Price$35.00
Media TypeDVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedJan 29, 2009
Extreme Magic Seminar
Nathan Kranzo
(Based on 1 review)
Here are a few highlights...
THE Coin Routine
This is the coin routine that Nathan performs when asked to "do something." Kranzo uses this to open almost every close up set he performs.
Voodoo Card
Nathan's highly requested handling of the classic Steranko plot is so commercial you'll see the marketing potential and smile.
The Tail
A hilarious sight gag that always gets a huge laugh
Al Baker's "The Knife Dial"
Kranzo's modernized take on a forgotten effect. A borrowed table knife, or pen, eerily moves across the table pointing at the selected card.
Kranzo On Three Fly
Fifteen years of trial and error! Nathan teaches his take on Three Fly. Maybe we should call it Two Fly. You'll be surprised.
The First Trick I Ever Saw
If you have ever seen Kranzo lecture you have probably seen this hilarious effect/gag with a silk or napkin. Nathan uses it as an opener for all of his lectures. It fools magicians to boot!
Rub A Dub Card To Wallet
Straight from Expert Card Technique! Kranzo teaches some powerful subtleties for the Rub A Dub Vanish as well as his ending for the classic effect.
Kranzo on The Mullica
Kranzo teaches killer ideas with the wallet. You'll Learn "Go Text Yourself". This is Kranzo's routine where he talks about "texting small objects" rather than words. A very fun routine.
Wheat Fly
You will laugh out load when you see Kranzo's version of Three Fly with Wheat Thins. 0 Grams Trans Fat!
Cashing In
This fools magicians AND laymen. Coin magic that is visual and interactive. Poker chips magically transform into Silver Dollars. Features a bare handed productions that fools everyone. Your hand is REALLY empty and produce a coin from THEIR sleeve.
Running Time Approximately 63min
Reviews
(Top ▲)
The production quality of this DVD is pretty horrific. It feels like a VHS camcorder with no lighting. Also, constantly throughout the DVD, some guy sitting next to the camera keeps on coughing, and each time, the sound spikes and gets pretty loud and annoying to boot.
There is no menu, just one button to click to start the video. But the graphics on the main (only) page are so pixelated that it's really hard to see the button you're supposed to click.
There are no chapters, so you have to watch it from beginning to end. You can't really go back and watch a certain section.
The DVD is about an hour long and very funny and entertaining. However, a lot of the teaching was left out or not very thorough.
There were several times where the camera cut and then skipped to the middle of an explanation of something and often times you have no idea what's going on or what he's talking about. The lighting was so bad that you couldn't really see the coins and so it was not only hard to learn the effect, but it was hard to even see what the effect was.
There were a couple of ideas on here that were "learnable" from the DVD. One is Voodoo Card. This one is worth considering and has a good presentational angle.
He performs Al Baker's The Knife Dial but does not teach it. His opening effect, while clever and hilarious, only works on magicians because it requires you to open display a secret gimmick that makes handkerchiefs vanish.
You do get some decent tips on working with loops and some good tips on working with a Mullica Wallet, but that's about where the value of this DVD ends.
Considering the fact that you get only a couple of things that you can really glean from this due to the production quality, and considering the price tag of $35 for something so poorly produced, it's hard to recommend this.
Final Verdict: 2 Stars with a Stone Status of Grubble (little bit of gem and a whole lot of rubble).