Before We Begin

2021
Written by Asi Wind
Work of Asi Wind
147 pages (Hardcover), published by Vanishing Inc.
No illustrations
Language: English
31 entries
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Asi Wind Acknowledgements
iv
Asi Wind Prologue
1
Asi Wind First Impressions on pre-show versus stooging, moral versus artistic choices
 		3
Asi Wind Selecting Targets choosing the spectator
 		9
Asi Wind Approaching Targets
  • Justification
  • Walk-Around
 		11
Asi Wind Tools
17
Asi Wind Obtaining Information
  • Center Tears
  • Peeks
  • Billet Switches
  • Peek Wallets
  • Impression Devices
  • Apps
  • Playing Cards
  • Research
 		18
Asi Wind Book Impression Device Handling
20
Asi Wind Forcing
  • Playing Cards
  • Blank Cards
  • Svengali Pads
  • Numbers
  • Apps
 		21
Asi Wind, Max Maven Song/Movie Force with names on cards
Related to
  • "Cinementalism" (Max Maven, Penguin Lecture 2019)
 22
Asi Wind Scripting
  • Pre-Show Script - Drawing Duplication
  • Show Script - Drawing Duplication
Related to 25
Asi Wind Camouflage
  • Pre-Show Script (Excerpt)
  • Show Script (Excerpt)
  • Randomness (on selecting spectators)
  • Shifting Focus (Nimrod Harel, Joshua Jay)
  • The Challenge (Luke Jermay)
  • Changing Your Mind (Luke Jermay, Nimrod Harel)
  • Have We Ever Met Before?
Related to 33
Asi Wind Assisted Pre-Show
  • Assistant's Pre-Show Script
  • Mentalist's Show Script
 		45
Asi Wind Unusual Pre-Show
  • Incomplete Pre-Show
  • Open Pre-Show
  • Half-Open Pre-Show
  • Candid Pre-Show (Nimrod Harel)
  • Expandable Pre-Show
  • Eavesdropping
  • Across Time and Space (Michael Skinner's conversation notebook)
  • Pre-Order
 		51
Jamy Ian Swiss Book Test Pre-Show spectator's favorite book and its content are divined, as kicker for a book test routine
 		56
Asi Wind An Ounce of Prevention
  • Cue Sheet
  • Preventing Exposure
  • Overuse
  • Missing Targets
  • Unchangeables
 		63
Asi Wind Video & TV
69
Asi Wind Virtual Pre-Show
73
Derek Hughes Virtual Bold Book Test
Inspired by 74
Asi Wind WikiTest as Virtual Pre-Show handling for Marc Kerstein's app
 		76
Asi Wind Scripts
79
Asi Wind Book Test
  • Pre-Show Script
  • Show Script
 		79
Asi Wind Think of a Name
  • Pre-Show Script
  • Show Script
 		84
Asi Wind, Max Maven A Brief History credit information
 		89
Asi Wind Interviews
93
Asi Wind, Max Maven Max Maven
95
Max Maven On the Pre-Show in The Four-Sided Triangle
Related to 101
Asi Wind, Penn Jillette Penn Jillette
109
Asi Wind, Luke Jermay Luke Jermay
123
Asi Wind Final Words
141
Asi Wind Epilogue drawing duplication anecdote
Related to 145
Data entered by Denis Behr, October 2021.