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Chris Berry Special user 831 Posts |
I'm sure you card guys know what a coin flurry is.
I was wanted to get you opinions on something. How well do you think a 'card flurry' would go over? Just a routine with one card dissappearing, appearing, jumping around. I am just wondering if people would think it's corny. I mean, all you have is one card. You could do some pretty nutty stuff with it. Chris |
Denis Behr Special user Germany 703 Posts |
Guy Hollingworth actually has a "One Card Routine" in his book Drawing Room Deceptions. The effect is that you put a (signed) card in one pocket and take it out of another pocket multiple times.
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mattpuglisi Veteran user New York 321 Posts |
I regularly perform a 'one card flurry'-type routine, but with a color-changing ending (of course, I'm handling a double throughout). It never fails to receive a great reaction (from magicians and laypeople alike).
I move through several production and vanish sequences (my routine, as you might expect, is "Tenkai-heavy"), and then I hit the audience over the head with a color change (the exact method I perform depends on my mood). Sometimes I perform this as a revelation (with a "sucker element" to it), which helps to give it some context. As with all routines, one of the key elements to making it work is STRUCTURE. I use a variety of vanishes, reproductions, throw-offs, bluffs, acquitments, etc. to sell the singularity of the card, as well as the emptiness of my hands after the vanishes. This elevates the closing color change to the level of sheer impossibility. I must add that, despite the fact that I have not read any published versions of this routine (any references would be great), I'm convinced that this is not (in fact, cannot be) a new idea. Can anyone else shed some light on this? I'm aware of Hollingworth's routine (I love that book), but would we consider it a "flurry", in the clearest sense of the word (that is, given its etymology in coin magic)? I see Hollingworth's routine as a transportation effect.
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cardguy Inner circle Queens, New York 1171 Posts |
I can attest that Matt has some cool ideas with his one card routine. He is a Tenkai maniac (in a good way of course)
Hollingworth's one card routine IS a repeat transportation of one card, but aren't coin flurries the same thing? You are vanishing a coin and it usually appears somewhere else on your person, and you do this repeatedly. The same is happening in Guy's routine. Matt, if I am remembering correctly, your one card routine is more like a repeated vanish and reproduction of a card, not necessarily transportationsm, meaning that the card doesn't end up in your pockets or anywhere else. What is happening is that the card becomes invisible, and is all the while undergoing a mutation process (changing color), which is a really cool premise to begin with. It DOES end with a nice climax, just like most good coin flurries. At least that's how I "took in" the effect when you showed it to me. BTW, if you ever session with Matt, ask him to do his "Repeat Card and Coin" routine. Pure eye candy.
Frank G. a.k.a. Cardguy
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mattpuglisi Veteran user New York 321 Posts |
Thanks for the kind words, Frank. (He's so honest!)
I guess I'm just caught up in semantics. It seems to me that when an object is moved from ONE place to another (as in the Hollingworth routine) we call it a transportation or teleportation. When an object repeatedly vanishes and reappears in DIFFERENT locations, we call it a "flurry". But your point is well made, Frank - a "flurry" is a series of teleportations. And just to get back on topic - they work as well (in the "real world") with cards as they do with coins.
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levitate Veteran user 319 Posts |
I think Oz has one on his site. Its called "vanishes" or something like that.
http://www.watchmagic.com Michael btw it will be on his dvd coming out soon |
Alessandro Scotti Loyal user Italy 263 Posts |
The first thing that comes to my mind is the beginning of the "classical" Lennart Green act, which starts with "Please, name any card". It's an amazing and very startling sequence of vanishes and "productions", performed in the unique and unimitable Green style. :O
I don't know Matt's act but it seems to be great and since I've been toying with this "card flurry" concept for a little while I would like to know more... any direction?
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cardguy Inner circle Queens, New York 1171 Posts |
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On 2003-05-29 17:23, mattpuglisi wrote: That sounds more like it. I forgot to realize that in a flurry the object first vanishes, and is then reproduced elsewhere. In Matts case, the card(s) vanishes and is reproduced (or "ripped") out of different areas in the space around him. Very pretty.
Frank G. a.k.a. Cardguy
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Chris Berry Special user 831 Posts |
Matt, sounds really really interesting.
The hardest part is structuring the routine so it looks good. Chris |
iamslow Inner circle Proffessional Slacker 2001 Posts |
that would look cool.. like gary kurtz fluroius with a card... lots of hand washing and tenkai's..you could even do it with 2 cards and do some cool colourchanges
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martyk Loyal user 275 Posts |
Matt;
Are you going to "publish" that marvelous routine on the Forum? MartyK |
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