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Tom Cutts
Staff
Oakland, Ca
4068 Posts
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Posted: Mar 23, 2008 5:38pm
Well, the long awaited new DVD from the originator of Healed and Sealed is finally available... and it ROCKS! You get so much more than just the basic effect.
The original handling has been tweaked and upgraded PLUS there is a new hands off method which is totally sick! (That still means great right?  )
The DVD is also fun to watch as Anders displays his quirky, sometimes dry, sense of humor in presentation and production.
If you don't know the effect of this magic trick, an empty soda can is crushed and drained of the last drops of soda. The magician then causes the can to uncrush and even reseals the pop-top magically. It really is closed! The can is opened again and soda is poured out once more. It amazes me how right on cue people gasp when they hear the soda can pop open again. This has a truly stunning impact on audeinces.
See for yourself: http://www.andersmoden.com/
Disclaimer: As one of the first two people to actually work with this effect many years ago some of my handling appears on this DVD.
Cheers,
Tom
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KurtK
Regular user
Rosemount, Minnesota
164 Posts
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Posted: Mar 23, 2008 5:40pm
Does it have a different method? Or just tips on top of the original effect.
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Tom Cutts
Staff
Oakland, Ca
4068 Posts
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Posted: Mar 23, 2008 5:43pm
The original method is not hands off, so that hands off method is new. In today's market many would have given this hands off method a new name and released it as a different trick, simliar but different. Anders has delivered the two together.
Cheers,
Tom
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MagicSanta
Inner circle
Northern Nevada
4975 Posts
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Posted: Mar 23, 2008 8:51pm
I got it Tom! I'm gonna watch it tonight.
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mballen11502
Loyal user
Memphis, TN
201 Posts
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Posted: Mar 23, 2008 9:11pm
I own the original version of this effect. It has to be one of the greatest effects of all time. The science behind the effect is genius. I'll have to wait to hear more about this new version though before I spend the cash.
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MagicSanta
Inner circle
Northern Nevada
4975 Posts
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Posted: Mar 23, 2008 10:17pm
My father, engineer/geologist/physics dude, used the same method not as magic but to demonstrate a principle to us back in the 70s.
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Tim Jahn
Special user
South Florida
911 Posts
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Posted: Mar 23, 2008 11:43pm
Well I finally broke down and ordered this. I don't have the original and I was just wondering if both methods are taught in this or just the newest.
Thanks,
Tim
Andrew, (ASW)
The effects on the DVD and lecture notes are far beyond your abilities. (They require mastery of the mechanic's grip.) It would only break your heart.
Sincerely,
Darwin Ortiz.......(This post has got to be in my top 5.)
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gitty
Special user
Vienna, Austria
526 Posts
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Posted: Mar 25, 2008 1:55pm
I LOVE this DVD!
You can see a lot of tips and different handlings!
I still have the original booklet but the DVD is a winner for this effect!
WALTHER
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r1238ex
New user
87 Posts
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Posted: Mar 28, 2008 5:16am
Is there any demo for hands off method effect?
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Tom Cutts
Staff
Oakland, Ca
4068 Posts
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Posted: Mar 28, 2008 4:15pm
http://www.andersmoden.com/
1:20 into the video demo. Toss the can hand to hand. Yes, you can set it down and walk away then it reheals, but would that be more magical?
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daffydoug
Inner circle
Daff could give a rats butt that he has
9006 Posts
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Posted: Mar 28, 2008 5:12pm
Any tips on this about how to make the "hole" more convincing? I never was crazy about the original method for that part.
Word of the day- abligurition: extravagance in cooking or serving 
ambisinister: clumsy with both hands
Please visit Daff's word blog at   http://gerch.blogspot.com/
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Anders Moden
Regular user
157 Posts
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Posted: Mar 30, 2008 1:41pm
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On 2008-03-28 17:12, daffydoug wrote:
Any tips on this about how to make the "hole" more convincing? I never was crazy about the original method for that part.
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Yes. I'm just counting in my head now, but I think there are at least five or six different methods for that part on the DVD. Maybe even seven, depending on how you count...
Any questions that may spoil the method, I'll be happy to answer by PM.
Thanks for the review, Tom!
Healed and Sealed v2.0
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wayno
Veteran user
Canada
323 Posts
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Posted: Mar 31, 2008 7:11pm
Anders, we spoke about this DVD release about 3 years ago now? It was a very long wait indeed, but after grabbing a copy in my shipment for my library, I am very happy with the results. You have outdone yourself. 
I just wish you could have lit a fire under your ass to have gotten it out sooner before that MM knock-off ran rampant. Heh.
Hope you're doing well.
Sincerely,
Wayne Stevenson
The SpookClub
Wayne Stevenson
The SpookClub
http://www.spookclub.com
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dreamadream99
Regular user
Central Alberta, Canada
133 Posts
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Posted: Mar 31, 2008 10:30pm
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On 2008-03-28 17:12, daffydoug wrote:
Any tips on this about how to make the "hole" more convincing? I never was crazy about the original method for that part.
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Got this a few days ago. There is one method I just LOVE. You are completely clean throughout the illusion. Nothing to palm or ditch. No suspicious moves. I was worried about this method looking realistic, but after just one test, I was convinced. Everyone I have shown this to was completely fooled.
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Bill Beach
Loyal user
Ohio, USA
282 Posts
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Posted: Apr 3, 2008 7:50pm
I just received by copy today, ordered from Anders just last weekend. Great service, to Ohio, USA, from Sweden in less than a week! I've been doing Healed and Sealed for years, since the orginal manuscript came out. This DVD is full of tips and suggestions I wish I'd have thought of, it certainly is well worth the investment. Even watching the credits made me laugh!!
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dreamadream99
Regular user
Central Alberta, Canada
133 Posts
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Posted: Apr 3, 2008 7:57pm
It's nice to see a version 2 come out with handlings, tips and presentation ideas from users. I'm constantly amazed at how a trick gets enhanced and evolves in the hands of clever and innovative purchasers.
And kudos to the inventors, who take the good ideas, include them in their re-releases crediting the originator.
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fib
Inner circle
1416 Posts
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Posted: Apr 3, 2008 9:28pm
Stick with me on this, but I don't think the "opening" in the can looks like real at the start. I had trouble with this when I got it at its first release. This is such a great idea that there has to be something to make that part of the top of the can look open. Maybe enhancing an open "effect" through sound: like pouring coins in and out and shaking the can with a rattle box. I don't know.
fib
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MagicSanta
Inner circle
Northern Nevada
4975 Posts
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Posted: Apr 3, 2008 9:56pm
I've not watched the new DVD yet but let me present something that perhaps some of you may want to ponder. Magic often occurs in the mind of the spectator. You can pick up a can that appears to all to be collapsed and say "loooooook, loook, the top IT IS OPEN! I...yes I...shall now cause this can, a normal consumed can of soda....to FILLLL! Fill fill yess yess fill....I call upon the powers of Merlin to filllll thissss cannn!", or the street verson "look look can can". If you do that they might notice the top. Now consider this presentation, as I would. Pick up a can and look at it, when people look at what you are doing they see a crushed can and you can not do anything at all to the top and the mind will tell the spec "hey, if the can is crushed it must have been opened and the contents drunk, has to be" and then you make the can whole again and pop the top. That is the effect, it is suppose to be presented in an impromptu type maner.
Get the difference? There are magicians and have always been that will do things like have an item in plain view on stage then pick it up and make it appear from a silk and no one will know where it came from. The workers understand this, the non workers won't....
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jstone
Inner circle
You wish you had
1412 Posts
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Posted: Apr 3, 2008 10:14pm
MagicSanta,
I bow to your wisdom. Seriously. It's evident that you are a real worker. I've read tons of your posts, and they are always insightful. You make some very good points about presentation. So simple, yet soooooooooooo neglected.
Thanks again for another and always enlightening post.
Jeff Stone
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MagicSanta
Inner circle
Northern Nevada
4975 Posts
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Posted: Apr 3, 2008 11:45pm
Thank you, I appreciate it. I am a firm believer that there is a strong line between doing tricks and performing magic rather than a fine one. It is pretty easy to learn tricks but to look at it from the perspective of a lay person and of an artist who uses the power of words and movement as well as comedy, drama, and music. It really is a cool thing and I'm one of those guys who believes you can have a great effect but it has to be presented at the right time and if that time doesn't come, well, you leave it in your pocket. Healed and Sealed is just a great effect do do in a non typical performing setting, I actually think it loses impact if you combine it with other magic.
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Mints
New user
16 Posts
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Posted: Apr 4, 2008 10:18pm
Does the trick uses any gimmicks?
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MagicSanta
Inner circle
Northern Nevada
4975 Posts
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Posted: Apr 4, 2008 11:43pm
You should be good to go w/out getting but one item at a normal store.
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Mints
New user
16 Posts
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Posted: Apr 6, 2008 9:08am
Thank you for your reply, MagicSanta.
Eh, got another question before I buy this, do I have to cut the can with a penknife or something? Cause I don't really bring a penknife with me. If it's exposure, can the mods please delete this?
Thank you.
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daffydoug
Inner circle
Daff could give a rats butt that he has
9006 Posts
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Posted: Apr 6, 2008 11:07am
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On 2008-03-31 22:30, dreamadream99 wrote:
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On 2008-03-28 17:12, daffydoug wrote:
Any tips on this about how to make the "hole" more convincing? I never was crazy about the original method for that part.
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Got this a few days ago. There is one method I just LOVE. You are completely clean throughout the illusion. Nothing to palm or ditch. No suspicious moves. I was worried about this method looking realistic, but after just one test, I was convinced. Everyone I have shown this to was completely fooled.
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That has been the main problem. I never thought the hole was "convincing". I had a fear of getting busted because of this. So I shied away from performing the effect. PLUS, I also thought that if the can was left in some spot, waiting to be "discovered" by me, that by the time I got to it, the "you know what" that made the hole stick on may have dried up, thus leaving the possibility of the "hole" falling off in the spectator's sight! That would be a definite bust!
I tried everything I can think of. Post it sticks, you name it. I also tried different materials to make the hole. I just never scored. Many times the natural condensation on the can screwed things up for me.
Word of the day- abligurition: extravagance in cooking or serving
ambisinister: clumsy with both hands
Please visit Daff's word blog at http://gerch.blogspot.com/
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meilechl
Special user
Henry VIII
613 Posts
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Posted: Apr 6, 2008 6:26pm
In the demo it looks like he can only pour very little, unlike in the original method, when a full can could apparantly be poured out at the end.
When I used to do it I used to present it using two cans, one diet coke and the other regular. I used to say something along the lines of, I asked someone to get me a drink but he got me this (hold uo the diet coke), we all know that dietcoke is rubbish (open it, crush it and throw it down - it had been emptied before the show), now this (pick up crushed regular coke) is good, it's a shame that it's empty...etc. etc.
Sometimes I used to ask the audience if anyone had a drink and a stooge handed me the apparantly full diet coke.
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MagicSanta
Inner circle
Northern Nevada
4975 Posts
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Posted: Apr 6, 2008 6:57pm
No, you don't need a pen knife.
Doug, your fear is what may give you away. Ever heard the expression "hide in plain sight"? The assumption is the opening is there so don't call attention to it and you don't have to do anything and it will be thought to be open.
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dreamadream99
Regular user
Central Alberta, Canada
133 Posts
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Posted: Apr 6, 2008 7:13pm
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On 2008-04-06 09:08, Mints wrote:
...do I have to cut the can with a penknife or something?
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A penknife doesn't made a very discreet opening. The DVD addresses better and more concealable methods.
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daffydoug
Inner circle
Daff could give a rats butt that he has
9006 Posts
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Posted: Apr 6, 2008 7:15pm
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On 2008-04-06 18:57, MagicSanta wrote:
No, you don't need a pen knife.
Doug, your fear is what may give you away. Ever heard the expression "hide in plain sight"? The assumption is the opening is there so don't call attention to it and you don't have to do anything and it will be thought to be open.
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Perhaps you're right. Nevertheless it's still my fear.
Word of the day- abligurition: extravagance in cooking or serving
ambisinister: clumsy with both hands
Please visit Daff's word blog at http://gerch.blogspot.com/
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dreamadream99
Regular user
Central Alberta, Canada
133 Posts
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Posted: Apr 6, 2008 7:19pm
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On 2008-04-06 11:07, daffydoug wrote:
...I never thought the hole was "convincing". I had a fear of getting busted because of this.
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In my mind, the key is: "if you treat it like an empty can, the audience has no reason to suspect it is anything else." Think about how you handle an empty can. How you would turn it to empty it into a glass. If you treat it carefully, the audience may wonder why, and start burning the can.
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MagicSanta
Inner circle
Northern Nevada
4975 Posts
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Posted: Apr 6, 2008 7:38pm
Dreamadream99 is correct Doug.
I'll tell you how peoples minds work. When I was in the Navy I was bearthed with a bunch of scumbags who couldn't be trusted. If they knew you had money in your rack (locker basically) they would break in and rip you off. I went on a weekend trip to Daytona Beach and left my rack wide opened with money sitting in view. I figured it was a goner but when I got back it was all there...wanna know why? When the rack is closed and locked they figure you are not around, when it was open they figured that I was lurking in the shadows so they didn't dare touch it. What seemed to be was what they were living not what was. It is like putting a sign on door that says "door to remained locked at all times", people will just ignore that door and you can leave it unlocked all day. Now go, Doug, and walk not in fear but in confusion!
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