Prepare to be amazed! ‘Clouds and Kingdoms’ by Nate Staniforth delivers exclusive magic, honed over years. Discover miracles, essays, & secrets within this instant download!
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Nate Staniforth – Clouds and Kingdoms (Instant Download)
Discover the magic of Nate Staniforth with Clouds and Kingdoms, an exclusive, limited-edition release of original magic from the creator of The Lottery Ticket and author of Here is Real Magic. This collection is a rare opportunity to learn masterpieces from the working repertoire of one of the best magicians in the world.
Why Choose Clouds and Kingdoms?
- Exclusive Content: Over 30 minutes of road-tested material, honed over hundreds of performances.
- Professional Insights: Learn key principles of magic, including layering methods and enhancing routines.
- Limited Edition: A one-time release, ensuring exclusivity and value.
What’s Inside?
This collection includes four miracles and two essays, each offering unique insights and techniques:
- Dollar: A groundbreaking reconstruction of the Bill-to-Impossible-Location plot with no switches or pre-show.
- Phone Call: A modern twist on the classic Wizard illusion, turning a prank call into a miracle.
- Lottery Revisited: Performance notes on lottery prediction effects from the creator of The Lottery Ticket.
Whether you’re a working professional or a dedicated student, Clouds and Kingdoms offers invaluable lessons and techniques to elevate your magic. Don’t miss this chance to own a piece of magic history.
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An exclusive, limited-edition release of original magic from the creator of The Lottery Ticket and author of Here is Real Magic
“A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN MASTERPIECES FROM THE WORKING REPERTOIRE OF ONE OF THE BEST.” – C0LIN MCLEOD
For the past 15 years, Nate Staniforth has toured the United States with his stripped-down, ‘unplugged’ stage show, performing direct, no-frills magic at colleges, clubs and theaters. His Lottery Ticket prediction has been featured by superstars like David Blaine and Dynamo, and his recent memoir Here is Real Magic has been embraced by magicians around the world for its open and honest exploration of wonder, disillusionment, and magic. “Nate is one of my favorite magicians,” wrote Derren Brown. “This is a beautiful and original book by a beautiful and original mind.”
In Clouds and Kingdoms, Nate shares a collection of his best material, honed over hundreds and even thousands of performances and published here for the first and only time. For the working professional, this book offers over 30 minutes of road-tested material that travels easily and does not require elaborate equipment. For the student, Nate advances several key principles as he teaches his creations. How do you layer multiple methods together within a routine so an audience will swear that you never did anything? How can you make a routine better by making it harder? And—most importantly—how can you take something inherently deceptive like an illusion and use it to give your audience an experience that feels genuine and magical.
Contents
FOUR MIRACLES. TWO ESSAYS. A ONE-TIME, LIMITED EDITION RELEASE.
DOLLAR
Nate’s reconstruction of the Bill-to-Impossible-Location plot. Under test conditions a bill is borrowed, initialed, serial number memorized, and then burned to ashes only to reappear—not at the end of the routine in an impossible location as usual but rather at the beginning of the routine as a kind of impossible object that somehow exists before it should. Unbelievably, there are no switches and no pre-show. Dollar introduces a new utility move that allows this routine an unprecedented level of clarity and cleanliness and will invariably be used for countless other plots and routines in the years to come.
PHONE CALL
Nate’s version of the classic Wizard illusion and the closer to his stage act for two years. An onstage prank call turns into a miracle when the stranger on the other end of the line of a randomly selected phone number accidentally reveals a piece of secret information known only to the people in the theater at the show.
LOTTERY REVISITED
In 2012 Nate released his signature lottery prediction in The Lottery Ticket, a one-time limited edition printing that sold out in two months. To be clear, Nate’s original work on the lottery prediction plot will never be released again, but in this essay he breaks down his thinking on the performance and structure of lottery prediction effects. As Nate writes in the introduction, “In the years since the book’s publication a handful of other systems and methods for my trick have come out from other magicians and I’d like to offer a few thoughts on the performance of lottery prediction effects in general. Think of these as platform-agnostic performance notes from someone who has spent a great deal of time thinking about how to present this kind of material to maximum effect.”
