all the best an looking forward to your reviews in 2023
Glad you enjoyed the review!
Great, thank you! I think, you should still make a "Best Card Magic" video! ☺
Lots of projects in the works… I will definitely consider it.
Thanks David for the amazing Christmas Gift
Great recommendations as always👏
You're welcome!
Excellent reviews 😊👍😊👍
Thanks Robert.
thanks for this review David... what a wonderful Christmas present! I have enjoyed performing each of the top 5 effects in your list. Another effect I loved reading and performing is "Three Moments in Time" by Pablo Amira in his book "Simply Mental". It uses 3 billets and a few ordinary objects that you can borrow from your spectators.
I will take a look at that - Thanks for the heads up.
David, Just an FYI… the routine “Cut to Score” appears on page 133 in Aazan Makdoomi’s book, Mental Presentations, and is in the S**** section which some might consider to be a prop. However, the routine “Spectution” on page 71 has a similar structure using only billets which I like for this category of mentalism.
@@afk21117 Yes sir! Every serious mentalism should be using that age old device which actually isn't a prop because the spectator never sees, smells, or even should suspect it exists!
Thank you David for taking the time to share. ❤
Glad you enjoyed the review.
Thanks David, for this labour of love of reviewing gems in an ocean of gimmicks. Where whould you recommend buying the Panthera book. I m in Canada. Keep up the great work !
You can get it directly from Lulu here: www.lulu.com/shop/jack-goldstein/panthera/hardcover/product-m9w6w9.html?page=1&pageSize=4
@@UnbiasedMagicReviews 🙏
Merry Christmas!!
Merry Christmas.
David,Can you make a video on how to deal with hecklers or what effects to perform for these kind of people.
I can go over effects I purposely use with those type of people. They can be either funny or annoying, I have shut them down quickly with simple effects that they can't figure out.
@@UnbiasedMagicReviews please make a video then or tell us those effects.
Can you make " Book Of The Year" or "Magic Product Of The Year" as per what you have bought
If I see more interest on this channel I might create a review like that.
One question about “structured portrait” if the spectator chooses a 3 digit number that results in the only 2 digit result possible, doesn’t that crash the trick? I’ve read and re-read Creasey’s explanations in the book and I don’t see how it will work with the resulting three digit number that Scott explains you help the spectator create. I’m being a bit vague only so I don’t give the method away…. But David--I think what I’m saying will make sense to you. If this is true, do you just not worry about it because the chances of that outcome are so small? Or am I missing something about how the trick will work in the case that the 2 digit number is created?
Mark is correct - Scott Creasey has made an error in his book. So there is a rare issue that can arise but there is an easy work around. If anyone runs into this feel free to message me.
@@UnbiasedMagicReviews thanks. I will write you privately.... maybe be you can show me where I'm going wrong.... thanks
@@MarkFeldman Mark is correct - Scott Creasey has made an error in his book. So there is a rare issue that can arise but there is an easy work around. If anyone runs into this feel free to message me.
@@UnbiasedMagicReviews thanks David- your work around is awesome. A great “out” that will show you are a true mind reader!
thanks for sharing David. Will the effects work in another language?
Most of them will. The Structured Portrait can be done in multiple languages but probably not all languages. Animalistic supposedly can be done in any language although I only use it in English. The other Top 5 effects are language independent and can be done in any language.
@@UnbiasedMagicReviews Great, I started with Scott Creasey, very nice and aldo his MMM books. Would you like to share your adaptations on Animalistic?
@@riesp8517 Just send me an email
What’s your EDC for the MO envelope at the end of structured portrait?
I used to carry a DS envelope but I got lazy and now just use a regular size 1 coin envelope. If you are interested exactly how I can do that with an ungimmicked envelope, then send me an email and I will show you. There are a ton of places that you can learn how to make a DS envelope if you want something completely self-working or just use a Quiver/Himber wallet. So many options but the simplest is my choice because often I don't even have to touch the envelope ever again after I place it on the table.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
Hello
Do you know what is the French title of lexicon please ?
No idea. I don't speak Le France.
hi great stuff as usual. I was thinking, would anamalistic gel well to perform right after Billet Chi from the modern mind reader series ? I think billet chi is strong but wasnt so keen on the animals premise, but if this worked with it and didnt detract then i could consider that. Thanks.
Probably not because with Billet Chi you want the person to think of an obscure animal which will make the revelation even more impossible whereas you are doing the opposite with Animalistic - you are having the person think of a common animal. It would not be easy to steer the person from one extreme to the other without it seeming that way.
@@UnbiasedMagicReviews oh ok that makes sense. Thank you
Can you do The Structured Portrait over zoom?
Yes - if you want to.
@@UnbiasedMagicReviews thanks. I'll check it out.
Love top 5 lists. Lol
They are fun to put together.
Anybody knows where to get the Zephyr one-billet which-hand/DD routine? Kinda got confused w that part. Thanks!! 😃
It's in Julien Losa's Billets for the Modern Mindreader Vol 4 video, available at magic stores.
You can pick it up from Penguin Magic.
Got it! That's why I can't Google for it! Thanks so much!
I’ve picked up both structured imagery and animalistic and I have to say unfortunately I’m disappointed in both.
Structured portrait I would never perform. It’s very wordy, hard for the audience to follow, and associating a detailed picture with hundreds of pixels to something so binary feels saddening.
It’s pretty much feels like a calculator trick with a reveal in the form of an image. I didn’t like it at all. A 3 digit number used in the binary sense has just 8 outcomes; anyone that has done high school math will pick up on this. The only way I see this going good is you pick an easily amused spectator who is happy just to be involved in the trick and they give a good reaction for the rest of the audience to get behind.
Animalistic has some potential but they failed to include a lot of the potential animals so if you use it as is you will get yourself into trouble.
There is definitely some phishing so the affect can lose some of its reaction. It has some decent impromptu potential or filler and can sometimes hit big depending on the chosen animal.
You can of course force the base but it feels not impactful enough to use up a force method. I’m interested in your handling to see if it improves the affect.
Structured Portrait is not good as an opener but rather something for a group that wants to see more. The procedure is dead simple and since they have a completely free choice of whatever number they use it feels fair. I have had good success with using it. Maybe it’s just not for you. Regarding Animalistic- I cleans up the effect by adding some elements to it. Send me an email if you want to learn my handling that makes it much more deceptive.
a nice a
Thanks.