Michael Close – Advanced Topics in Memorized Deck Magic

Advanced Topics in Memorized Deck Magic

This advanced training examines many of the key aspects of advanced memorized deck magic.

You will learn the five key aspects of advanced memdeck, and you will learn methods for sharpening your skill set to handle those requirements.

Michael provides an introduction to the main concepts in his ebook The Road to Riffsville, which presents a new approach to the spontaneous performance of memdeck magic.

Michael also tips his Chutes & Ladders deck, a method for discovering new relationships hidden within whatever stack you use.

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Jamy Ian Swiss Shattering illusions

With 2001’s Shattering Illusions, Jamy Ian Swiss cemented his role as magic’s preeminent essayist. Perhaps no book ever written on the subject of magic has been so controversial and debated as Shattering Illusions, and it remains relevant and topical today. This book is a neo-classic and worthy of careful study.

Long out of print and on virtually every “must-read” magic list since its first printing, Shattering Illusions is finally available again, in a brand-new edition that features a new cover design and layout.

Shattering Illusions contains twenty essays that will reshape the way you think about magic. Jamy Ian Swiss examines why we do magic at all, what it means to be “commercial” in magic, what makes for good and bad magic, why critics and the public hold magic in such low regard, and much more.

Praise for Shattering Illusions:

“Jamy Ian Swiss is an esteemed colleague, a terrific performer, and someone who cares very deeply about the art of magic… For Mr. Swiss, complacency is not an option… Shattering Illusions contains no tricks, but it contains many of the real secrets of successful magic… Shattering Illusions is an important book. Buy it. Study it. Think about it. You’ll be a better magician for having done so.”
– Michael Close, MAGIC, November 2002

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Jamy Ian Swiss Devious Standards

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Devious Standards is the second essay collection from Jamy Ian Swiss, and it contains twenty of the most acclaimed essays from one of magic’s most distinguished and celebrated authors. When it was first published, Devious Standards received rave reviews in Magic, Genii, and Linking Ring, and it continues to garner praise from magic’s brightest lights. Vanishing Inc. Magic is proud to offer Devious Standards in a new edition, with brand-new typeset, layout, and cover design. This volume now matches Shattering Illusions and the brand-new Preserving Mystery in size and style.

Upon its release, Eric Mead praised Devious Standards in Genii magazine, declaring that,  “The finished book is as beautiful as it is challenging, informative, stimulating and a genuine pleasure to read.”

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Designing Miracles Audio Book by Darwin Ortiz

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Darwin Ortiz’s seminal Designing Miracles has been heralded as one of the finest books ever written on magic theory. In many ways it is a “first” in magic philosophy, moving beyond presentational theory and exploring the very structure of magic effects. It is fitting then, that we present another first by offering this neo-classic as an audio book.

Enthusiastically narrated by Darwin himself, these MP3 files provide the complete text of Designing Miracles, which you can enjoy in the car, on your phone, or on the go. Better still, there is brand-new, bonus material in which Darwin reflects and expands on the book’s underlying concepts.

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SMOKE 2.0 by Alan Rorrison

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It’s back. This time, it writes!

Make a huge smoke cloud appear from your mouth whenever you want to. This is not your grandparent’s smoke device.

What is new in Smoke 2.0? Well, this time, you can write with it!

Alan Rorrison’s original Smoke was our go-to “puff of smoke producing device”. This version is the same idea, just with five years of tweaks and improvements. And you can write with it.

Obviously the name is a misnomer. No smoke is produced. It’s the same as a cloud from a vape device. But minus the smell of cake and strawberries.

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Dani DaOrtiz – Here & Now 2 (4 DVD Set)

Here & Now II

It is Dani’s live seminar, recorded from his studio and its divided in the following sections:

  • Chaos
  • Forces
  • Miscellanea
  • Interviews
    • Chaos
    • Working at Home
    • In Group

You will get four DVDs full with new concepts, techniques and tricks. More than six hours of magic!

Welcome to Dani’s world!

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