Magic – The Complete Course

Livre "grand public" en anglais sur l’approche de la magie. Bien  que ce livre soit surtout destiné aux débutants, les magiciens aguerris y  trouveront également quelques idées diaboliques ! Livré avec un DVD (en  anglais).

Descriptif anglais :

Magic is everywhere, from the big spectacle celebrity of David  Copperfield and Siegfried and Roy to the quirky Penn and Teller to the  spooky David Blaine and Criss Angel to the endless material on YouTube.  But until now, learning it has never been easy-that’s all about to  change with Magic, a book that does for close-up magic what How to Grill  does for barbecue. Written by charismatic young magician Joshua Jay,  Magic combines expertise, photographs, step-by-step directions showing  how to perform 100 tricks, and a DVD that demonstrates 35 of them.

Joshua Jay took home the top prize at the World Magic Seminar (the  Olympics of magic) when he was just 16 years old. Ten years later, he  continues to perform magic, write about magic, eat, sleep, and breathe  magic. Here, he brings all his passion and knowledge to teaching magic.  Each trick is broken down into the Effect, the Secret, the Set-up, and,  most important, the Performance, with lessons on what to say, how to  direct the audience’s attention, where to keep your hands, and so on.  (In other words, how to be smart about the things your audience is  surprisingly clueless about.)

Here are the Ten Greatest Card Tricks; tricks to dazzle a dinner  date; tricks to perform for the boss (poke a hole through his shirt,  then magically mend it); tricks especially for kids; and even tricks for  an audience in another state-with “Australian Self-Help,” you can find a  participant’s chosen card over the phone. It’s the Aha! book for a  subject whose time has come.

Featuring :

• How to Perform over 100 Amazing Effects

• 500 Full-Color How-To Photographs

• Easy to Follow Instructions

• The Ten Greatest Card Tricks of All Time

• Conjuring for Kids

• Five Ways to Take Your Act to the Next Level