Blindspot tackles a problem that several people have tried to solve over the years; coin in bottle with a sealed bottle. Amongst others, Nicholas Einhorn manufactured a good solution that involved a specially prepared cork that cleverly concealed the coin in bottle gimmick. In Blindspot, Bob Swadlin...
That Paul Harris has changed the face of close-up magic is undisputed. That Paul Harris continues to be relevant in 2009 is also undisputed. But there’s a lot going on here, so let’s be candid. Paul Harris burst onto the scene in the mid 70s with a totally new brand of close-up magic. Unlike ...
John Bannon is one of Vanishing Inc's favorite creators. His playful artistry with a deck of cards has a youthful energy about it that makes his creations fun to perform. In Smoke and Mirrors, Bannon teaches 31 tricks; most of which are card tricks, but with a couple of coin tricks thrown into...
Daniel Garcia is one of those magicians that can entertain you for hours, without ever resorting to pulling out a deck of cards or any other kind of props. He's always ready to go using whatever he has on his person. SH4DE is an example of that. This is Daniel's handling of the famous Matrix routine...
Ross Bertram is a name that doesn't get the attention that it deserves. Bertram was a sleight of hand magician of the highest order. He was featured in the Stars of Magic series and held his own with magic's elite in the prime era of magic. These DVDs are remastered versions of some old video tapes ...
The hundred-dollar bill switch is one of the greatest close-up effects of all time. You turn a dollar bill into a hundred-dollar bill. But which version do you use? John Lovick wrote a book of more than a hundred versions a couple years ago. But you only need one. And if you only learn one, learn th...
Greed is classic Daniel Garcia and we think is one of his strongest tricks. He borrows a one dollar bill and magically turns it into a five dollar bill. He then continues sequentially, changing the bill into every bill up to a twenty dollar bill. Want me to turn it into a fifty? He asks the owner of...
David Stone is a Frenchman. But, don't let that hold you back - he has some really amazing magic that we think you'd like to see. This is a live lecture DVD, filmed at the FFFF convention (that's a convention for people with a stutter). There's no fancy editing, or anything like that, you just get t...
Apollo Robbins and Shoot Ogawa's magic is different from most other close-up magic. The pair don't accept any boundaries of difficulty; they simply look for the strongest, most visual way to perform an effect. That tends to mean that their magic requires considerable practice, but the pay-off is wor...
The coin bag is a little-known prop that allows you to perform some great coin magic. Think of it as an egg bag, or change bag but specifically for coins! It's a little bag with a mesh front that allows you to vanish, produce, change and otherwise manipulate coins in some pretty impressive ways. Cra...