Hi! It has been a long time since my last post. Life is busy, especially when I have not fired my boss. I’ve sold my life for a wage. Furthermore, I believe in only putting up genuine and quality content in this website. I bet you cannot find any website on magic that gives you [...]
Read More...I have just concluded my series on misdirection and I was looking through my earlier postings, namely, “How To Do Magic Tricks #7 – Principles and Techniques Used in Performing Magic”. In that articles I mentioned about the four principles of how to do magic tricks, namely, “The Principle of Force”, “The Art of Misdirection”, [...]
Read More...I hope you have been amazed by Tony Slydini and his magic tricks, his ingenious art of misdirection and his excellent sleight of hands. Perhaps you have already become a fan of Tony Slydini. There are more to what Tony Slydini has performed than what have been posted on this website. If you wish to [...]
Read More...In the video posted in this article, Tony Slydini demonstrated live to the audience how “Misdirection” could fool an audience. He did this by throwing the paper balls over the volunteer’s head again and again without him noticing it. All the rest of the audience could see clearly what happened except the volunteer himself. You [...]
Read More...In the video posted in this article, Slydini performed a total of 3 magic tricks. The precious thing in this video is Dick Cavett’s introduction to Tony Slydini and his ingenuity in performing magic. The first magic trick that lasted until 4:30, is some sort of a representation of the “Paper Balls in the Hat” [...]
Read More...In this video, you will watch how Tony Slydini performed 2 of his tricks, namely, the “6 Coins Routine” and “The Helicopter Card”. For each trick, he performed it twice, each time with a slight variation. It is a basic rule in performing magic that you do not repeat your performance of a magic [...]
Read More...Tony Slydini, an Italian, was born in the year 1901 and passed away on 1991. He was a master at the art of misdirection. He used solely sleight of hands and misdirection to perform his own brand of magic tricks without the use of any gimmick. For 55 years in performing magic, he has never [...]
Read More...photo credit: sambeckwith Hello world! It has been quite a while since I last updated my blog. Life is busy especially when you are working full-time. Let me get on with my article immediately. So far in my articles, you may have noticed that I have presented the process of learning magic and the principles [...]
Read More...photo credit: trialsanderrors If you are doing card magic or coin magic, there are many sleights that you need to master before you could progress to the more professional magic tricks respectively. If you were to wait for yourself to perfect these sleights, you would have probably lost interest or given up magic by then. [...]
Read More...photo credit: cesarastudillo People learn magic for different purposes. The basic motivation for learning magic is that magic amazes and intrigues other people and ourselves. If you perform a magic trick to your friend, the usual response you get is “how did you do it?” The first motive of that response is to satisfy a [...]
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