Price$39.95
Media TypeDVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedNov 24, 2008
Out Of The Routine
John Van Der Put
Alakazam
(Based on 1 review)
VIDEO CLIPS
Nine routines taken directly from the award-winning repertoire of contemporary magician John van der Put, including:
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Smoked - A chosen and marked cigarette rises eerily from a borrowed packet in the spectator's hand before leaping clean out of the pack. Smoking kills, and with this effect, you can too!
Flypaper - ThreeFly with a playing card! A selected card is torn into pieces, one kept by the spectator as a receipt. The remaining three pieces travel visibly piece by piece from one hand to the other at finger tips. The three pieces then magically fuse together, leaving the spectator's receipt matching perfectly.
E.T.E. - The effect that has fed and clothed the wonderput for the past four years. Incredibly powerful, completely commercial, 104% practical. John uses this at every table, at every gig, everywhere. Get your business card into their hand, increase your tips and blow them away. This one routine is worth many, many times the cost of the DVD.
The Visual Deck Producer - An unfolded and empty card box is shown both sides and assembled, with a little shake a deck of cards audibly appears. Take them out and you're ready to continue the wow.
Outside the box - A thought of card appears under the box in this three-phase routine. A new approach to the misdirection involved means that this is a totally practical routine that you can perform standing, seated, at tables or in walk around.
Losing Face - An incredible all-back ace routine with a borrowed deck. Not one for the beginners, but the experienced card handler will love it.
Plus baby ghosts, bill switches, bonus show footage and much, much more...
Running Time Approximately 1hr 39min
Reviews
(Top ▲)
For 40 bucks, you get about 10 tricks, some live close up performances and a few stage performances. The DVD quality is decent . . . no real complaints there, so it's a question of the effects.
Out of everything on the DVD, the only thing that I would perform in my own show is the comedic portion of Baby Ghost. I would actually leave out the magical portion of that effect. That doesn't mean that there isn't some good material on here. There is. It's solid stuff, but stuff that either involves techniques I don't like or can't do (or won't do).
For example, if you're a Bill S***** kind of guy (or gal) then you absolutely must add E.T.E to your repertoire. It's a solid routine with a final kicker of signed card and signed bill to sealed envelope. If you've got the time and the energy to master Losing Face you'll have a very powerful visual routine, but man it'll take you forever to learn and master.
Flypaper is a "Three Fly" effect with a torn playing card rather than coins. It's a nice routine, but using cards doesn't really add much to the effect other than the restoring of the card at the end.
If you're an ITR gal (or guy) then you'll add Smoked to your arsenal right away . . . assuming you perform for people who smoke. Think of this: borrowed pack of cigarettes . . . the spectator holds the box while you cause a cigarette to rise and ultimately jump out of the box. It's awesome.
My "problem" is that I don't work with Thread. I don't do Bill S*****es, and I'd rather do "Three Fly" with Coins.
There is another effect that I might consider, but again it uses principles that I'm not a fan of, but for those who like those principles then you'll have a great effect if you decide to learn Thinking of You.
So all in all, what I would tell you is that if you watch the trailer and you like what you see, and you're willing to put in some pretty heavy time to learn and practice these effects, you'll be happy with your purchase . . . though you'd probably be happier if it were about 5 (maybe even 10) bucks cheaper.
Additionally, there is some "bonus" footage of two other magicians performing . . . plus Van Der Put performing in a dragon costume . . . weird. The two effects from the other magicians were a bit weak and way too much dancing and prancing on stage with pretty much no magic. The dragon costume thing was a bit strange. However, he had a killer card stab routine he performed as the Dragon. But he doesn't teach it, and the "all rights reserved" alert that pops up right after his performance of it seems to imply that he doesn't want anyone else doing it. I could be wrong about that part, however.
Finally, you get a PDF with the DVD that has pretty much the same stuff as the DVD plus a few extra things. Final verdict 2.5 stars with a Stone status of rem (a little bit of rubble and an "ok" amount of gem).
Out of everything on the DVD, the only thing that I would perform in my own show is the comedic portion of Baby Ghost. I would actually leave out the magical portion of that effect. That doesn't mean that there isn't some good material on here. There is. It's solid stuff, but stuff that either involves techniques I don't like or can't do (or won't do).
For example, if you're a Bill S***** kind of guy (or gal) then you absolutely must add E.T.E to your repertoire. It's a solid routine with a final kicker of signed card and signed bill to sealed envelope. If you've got the time and the energy to master Losing Face you'll have a very powerful visual routine, but man it'll take you forever to learn and master.
Flypaper is a "Three Fly" effect with a torn playing card rather than coins. It's a nice routine, but using cards doesn't really add much to the effect other than the restoring of the card at the end.
If you're an ITR gal (or guy) then you'll add Smoked to your arsenal right away . . . assuming you perform for people who smoke. Think of this: borrowed pack of cigarettes . . . the spectator holds the box while you cause a cigarette to rise and ultimately jump out of the box. It's awesome.
My "problem" is that I don't work with Thread. I don't do Bill S*****es, and I'd rather do "Three Fly" with Coins.
There is another effect that I might consider, but again it uses principles that I'm not a fan of, but for those who like those principles then you'll have a great effect if you decide to learn Thinking of You.
So all in all, what I would tell you is that if you watch the trailer and you like what you see, and you're willing to put in some pretty heavy time to learn and practice these effects, you'll be happy with your purchase . . . though you'd probably be happier if it were about 5 (maybe even 10) bucks cheaper.
Additionally, there is some "bonus" footage of two other magicians performing . . . plus Van Der Put performing in a dragon costume . . . weird. The two effects from the other magicians were a bit weak and way too much dancing and prancing on stage with pretty much no magic. The dragon costume thing was a bit strange. However, he had a killer card stab routine he performed as the Dragon. But he doesn't teach it, and the "all rights reserved" alert that pops up right after his performance of it seems to imply that he doesn't want anyone else doing it. I could be wrong about that part, however.
Finally, you get a PDF with the DVD that has pretty much the same stuff as the DVD plus a few extra things. Final verdict 2.5 stars with a Stone status of rem (a little bit of rubble and an "ok" amount of gem).