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Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts |
Joe Stevens told me the cups will include a DVD of Johnny Paul teaching the routine and the sponge balls.
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walid ahumada Special user sinaloa, mexico 892 Posts |
Will you make them only in brass as before?
“Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.” BEN OKRI quote
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Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts |
Brass it is.
Posted: Nov 10, 2007 5:13pm You can always take them out and have nickel plated - I did a few, it's not expensive.
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Mr. Muggle Special user 999 Posts |
Thanks for the tip about the nickel!
"Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it because you're not really looking. You don't really want to know the secret... You want to be fooled." - The Prestige (2006)
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ttorres Special user Rock Hill, SC 513 Posts |
Jerrine,
I know what you mean. On one hand by doing the same vanish the same way everytime you are being congruent and nothing is out of place. In other wolds, being natural. But on the other we are in essence repeating the same trick over and over. What a dilemma. Thanks, Tony
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Bill Palmer Eternal Order Only Jonathan Townsend has more than 24312 Posts |
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On 2007-11-10 08:30, ttorres wrote: So much of it depends on context. I think that you should use the same vanish for all the parts of the first phase. Then vary it a little during the later phases. I wouldn't vary the vanishes just to be doing so.
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RS1963 Inner circle 2734 Posts |
Both the Vernon Routine and Ammar routines are very good. I have not worked on the Ammar routine but several years ago had used the Vernon routine for awhile.
The routine I have used for many years was suggested to me By Michael Skinner. That routine is the Charlie Miller routine that can be found in the Bruce Elliot book Classic Secrets Of Magic. The routine has the performer going to the pockets for the loads. I sometimes wondered if My audience sometimes could figure out that the loads where coming from the pockets. That is until this happened: I was performing for a group of Cub Scouts and after My show I had over heard two scouts talking about the cups&balls. They were discussing where the fruit that appeared under the cups came from. One said to the other. "I have no idea where the fruit came from, They could not have come from his pocket!" The other agreed. So I must have been doing something right! I'm not sure if that means that everytime I have performed the routine no one has figured out the pockets have been where the loads where kept. I have never heard anyone give that explanation as of yet. I'm sure it could happen however. |
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fortasse Inner circle 1201 Posts |
But if not the pockets, where else? If you're not wearing a gibeciere and you're not performing behind a table with a servante or the like, where do you think the audience thinks the balls are loaded from (assuming that the audience thinks about it all) ?
One of the things I like about the Ammar routine is that the relationship between the "trips to the pockets" and the final (phased)loading is a lot more subtle than in the Vernon routine. This subtlety - IMHO - ends up deepening the mystery (yes, mystery, not confusion) for the audience as to where those final loads came from. Fortasse Fortasse |
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RS1963 Inner circle 2734 Posts |
That's it really. If you handle going to the pockets with the right reasons, timing and misdirection there's no reason for the audience to think they came from the pockets.
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