Hey everyone. Welcome to Issue #1 of Love Letters. In each issue I’ll be
writing three letters to the people behind my favorite magical releases from
the previous month. They might be old releases. Or something buried in a
book or magazine. Really the only requirement is that it’s something I’ve really
Books
Darin Martineau – Super Visual Color Changes
LEARN HOW TO DO INCREDIBLE AND HIGHLY VISUAL CLOSE-UP CARD MAGIC TO AMAZE AUDIENCES! Learn many of the best color changes and also New Original Stunning Color Changes!This is an advanced close-up card magic book. Very Amazing and Super-Visual close-up magic! Diabolical New methods!Includes all of these revolutionary color changes:THE ECLIPSE COLOR CHANGE, The Fan Impulse Change, THE FAN COLOR CHANGE,ED MARLO ONE-HANDED COLOR CHANGE, The Double Color Change, THE ANGEL CHANGE,THE HUMMER CHANGE, THE SHADOW QUAD CHANGE!Learn Professional Close-Up Magic! Also learn how to get magic shows!These Super visual effects and top secrets are explained in details in words and
Joshua Grist – Open Up
The mentalist asks if they can borrow any random spectator’s iPhone (almost any phone can be used, it does not have to be an iPhone) and successfully unlocks it in a matter of seconds.
Naturally, there are many PIN code and phone code divinations on sale within the mentalism world, but this is unique in that there is no fishing, nothing said by the spectator, no hot-reading, and it’s extremely simple. The spectator says absolutely nothing throughout this process, and if you chose to perform this without patter it would take around 5 seconds.
Tom Dobrowolski – The Disclaimer magazine (issues 1 to 10)
Get the monthly Disclaimer. Each issue will contain three meticulously illustrated and described tricks. The Disclaimer will feel like reading a chapter from a good magic book. You get to read and absorb previously unpublished magic from the likes of Curtis Kam, Jeremiah Zuo, Danny Cheng, Tom Dobrowolski, Richard Hucko and others!
Seven Circles (All 5 Volumes)
Number 1 (April 1931)
- Editorial
- Downs Greets Blackstone
- Men Prominent in Magic Welcome the I. M. C.
- The International Magic Circle
Nathan Colwell – Lorem Ipsum
Mark Strivings – Isolated Intuition
This is not a big book. It’s roughly forty pages. Not big at all. You can easily read it in one sitting.
But what is contained in those forty pages is solid gold.
This entire treatise deals with a single concept, along with several of its variations, that allows for mind-numbing miracles.
And as you can see from the cover depicted above, it deals with an envelope. Perhaps the simplest, most innocent prop that you can possibly use. But in this case, it’s deadly. And unless you are
“Nathan Colwell’s new contribution, Lorem Ipsum, is about style over substance, yet, just like the man himself, it manages to deliver both. Well done.”
—Eric Stevens