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Flying Magus Loyal user 286 Posts |
I've just been rereading Eddie Joseph's "The Art of Body Loading and Productions" and am wondering if anyone out there uses this stuff still.
There is one item in the book that I am thinking of adding to my act (or at least trying out), but most of the material seems like it wouldn't play too well these days. The performer seems to have to paw the poor spectator to death in order to achieve the desired results and there just seems to be too much contact for the effect to be believeable. Finally, I find the book annoyingly obtuse (and lacking in pictures). That said, if I get just the one thing out of it to play well, I'm sure it will prove to be a gem.
Magically yours,
Michel Fouché Believe in the Impossible |
ufo Inner circle Phoenix, Arizona 1185 Posts |
Hey,
Yes it is an enigmatic little book ain't it! Actually the principles in the book can work, I have done the "baby bottle" principle of having the other items loaded in one final, larger prop and actually holding it thru the spec's coat while pulling things out with the other hand. In my opinion it wasnt for great mystery but for laughs. The real issue is one of personality--in my mind only a David Williamson can get away with this "frisking and pushing" of volunteers. Granted it can be funny and perhaps even amazing to some but its requires too much "roughing up" for me to feel good about. I wish we had film of Alexander Hermann doing the coat loads in his gentleman's fashion! At dinner theatre events I have actually put things into ladies purses before the show and "found" them later. Pickpocketing in reverse. These items included hat coils, spring bills, and a very large knife. Good luck!
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thoughtsexplorer Elite user Elite... not D-Lite! 424 Posts |
Carl Cloutier gives some ideas on his sleeving-DVD - without being too cruel to the spectator.
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Darkwing Inner circle Nashville Tn 1850 Posts |
Ufo and FM, I agree. I think a lot of the material is out dated and you do have to put you hands on the vol. too much. Problem is there is just not that much material on body loading out there. I would like to see a comprehensive work on body loading, steals, both off the magician and the vol.. Maybe there is one out there somewhere. It's a side issue, but you see some great manipulation info out there, but you are lacking in how to steal, get in and get out of the trick.
Jeff McBride has made some of the best attempts to show steals etc. but there is just not that much material. I guess going back to Rice's Encyclopedia,and Tarbell is still the answer. |
Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
The Art of Putpocketing (as opposed to Pickpocketing) is well known to Wizards and Mentalists where it is used more for astonishment than for comedy. For example, if I want to borrow a dollar bill from you, but one for which I already have predicted the serial number- one solution is putpocketing. You will never know (if I am good) that I have substituted one of my bills for one of yours, so the methods have to be far more subtle, whereas, for the comedy magician, it really doesn't matter if the audience eventually figures out that all that stuff was loaded on the spectators by the magician.
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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