Ebook - Session Notes 2024 by Tom Stone (Digital Download)

'Unsheathe the Swedish steel' with Tom Stone's 'Session Notes 2024', a collection of strong, cleverly crafted magic routines designed to captivate your audience and ignite your own creative spark. Praised in Genii magazine by Tom Frame as recommended material that will 'wow the crowd and make you grin,' this digital download delivers the very best from Tom Stone's highly anticipated lecture at The Session convention in London, January 2024. Dive into a treasure trove of six original routines, perfectly suited for both intimate close-up performances and larger parlor settings.

Innovative Routines for Every Performer

Inside these 12 meticulously detailed pages, accompanied by 31 illustrative figures, you'll discover a diverse range of effects that push the boundaries of modern magic. Explore 'Mittens,' a truly unique card effect where, despite the apparent handicap of wearing thick oven mitts, two signed cards impossibly appear *inside* the mitts themselves - a testament to Stone's ingenious misdirection. Then, delve into 'The Suss,' a thought-provoking parlor piece utilizing postcards and inspired by the classic 'Ship of Theseus' paradox, where a signed postcard is gradually replaced, yet remains unmistakably signed.

Humor, Mentalism, and Intrigue

Inject some delightful absurdity into your show with 'A Handy Gift,' an intermission piece featuring a magically disappearing pair of scissors. For those who appreciate mentalism, 'Flatworm Fry' presents an astonishing demonstration of memory transfer, where one spectator forgets a card they saw, while another, who never saw it, remembers it perfectly. Experience the whimsical 'Color Deaf,' a charming routine where named colors are all initially 'Grey' until a magical cure reveals their true hues. Finally, for a touch of dark intrigue, 'White Death' is a close-up routine where spectators attempt to evade an 'icy cold demise,' blending Darwinism with precognition for a truly memorable effect.

Master Tom Stone's Creative Genius

'Session Notes 2024' isn't just a collection of tricks; it's an opportunity to learn from one of magic's most inventive minds. Each routine is presented with clarity and precision, ensuring you can master these effects and add them to your repertoire with confidence. Whether you're a seasoned professional or an enthusiastic amateur, this ebook offers fresh, impactful material that is guaranteed to elevate your performances and leave your audiences spellbound. Don't miss the chance to 'unsheathe the Swedish steel' and bring Tom Stone's groundbreaking magic to your stage.

Original Specs

Tom Stone’s Session Notes contains strong, cleverly crafted magic that will wow the crowd and make you grin. Unsheathe the Swedish steel. Recommended.
Review by Tom Frame, in Genii magazine, June 2024

This is Tom Stone’s lecture notes from The Session convention in London, January 2024.
Within the pages of Session Notes 2024 you will find six routines for parlour and close-up:

• Mittens The magician show his hands and say it is unfair to use those “weapons of deceptions” against the audience. As a handicap, the magician put on thick oven mittens before beginning a card trick. Despite the handicap, the two signed cards are found inside the mittens.
• The Suss A parlour routine with post cards, based on the ‘Ship of Theseus’ paradox. A signed postcard is, bit by bit, replaced with another postcard, but the new postcard is still signed.
• A Handy Gift An absurd intermission piece. The magician is handed a wrapped gift which is annoyingly difficult to open, and scissors are brought out. “Just what I needed!” the magician says after peeking into the package. “Scissors!” – and as a pair of scissors falls out of the package, the scissors in the hand disappears.
• Flatworm Fry A demonstration of memory transfer. One spectator looks at a card but forgets it, while another spectator who never seen the card remembers it.
• Color Deaf A small piece of silliness. Various named colors are all written down as “Grey” due to “color deafness”. But as the illness is cured, the writing changes into the named colors.
• White Death Darwinism and precognition comes together in this close-up routine where the spectator tries to evade an icy cold demise.
• 12 pages
• 31 illustrations