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Tom Jorgenson Inner circle LOOSE ANGLES, CALIFORNIA 4451 Posts |
OK, here's the premise: You have a 30-40 minute show to do, and walk in totally propless. No NW's, no impads,no cards, no nothing. You can use ambient materials (no decks of their cards, tho)... What effects would YOU do?
We dance an invisible dance to music they cannot hear.
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carly New user 29 Posts |
Some kind of mental epic, just using 3 papers and 3 pens
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enriqueenriquez Inner circle New York 1287 Posts |
There is a great show like that on tv. It’s called Crossing Over.
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Samuel Catoe Inner circle South Carolina 1268 Posts |
If you can use ambient materials I would like to know where the show is being held. What kind of location are we talking about? This determines the materials that are available.
Samuel
Author of Illusions of Influence, a treatise on Equivoque.
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NJJ Inner circle 6437 Posts |
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On 2004-03-11 18:46, enriqueenriquez wrote: I'm not sure that hidden microphones, questionaires and spies count as ambient devices. Also, I don't know of many mentalists who can edit down their show to 45 minutes from 3 hours of material. |
procyonrising Special user New York 698 Posts |
Personally, depending on the size of an audience, I'd probably do a hyp show. If that's not possible, I'd do a modified hyp show that only uses 2 chairs and a bunch of suggestibility tests.
If you need an idea of what I'm talking about, check out Ford Kross' Suggestive Mentalism. Additionally, I'd probably have some other stuff in hand (actually, in head - mostly Banachek stuff): PK touches, PK time, What's your Sign, Predicting time, and lots and lots of cold reading. Actually, I could probably do way over two hours with this stuff. |
david_a_whitehead Inner circle USA 2122 Posts |
I think he said no props at all.
I would do an impromptu anagram and cold reading. |
enriqueenriquez Inner circle New York 1287 Posts |
Yes. Crossing Over is not a fair example if you know who everything is done but, from the eyes of the public, looks like the closet thing to Tom’s requeriment.
I always wonder how to do something that looks like that, without the “I see dead people” thing. I would go also for the anagrams, cold reading, some mathematical or memory test. Kenton Kneeper, Banacheck, Jeremay comes to mind. Do you consider a billet as a prop? What about pre-show? |
Xiqual Inner circle Upper left quadrant 4935 Posts |
Can I make a pendulum out of say a paperclip and a piece of string?
I'll make everybody one, we'll have a heckuva time! You can do some really good stuff with pendulums. No trickery either. Then move on to suggestion and visualization like astral travel and past lives and stuff from a book I have called "Mind games". That would be a great show. Fun too. Cheers, James
Still with the Chinese circus
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Tom Jorgenson Inner circle LOOSE ANGLES, CALIFORNIA 4451 Posts |
So good so far!...you only have to walk in propless... after that, anything goes (except cards).
We dance an invisible dance to music they cannot hear.
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ThoughtThief Regular user 183 Posts |
Does your wallet count as a prop, Tom? If not, then in his lecture notes, "Direct Mind-Reading & Mind-Control Effects," Marc Paul tackles this challenge directly and describes his "Anytime, Any Place, Anywhere (AAA) Mind Reading Routine," consisting of 7 effects that demonstrate a variety of mental abilities: rapid calculation, influencing a person's actions, detecting whether someone is lying, bending metal, reading minds, changing time, and causing phantom physical sensation. The "props," such as they are, consist of some index cards, a pencil and a coin, which Marc keeps in his wallet. If there happens to be a book or magazine around, the impromptu act can be expanded to include his AAA book test.
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John Smetana ???? - 2009 499 Posts |
At a PEA convention,Ted Karmilovich did a lecture on this very topic.As I understand it the contents of this lecture(The No Prop Act) will be included in Teds, soon to be published, book. Excellent stuff by the way.
Best thoughts, John Smetana |
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