Preparing For Your Children's College Education
You should have money set aside for emergencies, because as your children get older and you establish your home, the unexpected expenses will come more frequently. If you don't have emergency funds set aside, those expenses can cause major stress in your marriage.
You also want to continue funding retirement and savings plans. This is the ideal time of life to begin setting aside money for your children's college education. For example, if at a child's birth you started depositing $100 per month in a savings account for his or her education, you would have deposited $21,600 by the time the child turns eighteen. However, through the magic of compounding, if that money had earned an average of 12 percent per year (which is not unrealistic), you would have accumulated $75,786 toward that college education (before taxes). That would pay for four years at almost any college in America today. (It may not in eighteen years, but it would today.) If you made a one-time deposit of $5,000 at birth and it grew at 12 percent compounded annually, the fund would be worth $42,893 (before taxes) at the end of eighteen years.
There are many ways to save regularly for college education. Mutual funds offer investment programs in which your bank account can be drafted each month for a certain amount - as low as $50, depending on the fund. If you start early and have an eighteen-year perspective, you'll be able to weather the ups and downs of market cycles, and many funds have exceeded 12 percent annual return over a long time period.
Company savings plans and whole life insurance policies bought for the child at birth can also be good alternatives for college savings. The real issue is not so much the investment vehicle as it is the discipline of saving. You won't give up today's desires for future benefits unless you have a long-term perspective.
By making these recommendations, we're not saying that every child has to go to college or that you should pay for 100 percent of your children's college education. What we are saying is that if you want your children to go to college and you want to pay for that, starting early is the easiest way to do it. Waiting until kids are college age is extremely difficult.
The above advice steps from great experience of families all over the country. There are hundreds of thousands of couples who have put four and even five or more of their children through college by properly planning. To wait until your children are in college to begin saving for that education might ease financial pressures in the short term, but it will definitely compound the pressure in the long term.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Family Values: Are you sacrificing your family for your career?
Family Values: Are you sacrificing your family for your career?
Do you want to know what the worst feeling in the world is to a man or women who is working hard to create a better life for themselves? It is when we take a step back from our work and realize that what we consider to be the most important element in life, our family, is getting pushed down the list of important things and being ignored altogether. When this situation has been going on for a long time, virtually undetected, some family relationships get ripped at the seams.
I will never forget the night that this very same realization happened to me some years ago. I was spending days, even weeks, on the road working hard to close bigger and bigger accounts for my sales position. One night on the road I was in my motel and received a call from my wife. She was reminding me to be home early the next day to attend my daughter's big play at her local junior high school.
There was just one problem. The next day was my chance to close a huge deal that I was working on for months. I was sideswiped when my prospect called me back that very night, before I talked with my wife. The client wanted to meet and I was in his area by chance working on another deal.
I couldn't pass it up. It meant earning an extra thousand dollars per month if I got this sale and I felt that my family was just too important to pass it up. I'm getting to the worst part now, and that is that I lied to my wife and daughter on the phone when I said that I would be there. I already knew that my work was going to come first by signing up this big account, but I didn't have it in me to tell them over the phone. I knew that I was going to sign the deal, make a lot of money, miss my daughter's big day, and then make up an excuse why I was not there.
Now considering that I was already doing very well and considered pretty successful at the time, that night was a very low point in all areas of my life. I realized then and there that I was putting aside what matters to me the most, my family. And they were loosing faith in me, not expecting me anymore, not caring, breaking away...
The next morning I woke up and realized that I wouldn't have been able to live with myself had I gone through with the appointment and missed my daughter's special event. Money cannot replace love and family. I phoned my appointment and totally expected this man to hang up on me and find another company to do business with. However, I told him the truth. I explained that my family needed me and that I understand if he wants to do his business elsewhere with someone that is more reliable.
That was the day that I made the right decision to put my work aside and be there for my family, and risk loosing the “big account” that I was after. Needless to say the business man that I had to cancel on respected what I had to say, and he even rescheduled the meeting. One week later I successfully signed the deal. Moral of the story? Put your family first, work hard in between, and success in all areas of your life will follow.
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Do you want to know what the worst feeling in the world is to a man or women who is working hard to create a better life for themselves? It is when we take a step back from our work and realize that what we consider to be the most important element in life, our family, is getting pushed down the list of important things and being ignored altogether. When this situation has been going on for a long time, virtually undetected, some family relationships get ripped at the seams.
I will never forget the night that this very same realization happened to me some years ago. I was spending days, even weeks, on the road working hard to close bigger and bigger accounts for my sales position. One night on the road I was in my motel and received a call from my wife. She was reminding me to be home early the next day to attend my daughter's big play at her local junior high school.
There was just one problem. The next day was my chance to close a huge deal that I was working on for months. I was sideswiped when my prospect called me back that very night, before I talked with my wife. The client wanted to meet and I was in his area by chance working on another deal.
I couldn't pass it up. It meant earning an extra thousand dollars per month if I got this sale and I felt that my family was just too important to pass it up. I'm getting to the worst part now, and that is that I lied to my wife and daughter on the phone when I said that I would be there. I already knew that my work was going to come first by signing up this big account, but I didn't have it in me to tell them over the phone. I knew that I was going to sign the deal, make a lot of money, miss my daughter's big day, and then make up an excuse why I was not there.
Now considering that I was already doing very well and considered pretty successful at the time, that night was a very low point in all areas of my life. I realized then and there that I was putting aside what matters to me the most, my family. And they were loosing faith in me, not expecting me anymore, not caring, breaking away...
The next morning I woke up and realized that I wouldn't have been able to live with myself had I gone through with the appointment and missed my daughter's special event. Money cannot replace love and family. I phoned my appointment and totally expected this man to hang up on me and find another company to do business with. However, I told him the truth. I explained that my family needed me and that I understand if he wants to do his business elsewhere with someone that is more reliable.
That was the day that I made the right decision to put my work aside and be there for my family, and risk loosing the “big account” that I was after. Needless to say the business man that I had to cancel on respected what I had to say, and he even rescheduled the meeting. One week later I successfully signed the deal. Moral of the story? Put your family first, work hard in between, and success in all areas of your life will follow.
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Eight Steps On How to Get Hired
Eight Steps On How to Get Hired
Nowadays getting hired is very difficult. It is more than just passing a resume, applying and forever hoping to get hired. Well it is time to stop hoping and start really getting hired.
Here are the steps on how to get pass job searching and start working.
Self Analysis
To start job searching you must first analyze yourself on what you want to be. You can be a Bum, an Entrepreneur, a Young Professional, or a Student Seeking Higher Studies. If you choose to be a Bum, Entrepreneur or a Student then you should stop reading this article and continue to pursue the career path that you chose. However, if you choose to become a Young Professional continue reading because all the information you need to get hired is in this article.
Preparation
Why do we need to prepare before job searching? Because Companies/Employers are very selective and among the numerous number of applicants they have they will choose the most deserving and who will make their company more productive. They are not looking to teach you, they are looking to get instant results from you. The other reason is competition, if you had an experience in working you may have a distinct advantage but nevertheless it is still the Companies/Employers that will have the decision when hiring an applicant.
Looking For a Company
Where do we look for a company that are hiring? A lot of companies post their job vacancy in, for example, newspaper ads, radio, TV, job fair, employment agencies, Internet, and if your University has College Placement Office they can provide you a job vacancy listing also. Another way of looking for a company is through Networking, when looking for a company you must always be resourceful; ask the people you know that is working for a company if they have an opening. When you find a company then you must prepare for the next step.
Resume
Books, magazines and the internet are the example of the resources you can get on how to make a presentable resume but the only point is be true to on what you will write. Don’t put on your resume what you do not know.
Cover Letter
Just like in making a resume there are a lot of resources in how to make a cover letter. Before you make a letter make sure that you know where to send the cover letter that you will make. It should be either on the Human Resource Supervisor or the Employer.
Interview
If the Company/Employer called your for an interview, you must also prepare for it. Again, why do we need to prepare? As I have written earlier companies are very selective. So what do we need to prepare?
Check Company
Why do we need to check the company? If you where ask by the interviewer what do you know about the company? What do you think your answer will be? It is much better if you know the history of the company as well as the product or services that they offer to their clients. You don’t exactly need to know all the information of the company, just a bit of knowledge about them is well enough.
What is the Job About?
You don’t apply for a job not knowing what the job is all about. It is foolishness in your part to apply for it. Before applying for the job position make sure you qualify for the requirements the company is asking for.
During the interview, the interviewer may it be the Human Resource Supervisor or the Employer will not just look at your credentials in your resume but also your personality as well. You must show the interviewer maturity, right attitude, and presentable appearance. It is important to make yourself presentable because you are offering your services to them and if they see you not well dressed they may think that you take their company for granted.
If you comply with what the company needs and they believe that you will be an asset to them in terms of productivity of their company. Automatically you will get hired and the very next day you can see yourself working in the company.
But if you see yourself not get hired, the answer lies in you; The Company doesn’t necessarily want you but you just don’t want to get hired, just as plain as simple as that.
Mark Louie Tobias is an Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Specialist for OZ Free Online Job Search.For more Details of his work please visit, Job Search Listing
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Nowadays getting hired is very difficult. It is more than just passing a resume, applying and forever hoping to get hired. Well it is time to stop hoping and start really getting hired.
Here are the steps on how to get pass job searching and start working.
Self Analysis
To start job searching you must first analyze yourself on what you want to be. You can be a Bum, an Entrepreneur, a Young Professional, or a Student Seeking Higher Studies. If you choose to be a Bum, Entrepreneur or a Student then you should stop reading this article and continue to pursue the career path that you chose. However, if you choose to become a Young Professional continue reading because all the information you need to get hired is in this article.
Preparation
Why do we need to prepare before job searching? Because Companies/Employers are very selective and among the numerous number of applicants they have they will choose the most deserving and who will make their company more productive. They are not looking to teach you, they are looking to get instant results from you. The other reason is competition, if you had an experience in working you may have a distinct advantage but nevertheless it is still the Companies/Employers that will have the decision when hiring an applicant.
Looking For a Company
Where do we look for a company that are hiring? A lot of companies post their job vacancy in, for example, newspaper ads, radio, TV, job fair, employment agencies, Internet, and if your University has College Placement Office they can provide you a job vacancy listing also. Another way of looking for a company is through Networking, when looking for a company you must always be resourceful; ask the people you know that is working for a company if they have an opening. When you find a company then you must prepare for the next step.
Resume
Books, magazines and the internet are the example of the resources you can get on how to make a presentable resume but the only point is be true to on what you will write. Don’t put on your resume what you do not know.
Cover Letter
Just like in making a resume there are a lot of resources in how to make a cover letter. Before you make a letter make sure that you know where to send the cover letter that you will make. It should be either on the Human Resource Supervisor or the Employer.
Interview
If the Company/Employer called your for an interview, you must also prepare for it. Again, why do we need to prepare? As I have written earlier companies are very selective. So what do we need to prepare?
Check Company
Why do we need to check the company? If you where ask by the interviewer what do you know about the company? What do you think your answer will be? It is much better if you know the history of the company as well as the product or services that they offer to their clients. You don’t exactly need to know all the information of the company, just a bit of knowledge about them is well enough.
What is the Job About?
You don’t apply for a job not knowing what the job is all about. It is foolishness in your part to apply for it. Before applying for the job position make sure you qualify for the requirements the company is asking for.
During the interview, the interviewer may it be the Human Resource Supervisor or the Employer will not just look at your credentials in your resume but also your personality as well. You must show the interviewer maturity, right attitude, and presentable appearance. It is important to make yourself presentable because you are offering your services to them and if they see you not well dressed they may think that you take their company for granted.
If you comply with what the company needs and they believe that you will be an asset to them in terms of productivity of their company. Automatically you will get hired and the very next day you can see yourself working in the company.
But if you see yourself not get hired, the answer lies in you; The Company doesn’t necessarily want you but you just don’t want to get hired, just as plain as simple as that.
Mark Louie Tobias is an Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Specialist for OZ Free Online Job Search.For more Details of his work please visit, Job Search Listing
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The Tricky Connections Of Magic And Stage Presence
The Tricky Connections Of Magic And Stage Presence
When a performer learns his skills, he knows that part of those skills is his ability to control his audience’s interest. This can be done through perfect incorporations of confidence, focus, projections, facial expressions, attention, etc.
Along with any performer, magicians know how important it is to have stage presence. In fact, it is the single most elusive factor that they need whenever they perform on stage or in any shows.
However, as simple as it may sound, acquiring or learning the art of stage presence is no easy job. Acquiring stage presence involves a continuous learning process, where every magician should gain knowledge on combining all the needed skills in order to hook the audience’s attention.
So for those who want to learn how to obtain stage presence, here are three easy steps that will definitely catch the audience’s interest and keep them glued to their seats:
1. A good performer knows the role
When it comes to performance, those who knows how to portray their roles best are those that are greatly applauded.
Why? Because they perform as if it is their true personality. In this way, the audience will be able to feel the reality that exudes from every move and every word that the performer delivers.
For magicians, owning the role is defined on how he defines his character. A good magician should know where he gets his “power,” convictions, thoughts, the things he has learned, etc.
2. Get real!
Stage presence is all about projecting reality. Even if 100% originality can't be achieved, the important thing in order for a magician to gain stage presence is to appear as real as possible.
Even if it has been a well-known fact that magic is just an illusion, to create a realistic view on stage is one area that will put the audience in astonishment and admiration.
Moreover, even if all the tricks of a magician are copied from the works of others, it is still important to create an original work that will distinguish him from the others.
3. Love the craft
Stage presence is all about learning to love one’s craft. Therefore, magicians should learn how to love their craft by being knowledgeable on what they do. If the audience can see how expert the magician is, chances are, their attention will be more focused on the show.
Indeed, magic and stage presence is such an important combination in order to keep the audience completely glued to their seats.
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When a performer learns his skills, he knows that part of those skills is his ability to control his audience’s interest. This can be done through perfect incorporations of confidence, focus, projections, facial expressions, attention, etc.
Along with any performer, magicians know how important it is to have stage presence. In fact, it is the single most elusive factor that they need whenever they perform on stage or in any shows.
However, as simple as it may sound, acquiring or learning the art of stage presence is no easy job. Acquiring stage presence involves a continuous learning process, where every magician should gain knowledge on combining all the needed skills in order to hook the audience’s attention.
So for those who want to learn how to obtain stage presence, here are three easy steps that will definitely catch the audience’s interest and keep them glued to their seats:
1. A good performer knows the role
When it comes to performance, those who knows how to portray their roles best are those that are greatly applauded.
Why? Because they perform as if it is their true personality. In this way, the audience will be able to feel the reality that exudes from every move and every word that the performer delivers.
For magicians, owning the role is defined on how he defines his character. A good magician should know where he gets his “power,” convictions, thoughts, the things he has learned, etc.
2. Get real!
Stage presence is all about projecting reality. Even if 100% originality can't be achieved, the important thing in order for a magician to gain stage presence is to appear as real as possible.
Even if it has been a well-known fact that magic is just an illusion, to create a realistic view on stage is one area that will put the audience in astonishment and admiration.
Moreover, even if all the tricks of a magician are copied from the works of others, it is still important to create an original work that will distinguish him from the others.
3. Love the craft
Stage presence is all about learning to love one’s craft. Therefore, magicians should learn how to love their craft by being knowledgeable on what they do. If the audience can see how expert the magician is, chances are, their attention will be more focused on the show.
Indeed, magic and stage presence is such an important combination in order to keep the audience completely glued to their seats.
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Psychology Of Magic Management To Improve Your Business
Psychology Of Magic Management To Improve Your Business
Magic Management helps its clients develop effective communication. They use the principles of magic innovation, which works in the field of training & development and marketing services. It addresses communication and cultural issues that a business faces. These include developing presentation skills, and generating creative ideas.
Magical Innovation is the application of 'magic' for business success. Built chiefly for the corporate society, it is an influential organization method that utilizes the psychological practices that lead every spectator to a specific perception.
In addition to the skills provided to the business community, you can acquire the following from Magical Innovation:
- Create ideas and resolve problems by functioning 'in reverse' to an effective solution.
- Command awareness
- Adjust communication to the lingo and perspective of an individual
Basically, Magical Innovation strengthens the business public with the method, thinking and management techniques that are the truthful secrets of magic.
Debenham and Coca-Cola are in the company of the organizations that have utilized Magical Innovation to an ever more varied scale of business purposes. Magic Management uses Magical Innovation chiefly through marketing assistance resolution, training and development courses.
Guidance & Development
- Teaching executives in communication proficiency.
- Working with sales teams to improve communication, company policies and efficiency.
- Evaluating and describing the efficiency of sales warranty and
communications resources
- Designing exclusive team building courses
Marketing Services
- Developing appealing plans for conferences and presentations,
- Creating impact and unforgettable launch conferences and courses
- Constructing striking scenarios to liven up even the majority cynical conference individuals and guide them to important actions.
Magical Innovation is used for every assignment using the five-stage M.A.G.I.C. process:
Map - establishing the goals; knowing what you need to accomplish.
Audit – studying your company's current status in comparison to their strengths, opportunities and hazards that will affect your progress.
Gamelan - use of strategy to gain it objectives
Implementation – application of your Gamelan into actual use.
Calibration & Finale – changing your strategy if necessary. This also includes gauging the efficiency of the course.
Magic Management delivers training in fields where there is a steady need from the business society and where we have recognized certain opportunities for Magical Innovation. These include:
To attain precision in your message, go back to basics and study all product features, brand values and current campaigns to help us understand and explain why a customer should buy your product or service.
Magic Management's trainers carry the eagerness and strong advertising skills to each scheme. Their team includes seasoned, persuasive presenters who meet complex marketing challenges by creating fresh, brilliant, unique and practical campaigns.
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Magic Management helps its clients develop effective communication. They use the principles of magic innovation, which works in the field of training & development and marketing services. It addresses communication and cultural issues that a business faces. These include developing presentation skills, and generating creative ideas.
Magical Innovation is the application of 'magic' for business success. Built chiefly for the corporate society, it is an influential organization method that utilizes the psychological practices that lead every spectator to a specific perception.
In addition to the skills provided to the business community, you can acquire the following from Magical Innovation:
- Create ideas and resolve problems by functioning 'in reverse' to an effective solution.
- Command awareness
- Adjust communication to the lingo and perspective of an individual
Basically, Magical Innovation strengthens the business public with the method, thinking and management techniques that are the truthful secrets of magic.
Debenham and Coca-Cola are in the company of the organizations that have utilized Magical Innovation to an ever more varied scale of business purposes. Magic Management uses Magical Innovation chiefly through marketing assistance resolution, training and development courses.
Guidance & Development
- Teaching executives in communication proficiency.
- Working with sales teams to improve communication, company policies and efficiency.
- Evaluating and describing the efficiency of sales warranty and
communications resources
- Designing exclusive team building courses
Marketing Services
- Developing appealing plans for conferences and presentations,
- Creating impact and unforgettable launch conferences and courses
- Constructing striking scenarios to liven up even the majority cynical conference individuals and guide them to important actions.
Magical Innovation is used for every assignment using the five-stage M.A.G.I.C. process:
Map - establishing the goals; knowing what you need to accomplish.
Audit – studying your company's current status in comparison to their strengths, opportunities and hazards that will affect your progress.
Gamelan - use of strategy to gain it objectives
Implementation – application of your Gamelan into actual use.
Calibration & Finale – changing your strategy if necessary. This also includes gauging the efficiency of the course.
Magic Management delivers training in fields where there is a steady need from the business society and where we have recognized certain opportunities for Magical Innovation. These include:
To attain precision in your message, go back to basics and study all product features, brand values and current campaigns to help us understand and explain why a customer should buy your product or service.
Magic Management's trainers carry the eagerness and strong advertising skills to each scheme. Their team includes seasoned, persuasive presenters who meet complex marketing challenges by creating fresh, brilliant, unique and practical campaigns.
NEW! Click Here to learn how to perform Jaw Dropping Magic almost immediately even if you never done a single magic trick in your life!
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Guidelines For A Good Magician To Follow
Guidelines For A Good Magician To Follow
PRACTICE: Rehearse your magic trick several times before you show it to anyone. If you perform it with no rehearsal, you'll just reveal the secret or have the trick fail. If you ruin a trick in front of an audience, just go on to another trick.
SECRETS: Do not disclose how you did a magic trick to your friends; regardless of how insistent they are. You will lose the fun of doing the tricks once you have shared it to them.
REPEATING: Do not perform the same magic trick over and over again. When your friends ask you to perform the trick again, it implies that they were tricked that time, and they will try to observe your actions next time. Performing magic tricks is no longer fun if your spectators are not watching you. Thus, as soon as you finish a magic trick, don't go for an encor.
MIRRORS: Consider the convenience of using a mirror in practicing your trick/s. Practice your trick facing the mirror so that you get to view how you will look like when you face your audience.
TRICKS: Select the magic stunt you love the most. Not everyone can do all tricks extremely well. But practice can help one in nearing perfection in performing any trick. Here are some examples of card tricks:
Prior to a trick, get the deck of cards out with the purpose of showing the picture. It is not important which suits you will use (clubs, hearts, diamonds or spades,). Do not show to your audience how you arrange your cards. With the pack of card facing down, show your three card and put them on top.
To make this more interesting, you can include a "false shuffle" or act as if you're not certain if the trick will work. Of course, you are certain that it will because you have practiced it!
Have you tried to read using your fingers? Here's how it is done. Ask three people to jot down their names on a piece of paper. Preferably, choose two boys and one girl. Then, cut the paper in three portions, and drop them into a box. While eyes are blindfolded, a magician can pull out the paper with the girl's name on it.
How can you know which paper has the girl's name? Carefully touch the ends of the paper. The bottom and top names have only one ragged edge. Act as if you are having a hard time guessing which one is the girl's name, and your audience will believe you can really read using your fingers.
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PRACTICE: Rehearse your magic trick several times before you show it to anyone. If you perform it with no rehearsal, you'll just reveal the secret or have the trick fail. If you ruin a trick in front of an audience, just go on to another trick.
SECRETS: Do not disclose how you did a magic trick to your friends; regardless of how insistent they are. You will lose the fun of doing the tricks once you have shared it to them.
REPEATING: Do not perform the same magic trick over and over again. When your friends ask you to perform the trick again, it implies that they were tricked that time, and they will try to observe your actions next time. Performing magic tricks is no longer fun if your spectators are not watching you. Thus, as soon as you finish a magic trick, don't go for an encor.
MIRRORS: Consider the convenience of using a mirror in practicing your trick/s. Practice your trick facing the mirror so that you get to view how you will look like when you face your audience.
TRICKS: Select the magic stunt you love the most. Not everyone can do all tricks extremely well. But practice can help one in nearing perfection in performing any trick. Here are some examples of card tricks:
Prior to a trick, get the deck of cards out with the purpose of showing the picture. It is not important which suits you will use (clubs, hearts, diamonds or spades,). Do not show to your audience how you arrange your cards. With the pack of card facing down, show your three card and put them on top.
To make this more interesting, you can include a "false shuffle" or act as if you're not certain if the trick will work. Of course, you are certain that it will because you have practiced it!
Have you tried to read using your fingers? Here's how it is done. Ask three people to jot down their names on a piece of paper. Preferably, choose two boys and one girl. Then, cut the paper in three portions, and drop them into a box. While eyes are blindfolded, a magician can pull out the paper with the girl's name on it.
How can you know which paper has the girl's name? Carefully touch the ends of the paper. The bottom and top names have only one ragged edge. Act as if you are having a hard time guessing which one is the girl's name, and your audience will believe you can really read using your fingers.
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Different Paraphernalia Used In Performing Magic
Different Paraphernalia Used In Performing Magic
David Blaine and David Copperfield's popularity have inspired a lot of people to learn magic. And with that, there are also a number of stores that sell magic paraphernalia for those who would like to learn the art of magic. Below are some of the popular equipment used for magic:
Visible Sawing - the participant lays flat on a bench or table. Then, the magician places a wooden stock over the participants mid-section. The saw is turned on and is used to cut the individual in half. After the saw has been turned off and the stock is removed, the participant stands in front of the audience unharmed.
Victory Cubes - is a new stage inclusion that can be used to make tricks more well-executed. Perfect for blocking those angles that might reveal the trick's secret, or as a prop container. These instantly make a magic show show bigger and more valuable.
Magic Rose - the magician is holding a full sized white rose and sprinkles it with glitter dust. Then he approaches one of the female specatators and gives it to her. Suddenly, the white rose turns to red.
Vanishing milk pitcher - it looks like an ordinary pitcher. The magician present the pitcher to the audience to show that it does not have any holes. He places liquid (usually milk because it is more visible than water) on the pitcher and covers it with silk cloth. A few magics later and the liquid disappears from the pitcher. The magician even turns it upside down to prove that there is no liquid on the pitcher.
Giant Deck of Cards- there's a deck of cards available which falls perfectly in between the standard poker-size cards and the typical jumbo decks. The Anglo Giant cards measure 3.5" by 5" and their large indices make it easy for audiences to see the cards even from a distance.
Magnetic finger Tips - is used to perform routines with Coins, Silverware, Cling Rings other metallic objects. It can also be used in a trick to move objects.
Wand - it is a slim stick used by magicians to execute some magic tricks.
Collapsible top hat - a black satin lined hat that folds flat when tapped by a wand and springs back to normal when touched again.
Chinese coins - can be used for enthralling type tricks and other magic coin techniques.
Coin bender - a specially made tool for magicians that bends coins during an act.
Feather Flower - this item can be compressed into a thin bundle than can fit on either your coat sleeve or into your hat. Then, they pop open when reached.
Threads - This is almost invisible to the naked eye. It allows you to perform tricks that make objects float.
Fire Wallet - this wallet fires up when opened.
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David Blaine and David Copperfield's popularity have inspired a lot of people to learn magic. And with that, there are also a number of stores that sell magic paraphernalia for those who would like to learn the art of magic. Below are some of the popular equipment used for magic:
Visible Sawing - the participant lays flat on a bench or table. Then, the magician places a wooden stock over the participants mid-section. The saw is turned on and is used to cut the individual in half. After the saw has been turned off and the stock is removed, the participant stands in front of the audience unharmed.
Victory Cubes - is a new stage inclusion that can be used to make tricks more well-executed. Perfect for blocking those angles that might reveal the trick's secret, or as a prop container. These instantly make a magic show show bigger and more valuable.
Magic Rose - the magician is holding a full sized white rose and sprinkles it with glitter dust. Then he approaches one of the female specatators and gives it to her. Suddenly, the white rose turns to red.
Vanishing milk pitcher - it looks like an ordinary pitcher. The magician present the pitcher to the audience to show that it does not have any holes. He places liquid (usually milk because it is more visible than water) on the pitcher and covers it with silk cloth. A few magics later and the liquid disappears from the pitcher. The magician even turns it upside down to prove that there is no liquid on the pitcher.
Giant Deck of Cards- there's a deck of cards available which falls perfectly in between the standard poker-size cards and the typical jumbo decks. The Anglo Giant cards measure 3.5" by 5" and their large indices make it easy for audiences to see the cards even from a distance.
Magnetic finger Tips - is used to perform routines with Coins, Silverware, Cling Rings other metallic objects. It can also be used in a trick to move objects.
Wand - it is a slim stick used by magicians to execute some magic tricks.
Collapsible top hat - a black satin lined hat that folds flat when tapped by a wand and springs back to normal when touched again.
Chinese coins - can be used for enthralling type tricks and other magic coin techniques.
Coin bender - a specially made tool for magicians that bends coins during an act.
Feather Flower - this item can be compressed into a thin bundle than can fit on either your coat sleeve or into your hat. Then, they pop open when reached.
Threads - This is almost invisible to the naked eye. It allows you to perform tricks that make objects float.
Fire Wallet - this wallet fires up when opened.
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Magic Show Tips
Magic Show Tips
For magic enthusiasts, what could be more fun than being able to organize a magic show of their own, right? However, it might not be an easy task to prepare for one magic show that will bewilder your friends and other speculators. Don't fret. Here are some tips and suggestions that might help one in prepping for one fun magic show that will make all the audience spellbound:
Prepare the Stage
A magic show will not be as exciting if it is done in a place where there's no stage. One must set up a stage that could consist of either a piano bench or a small table with a blanket or table cloth.
Drapes help a lot in seeing to it that the audience don't get a glimpse of your activities before performing a trick. Have a certain spot where all your tricks can be done.
Prepare the Props
A magician will have a hard time amazing his or her audience without the help of various magic props. Gather all the paraphernalias that will make the magic show successful beforehand to avoid scrambling around at the eleventh hour.
The usual props used by magicians include playing cards, hats, animals, a handkerchief, etc.
Prepare for the Tricks
What's a magic show without magic tricks? Practicing the tricks well before the magic show will make one magician less doubtful on whether his or her magic show will be a hit or not. Here are some rules that a magician should follow when doing a magic show:
1. Don't kiss and tell a trick.
Magic is made to amaze the audience. Telling how to do a trick will spoil that purpose. A trick that is told how to do will lose its mystery.
2. Trick only once.
When a trick is done for the first time, the audience will be very amazed. Doing it twice will make the audience predict what will happen and the risk of figuring the trick out is not impossible.
3. Practice like there's no tomorrow.
When one is not that comfortable with a certain trick, it is not advisable to perform it. Practicing in front of friends or other people before the show in front of an audience will help a lot in making the magic show successful.
4. Be or look confident.
Acting nervous will make you a laughingstock. When you are going to be the man of the show, it won't help to be stammering and trembling whild performing the magic tricks. Practicing will help you in this arena.
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For magic enthusiasts, what could be more fun than being able to organize a magic show of their own, right? However, it might not be an easy task to prepare for one magic show that will bewilder your friends and other speculators. Don't fret. Here are some tips and suggestions that might help one in prepping for one fun magic show that will make all the audience spellbound:
Prepare the Stage
A magic show will not be as exciting if it is done in a place where there's no stage. One must set up a stage that could consist of either a piano bench or a small table with a blanket or table cloth.
Drapes help a lot in seeing to it that the audience don't get a glimpse of your activities before performing a trick. Have a certain spot where all your tricks can be done.
Prepare the Props
A magician will have a hard time amazing his or her audience without the help of various magic props. Gather all the paraphernalias that will make the magic show successful beforehand to avoid scrambling around at the eleventh hour.
The usual props used by magicians include playing cards, hats, animals, a handkerchief, etc.
Prepare for the Tricks
What's a magic show without magic tricks? Practicing the tricks well before the magic show will make one magician less doubtful on whether his or her magic show will be a hit or not. Here are some rules that a magician should follow when doing a magic show:
1. Don't kiss and tell a trick.
Magic is made to amaze the audience. Telling how to do a trick will spoil that purpose. A trick that is told how to do will lose its mystery.
2. Trick only once.
When a trick is done for the first time, the audience will be very amazed. Doing it twice will make the audience predict what will happen and the risk of figuring the trick out is not impossible.
3. Practice like there's no tomorrow.
When one is not that comfortable with a certain trick, it is not advisable to perform it. Practicing in front of friends or other people before the show in front of an audience will help a lot in making the magic show successful.
4. Be or look confident.
Acting nervous will make you a laughingstock. When you are going to be the man of the show, it won't help to be stammering and trembling whild performing the magic tricks. Practicing will help you in this arena.
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The Art Of Magic
The Art Of Magic
What comes in to your mind when you hear the word "magic"? What is magic? What is the ART of magic? According to World Book Online Encyclopedia, "The word magic also refers to entertainment in which the performer does tricks of so-called magic. In such entertainment, neither the magicians nor the audience believes that the performer has supernatural powers."
On the other hand, Paul Harris who is the author of "The Art of Astonishment" defines magicians as "guides to astonishment". Thus, magic can be defined as "an application of guided astonishment."
The three main branches of magic are "stage magic", "parlor magic" and "close-up magic". Stage magic is any magic that can be done on a stage. Stage magic is used to depict the imagination. On the other hand, there's also "stand-up" magic. If you've ever seen the Amazing Johnathan or Paul Kozak perform, you've been witness to stand-up magic.
Magic can be categorized by the motivations and the performance styles, but it does not end there. Here are some of the types of magic according to motivation:
Parlor magic is performed right on the same floor level as the audience, as opposed to a raised stage. Gospel is a special type of parlor magic that is used to demonstrate religious (mostly Christian) concepts. With the replacement of intimate nightclubs by super-mega-nightclubs and comedy clubs, classic parlor magic is rarely seen today.
A distinctive branch of magic has developed quite recently, called "close-up". Close-up magic, like the other styles of magic, has developed its own individual genres. Other types of close-up magic are "table-hopping", "walk-around" and "street magic". All these magic happens in the magician's and/or spectator's hands. This form of magic has become increasingly popular due to its intimate nature.
After discussing the various ways and motivations of magic, it seems appropriate to talk about the various types of "magic". Eugene Burger, who co-authored the entitled "Magic and Meaning", he mentioned the divisions of magic. First, there is the "primary magic" which is the imagination.
Secondary magic, on the other hand, is drawn out of the imagination and into the physical world. These include "ritual" magic and "stage" magic. Ritual magic is directed to enhance some aspect of life. A good example of this is magic performed by an Indian shaman (i.e. the rain dance around a campfire). Unlike stage magic, ritual magic relies on the imagination itself.
Other types of magic are:
Detached magic, which is a form of ritual magic, wherein the symbols used do not have direct significance to the individual invoking the magic.
Reflexive or trickster magic uses deception. This differs from reduced deceptive magic as it focuses on reminding and telling audiences its deceptive nature. Such include gambling displays and "sucker tricks".
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What comes in to your mind when you hear the word "magic"? What is magic? What is the ART of magic? According to World Book Online Encyclopedia, "The word magic also refers to entertainment in which the performer does tricks of so-called magic. In such entertainment, neither the magicians nor the audience believes that the performer has supernatural powers."
On the other hand, Paul Harris who is the author of "The Art of Astonishment" defines magicians as "guides to astonishment". Thus, magic can be defined as "an application of guided astonishment."
The three main branches of magic are "stage magic", "parlor magic" and "close-up magic". Stage magic is any magic that can be done on a stage. Stage magic is used to depict the imagination. On the other hand, there's also "stand-up" magic. If you've ever seen the Amazing Johnathan or Paul Kozak perform, you've been witness to stand-up magic.
Magic can be categorized by the motivations and the performance styles, but it does not end there. Here are some of the types of magic according to motivation:
Parlor magic is performed right on the same floor level as the audience, as opposed to a raised stage. Gospel is a special type of parlor magic that is used to demonstrate religious (mostly Christian) concepts. With the replacement of intimate nightclubs by super-mega-nightclubs and comedy clubs, classic parlor magic is rarely seen today.
A distinctive branch of magic has developed quite recently, called "close-up". Close-up magic, like the other styles of magic, has developed its own individual genres. Other types of close-up magic are "table-hopping", "walk-around" and "street magic". All these magic happens in the magician's and/or spectator's hands. This form of magic has become increasingly popular due to its intimate nature.
After discussing the various ways and motivations of magic, it seems appropriate to talk about the various types of "magic". Eugene Burger, who co-authored the entitled "Magic and Meaning", he mentioned the divisions of magic. First, there is the "primary magic" which is the imagination.
Secondary magic, on the other hand, is drawn out of the imagination and into the physical world. These include "ritual" magic and "stage" magic. Ritual magic is directed to enhance some aspect of life. A good example of this is magic performed by an Indian shaman (i.e. the rain dance around a campfire). Unlike stage magic, ritual magic relies on the imagination itself.
Other types of magic are:
Detached magic, which is a form of ritual magic, wherein the symbols used do not have direct significance to the individual invoking the magic.
Reflexive or trickster magic uses deception. This differs from reduced deceptive magic as it focuses on reminding and telling audiences its deceptive nature. Such include gambling displays and "sucker tricks".
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The Joy From A Magic Show
The Joy From A Magic Show
Children and adults alike enjoy magical shows. Magical presentations are among the most popular past times among people of all ages, especially those who are fond of seeing folks who are clever in manipulating objects or controlling natural events.
Magicians, one who is skilled in performing optical illusion or sleight of hand, are particularly clever in performing amazing tricks. These very same tricks astound people and keep them from coming back.
There are several ways by which you experience the joy of this entertainment. You can either visit a nearby circus which are either permanent or mobile, and or with your friends who are gifted with this wonderful craft.
Magic Tricks
The very core of magic display is the exhibition of tricks. All tricks are done by using objects which either take the form of an animal or are turn into something spectacular.
Humans can also become subjects for performing tricks although current federal laws limit the use of human subjects in the performance of magic tricks.
Although magic tricks make up the most magic exposition, there are those that perform magic using no other objects but themselves.
Famous magicians of yesteryears such as Harry Houdini or Doug Henning mostly make use of material accessories in the performance of their magic tricks.
They make use of illusions out of the material (hat, baton, handkerchief, flowers, paper, etc.) they use which aim to amaze and mystify audience.
Even more startling is the event when other famous magicians perceivably vanish structures such the Statue of Liberty, Taj Mahal and the Space Shuttle. In a similar event, Harry Hudoini apparently made a huge elephant disappear in front of a large audience.
Modern Magic
Modern illusionists (magicians) are bolder compared with previous practitioners. Some worth mentioning are Jeff Sheridan, Franko B and the most famous David Blaine.
David Blaine rose to popularity due to the performance of outstanding, yet bold acts. He has performed levitation, animate dead insects, baffling illusions, among others.
Today’s magicians virtually abandoned the usual magic production: an illusionist pull a rabbit out of a black, empty hat, a glass of water disappear as it is maneuvered across a board, and pour coins from an empty bottle.
Current practice includes exhibition and outrageous production like being stuck in the ice for hours with no interruptions.
Aside from the aforementioned activities, the joy of magic is also incorporated in activities related to birthday parties, education programs, corporate events, and youth groups.
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Children and adults alike enjoy magical shows. Magical presentations are among the most popular past times among people of all ages, especially those who are fond of seeing folks who are clever in manipulating objects or controlling natural events.
Magicians, one who is skilled in performing optical illusion or sleight of hand, are particularly clever in performing amazing tricks. These very same tricks astound people and keep them from coming back.
There are several ways by which you experience the joy of this entertainment. You can either visit a nearby circus which are either permanent or mobile, and or with your friends who are gifted with this wonderful craft.
Magic Tricks
The very core of magic display is the exhibition of tricks. All tricks are done by using objects which either take the form of an animal or are turn into something spectacular.
Humans can also become subjects for performing tricks although current federal laws limit the use of human subjects in the performance of magic tricks.
Although magic tricks make up the most magic exposition, there are those that perform magic using no other objects but themselves.
Famous magicians of yesteryears such as Harry Houdini or Doug Henning mostly make use of material accessories in the performance of their magic tricks.
They make use of illusions out of the material (hat, baton, handkerchief, flowers, paper, etc.) they use which aim to amaze and mystify audience.
Even more startling is the event when other famous magicians perceivably vanish structures such the Statue of Liberty, Taj Mahal and the Space Shuttle. In a similar event, Harry Hudoini apparently made a huge elephant disappear in front of a large audience.
Modern Magic
Modern illusionists (magicians) are bolder compared with previous practitioners. Some worth mentioning are Jeff Sheridan, Franko B and the most famous David Blaine.
David Blaine rose to popularity due to the performance of outstanding, yet bold acts. He has performed levitation, animate dead insects, baffling illusions, among others.
Today’s magicians virtually abandoned the usual magic production: an illusionist pull a rabbit out of a black, empty hat, a glass of water disappear as it is maneuvered across a board, and pour coins from an empty bottle.
Current practice includes exhibition and outrageous production like being stuck in the ice for hours with no interruptions.
Aside from the aforementioned activities, the joy of magic is also incorporated in activities related to birthday parties, education programs, corporate events, and youth groups.
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Magic Ritual Spells, Do They Work?
Magic Ritual Spells, Do They Work?
The kind of magic that is performed in a ritual is done so with the use of spells. Though no one actually knows if it works.
Magicians who perform magic in this form usually make use of a memorized script with the appropriate spell, activity and motions that should be done. Those who practice the occult have claimed that performing this type of magic is a lot more similar to car driving. If the directions are followed appropriately, you could actually get to your destination and so the magic could work. But still, there is no one hundred percent guarantee.
Current witches who practice Wicca magic have in their possession a book of spells. This book has specific and sometimes complex directions for performing basic ritualistic magic. A basic magic ceremony usually means that no animal, insect, bug or worm will be harmed in the process. A regular Wicca magic spell only requires plain candles, herbs or stones as any one of the ingredients. The spells used come from a variety of influences and cultures who also used to perform ritualistic magic, from the Romans to the Egyptians and the Greeks.
All kinds of religions all over the world have their forms of magic and magic spells. Christianity, Islam, Hinduism - to name a few – all make use of a form of incantation, invocation, and petition.
Special magic tools are also used by ritualistic magicians. They sometimes employ a common dagger, or a chalice and – the one thing magicians cannot go without – a magic wand. Each of these objects serves as a symbol which represents a specific force.
The use of a shape that is sacred is also utilized by ritualistic magicians. This is done to protect them from any entity that attempts to disrupt the ritual as well as to invoke an entity to turn up within the sacred circle. These shapes are usually in the form of a pentagram. Any spirit could be commanded within the confines of the circle by the appropriate invocation of their name. These names as well as a host of other phrases and spells help achieve an ultimate will power that causes a magician to focus on the task at hand, be it to bring boils to a specific body part of a sworn enemy or to call on the assistance of a dark angel to perform a preferred or unspeakable task.
However, it has to be reiterated that unless you do such a ritual yourself, no one could ever one hundred percent guarantee that doing such actually works.
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The kind of magic that is performed in a ritual is done so with the use of spells. Though no one actually knows if it works.
Magicians who perform magic in this form usually make use of a memorized script with the appropriate spell, activity and motions that should be done. Those who practice the occult have claimed that performing this type of magic is a lot more similar to car driving. If the directions are followed appropriately, you could actually get to your destination and so the magic could work. But still, there is no one hundred percent guarantee.
Current witches who practice Wicca magic have in their possession a book of spells. This book has specific and sometimes complex directions for performing basic ritualistic magic. A basic magic ceremony usually means that no animal, insect, bug or worm will be harmed in the process. A regular Wicca magic spell only requires plain candles, herbs or stones as any one of the ingredients. The spells used come from a variety of influences and cultures who also used to perform ritualistic magic, from the Romans to the Egyptians and the Greeks.
All kinds of religions all over the world have their forms of magic and magic spells. Christianity, Islam, Hinduism - to name a few – all make use of a form of incantation, invocation, and petition.
Special magic tools are also used by ritualistic magicians. They sometimes employ a common dagger, or a chalice and – the one thing magicians cannot go without – a magic wand. Each of these objects serves as a symbol which represents a specific force.
The use of a shape that is sacred is also utilized by ritualistic magicians. This is done to protect them from any entity that attempts to disrupt the ritual as well as to invoke an entity to turn up within the sacred circle. These shapes are usually in the form of a pentagram. Any spirit could be commanded within the confines of the circle by the appropriate invocation of their name. These names as well as a host of other phrases and spells help achieve an ultimate will power that causes a magician to focus on the task at hand, be it to bring boils to a specific body part of a sworn enemy or to call on the assistance of a dark angel to perform a preferred or unspeakable task.
However, it has to be reiterated that unless you do such a ritual yourself, no one could ever one hundred percent guarantee that doing such actually works.
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Magic Spells
Magic Spells
Beginners in the world of magic should be aware of several techniques in magic spells and how to cast them. These are the first and the last thing that magicians and people practicing witchcraft and spells should be perfected.
Potions and Spells
Magic spells and spell techniques come in different forms depending on your predetermined set of purpose. Techniques may come in preparing a set of potions and spell casting while conducting your own spell-craft.
Other strategies in the conduct of spells are the use of effigy-dolls, doll-baby baptism techniques which represent the person you are trying to cast spell with. Body parts or products of them such as hair, nails, and personal products such as towels and clothing can be used.
White Magic Spells
Spells and other forms of incantations are either categorized as white or black magic depending on their intended purpose on the subject.
If you are into healing or into the process of promoting good health, calling for luck, inner peace and balance, romance and the like, white magic spells are used.
White magic spells are also used to protect people from possible harm brought about by disasters and unexpected accidents that may come along the way. They break the flow of jinxes and pave the way for luck.
Somehow, if you believe that someone is trying to cast a spell on you who also are familiar with this art, you can deliberately protect your self from possible curses and keep you from experiencing the intended hurt.
Black Magic Spells
As the message implies, black spells are meant to cast harmful magic. They are coercive and bring about physical or financial discomfort.
Black spells cause illnesses, bad luck, increase the influx of jinx in love life or career. They are also used to serve justice and vengeance on people who are badly hurt due to a certain situation caused by someone.
Black magic spells are mediums which help you to attract injurious and deadly spirits to inflict dangers and harm to others. Like any other magic, black magic involves the use of physical objects in order to make your way through performing such feat.
Other Magic Spells
In other context, magic spells are based on the color to which the purpose is usually associated with. For example. Green spells are chanted if you are working on a moneymaking activity.
Red magic works for people who are aiming for romance and sex and purple spells for individuals working in the world of management and entrepreneurship.
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Beginners in the world of magic should be aware of several techniques in magic spells and how to cast them. These are the first and the last thing that magicians and people practicing witchcraft and spells should be perfected.
Potions and Spells
Magic spells and spell techniques come in different forms depending on your predetermined set of purpose. Techniques may come in preparing a set of potions and spell casting while conducting your own spell-craft.
Other strategies in the conduct of spells are the use of effigy-dolls, doll-baby baptism techniques which represent the person you are trying to cast spell with. Body parts or products of them such as hair, nails, and personal products such as towels and clothing can be used.
White Magic Spells
Spells and other forms of incantations are either categorized as white or black magic depending on their intended purpose on the subject.
If you are into healing or into the process of promoting good health, calling for luck, inner peace and balance, romance and the like, white magic spells are used.
White magic spells are also used to protect people from possible harm brought about by disasters and unexpected accidents that may come along the way. They break the flow of jinxes and pave the way for luck.
Somehow, if you believe that someone is trying to cast a spell on you who also are familiar with this art, you can deliberately protect your self from possible curses and keep you from experiencing the intended hurt.
Black Magic Spells
As the message implies, black spells are meant to cast harmful magic. They are coercive and bring about physical or financial discomfort.
Black spells cause illnesses, bad luck, increase the influx of jinx in love life or career. They are also used to serve justice and vengeance on people who are badly hurt due to a certain situation caused by someone.
Black magic spells are mediums which help you to attract injurious and deadly spirits to inflict dangers and harm to others. Like any other magic, black magic involves the use of physical objects in order to make your way through performing such feat.
Other Magic Spells
In other context, magic spells are based on the color to which the purpose is usually associated with. For example. Green spells are chanted if you are working on a moneymaking activity.
Red magic works for people who are aiming for romance and sex and purple spells for individuals working in the world of management and entrepreneurship.
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Cool Magic Trick
Cool Magic Trick
Your techniques and strategies in carrying out your trick is one of the most important qualities of a good magician.
Starting conjurors will need both patience and a little dexterity or skills in the performance of several tricks. Interest also plays a major role if one is on its way to learning simple magic programs.
You can choose among the most popular and amazing activities which you will need to do in front of suspecting and excited audience.
Some of the most popular tricks are the ones below:
- Brainwave Deck – This trick involves the use of cards; make a fan arrangement of them where the decks are faced down to remove the possibility of taking a peek on them.
Have one or two of your audience participates by choosing the card they pick along the way. The chosen cards will be shown to the general spectators. As you shuffle the cards, your audience will see that the chosen cards is the one shown up while the rest of the cards are facing down.
- Dime and Penny Trick – A practitioner shows a single dime and with extra sleight of hand, the magician covers the initial coin being used with a penny. This trick requires quick movement so that the coins being used will pass through the audience’s suspecting eyes.
- Money Maker – This is especially popular among children and kids in their early teenage years. This makes use of a machine which deliberately transforms a piece of paper into a real money.
Additionally, you can put a secret message into the paper inserted in one end and come out on the other end bearing a secret code.
- Stripper Deck Bicycle – This type of card stripper technique teaches students of magic the ability to instantly identify a card chosen by a spectator or separate black cards to a red cards or select among all aces in a deck of card you are using.
In another technique, it involves card mobility where a chosen card goes to different a specific body parts from the deck of cards you have originally put it.
- Stick-o-Bill – This type of technique can be learned by everyone with a natural ability to move his or her hands quickly. This game strategy involves the use of a pencil or any other pointed object like pencils.
Ask for a paper bill from the audience and insert the pencil or any other pointed object around. As you go through piercing the center portion, the audience will witness the hole made in the middle of the bill.
When the pencil went through the other end, the bill can be returned without any evidence of damage.
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Your techniques and strategies in carrying out your trick is one of the most important qualities of a good magician.
Starting conjurors will need both patience and a little dexterity or skills in the performance of several tricks. Interest also plays a major role if one is on its way to learning simple magic programs.
You can choose among the most popular and amazing activities which you will need to do in front of suspecting and excited audience.
Some of the most popular tricks are the ones below:
- Brainwave Deck – This trick involves the use of cards; make a fan arrangement of them where the decks are faced down to remove the possibility of taking a peek on them.
Have one or two of your audience participates by choosing the card they pick along the way. The chosen cards will be shown to the general spectators. As you shuffle the cards, your audience will see that the chosen cards is the one shown up while the rest of the cards are facing down.
- Dime and Penny Trick – A practitioner shows a single dime and with extra sleight of hand, the magician covers the initial coin being used with a penny. This trick requires quick movement so that the coins being used will pass through the audience’s suspecting eyes.
- Money Maker – This is especially popular among children and kids in their early teenage years. This makes use of a machine which deliberately transforms a piece of paper into a real money.
Additionally, you can put a secret message into the paper inserted in one end and come out on the other end bearing a secret code.
- Stripper Deck Bicycle – This type of card stripper technique teaches students of magic the ability to instantly identify a card chosen by a spectator or separate black cards to a red cards or select among all aces in a deck of card you are using.
In another technique, it involves card mobility where a chosen card goes to different a specific body parts from the deck of cards you have originally put it.
- Stick-o-Bill – This type of technique can be learned by everyone with a natural ability to move his or her hands quickly. This game strategy involves the use of a pencil or any other pointed object like pencils.
Ask for a paper bill from the audience and insert the pencil or any other pointed object around. As you go through piercing the center portion, the audience will witness the hole made in the middle of the bill.
When the pencil went through the other end, the bill can be returned without any evidence of damage.
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Amazing Magic Tricks
Amazing Magic Tricks
Perhaps, if you are a never-heard type in the class or in a circle of friends and would like to be in the limelight and attract everybody else’s attention, magic tricks are the way to accomplish it!
There are many ways by which you can come up with your own unique magic tricks. Performing illusions, and similar exhibitions are not for a privilege few. The truth is that, it can be learned and perfected by anyone.
Magic Trick Samples
There are a handful of magic tricks around that are particularly easy to perform. One need not be a professional magician in order to accomplish the task. Magic tricks can be in the form of the following:
- Card tricks
- Optical Illusion
- Common objects like bottles, envelope, rope, sugar, water, and pepper
Tips on Becoming a Convincing Magician
Surely, if you are interested in magic and fond of entertaining people, perhaps, magic exposition is for you.
The following tips should provide you with details on how you can start becoming adept in magic either for pursuing a career as an illusionist or just for the thought of astounding your friends and acquaintances.
- Be with the Masters! - There are no better ways of learning all the tricks but to be in the business. Be with people who are adept in this craft and you’ll sure learn the basics and advanced tricks and all the chemistry and techniques behind it.
- Practice! – Practice is always deemed appropriate in any personal activity you are trying to accomplish. This will guide your way to perfection and mastery of the craft.
- Out of the Box – Do not do the same tricks over and over again. Your audience will make assumptions and lose their focus once they see you doing the same old magic techniques. This lessens the excitement and you will soon lose your clients.
- Keep it Secret – Tricks are not meant to be informed to the general public. You do tricks for the purpose of baffling and conveying a message that you are doing something extraordinary.
- Suppress! – Keep the audience from moving around. Suspecting onlookers spill the beans so you better watch out from their actions.
If possible, keep them seated while performing your tricks and allowing several instance of participation. Use objects coming from your audience in order to reduce your audience’s doubt about the authenticity of your tricks.
- Assistants – knowledgeable assistants are important in any events especially in magic shows. Assistants maybe in the form of puppet animal or a real person.
In any case, choosing the right assistant depends on the level of support you will need in accomplishing your goal as a magician.
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Perhaps, if you are a never-heard type in the class or in a circle of friends and would like to be in the limelight and attract everybody else’s attention, magic tricks are the way to accomplish it!
There are many ways by which you can come up with your own unique magic tricks. Performing illusions, and similar exhibitions are not for a privilege few. The truth is that, it can be learned and perfected by anyone.
Magic Trick Samples
There are a handful of magic tricks around that are particularly easy to perform. One need not be a professional magician in order to accomplish the task. Magic tricks can be in the form of the following:
- Card tricks
- Optical Illusion
- Common objects like bottles, envelope, rope, sugar, water, and pepper
Tips on Becoming a Convincing Magician
Surely, if you are interested in magic and fond of entertaining people, perhaps, magic exposition is for you.
The following tips should provide you with details on how you can start becoming adept in magic either for pursuing a career as an illusionist or just for the thought of astounding your friends and acquaintances.
- Be with the Masters! - There are no better ways of learning all the tricks but to be in the business. Be with people who are adept in this craft and you’ll sure learn the basics and advanced tricks and all the chemistry and techniques behind it.
- Practice! – Practice is always deemed appropriate in any personal activity you are trying to accomplish. This will guide your way to perfection and mastery of the craft.
- Out of the Box – Do not do the same tricks over and over again. Your audience will make assumptions and lose their focus once they see you doing the same old magic techniques. This lessens the excitement and you will soon lose your clients.
- Keep it Secret – Tricks are not meant to be informed to the general public. You do tricks for the purpose of baffling and conveying a message that you are doing something extraordinary.
- Suppress! – Keep the audience from moving around. Suspecting onlookers spill the beans so you better watch out from their actions.
If possible, keep them seated while performing your tricks and allowing several instance of participation. Use objects coming from your audience in order to reduce your audience’s doubt about the authenticity of your tricks.
- Assistants – knowledgeable assistants are important in any events especially in magic shows. Assistants maybe in the form of puppet animal or a real person.
In any case, choosing the right assistant depends on the level of support you will need in accomplishing your goal as a magician.
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Optical Illusion And Magic
Optical Illusion And Magic
Perhaps, optical illusion and magic are no different from each other for both share the same effects: they amaze and fascinate and deceive the human eye.
A suspecting audience will lose the chance of catching the trick if you are perfectly endowed with sleight of hand skill and interest.
Your eyes can be deceived both by magician’s hand dexterity and apparent psychological persuasion (patter). The apparent patter of a magician combined with quicksilver hand skill is a perfect match to a dubious crowd.
Practical Optical Illusions
Optical illusions can be carried out in front of a large or medium size audience or can be performed using pictures especially if you have no immediate contact with the person you are trying to communicate with.
Pictures that visibly change their color or physically modifies along the way to keeping a long stare at them or by following simple rules or instruction helps you baffle your friends and amaze them of your ingenuity.
Optical Illusion is Magic
Magic is based on optical illusion because it involves the use of deceitful tricks that tends to help you perform the unnatural. Some of the most famous illusionists of time like Harry Houdini perform magic using a technique called Pepper’s Ghost.
In Pepper’s Ghost illusory technique, the use of glass fibers are perfectly positioned to create a hologram figure of the object you are trying to hide. Special effects and the use of black background are also critical to the performance of technique.
In the late 1800s, Harry Houdini first performed his major magic trick in front of a large audience by making an elephant disappear and making if appear again according to his own willing.
Since then, a lot of his contemporaries began making use of this type of strategy until it was patented in the late 1860.
Magic is a type of Illusion
You can hardly separate magic from optical illusion because the one is characteristic of the other. Magic involves the use of tricks that involve the quick hand and the use of colors and objects that seem to block the actual image of the main subject.
Specific productions (magic types) are achieved which shadows the image of the main object being given attention to.
For example, a glass of water that is apparently empty is actually lined with a clear material while the inside is stuff with material which you may show to your audience as a product of your magic (coins flowing from an empty bottle) when taken out.
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Perhaps, optical illusion and magic are no different from each other for both share the same effects: they amaze and fascinate and deceive the human eye.
A suspecting audience will lose the chance of catching the trick if you are perfectly endowed with sleight of hand skill and interest.
Your eyes can be deceived both by magician’s hand dexterity and apparent psychological persuasion (patter). The apparent patter of a magician combined with quicksilver hand skill is a perfect match to a dubious crowd.
Practical Optical Illusions
Optical illusions can be carried out in front of a large or medium size audience or can be performed using pictures especially if you have no immediate contact with the person you are trying to communicate with.
Pictures that visibly change their color or physically modifies along the way to keeping a long stare at them or by following simple rules or instruction helps you baffle your friends and amaze them of your ingenuity.
Optical Illusion is Magic
Magic is based on optical illusion because it involves the use of deceitful tricks that tends to help you perform the unnatural. Some of the most famous illusionists of time like Harry Houdini perform magic using a technique called Pepper’s Ghost.
In Pepper’s Ghost illusory technique, the use of glass fibers are perfectly positioned to create a hologram figure of the object you are trying to hide. Special effects and the use of black background are also critical to the performance of technique.
In the late 1800s, Harry Houdini first performed his major magic trick in front of a large audience by making an elephant disappear and making if appear again according to his own willing.
Since then, a lot of his contemporaries began making use of this type of strategy until it was patented in the late 1860.
Magic is a type of Illusion
You can hardly separate magic from optical illusion because the one is characteristic of the other. Magic involves the use of tricks that involve the quick hand and the use of colors and objects that seem to block the actual image of the main subject.
Specific productions (magic types) are achieved which shadows the image of the main object being given attention to.
For example, a glass of water that is apparently empty is actually lined with a clear material while the inside is stuff with material which you may show to your audience as a product of your magic (coins flowing from an empty bottle) when taken out.
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A Magician’s Oath
A Magician’s Oath
A magic trick is created to amuse and mesmerize an audience who comes to the show knowing that all the tricks are not real and have fun because they can’t figure out how the magic was done. You won’t see a magician exposing magic mainly because telling how a magic was done is to kill the thrill and fun in watching them.
Magicians wanting to join a group of other magicians are required to give an oath to that effect. Never tell anyone who is not a magician the reason behind a trick and to never show a trick to anyone when you haven’t fully mastered it.
Once you gave your oath as a magician, it is expected that you will live up to your promise. Once you tell somebody and the organization found out about it, you may find yourself not receiving new tricks or that no one is teaching you how another trick is done.
Note though that you can tell it to somebody who is really willing to learn on how to be a magician. In fact you can see instruction videos and detailed instructions on sale in many shops. This is to help budding magicians into starting their careers or hobbies. Some of the tricks included in these instruction videos are common tricks and very easy to learn.
Some magicians also tell their tricks to misdirect others and help them appreciate a new trick that they have done. Old tricks seem to bore adult audiences that they tend to ‘bungle up’ the old tricks in preparation for their new tricks which proves more astonishing.
Magic tricks, once shown how they are done, may be posed with risk of becoming stale. Sometimes it is because you are disappointed at how easy it actually is or maybe because you found out that the trick requires a lot of props to accomplish. This is the reason no magician in his right mind will tell an audience how a trick is done. A magic told is a magic lost. Secrecy is the key and the magic is in keeping those secrets within you.
Magic is a living art, new illusions are propping up and new ways are introduced. Yes, you will see magicians telling their tricks but true magicians will always find their way around it. They will devise new illusions from old illusions and they will get more creative in how they show those illusions.
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A magic trick is created to amuse and mesmerize an audience who comes to the show knowing that all the tricks are not real and have fun because they can’t figure out how the magic was done. You won’t see a magician exposing magic mainly because telling how a magic was done is to kill the thrill and fun in watching them.
Magicians wanting to join a group of other magicians are required to give an oath to that effect. Never tell anyone who is not a magician the reason behind a trick and to never show a trick to anyone when you haven’t fully mastered it.
Once you gave your oath as a magician, it is expected that you will live up to your promise. Once you tell somebody and the organization found out about it, you may find yourself not receiving new tricks or that no one is teaching you how another trick is done.
Note though that you can tell it to somebody who is really willing to learn on how to be a magician. In fact you can see instruction videos and detailed instructions on sale in many shops. This is to help budding magicians into starting their careers or hobbies. Some of the tricks included in these instruction videos are common tricks and very easy to learn.
Some magicians also tell their tricks to misdirect others and help them appreciate a new trick that they have done. Old tricks seem to bore adult audiences that they tend to ‘bungle up’ the old tricks in preparation for their new tricks which proves more astonishing.
Magic tricks, once shown how they are done, may be posed with risk of becoming stale. Sometimes it is because you are disappointed at how easy it actually is or maybe because you found out that the trick requires a lot of props to accomplish. This is the reason no magician in his right mind will tell an audience how a trick is done. A magic told is a magic lost. Secrecy is the key and the magic is in keeping those secrets within you.
Magic is a living art, new illusions are propping up and new ways are introduced. Yes, you will see magicians telling their tricks but true magicians will always find their way around it. They will devise new illusions from old illusions and they will get more creative in how they show those illusions.
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3 Secrets Of Magicians
3 Secrets Of Magicians
Magicians have their secrets but they won’t tell. It’s a sworn oath for magicians not to tell the audience how a trick is done. There are 3 secrets though that they’ve shared all throughout the years. Here are their 3 secrets.
The first secret is that some tricks are done through sleight of hand. These are ways with which they skillfully hide an object and make it reappear on another hand. New magicians hide things up their sleeves. Those are old tricks and very few used them now.
Sleights of hand require a lot of practice to master. Beginners of magic use specially created gimmicks to create the illusion. Professional magicians make use of their impressive sleight of hand. It requires a lot of time, patience and hand coordination to fully understand and do.
Another secret is the art of misdirection. See this blank paper? And as audience looks at the blank paper, he is carefully getting another piece with his other hand. This is misdirection. Another type of misdirection is the kind that doesn’t let the audience see what’s really causing the tricks. You might have seen that a magician has a lot of assistants who also do incredible stuff, but what you didn’t know is that they are helping the magician perform the magic just with their presence.
Another kind of misdirection is the appropriate use of words. For example, a magician will tell you to look at the ‘empty’ box. We tend to look at the box as empty just because he said it. This causes our mind to wonder when the magician gets a rabbit out of it.
Misdirection takes a lot of practice and lots of time in planning. It requires body coordination (one body doing something while the other is doing another thing) and quick thinking. Misdirection is an art and magicians are proud of it.
Another secret is their patter or a magician’s constant talk. Misdirection is achieved mostly because of patter. The magician will ask you to look at his right hand and as you are looking, you won’t notice what his left hand is doing. This is a really clever way to achieve the illusion that what happens next becomes so magical with the wink of an eye.
Patter usually takes the form of a story, where a magician will tell you of something that happened to him someday. Sometimes it’s so funny that we actually forget to look at what their hands are doing or what their assistants are giving them.
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Magicians have their secrets but they won’t tell. It’s a sworn oath for magicians not to tell the audience how a trick is done. There are 3 secrets though that they’ve shared all throughout the years. Here are their 3 secrets.
The first secret is that some tricks are done through sleight of hand. These are ways with which they skillfully hide an object and make it reappear on another hand. New magicians hide things up their sleeves. Those are old tricks and very few used them now.
Sleights of hand require a lot of practice to master. Beginners of magic use specially created gimmicks to create the illusion. Professional magicians make use of their impressive sleight of hand. It requires a lot of time, patience and hand coordination to fully understand and do.
Another secret is the art of misdirection. See this blank paper? And as audience looks at the blank paper, he is carefully getting another piece with his other hand. This is misdirection. Another type of misdirection is the kind that doesn’t let the audience see what’s really causing the tricks. You might have seen that a magician has a lot of assistants who also do incredible stuff, but what you didn’t know is that they are helping the magician perform the magic just with their presence.
Another kind of misdirection is the appropriate use of words. For example, a magician will tell you to look at the ‘empty’ box. We tend to look at the box as empty just because he said it. This causes our mind to wonder when the magician gets a rabbit out of it.
Misdirection takes a lot of practice and lots of time in planning. It requires body coordination (one body doing something while the other is doing another thing) and quick thinking. Misdirection is an art and magicians are proud of it.
Another secret is their patter or a magician’s constant talk. Misdirection is achieved mostly because of patter. The magician will ask you to look at his right hand and as you are looking, you won’t notice what his left hand is doing. This is a really clever way to achieve the illusion that what happens next becomes so magical with the wink of an eye.
Patter usually takes the form of a story, where a magician will tell you of something that happened to him someday. Sometimes it’s so funny that we actually forget to look at what their hands are doing or what their assistants are giving them.
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It's Showtime!
It's Showtime!
So you’ve decided to be a magician. Now you want to join a local group to learn a lot of tricks of trade. You practice them every night and now you think you’re ready to perform. What should you remember to do? Here are some tips for a successful magical show.
Show it to Other Magicians
Before plunging straight to the stage, be sure to show it to other magicians from your local group. They can spot mistakes and give you advice you could use once you start doing your show. This will be very important so keep in mind what they have to say.
Remember to ask for help if you’re struggling with your tricks. Ask them if you’re doing it right or ask what you are doing wrong. Be humble enough to know there are others better than you.
Plan Your Show
You can’t really barge in front of an audience without knowing the order of how you’ll do your tricks. The key is to get their attention, maintain it and at the end do something mesmerizing.
The first trick should be something that will catch attention. Don’t call on an audience volunteer immediately. Try some simple but effective sleights of hand to start things off. The second trick should be better than the first. Then follow it up with another trick. In between great tricks, try telling something funny or doing funny tricks just to make them laugh. At the end, mesmerize them with a spellbinding trick that will make them ask for more.
Remember that all your tricks should flow from one trick to another. It should be like a story where all the things happening are related to one another.
Length of the Show
If you’re in front of an audience that is paying, give them something that will not make them go to the refund window. Show them something exciting. New tricks are preferable as old tricks will just make them not want to watch your show.
If you’re doing it for kids, do something simple and short. Remember that a child’s attention span is short so you should give them something that will make them continue watching.
If you’re doing street magic, just give them one of the tricks you’ve mastered. Just mesmerize them and leave them with their mouths wide open showing appreciation to your magic.
Remember to practice, plan and time your show. A great show doesn’t need to be long to be good. Just give them something to remember you by.
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So you’ve decided to be a magician. Now you want to join a local group to learn a lot of tricks of trade. You practice them every night and now you think you’re ready to perform. What should you remember to do? Here are some tips for a successful magical show.
Show it to Other Magicians
Before plunging straight to the stage, be sure to show it to other magicians from your local group. They can spot mistakes and give you advice you could use once you start doing your show. This will be very important so keep in mind what they have to say.
Remember to ask for help if you’re struggling with your tricks. Ask them if you’re doing it right or ask what you are doing wrong. Be humble enough to know there are others better than you.
Plan Your Show
You can’t really barge in front of an audience without knowing the order of how you’ll do your tricks. The key is to get their attention, maintain it and at the end do something mesmerizing.
The first trick should be something that will catch attention. Don’t call on an audience volunteer immediately. Try some simple but effective sleights of hand to start things off. The second trick should be better than the first. Then follow it up with another trick. In between great tricks, try telling something funny or doing funny tricks just to make them laugh. At the end, mesmerize them with a spellbinding trick that will make them ask for more.
Remember that all your tricks should flow from one trick to another. It should be like a story where all the things happening are related to one another.
Length of the Show
If you’re in front of an audience that is paying, give them something that will not make them go to the refund window. Show them something exciting. New tricks are preferable as old tricks will just make them not want to watch your show.
If you’re doing it for kids, do something simple and short. Remember that a child’s attention span is short so you should give them something that will make them continue watching.
If you’re doing street magic, just give them one of the tricks you’ve mastered. Just mesmerize them and leave them with their mouths wide open showing appreciation to your magic.
Remember to practice, plan and time your show. A great show doesn’t need to be long to be good. Just give them something to remember you by.
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5 Tips On Improving Your Tricks
5 Tips On Improving Your Tricks
A magician is an artist. Every trick is a masterpiece and every trick requires a lot of patience and time to learn. Here are some tips to help you improve your tricks.
Practice Makes Perfect
You’ve learned a new trick and have shown it to an audience and mesmerized them, should that stop there? No! A magician always practices his bag of tricks, no matter how much he has mastered them. Bungling up a trick in front of an audience is one of the most embarrassing situations a magician can ever encounter.
You should set some time to practice your magic. Two hours every day is more than enough to help you polish up skills you’ve learned. Remember that time spent in practicing is not time wasted.
Videotape Your Act
Videotaping your act will let you see how the audience perceives you. It is important that you look at your video camera as you do it and try to think of it as your audience. Watching how you perform will let you see simple mistakes you probably didn’t know you were making. It will help in your practice and in knowing if a trick is effective.
Ask for Help
Joining a group could help you improve your tricks. You could watch how they do it. You would also have the chance to show your tricks and receive feedbacks. Remember to ask for help if you think you need it and to heed advice when given.
It’s important to realize that there are better magicians than you and that others have more experience.
Utilize Your Free Time
Going away for the weekends? Perhaps you’re going on a camping trip or fishing. Why not bring your materials with you? There will be free time on your trips where you could practice your tricks or devise new ones.
The trick is to use your time wisely. Think of every free time as a chance to practice and you’ll see improvements on your tricks.
Learning another Trick
Don’t try learning another trick until you’ve mastered your current trick. You should treat it as a painting and practice your trick until it becomes your own masterpiece.
Ask for help if you need them and try your best to finish learning what you’ve started.
A magician will always find ways to learn new tricks. It is important that they realize that a trick is not something to be taken for granted. You need to practice, practice, and practice. That is one way to ensure success in this business.
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A magician is an artist. Every trick is a masterpiece and every trick requires a lot of patience and time to learn. Here are some tips to help you improve your tricks.
Practice Makes Perfect
You’ve learned a new trick and have shown it to an audience and mesmerized them, should that stop there? No! A magician always practices his bag of tricks, no matter how much he has mastered them. Bungling up a trick in front of an audience is one of the most embarrassing situations a magician can ever encounter.
You should set some time to practice your magic. Two hours every day is more than enough to help you polish up skills you’ve learned. Remember that time spent in practicing is not time wasted.
Videotape Your Act
Videotaping your act will let you see how the audience perceives you. It is important that you look at your video camera as you do it and try to think of it as your audience. Watching how you perform will let you see simple mistakes you probably didn’t know you were making. It will help in your practice and in knowing if a trick is effective.
Ask for Help
Joining a group could help you improve your tricks. You could watch how they do it. You would also have the chance to show your tricks and receive feedbacks. Remember to ask for help if you think you need it and to heed advice when given.
It’s important to realize that there are better magicians than you and that others have more experience.
Utilize Your Free Time
Going away for the weekends? Perhaps you’re going on a camping trip or fishing. Why not bring your materials with you? There will be free time on your trips where you could practice your tricks or devise new ones.
The trick is to use your time wisely. Think of every free time as a chance to practice and you’ll see improvements on your tricks.
Learning another Trick
Don’t try learning another trick until you’ve mastered your current trick. You should treat it as a painting and practice your trick until it becomes your own masterpiece.
Ask for help if you need them and try your best to finish learning what you’ve started.
A magician will always find ways to learn new tricks. It is important that they realize that a trick is not something to be taken for granted. You need to practice, practice, and practice. That is one way to ensure success in this business.
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Being Good With Magic
Being Good With Magic
In medieval times, magic was associated with sorcery and witchcraft. People who possessed such a talent or gift were considered as heretics and were burned at the stake.
Years later, magic was given a new connotation. It provided people with a form of entertainment like making a plane disappear or cutting a person in half. These are all illusions from the simplest trick like making a coin disappear which just goes to show that the hand is quicker than the eye.
There have been a lot of talented magicians in this lifetime alone such as the likes of Harry Houdini who was an escape artist, David Copperfield who traveled around the world and amazed people with his large scale acts and lately David Blaine who is seen on television performing magic tricks that are seen by millions of viewers around the world.
What then makes a good magician is the one common question asked by several magician wannabe’s. Is it talent, a gift or sheer luck?
Everyone has the potential of becoming a somebody in the future, even magicians. Here are some traits that one might need to possess to be successful in life even if in the end, one does not become a magician.
1. Patience. Nobody became a successful magician overnight. It takes time to learn a trick, to practice it and eventually be good at it.
2. Open mind – a lot of well known magicians started in the confines of home watching how other people do it and reading up on such tricks. Some children started out by even buying a magic toy set with a variety of gadgets and followed the instructions until these people were able to do it with any need of guidance.
3. Confidence – some people have a hard time delivering a speech to a large audience. It is same thing with magic since there are a lot of people staring at just one person. The best thing to do is practice with a small audience first like some family members and friends and once that stage fright has been extinguished, one can perhaps get a larger crowd and do more.
4. Excellence – magicians can’t always use the same tricks in every show. There has to be changes and improvements that will make people old and new come back for more. By spending some time thinking about what to do or what has not yet been done and working on it, it will make that person stand out above the rest. Such reinvention will make a magician quite a gem in the field of magic.
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In medieval times, magic was associated with sorcery and witchcraft. People who possessed such a talent or gift were considered as heretics and were burned at the stake.
Years later, magic was given a new connotation. It provided people with a form of entertainment like making a plane disappear or cutting a person in half. These are all illusions from the simplest trick like making a coin disappear which just goes to show that the hand is quicker than the eye.
There have been a lot of talented magicians in this lifetime alone such as the likes of Harry Houdini who was an escape artist, David Copperfield who traveled around the world and amazed people with his large scale acts and lately David Blaine who is seen on television performing magic tricks that are seen by millions of viewers around the world.
What then makes a good magician is the one common question asked by several magician wannabe’s. Is it talent, a gift or sheer luck?
Everyone has the potential of becoming a somebody in the future, even magicians. Here are some traits that one might need to possess to be successful in life even if in the end, one does not become a magician.
1. Patience. Nobody became a successful magician overnight. It takes time to learn a trick, to practice it and eventually be good at it.
2. Open mind – a lot of well known magicians started in the confines of home watching how other people do it and reading up on such tricks. Some children started out by even buying a magic toy set with a variety of gadgets and followed the instructions until these people were able to do it with any need of guidance.
3. Confidence – some people have a hard time delivering a speech to a large audience. It is same thing with magic since there are a lot of people staring at just one person. The best thing to do is practice with a small audience first like some family members and friends and once that stage fright has been extinguished, one can perhaps get a larger crowd and do more.
4. Excellence – magicians can’t always use the same tricks in every show. There has to be changes and improvements that will make people old and new come back for more. By spending some time thinking about what to do or what has not yet been done and working on it, it will make that person stand out above the rest. Such reinvention will make a magician quite a gem in the field of magic.
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Magic Tricks
Magic Tricks
There are many kinds of magic tricks that have been passed on from one generation to the next. Some of these have shown to be improvements of a previous act setting the bar higher for those who want to be known as world-class magicians.
These are some things in life that will never cease to amaze people both young and old. This amusement comes from clowns to simple people who perform magic during birthday parties, shows, or just about any event that could make use of some entertainment.
Magic works by simply using the art of illusion to get it done. Here are some categories of this wondrous art;
- Levitation – is done by a magician with a volunteer from the audience, usually a female, who will be asked to lie down on a table and when it is removed, she will seem like she was enabled to float in mid air through the power of the magician.
- Production – some magicians pull a handkerchief from their pocket and it will seem like, all of a sudden, it becomes an endless chain of hankies. Others, with a snap of a finger, can create smoke and when it clears, a bunch of flowers will appear as held by the magician.
- Restoration – this is when magicians cut a person in half and put together again. A simpler version is the tearing up of a piece of paper and making it whole again.
- Teleportation – a magician with the help of an assistant will pick a volunteer from the audience and make that person disappear. Minutes later, the volunteer reappears somewhere else.
- Transformation – some magicians can turn an egg that was crushed or any other object inside the hat or a box to a small bird that will fly in the air or a bunny that will hop away.
- Vanishing – this is best described as how the hand is quicker than the eye. The person holds a coin in one hand, closes it then disappears only to find it being taken out from the ear or nose of the volunteer from the audience.
Many aspiring magicians can learn so many tricks. One can learn them by buying a magic set or reading a book. Many of these people started in the confines of their homes watching how other people do it.
All of these tricks, either simple or large scale, require an amlple amount of practice to get them right. Such feat needs the support of friends and family to inspire the magician in the presence of setbacks. No magician has ever become successful overnight. The effort will all pay off when the endeavor becomes accomplished that will eventually build the reputation of such magician.
Remember that the key to making a trick successful is to amaze the audience and make such an experience an unforgettable one.
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There are many kinds of magic tricks that have been passed on from one generation to the next. Some of these have shown to be improvements of a previous act setting the bar higher for those who want to be known as world-class magicians.
These are some things in life that will never cease to amaze people both young and old. This amusement comes from clowns to simple people who perform magic during birthday parties, shows, or just about any event that could make use of some entertainment.
Magic works by simply using the art of illusion to get it done. Here are some categories of this wondrous art;
- Levitation – is done by a magician with a volunteer from the audience, usually a female, who will be asked to lie down on a table and when it is removed, she will seem like she was enabled to float in mid air through the power of the magician.
- Production – some magicians pull a handkerchief from their pocket and it will seem like, all of a sudden, it becomes an endless chain of hankies. Others, with a snap of a finger, can create smoke and when it clears, a bunch of flowers will appear as held by the magician.
- Restoration – this is when magicians cut a person in half and put together again. A simpler version is the tearing up of a piece of paper and making it whole again.
- Teleportation – a magician with the help of an assistant will pick a volunteer from the audience and make that person disappear. Minutes later, the volunteer reappears somewhere else.
- Transformation – some magicians can turn an egg that was crushed or any other object inside the hat or a box to a small bird that will fly in the air or a bunny that will hop away.
- Vanishing – this is best described as how the hand is quicker than the eye. The person holds a coin in one hand, closes it then disappears only to find it being taken out from the ear or nose of the volunteer from the audience.
Many aspiring magicians can learn so many tricks. One can learn them by buying a magic set or reading a book. Many of these people started in the confines of their homes watching how other people do it.
All of these tricks, either simple or large scale, require an amlple amount of practice to get them right. Such feat needs the support of friends and family to inspire the magician in the presence of setbacks. No magician has ever become successful overnight. The effort will all pay off when the endeavor becomes accomplished that will eventually build the reputation of such magician.
Remember that the key to making a trick successful is to amaze the audience and make such an experience an unforgettable one.
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Types Of Magic Tricks
Types Of Magic Tricks
Magic is one form of entertainment enjoyed by many people from all walks of life. It is something that will never cease to amaze people both young and old.
If one wishes to become a good magician, it would be a great help to know the various types of magic tricks before performing any.
Magic tricks are done in a wide variety of ways and fall into different types;
1. The first one is called close up magic. It's the type that requires the least skill and many can do it with just a little practice. It usually involves the use of simple things such as a deck of cards, some small balls or a coin. It entails making people believe in one thing but doing something else. This kind of trick proves that the hand is faster than the eye.
2. The next type is called platform magic. This is done in a much larger scale than the first. Some tricks of this type that are well-known include cutting a person that is inside a box in half or making a person who's lying down levitate in the air after the table below has been removed.
3. The third type, which is very tricky, is called stage magic. Such performances are done quite rarely but when performed, they can become one great magic extravaganza. Such type includes making the statue of liberty disappear or walking through the Great Wall of China.
Innumerable magic tricks and trick lessons make it possible for a lot of people to learn how to become one good magician. This can be accomplished by buying a magic set or reading a book. Many of these people started while at home, watching how other people do it.
Other people who have some experience have talked with others and learned a trick or two. One can start with a small audience then have a larger one later on. To those who want to do more extreme magic, one should invest more into the trade, learn from others then make a mark to be truly called a magician.
One trick of the trade is to remember that no magician, either a beginner or an expert, should ever reveal the secrets of doing a trick to his or her spectator. Also, no magician has ever become successful overnight. Practice and reinvention can help a lot in getting near that coveted status of a magician -- the famous and most loved one.
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Magic is one form of entertainment enjoyed by many people from all walks of life. It is something that will never cease to amaze people both young and old.
If one wishes to become a good magician, it would be a great help to know the various types of magic tricks before performing any.
Magic tricks are done in a wide variety of ways and fall into different types;
1. The first one is called close up magic. It's the type that requires the least skill and many can do it with just a little practice. It usually involves the use of simple things such as a deck of cards, some small balls or a coin. It entails making people believe in one thing but doing something else. This kind of trick proves that the hand is faster than the eye.
2. The next type is called platform magic. This is done in a much larger scale than the first. Some tricks of this type that are well-known include cutting a person that is inside a box in half or making a person who's lying down levitate in the air after the table below has been removed.
3. The third type, which is very tricky, is called stage magic. Such performances are done quite rarely but when performed, they can become one great magic extravaganza. Such type includes making the statue of liberty disappear or walking through the Great Wall of China.
Innumerable magic tricks and trick lessons make it possible for a lot of people to learn how to become one good magician. This can be accomplished by buying a magic set or reading a book. Many of these people started while at home, watching how other people do it.
Other people who have some experience have talked with others and learned a trick or two. One can start with a small audience then have a larger one later on. To those who want to do more extreme magic, one should invest more into the trade, learn from others then make a mark to be truly called a magician.
One trick of the trade is to remember that no magician, either a beginner or an expert, should ever reveal the secrets of doing a trick to his or her spectator. Also, no magician has ever become successful overnight. Practice and reinvention can help a lot in getting near that coveted status of a magician -- the famous and most loved one.
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Magic Cards
Magic Cards
Magic has been around for centuries. It has even been associated with medieval times in stories of Merlin and King Arthur, which has made religious people believe that this was evil. And people who knew it and practiced it were considered to be heretics and were burned at the stake.
Now who would ever imagine that magic has now gained a more favorable popularity? With more than a handful of famous magicians amusing innumerable audiences, magic has never been this much loved before. This popularity has made a lot of people yearn to learn some magic tricks. One of the most basic is the use of magic cards.
A deck of cards is one of the most common props used by magicians. There are many forms of magic tricks a person can do with a deck of cards. Here's what one aspiring magician has to learn in manipulating magic cards:
The first thing that a person must learn is how to shuffle. This is done using both hands and by having a certain amount of cards on each hand. Then alternately put one card over the other until all the cards are in one stack then putting them together to form a uniform pile.
After that, one can start performing certain tricks that will both fool and amaze the audience. Some well known magicians can make a cigarette go right through a deck of cards while others can make a card float in the air with no visible strings attached.
The most basic trick that anyone can master however is letting someone pick a card and after shuffling it, picking that same card the person selected moments ago. There are so many other tricks one can do with a deck of cards and all it takes is some time to get to know these tricks, practice it then show off to friends.
Other than using magic cards, there are so many other tricks, which involve other props or paraphernalia such as a coin, a hanky, or even a small ball. The use of cards in performing a trick is merely an execution of various optical illusions and manipulation, which just goes to show that the hand is quicker than the eye.
Cards can be bought at the local specialty store or ordered online. Sometimes these come with other special packages that will make tricks more fun to perform and watch.
One secret that either a newbie or an expert can benefit on while using a magic card or just about any magic props is to not reveal the secret of how the tricks are done.
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Magic has been around for centuries. It has even been associated with medieval times in stories of Merlin and King Arthur, which has made religious people believe that this was evil. And people who knew it and practiced it were considered to be heretics and were burned at the stake.
Now who would ever imagine that magic has now gained a more favorable popularity? With more than a handful of famous magicians amusing innumerable audiences, magic has never been this much loved before. This popularity has made a lot of people yearn to learn some magic tricks. One of the most basic is the use of magic cards.
A deck of cards is one of the most common props used by magicians. There are many forms of magic tricks a person can do with a deck of cards. Here's what one aspiring magician has to learn in manipulating magic cards:
The first thing that a person must learn is how to shuffle. This is done using both hands and by having a certain amount of cards on each hand. Then alternately put one card over the other until all the cards are in one stack then putting them together to form a uniform pile.
After that, one can start performing certain tricks that will both fool and amaze the audience. Some well known magicians can make a cigarette go right through a deck of cards while others can make a card float in the air with no visible strings attached.
The most basic trick that anyone can master however is letting someone pick a card and after shuffling it, picking that same card the person selected moments ago. There are so many other tricks one can do with a deck of cards and all it takes is some time to get to know these tricks, practice it then show off to friends.
Other than using magic cards, there are so many other tricks, which involve other props or paraphernalia such as a coin, a hanky, or even a small ball. The use of cards in performing a trick is merely an execution of various optical illusions and manipulation, which just goes to show that the hand is quicker than the eye.
Cards can be bought at the local specialty store or ordered online. Sometimes these come with other special packages that will make tricks more fun to perform and watch.
One secret that either a newbie or an expert can benefit on while using a magic card or just about any magic props is to not reveal the secret of how the tricks are done.
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Becoming A Magician
Becoming A Magician
Everyone has the potential of becoming successful in the future. It takes someone who has good grades to become an engineer. A person who has a good voice can participate in various competitions before becoming a seasoned singer. The same determination is also needed should one decide to become a magician.
In medieval times, magic was associated with sorcery and witchcraft. People who were known to posses these skills were considered as heretics and were burned at the stake. Years later that has changed and now magic provides people with various kinds of entertainment, e.g., watching the statue of liberty disappear with just a wink of an eye or putting a person in a box and piercing it with swords and the volunteer comes out unscathed. These are all illusions that have amazed the audience and makes these people come back for more.
There have been a lot of talented magicians in this lifetime alone such as the likes of Harry Houdini who was an escaped artist, David Copperfield who has traveled around the world and amazed people with his large scale acts and lately David Blaine who is seen on television performing magic tricks for millions of viewers around the world.
With these wonders of magic, will there still be qualms why would one want to become a magician?
Others may also just opt to become one for the money. Talent fees to appear before live audiences cost a lot and with more bookings, such a magician could make a fortune. Some magicians who have become celebrities can now get endorsements from various companies and get a talent fee for promoting that brand.
There are also individuals who want to become magicians for the love of it. Some people believe that doing something feels better if one has the passion for it. Money is just a perk in the trade but if that person wants to take it to the limit and stand out above the rest, then a feeling of self accomplishment is fulfilled making that person prepare once again for the next challenge.
Some people grew up with magicians as role models. Why not? Magicians can turn one's rueful mood into an amazed one. What could be more fun and fulfilling than making people forget their worries and stressful situations? Becoming a magician is truly such a rewarding profession.
The reason behind one's intention on learning to be a good magician may vary. But one thing is for sure, magicians are here to pepper life with some fun from bewilderment. Whatever the reason one magician may have as to why he continues to perform tricks is not important. What matters is they make life less of a bore.
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Everyone has the potential of becoming successful in the future. It takes someone who has good grades to become an engineer. A person who has a good voice can participate in various competitions before becoming a seasoned singer. The same determination is also needed should one decide to become a magician.
In medieval times, magic was associated with sorcery and witchcraft. People who were known to posses these skills were considered as heretics and were burned at the stake. Years later that has changed and now magic provides people with various kinds of entertainment, e.g., watching the statue of liberty disappear with just a wink of an eye or putting a person in a box and piercing it with swords and the volunteer comes out unscathed. These are all illusions that have amazed the audience and makes these people come back for more.
There have been a lot of talented magicians in this lifetime alone such as the likes of Harry Houdini who was an escaped artist, David Copperfield who has traveled around the world and amazed people with his large scale acts and lately David Blaine who is seen on television performing magic tricks for millions of viewers around the world.
With these wonders of magic, will there still be qualms why would one want to become a magician?
Others may also just opt to become one for the money. Talent fees to appear before live audiences cost a lot and with more bookings, such a magician could make a fortune. Some magicians who have become celebrities can now get endorsements from various companies and get a talent fee for promoting that brand.
There are also individuals who want to become magicians for the love of it. Some people believe that doing something feels better if one has the passion for it. Money is just a perk in the trade but if that person wants to take it to the limit and stand out above the rest, then a feeling of self accomplishment is fulfilled making that person prepare once again for the next challenge.
Some people grew up with magicians as role models. Why not? Magicians can turn one's rueful mood into an amazed one. What could be more fun and fulfilling than making people forget their worries and stressful situations? Becoming a magician is truly such a rewarding profession.
The reason behind one's intention on learning to be a good magician may vary. But one thing is for sure, magicians are here to pepper life with some fun from bewilderment. Whatever the reason one magician may have as to why he continues to perform tricks is not important. What matters is they make life less of a bore.
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Agents For Magicians, Should They Stay Or Go Poof?
Agents For Magicians, Should They Stay Or Go Poof?
Some magicians hate agents, while some like them. What is better: having an agent or not having one? Which is which? Believe it or not, the decision actually depends on you. For some, getting agents is a very touchy subject. Usually it is because some find it very hard to accept that their agents get more money and earn more than the actual performing magicians.
So some magicians can not help but think: it is a trick! To help you decide better about whether you should get an agent or not, the following are some details and information which could help you decide whether to have an agent or to get rid of the one you already have.
One thing good about having an agent is that you save yourself from the trouble of having to negotiate yourself. Usually, there are instances wherein you can get higher talent fees if it is not you who are doing the haggling. If there is an agent involved, he or she would usually say that your services could only be gotten if the fee is such and such. Doing so usually means you would not create for yourself an unfriendly image.
Also, every time an agent makes money, so do you! The many bookings an agent gets for you, the more money you would get from all those gigs. This and minus so much of the hassle of you having to schedule all your performances, collecting your talent fees, practicing for your act, etc.
When you have an agent, all you need to do is show up and give the best performance of your life.
Agents also invest money on advertisements that are all about you. So you also save on the expenses and the stress of having to think of where your name should be placed, what size should your marquee be and all that jazz.
Another advantage of having an agent is that you look and are considered more as a professional than if you do not have one. It is so convenient to just show up for your performance and let your agent do the dirty work.
Still confused? If you already have an agent and you are still considering dropping him like a bad habit, maybe the following details would assist you to better decide if you should do so or not.
It is best that you talk with your agent and make an agreement with him or her on how much you would want to receive for your particular performance or engagement. Do not rack your brain thinking how much your agent would get out of this. It is more productive to think how much you would get out of that gig. If your agent earns a little more than you do, so be it. As long as you are getting the fee you want, that is okay. A good gig is a good gig. Imagine who they will be getting in the future for any more gigs. If they think of your agent, it is just the same way that they will be probably thinking of you too.
It is also highly advisable for you to get a contract. A contract makes your relationship with your agent more efficient, straightforward and clear. Thanks to a contract, your agent will not be able to hide how much they are getting. Have your agent fax you a copy of the contract.
Let us face it, just like in any profession there are agents that are good in what they do and there are those that are bad in what they do. There are also those who are unethical. There have been instances where agents and agencies merely concentrate on money more than in anything else. Avoid having to do anything with them. An agent or agency that does not call you even if a client specifically requests for your services is bad news.
There are also agents that will get you to lower your price but then still charge a customer with a large fee. Do not let this happen to you. Stick with the price you think you deserve.
You should also try to avoid agents who give you various reasons and excuses about this client being unable to pay because of such and such reasons. This is a trick, and you as a magician should know this better than the others.
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Some magicians hate agents, while some like them. What is better: having an agent or not having one? Which is which? Believe it or not, the decision actually depends on you. For some, getting agents is a very touchy subject. Usually it is because some find it very hard to accept that their agents get more money and earn more than the actual performing magicians.
So some magicians can not help but think: it is a trick! To help you decide better about whether you should get an agent or not, the following are some details and information which could help you decide whether to have an agent or to get rid of the one you already have.
One thing good about having an agent is that you save yourself from the trouble of having to negotiate yourself. Usually, there are instances wherein you can get higher talent fees if it is not you who are doing the haggling. If there is an agent involved, he or she would usually say that your services could only be gotten if the fee is such and such. Doing so usually means you would not create for yourself an unfriendly image.
Also, every time an agent makes money, so do you! The many bookings an agent gets for you, the more money you would get from all those gigs. This and minus so much of the hassle of you having to schedule all your performances, collecting your talent fees, practicing for your act, etc.
When you have an agent, all you need to do is show up and give the best performance of your life.
Agents also invest money on advertisements that are all about you. So you also save on the expenses and the stress of having to think of where your name should be placed, what size should your marquee be and all that jazz.
Another advantage of having an agent is that you look and are considered more as a professional than if you do not have one. It is so convenient to just show up for your performance and let your agent do the dirty work.
Still confused? If you already have an agent and you are still considering dropping him like a bad habit, maybe the following details would assist you to better decide if you should do so or not.
It is best that you talk with your agent and make an agreement with him or her on how much you would want to receive for your particular performance or engagement. Do not rack your brain thinking how much your agent would get out of this. It is more productive to think how much you would get out of that gig. If your agent earns a little more than you do, so be it. As long as you are getting the fee you want, that is okay. A good gig is a good gig. Imagine who they will be getting in the future for any more gigs. If they think of your agent, it is just the same way that they will be probably thinking of you too.
It is also highly advisable for you to get a contract. A contract makes your relationship with your agent more efficient, straightforward and clear. Thanks to a contract, your agent will not be able to hide how much they are getting. Have your agent fax you a copy of the contract.
Let us face it, just like in any profession there are agents that are good in what they do and there are those that are bad in what they do. There are also those who are unethical. There have been instances where agents and agencies merely concentrate on money more than in anything else. Avoid having to do anything with them. An agent or agency that does not call you even if a client specifically requests for your services is bad news.
There are also agents that will get you to lower your price but then still charge a customer with a large fee. Do not let this happen to you. Stick with the price you think you deserve.
You should also try to avoid agents who give you various reasons and excuses about this client being unable to pay because of such and such reasons. This is a trick, and you as a magician should know this better than the others.
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Learning The Tricks: Box Tricks
Learning The Tricks: Box Tricks
Are you one of those people who would like to learn the tricks after seeing a magic show? Would you like to do some tricks on your friend especially when you want him to just “poof!” out of your life for a while? Then, it is time that you learn the secret in doing magic tricks.
The problem is that most people who want to learn magic tricks could not get them directly from a magician. Probably, they were just afraid you could outwit them, or maybe they do not simply want anybody to learn the tricks.
However, the truth is that everybody can learn magic tricks. Obtaining the skills in order to perform magic tricks is not limited. It is open for everybody who is willing to learn and master the craft.
Take for example the well-loved box tricks. Most people are so amazed with the fact that people can disappear with just a snap while inside the box. The good thing about it is that they can easily reappear in the box.
Impossible? Think again.
Box tricks, like any magic tricks are all based on illusions. The purpose of these illusions is to amaze and bewilder the audience, generating a belief that something extraordinary had just taken place.
In reality, people knew that these box tricks are just forms of trickery but the fact that the action is truly baffling; everybody is entertained.
Generally, box tricks entail the disappearance of a person after he was placed inside the box. With just a tap on the lid, and some “magic words” the person inside the box disappears.
Usually, the secret to these box tricks is based on the box itself. These boxes are made from a huge “cardboard box” that is carefully made in such a way that the trick can be executed without having to give the audience a hint.
Hence, the box should be made in such a way that the person who will fit into the box could easily get hide behind it without having to reveal any means of knowing the trick.
How to Make the Box
The greatest secret in box tricks is based on the composition of the box. Here is how to make the magic box:
1. Choose a box that has plenty of room for the person who will get in. Be sure that he will still be able to move a little once he needs to get out of the box at once.
2. Cut the box’s base. Be sure you to leave an edge on the three sides.
3. Slit the “false bottom” from an additional portion of the cardboard fixing it in the interior, and fastening it with the center of a sturdy tape.
4. Fasten them on the grip.
5. Slash or fasten jointly a “one-piece” cardboard cover. Try to color it with a dark hue to add more fuss.
The Box Trick
Basically, the magic box that is being used in the trick has a bogus base. This means that the box has no real, solid bottom. This make up is generally made in order to allow the box to be tipped forward without having to reveal the person inside the box.
The tricky part here is that when the magician tries to tilt the box forward, so that the audience can see whether the person is still inside or not, the box actually slips over the person who is inside it. The reason why he is not exposed to the audience is that he is tugging the “hinged” base closed by simply clutching its grip at the same time.
In this way, the person is blocked out at the back of the magic box. The magical part is that the audience is amused on how the person had vanished.
This type of magic trick is usually known as stage magic, wherein the magician or the performer will do the trick in front of many people.
With the demands of the audience, the effectiveness of the box trick as one type of the stage magic is based on stage presence, proper timing, comedy value, and other skills that would generate amusement without having to appear that the performer is making a trick out of the audience.
The most important thing, when somebody wants to learn this kind of magic trick is that he should be able to divert the audience’s attention from one area to another. It is through this moment that the trick is being executed without the audience realizing it.
So, if you want to learn the box tricks, be sure that you have all the skills properly coordinated with the ideas you will obtain. Keep in mind that a good trick is only applicable to those who were amazed with your act, so be sure to perform your best shot.
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Are you one of those people who would like to learn the tricks after seeing a magic show? Would you like to do some tricks on your friend especially when you want him to just “poof!” out of your life for a while? Then, it is time that you learn the secret in doing magic tricks.
The problem is that most people who want to learn magic tricks could not get them directly from a magician. Probably, they were just afraid you could outwit them, or maybe they do not simply want anybody to learn the tricks.
However, the truth is that everybody can learn magic tricks. Obtaining the skills in order to perform magic tricks is not limited. It is open for everybody who is willing to learn and master the craft.
Take for example the well-loved box tricks. Most people are so amazed with the fact that people can disappear with just a snap while inside the box. The good thing about it is that they can easily reappear in the box.
Impossible? Think again.
Box tricks, like any magic tricks are all based on illusions. The purpose of these illusions is to amaze and bewilder the audience, generating a belief that something extraordinary had just taken place.
In reality, people knew that these box tricks are just forms of trickery but the fact that the action is truly baffling; everybody is entertained.
Generally, box tricks entail the disappearance of a person after he was placed inside the box. With just a tap on the lid, and some “magic words” the person inside the box disappears.
Usually, the secret to these box tricks is based on the box itself. These boxes are made from a huge “cardboard box” that is carefully made in such a way that the trick can be executed without having to give the audience a hint.
Hence, the box should be made in such a way that the person who will fit into the box could easily get hide behind it without having to reveal any means of knowing the trick.
How to Make the Box
The greatest secret in box tricks is based on the composition of the box. Here is how to make the magic box:
1. Choose a box that has plenty of room for the person who will get in. Be sure that he will still be able to move a little once he needs to get out of the box at once.
2. Cut the box’s base. Be sure you to leave an edge on the three sides.
3. Slit the “false bottom” from an additional portion of the cardboard fixing it in the interior, and fastening it with the center of a sturdy tape.
4. Fasten them on the grip.
5. Slash or fasten jointly a “one-piece” cardboard cover. Try to color it with a dark hue to add more fuss.
The Box Trick
Basically, the magic box that is being used in the trick has a bogus base. This means that the box has no real, solid bottom. This make up is generally made in order to allow the box to be tipped forward without having to reveal the person inside the box.
The tricky part here is that when the magician tries to tilt the box forward, so that the audience can see whether the person is still inside or not, the box actually slips over the person who is inside it. The reason why he is not exposed to the audience is that he is tugging the “hinged” base closed by simply clutching its grip at the same time.
In this way, the person is blocked out at the back of the magic box. The magical part is that the audience is amused on how the person had vanished.
This type of magic trick is usually known as stage magic, wherein the magician or the performer will do the trick in front of many people.
With the demands of the audience, the effectiveness of the box trick as one type of the stage magic is based on stage presence, proper timing, comedy value, and other skills that would generate amusement without having to appear that the performer is making a trick out of the audience.
The most important thing, when somebody wants to learn this kind of magic trick is that he should be able to divert the audience’s attention from one area to another. It is through this moment that the trick is being executed without the audience realizing it.
So, if you want to learn the box tricks, be sure that you have all the skills properly coordinated with the ideas you will obtain. Keep in mind that a good trick is only applicable to those who were amazed with your act, so be sure to perform your best shot.
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Learning The Tricks: Buy Or Make Your Props
Learning The Tricks: Buy Or Make Your Props
Magic is such an illusive matter that people tend to believe that something extraordinary can really happen. In most cases, magicians will create illusions in order to divert the people’s attention from reality to pure fantasy. It is when people disappear; bodies can float in mid-air, etc.
That is why every magician knows that whatever he does in front of the audience, he is actually making people entertained and amused.
What most people do not know is that the magic tricks that magicians perform are not purely skills. Their props contribute to their success as well. This is because magicians can never perform their tricks without their props.
As they say, props can make or unmake a magician. Defective props, and not just improper coordination of skills, may contribute to the failure of the show. Hence, it is important to know how to buy or make the right stuff in order to perform their best.
Here is a list of some tips that you can use when buying or making your own props:
1. Know your tricks
The problem with most magicians is that they are not well versed on their tricks. That is why they do not know what type of props is appropriate for a particular trick.
For this reason, it is extremely important for the magician to familiarize himself with the kind of tricks that he will perform so that he will know what to props to buy or make.
2. Never buy trick coins or cards.
This will only create an impression on your audience that there might be something special on the coins or cards that you cannot use a normal item.
Hence, even if props are important in generating a successful show, it is best not to purely rely on them. It would be better if you will use the normal coins or cards and practice your tricks.
It really pays to practice a lot than to execute your tricks at once but the show is entirely dependent on the props.
3. Well maintained props generate more money
Keep in mind that it is important for every magician to maintain his props. It does not matter whether you have bought the props or you have just made them yourself. What matter most is how you try to preserve its efficiency by maintaining its color, vibrancy, beauty, and quality.
Remember that taking your props for granted and using defective props may ruin your career.
4. Keep them away from any harmful products
In order to maintain the goodness and quality of your props, it would be better if you will keep in them in places where they are away from dust, moisture, and dirt.
Making them last longer will definitely bring you more benefits and will keep you from buying and making props repeatedly.
5. Test or inspect the product before you leave the store
If you will be buying your props from a magic store or any novelty store for that matter, try to inspect meticulously the overall composition of the item.
Check for broken parts or loose portions. This may ruin your act once you are using them in your show.
6. Go for the best items; look for the magician’s props
If you really want to obtain the best quality when it comes to props, it would be better if you consider the props of a professional or well-known magician. These products are known to be of high quality considering the fact that they were endorsed by a famous magician who can attest its efficiency.
These props are considered as those that have been tried and tested.
7. Go for the bundle
If you are just a budding magician, it is best if you will not spend too much just buying props. Either you could make your own or you could go for bundles. This means that you can save more money if you will buy props that are included in a package.
For instance, you could get a sales package wherein the box that was used could also be utilized as a table during the show or performance.
Boiled down, buying or making props is relatively important to the success of a specific performance. Hence, you should be very particular when choosing the best props to use.
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Magic is such an illusive matter that people tend to believe that something extraordinary can really happen. In most cases, magicians will create illusions in order to divert the people’s attention from reality to pure fantasy. It is when people disappear; bodies can float in mid-air, etc.
That is why every magician knows that whatever he does in front of the audience, he is actually making people entertained and amused.
What most people do not know is that the magic tricks that magicians perform are not purely skills. Their props contribute to their success as well. This is because magicians can never perform their tricks without their props.
As they say, props can make or unmake a magician. Defective props, and not just improper coordination of skills, may contribute to the failure of the show. Hence, it is important to know how to buy or make the right stuff in order to perform their best.
Here is a list of some tips that you can use when buying or making your own props:
1. Know your tricks
The problem with most magicians is that they are not well versed on their tricks. That is why they do not know what type of props is appropriate for a particular trick.
For this reason, it is extremely important for the magician to familiarize himself with the kind of tricks that he will perform so that he will know what to props to buy or make.
2. Never buy trick coins or cards.
This will only create an impression on your audience that there might be something special on the coins or cards that you cannot use a normal item.
Hence, even if props are important in generating a successful show, it is best not to purely rely on them. It would be better if you will use the normal coins or cards and practice your tricks.
It really pays to practice a lot than to execute your tricks at once but the show is entirely dependent on the props.
3. Well maintained props generate more money
Keep in mind that it is important for every magician to maintain his props. It does not matter whether you have bought the props or you have just made them yourself. What matter most is how you try to preserve its efficiency by maintaining its color, vibrancy, beauty, and quality.
Remember that taking your props for granted and using defective props may ruin your career.
4. Keep them away from any harmful products
In order to maintain the goodness and quality of your props, it would be better if you will keep in them in places where they are away from dust, moisture, and dirt.
Making them last longer will definitely bring you more benefits and will keep you from buying and making props repeatedly.
5. Test or inspect the product before you leave the store
If you will be buying your props from a magic store or any novelty store for that matter, try to inspect meticulously the overall composition of the item.
Check for broken parts or loose portions. This may ruin your act once you are using them in your show.
6. Go for the best items; look for the magician’s props
If you really want to obtain the best quality when it comes to props, it would be better if you consider the props of a professional or well-known magician. These products are known to be of high quality considering the fact that they were endorsed by a famous magician who can attest its efficiency.
These props are considered as those that have been tried and tested.
7. Go for the bundle
If you are just a budding magician, it is best if you will not spend too much just buying props. Either you could make your own or you could go for bundles. This means that you can save more money if you will buy props that are included in a package.
For instance, you could get a sales package wherein the box that was used could also be utilized as a table during the show or performance.
Boiled down, buying or making props is relatively important to the success of a specific performance. Hence, you should be very particular when choosing the best props to use.
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Learning The Tricks: Handkerchief Tricks
Learning The Tricks: Handkerchief Tricks
Magic tricks have been around for centuries and are practiced in every society. They are among the most popular past times both for children and adult.
Tricks may make use of materials or objects such as coins, cards, tables, game cards, and number tricks but the one that remains to be the most popular among children and the one that is first learned by a beginner is the handkerchief.
Linen or Silk?
Tricks using a handkerchief can be either performed in whatever material it was made of. However, the type of tricks to be performed determines the type of handkerchief you are to use.
For knots and similar activities, a silk handkerchief is chiefly used because they slide quickly in the process of tying up. Other magic tricks using a handkerchief requires a hard material like linen as in the case of bringing about a hypnotized effect on a handkerchief.
Below are just some of the most common magic tricks that involve the use of handkerchief together with explanations on how magic works.
- Standing Handkerchief – This type of magic trick makes use of a hemmed linen handkerchief which is ironed to make it even more stiff. This very same stiffness determines the success for this performance.
The handkerchief is taken folded from somewhere and spread on the table. The magician picks it up on the centerfold and raises it up in the air until it takes the shape of a small tent.
He will do the usual mystic hand pass while putting the handkerchief in an upright position. The hanky will stay upright as predicted as if it was put on a spell.
- Detachable Thumb – In this trick, you will need both a hanky and a piece of carrot. The carrot should be cut in a way that resembles your thumb. It should be as small and has the same thickness as your finger.
Partly cover your hand and parts of your thumb finger with the hanky. You will need both sleight of hand and dexterity in this kind of activity. Quickness is the rule of the game in order not to spoil the trick.
Place the carrot in the same position as your thumb showing only that portion while covered with handkerchief. Patter a little bit with your audience describing how you have been feeling about your finger since you accidentally hurt it.
Ask one to participate to do the inspection and possible massaging for them. The moment they hold the carrot, release it and act like you were surprised.
- Handkerchief That Changes Color – Apparently, this is one of the simplest magic trick usually done by magicians in terms of minimal effect on the audience but one of the most difficult when it comes to preparation and production.
The magician will show the audience a hanky and toss it around, up and down, right and left, and changes color along the way. The hanky does not actually changes its color since the magician is holding not one, but two hankie!
As the hankie is tossed up and down, he makes it a point to reverse the position of the topmost hankie so that the one in the bottom with a different color is showed up and the hankie apparently changes color.
This quite a difficult thing to do for many suspecting audience are trying to find out if you got several hankie at hand. This requires swiftness in the movement of your hand and making sure that the hankies you are holding do not move independently of one another.
Tips on Performing Handkerchief Tricks
- Be swift – Try to be mindful of astute members of the audience at all times. Even the most seemingly attentive spectator are keen enough even the most slightest mistake made along the process of performing your tricks thereby spoiling it.
- Mouth Shut – Secrecy is the basic rule that magicians should keep in mind. Blabbing about the secret of your tricks makes it even less appealing to onlookers. Allow the audience to make their own guesses and find it out in their own way. In short, keep them mystified.
- Practice! Although practice may not help you master all the skills needed for a certain trick, constant and intense practice helps and keep you on the right track.
Additionally, convey a feeling of excitement and enthusiasm in what you are doing for it helps you connect with the audience and infect them with your attitude along the way.
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Magic tricks have been around for centuries and are practiced in every society. They are among the most popular past times both for children and adult.
Tricks may make use of materials or objects such as coins, cards, tables, game cards, and number tricks but the one that remains to be the most popular among children and the one that is first learned by a beginner is the handkerchief.
Linen or Silk?
Tricks using a handkerchief can be either performed in whatever material it was made of. However, the type of tricks to be performed determines the type of handkerchief you are to use.
For knots and similar activities, a silk handkerchief is chiefly used because they slide quickly in the process of tying up. Other magic tricks using a handkerchief requires a hard material like linen as in the case of bringing about a hypnotized effect on a handkerchief.
Below are just some of the most common magic tricks that involve the use of handkerchief together with explanations on how magic works.
- Standing Handkerchief – This type of magic trick makes use of a hemmed linen handkerchief which is ironed to make it even more stiff. This very same stiffness determines the success for this performance.
The handkerchief is taken folded from somewhere and spread on the table. The magician picks it up on the centerfold and raises it up in the air until it takes the shape of a small tent.
He will do the usual mystic hand pass while putting the handkerchief in an upright position. The hanky will stay upright as predicted as if it was put on a spell.
- Detachable Thumb – In this trick, you will need both a hanky and a piece of carrot. The carrot should be cut in a way that resembles your thumb. It should be as small and has the same thickness as your finger.
Partly cover your hand and parts of your thumb finger with the hanky. You will need both sleight of hand and dexterity in this kind of activity. Quickness is the rule of the game in order not to spoil the trick.
Place the carrot in the same position as your thumb showing only that portion while covered with handkerchief. Patter a little bit with your audience describing how you have been feeling about your finger since you accidentally hurt it.
Ask one to participate to do the inspection and possible massaging for them. The moment they hold the carrot, release it and act like you were surprised.
- Handkerchief That Changes Color – Apparently, this is one of the simplest magic trick usually done by magicians in terms of minimal effect on the audience but one of the most difficult when it comes to preparation and production.
The magician will show the audience a hanky and toss it around, up and down, right and left, and changes color along the way. The hanky does not actually changes its color since the magician is holding not one, but two hankie!
As the hankie is tossed up and down, he makes it a point to reverse the position of the topmost hankie so that the one in the bottom with a different color is showed up and the hankie apparently changes color.
This quite a difficult thing to do for many suspecting audience are trying to find out if you got several hankie at hand. This requires swiftness in the movement of your hand and making sure that the hankies you are holding do not move independently of one another.
Tips on Performing Handkerchief Tricks
- Be swift – Try to be mindful of astute members of the audience at all times. Even the most seemingly attentive spectator are keen enough even the most slightest mistake made along the process of performing your tricks thereby spoiling it.
- Mouth Shut – Secrecy is the basic rule that magicians should keep in mind. Blabbing about the secret of your tricks makes it even less appealing to onlookers. Allow the audience to make their own guesses and find it out in their own way. In short, keep them mystified.
- Practice! Although practice may not help you master all the skills needed for a certain trick, constant and intense practice helps and keep you on the right track.
Additionally, convey a feeling of excitement and enthusiasm in what you are doing for it helps you connect with the audience and infect them with your attitude along the way.
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Learning The Tricks: Other Miscellaneous Tricks
Learning The Tricks: Other Miscellaneous Tricks
Magic has always been a fascination for children and adults. We see David Blaine mesmerizing us with his street magic, from biting a coin (and restoring it back) to doing stunts which might seem impossible for the rest of us. We heard of Harry Houdini and his death-defying acts.
Magic tricks have always been just illusions. A magician’s true aim is to deceive the eyes of the audience into seeing something else. This can be done in different ways and gives different results and reactions.
Here is an example trick. It uses two techniques to deceive the audience, namely substitution and misdirection. The trick is to show your audience a clean sheet of paper then after putting it in an envelope and saying your magic word, the paper will now have writing on it.
This one is really an easy trick. You just have to prepare it before the show starts. You will need two envelopes, two pieces of paper. First thing you do is to paste the two envelopes together (back to back), so you will have two pockets where you could put the papers. Then write something smart on one paper and stuff it in one of the envelopes.
At the time of performing, just show your paper. Exclaim that it is really blank. May be you could pass it around for them to see. This is called misdirection. You are putting their attention on the paper that they will forget about the envelope.
After getting the paper back, fold it twice and fit it in the other pocket of the envelope. Close it and saying your magic word (or just do other stuffs to make the audience laugh), open it and just get the paper with the writing in it. This is called substitution. The audience didn’t know that there was already a paper inside and that you have made a switch. Show the paper around and while doing this hide the envelope so no one will be able to inspect it.
Here is another trick where everything you do is planned and the audience will not know how you did it. It’s a simple trick that even you, once you know how it’s done even you would laugh at how simple it really is.
The trick will go like this. First you will let your audience write a word on the center of the paper. Then you will let him/her fold the paper in half and then fold it in half again. Then you will tell them that you will tear the paper into pieces (without looking at the message) and put it into a pot and then you’ll pick one to burn what’s inside the pot. As your audience watches, reveal to them what the word that was written in the center of the paper.
This is really a very simple trick. Try doing the trick yourself and you’ll be amazed at its simplicity. Get a clean sheet of paper. Write your name at the center of paper. Try folding it once. From that point of view you know that your name is somewhere in the middle of the crease in the paper. Then try folding it in half again. You will probably notice that now your name is now in the top left portion of the twice-folded paper. Try tearing that part and you’ll see that you’ve got your name in your hand. Of course, if you’re doing the trick, you must remember not to put that part of the paper in the pot. Try holding onto it and once finding someone to burn your pieces of paper, look at that piece (without letting them see!) and dispose of it somewhere.
Add some suspense before you tell them of the word you have just read and you’ve done your trick. This is a really good and easy trick. If done properly, your audience will not just clap, but would be amazed at you and would be talking about it for some time.
Try practicing these two tricks at home. They’re both simple and easy to do. They just both need some practice and a creative story to keep them laughing. Remember the audience is expecting fun so give it to them.
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Magic has always been a fascination for children and adults. We see David Blaine mesmerizing us with his street magic, from biting a coin (and restoring it back) to doing stunts which might seem impossible for the rest of us. We heard of Harry Houdini and his death-defying acts.
Magic tricks have always been just illusions. A magician’s true aim is to deceive the eyes of the audience into seeing something else. This can be done in different ways and gives different results and reactions.
Here is an example trick. It uses two techniques to deceive the audience, namely substitution and misdirection. The trick is to show your audience a clean sheet of paper then after putting it in an envelope and saying your magic word, the paper will now have writing on it.
This one is really an easy trick. You just have to prepare it before the show starts. You will need two envelopes, two pieces of paper. First thing you do is to paste the two envelopes together (back to back), so you will have two pockets where you could put the papers. Then write something smart on one paper and stuff it in one of the envelopes.
At the time of performing, just show your paper. Exclaim that it is really blank. May be you could pass it around for them to see. This is called misdirection. You are putting their attention on the paper that they will forget about the envelope.
After getting the paper back, fold it twice and fit it in the other pocket of the envelope. Close it and saying your magic word (or just do other stuffs to make the audience laugh), open it and just get the paper with the writing in it. This is called substitution. The audience didn’t know that there was already a paper inside and that you have made a switch. Show the paper around and while doing this hide the envelope so no one will be able to inspect it.
Here is another trick where everything you do is planned and the audience will not know how you did it. It’s a simple trick that even you, once you know how it’s done even you would laugh at how simple it really is.
The trick will go like this. First you will let your audience write a word on the center of the paper. Then you will let him/her fold the paper in half and then fold it in half again. Then you will tell them that you will tear the paper into pieces (without looking at the message) and put it into a pot and then you’ll pick one to burn what’s inside the pot. As your audience watches, reveal to them what the word that was written in the center of the paper.
This is really a very simple trick. Try doing the trick yourself and you’ll be amazed at its simplicity. Get a clean sheet of paper. Write your name at the center of paper. Try folding it once. From that point of view you know that your name is somewhere in the middle of the crease in the paper. Then try folding it in half again. You will probably notice that now your name is now in the top left portion of the twice-folded paper. Try tearing that part and you’ll see that you’ve got your name in your hand. Of course, if you’re doing the trick, you must remember not to put that part of the paper in the pot. Try holding onto it and once finding someone to burn your pieces of paper, look at that piece (without letting them see!) and dispose of it somewhere.
Add some suspense before you tell them of the word you have just read and you’ve done your trick. This is a really good and easy trick. If done properly, your audience will not just clap, but would be amazed at you and would be talking about it for some time.
Try practicing these two tricks at home. They’re both simple and easy to do. They just both need some practice and a creative story to keep them laughing. Remember the audience is expecting fun so give it to them.
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Learning Paper Tricks
Learning Paper Tricks
Performing magic tricks has always been one of the most popular past times enjoyed by a lot of people from all walks of life. There are various kinds of magic tricks. One of many kinds of the usual scene-stealing tricks is a paper trick. There could be innumerable ways to deliver a paper trick. Here are a few of those paper tricks that can be easily learned by a new magic aficionado:
1. A paper-tearing trick is a clever method of tearing and bringing back the form of a sheet of paper. You can do this trick mostly on tissue papers. This could be a little different compared to other paper tricks.
You will hand out two kinds of tissue papers; it can be color white or black. You will tear both the papers and fold them into tiny squares. When he opens the paper, the two are still there, but surprisingly it is formed into a large white square and in the center, there is a black square.
You wonder why there are no torn traces on the paper. The have an idea on the trick, the restored paper is already formed by sticking a black square on each side of the large white paper. On a particular side, the black part is paste all three edges and one edge is left open.
The paper formed is then folded into a tiny square, and the outside have an opening. It is then laid on the table for about 5 seconds. You will get the restored form and place it behind his back.
The paper is divided into four pieces of squares, and the whole is bundle is again shown in the front, the tricky part on this is that you will make a little wave in his hands, making the two torn pieces together, and then slowly opening the restored torn paper. This takes a narrow chance to poke the torn pieces into the secret pocket. Ending the trick with showing both hands and they will find nothing.
2. Another trick is called the generous offer. You will need a piece of paper and hand it out to a person. Ask him to tear it into quarters. It must be torn equally, you will then get the papers and give him back a quarter of it. He then thinks that the task is easy enough, and then he may ask for a prize for doing it.
You will then applaud him and give his prize of another quarter of the paper. From there you gave the person one of the four pieces of the paper, which was supposed to be a quarter also of the sheet of paper. You can use a different way to approach this trick in using slang expressions of offering or donate “two bits”. In this approach two pieces of paper is given to him, as it presents the two bits you said.
3. The next trick you may learn is the look easy trick. Find a sheet of paper and tear it in two thirds. It is required not totally tear the end sections. It should be a little loose, and the outcome will be a slit parallel sheet of paper with three flaps.
Give it to the person and tell him to have a hold on the edge of the flaps and hide one in each hand. From the center of the paper, you will make him tear the end flaps. It seems to be a piece of cake, but it is not. When he tries to work on it, only one edge of the flap is torn. The pull is purposely even distributed.
4. The floating paper ball needs to be performed under proper situations because it requires a little experiment. You need to crumple one piece of paper into a ball and you will have to hold it using your left hand with your right hand on top of it. You will remove your left hand, and have the paper just floated in the air moving upward to your right hand.
The trick is done because of the black silk thread. The thread is placed over your right ear forming a loop in one of the ends. The other end is tied loosely to your black coat button. They do not have the idea that you squeezed it around on the loose end, before the paper ball is formed.
When you move your right hand upward, you will use your right thumb to catch the thread. You will then draw the thread tightly so that when you take off your hand, the ball automatically floats. Move your hand forward, then raise the ball. Bringing it back lowers it. On the last part, you will have to get the ball on your left hand and untying it from the thread. The right hand brushing your hair will lift the loop from your ear, and the thread just falls down on the floor, without one noticing it.
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Performing magic tricks has always been one of the most popular past times enjoyed by a lot of people from all walks of life. There are various kinds of magic tricks. One of many kinds of the usual scene-stealing tricks is a paper trick. There could be innumerable ways to deliver a paper trick. Here are a few of those paper tricks that can be easily learned by a new magic aficionado:
1. A paper-tearing trick is a clever method of tearing and bringing back the form of a sheet of paper. You can do this trick mostly on tissue papers. This could be a little different compared to other paper tricks.
You will hand out two kinds of tissue papers; it can be color white or black. You will tear both the papers and fold them into tiny squares. When he opens the paper, the two are still there, but surprisingly it is formed into a large white square and in the center, there is a black square.
You wonder why there are no torn traces on the paper. The have an idea on the trick, the restored paper is already formed by sticking a black square on each side of the large white paper. On a particular side, the black part is paste all three edges and one edge is left open.
The paper formed is then folded into a tiny square, and the outside have an opening. It is then laid on the table for about 5 seconds. You will get the restored form and place it behind his back.
The paper is divided into four pieces of squares, and the whole is bundle is again shown in the front, the tricky part on this is that you will make a little wave in his hands, making the two torn pieces together, and then slowly opening the restored torn paper. This takes a narrow chance to poke the torn pieces into the secret pocket. Ending the trick with showing both hands and they will find nothing.
2. Another trick is called the generous offer. You will need a piece of paper and hand it out to a person. Ask him to tear it into quarters. It must be torn equally, you will then get the papers and give him back a quarter of it. He then thinks that the task is easy enough, and then he may ask for a prize for doing it.
You will then applaud him and give his prize of another quarter of the paper. From there you gave the person one of the four pieces of the paper, which was supposed to be a quarter also of the sheet of paper. You can use a different way to approach this trick in using slang expressions of offering or donate “two bits”. In this approach two pieces of paper is given to him, as it presents the two bits you said.
3. The next trick you may learn is the look easy trick. Find a sheet of paper and tear it in two thirds. It is required not totally tear the end sections. It should be a little loose, and the outcome will be a slit parallel sheet of paper with three flaps.
Give it to the person and tell him to have a hold on the edge of the flaps and hide one in each hand. From the center of the paper, you will make him tear the end flaps. It seems to be a piece of cake, but it is not. When he tries to work on it, only one edge of the flap is torn. The pull is purposely even distributed.
4. The floating paper ball needs to be performed under proper situations because it requires a little experiment. You need to crumple one piece of paper into a ball and you will have to hold it using your left hand with your right hand on top of it. You will remove your left hand, and have the paper just floated in the air moving upward to your right hand.
The trick is done because of the black silk thread. The thread is placed over your right ear forming a loop in one of the ends. The other end is tied loosely to your black coat button. They do not have the idea that you squeezed it around on the loose end, before the paper ball is formed.
When you move your right hand upward, you will use your right thumb to catch the thread. You will then draw the thread tightly so that when you take off your hand, the ball automatically floats. Move your hand forward, then raise the ball. Bringing it back lowers it. On the last part, you will have to get the ball on your left hand and untying it from the thread. The right hand brushing your hair will lift the loop from your ear, and the thread just falls down on the floor, without one noticing it.
NEW! Click Here to learn how to perform Jaw Dropping Magic almost immediately even if you never done a single magic trick in your life!
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