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m@t Loyal user London, UK www.MatthewLaskey.com 250 Posts |
Just interested to know how you all present the card to wallet.
At the moment Im presenting it as the old - I bet all the money in my wallet I can find your card. Oops, big mistake, oh well I guess the money's your's... But wait... that's a turn up for the books, your card in my wallet! Etc. So anyone have any interesting/ different presentations? Matthew |
Tony Noice Veteran user 342 Posts |
The Terry Largerould Celebrity Autograph presentation is sensational but it is only effective from a performer whose personna suggests that he or she has really rubbed shoulders with a lot of famous celebrities.
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Close.Up.Dave Inner circle Behind you! 2956 Posts |
You could add it in at the end of a travelers effect. Although this is something that Vernon was very opposed to since it is a different effect. I for one don't think that it's a bad thing to perform, but it does turn the focus of how the cards got into the other pockets into how did the card get into the wallet.
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MacGyver Inner circle St. Louis, MO 1419 Posts |
I have used the Celebrity Autograph plot, but instead use a "Famous Musician" plot, which is true because I was with some radio guys and actually do have quiet a collection of famous musician autographed cards.....
Anyway, I don't do that anymore, since now I've been doing it with a more empty wallet, no other cards there... I mostly do CTW with two presentations: 1. On the offbeat, usually after another pick-a-card trick, or sometimes if I can locate their card after they mention one, or something like that: As soon as they mention the card, I look really sick and wierded out, and then I say "That is so strange, earlier today I had this urge to put a card in my wallet" and then open my wallet without calling much attention to it, then I turn the card around and they are really dumbfounded by this(I underplay it a BUNCH like it wasn't even suppose to be a magic effect). 2. At the end of a mul. selection or ACR: I say somethig like "back in my wallet There's one single card, How cool would it be if it was the same value card?" Then upon flipping it over, I have an applause cue that is basically something like "and it even has your signature on it!". The Celebrity autograph presentation is nice, but lately I have been doing the effect with a Real Man's Wallet and I use that as my real wallet and I don't want to carry around a bunch of signed cards with me, so I prefer to just go with alternate presentions. |
Jonathan P. Inner circle Belgium 1484 Posts |
The Ortiz's Dream card plot is nice. It requires a bit of set-up, but the idea can be adapted to an impromptu effect (maybe a little bit less powerful, but it remains a signed card to wallet!)
Jonathan. |
Craig Dickson Veteran user Pleasant Valley, NY 353 Posts |
Marlo wrote a great card to wallet book, now back in print.
Craig R Dickson
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salsa_dancer Inner circle 1935 Posts |
I tend to use it at the end of a short ambitious card routine, I casually shuffle and tell them I don't actually need the card on the top of the deck to find it. I then give them the pack and get them to shuffle.
I pull my wallet out and hand it to another spectator and say hold on to this for me... By the time they have finished shuffling everyone has forgotten that I took my wallet out during the shuffle, a fact I will play on..... |
Review King Eternal Order 14446 Posts |
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On 2004-04-12 13:58, salsa_dancer wrote: Same here. At the end of my ambitious card routine, I take it out of my wallet as a "prediction". Their jaws drop, or girls scream.
"Of all words of tongue and pen,
the saddest are, "It might have been" ..........John Greenleaf Whittier |
Close.Up.Dave Inner circle Behind you! 2956 Posts |
I like Simon Lovell's Packed Wallet which is basicly a deck to wallet. I like his presentation in the book.
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Totof New user Belgium 72 Posts |
To see a demo of Packed Wallet from Simon Lovell, go on http://seemagic.co.uk/indexjava.html
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Larry Davidson Inner circle Boynton Beach, FL 5270 Posts |
I used to perform the effect as a transposition...I placed the spectator's signed card face down on the table, removed my wallet and showed a $100 bill inside a clear window, closed the wallet, rubbed the card on the table and it turned into a $100 bill, opened the wallet and now inside the clear window was the spectator's card instead of the $100 bill.
Larry D. |
corpmagi Special user New York 725 Posts |
Sometimes I use it in conjunction with a variation I do of Paul Harris' "Whack Your Pack" . "Not only did I get get your card, but I also had time to zip it in my wallet" type of thing. I do the routine twice and the 2nd time it gets into the wallet and sometimes even an envelope.
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Welshwizard Loyal user Wales 292 Posts |
Here is a nice presentation I read at the MagicBunny forums (UK): Take any card (a blank face will do) and write 'YOUR NAME' on it and place the card into the wallet. The card should be the same back design and colour as the deck in use. Have a card selected, signed and controlled. Then say 'there is a card in my wallet with your name on it'. Take the card out of your wallet and show them the prepared card, and in doing so palm the selecion and load it into the wallet. The spectators will relax because they think it is just a joke, which provides ample misdirection to load the card. Eventually reveal that their card is really in your wallet.
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Review King Eternal Order 14446 Posts |
I've been using Sanky's Paperclipped a lot lately. It realy plays so well.
"Of all words of tongue and pen,
the saddest are, "It might have been" ..........John Greenleaf Whittier |
Oz Fan Loyal user 277 Posts |
I do this effect where I put the selection in the wallet and place it aside. I then tell the spec. that I need to find " My Favorite Card ". I go through the deck and there is one face down card. The signed selection. Now in the wallet is a joker with the words " My Favorite Card " on it.
Blake S.
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Jonathan P. Inner circle Belgium 1484 Posts |
This presentation seem to be less powerful than the standard card-to-wallet. It is, for a layman, much more easy to "figure out" (even if it is wrong) the way it is is done. The "favourite card" was already in the wallet, and you "just" pretended to put the selection in.
I think the signed selection MUST end into the wallet. Jonathan. |
magicjames1 New user England 67 Posts |
Hi,
I use a combination of chosen card- to fire wallet- to credit card change. Check it out here: http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewt......20&2 James |
therntier Special user 681 Posts |
I use a presentation based on a John Bannon idea. I have a card signed then reveal that on the back of the card it says "You owe me $20". I give the card a rub amd it changes to say "IOU $20". I reach in my wallet and pull out there original IOU and we call it even.
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saturnin Special user Montreal, Canada 964 Posts |
Hi,
some of the following have great presentation: I. No-Palm Methods ================== 1. Gerald Edmundson's CTW (from G.E.'s Jocomo's Best Kept Secrets) 2. "Guts" (from Paul Harris' Art of Astonishment trilogy) 3. Lenny Greenfader's CTW (from Harry Lorayne's Reputation-Makers) 4. Barry Stevenson's CTW (from The Tarbell Course in Magic, vol. 7) 5. "The Signed Card in Wallet" (from Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic) 6. Michael Ammar and Gary Plants' CTW (from Ammar's Easy to Master lecture notes) 7. Bob Gunther's Repeat CTW (from The Tarbell Course in Magic, vol. 7) II. Methods That Require Palming ================================ 8. Roberto Giobbi's CTW (from Giobbi's The Las Vegas Lecture Notes--1996) 9. "On the Card to Wallet" (from Mike Skinner's Classic Sampler) 10. Dan Fleshman's "Momma in My Wallet" (from one of Dan's books) 11. "The $100 Card in the Wallet" (from Paul Gertner's Steel and Silver) 12. Greg Wilson's "License to Thrill" (from Paul Harris' Art of Astonishment trilogy) 13. "The Phantom Card" (from Darwin Ortiz' Cardshark) 14. Bob King's CTW Outline (from a one-page supplement to a set of his lecture notes) 15. Scarne's CTW (from Scarne on Card Tricks) 16. Jim Swain's "The Airmail Card" (from his book Miracles with Cards) 17. Robert Bengel's CTW (from his Back to Basics lecture notes) 18. John Bannon's "Oz Deposit" (from his book Smoke and Mirrors) III. The Mullica Wallet ======================= 19. Tom Mullica's "Miracle Card in Wallet" (source unknown) 20. "D.P. Card in Wallet" (from David Parr's Brain Food) 21. "Mullica Wallet Idea" (from John Riggs' The Magic of John Riggs) 22. Eugene Burger's "Signed Card in Wallet" (from one of E.B.'s books) IV. Methods Using Other Wallets =============================== 23. Stan Menchinger's "Call Me' Card to Wallet" (a Magic Fanatic product) 24. Scotty York's "Escape from Bulgaria" (source unknown) 25. The LePaul Card in Wallet (Larry Jennings' version, source unknown) 26. John Riggs' "Shot from the Hip" (from his book, Magic from the Ambient Domain -- no gimmick required) V. Cards to Elsewhere ===================== 27. Super Sack (by Randy Tanner and Bud Dietrich; source unknown, but reprinted in Paul Harris' Art of Astonishment Trilogy, book 2, p. 233) 28. John Riggs' "The Professional's Handbook" (from The Magic of John Riggs) 29. Gary Ouellet's "The Miracle Signed Card to Purse" (from one of his #@%!! books -- I can't stand Ouellet) 30. Michael Ammar's "Card in Match Book" (from John Luka's book L.I.N.T) 31. Instructions on the Kelly Bottom Placement and two versions of Card to Pocket: Tommy Dowd's, and "Simplex Card to Pocket" (from The Tarbell Course in Magic, Vol. 3) 32. Card to Matchbox from The Book, or Don't Forget to Point, by The Flicking Fingers, published by Richard Kaufman ** please not that I took this a long time ago from another forum (I think) and saved it on my computer, but I honestly do not remember where. Ronnie Lemieux Montreal Canada
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