Dazzle friends, family, and acquaintances with a series of mind-blowing psychic feats that will have them demanding an encore. Robert Mandelberg--comedian, magician, puzzle master, and author of "Mind Reading Card Tricks" and "Mystifying Mind-Reading Tricks," among others--presents the topic as no one else can. With a distinctively wild and wacky ...
Provides diagrams and detailed instructions for performing more than three hundred magic tricks, including tricks with cards, money, ropes, handkerchiefs, and cups and balls.
Written by the ultimate Disney insiders, this "bible" of animation has become a legend in itself. This volume seeks to explain the process that makes Disney's animation unique--what sets the work of the Disney studios apart from other animation products. Here are original sketches of best-loved Disney characters, how memorable movie sequences were ...
This book will help you baffle everyone with your astonishing scientific powers. You have the ability to make some amazing things happen! Did you know that you can: turn one half of a flower blue and other red, lift an ice cube out of a glass with a piece of string, and push pins into a balloon without bursting it? It's true! All you will need are ...
These are 36 of the greatest impromptu card tricks ever invented. Longe shows you not only how each one works, but also how to put them over, with clear step-by-step instructions and illustrations. A special chapter in the back even explains how to bluff your way through a trick if it goes wrong. Great for kids from eight to eighty. 128 pages, 17 ...
A refreshing addition to the popular My First Activity series. Created by a top professional magician/illusionist, this book is chocked full of tricks that are virtually foolproof, require minimal adult supervision, and use equipment commonly found around the house. Full-color photos. Available in September.
What you see is not always what you get! Imagine bats and birds that look like faces! Macabre skulls that appear on anything white! 3 donkeys with only 3 ears between them! And walls that disappear! You no longer have to imagine, once you've entered the world of optical illusions, where nothing is as it seems and first impressions are just that -- ...
You can be a great magician, able to perform incredible tricks! All it takes is this book and just a little bit of practice, and a few things you probably already have around the house. This book features topics such as The magic starts here; The art of knot throwing; The knot challenge; Cut and restored string; Melting string; Sticky ice; ...
Now in its 9th printing, this book was prepared using the resources of five well-known magicians who contributed a total of 31 tricks--all of them knock-your-socks-off good. Easy-to-follow instructions accompany the full-color illustrations. Includes a silk scarf, chrome ring, and three other props. (All Ages)
Blackstone's secrets for controlling cards are revealed in the step-by-step instructions of Card Magic. These easily mastered tricks are accompanied by detailed, instructional photographs for a successful performance every time.
So you can't hold two cards in your hand without dropping them--much less handle a deck without fumbling? If the thought of appearing in front of a crowd saying the words "Pick a card, any card," scares you silly, then this book of tricks will work magic for you! Using principles, methods, and secrets subtle enough to fool anyone, even the ...
Covers every significant aspect -- from palming to clairvoyance, vanishing and producing an object, etc. Explains hundreds of astonishing tricks -- with coins, cups and balls, handkerchiefs, cards, more. 57 illustrations.
You won't believe your eyes - and you shouldn't! Every image in this sequel to the popular Optical Illusion Magic is out to trick your perception with afterimages, visual traps, and distorted perspectives. Sometimes you will have to shift the page to see the magic, as in "Slants on the Side" where parallel lines seem to come together at the bottom ...
They're interesting, involving, beautiful, subtle and they all play visual tricks! Step into the colour zone...where astonishing effects are the rule and nothing is what it first appears to be. Make different colours look the same!; Make the same colours look different!; Use colour to make objects look bigger or smaller!; Make sense of the ...
Throughout American history, black magicians have achieved great skill in both the magician's tricks of the trade as well as the psychology of entertaining an audience. However, because of slavery and, later, racial segregation and discrimination, few have been able to make their living as magicians. Those who have succeeded are rare indeed, and ...
Impossible objects are figures that can be imagined and drawn but which cannot exist in the real world in any actual physical form. This book is an exploration of the strange and remarkable world of "Impossibilia", that two-dimensional realm in which these intriguing graphic oddities can exist How do these optical illusions work? Who discovered ...
Matthew and Jessica's competitiveness gets them into trouble when a magic trick goes disastrously wrong. They realise that they can only undo the spell by working together.
Longe shows amateur magicians how to master basic sleight-of-hand techniques and false shuffles and then use simple observation and a bit of innocent audience manipulation to pull off feats such as "The Amazing TV Trick", "Slick Sticker Tricker", and many more. 36 illustrations.
This multi-dimensional book is covered in steel--all the better for the ten magnets and one magnetized foreign coin to stick to--and includes 31 magical, magnetic activities, many of which have never been in print before. Wire-O binding. Illustrations.
With no more than a deck of ordinary playing cards, astound your friends and family with your wizardly talents. Most of the 50 tricks can be done on the spur of the moment, and none requires any special equipment, sleight of hand, or special talent. Each trick contains suggestions of what to say to keep your performance running smoothly and even ...
Discusses the lives of eight famous magicians, including Robert-Houdin, Herrman the Great, Kellar, Harry Houdini, Jasper Maskelyne, David Copperfield, and Penn and Teller.
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The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators
