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bobandjim New user 44 Posts 
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I attened a lecture presented by Noah Scalin of Skull a day fame yesterday. He encourage us all to be creative, but he also gave away nuggets of wisdom. One was let go of perfection and another was collaborate. With that in mind I want to share an idea I've had forever but never showed because I didn't think it was finished.
https://vimeo.com/70518679 This idea was originally inspired by Ponta the Smith's Tenki Pennies routine from his DVD sick. The idea of clicking a coin that was not really there really spoke to me, but I wanted to take it a step further. I incorperated a Jay Sankey routine where he demonstrates that a coin is inside his hand by doing a click pass onto an open palm as the beginning phase but changed the presentational concept and the routine was born. I never knew what to do with the two coins after I had them though because nothing felt strong enough compared to the first part. Changing hands, vanishing, and color changing didn't seem to fit with my original theme. So here it is for all to see. Enjoy |
bowers Inner circle Oakboro N.C. 7024 Posts
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I enjoyed that Jim.Very different than your
regular coin routine.toned to sound more than sight.I like something different and fresh. Keep it coming. Todd |
Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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What if you could see the coin and are unaware the audience can't see the coin? IE you offer to take one of the coins in your hand and make it change into a foreign coin. You then talk about the coin and toss it around etc - and only at the end does the audience get to see it for real. <<?>>>
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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bobandjim New user 44 Posts
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I’m very sorry about the double topic. I will be more careful with the button next time.
@ Bowers Thank you for your kind words. They really mean more than you know. @ Jonathan Townsend I had a different routine that was similar to that, but it never quite worked for me. I conceived it as a reverse one coin routine. I would show nothing around telling people it was a coin, then offer to make it vanish. I would do the vanishing motions and there would be coin in my hand, but I acted as if I had vanished a coin. Then I tried to apply the concept to a spell bound routine. A coin was changing places with another invisible coin, but it came across too much like a regular one coin routine and it just looked like the coin was vanishing. It might work much better here though. The routine would come across as much less of a “Hey see if you can figure out what I’m doing”, which I have recently realized the current presentation is. My only fear is how to sell the fact that I don’t know the audience can’t see the coin without confusing them in the first place. I’m sure the right script will help though. |
Mb217 Inner circle 9530 Posts
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Nice idea bob, keep going with it.
 The slieghts are easy enough in the handling but it is your idea of the invisible coin and how you show that, that works so well as to the magic of it all.
I liked it, as I don't go for long-winded coin effects much, and wondered if a good addition would be to see both coins invisible but still audibly, rattling in your closed fist as you then toss them back into visibility to show in the other hand. And it would be easy to go from there back to one coin being invisible again but the other coin still audibly there though invisible.... Hmmmmm.
Oh, and welcome to the Café.
-Mb
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Jiceh Special user France 742 Posts
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On 2013-07-17 20:40, Jonathan Townsend wrote: Great idea Jonathan Really |
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bobthemagicdoerguy Regular user I can't remember where I left my 186 Posts
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Not sure how you could do it, but this seems like a brilliant lead in to David Roth's tuning fork routine. Both involve sound as the primary illusion. Perhaps rather than revealing the invisible coin at the end by making it visible, you could pull out some more invisible coins and proceed to do the tuning fork bit with the glass...
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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There's a fable about the smell of the soup and the sound of the money.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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vinsmagic Eternal Order sleeping with the fishes... 10959 Posts
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I would emnd with both coins vanishing after shlowing the two coins
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TWOCAN Special user PORT RICHEY FL 877 Posts
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Love it.
Profits over people are a common thing . Be uncommon and be the best .
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Jiceh Special user France 742 Posts
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On 2013-07-19 09:26, bobandjim wrote: Very interesting idea. I have to think a little about it. |
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