Price$19.95
Media TypeDVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedJul 26, 2014
At the Table Live Lecture - Danny Garcia
Garcia, Danny
Murphy's Magic Supplies, Inc.
(Based on 1 review)
MAGIC WITH PLAYING CARDS:
Time Line 2.0: A signed, odd-backed card vanishes from the box and ends up being the "newly" selected card. Workable, smart, deceptive.
Red: A freely selected card happens to be the only red card in the pack.
Serial Shuffle: A deck is shuffled by numerous spectators and ten cards are freely dealt out, which end up matching the serial number on the box.
Serial Shufflebored: A combination of Serial Shuffle and Simon Aronson's Shufflebored. A smart, natural combination.
Deepwater: A Do-As-I-Do Oil and Water Routine with a fabulous kicker ending.
Open Coincidence (3 versions): A prediction is shown and the spectator freely deals the cards, stopping on one card, which happens to match your open prediction.
NON-CARD MATERIAL:
21: Two bills change places while one is held by the spectator.
Engage (bill ring): Instantly fold an origami ring out of a dollar bill.
Yellow Phone (2 versions): Correctly guess the item a spectator is guessing from a list on your phone.
Credit Through Bill: A credit card passes through a bill slowly, yet the bill is unharmed.
EMIT: Everyone travels back in time, which is proven in this interactive phone effect.
Dough Boy: A coffee stir stick is pushed through a bill and then visually penetrates through, leaving no rips.
Reviews
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Of course Daniel Garcia is an incredibly creative magician and he is well known for his influence in the world of TV and street magic. He covers a lot of materiel here, some new some old. Most of it is either a card trick or a trick with money with a couple effects that you can do with your phone.
Timeline 2.0: A card with a different back is inserted into the box. A card is selected from a pack, upon opening the box the card has vanished and is revealed that the selection has changed into the other card with a different back and everything. All you need for this is a card with a different back design and a box. You will need to practice the moves involved but they are not impossible to learn with just a little time. This is a nice nearly impromptu effect if you are familiar with Garcia’s work then you will know that this is one of his go to effects.
Cigarette Through Bill (Performance Only): A fun part about this lecture format is that they are able to insert video footage from other performances into the the lecture. In this case they get talking about magic on TV and all of its facets, Daniel then talks about what it was like working with David Blaine and his creative team. He shows the raw footage of the cigarette through bill with him and Blake Vogt at his home.
Twenty-One: Two bills are used, one is borrowed and the other is supplied by the magician. One is folded and placed in the spectator’s hand and the other visually changes into the other bill and can be shown openly. When the spectator opens their hand it is shown that the bills have transposed. This is one of my favorite effects in the lecture. The method is new and the change is super visual. It is not too difficult to make and perform.
Red: This is another go to of his, the spectator makes a selection and it is the only red card in the deck. On the offbeat the card changes color to match the deck. This is nice, it reminds me of Paul Harris’ Overkill.
Pressure (Performance Only): A phone goes off in the crowd and Danny pushes it visually into a balloon. He goes over a couple new performance ideas as well as a great way to leave your spectator with a souvenir. He does not tip the method at all as was mentioned in Michael Ammar’s lecture.
Fraud (Performance Only): Here we get a very funny story and a clip of David Blaine performing Daniel Garcia’s fraud for John Mayer.
Engage: A borrowed bill is folded into 8ths and with a shake it changes into an origami bill ring. You can then hand out the ring as a souvenir. There is some prep for this but it really isn’t that tough to do and it is very visual.
Serial Shuffle: The audience shuffles the deck, 8 cards are dealt and it matches a serial number perfectly. This is completely self working the way that he explains it and is a great alternative to a pick a card routine.
Yellow Phone: This is Daniel Garcia’s take on mental yarn. Basically you are able to guess a thought of object on a list on your cell phone. This is a great utility that you can really use to control a selection or divine a selection. Two methods are explained and all you need for either is a notepad app. Danny uses an iPhone but I have performed this for years with an Android phone.
Deep Water: This is an Oil and Water routine where the spectator does exactly what the magician does. It really gives the impression that the magician never touches the spectators pack. All of the reds and blacks are interlaced and they separate magically in the magicians packet, the spectator’s packet and the deck separate by color. This has a great way of building for the final revelation of the entire deck. A good 1-2-punch.
Plastic Wrapped Night Shades (Performance Only): This is a performance from Dynamo performed for an English musician. He takes the glasses off of a photo of his album cover. This looks great but the reaction is even better. Of course this is based off of Paul Harris’ Nightshades but the shades are taken off under cellophane and permanently change the photo. It is not taught.
Emit: This is a high concept piece where you make the whole audience go back in time up to ten minutes. This will work on most iPhones. The idea is clever but it may not hit the whole audience as hard as you’d like. I’d like to do this but there are a couple things that I worry about while performing it.
Dough Boy: This is Daniel Garcia’s handling on Jay Sankey’s effect Dough. While the effect might be similar the method has managed to get rid of the sticky notes that Sankey uses which to me is like doing a sawing in half without boxes. A borrowed bill is jabbed by a pencil, straw or stir stick and it is visually restored. This is 100% impromptu and ungimmicked, all you need is a bill and a stick of some type.
Open Coincidences: Here you learn a couple versions of Danny Garcia’s open prediction. This is great perfectly impromptu version of the open prediction that can be performed in the hands as well as on the table. A prediction is made and shown, the spectator deals to any card and that card is shown to be the prediction.
Serial Shuffle-Bored: This was performed on David Blaine’s last special. The cards are shuffled face up into face down and flipped over a couple times and when they are spread the face up cards match the numbers on a bill. .
There are a lot of effects here that are performance only. Credit through bill is advertised but it is not taught or performed. If you are interested in this trick it was taught on the online interview with Kyle Marlett but it is not touched on at all in the lecture. Michael Ammar made mention in the last lecture that an unpublished version of Pressure would be taught and it wasn’t.
That said this is a good mix of material that it for the most part easy to do. If you like magic with paper money especially there is a lot here for you.
Timeline 2.0: A card with a different back is inserted into the box. A card is selected from a pack, upon opening the box the card has vanished and is revealed that the selection has changed into the other card with a different back and everything. All you need for this is a card with a different back design and a box. You will need to practice the moves involved but they are not impossible to learn with just a little time. This is a nice nearly impromptu effect if you are familiar with Garcia’s work then you will know that this is one of his go to effects.
Cigarette Through Bill (Performance Only): A fun part about this lecture format is that they are able to insert video footage from other performances into the the lecture. In this case they get talking about magic on TV and all of its facets, Daniel then talks about what it was like working with David Blaine and his creative team. He shows the raw footage of the cigarette through bill with him and Blake Vogt at his home.
Twenty-One: Two bills are used, one is borrowed and the other is supplied by the magician. One is folded and placed in the spectator’s hand and the other visually changes into the other bill and can be shown openly. When the spectator opens their hand it is shown that the bills have transposed. This is one of my favorite effects in the lecture. The method is new and the change is super visual. It is not too difficult to make and perform.
Red: This is another go to of his, the spectator makes a selection and it is the only red card in the deck. On the offbeat the card changes color to match the deck. This is nice, it reminds me of Paul Harris’ Overkill.
Pressure (Performance Only): A phone goes off in the crowd and Danny pushes it visually into a balloon. He goes over a couple new performance ideas as well as a great way to leave your spectator with a souvenir. He does not tip the method at all as was mentioned in Michael Ammar’s lecture.
Fraud (Performance Only): Here we get a very funny story and a clip of David Blaine performing Daniel Garcia’s fraud for John Mayer.
Engage: A borrowed bill is folded into 8ths and with a shake it changes into an origami bill ring. You can then hand out the ring as a souvenir. There is some prep for this but it really isn’t that tough to do and it is very visual.
Serial Shuffle: The audience shuffles the deck, 8 cards are dealt and it matches a serial number perfectly. This is completely self working the way that he explains it and is a great alternative to a pick a card routine.
Yellow Phone: This is Daniel Garcia’s take on mental yarn. Basically you are able to guess a thought of object on a list on your cell phone. This is a great utility that you can really use to control a selection or divine a selection. Two methods are explained and all you need for either is a notepad app. Danny uses an iPhone but I have performed this for years with an Android phone.
Deep Water: This is an Oil and Water routine where the spectator does exactly what the magician does. It really gives the impression that the magician never touches the spectators pack. All of the reds and blacks are interlaced and they separate magically in the magicians packet, the spectator’s packet and the deck separate by color. This has a great way of building for the final revelation of the entire deck. A good 1-2-punch.
Plastic Wrapped Night Shades (Performance Only): This is a performance from Dynamo performed for an English musician. He takes the glasses off of a photo of his album cover. This looks great but the reaction is even better. Of course this is based off of Paul Harris’ Nightshades but the shades are taken off under cellophane and permanently change the photo. It is not taught.
Emit: This is a high concept piece where you make the whole audience go back in time up to ten minutes. This will work on most iPhones. The idea is clever but it may not hit the whole audience as hard as you’d like. I’d like to do this but there are a couple things that I worry about while performing it.
Dough Boy: This is Daniel Garcia’s handling on Jay Sankey’s effect Dough. While the effect might be similar the method has managed to get rid of the sticky notes that Sankey uses which to me is like doing a sawing in half without boxes. A borrowed bill is jabbed by a pencil, straw or stir stick and it is visually restored. This is 100% impromptu and ungimmicked, all you need is a bill and a stick of some type.
Open Coincidences: Here you learn a couple versions of Danny Garcia’s open prediction. This is great perfectly impromptu version of the open prediction that can be performed in the hands as well as on the table. A prediction is made and shown, the spectator deals to any card and that card is shown to be the prediction.
Serial Shuffle-Bored: This was performed on David Blaine’s last special. The cards are shuffled face up into face down and flipped over a couple times and when they are spread the face up cards match the numbers on a bill. .
There are a lot of effects here that are performance only. Credit through bill is advertised but it is not taught or performed. If you are interested in this trick it was taught on the online interview with Kyle Marlett but it is not touched on at all in the lecture. Michael Ammar made mention in the last lecture that an unpublished version of Pressure would be taught and it wasn’t.
That said this is a good mix of material that it for the most part easy to do. If you like magic with paper money especially there is a lot here for you.