Price$29.95
Media TypeDVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedMar 18, 2007
Magic Italian Style: Volume 1
Aldo Colombini
(Based on 1 review)
Welcome to a bravura performance and teaching session with the master of MammaMia Magic, Aldo Colombini. Aldo serves up a heaping helping of top-notch magic for beginners, professionals and everyone inbetween.
Highlighting this broadcast-quality DVD is a complete performance and explanation of Aldo's world famous Cups & Balls routine.
SEE & LEARN:
CUPS & BALLS - Aldo's Cups & Balls routine is the highlight of this video! Totally onginal and perhaps the most artistically creative Cups & Balls routine you will ever see. It's very magical, visually exciting, and has a dynamite climax.
MAMMA-MIA COIN ROUTINE - A very clean multi-phase coin routine that is easy to do and has a climax where a chinese coin vanishes and then reappears on a rope between two knots!
ACE-MBLY - An exceptionally-clean cards and coins (matrix) effect with a novel surprise ending!
ALDO'S OIL & WATER - Great work on the classic Oil & Water!
ITALIAN SALAD - An Oil & Water effect where the red cards and the black cards are alternated and then placed into a card box. With a flick of the wrist. the red cards seperate and fly out of the box!
SPELL-O-ROMA - A card is selected and lost in the deck. To find it a spectator calls out any person's name and this name is spelled with the cards. The selection is found at the last letter!
BAND-O-ROMA - A card is selected and lost in the deck. A rubber band is wrapped twice arouno the deck. The rubber band then vanishes and reappears around only one card - the selection!
SNAP JACK - A nifty transposition of a jack and two aces inside a card case. Very Visual!
Running Time Approximately 1hr 24min
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"This trick was handed down from generation to generation... Nobody wanted it."
Aldo Colombini
Aldo Colombini demonstrates a kind of minimalist thinking with his magic that is appreciated by many but commanded by few. A cross between Karrell Fox, J.K. Hartman and Roberto Benigni, he is able to generate disproportionately strong effects from the simplest of means, often mining gold from territory long abandoned by his peers. This DVD, which was originally released as a video in the mid 1990s, is full of prototypical examples, ranging from sleight-free one-off tricks to technically demanding multi-phase routines.
Highlights (for me) include "Ace-mbly," a Matrix effect wherein four coins laid out in a square formation are covered by the four Aces, whereupon three coins vanish and reappear with the fourth coin under the leader Ace, then the trick is repeated, but this time, instead of the coins traveling, the faces of the three "follower"Aces become blank and congregate on the face of the leader Ace; "Spell-O-Rama," an easy, powerful spelling effect wherein the magician uses the name of a spectator's best friend to spell to her selected card (e.g., the Four of Clubs), at the same time magically locating the mates of the card (in this example, the other three Fours); "Band-O-Rama," a quick trick in which a rubber band is wrapped around a deck, then vanishes in the blink of an eye, only to be found around one card in the middle of the pack--the spectator's selection; "Snap Jack," a strong follow-up to any sandwich effect in which two red Aces (for example) are dropped into a card case, leaving the magician with the previously sandwiched card (say, a black Jack), whereupon the black Jack suddenly changes into the two red Aces, and the red Aces become the black Jack; and finally, the "Mamma Mia Cups and Balls Routine," a pretty series of penetrations, vanishes, transpositions and changes (some of which are only performed and revealed during the explanation) that employ a variety of cups-and-balls techniques, including Aldo's own flourishy Can Can Move to show a cup that contains a ball as being empty.
In addition, over the course of these five effects, and the three others on this DVD, you will learn more than a dozen sleights, including Larry West's Mirage Count, Ken Krenzel's Monte Move, Al Schneider's Pick-Up Move, The Elmsley Count, Aldo's pretty thumb-drop coin vanish, an Ed Marlo coin vanish (using a card), and more.
Fans of Aldo as a performer may be disappointed to find that this is very much a lecture DVD, with Aldo alone and delivering most of the tricks without byplay straight to camera, but if any of the effects described above appeal to you, there's no reason not to check this out.
David Acer
Aldo Colombini
Aldo Colombini demonstrates a kind of minimalist thinking with his magic that is appreciated by many but commanded by few. A cross between Karrell Fox, J.K. Hartman and Roberto Benigni, he is able to generate disproportionately strong effects from the simplest of means, often mining gold from territory long abandoned by his peers. This DVD, which was originally released as a video in the mid 1990s, is full of prototypical examples, ranging from sleight-free one-off tricks to technically demanding multi-phase routines.
Highlights (for me) include "Ace-mbly," a Matrix effect wherein four coins laid out in a square formation are covered by the four Aces, whereupon three coins vanish and reappear with the fourth coin under the leader Ace, then the trick is repeated, but this time, instead of the coins traveling, the faces of the three "follower"Aces become blank and congregate on the face of the leader Ace; "Spell-O-Rama," an easy, powerful spelling effect wherein the magician uses the name of a spectator's best friend to spell to her selected card (e.g., the Four of Clubs), at the same time magically locating the mates of the card (in this example, the other three Fours); "Band-O-Rama," a quick trick in which a rubber band is wrapped around a deck, then vanishes in the blink of an eye, only to be found around one card in the middle of the pack--the spectator's selection; "Snap Jack," a strong follow-up to any sandwich effect in which two red Aces (for example) are dropped into a card case, leaving the magician with the previously sandwiched card (say, a black Jack), whereupon the black Jack suddenly changes into the two red Aces, and the red Aces become the black Jack; and finally, the "Mamma Mia Cups and Balls Routine," a pretty series of penetrations, vanishes, transpositions and changes (some of which are only performed and revealed during the explanation) that employ a variety of cups-and-balls techniques, including Aldo's own flourishy Can Can Move to show a cup that contains a ball as being empty.
In addition, over the course of these five effects, and the three others on this DVD, you will learn more than a dozen sleights, including Larry West's Mirage Count, Ken Krenzel's Monte Move, Al Schneider's Pick-Up Move, The Elmsley Count, Aldo's pretty thumb-drop coin vanish, an Ed Marlo coin vanish (using a card), and more.
Fans of Aldo as a performer may be disappointed to find that this is very much a lecture DVD, with Aldo alone and delivering most of the tricks without byplay straight to camera, but if any of the effects described above appeal to you, there's no reason not to check this out.
David Acer