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P T Flea
Regular user
Engelfield Green, nr Staines - innit
194 Posts
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Posted: May 26, 2002 9:38am
I was sitting in a lecture the other day and I decided I wanted to do some magic for my freind sitting next to me to brighten the dreary time up, even though she hadn't asked.
I don't carry anything magic orientated on me, so if someone asked to see something I probably couldn't (other than maybe the arm twister or a little coin magic).
Anyway I noticed her bag down by my feet, which gave me the idea. I very sneakily removed her Switch card from her purse. I own the exact same switch card myself. So now I had two switch cards, I aligned them both to make them look like one. I showed her the back of my card and explained how I'd mucked up the signature a bit and did she think it mattered? After that I took the card and threw down, face-up, in front of her and copped away my card that had previously been at the back of hers. Now she was seeing her name printed on the front of a card that she had just seen my signature on the back of! She turned over the card quickly in shock to reveal it was now her signature on the back of her card and it actually was her card. I though this was a pretty cool imprompru credit card type trick.
What other kind of effects do you think you could perform with no props but otherwise time to think about it?
As a magicians (if we are in the mood) maybe we should always be looking at the situation we are in, thinking: how can I do something with this here?
Cheers
PT
Good judgement comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from
bad judgement.
   
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Jay
Veteran user
Northern New Jersey
337 Posts
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Posted: May 26, 2002 10:09pm
Hi PT--The other day I was at my mother-in-law's house and was fiddling with a piece of string that was wrapped around a bakery box, the red & white kind. My cousin-in-law said "Can you do magic with that string, Houdini?" in a mock-challenge kind of voice. So, with a small bit of misdirection, I pretended to snap it in two and lay the 'two pieces' side by side (pulled apart the strands to make it look like two strings) then had him hold the outside ends and restore it himself. That shut him up. Then I rolled it into a ball, and 'pushed' it through the tabletop (lapped it). That floored him...he's 19 years old, by the way. Pulled a 3 minute long bit of magic out of 18 inches of bakery string. It was a nice moment for both of us.
Jay. 
Jay Rosenberg
"Once you become aware of the gulf between what people profess to believe and how they actually behave, it’s hard to take any of it seriously"--Pat Condell
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P T Flea
Regular user
Engelfield Green, nr Staines - innit
194 Posts
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Posted: May 28, 2002 4:57am
That's a pretty impressive feat!
3 minutes:18 inches
That's good ratio, or high magical efficiency.
Thanks for sharing,
PT
Good judgement comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from
bad judgement.
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