Jay, Joshua

1998
Written by Joshua Jay
Work of Joshua Jay

70 pages (Spiralbound), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with photographs and drawings by Aaron McMichael
Language: English

26 entries

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Page	Categories
Joshua Jay	Joshua Jay: "Award Winning Teenage Magician"			7	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Joshua Jay	Who is Joshua Jay?			9	Articles / Biographical
Joshua Jay	Magic that makes SENSE			13	Articles / Theory & Essays
Joshua Jay	A Safe Bet	About the dangers of using betting as a plot in magic		14	Articles / Theory & Essays
Joshua Jay	Houdini Returns?			16	Articles / Theory & Essays
Joshua Jay	Ownership in Activity			17	Articles / Theory & Essays
Joshua Jay	Ripping on Business Cards			18	Articles / Theory & Essays
Joshua Jay	Armamentarium Aces	four Ace location routine, modeled after Henry Christ's Aces	Inspired by Henry Christ's Fabulous Ace Routine (Henry Christ, 1961) Also published here Armamentarium Aces (Joshua Jay, 1999)	21	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / One by One
Joshua Jay	Seeing is Believing	Card to card box with funny presentation	Also published here Seeing is Believing (Joshua Jay, 1999)	23	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to Card Case
Joshua Jay	That's The Hard Part	Find two four of a kinds, and deck separates into red-black	Also published here That's the Hard Part (Joshua Jay, 1999)	26	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Red Black / Separation / As a Climax Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / One by One
Joshua Jay, Chad Long	Written Favorite	Two card transposition between magician and spectator's favorite card, and "Your Favorite Card" magically appears on the back of spectator's card (initial sequence inspired by Chad Long)	Variations Clean Sanchez (Tyler Wilson, 2006) Also published here Written Favorite (Joshua Jay, 1999)	28	Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Printing & "Unprinting" Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Two Cards / with Delays or Revelations
Joshua Jay	EncACEd	Aces produced from a deck placed in card case, ending is deck vanishes from the card case	Also published here EncACEd (Joshua Jay, 1999) EncACEd (Joshua Jay, 1999)	31	Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Deck Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / With Other Objects / Card Case Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / One by One
Mike Masevic	Fingertip Pop-out Move		Also published here Fingertip Pop-out Move (Mike Masevic, 1999)	31	Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / Two-Handed
Mike Masevic	Pulling My String	Short rope stretched to long rope	Also published here Pulling My String (Joshua Jay, 1999)	35	Rope / Stretching
Joshua Jay	Fold Up Fooler	Picture of coins on paper becomes real coins	Also published here Fold Up Fooler (Joshua Jay, 1998)	37	Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / With Props / Miscellaneous Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Transformation (not so visual)
Joshua Jay	Grandma's Coin Trick	Two coin transposition with surprise ending of poker chip production (uses purse)	Inspired by Striker (David Williamson, 1984) Also published here Grandma's Coin Trick (Joshua Jay, 1999)	39	Chip / Appearance & Production Coin / Effect Themes / Purse Coin / Effect Themes / Transposition / Copper & Silver / Solo
Joshua Jay	Matchbox Restoration	Matchbox gimmick used to restore torn card, vanish, produce or shrink a card	Also published here Matchbox Restoration (Joshua Jay, 1999)	42	Match & Matchbox / Matchbox & Matchbook Cards / Effect Themes / Growing & Shrinking / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Torn & Restored / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Appearance & Production / Miscellaneous Light & Fire / Flash Paper & Material
Joshua Jay	Fingertip Fingerip	Magician removes end of pinky finger, and restores it	Also published here Fingertip Fingertip (Joshua Jay, 1999)	45	Propless / Body Mutilation Propless / Body Magic
Joshua Jay	The Book Cut		Also published here The Book Cut (Joshua Jay, 1999)	49	Cards / Sleights / Cuts / False Cut / Complete / False Flourish Cut
Joshua Jay	The Jay Change	One handed color change done on the face card of the deck, held vertically		51	Cards / Sleights / Color Change / On the Deck
Joshua Jay	Losing Diamonds	Selection (Two of Diamonds) made and lost. Ten of Diamonds shown, given a flick, flurry of red diamonds fly out, leaving the Two of Diamonds	Also published here Losing Diamonds (Joshua Jay, 1999)	53	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Funny Locations Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Front
Joshua Jay	A Utility Discovery	Utility sequence - spectator deals and stops on their own selection, and second selection is then found reversed in the deck	Also published here Utility Discovery (Joshua Jay, 1999)	55	Cards / Effect Themes / Turnover & Reverse / Simple Card Turnovers Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Spectator locates Card / Miscellaneous
Joshua Jay	Watch This!	rubber band visibly linked onto watchband	Also published here Watch This (Joshua Jay, 1999)	57	Rubber Band / Penetration / Miscellaneous
Joshua Jay	A Conjuring Conference	Poem on magic written by Josh		61	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Joshua Jay	The Great Card Caper			65	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Joshua Jay	In Closing			66	Articles / Intros & Epilogues

Data entered by Harapan Ong, August 2017.

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