Finger Foods
The Unusual Close-up Stylings of R.T. Starke
A combination of some earlier work, and some other things that have not beenpublished. Close-up magic, off beat thinking, EASY to do. Here are some of theitems included:
The Whole Miracle: A card is selected, signed and sandwiched between twojokers. All three cards have holes punched through them and a ribbon is fairlythreaded through the holes. All three cards are cleanly and clearly shown to bethreaded on the ribbon, The cards are clipped together and seen to dangle fromthe ribbon. A Flick of the wrist and the signed, selected center cardpenetrates the ribbon without damage! The card can be given out as a souvenir!
Nailed And Screwed: Here's an unusual effect- A small block of wood isdisplayed. There is a small hole drilled in the center. The performer takes ahammer, and short nail, which may be examined, and nails the nail into theblock of wood. The performer then has everyone concentrate on the head of thenail. He wipes it with his thumb and the nail head suddenly changes in to aSCREW HEAD.... The performer then uses a small phillips head screwdriver toremove the (Nail transformed into a ) screw from the wood! Great lead in forother effects.
UPC Miracle: Winner of a Linking Ring Award! A deck of cards, each witha bar code on the back, is used to cause a blank deck to: first print a freelyselected card, unknown to both performer and spectator; then to cause theentire blank deck to become printed in the exact same order as the Bar Coded Deck;lastly a "glitch" in the system causes one of the cards to getprinted in a crazy fashion combining cards from the entire deck into one. Acomplete card "act" that can play several minutes. No difficultsleights, but it WILL take some setup and practice.
Stapled Card Mystery: Similar to an old marketed effect, but using notgimmicks and no where near as expensive. Performer has spectator select a cardwhich is shuffled into the deck. The Joker is shown and slide sideways into thedeck so it forms an X shape. A Stapler is set atop the deck, and then slammeddown. Performer grabs sideways Joker and lifts top half a deck. A tilt revealsthat a card is now STAPLED to the joker. The card is of course the selectedcard. The joker and selected card are taken apart by tearing the joker off, allis now clean and can be handed out!
1..2...3...ZAP! A Selected card penetrates the card box, and ends up threadedon the middle of a ribbon held tight by a spectator. Also includes a bizarreversion with Tarot Cards!
Items are all simply explained with illustrations, easy to make gimmicks, verybasic sleights and subtleties! Focus on developing your presentation!
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