Forget about street busking, restaurant table-hopping and small club performances — those won’t happen for a long, long time, but ZOOM magic tricks can be truly mystifying.

First of all, they’re not electronic gimmicks. They’re FEELABLE magic that looks good on ZOOM, and most magic tricks don’t, so pay close attention.

Here’s the breakdown of some smaller tabletop effects that are available for a ZOOM performance that you could easily give — none of these tricks require a lot of fancy sleight-of-hand skills.

Keep in mind that this is not a complete act, as there are about a dozen and a half CLOSEUP effects as well that could slip into this performance if you needed to fill more time.

After you’ve demonstrated mastery of the simple French Drop — no production at a ZOOM workshop, you can learn any of the effects I’ve listed below: Continue reading →