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Incredible Magic!

MAGIC TRICK and
BOOK REVIEWS

Here are links to reviews of some magic effects and books that you can purchase,
learn and perform, allegedly to the amazement of your audience.

TV Card Frame Review - a chosen card visually appears between to clear,
plexiglass plates.

"The Royal Road to Card Magic" - If you want to go from novice to expert, just
read and work this amazing book.

What it looks like.

Here are some videos which feature sleight of hand magic that you can just
watch.

Penetrating Match Trick -
One solid stick match passes right through another.

Amazing Cigarette Vanish - Astonishing twenty seconds.

Deo Aces - a card trick with a wonderful surprise ending. A great one to add to
your repertoire. 

Card Warp - one of the classics in magic. A regular playing card magically
reverses around when pushed thru another folded card. Lots of people do this
magic effect. This is my presentation.

Torn and Restored Cigarette - Quick, visual close up magic trick.

Sleight-of-hand
How it's done.

Check back often. I will be adding lots of videos showing you how to do amazing
feats of magic with cards, coins, cigarettes, matches. Some easy, some hard.

How to do yet another very cool cigarette trick
Fast and mind boggling cigarette vanish and reproduction.

Cigarette vanish revealed
This is one of my favorite cigarette vanishes. It's fast and pretty.

Another cigarette vanish
How to do a very cool disappearing cigarette trick that you don't see performed
very often.

LEARN HOW TO READ MINDS!

Are you looking to learn how to read minds (or at least appear to)? Here is
where you will find a collection of magical effects that give the appearance of
incredible psychic abilities. Read minds. Tell fortunes. Make predictions.

Amazing Phone Book Mind Reading Telepathy Trick Revealed
Mysterious effect where your sealed prediction from a phone book is randomly
chosen by spectators.

Use your Android phone to read minds!
Ask a spectator to pick a number. When they touch the Android screen, their
number is revealed. Very cool mind reading magic trick.

Learn to read minds here!

Just for fun, check out these freaky online psychic web pages:

Freaky Test - Try it. It most likely will freak you out.

Psychic Online Card Trick - classic and still cool. 

 

 

 

 

 

Personal, private sleight-of-hand, street-magic lessons via Skype.

If you're like me and find it easier to learn in a one-on-one situation rather
than from a book or video, then check out my live, private sleight-of-hand magic
lessons via Skype. We'll learn magic at your pace, and I always include some
astonishing magical effects that are much easier to learn than you think. All
with common, everyday objects like coins, playing cards, cigarettes, matches,
napkins and more. Click here to read more about the lessons, or just get on the
roster. Limited number of people being accepted. It's so much fun to freak
people out. :)



My passion for sleight-of-hand magic

Like a lot of kids, I was fascinated with magic when I was young. My parents
even bought me a magic set with a little book of gags and practical jokes (okay
I still use a couple of those), and a bunch of crappy little plastic gimmicks to
do a bunch of crappy little magic tricks.

Although I took time time to learn and present them, they were more like puzzles
than magic. And, of course, if you showed your friends the "vanishing ball in
vase" trick, they immediately wanted to examine the cheap plastic vase which
would expose the secret (if they didn't already notice that the little half of a
ball shell didn't really look all that much like the real ball). So, I
discovered that I liked magic, but not of the crappy variety.

My first magic book

So, there I was, a kid who liked magic but with no desire to show the stupid
tricks in the stupid set that my stupid parents got me for my birthday (note: at
that time in my life birthdays were not stupid).

The very first book that I purchased (okay, actually my friend Rick made it
disappear from the shelves of the local library), was "The Amateur Magician's
Handbook." by Harold Hay.

Now let me say that, if you've never read or purchased this book, click on the
above link and get it. Amazon has lots of deals on used ones. I don't care what
your level of expertise is, it's an amazing book written in a manner that is
conversational, precise, thorough and will really get beginners off to a good
start and take experts to a new level. You'll even enjoy reading the stuff you
never intend to learn.

Finally, by my mid to late teens, I became pretty proficient at performing magic
with common everyday stuff: cigarettes, coins, playing cards, salt, string,
rope. To me, that was what magic was all about. Not some gimmicked piece of
plastic.

I did purchase some stage magic props so that I could actually put together a
show that I could hopefully perform for money one day.

My first magic show

Even back when I was 17, I was a pretty decent promoter, so I made a really
hokey flyer, with me looking all mysterious. Hands pointed toward the camera as
though I was trying to hypnotize someone. And the headline read: "Magic, Mirth
and Mystery." Hah! Right. I had a flyer before I actually had an act. I knew a
bunch of tricks, but hadn't put them together in any cohesive manner to resemble
an actual show.

But, no big deal. It would probably be weeks, months or longer before anyone
actually called the number on the flyer. Especially since most of the flyers
were in the back seat of my 1966 Chevy Biscayne.

I did drop some off at a few of the local stores I frequented. The drug store,
the bakery, the pizza shop. And I continued practicing my "tricks," figuring I'd
worry about the complete "routine" later.

Then, less than a week after making my flyer, my phone rang. They wanted to know
how much I would charge to do a magic show at an adult Halloween party. Oh crap.
I had no clue. How does ten bucks sound?

So, to make a short story just a bit longer, I immediately started putting
together an actual act, did the gig (which was okay), and the rest is comedy and
magic history. Hee.

Gigging on a regular basis

After that initial gig, I got the bug and expanded my horizons. I was performing
at kiddie birthday parties, doing close-up table-hopping magic at restaurants
and even begging bar owners to let me try to entertain the audience during rock
and roll band breaks.

Then, as I started adding more and more comedy to my stand up shows, I
eventually abandoned magic almost entirely and started working the comedy club
and corporate comedy circuits.

You can learn more about my stand up comedy life at Click on Comedy and the
Dirty Joke Show web sites.

But really, this site encompasses a passion that I've had for many years. The
ability to entertain and possibly astonish people, any time, any place with
common everyday items like cigarettes, coins, cards and the like.

So, I'll be sharing my thoughts and reveal the secrets to some of what I believe
to be the coolest, goddam magic I've ever seen (or done).

Gary Thison