Columnist: Banachek Permission for me to share this article was kindly given to me by Bev Bergeron. It certainly shows the showmanship of some performers and how they can always seen to grab the spotlight. BLINDFOLD DRIVE TO DALLAS The year was 1959 and the month was September – that time of year when the […]
Columnist: Banachek This is an effect I use to use for walk around. If you are interested in a Dr. Jaks type effect that uses a very beautiful looking prop, read on. I’m not going to give you my exact patter but this is how the effect usually looks: Performer starts out. “I have been […]
Columnist: Banachek Think a Month This first appeared in the late Bascom Jones’ Magick Magazine. This routine came to me about four o’clock in the morning one night. The time that most good ideas come to me. I was pondering the reason an old effect worked. The one where you have someone secretly pick a […]
Columnist: Banachek This effect has it’s roots in an Eddie Joseph effect titled “Psychic Identification” in his magazine “Swami.” I lay no rights to the method at all. I am only giving you my presentation. The original is a wonderful impromptu effect performed in person. I have adapted it to the telephone. I call it: […]
Columnist: Banachek The following is taken from Teller’s introduction in new book “Psychological Subtelties”, available from Joe Stevens or Scott Wells. It is a simple effect but one that gives us an interesting way to think about how to present mentalism. Imagine a mentalist who began: “There are no psychic forces – no vibes, no […]
Columnist: Banachek Not too long ago I wrote an article about some funny episodes in the lives of magicians for the GeMiNi network. Amongst these tales I mentioned an offbeat prank played by the late David Hoy on Walter Blaney. It involved the four letter “F” word. Funny enough, few magicians know that mentalist/psychic David […]
Columnist: Banachek The Blindfold Drive With an April fool’s joke on this network that I got caught up in, came some pretty good advice about the blindfold drive. The original post asked for advice on a blindfold drive for the Indy 500 pace car that was to be driven at 75 miles an hour. The […]
Columnist: Banachek Back in 1993, Raj Madhok used a wonderful principle in an effect he published in the PEA’s publication called Vibrations. The effect involved a prescription bottle with the following on the label: FOR THE NEXT FOURTEEN DAYS. TAKE ONE PINK CAPSULE DAILY. You either covered the ‘TEEN’ up with your thumb to show […]
Columnist: Banachek Lucky Number This first appeared in the late Bascom Jones’ Magick Magazine. This routine came to me about four o’clock in the morning one night. The time that most good ideas come to me. I was pondering the reason an old effect worked. The one where you have someone secretly pick a number […]
Columnist: Banachek Lorayne’s Buck A borrowed dollar bill is folded and placed in an envelope and laid out in a row with three other envelopes. The mentalist turns his back and the spectator freely moves the envelopes about. Under these conditions, with his back turned, the mentalist eliminates all of the other envelopes leaving the […]
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