OVER THE YEARS I HAVE KEPT NOTES, thoughts and anything to do with magic and presentation. Some fanciful, some great and some workers that have gone straight into magician’s programmes including my own. Many of these have been dreamed up whilst sitting with a group of close friends in cafes and more recently in a [...]
Posted on December 8th, 2012 by John
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RECENTLY I WAS PASSING THE TIME in a Funky Pigeon shop in a mainline station in London. These are shops who go an extra mile to create birthday and greeting cards that are printed with your own photo or message. They are very progressive against say WH Smith, but sensing their captive audience waiting for a [...]
Posted on December 4th, 2012 by John
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I INCLUDED AN ORIGINAL ROUTINE IN MY BOOK KISS called “Welded Bliss” A yuk play on words encouraged no doubt by my commercial years in writing copy for advertisements. Simply it was the permanent linking of a gentlman’s signet ring to a ladies engagement ring without the aid of a Himber ring. It was perfect for [...]
Posted on November 13th, 2012 by John
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EVERY MAGICIAN KNOWS THE SEQUENCE for vanishing a coin, cigarette, silk, sponge ball etc. into a thumb tip. You put the item into the thumb tip held in the left fist. You show the right hand empty. You push the right thumb into the tip You withdraw the thumb and the tip with the item inside [...]
Posted on November 10th, 2012 by John
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I’VE HAD IN THE DRAWER FOR SOMETIME a set of gem sticks. You know – the black, three inch plastic rod on which appear and disappear gemstones that seem to have a life of their own. I’ve never found in the past a convincing storyline and certainly no climax that I thought worthy of presentation. Until [...]
Posted on October 24th, 2012 by John
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WHEN PRESENTING CLOSE-UP AT WEDDINGS or anniversaries, this is a blinder! The magician approaches the table and makes pleasantries about the bride and groom. In so doing he displays at his fingertips a ladies diamond ring on the finger of one hand and a gentleman’s gold signet ring on the other.Telling of his own long, [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2011 by John
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A bold claim – but true. Not a brilliant new gimmick. Not a new routine from the Vernon archives. Not something requiring a big investment but a proven procedure that does really work. Group magic. Vernon and the greats used it. Fred Kaps used it.Peter Warlock, Jack Avis, Francis Haxton and other names used it. [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2009 by John
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I’M JUST A CHILD IN THE BAFFLING WORLD OF COMPUTERS and for some unknown reason my web site has been unavailable for some considerable time bringing up a horrifc healdine that said – FORBIDDEN! I know nothing and explanations from the computer intelligensia (my nephew Martin Avis – he’s brilliant and makes his living out [...]
Posted on September 26th, 2009 by John
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RECENTLY I WROTE THAT I WAS GOING TO PUT OUT a monte routine originated by Jack Avis that involved three like cards and a queen that mysteriously appears and disappears during the effect. In itself it’s very good as Jack showed it to me but I did it for a close friend, Tom Whitestone (an excellent magician [...]
Posted on December 8th, 2008 by John
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WE’VE HAD SEVERAL PEOPLE EMAIL as to what is the ring effect that is portrayed in the heading of “Come a Little Closer”. Well, it’s something I’ve done for the past ten years. It’s not brilliant magic but it’s been the perfect banquet table crasher that gets attention and quickly signals that magic is about to [...]
Posted on September 9th, 2008 by John
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