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Top Tricks & Picks HEIST: A Perfect Opener for Stand-Up Magic It’s rare to find practical, visual parlor magic, and rarer still to find good opening effects. With “Heist” you have a perfect, magical and impressive opener for your show. Based on Tommy Wonder’s classic “Ring, Watch, Wallet” effect. After years of honing this trick in comedy clubs and stages across Europe, we are proud to present “Heist.”
MagicTrick.com/heist
Ultra-Visual Impossible
Eye-popping visual magic is great. Leaving your audience with an impossible object is even better! A 3D object is literally thrown into a bill, leaving a printed image of the object. Your audience can keep the bill as a magical memento.
Appearing Box A loose deck of cards in your hands can appear in a box with a wave of your hand.
Check out the video demo to see this visual miracle. You won’t believe your eyes!
MagicTrick.com/imprint
MagicTrick.com/rebox
Cody Fisher’s Killer Prediction! Stand-Up Miracle!
Direct from his professional stand-up magic show, the Killer Prediction packs small and plays huge! Involving multiple spectators, a card is freely chosen. The multiple magic moments will leave your audience astonished!
MagicTrick.com/killer
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Contents
FROM THE EDITOR 6 Paul Romhany Bamboozlers 8 Diamond Jim Tyler
EDITOR Paul Romhany CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Ben Robinson CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Nick Lewin PRODUCT REVIEWERS Paul Romhany & Friends
The CHef Fruit Salad 10 Butzi, Magicien Starbursted 19 Josh Janousky Spoon Bend 22 Ray Roch Astral Projection 28 Charles Gauci
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Sal taylor Kydd ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Paul Romhany/Sydnie Anderson SENIOR MARKETING SPECIALIST Steve Hocevar EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Paul Romhany ART DIRECTOR and LAYOUT Paul Romhany PROOF READERS Richard Webster, Mick Peck E-READER VERSION www.revizzit.com TO ADVERTISE IN MAGAZINE Contact Paul Romhany for more information at: editor@vanishmagazine.com
BLANK ACAAN 30 Louie Foxx NEWS 34 Why Derek Hughes should win AGT 38 Aaron Fisher There Are No Good Female Magicians 44 Bizzaro FEATURE STORY - STEVE SPILL INTERVIEW 50 Nick Lewin Ten Little Secrets 74 Timothy Hyde Legends of Magic - Whit “Pop” Haydn 76 Nick Lewin The Social Magician 84 Alan Hudson adventures of a romany - diva of magic 88 Romany Putting in Your Time 94 Jeff Hobson Melbourne magic Festival 98 Nicholas Johnson
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There are no female magicians
STEve Spill
Nick Lewin with an interview that will make you want to read
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Whit ‘POP’ HAYDN
Legends of magic by Nick Lewin
Stories From The Road 102 Ted Outerbridge The Illusion Fabrication Series - Bill Smith 112
Ray Lum
Turn More Enquiries in To Gigs 122 Ken Dyne Entertaining Kids 126 Tim Mannix Trio Of Awards for Alan Watson 130 Nick Lewin
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Illusion Fabrication Interview with Bill Smith
Married in magic - Pittman Magic 134 Matthew Fallon EPIC FAILS IN MAGIC Part 2 140 Charles Bach Enchantment By Tobias Beckwith 144 Q&A with two preidents by Daz Buckley 146 Magic Reviews 156
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Epic fails in magic #2
Stories from the Pros on how to avoid them.
FROM THE EDITOR Paul Romhany
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he past two months have just flown by especially with the work on The Franz Harary Special Edition. This is a new feature of VANISH and we have future plans to produce more for those stories that are too big for a regular edition of VANISH. Franz was so giving of his time and spent countless hours talking and searching for photos and videos that would help make that edition shine. I’d like to thank him personally for his time and allowing VANISH to get the real scoop on this story. We broke all download records with over 60,000 in just a matter of two weeks! To date that issue was read by over 145,000 people from around the world - and those are the ones we can track. We wish Franz and his team all the very best and continued success. It is certainly going to provide a lot of magicians with solid work for a very long time. I have recently added a NEW WAY for readers to enjoy VANISH. You can download the free App from http:// www.magzter.com and enjoy reading VANISH on any mobile device, computer or Tablet. It works for both Android and Apple. With a potential customer base of 6
over 1.4 million people the prospects of using Magzter are very exciting. Our feature artist this issue is Steve Spill. My first introduction to Steve was through a release of an old video I watched over 20 years ago. To this day I still think his “Mind Reading Goose” is one of funniest pieces of magic entertainment I have ever seen. Nick Lewin did a wonderful job and it reflects the great story teller Steve is. We wanted to offer something very special to readers of VANISH and thanks to Steve we have been allowed to give access to an amazing online video that spans a time in Steve’s career and features his hilarious routines as well as some of his magic routines that he teaches. The interactive link for this FREE ONLINE VIDEO can be found at the end of Nick’s interview. I have been getting a lot of very positive feedback about the use of interactive buttons within the magazine. You can click on advertisers and even within adverts you can click on retailers to visit their sites. A lot of contributors are now looking at ways to make their articles more interactive and this is part of the
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wonderful thing about having an online magazine. You no longer just sit there but actually take part in the magazine with links and videos. The future is very exciting as we discover more ways to make this a truly interactive experience. CONGRATULATIONS to British magician Jamie Raven who took second place on Britain’s Got Talent. Following in the footsteps of Mat Franco who won America’s Got Talent in 2014 with his closeup magic, Jamie proved to UK audiences that close-up magic is cool and can be entertaining. Both these magicians have elevated our art and given us all a new audience of people who perhaps no longer think that magic is ‘just for kids.’ Anytime something positive happens on our screens in respect to magic only helps us all as performers. Congratulations also to Russ Stevens who has firmly established himself as one of the best managers in the world and for achieving something no other person has ever been able to with these TV talent shows. I’ll be watching this years AGT to see how the magicians do and wish them all great success.
Paul Romhany
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Bamboozlers Diamond Jim TylEr HITCHHIKER BILL GAG: Persuade your audience to find the hitchhiker on the back of a one dollar bill. Begin by asking, “Where can one find a key on a dollar bill?” This can be found on the right side of the bill in the green seal (Fig. 1). It is directly under the scales. Follow up your question with a harder one by inquiring, “Does anyone know where the spider is on the face of a one-dollar bill?” Some will answer “Yes,” and some will say “No.” Permit the audience to search for a short while, and then show them where it is (Fig. 2). You may need a magnifying glass to show the audience. Then ask, “Does anyone know where the hitchhiker is on the back of a one-dollar bill?” See if you can find the hitchhiker. He is next to the pyramid (Fig. 3).
Wait a minute. Somebody must have picked him up.” Gotcha! This a great gag to use on a group after they have been telling stories related to history or trivia. Pull a bamboozler or two on them that have concrete solutions first and then try the hitchhiker bit for the best results. By the way, here’s a little financial advice… “The best way to save money is to forget who you borrowed it from.” Diamond Jim’s book Pockets Full of Miracles: Secrets from the Repertoire of a Professional Close-Up Magician is currently out of print and considered a classic. His new Bamboozlers series is receiving rave reviews from his peers.
After everyone has looked for a good while, to no avail, offer to show where he is. Take the bill and point next to the pyramid, saying, “See. He is right here.” Bewildered, everyone will look closer. Finish by saying, “Oh! 8
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The CHef Fruit Salad
The Chef Fruit Salad By Butzi, Magicien
An unconventional bill in nut routine mixing live cooking with magic.
The Effect
What’s new with this bill in nut?
The magician borrows a bill and make it disappear in a flame after tearing a corner. To be forgiven, he makes a fruit salad to the participant: “The chef Salad”. He reveals at the end that the secret ingredient to his salad is a nut on top. When the participant crack it open, we find the bill, missing the corner. It fits and the participant get to eat a fruit salad.
1) A good explanation on why the hell you are tearing a bill 2) A fun presentation 3) The participant TRULY chooses the nut he wants 4) An easy way to trick any nut
Trick the nut
Here is what you need: Superglue / A nut / A sharp and pointy knife / Working gloves / A tissue paper
Explanation overview Using your favorite teared cornered method (having a duplicate corner or using Joshua Jay’s technique: “cornered”.), you’ll then switch the participant’s bill for a flash bill. After that you show his bill (the duplicate flash bill) bursting in flame and you can go onto the revelation to show the bill you previously prepared in a sealed nut. 10
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WARNING: This will involve using a knife so PLEASE DO SO AT OWN RISK. Be VERY careful anytime using sharp objects. Notice working gloves are using in the video and photos.
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