Behold! “Impossibilia” by John Bannon offers astonishing close-up magic! 33+ routines, minimal sleight of hand, maximum impact. Download now for magic that amazes! #JohnBannon #Impossibilia #Magic
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Step into the world of close-up magic with John Bannon’s Impossibilia—a treasure trove of over 33 fresh and utterly baffling routines. These aren’t just tricks; they’re commercial, audience-tested wonders designed to delight spectators and stump even the most seasoned magicians. Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, these routines are easy to master, requiring minimal sleight of hand and emphasizing performance over complexity.
From mind-blowing card tricks to coin miracles, Impossibilia offers a diverse range of effects that are powerful, practical, and perfect for real-world performances. Highlights include a jaw-dropping card-printing illusion, a witty and hard-hitting prediction effect, and a mesmerizing assembly of queens that’ll leave your audience spellbound.
What’s Inside?
- EZFX: Triumph routines, card predictions, and transpositions that’ll make your deck come alive.
- Side FX: Coin matrices, ring and string magic, and cups and balls routines that redefine classic effects.
- Special FX: Photographic card revelations, marked coin vanishes, and the haunting “Shriek of the Mutilated” restoration.
- Bonus Section: Sleights and routines with a coin purse, including a brass disk prediction that’s pure magic.
Packed with creative ingenuity and practical value, Impossibilia is a must-have for any magician looking to elevate their repertoire. Don’t miss out—download your copy today and start performing miracles!
Description
Close-up magic of a different kind . . . the kind you’ll not only enjoy reading and thinking about, but wonderfully commercial routines you’ll actually perform. John Bannon’s Impossibilia contains over 33 fresh routines that will delight audiences and perplex other magicians. Best of all, all of the routines are either self-working or require minimal sleight of hand tending to focus on performance over sleights.
The effects are ALL powerful and things that you would use in everyday work. The Bonus routine involving a card being “printed” is quite amazing!
There is also a prediction effect which is simple, witty, and hard hitting. I recommend that you pick this book up NOW if you want some new, intriguing, magic for your repertoire.
Contents
iii Introduction (Harvey Rosenthal)
v Foreward
1 EZFX
1 Play It Straight (Triumph)
4 Discrepancy City Prediction: Three prediction cards match selected card
6 The Unreal Work: Four Queens are dealt from the deck
8 Cries And Whispers: Jacks used to determine selected cards, then transpose with them
11 Oh Calcutta: Two predictions: thought of card, card dealt randomly
17 Twilight Zone Assembly: cards
22 ‘Twixt The Devil: Mystery card becomes the signed selection
25 Tourist Class Travellers: Queens travel to magicians pockets
28 Travelling Jack’s Sideshow Aces: A Jack assembly
33 Wild In The Straights: Spectator can’t find his card amongst Jokers
37 A Little T, T, and A: Four Aces quickly dealt out of a mixed deck, mixed deck rights itself
42 Shock Treatment: Card trick
45 Creased Lightning: Mercury Card Fold
50 Terrorist Card Vanish: Card to Can
53 Side FX
53 Two Ahead (Is Better Than One): A four coin matrix
59 Revolutionary Penetration: Chinese coin off string (shoelace)
63 The Brass Zero: 4″ ring off rope
66 Chop: Chop cup routine with several loads
72 Glass Reunion: Coins to glass
76 Shanghai Surprise: Copper and Silver routine with Chinese coin ending
82 Of Cups And Fuzzballs: Cups and Balls routine
94 Brass-Ackwards Production: Bills appear in a previously empty box
97 Flurry Production: Coin effect including a few splits
100 Triple Threat: Three coin coins across
104 Silver/Silver Transposition: Half and quarter transpose in spectator’s hand
108 Return To Spender: Another coin matrix, cards end up back at start
113 Special FX:
113 Photologic: playing card appears on previously blank slip of paper
118 The Birnman Revelation: Quick cut to the Aces
123 Coins Across The Water: Three marked coins are vanished and reappear inside an envelope
128 Shriek Of The Mutilated: Torn and burnt and restored cigarette paper
131 Bonus Section: Real Men Don’t Carry Coin Purses
132 Introduction: Moves and sleights with a coin purse
132 Part One – Sleights & Subtlety
134 – The Action Load
135 – The Action Steal
135 – Not So Secret Compartment
136 Part Two – Some Routines
136 Coin Of Voodoo: Chinese coin on string, ends up in coin purse
138 Pouched Copper/Silver: Marked half and copper transposition in coin purse
139 Five-Star Engraved Production: A brass disk in a coin purse holds a prediction of a card
142 Endpapers
