Hey guys!

I'm currently working on the Multi-language edition of Narcissus (video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmGmguY7Z2Q ).

We now have people who are on board to translate a shortened version of the release into French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese and Vietnamese. I've also got offers to translate it into Turkish and Latin (!) if there's anyone interested. (Anyone got a gig at the Vatican?)

Any other language requests? I'm looking for potential translators for other languages -- I will be trading this help for hundreds of dollars worth of my effects. You can reply here or shoot me a pm. Thanks so much!

The blurb for Narcissus is below:

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Finally, the 100th Monkey principle goes close up!

"Fantastic work from a real genius." -Marc Salem

"It's friggin' brilliant! Particularly Unhypnotized - wow! I mean, that is what the mystery arts should be about. The routines that come with it include some serious powerhouses, from the expletive-inducing to the quietly moving, possibly even transformative." -Joshua Quinn

SEAN: It's bloomin' brilliant! This is a new type of effect. You can use this to advertise yourself on social media.

DAVID: The 100th Monkey is now a modern classic in mentalism. Rarely do you see something like the 100th Monkey principle, which is actually a brand new principle in magic, something that changes mentalism forever. When you saw the video and you saw everyone gathering around the phone... when you watch the spectators on these videos, when they are invited to zoom in on their photographs and see what it really says, you actually see them - the dynamic of the group goes - Wow! Oh my God! The cards really do look incredible when you see them close up. Just leave them fried for the rest of their life. And if this was printed on the back of your business card, they've got a story for life that they will always tell about the time they saw you perform and they can even show and they can even show people the picture on the phone. Try and repeat the experiment and it won’t work until they see you again live.

SEAN: This is going straight on the back of my business cards. It's probably going to get me work. 99%.

DAVID: 94%.

SEAN: It's my worker of the week.

-Wizard Product Review

"Chris Philpott's Narcissus takes his 100th Monkey genius to a new level! Narcissus opens up an entirely new playground of powerful routines using a spectator's own phone that packs small and plays big. Highly recommended!" -Brett Barry

"I couldn't recommend this more!!!!!! It's powerful, brilliant and above all effective. It's a no-brainer... this should be in your arsenal if you want to blow peoples minds. Bravo Chris, you've done it again! IMHO I feel this kind of magic is the next step in the evolution of our profession advancing us to be perceived beyond mere mortals."
-Joe Monti

"Chris did it again! This time the power of 100 Monkeys is always with you, anywhere, anytime, plus it will be a memento that the audience will have with them for all their life!" -- Luca Volpe

"Narcissus explores my favorite application for the 100th Monkey principle. I'm loving this!" -- Ran Pink

Five powerful new effects by Chris Philpott. In each effect, a picture of a spectator taken on his own phone magically changes under the most impossible conditions!

Easy-to-perform effects that are unlike anything your audiences have ever seen. Effects that are as memorable as they are impossible, as moving as they are amazing.

When Dan Harlan was asked "On the topic of Penguin lectures, what's been your most memorable moment? Is there anything that jumps out at all?" Dan answered, "Yeah! Yeah, yeah. Chris Philpott... He brought the most dramatic presentations, things where you really cared about what was going on... Just so well-thought-out. Really, really smart thinking."

The five effects on this DVD are:

The Fortune Teller
You give your volunteer a card with a picture of a 'haunted' fortune teller machine on one side and Romani (Gypsy) writing on the other. You borrow a cell phone and take a picture of the spectator holding the card – but when they look at the photo, the foreign words have changed to English and they give the spectator's fortune! It is uncannily accurate and can even predict a lucky number or chosen card!

Unhypnotized
As you begin to hypnotize someone you discover that she is already hypnotized! Then the magic begins... A beautiful, empowering effect.

The Pledge
You ask a spectator to pledge to assert his free will by posing for a photo holding a card that reads "My will is strong! I will make a free choice" as he recites the words. You shuffle a deck of cards and have him choose one under very fair conditions (let's say it is the five of clubs). You ask him what words were on the card they held at the beginning of the trick – they say "I will make a free choice." "Are you sure?" The Performer shows the picture he snapped earlier but now it reads "My will is stolen! I will take a five of clubs!"

I Want to See My Future
Predicting the future is a dangerous thing and sometimes people get mad at the prophet for what he reveals. So to verify a spectator's consent, you take a picture of her holding a card that reads "I want to see my future!" But when she looks at the photo, the words on the card have changed to reveal her future in a surprising, accurate and funny way.

No Art
A spell from Harry Potter reveals a secret thought. You ask a spectator to think of a person (or place or thing) and then you have them hold a card that says "I am thinking of a thing." You cast the "Aparecium" revealing spell from Harry Potter and now when they look at the picture, their secret thought is visible.

Up to now, all 100th Monkey effects have been designed for stage (with workarounds for close up situations). This is the first time that these kind of effect are designed specifically for close up situations (though now there are workarounds for stage work).

Includes pre-printed cards, video instructions, written instructions with many variations on these routines and hundreds of print-at-home jpegs allowing to customize to suit your own performing style and a wide variety of performance situations.

"Close up at last! This is exactly what everyone who’s ever heard of the 100th Monkey has been waiting for." - Pete McCabe

"I personally did not find any effects utilizing a cell phone magical, until Narcissus! HOME RUN!" - Howard Hamburg.

Great news!!!

Thanks, Luca!

I've just gotten an offer to translate this into Japanese. No promises that non-Roman alphabet languages will work, but it's nice to give them a try. Thank you!

-Chris

Great news!!!

Let me know if you'd need any more help in Spanish or if you'd do a Catalan version also I would be able to help and translate.

Regards

Thanks, guys!

Recoplon, thank you so much for your offer to help! I think we're covered on Spanish. Not sure it'd be worth it to do a Catalan version -- most people who speak Catalan also speak Spanish don't they?

I think the languages have been set: French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew and Vietnamese. The first two translations have already come in and from what I can tell, they look great!