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Anything your audience carries away from your show that reminds them of you is a good thing (except for maybe bruises). Consider making some stamps of your likeness that you can stick on playing cards, business cards or even currency.
You can either buy actual stamps using an online company that’ll put your photo on one, or use a photo editing program and a printer to make your own that you can print on to sticky back sheets.
Here’s an effect that’s either an act of precognition or spooky quantum mechanics.
This is a fun Halloween influenced trick you can pull if you happen to be running OS X Leopard with iChat and a special plugin. I know that kind of eliminates 80% of our readers, but it’s still worth a look:
This is a booklet I wrote that goes through my approach to creative thinking. As the process is described several tricks are generated along the way.
It’s also a kind of scary look inside of my mind. Be warned.
This was originally published in my book Illusiontech. It’s a simple head twister effect with the added bonus of a really messed up looking neck. Enjoy.
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
- Woody Allen
There’s a lot of truth in that both literally and metaphorically. Sometimes you don’t actually have to show up to be there. Appearing on television is one way to show up in front of lots of people. So is showing up in a mailbox.
Skype has revolutionized communication and lowered the cost of talking to someone on the other side of the world to nothing. On a broadband connection it sounds even better than a phone call.
In what could be called true sleight of hand, the magician performs a bizarre effect with his fingers.
Big Money can be used in a close up set, on stage, on the fly or as a light hearted moment while you’re being mugged.
Here’s a fun effect that can be done as a walk around effect or as a conversation starter. A borrowed ring turns ginormous* in a blink of an eye.