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Forward
Sometime about 2005, plus or minus a couple
years, I was in the process of putting an
ad into Genii magazine. I wanted that ad to
pull people to my web site. I had the idea
of advertising a spectacular trick and
offering it free. The cost of getting the trick
was to go to my web site and watch it. The
trick had two requirements. The trick had
to be spectacular and the ad had to look
real flashy.
The material in this article lays out the
details of the result. After all that
happened during the development of this
trick, the result turned out very good.
A few students have requested that I teach
this to them and I have gotten emails from
some people that put this together. It is a
complicated project but these people think
it worthwhile.
Al Schneider
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Introduction
The description here will begin with a
discussion of desires for the trick and
problems encountered. This will become
ordered when a discussion of the props is
presented. That will be followed by a
discussion of the routine. Then as the flow
of the routine is clearer, we will discuss
some more details of the props. The
placing of the cards is somewhat critical
as if this is done just a bit off, the
spectators will be very wary. Part of this
is due to the fact the same move is done
six times one after another. Any flaw will
be magnified. The stack of real coins is
dealt with next and includes comments
about the tube, the coins and some flash
paper. As the routine was designed for the
web, all the props were set up before the
actual recording began. In real life, you
would not have such an opportunity.
Accordingly, there is a small discussion
about doing this in a real performance
environment.
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