Thursday 24 November 2011

Jeff Kaylor & Michael Ammar - Any Signed Card To Any Specators Wallet REVIEW

Basic Effect:
Any card is chosen, signed, & placed back into the deck. The spectator takes out his wallet,
His signed card is found in his wallet!

Ok so I am going to break it downin the review with the: PACKAGING, INSTRUCTIONS,QUALITY and SKILL LEVEL AND OTHERS.
 Review

PACKAGING: So what you recieve is a cardboards wallet type of thing and your DVD and Gimmick inside. It is nicely package and the DVD fits nicely into a small compartment. Your gimmick is lying inside next to the DVD.

INSTRUCTIONS: The instructions are filmed from a spectators point of view and is  narrated by Jeff Kaylor. The DVD its self only last for 20 minutes but the gimmick is pretty self explanitory. You will get used to the gimmick very quickly and will be performing it in no time!

QUALITY: The quality on this DVD is phenomenal. It is crystal clear HD and covers every angle you need. The performance camera is also very good. It is filmed by  Dalton Wayne and a few others.

SKILL LEVEL: The skill level on this is, on a scale from 1-10 I would have to give it a 5/10. It is easy to use and control but maybe a little hard to get the card into the wallet or any other location.

OTHERS: I would just like to say the price for this DVD and Gimmick is very good considering what you get and how many possibilties there are with this UTILITY. I highly reccomend you go pick this up at your favourite magic dealer as this will enhance your card magic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_czVK6vDg4

So that's it for just now, I hope this was helpfull and i'll see ya next time !
---
Liam

Saturday 5 November 2011

CRUSH by Eric Ross REVEALED !

Effect:
On your command, cause an ordinary, borrowed bottle to collapse.

Method:
It's VERY simple the gimmick is an invisible fairy who is stuck to the inside of the bottle, completley coverd by the label. When you bring out the bottle, you slightly shake the bottle and this gives the invisible fairy the command to, in a few minutes pull his elastic strap which is connected to him and stuck to the opposite side of the bottle and when he pulls it the two sides come together, this giving the illusion the bottle is crushing in front of the spectators eyes !
You can give out the bottle straight after the magic has happend as the invisible fairy and the strap is invisible !
You can get invisble faries from your local invisble shop that sells everything invsible.

Reccomended Suppliers:
I reccomend going to this website to order your invisble fairy: www.thebestinvisblefairies.invisi.web.com
They have the best and to get the invisible strap you use the same site ! They only cost 1.00 fairy pieces and are very good quality.



I hope you can use this GREAT effect!

Yea, the method IS ingenious !

Saturday 16 April 2011

Sigillum Diaboli by Alan Rorrison

This is my first review of a DVD/Trick so sorry for any review mistakes ( if they exist ).

I recently purchased this DVD from Jamie Daws for a great price
and it was very much worth the money.

The DVD is produced by BBM ( Big Blind Media ) so the production quality is second to none.

The trick its self is a variation the classic Card Warp by Roy Walton where half the cards turns over in an odd fashion. This version of the Warp is very visual and happens in one hand held between two fingers. The teaching by Alan himself is very clear and easy to follow. It is split up into the phases so you can choose which phase you want to watch. The DVD also includes 2 bonus tricks one is a card transpo using the Sigillum Diaboli method and one is a nice little coin trick using a polo sheet where a coin appears from the silver sheet.

This is one of my favourite tricks to do quick as it requires very little set-up and can be set up in less than 10 seconds.

The only negative thing about this is in the the bonus routine the coin trick uses a silver sheet from a packet of polo sheets and this isn't included and some people may not have access to this. But that is very minor and the rest of the DVD overtakes it,


Overall Rating :- 9/10
Production Quality :- 10/10
Skill Level :- Intermediate
Awesomeness:- 10/10

If you haven't already seen the performance of it here it is below :)

Wednesday 16 February 2011

Key Points In Magic

In this post I will basically be telling you what I personally think key points in all types of magic are.

One of the most important points in magic is, Audience interaction, Interacting the audience in any
type of magic may it be, close up, stage, street, coins, cards etc is important.
Some things you could do to get the audience involved is to do even just small things like
give signed cards away as a souvenir or giving out PROPS to be INSPECTED,
even just small audience interaction will help enhance your magic routine and the audiences experience
with you.

Another KEY point is to plan and practice. If you are doing say a stage show, Plan your patter and
plan some gags and plan what to do if something was to go wrong during performance.
(Hopefully not !).
Also practice I know it's cliché but practice makes perfect !.
Practice your tricks in front of a mirror then just get the basics down and build from there.

So that was just SOME key points in magic which I personally think are very, very important
whether your doing stage magic to street magic.

 Thanks For Reading :)

---Liam ;)