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LEVITATION
- The Magic of Gravity
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magician takes a solid steel ball and makes it float between his
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The wonderful advances
in the art of magic have been stunning over the last hundred years.
Card magic has blossomed and the concept of close-up is now at
religious levels. As one of my friends said years ago: there is more
written about card magic than medicine. I believe this is true.
Certainly with all of the “new” illusions and world famous
entertainers working today we have hundreds of magical moments to
cling to.
Of these, I personally love the levitation.
Having worked both on stage and in the most direct forms of
table magic, I have had many of those after the trick conversations.
Such as: “How long have you been doing this?”
And, “Can you make my wife disappear?” To the first
question I answer, “About five minutes.” To the second, “That
would be a full time job.”
But what they ask most
often is “Have you seen that magician—what’s his name—that
made the Statue of Liberty disappear?”
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magic for design and vision, Julio Lipan would be a sure
winner with his Portable Asrah. “ --Joe Stevens The
assistant, standing at the performer’s side, is covered by a
cloth. Within seconds, she begins to float, first vertically
and then horizontally! The performer’s hands are free as the
woman continues floating, you even see her feet moving!
Suddenly, she vanishes into thin air! The traditional Asrah
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That
was then, now there are new magicians each month that do amazing
things. Now they ask if I have seen David Blain do the thing in the
block of ice. These questions prompt the card worker to create an
effect where the statue vanishes or the selected card is found in a
block of ice, just to fully and magically illustrate the answer to
their question. In the same way that we don’t talk about other women
when we are on a date with a woman, magicians hate to answer questions
about other performers. These questions, however, tell us a great deal
about the public’s perception of our art form. They want to know
about the biggest illusion they saw last. Back when Copperfield did
the statue vanish, that was what they mentioned most. When in the past
I have performed for schools and children’s programs, the kids would
send me thank you notes. These were usually in the form of a magical
cliché’, such as in the shape of a top hat. One teacher sent me
about thirty pages, all hand written notes, drawings, and all stapled
together. Of the twenty or more magic tricks that I would perform, the
two most often rendered by the kids were doves and linking rings. Why?
I would suggest that it was simply because those were the most
memorable to them. These two tricks were not only most often repeated
but also, looking through the bunch of thanks, they were the only
drawings. This should point out the power of certain tried and true
magical moments to remain in the memory of human beings.
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