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Mark the Balloon Guy New user Tampa Bay Florida 27 Posts |
This may sound strange .... but often I will get a kid or an adult that says I know a trick.
They proceed to show the pulling the finger off trick (no not the pull my finger trick) I say great as I palm my T.T. I do the same thing except after a dramatic pull I casually toss the TT in the air like a coin. then when I notice their jaw dropping I mock jamming it on my finger while putting on opposite hands thumb.
Mark Byrne
AKA Mark theBalloon Guy "Bad to theBalloon" |
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Matt Graves Special user Huntsville, Alabama (USA) 504 Posts |
Well that rabbit thing is pretty spiffy but I'm just curious . . . was Cardini the one who started all that rabbit-from-the-hat stuff? Are there any tapes of his old shows or anything?
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Tricky Regular user 108 Posts |
Some great ideas. For MXJoKeR, I have the problem of it being to full too. I bought my TT off a site where it had measurements, so I measured my thumb and bought one but I forgot allowance to fit stuff in there, just the right size and of course I can barely fit anything in it
james |
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Peter Marucci Inner circle 5389 Posts |
Serling asks: ". . .was Cardini the one who started all that rabbit-from-the-hat stuff?"
Actually, it was a French magician, Louis Comte, in 1814 who did the first recorded pulling of a rabbit out of a hat. His routine was probably based on a sensational story of a few years earlier in which an English girl claimed she had given birth to rabbits. It was on everyone's lips at the time and Comte was quick to capitalize on the news event. (BTW, it wasn't true; the girl faked it.) cheers, Peter Marucci showtimecol@aol.com |
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MatthewBlackwell Regular user England 140 Posts |
MxJoKeR mentions that he sometimes has some trouble keeping the TT on if it’s too full. I used to have this problem too – and found that a silk, in expanding - would push the TT off.
Now I tend to work *with* the silk rather than *against* it. Use the last corner of silk (or whatever) to get pushed into the TT as a wedge and really jam the thing onto your thumb. It takes a certain amount of practice judging how much of a corner to leave: too little and it won’t wedge; too much and you have a red corner poking out (not that they’d usually catch this in anything I do). I always have a TT on me. It’s like a watch in that I feel uneasy without it. I always think to myself that with a TT in my pocket I’m pretty much invincible. Last summer, on holiday, when I decided to enter an open cabaret night at a pub (having no props with me) my TT was indispensable – replacing the usual pull for my vanishing lit cigarette closer. That, combined with a mind-reading card routine (and an opener of which I forget) was very successful. Really, if it came to it – Corinda’s 13 steps, a pack of cards, Expert Card Technique, a TT and Darwin’s 101 TT tricks is all you ever need in magic. Everything else is bonus. Cheers, Matthew Blackwell |
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Geoff Williams Special user St. Pete Beach, FL 617 Posts |
Another favorite TT effect is David Williamson's "Rebate" (from the book "Williamson's Wonders") where money is shaken out of (and, later, replaced into) the cap of a pen.
At the beginning and the end of the routine, the pen is shaken and the sound of coins rattling around "inside the cap" is very convincing.
"Saját légpárnás tele van angolnák."
(Hungarian for "My hovercraft is full of eels") |
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TheAmazingDamon New user 16 Posts |
No one seems to mention the TT on here so.... I have taken the plunge and here is one of mine.
Up here in Norway, we have these edible, small shiny balls used for cake decorations that load up the TT nicely. So after lots of hand waving, etc... I snatch at thin air and produce a stream of them straight into the waiting hands of any younger audience members. It always goes down well. regards The Pianoman I would be very careful about putting unwrapped hard candy into a TT and then handing it out to kids. So many germs can build up and the last thin you need is getting a kid sick. I would never ever allow my kid to swallow unwrapped candy from any stranger. |
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