The theory behind the silk in balloon effect, is in two parts. Usually it is an effective vanish where you show the silk at the fingertips. Then, using known methods, you vanish the silk handkerchief.
There has been a clear balloon resting on a cup-like pedestal and the magician picks it up and it is held between two hands.
The magician then shakes the balloon and the vanished silk re-appears.
My contention is that the silk should be vanished at the same time the silk in the balloon appears. More-so, the vanish should appear as though the silk visibly penetrated the balloon.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Poor Man's Amputation by Magic Ian
Effect: a man is seen to place his arm in a mitre board as a magician places a cloth in front of his arm. The man then shows a miter saw and places it in the miter board slot and saws. The blade is seen to go to its lowest slot.
The magician then walks away from the man whose arm seems to be missing, yet his fingertips are seen still at the end of the cloth.
The magician then moves the cloth back the blade is removed, and the cloth is drawn back to reveal the mans arm is back.
Needed: one miter board set with blade and a seance cloth with gimmick.
Modification needed. The back of one half of the miter board is cut away.
Blocking and movement: as the magician covers the forearm of the man, the man bends his elbow and aligns his arm with his other one, his fingers are in his armpit. The magician holding the seance cloth has the feke at the top left of the bar, his arm crosses his body and extends to the right of the cloth exposing his fingers as if they are the mans fingers.
The miter blade is placed in the slot. The magician then moves to the right of the man.
The entire process is reversed, and after the blade is removed, the man extends his arm in the track once again. The magician pulls his hand behind the cloth timed to the revelation of the real forearm.
The magician then walks away from the man whose arm seems to be missing, yet his fingertips are seen still at the end of the cloth.
The magician then moves the cloth back the blade is removed, and the cloth is drawn back to reveal the mans arm is back.
Needed: one miter board set with blade and a seance cloth with gimmick.
Modification needed. The back of one half of the miter board is cut away.
Blocking and movement: as the magician covers the forearm of the man, the man bends his elbow and aligns his arm with his other one, his fingers are in his armpit. The magician holding the seance cloth has the feke at the top left of the bar, his arm crosses his body and extends to the right of the cloth exposing his fingers as if they are the mans fingers.
The miter blade is placed in the slot. The magician then moves to the right of the man.
The entire process is reversed, and after the blade is removed, the man extends his arm in the track once again. The magician pulls his hand behind the cloth timed to the revelation of the real forearm.
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