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Dennis Michael Inner circle Southern, NJ 5821 Posts |
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Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
Back in January 2009, when I made my first post to this thread, I would have said that there is nothing new in silk production boxes or screens; every possible configuration and method of using them has already been discovered and put to use in magic. Back in February, I taught Wiz Kid Qua-Fiki the moves for the Temple Screen, since he needed one for a production of silks he was working on.
That was then. This is now (August 2009). Suddenly, Qua-Fiki started getting interested in everything connected with the Temple Screen. He wanted to make Jim Gerrish’s Chimney Screen with four sides. OK. Then he started asking me questions about my Greeting Card Magic in the Dollar Store section. OK. When I began doing the research for the Handkerchief Box, he got really excited and wanted to know everything. OK. In July, I saw him rehearsing his new silk production with his cousin, the former Wiz Kid Eleazar who now insists on changing his name to Wiz Kid Ee-Gee-Fiki… but that’s another story… there’s a magic virus going around. He shows a small box. It looks like a Hank Box with a top… but it’s not. He shows all the pieces and even folds the box flat as a pancake, making it look a bit like a Temple Screen hinges with gaffer’s tape… but it’s not… no tricky moves at all. He reassembles the box and has me play the part of two spectators who are given the top and bottom (to examine) and I put them on the top and bottom of the box. Turning the whole thing around so it can be seen from all sides, he puts the box on the ground and takes out a 12 inch silk. I am not impressed; after all, that was the big complaint about the original Hank Box… such a big box for only one small handkerchief. Qua-Fiki has me wiggle my fingers and say “Bigger.” I play along. This time he removes an 18 inch silk. Again, I am not impressed. We go through the process again and he gets a 24 inch silk. No sleights. No false moves; now I am watching him like a hawk. Again with the wiggle and the magic word “Bigger” and this time it’s a 36 inch silk. One more time and I am brought into the act as I have to help him haul a huge six foot silk out of this small (previously empty- I swear!) box on the ground (I will have to check for holes dug in my lawn later!). Finally, he makes me whisper “Bigger” and wiggle my fingers backwards… that’s Qua-Fiki’s sense of humor, I wonder where he gets it from? The last silk from the box is another 36 inch silk with THE END written on it. Qua-Fiki showed me how it had all come together beginning with his Temple Screen work, and I stopped looking for a hole dug in the lawn. I then spent several nights researching production boxes and finally concluded that Qua-Fiki had put together something brand new in a production box; something I would have said was not possible in this day and age. After all, there are just so many ways you can make and use a six sided box for magic. But now there’s one more. It’s on my site in The Wizards’ Journal #18- Qua-Fiki’s Sneaky Production Box. Just so you know, Qua-Fiki gets all the money from sales of his new e-Book; I don’t get a cent. I am afraid this is just the beginning of a career of “fool the professor.”
Professor Spellbinder
Professor Emeritus at the Turkey Buzzard Academy of Magik, Witchcraft and Wizardry http://www.magicnook.com Publisher of The Wizards' Journals |
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