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magicbenyoung New user Maryville, Tennessee 36 Posts |
I use four final loads. 3 are small rubber bouncy balls (not much bigger than the normal ones I use) but one is a soccer ball, one is a baseball, and one is a basketball. Then the final-final load is a large blue basketball.
The way I present them is I ask how many balls under the center cup. They say "one" and I show them they are correct, but it is obvious that it is a different ball. Then I say, "well it's an extra ball. And I have another one here, and another one here(lifting up the other two cups as I speak) "But in case I lose them, I always keep one more extra ball" (lift up middle cup to show the large ball." I feel they are relevant enough because I essentially act like they are exactly the same as the small red ones I used throughout the routine. I just continue referring to them as balls...which they are. Just my 2 cents. Ben |
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3526 Posts |
Bright yellow lemons contrast nicely with my dark chocolate patina'd cups and pool-table green velveteen tabletop. The visual impact, contrast and incongruity is all I care about for the loads.
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cupsandballsmagic Inner circle 2705 Posts |
Very nice! I always use lemons (fab ones) with my cocobolo cups, the picture towards the end shows the contrast really well: http://www.cupsandballsmagic.com/Joe-Por......ups.html
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gaddy Inner circle Agent of Chaos 3526 Posts |
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On 2010-05-09 16:32, mindyourmagic wrote: DUDE! we both used the word "incongruous". That's the word of the day!
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
To answer the question of the thread, I choose them carefully!
Then following David Devant, Ken Brook, Dai Vernon, etc... objects of a different nature with bright colors to enhance the surprise. Now if these can be chosen according to the audience, so much the better.
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TheAmbitiousCard Eternal Order Northern California 13425 Posts |
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On 2010-03-22 14:39, magiclimber wrote: That's reason enough.
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Payne Inner circle Seattle 4571 Posts |
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On 2010-03-21 23:02, MagiUlysses wrote: Being a renfaire performer as well I wanted something that didn't read as modern as baseballs do. I decided to go with cricket balls as they are quite unfamiliar to American audiences and the lacquered red leather and odd lacing gives them a rich and unique look. I produce three of them as well as a large silver orb, a lemon, a purse of monies, and a mechanical chick.
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
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On 2010-05-12 14:25, Payne wrote: You cannot say what follows so I'll say it for you: "these loads come at the end of one of the most superbly entertaining routine"
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Hansel Inner circle Puerto Rico 2492 Posts |
I choose it by popularity and best reactions.
In my regular chop cup routine I try any type of load that you can imagine, buy all the type, colors and shapes of balls, eggs, little coconut palms...you name it! But lemons...Lemons are Lemons!
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Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts |
I load whatever I find in my pocket...
Seriously? For 3 cups routines, I use Fab Fruit, Lemon, Turnip, Potato and Tomato. Once for an impromptu bowl routine I loaded a handfull of mashed potatoes I grabbed from the plate to my left (under serious misdirection).
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Hansel Inner circle Puerto Rico 2492 Posts |
LOL! Mashed potatoes...THAT HILARIOUS!
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pepka Inner circle Uh, I'm the one on the right. 5041 Posts |
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On 2010-03-23 00:23, magiclimber wrote: Yeah, he has everything. My thought is for a 2 cup routine, 3 loads, for a 3 cup routine, 4. It makes it so much more impossible, and the extra one is sort of a freebie since there is so much misdirection when loading the 4th one. I normally have 1 load match my small loads, usually the last one revealed, and I stall as much as possible after revealing 3 pieces of fruit. If I can't get ahold of fruit, I have 3 different colored balls that fill in. I did have Fab Fruit at one time, but they disappeared, need to reorder. |
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Bill Palmer Eternal Order Only Jonathan Townsend has more than 24312 Posts |
No. I missed out on the Pop Krieger cups, and I didn't know that Larry Jennings' widow was going to sell the Vernon cups.
But I can still hope!!!!
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J.G. the magnificent Special user Griffith Indiana 886 Posts |
Another surprising one is a ball that jumps all of a sudden unexpectedly. This is simply a lightweight styrofoam ball with a hole on the bottom. In this hole one of those toys with a suction cup on a spring attached. It suctions down to a plastic foot and after a short while it pops up. The timing takes a while to get the hand of but is a nice little bit for kids.
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HiraseMagic Special user Hong Kong 573 Posts |
Not sure if that is a bit off-topic, but I am thinking of using some paper cups to do the routine and then finally load a cup of hot coffee ( by doing a switch + lapping).
Thanks, Hirase
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volto Special user 603 Posts |
Hot coffee + lapping may end badly
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HiraseMagic Special user Hong Kong 573 Posts |
Volto,
No, I mean lap the empty paper cup and switch it with a hot coffee. Believe that you are just joking me anyway ^^ Hirase
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Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts |
Get your audience loaded, then it won't matter what you do.
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