I spent two and a half hours last night 1/5/09 with Aldo and Rachel Colombini as they gave there new lecture on magic. It was a very rewarding evening, Aldo keep everyone laughing for the whole time of the lecture. If you ever have a chance to see them, it will be a day to remember. I highly recommend anyone interested in magic too do so.

Owln ”D” Wise

 

Aldo And ME

This effect always gets good reactions. Probably because of the surprise when they think you are about to do one amazing thing then you suddenly do something totally unexpected. When seemingly failing to make a coin vanish
from under a salt shaker, you slam the salt shaker with your palm and it slips straight through the solid tabletop.

This effect works because the salt shaker is covered with paper napkins; these napkins are able to hold the shape of the salt shaker long after it has gone.

While sitting at a table with everything in place (Saltshaker or glass, and paper napkins), ask someone if you can borrow a coin to do some magic. Say that you are going to make the coin disappear, and place it on the table. Cover the salt shaker with a napkin or two so they take on the shape of the shaker. Photo 1.

The vanish of a jet while it rests on the tarmac has become one of the most significant vanishes of all time. On many occasions this illusion has been performed before a live television audience, while a crowd of onlookers keep an eye on the real thing.
It is not an illusion most magicians can afford to perform, still I will explain the most common way of performing this trick.
The audience will see the jet as it taxis onto an area at the landing strip. The crew will park the plane and disembark. The audience, both directions. Spotligths will be pointed at the plane, making it fully illuminated against the dark night.
At the performer's command, the ligths to flash off, then back on.
When the ligths are relit, the plane is gone. The spotlights are once again pointed in the same direction as before, but there is no jet plane, only the tarmac and the night. The plane is then brought back in the same manner. The lights will flash off then on, and the plane back. The Crew boards the plane and taxis it back to the hangar.

How this exciting powerful free magic trick looks to the audience:

The magician holds a rope between his hands. There are three knots tied on it, and on the center knot is tied to a wire hanger. The magician says a magic word and FLASH, right before everyone's eyes, the hanger jumps from the center knot to the right knot!

The effect: Explaining to your audience you are going to perform an amazing magic trick you buy or borrow a bottle of unopened drink and remove the bottle cap. You hand out for total examination. This poves to your spectators it is totally unprepared in any way.

Holding the bottle cap in your hands you give it a spin and amazingly it HOVERS in mid air in front of you. You can make it hover from one hand to the other and even rise up and down. Your spectators are baffled! It seems you have total control over the levitating bottle cap. To prove it is unsupported you wave your hands all around it. You make a ring shape with your fingers and amazingly the cap effortlessly floats through!