It's crazy how you can go thru a magic book and pick it up again a few years later and wonder how the heck you missed that Gem all those other times I guess it's just where you are at that point in your magic journey. Keep up the great work and I look forward to your videos every Sunday.
You talked me into getting Ted Leslie's Param miracles at MagiFest last year. So glad you did. When that envelope is combined with "My Opening Act", by John Armstrong (the first edition of scripting Magic, page 143), It allows for an impossible outcome that can't be worked backwards. Thanks so much and thanks for your videos!
I mentioned it in the chat, but my hidden gem is Hold the Mayo from Simon Lovell's book Simon Says. It's got the potentially clichéd detectives plot for a sandwich trick and I think the middle phase is better than the climax, but I still do that trick a lot. Not an opener or a closer, but still a solid trick. I also do Reformation from Drawing Room Deceptions and several tricks from Cardshark by Darwin Ortiz...though I'm not sure those qualify as "hidden gems".
Good video, thanks. I've pulled four books from my shelves as a result (Apocalypse, Richard's Almanac, Nick Trost, and Secrets.) I particularly like this episode because it encourages me to dig into what I already have.
Thanks Jeff! Some of these hidden gems I have performed and, stupidly, no longer perform. Probably because I got mesmerized by that next new shiny, marketed trick! Great reminder to go back and look at those gems (and to check out the new gems that you mentioned!).
I think the first one doing card warp with a bill was Howard Schwarzman with Star Warp (1980) published in Apocalypse (Vol. 3 No. 7) p.361 , Michael Ammar put it on Easy to Master Money Miracles volume 1
Excellent idea for a video. Really great finds. Thank you for this. I'd love to see a video focus on Paramiracles and highlight all the great ideas in there.
Jeff, this was a lot of fun and very informative. Thank you for sharing. There are a few effects I do regularly. My favorite effect for a group doesn't even have a name. It's included in the Preface (or Introduction) of Woody Aragon's A Book in English. His effect has basically a love theme. However, I've adapted it for several different associations. Most of my versions I call Synchronicity. The effect involves tearing four playing cards in half, stacking the halves, selecting a piece, placing it aside, and then through various stages of removing, replacing , etc. get down to one remaining piece and it's revealed to be the matching piece to the part that was put aside. It's a great effect with a group of people. Two other effects I do regularly is Nick Brown's Wonderland Bill. I'm not sure if or where it might be in print. However, it's based on Robert Neale's classic effect, The Trapdoor Card just done with a dollar bill. My other regular effect I don't know the name of. I was taught it years ago by John Calvert and later found in in Martin Gardner's Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic. The effect involves tying together two straws and then pulling them apart without destroying the straws. This is actually the effect I performed for the late great comedian, Robin Williams, after one of his performance in St. Louis. Unfortunately, I am not currently home, so I'm unable to readily find the page numbers of the effects.
@@EruditeMagic I found the Impromptu Headline Prediction very interesting but I wonder about the two other participants talking. Now, I know most magicians say the old line "it never happens" but that is never comforting to new magicians.
@@EruditeMagic As I read the effect (I don't want to tip it), a committee person of the organization gets the envelope and then gives it to an audience member who preferably is a big wig of the organization
Great Video & List. "Do some of those gems" & "have done some of them in the past". Will be getting back to the "have done in the past" due to you video :)
Seems like everyone loved this episode. I wasn't hugely keen myself. It was just a list of random tricks. Without seeing the trick performed, it was hard for me to tell whether it would be any good or not and the descriptions just made them all sound -- a bit dull, really. I don't mean to be ungenerous but I always give feedback when I love an episode, so I should probably say so when I'm less enthused. Still, I'm very much in the minority here. Everyone else seemed to like it.
I liked this episode probably because I have about a third of the books. I prefer it to new book reviews (especially cards) but the man has to do what he has to do.
Please don't mind but is it wise to share where what effects are in the books ? I mean definitely you can gather some views doing that but you are stopping people from actually reading the books by just telling them the effects they should look at.. I mean your video is public and u are talking about teleport envelopes.. are you okay ? Do you even realise that it's used by a lot of genuine people who appreciate the art.. why talk about effects directly and telling people the titles ? Your videos are definitely watched by non magicians and non mentalists too.
This might be one of the wisest videos I've ever made. 😄 I can't tell you how many magicians have told me it took them back to their libraries for inspiration and learning. As a performer of the Teleport Envelope myself, I'm perfectly comfortable that if a non-magician wants to sit through a 15 minute video, it's ok that they find out that this concept exists in a book along with the chapter and verse. Thanks for sharing your concern, but I'm not worried that this video is somehow going to be a beacon for 'exposure' as your comment suggests. Instead, I think it's doing exactly what was intended - driving magicians back to their shelves to see that there are some great tricks in their libraries. Hope the same is true for you, friend!
I know this has nothing to do with this week review but interesting anyway. I was looking up a review you did in June. This review was for Afterglow by John Graham. After typing in Afterglow by John Graham I noticed they have on UA-cam "Afterglow by John Graham | Full Show" only 18 mins.
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It's crazy how you can go thru a magic book and pick it up again a few years later and wonder how the heck you missed that Gem all those other times I guess it's just where you are at that point in your magic journey. Keep up the great work and I look forward to your videos every Sunday.
Thanks, Michael!
This is your beat episode till date
HUGE RESPECT FROM 🇮🇳
Bring this Top Notch Content
Magic community needs this
Many thanks! 🙏
This is SO excellent!! Well done!
Glad you liked it - thanks!
This list could be endless...
Good choices, Jeff.
Thanks, Don! With any luck, the list *will* be endless 😉
You talked me into getting Ted Leslie's Param miracles at MagiFest last year. So glad you did. When that envelope is combined with "My Opening Act", by John Armstrong (the first edition of scripting Magic, page 143), It allows for an impossible outcome that can't be worked backwards. Thanks so much and thanks for your videos!
Yessss!
Great books thanks for sharing.
Of course - my pleasure!
I mentioned it in the chat, but my hidden gem is Hold the Mayo from Simon Lovell's book Simon Says. It's got the potentially clichéd detectives plot for a sandwich trick and I think the middle phase is better than the climax, but I still do that trick a lot. Not an opener or a closer, but still a solid trick.
I also do Reformation from Drawing Room Deceptions and several tricks from Cardshark by Darwin Ortiz...though I'm not sure those qualify as "hidden gems".
Thanks for sharing!!
This is a great subject! Please keep publishing things you've found in your library. Thanks!
You bet! Thanks for letting me know you like it 👍
AWESOME video, Looking forward for the next one !!! 👏👏👏
Thank you! 😃
More of this!! More teasers that cause us to dive into old books! Moreeeeeee.
Regards,
Adan
😂 glad you like it, Adan!
Good video, thanks. I've pulled four books from my shelves as a result (Apocalypse, Richard's Almanac, Nick Trost, and Secrets.) I particularly like this episode because it encourages me to dig into what I already have.
Thanks for the kind words, and I'm glad it served its intended purpose!
Thanks Jeff! Some of these hidden gems I have performed and, stupidly, no longer perform. Probably because I got mesmerized by that next new shiny, marketed trick! Great reminder to go back and look at those gems (and to check out the new gems that you mentioned!).
You bet, Mark! Glad this video inspired you 👍
Luved the gems and looking forward to more as well as Bob Cassidys book.
Thanks, Kalvin!
I think the first one doing card warp with a bill was Howard Schwarzman with Star Warp (1980) published in Apocalypse (Vol. 3 No. 7) p.361 , Michael Ammar put it on Easy to Master Money Miracles volume 1
Yup, another possibility!
Thank you Jeff. Your posts are excellent
You help us to be.magic literate, and i appreciate that very much
You're welcome, Don!
Excellent idea for a video. Really great finds. Thank you for this. I'd love to see a video focus on Paramiracles and highlight all the great ideas in there.
Thanks - I did a full review of the book here: ua-cam.com/video/6iY3szLlTnY/v-deo.html
So glad to hear that the Artful Mentalism book is soon to be reprinted.
Fingers crossed 🤞
Jeff, this was a lot of fun and very informative. Thank you for sharing. There are a few effects I do regularly. My favorite effect for a group doesn't even have a name. It's included in the Preface (or Introduction) of Woody Aragon's A Book in English. His effect has basically a love theme. However, I've adapted it for several different associations. Most of my versions I call Synchronicity. The effect involves tearing four playing cards in half, stacking the halves, selecting a piece, placing it aside, and then through various stages of removing, replacing , etc. get down to one remaining piece and it's revealed to be the matching piece to the part that was put aside. It's a great effect with a group of people.
Two other effects I do regularly is Nick Brown's Wonderland Bill. I'm not sure if or where it might be in print. However, it's based on Robert Neale's classic effect, The Trapdoor Card just done with a dollar bill. My other regular effect I don't know the name of. I was taught it years ago by John Calvert and later found in in Martin Gardner's Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic. The effect involves tying together two straws and then pulling them apart without destroying the straws. This is actually the effect I performed for the late great comedian, Robin Williams, after one of his performance in St. Louis. Unfortunately, I am not currently home, so I'm unable to readily find the page numbers of the effects.
Wow, thanks for sharing! Half the fun is searching for the effects, so I'll leave it to the discerning viewers to pursue what you've left for them.
@@EruditeMagic I found the Impromptu Headline Prediction very interesting but I wonder about the two other participants talking. Now, I know most magicians say the old line "it never happens" but that is never comforting to new magicians.
I'm not sure I know what you mean by the other two participants...🤔
@@EruditeMagic As I read the effect (I don't want to tip it), a committee person of the organization gets the envelope and then gives it to an audience member who preferably is a big wig of the organization
I do it with the booker. And regardless, there's nothing to give away even if they talk 🤷
Great Video & List. "Do some of those gems" & "have done some of them in the past". Will be getting back to the "have done in the past" due to you video :)
Thanks, George!
Wow what a great list!
Appreciate it!!
Wow, fantastic list. 👍😊😊👍
Just ordered 13 steps of mentalism because of your recommendation.
Love it!
I really liked this review,more please
Sounds good, highly likely
Very nice video Jeff! I enjoy a lot! I wonder what is the name of the deck that you are using in the video? It has very elegant design.
I mean the deck that was used in cutting 4 Aces
Thanks! The deck is a normal Jumbo index Bicycle Deck
@@EruditeMagic Thank you Jeff！
You're quite welcome!
Simon Aronson - Try The Impossible and Doug Dyment - Calculated Thoughts, are still available at Vanishing inc.!
Can't win 'em all - they were OOP at one point recently 😄🤷
Dang it, Jeff! Now you've given me MORE books I have to find and buy. :(
Trust me when I tell you it will never stop 😂
Nice video, thanks!
Sure thing, Courtney!
Wiw such a great list 😊👍😊👍
Thanks, Robert!
I didn't know there is going to be a reprint of Bob Cassidy's Artful mentalism, that's really great to hear! Any news of when this will be released?
Hopefully later this year or early next (based on what I've heard from Charlie Randall)
Is there a chance you could do a review of the book Channing Pollock Master of Magic by Michael Pascoe ??
No, but for a simple reason - I don't own it 😄🤷
Nooooo why did you reveal Vollmer Matchmakers Chart. Been my little secret for sooooo long.
😂 sorry friend!
Seems like everyone loved this episode. I wasn't hugely keen myself. It was just a list of random tricks. Without seeing the trick performed, it was hard for me to tell whether it would be any good or not and the descriptions just made them all sound -- a bit dull, really. I don't mean to be ungenerous but I always give feedback when I love an episode, so I should probably say so when I'm less enthused. Still, I'm very much in the minority here. Everyone else seemed to like it.
😂 thanks for your honesty, Twat
@@EruditeMagic There's something funny about that response
I liked this episode probably because I have about a third of the books. I prefer it to new book reviews (especially cards) but the man has to do what he has to do.
Please don't mind but is it wise to share where what effects are in the books ? I mean definitely you can gather some views doing that but you are stopping people from actually reading the books by just telling them the effects they should look at.. I mean your video is public and u are talking about teleport envelopes.. are you okay ? Do you even realise that it's used by a lot of genuine people who appreciate the art.. why talk about effects directly and telling people the titles ? Your videos are definitely watched by non magicians and non mentalists too.
This might be one of the wisest videos I've ever made. 😄 I can't tell you how many magicians have told me it took them back to their libraries for inspiration and learning.
As a performer of the Teleport Envelope myself, I'm perfectly comfortable that if a non-magician wants to sit through a 15 minute video, it's ok that they find out that this concept exists in a book along with the chapter and verse.
Thanks for sharing your concern, but I'm not worried that this video is somehow going to be a beacon for 'exposure' as your comment suggests. Instead, I think it's doing exactly what was intended - driving magicians back to their shelves to see that there are some great tricks in their libraries. Hope the same is true for you, friend!
I know this has nothing to do with this week review but interesting anyway. I was looking up a review you did in June. This review was for Afterglow by John Graham. After typing in Afterglow by John Graham I noticed they have on UA-cam "Afterglow by John Graham | Full Show" only 18 mins.
I'm assuming this is in reference to it being a 22 minute act? My understanding is that John skipped a part of it in the UA-cam performance video 🤷
Demo would be most impressive