Greetings from all of us here at Hank Lee’s Magic Factory. A beautiful week here in New England. I hope you all had a very pleasant Memorial Day weekend. We took a trip out to the Western part of the state and attended a major craft show. Not to be confused with an arts and crafts show. There was no construction paper or white glue. There were a lot of amazing artists displaying their wares. While it would not have been my choice to drive a hundred miles to attend a craft show, Bonnie really wanted to go. It’s all part of that marriage thing. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet.
Reports from Italy indicate that Aron the Elder Son is having a fabulous time. He has emailed us some photos, and Florence looks truly amazing. I think I will ask Bonnie again why it is that the kids go to Europe while we stay home? If there’s any truth to reincarnation, I have decided that I want to come back as one of my kids.
Wednesday morning I awoke to a delightful case of conjunctivitis. This is an eye infection which I thought you got from your kids. Since none of my kids have it, I can only assume that it’s the result of being poked in the eye too many times with a sharp, apparently dirt, stick. The cure is to apply drop to the infected eye every two hours. I am not sure how to get the Johnny Walker into the eye dropper, but I suspect I will work it out. The beauty of it is that when my eye is cured, I can drink the rest of the bottle. Yippee. Can you tell where the truth in this story end and suddenly drops into fantasy?
What with the short week and all, there’s not a tremendous amount of news to report. So, I will get right to this week’s excitement!
Buy Some, Get Some at 100% Off! I know it sounds crazy, but we have figured out a way to do this. For every order you place, we will send you some brand new, right off the shelf, magic equal in value to the merchandise you ordered. Whaaaaat? Crazy, right? Maybe not so crazy. Ask the folks who took advantage of this the last time around and got hundreds and hundreds of dollars in free magic! We have a truckload of great new stuff just arriving for this promotion.
Here’s how it works. If you buy $50.00 in merchandise, we will send along with your order another $50.00 in free merchandise. Same for $100.00 or $200.00 or $300.00 or more. However much you spend, we will match it with additional magic of the same value.
The magic we will send is really good stuff. There are some tricks and some DVDs, even some books. It is brand new, right from stock. Stuff you will like and use!
It all starts right now, the very second you get this email Newsletter. And it will run through Friday, June 11th at midnight. Eight full days. All you need to do is put the special code BUY SOME in the Customer Notes Box of the online checkout at www.magicfact.com so we know that you wish to participate in the promotion. If you call or FAX your order in to us, just mention the code BUY SOME.
There really aren’t many rules or restrictions. The only thing is, we cannot combine offers. So, Reward Points, Promotional Gift Certificates and Magic Of The Month Club pricing will not apply. Oh, and the minimum order for this promotion is $30.00. Makes sense, right?
Get your order in to us, and see what surprises await you!
Now, let’s take a look at this week’s Hotlist.
(1) The End – Bobby Motta: Every good show needs a strong ending. Bobby Motta has created The End to close all of his parlor and stage shows. It’s the classic Spelling Bee on steroids! When The End is revealed, the show is over and you can take center stage to receive your applause. A powerful, distinct and clear ending for your show can help you get the standing ovation you desire. Bobby will also share with you the techniques and strategies he uses to get that elusive standing ovation after each show.
Key Features:
Lightweight & Durable
Pressed from Anodized Aluminum
Silk Screen Lettering
Self Working
Includes:
Main Board
Aluminum Cards
Stand & Card Holder
Carrying Case for stand
Instructional DVD with performance rights
$695.00 (60.1672)
(http://www.hanklee.org/xcart/product.php?productid=10123&cat=0&page=1)
“Beautiful Prop! Amazing Effect! Bravo Bobby! - Bill Abbott
(2) Art And Words CDRom – Harlan Tarbell - This is the finest collection of Tarbell writings and art ever assembled!
Harlan Tarbell (1890-1960) led a multi-faceted life: artist, author, performer, teacher, and even movie actor and director. His Tarbell Course in Magic remains the standard teaching and reference work for beginners and pros.
This collection contains not only the original Tarbell Course but also eight of his other books on magic and chalk talks, filled with his clear, whimsical drawings. Now you can learn from Tarbell beyond the original course! Over 2000 pages of material and hundreds of effects!
We've also included an entire archive of Tarbell's little-known artwork for books on varied topics like minstrelry, New Age healing techniques, cooking, fairy tales, and conspiracy theories, as well as his charming illustrations for sheet music and magic instruction sheets. Plus, memorabilia including brochures, photos and news items.
Everything is in convenient PDF form on CD for easy searching. $30.00 (CD0067)
(http://www.hanklee.org/xcart/product.php?productid=10120&cat=0&page=1)
(3) Oil And Water Remixed – David Solomon: Oil & Water is one of magic's most enduring plots.
It's an extremely visual trick. Audiences love it. Now you can learn the ultimate version of this classic card effect - David Solomon's Technicolor Oil & Water.
Two packets of cards are shown: four reds with red backs and four blacks with blue backs. The cards are mixed - cleanly, clearly, and unquestionably. Yet with a wave of the magician's hand, the colors separate - red from black and red from blue! This magical restructuring happens three times, each demonstration being more clear, magical and mystifying than the last.
Technicolor Oil & Water is a visual extravaganza, an eye-popping close-up illusion that's sure to leave your audience breathless. Best of all, there's no sleight-of-hand required to perform the effect.
On this DVD, Solomon teaches every nuance of Technicolor Oil & Water, as well as two other versions of the plot (Small Color Collision and Simplex Oil & Water), both within the reach of nearly every card magician. Learn versions that require gaffs, and those that don't.
As a bonus, inventive up-and-coming magician Jordan Cotler teaches his own version of the trick, called Oil Slick.
Included are special cards, printed by the US Playing Card Company, as well as printable PDF instructions for each effect on the DVD. $20.00 (30.1493)
(http://www.hanklee.org/xcart/product.php?productid=10122&cat=0&page=1)
(4) Resurrection: Show four pieces of a card, and place them on top of the deck. Holding the card box above the deck, the pieces instantly reform themselves into a single complete playing card!
Very easy to perform, Resurrection comes with all the gimmicks necessary, including both the pieces and the whole card. Supply your own deck of Bicycle cards.
Once you see the demo video, you will want this one, for sure! $29.95 (30.1492)
(http://www.hanklee.org/xcart/product.php?productid=10121&cat=0&page=1)
(5) Classic Deceptions CDRom – Jack Chanin - Jack Chanin (1907-1997) wrote about manipulation, sleeving, and sleights in his now-scarce books, and he created hundreds of magic effects for close-up and stage, all highly practical and commercial. Chanin marketed many of his creations from his Studio of Magic in Philadelphia, where he inspired generations of magicians.
This is a CD collection of his rare material, with over 275 effects in more than 600 pages from his books, lecture notes, magazine contributions, and instruction sheets. Working magicians will find routine after routine to add to their performing repertoires in this incredible compilation. His cigar magic, sleeve work, and coin routines were ahead of their time and ready for the modern performer and his audiences!
You'll get his Encyclopedia of Sleeving, Cigar Magic, J.C. Coin Routines, Grand Finale, six other publications, plus fifty Chanin effects from magazines and a large selection of instruction sheets, all easily searchable in convenient PDF format on CD. A true bargain for the smart performer!
$30.00 (CD0068)
(http://www.hanklee.org/xcart/product.php?productid=10124&cat=0&page=1)
(6) Quantum Mechanics – Irving Quant and Dan & Dave: Irving Quant is a practitioner of the technical and historical aspects of magic as well as a working professional. He is a student of the great René Lavand.
This new DVD reveals a selection of his finest card magic and an awesome new technique for controlling not just a single card, but multiple cards in a way you probably never imagined. He calls it the Distribution Technique, and it unlocks a whole new level for card magicians.
What is the Distribution Technique?
It is a utility move, like the Clip Shift, that can be applied to literally endless applications. On this DVD, Irving explains many of its possibilities with several of his favorite effects.
Contents:
Shotgun
Immediately after any four of a kind, let's say the Kings, are clearly shown on top, the pack is riffled causing them to vanish. The cards are then spread to show the Kings are now evenly distributed face-up throughout the deck.
Katana Spread
A mysterious production of four cards that visually appear face-up as the deck is spread across the table.
Pure Slap
The four Kings are face-up on top of the deck as the spectator places the four aces face-up throughout the deck. The cards are cleanly squared with nothing to see. With just a riffle of the cards, the Kings and Aces instantly transpose.
Back Slap
A variation of Pure Slap that has fooled many magicians and is great for your most skeptical spectators.
Samurai Kut
From a shuffled deck, the cards are tossed onto a table. As the cards land, they break into four even packets. The spectator can now turn over the top card of each to reveal the four Aces.
Nyquist 1
The four Kings are placed face-up on top of the deck. Four selections are now removed and clearly inserted back into the deck. Everthing is squared. With just a riffle, the Kings vanish from the top. The deck is spread out to show the Kings are now face-up throughout the deck and directly next to each selection
Ricochet
This is a beautiful version of Bill Goodwin's Slap Exchange.
Ace Cutting 1
Irving's tribute to John Scarne's 'Cutting to The Aces'. After the cards have been thoroughly mixed, you prove that no breaks, crimps or jogs will be used. You then proceed to cut to the four Aces.
Ace Cutting 2
Similar in effect to Ace Cutting 1, however, in this variation, you explain that the reason why you were able to cut to the Aces is because they were marked as you turn them over to show they're a different back design from the rest of the deck. It doesn't stop there though as you now turn over all the cards to show they're blank.
Sleights
Distribution Technique
Many of the tricks on this DVD heavily rely on this technique. "It's a new principle in card magic that allows for many new ideas." It's a technique for controlling multiple cards throughout the deck or the opposite of a multiple shift
Thering Multiple Shift
Irving's method for controlling multiple cards from the center of the deck to the top.
Atfus Variation
Irving's variation of the Atfus switch, a technique used to switch cards undercover. Extras: Multiple Peek Control, Ambitions Kings, Switch Location, Theron's Trick.
$34.95 (DVD01156)
(http://www.hanklee.org/xcart/product.php?productid=10125&cat=0&page=1)
(7) Flink Key – Karl Bravosky: The Flink Key appears, vanishes, links, folds, flies and much more.
One precision-made key does it all
There are some Folding Keys on the market, but they don’t link.
There are some Linking Keys on the market, but they don’t fold.
There is only one key that will do both! Flink Key.
And, it will do much more! Like the Flink Key Fly!
To perform everything this key can do, you would need to buy 3 different keys, and spend a great deal of money.
With Flink Key, you will need only one key!
Some of the effects you can perform:
• Key in Bottle
• Key thru Ring
• Key and Handkerchief
• Key and 2 Rings
• Key and Key
• Key and Coin
• The Bitten Key
• Fly Key Fly
• Strings and Key
• Key-Ring-and String
Flink Key is also magnetically attractive so the key can easily be vanished and produced. This is a great point to consider for switches.
You also get another special gimmick which allows you to perform a great version of the popular Bitten Coin. With the extra attachment you can bite the key, take the bitten piece out of your mouth and then restore the key instantly.
You Get:
• The special precision-made key.
• Ungimmicked key
• A specially made leather pouch to keep the keys safe and separate
• Extra accessories
• Extra gimmick for Bitten Key.
• A 50 minute DVD full of routines, and very well detailed instructions for all of the routines.
$175.00 (10.1572)
(http://www.hanklee.org/xcart/product.php?productid=10107&cat=0&page=1)
(8) Techniques and Timing CDRom – Francis Carlyle:
Essential reading for the close-up magician and card man!
Francis Carlyle (1911-1975) was beloved and respected by magicians worldwide for his immaculate technique, clever sleight-of-hand, and razor-sharp wit. This CD brings you his life story and 100 of his finest effects, featuring Roger Pierre's long-unavailable classic The Magic of Francis Carlyle. Over 200 pages of material!
You'll also hear Francis Carlyle lecturing in 1970 on two hours of audio tracks, and you'll receive additional Carlyle effects, lecture notes, 60 pages of articles detailing his career and his rare premium booklet The Botany Book of Magic.
There is also a new introduction by author Roger-Pierre with his reminiscences of Francis Carlyle.
$30.00 (CD0069)
(http://www.hanklee.org/xcart/product.php?productid=10127&cat=0&page=1)
(9) Bullet Catch Poster – Autographed – David Blaine: These rare, one-of-a-kind collector's items commemorate David Blaine's bullet catching stunt. Designed by renowned artist Mark Stutzman, each poster maintains the highest quality standards using the finest quality inks, digitally offset on heavy window card stock, with a special durable matte finish.
Every autographed poster is personally signed by David Blaine making each a genuine collector's piece.
Measures 13 in x 37 in ( 33 cm x 94 cm ). Available in either blue or orange. Please specify.
$40.00 (70.1000)
(http://www.hanklee.org/xcart/product.php?productid=10128&cat=0&page=1)
And that’s this week’s Hotlist. Short like the week. Great like a short week! I hope you enjoy this week’s offerings.
As always, we thank you for visiting with us, this and every week. Whether it’s online at www.magicfact.com or in person at 102 North Street in Medford, we surely love the company!
Hank
