Close, Michael

Book

1991
Written by Michael Close
Work of Michael Close

52 pages (Spiralbound), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings by Chris Kenner, Homer Liwag
Language: English

18 entries

This publication has been reviewed by

Jim Sisti (The Magic Menu, Vol. 2 No. 8, Nov./Dec. 1991, p. 79)

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Page	Categories
Michael Close	Introduction	Some Soul Searching A Sense of Conviction Paying the Price In the Auditorium of the Mind How to Learn from this Manuscript		1	Articles / Theory & Essays Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Michael Close	Rubik's Dollar Bill	bill in folded playing card is penetrated with toothpick	Variations Very Close (Steve Dusheck, Dusheck's Close-Up Magic, 1994) Rubik's Revenge (Lou Gallo, Lou Gallo: The Underground Man, 1996)	4	Bill / Penetration
Michael Close	The Theory of Penetration Effects			5	Articles / Theory & Essays
Michael Close	The El Cheepo Magic Club	signed business card to matchbox (folded)		14	Paper / Traveling Business Cards
Michael Close	The Ring, Shoelace, and Straw Routine	ring travels from hand to hand, penetrates string, string penetrates straw	Related to The Straw and Shoelace (Michael Close, A Workers Series Sampler, 1994)	20	Rope / Penetration / Penetrations with Rings,... Ring / Finger Rings / Penetration / Ring and String Ring / Finger Rings / Traveling / To other Hand
Michael Close	Dancers at the End of Time	Aces vanish from top of deck, trap kings, transposition with quartets, all change into jokers	Inspired by Wild Underground Transposition (Michael Close, Arcane, 1981) Related to Wild Underground Transposition (Michael Close, Arcane, 1981)	29	Cards / Effect Themes / Sandwich & Co / Collectors Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Multiple Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Vanish / Multiple Cards Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Quartet transposes with Quartet
Michael Close, Paul LePaul	The Tuning Fork		Inspired by The Gymnastic Aces (Paul LePaul, The Card Magic of Le Paul, 1949)	30	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / One by One
Michael Close	Twenty-Six Cents Worth of Change	transformation routine of pocket change	Also published here Rick Johnsson's Linking Ring Column, Vol. 60 No. 12, 1980 Variations Twenty to One (Eric Mason, Stuff, 1985 ca.)	35	Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Miscellaneous
	The Pinch and the Switch	throw switch from tenkai pinch		35	Coin / Sleights / Switches / Back Clip Handlings
Michael Close	The Four Cent Bonus	multiple coin transformation, using glued together coins		37	Coin / Gaffed / Off-beat Gaffs Coin / Effect Themes / Transformation / Miscellaneous
Derek Dingle	Bounce Change	using sleeve		39	Coin / Sleights / Sleeving Coin / Sleights / Switches / Multiple Coins
Michael Close	The MC Spread Double Lift	hides back of bottom card throughout	Also published here MC Spread Double Lift (Michael Close, Stylo, 2021) Related to Spread Cull Double Turnover (Sungwon Kim, Imagery, 2016) also in: Spread Cull Double Turnover (Seven Thoughts, 2018) The MC Spread Double Lift (Michael Close, Nothing But Collectors, 2022) Variations TB Spread Double (Tomas Blomberg, Blomberg Laboratories, 2014) also in: The TB Spread Double (Sleightly Out Of Order, 2019) TB Spread Double (Ubuntu, 2022) … and 1 more Spread Cull Double Turnover (Sungwon Kim, Imagery, 2016) also in: Spread Cull Double Turnover (Seven Thoughts, 2018)	40	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / from spread, fan and Co
Michael Close	First Application	of MC Spread Double Lift, as fake side steal to impress magicians	Variations The Double MC Kraser Force (Patrick G. Redford, Applesauce*, 2014)	43	Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Magicians Only Gags
Michael Close	Second Application	MC Spread Double Lift from face-up deck		43	Cards / Sleights / Multiple Lift / from spread, fan and Co
Michael Close	As a Force and a Control	MC Spread Double Lift application		44	Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Cut Controls Cards / Sleights / Force / Spread Force / Miscellaneous Spread Force
Michael Close	The Frog Prince	card folded in origami frog transposes with selection	Also published here The Frog Prince (Michael Close, A Workers Series Sampler, 1994) Related to The Frog Trick (Scotty York, A Rumor in Their Own Time, 1988) also in: Froggy Goes A'Courtin (For Your Eyes Only, 1993) The Frog Princess (Bob Ostin, Bob Ostin — A Lifetime of Magical Inventions, 2005) also in: "The Frog Princess" in "The Crimp" Nr. 53. Variations Psychic Leap Frog (Jon Racherbaumer, MO — Modus Operandi, 1993) La Ranita (Joaquín Matas, A Fuego Lento — Volumen I, 2014)	45	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / Two Cards / with mutilated card(s)
Juan Tamariz	Double Crossing the Gaze Switch			48	Pocket Techniques / Switches
Michael Close	The Double Bar			52	Articles / Intros & Epilogues

Data entered by Denis Behr, August 2009.

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