This Misdirection Lesson will teach you an important lesson in the usefulness of misdirection. You will perform misdirection by teaching your audience about misdirection … if that makes sense. You will get what I’m trying to say by watching the video.
‘It’s magic time’ is a simple, self working card trick that only requires that you follow the procedure that is guaranteed to work EVERY TIME. ‘It’s Magic Time’ is a fun and easy magic trick for magicians of all skill levels as it involves no sleight of hand at all. This removes all the stress that comes with the possibility of failing and getting a trick wrong. Just follow the steps correctly and you can sit back and enjoy the same feeling by even the most experienced magicians. It’s the feeling that comes when you know you are in control of your audience.
The CSI magic trick is a fun trick that features the Jack of Hearts. The idea for this magic trick came from a book titled ‘Edwin’s Finale’ by Edwin Hooper. He had a trick called ‘Rhyme a Ree’ which was his take on the classic story deck, most widely known as Sam the Bellhop.
I messed around with the concertina deck that Edwin used in his magic trick and I was thinking of other uses for the cards instead of remaining just playing cards. When Edwin held the cards it looked like a detective holding his badge when identifying himself. I then thought the King, Queen and Jack cards could be used as a series of mug shots. My initial idea was to have a card chosen from the deck, and then show a series of the ‘mug shot’ cards while saying “does he look familiar? What about her? What about this one?” ect.
This torn and restored paper trick is an original presentation that I have called the Smart Feller Trick. The paper tear has been around forever, so I take no credit for that. The presentation of the Smart Feller trick is all original and it serves as a good example of how I create presentations (as modest as they are).
Firstly, I simply write notes about things that are amusing, quirky or catch my attention in some way. I then put these notes into folders that I then keep. It can be years before I return to these folders to look through them. I was looking through one of these folders recently and I stumbled upon a list of spoonerisms I had been accumulating.
