Price$29.99
Media TypeTrick
CategoryGeneral
Date AddedSep 26, 2014
Si-Fi Project
Liu, Xiang
The Daily Deception
(Based on 2 reviews)
-Eric Jones
Xiang Liu is an innovative thinker. Adapting his ideas to create the magic he wants to use. Si-Fi project is a small collections of this thoughts on a subject largely untouched by magicians. Using this simple idea he's created 4 visually sunning and easy to do effects. No difficult setups, nothing to stick to anything and most importantly start clean and end clean! We're sure that after you learn the effects Liu teaches you, that you will go on and develop your own amazing ideas, and we'd love to see them.
List of effects
Super Conductor : A borrowed ring floats as your hands revolve around the floating ring then it suddenly drops to your hand and stops in mid air, only to slowly land on your palm. Then as you go to grab the ring it floats up to your fingers and you immediately return the ring.
I Do: A borrowed ring floats in mid air as your hands circle around it and then floats on to your finger
Freefloat: A borrowed ring floats between your fingers and you can immediately hand out the ring.
It's Cute: A borrowed ring is place on the palm of your hand and with a few wiggles of your finger on your other hand jumps to land on your ring finger. Shocking to see happen.
Reviews
(Top ▲)
Although this works as advertised and reviewed, an important thing is left out. It involves working with some very difficult to work with stuff (you can guess) to make the gimmick. And then it breaks or gets tangled into uselessness very easily. If you are comfortable working with this stuff, go for it. Otherwise expect to deal with a difficult learning curve.
(Top ▲)
The Si-Fi Project is The Daily Deception’s latest release, by Xiang Liu. It is an incredible visually impressive ring levitation effect that comes with a twenty minute DVD and the necessary materials to create the gimmick/hook up. Creating the gimmick from the supplied materials only takes a couple of minutes and you are ready to go. This trick is clever and easy to learn and perform.
The DVD teaches four effects, none of which are complete routines, and three of which are similar. The first effect, Super Conductor, is a basic floating ring effect. The second effect, I Do, is very similar to Super Conductor, but instead of ending up in your palm or between two fingers, the ring ends up back on your finger. The next effect, Freefloat, allows the performer to float a ring between two fingers and then immediately return the ring to the spectator. This effect has a different handling than the other effects. The final effect on the DVD, It’s Cute, makes a ring jump off of one palm and then onto the performer’s finger. All of these effects are amazing to watch, but none of them alone are a routine, which once you know the method you can just go with it and play around with the floating ring. If you have no experience with close-up levitation effects, this will take a little practice, as with most things, so you get comfortable with the limits of the gimmick, but it is something that anyone can do.
The DVD has a five minute introduction in which Liu explains for how to create the hook up with the supplied materials. Assuming you do this effect a couple of times a week, you have a supply that will last you a very long time. The explanation of the effect lasts between two and a half to three and a half minutes each. The video relating to each effect first demonstrates the trick from the spectator’s point of view with Hollywood quality cinematography. After the demonstration, Liu teaches the handling in a less visually impressive set, while sitting on a couch in what appears to be someone’s apartment. The teaching method is very clear because of instead of using the gimmick, he uses a replacement which makes everything easy to see and understand. Because the demonstration videos are so captivating, I wish there was more and that Liu demonstrated an entire routine using all of the effects together.
After the initial set up, the performer is ready to go on an impromptu basis, which makes the trick even more impressive and there is never any need to place any wax on the ring as you may incorrectly suspect. All of the effects can be done with any borrowed ring.
The ad copy is accurate in claiming that there are “4 visually stunning and easy to do effects. No difficult setups, nothing to stick to anything and most importantly start clean and end clean.” Although the promotional video accurately displays the effects for the most part, there is one part of the promotional video and instructional DVD for the Freefloat effect that is not taught and hard if not impossible to figure out how to perform. This is the most impressive part of the video in which the ring defies gravity and rolls across the performer’s fingertips and back.
At the end of the DVD, it directs you to go to The Daily Deception’s website for “other things to do with Si-Fi”, however, I was unable to find any additional information on their website.
I highly recommend the Si-Fi Project.
The DVD teaches four effects, none of which are complete routines, and three of which are similar. The first effect, Super Conductor, is a basic floating ring effect. The second effect, I Do, is very similar to Super Conductor, but instead of ending up in your palm or between two fingers, the ring ends up back on your finger. The next effect, Freefloat, allows the performer to float a ring between two fingers and then immediately return the ring to the spectator. This effect has a different handling than the other effects. The final effect on the DVD, It’s Cute, makes a ring jump off of one palm and then onto the performer’s finger. All of these effects are amazing to watch, but none of them alone are a routine, which once you know the method you can just go with it and play around with the floating ring. If you have no experience with close-up levitation effects, this will take a little practice, as with most things, so you get comfortable with the limits of the gimmick, but it is something that anyone can do.
The DVD has a five minute introduction in which Liu explains for how to create the hook up with the supplied materials. Assuming you do this effect a couple of times a week, you have a supply that will last you a very long time. The explanation of the effect lasts between two and a half to three and a half minutes each. The video relating to each effect first demonstrates the trick from the spectator’s point of view with Hollywood quality cinematography. After the demonstration, Liu teaches the handling in a less visually impressive set, while sitting on a couch in what appears to be someone’s apartment. The teaching method is very clear because of instead of using the gimmick, he uses a replacement which makes everything easy to see and understand. Because the demonstration videos are so captivating, I wish there was more and that Liu demonstrated an entire routine using all of the effects together.
After the initial set up, the performer is ready to go on an impromptu basis, which makes the trick even more impressive and there is never any need to place any wax on the ring as you may incorrectly suspect. All of the effects can be done with any borrowed ring.
The ad copy is accurate in claiming that there are “4 visually stunning and easy to do effects. No difficult setups, nothing to stick to anything and most importantly start clean and end clean.” Although the promotional video accurately displays the effects for the most part, there is one part of the promotional video and instructional DVD for the Freefloat effect that is not taught and hard if not impossible to figure out how to perform. This is the most impressive part of the video in which the ring defies gravity and rolls across the performer’s fingertips and back.
At the end of the DVD, it directs you to go to The Daily Deception’s website for “other things to do with Si-Fi”, however, I was unable to find any additional information on their website.
I highly recommend the Si-Fi Project.