Ebook - Lorem Ipsum by Nathan Colwell (Digital Download)
Description & Effect
Tired of Over-Theorized Magic? Dive into 'Lorem Ipsum'!
Tired of overly theoretical magic books that leave you with more questions than answers? 'Lorem Ipsum' by Nathan Colwell cuts straight to the chase, delivering a collection of practical, hard-hitting magic designed for real-world performance. This isn't about lofty artistic goals; it's about giving you solid, entertaining tricks and clever moves that have been refined and perfected through countless live performances.
A Treasure Trove of Deception for Every Magician
Inside this 40-page ebook, you'll discover eleven previously unpublished items from Nathan's personal working repertoire. Ranging from completely self-working miracles to sleights that will challenge and reward focused practice, 'Lorem Ipsum' offers a diverse magical toolkit. You'll find seven powerful card moves, two engaging card tricks, a captivating bill routine, and an ingenious routine involving driver's licenses.
Highlighting Innovative Routines & Techniques
Dive into 'Finish Line,' a spectator-centric Triumph where they do all the shuffling and mixing, yet their card is found and the deck restored with minimal effort. Experience the impossible 'Dav's Transpo,' where licenses magically switch places and reappear in your wallet – perfect for those unexpected performance moments. 'Feathers and Bricks' presents a two-part bill routine that transforms fives into fifties, offering a real crowd-pleaser. For beginners, 'Picnic Under the Stars' modernizes a classic Poker Player's Picnic, making it entirely sleightless and highly engaging. Beyond the tricks, explore innovative techniques like the 'Oyster Production' for a beautiful card appearance, or the 'Pullman Lift,' a double lift balancing loud snaps with delicate turnovers.
Why 'Lorem Ipsum' Belongs in Your Repertoire
Every piece of magic within 'Lorem Ipsum' has been rigorously tested and polished in diverse settings, from intimate magic sessions to busy restaurant tables and demanding walk-around gigs. This isn't experimental material; it's the stuff Nathan Colwell actively uses to astound audiences. If you're looking for practical, audience-tested magic that's both fun to perform and incredibly deceptive, then 'Lorem Ipsum' is your next essential digital download. Don't make it weird – just enjoy some great magic!
Original Specs
Theatrical Magic is a wonderfully deep and broad medium. There's room for high-minded theorizing; lofty artistic goals; intricate, leviathan altars to opulent design; ascetic, self-flagellating routines which cut to the quick and strain the limits of deception... But sometimes you just want some tricks. It's not that deep, this booklet just has some fun tricks and moves. Don't make it weird.
Lorem Ipsum contains eleven previously unpublished items: seven card moves, two card tricks, a bill routine, and a routine with driver's licenses. The difficulty ranges from completely self-working to stuff that will take some focused practice. This is solid material that has been refined in restaurant performances, magic sessions, walk-around gigs, and all kinds of performance environments for years. Some of the magic in this booklet is a regular and active part of Nathan's working repertoire.
Contents:
Part One-Tricks
Finish Line: A Triumph where the spectator takes the deck into their own hands. THEY pick their card, THEY lose it into the deck, THEY shuffle the deck, THEY mix cards face-up and face-down, and all of this behind the magician's back. No culling needed, just one shuffle and a few cuts restores the pack and finds the spectator's card. Based on work by the late Ramón Riobóo.
Dav's Transpo: The spectator's driving license impossibly changes into the magician's license. The spectator's license is then found in the magician's wallet! A fun, practical trick that is entirely self-contained within your everyday-carry Card to Wallet. Two methods are taught: one for use while wearing a coat and one using only a back pocket. Nathan has used this for years whenever he's caught out having nothing but his wallet. (Requires a non-insert Mullica-style wallet. Nathan uses Anthony Miller's Triple Threat Wallet.)
Feathers and Bricks: A bill routine in two parts. While advocating the audience defraud a grocery store, the magician borrows a $5 bill and shows an origami fold that makes one bill look like two. As the audience stares at the magician handling the fold, it slowly looks more and more like it is genuinely two bills, until the magician finally separates their hands to show they've doubled their money. The bills are given back to the spectator, where they are discovered to still just be one bill in an origami fold. Taking the bill back, the magician says they will show a new kind of fold that makes a bill seem like it's a higher denomination. The $5 changes into a $50, but just as quickly changes back once the bill is crinkled. A real crowd pleaser.
Picnic Under the Stars: A modernization of the classic Poker Player's Picnic. This version is done from a shuffled deck in use, justifies the strange procedure, adds a new methodological layer, lets the spectator directly influence the ritual process, and is entirely sleightless. A perfect trick for a beginner. Based work by Allan Zola Kronzek.
Part Two-Techniques
Oyster Production: A pretty production of a card from cupped hands. A lovely sequence with a technically pleasing method.
Tap Top Turnover: A subtle packet turnover. A perfect replacement for the Tenkai Optical Revolve when seated at a table.
Convincing Curve: An extension of Ernest Earick's "One Handed Convincing Control." This version allows for a looser, natural right-hand grip.
Three Count Experiments: Three quirky false counts: Lateral Ascanio Steal, Elmsley Switch-Ditch, and Rolling Count. Steal a card in the middle of an Ascanio Spread, switch and unload a selected card of a four-of-a-kind during an Elmsley Count, and hide two out of four cards as you twirl around every card in the packet. In short, this is the weird stuff. Nathan can't guarantee you'll find a use for any of them, but these three little eccentricities are as fun to play with as they are bizarre.
Pullman Lift: A double lift based on the Allerton Double. A loud snap and rough handling pairs with a delicate turnover for a perfectly balanced technique.
Lorem Ipsum: Style Over Substance by N. Colwell. Illustrated by Tris Ogram Buckley. 40 pages, staple-bound.
