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Steven Conner Inner circle 2720 Posts 
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Sorry this is a little off topic but certainly worthy. There was a few of us in Howie Schwartzman's room at the Washington Hilton for the IBM Convention in 1977. This is by far the best trick I have ever seen period. Howie retired to bathroom and ask us to give him 5/10 minutes and then come into the bathroom. We went in there and he was totally gone. No windows, no closets, no drop ceilings, no other doors. He was just gone. It was an amazing thing. After we all walked out, here comes Howie.
"The New York Papers," Mark Twain once said,"have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted; it is the way they feel about it, and they show it by always sending to me when they get uneasy. "
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Seethings Elite user 435 Posts
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James Dean used to do the same thing. I have read about it in one of Jon Racherbaumer's Magic Magazine columns.
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IAIN Eternal Order england 18807 Posts
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I like the one with the 21 cards best...
I've asked to be banned
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cheesewrestler Inner circle Chicago 1157 Posts
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On Mar 12, 2015, Steven Conner wrote: Ken Allen did the same thing at the Statler during the 1952 SAM convention in Boston. |
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Ben Blau Inner circle 1475 Posts
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I was fooled by the majority of effects presented in Max's VideoMind. I still think it's one of the best resources available for mentalists.
Ben Blau
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OTTOEMEZZO Special user 544 Posts
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"Tres" (which includes my signature "no touch" version of PK Touches) is the best I've ever seen. ;-)
Just kidding. I would say that Derren Brown's effects are definitely up there. Also, the Watch effect by Osterlind is quite impossible. Finally, Jerome Finley's work is very impressive as well and quite impossible to backtrack. -Vlad
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DocBenWiz Special user Meridian, Idaho 991 Posts
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A "Brainbuster" TV show special effect by Dunninger, a drawing duplication of what an airline pilot had drawn in real time in the cockpit, while flying some hundreds or thousandsof miles from the theater!
Everything Dunninger did impressed me, but that is the only one specific effect that I have never forgotten.  
"Pay no attention to that strange man behind the curtain" (it's only "Doc Benjamin from the Amazing Wizardelia Wagon")
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DocBenWiz Special user Meridian, Idaho 991 Posts
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On Mar 12, 2015, DocBenWiz wrote: A close second would be, Al Koran doing his Medallion effect on an Ed Sullivan Sunday night TV show,..never forgot that and at the time had no idea how it was done.
"Pay no attention to that strange man behind the curtain" (it's only "Doc Benjamin from the Amazing Wizardelia Wagon")
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YellowThorn New user 2 Posts
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So I'm new to the concept of mentalism but it appears on this thread that the Lottery Illusion by Nate Staniforth falls under this category. I think his trick is definitely one of the craziest I've seen in this realm. I am so curious how anything like that can be done!
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FJR Regular user London 129 Posts
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On Aug 23, 2014, Stunninger wrote: Yes. So many of his pieces over the years could be chosen really, as they are masterclasses of performance, expertise and creativity, but the Oracle Act is brilliantly done - such a powerful and dramatic piece. Mind-boggling stuff. Best, Francis
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Max Hazy.jpg "View Profile") Special user 543 Posts
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Derren Brown's The Oracle Act in Evening of Wonders for me too. Derren Brown is my model of what a mentalist should look/be/say/do.
But I love when performance pieces change the way I look at something. Docc Hilford's Para Opticalism is what made me include several versions of Card Calling in my repertoire (I never used it before that). Most recently, Jan Foster's "Under Test Conditions" made me come-up with a different way to achieve the same thing, with 2 additional advantages. So it's hard to me to define what I would consider the "best" thing I've ever seem. It could be taken as best performance, best plot, best method... or simply the thing that changed you the most after you watched it. Who knows... In my case it was a very slow progress. The more I digged, the bigger the excitement. But if I had to name a single effect, it would have to be a Q&A style act. This can be done with questions, pictures, cards, objects, etc... even nothing at all.
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bevbevvybev Inner circle UK 2674 Posts
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I once completely impressed myself by knowing my own mind.
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casco1 New user 97 Posts
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Enigma finale is amazing. In its simplicity it is a perfect example of entertainment and its climax kills!
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Sudo Nimh Inner circle 1879 Posts
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Ugggh. More one-sentence carpet bombing to reach 50 posts...
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dooblehorn Inner circle Pittsburg, CA 2482 Posts
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On Aug 18, 2014, Galileo wrote: I agree with others, Nate's Lottery Illusion really made an impression on me. And when I went through his instructions for this, I was just mind-blown. |
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Forty Six & 2 Regular user Three cheers and some toasts for my 107 Posts
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Nothing blew my mind more than the first time I saw Richard Osterlind's watch routine! A thing of real beauty
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Lior Inner circle 1962 Posts
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I saw Chan Canasta 40 years ago on Israeli TV
diing the book test. Then I saw him live. Until today no one does it like he did. I started traditional mentalism in 1986 and could understand most of the plots but in 1992 Tim Conover came to Israel and killed everyone with his newspaper prediction. Lior
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Stunninger Inner circle 2827 Posts
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The first time I saw Kreskin do his Q&A on TV. Then when I saw Richard Osterlind do his Q&A. Not having any idea at the time how this was done, both performances utterly amazed me. Both Kreskin and Osterlind seemed to possess the power to perceive thoughts from anyone in the audience. I will always remember the truly magical feeling this gave me.
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Louigi Verona New user Germany 12 Posts
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Maybe this will sound weird, since people here mention extremely grand effects, like the Oracle an Q&A and such, but my favourite effects in mentalism are a little geeky and involve simple objects.
This effect that Derren Brown does, specifically at 2.40, when there is a whole room of objects and someone picks one object and then DB shows them the prediction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2yHH_xFdR8 I just love this effect. I have no idea how he did it, but the aesthetics of this kind of performance are just speaking to me. You know, the wonder of raw choice. The spectator walking around this museum of items. I really like that. |
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thethirteensteps New user 54 Posts
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I saw Osterlind once when he was on fire with his Q&A and it was epic.
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