USDAmazing Tricks for the Urban Magician
This book covers everything from lighting a match twice to floating on air two different ways!!
These days magicians have to work hard to keep their public happy. The traditional figure on stage, in sweeping tailcoats and top hats, hat gone, usurped by a cooler and edgier trickster taking their own brand of magic to the streets.
In Street Magic, Gary Sumpter offers readers a wide range of tricks that will wow the public up-close and personal. From impressive effects involving everyday objects, such as coins and rubber bands to playing cards, he moves on to mind magic and stunning illusions to confuse the street-willed and scare the strong of stomach, with useful tips and advice throughout.
Wherever you go – pubs, clubs, markets, restaurants – Street Magic will give you everything you need to entertain, perplex and baffle audiences everywhere.
Awesome Effects
Restoration – Tear a card into four pieces the fuse them back together.
The Dexterous Disappearance – Make a card disappear into thin air.
Cost of Living – Change a high volume note into a low value note & back again.
Two-to-One – Melt two rubber bands into one.
Match Revival – Bring a dead match back to life.
Finger Flash – Light a match using nothing but your fingers.
Ashes – Make an amazing prediction appear from the flames.
Vanishing Thought – Vanish a card that the spectator is only thinking of.
Lift up – Remove a spectator’s strength without touching them.
Impaled – Push the prongs of a plastic fork through your fingers.
Glassed – Smash a bottle and eat the evidence.
Street Levitation & The Jacket Levitation
This book also contains info on flourishes, card shooting, one-handed cut, coin roll, and even more effects not listed! There is even a section on starting and establishing yourself and a word about those pesky hecklers.
There is a need for street magicians, even more today than ever!
