A Magic Show You Can Do

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Vanishing Candle is an easy trick to learn.

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 →

Orm McGill’s Angel Show

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Orm McGill and I did a performance at our annual convention back a few years ago, and during the time we were in contact, about five years, he passed on to me a number of invaluable hints on stage hypnosis.

Of course we talked about spirit communication, and he was Dr. Zomb, the Angel Whisperer and his Seance of Wonders are still the talk of the magic community.

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I was asked if I had a copy of his “Angel Seance Show” book, but I’ll do a whole lot better than that — here’s a link to the DVD that shows his “Meet Your Angel” technique.

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There’s a few things you might check out:

  • NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF STAGE HYPNOTISM — This is a very valuable addition to any magician’s library.
  • AMAZING LIFE OF ORMOND MCMGILL — The definitive bio.
  • PSYCHIC MAGIC — If you don’t learn some new tricks from this, you’re a very old dog

See You At The Top!!!

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