Removed the piece from my mouth (an extra little spitball I'd had there since he returned from the bathroom), put it in my straw, and shot it past his head into the booth behind him. I ripped the corner off my placemat, placed it in my mouth and chewed it up. When my friend returned I waited a bit and offered to show him a trick. My friend went to the bathroom and I set the trick up so the corner would appear inside a plastic table display card holder thingamajig (I don't know what it's called - one of these things) in the booth behind my friend. Then I set my soda glass on the prepared corner of the placemat. Late last night I was at a Denny's and I did it with the paper placemat. (Unless you say, "Watch as I remove the front card from this stack of business cards.") Your hand blocks where the card is coming from, and no one is paying too much attention at that point. And it looks like you're just grabbing the front, normal card of the stack. Keeping the prepped card second in the stack keeps it from being found immediately. (For example, it might appear back at his apartment in place of the bookmark in the book on his nightstand.) And now I've had time to get the corner in an even more impossible location. So I can come back weeks later and potentially be set-up to go into the trick. But the nice thing is, very few people are taking the manager's business card at a Chipotle (or most places, for that matter). Then if I find an interesting place for the corner to end up, I can perform the trick. Prep the card, put it back in the display second from the face. It's almost a habit now when I see business cards on display. In the time it took for my friend to pay I set it up so the second card in the stack was ready to go and the piece was set-up to penetrate into my water bottle (i.e., jammed in the cap). Pull the page out, tear a piece off, and have that piece go anywhere.Īt Chipotle recently they had a stack of business cards by the register. Flip it open and hold it for them while they sign the top page (holding it in a way that disguises the set-up). I've done Angle Z with a pocket-sized notebook. I took a few extra seconds looking for "the perfect leaf" but that time was forgotten after the trick was concluded. The only problem was finding the correct leaf again. We walked out there and as we did I put the piece in my mouth without her seeing. She pointed to one area which I interpreted as being the tree I had set-up. I set up a leaf on each tree and had each piece in a different pocket of my jeans. In the trick at the top, there were four areas of trees in the backyard with leaves that were within reach. I just transfer the same method to whatever objects are around me. I can't remember if Daniel mentions any non-card uses in his download but I actually almost never use it with playing cards. It's not the type of thing that holds up to multiple viewings on line or something like that, but in the real world-when the spectator doesn't know what's coming-it fools people completely. In fact, I think magicians may tend to think it's too simple. I can't go into the details of the handling here, and you may think $30 is too expensive for a download, but for me it has been completely worth it. I may bust Daniel Madison's balls for the fake gambler stuff, but he's a super talented magician and this is a simple but very useful method. Today's effect/technique is Angle Z by Daniel Madison. I've mentioned a few of these techniques before (they're listed at the bottom of this post), but I thought I would officially start compiling the toolkit for anyone else who might be interested. To be a technique included in the toolkit it has to lead to effects that can be done completely spontaneously or with a set-up that can be done without any special tools while someone is taking a shit. Some of the effects I generate require a bit of a set-up, including the one mentioned above. In this case, I'm not defining a particular trick, but a stable of techniques and I'm using impromptu in the non-magic sense of, "suddenly or hastily prepared." These are things I find helpful to have in my head in order to create magic on the fly. In the same way the FDA has determined what the word "light" means when applied to a products label. I've argued that in magic advertising, the world "impromptu" has-or should have-a specific meaning.
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