Close Up Magic To Tapdance To

1989
Written by Simon Lovell
Work of Simon Lovell
135 pages (Spiralbound), published by unknown publisher
Illustrated with drawings by Geoffrey Williams
Language: English
43 entries
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Simon Lovell Bibliography
4
Walt Lees Simon Lovell Introduction of the man himself
 		5
Simon Lovell Introduction
9
Simon Lovell Thinks Some of Simon's pet hates
 		11
Simon Lovell You And Them
13
Simon Lovell Another Departed Point Card placed under spectator's hand from the beginning is the spectator's signed card
Inspired byAlso published here 15
Double Lift / Turnover
15
Riffle Force
16
Simon Lovell Crispy Spectator cuts deck, produces pile of potato crisps. Bag of crisps is opened to find selected card.
Inspired by
  • "The Searcher" (Bob Ostin, Magic Mag, vol. 1, no. 3)
 21
Edward Victor, Edward Marlo Tilt
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Simon Lovell Glassy Card Card repeatedly goes under glass, ends with deck appearing under glass (moves explained in section "Glassy Card Extra" on p. 35)
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The Fan Force Handling of the Classic Force
 		35
Simple Card Control
35
Simple Palm
38
Simon Lovell The All Seeing Eye Spectator sit on card, magician looks into their mouth to "see" the card and divine it
Related to 39
Ash-Lee Fantasy in Salt and Vinegar predict flavour of crisps - when wrong, magician makes flavour change to match prediction
Also published here 43
Simon Lovell Stopcut spectator says "stop" at his own card as magician cuts small packets off the deck
 		45
Simon Lovell The Explod-ing Eyeball Rub eyeball, pretend eyeball explodes with creamer packet
 		49
Simon Lovell Centre Tear Tip Divine spectator's name (with tips of handling centre tears)
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Simon Lovell Fingered wrong card under spectator's finger becomes selection
Variations 57
Simon Lovell Assassination Three bullet holes appear in a coin after magician feigns assassinating Kennedy - coin then changes into a bullet
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Thumb Palm Switch
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Keith Charnley Clip Pass Click Pass with stack of coins
 		63
Keith Charnley Chop Wallet Chop Cup style routine with coin and wallet - final production of ten pound note under the wallet
Also published here 65
Simon Lovell Four Ace Opener Series of color changes between black and red Aces, end with all four Aces on table
 		69
Richard Kaufman A Radical Change
70
Harry Baron The Vanishing Moustache Shave the moustache off the Jack of Clubs
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Simon Lovell, Father Cyprian Really Wild Packet of four Jokers change into four Kings one by one
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Brother John Hamman Flushtration Count
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Simon Lovell Can Can Magician crush soda can under foot instantaneously
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Simon Lovell Jack Catch Sandwich routine where two Jacks are used to pull out selection
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Simon Lovell Squiddle Karate Coin done with cards, but finger is thrust into cards that are thrown in the air, and finger splits a card (selection)
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Simon Lovell, Eric Mason Open Hand Colour Change
Related to 97
Rear Cop Rear Palm technique
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Crumpled Shown to Simon by random guy in restaurant: Magician crumples up large napkin into a small ball the size of a pea
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Simon Lovell Tongued Magician puts nail through his tongue, then restores tongue
Related to 103
Ken Brooke Fifty Quid Biz Single card is torn into two linking rings of cards
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Simon Lovell Multiple Top Change Lovell's handling
 		109
Simon Lovell Chinese Ring in Rat Borrowed ring to matchbox, but has long racist interlude where magician wears fake teeth, pretends to be Chinese and speaks in a stereotypical accent and bad English in order to produce a rat
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Simon Lovell Jazz Magic Some outs and ideas for improvisational magic to locate "freely named" card
Related to 119
Simon Lovell Jazzing After Story Keith Fields helped Simon to do a deck / cigarette pack transposition
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Simon Lovell Tipping How to get tips
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Simon Lovell Endword
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