John Bannon Dear Mr Fantasy Guitar
We are pleased to announce the publication of Dear Mr. Fantasy, John Bannon's first collection of close-up magic since Smoke & Mirrors over a decade ago. DMF is a 200 page, hardbound, photo-illustrated, card magic masterpiece that will impress even the most seasoned professional card magician. DMF contains nineteen card tricks and other asides that are performed with unprepared cards, and most are completely impromptu! This book will leave you primed to take your magic to the public in any setting! Contents Include:.
Dear Mr Fantasy: This book has received so much praise, and here is some more: I'll be honest and say that there wasn't one routine in this book I couldn't see myself using. You will notice from the structure of these routines, that this man has serious experience in card magic. There are so.
Iconoclastic Aces. Syncopated Aces. Interrobang Aces.
Line of Sight. Final Verdict. Cull De Stack. 'Two Classics'.
Beyond Fabulous. Mark of the Fabulous. Dead Reckoning. Out Of Touch.
Dawn Patrol. Degrees Of Freedom. Origami Poker.
Perfect Strangers. Wait Until Dark.
Last Man Standing. Trait Secrets. 'Dave's Game'. The Power Of Poker. Of the many magic books that I own, this still ranks as one of my most favorites.
I actually bought Bullets After Dark first, but reading everything in text plus getting additional treats not on the DVD was just lovely. This book is intermediate at best, with the most difficult moves being in the ace assembly (not really too hard, a bottom deal from a packet is really easy and the effect has built-in misdirection), and one faro shuffle in one of the effects.
Most of the effects are impromptu, only 1-2 of the effects can't be set-up on the fly. This is still my mainstay of tricks, and for good reason. Oh, and have fun with the origami effects - they are as fooling to the audience as they will be for yourself. John Bannon is an amazing thinker in magic. All the tricks in this book are very well crafted and many are practically self working.
I haven't performed all the tricks in the book yet but I hope to do so soon. Bullet Train: Made up of 3 TOTALLY IMPROMPTU ace assembly routines.
If you like ace assemblies, you'll love this. I tried this out and it got pretty good reactions,especially during the last assembly. Very easy and fun to perform. 9/10 Line of Sight: Wasn't really interested in this one. Basically, a card is peeked at by the spectator and the magi divines the card. Features a nice presentation, but not one that I see me pulling of.
Also a knacky move.Some may enjoy this more than I did. 6.5/10 Final Verdict: A spectator cuts to the aces that packs a punch.
Haven't tried this one out but I like it. VERY Easy 8.5/10 Cull De Stack:This is basically just a setup for the next trick in the. Unless you perform that trick (which I don't), you wont find much use for it. The move also doesn't look right in my hands. Daley's Last Trick/Twisting the Aces: This is just Bannon's thoughts on the two tricks. He adds some elements that I like, especially in Daley's Aces.
NOTE: he does not teach the mechanic of both tricks 8/10 Beyond Fabulous: This is the routine you use Cull De Stack with. Haven't used it yet. Based of Henry Christ's Fabulous Four Ace Trick. Again, don't like Cull De Stack, but if you prearrange the deck, I like it. 8.5/10 Dead Reckoning: Best Routine in the book. Basically, it's an incredibly fair trick in which a card is fairly selected (no force) and fairly buried in the deck. The Spelling revelation is great, and this is a real worker.
One time set up, instant reset. 10/10 Out of Touch: A neat mental routine, in which a mentally and physically selected card match. Looking forward to trying this out! 9.5/10 Dawn Patrol: LOVE THIS.
Just as strong as Dead Reckoning. Basically it's a sandwich routine using many principles from Dead Reckoning. Difficult, however. I need to work on my faro shuffle. 9.5/10 Degrees of Freedom: Poker Routine where the spectaor makes decisions.
Complicated, but pretty much self working. I really like this. 9.25/10 Origami Poker: An Even better version of Degrees of Freedom. Each has its own disadvantages and advantages, but this one is slightly superior.
9.5/10 Perfect Strangers: Haven't Really looked at this one yet. Another routine using principles from Degrees of Freedom and Origami poker. NA Wait Until Dark: Bannon's Shufflebored routine. THIS IS AMAZING! Not impromptu, but worth it. So much fun to perform!
Dear Mr Fantasy
10/10 Last Man Standing: Given how much I liked the last few tricks, this was disappointing. A triumph routine with kind of an awkward display. Not very convincing.
6/10 Trait Secrets: Pretty good. Basically, the mates of two cards are found as well as the 4 Aces.
I don't see myself doing this. 7.5/10 The Power of Poker: Self Working poker demonstration. Not as impressive as I'd hoped it would be, but I've used it and like it. 8.5/10 Overall, a great book. Get To Know Us. Read more.
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The strength of the triumph doesn't depend on the moves. I have bought, learnt, and performed literally over a dozen triumphs. From using simple psychological sleights, to doing push through false shuffles. Trick decks and impromptu. I can tell you that it does not make one bit of difference how its done.
Whether you can display the cards, or fan them, or whatever other convincers you try to throw in. The only important thing in triumph, as with most magic, is presentation.
A sloppy shuffle and a PTFS are equally deceiving to a spectator. But the difference in performance from say, stock patter, to say, Francis Menotti's Exdislycally Shunuffled, is massive. What you should be asking, is what is your favorite performance or patter for triumph. That is what will truly make a difference. Click to expand.I disagree. Example: In the original Triumph in 'Stars of Magic' the spectator spreads the cards for the final display and the magic happens in their hands. I got that tip from Woody Aragon (he has a very good section about the Triumph effect on his Woodyland set, which I highly recommend).
He said that noone does it the way it is described in the original (because spectators normally can`t spread card as elegant as we can). But for his audience, it is stronger. I´ve tried it and for me, he was right. It`s such small things that don`t seem important at first glance. And over-proofing that the cards are really mixed isn`t very good either, as it can arouse suspicion. I completely agree with you on both points Chris. I don't think I was quite clear enough by saying 'how its done.'
I was referring solely to the mechanics of the effect. As in, it makes zero difference to a spectator if you perform a zarrow or a push through false shuffle.
Dear Mr Fantasy Meaning
This is the kind of distinction that I see most of the time between marketed triumphs. There are certainly many that bring up wonderful points on how you present the triumph, the nuances of performing as well as the patter. It seemed to me that the original poster of this thread was worried more about the actual mechanic, so I wanted to impress that the important part of triumph is not the mechanics.
Something very interesting I have noticed while performing triumphs, is that it also makes little to no difference to a spectator whether or not you can spread out the mixed up cards. The only true way to show the shuffle. Cheek to Cheek or Deck9 hit no harder than a zarrow shuffle or a sloppy shuffle.
John Bannon Dear Mr Fantasy Guitar Lesson
Their belief in what they are seeing happens as soon as the cards are 'shuffled,' no further proof is necessary. In their memory they see the same effect, no matter how much harder you worked to be able to show them cards back to back.