A lifetime of magical inventions

The name Bob Ostin has long been synonymous with creative close-up and  card magic, but until now the true depth and breadth of his original  effects and methods has remained hidden. No longer! This landmark  volume, The Magic of Bob Ostin, will ensure the author his deserved  place in history as one of the pre-eminent creators of the 20th Century.  

Those who prize commercial, practical magic have long praised  Bob's earlier work, Fingertip Fantasies, as a classic in the field. Yet  despite that book's deserved status, and Bob's underground reputation as  creator par excellence, he has remained something of an unknown to the  magic community at large. Well all that is about to change! In an era  when so many are striving to 'invent' tricks that are fresh, novel and  commercial, it is a genuine pleasure to see a master at work. Bob Ostin  has been devising cutting-edge magic for over half a century and the  material he created fifty years ago is as ingenious, practical and  fooling as the new material he developed last week!

Always  thinking, and more importantly always thinking outside-of-the-box. Bob  is constantly working on new magical 'problems' as he likes to think of  them and inevitably he works out a brilliant yet practical solution,  resulting in a 'worker' that will happily do double-duty and fool the  boys at the local magic club as easily as it will stun a lay audience.

One  of the definitions of genius is someone who creates (music, literature,  art and in this instance Magic!) something that would never have been  created had that person never lived. Such a definition surely fits Bob  Ostin. Even a cursory glance through this volume will be enough to  convince the casual reader of Bob's creative talents; the more diligent  student will be amply rewarded by learning tricks and routines which  simply seem impossible! Water that turns to beer, origami men that take  on a life of their own, cards that just melt through one another Tricks  with cards, coins, dice, rubber bands, chop sticks, liquids, matches,  paper, plasters, numbers, photographs, torches, fruit, cars the list is  almost endless! Think of any object you like and chances are Bob has a  trick (or two!) with it.

Containing virtually all his published  output from the past 50 years, this book includes the material from his  limited-circulation lecture notes, rare manuscripts, dozens and dozens  of magazine contributions, the full instructions for every single one of  his marketed effects as well as the many gems that have remained hidden  in his notebooks - until now. This book truly is a truly is a lasting  and worthy record of The Magic of Bob Ostin A Lifetime of Magical  Inventions.