Evidence of a Well Spent Life

Book
2025
Written by Helge Thun
Work of Helge Thun
175 pages (Hardcover), published by Vanishing Inc.
Illustrated with photographs
Language: English
49 entries
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Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
Guy Hollingworth Foreword
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Helge Thun Introduction
11
Chapter 1: Single Cards
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Helge Thun, Thomas Fraps Instant Camera Card deck is used as an instant camera card, blank card (picture) turns into selected card
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Related to
Variations
 13
Thomas Fraps Miller Change Variation inside cellophane of case
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Inspired by
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Helge Thun Bulkoki Reloaded 20 bill changes into 100, 20 is found in case wrapped around signed selection
Inspired by
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Helge Thun Humor as Deception - The serial number bluff
  • The weakness of the torn-off corner
  • Humor can be a very deceptive technique
  • Having fun with the serial number
  • Three birds with one stone
  • The hundred Euro/Dollar moment
    • Tip from Juan Tamariz (handling mistakes)
  • Important note
  • And more importantly
  • In other words
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Chapter 2: Technique
29
Helge Thun Action Fan Palm card is palmed while closing the fan
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 29
Helge Thun The Bent Cop Transfer from classic palm to bent cop and back
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Inspired by
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Helge Thun Card in Matchbox - Three Loading Methods three loading methods for folded signed card in match box
  • Method 1 (In the jacket)
  • Method 2 (Impromptu)
  • Method 3
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Related to
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Helge Thun Hands Up! "The unsquared fingertip rest position"
on stand-up card work, holding the un-squared deck between thumb and fingers carelessly
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Helge Thun Chapter 3: Beauty of Complexity on longer multi-phase (card) routines in style of Cups & Balls routines
  • The spontaneous recycling strategy
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Helge Thun Better Safe than Sorry 3 three signed cards are found with rubber banded deck in different ways (band effect, transformation, under a box, located in pocked in cased deck, card through silk with rubber-banded case) twice, last card appears folded and rubber-banded in small clear box
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Carmen D'Amico D'Amico Multiple Shift sliding block
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Hiroyuki Sakai, Nicolai Friedrich Band on the Run plus Transformation rubber band vanishes from around deck to trap selection in center, that card changes into another card
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  • "Herbert und Hermine" (Nicolai Friedrich, Magie, Feb. 2020)
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Helge Thun Strangers or Friends? "About people on stage and real conversations"
handling of spectators on stage
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Helge Thun The Flying Four three Aces spin out of fan in left hand and are inserted into fan one by one, last one appears in fan
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Helge Thun Eight Ahead! four signed cards lost and found in different ways, they change into Aces, original cards found in different spots (folded in match box, wallet, case, sealed deck)
  • Presentation "26"
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Helge Thun Flip-Flop-Top
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Inspired by
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Mark Sicher Sandwichange Handling
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Inspired by
Related to
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Helge Thun Vertical Nerve Trick with cased deck
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Edward Marlo, Harry Lorayne Illogical Double Lift
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Helge Thun On the Mercury Card Fold comment on speed
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Christian Scherer Explosive Production flashy production of card with string of flash material that is attached to deck and burned
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  • "Explosiv" (Christian Scherer, DVD Kartenmagie 1)
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Helge Thun Pockets Full of Presents seven cards selected, six are found in different ways and lost again, then those six cards are removed from different pockets, last card folded in match box
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Earl Nelson, Eric Mason "Up" Set
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Martin Lewis End Grip Spin
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Helge Thun Chapter 4: The Duplicate Principle
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Helge Thun The Signatures principle of obtaining duplicate signed card when having a four-of-a-kind signed
  • Another Basic Point
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Helge Thun 4 Card Brainwave named King is reversed in packet with four Kings and has X on back
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Inspired by
  • "The Mental Four" (Ed Marlo, The Linking Ring, Sep. 1963)
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Helge Thun Free Choice two black Kings, one suit is forced
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Mexican Turnover in-the-hands, one card divided
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Helge Thun Cornered signed card is torn and pieces vanish minus one corner, restored card found reversed in deck, repeat with full restoration
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Paul LePaul Missing-Corner Pop Out deck riffled and card pops out
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Helge Thun Round the Corner extension of previous routine in which card travels to an impossible location
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Helge Thun Filling the Gap visual restoration of the final corner after a torn & restored effect with visible signature, on the deck, hinged corner gaff
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Helge Thun The Cloth of Death four signed Kings lost in deck, the are found again with the help of a handkerchief, with management of divided cards for subsequent routines
  • First production (card rises from handkerchief-covered deck and floats up)
  • Second production (card through handkerchief with cased deck)
  • Interlude with the King of Spades
  • Third production (cased deck put in handkerchief, spectator reaches in and locates card)
  • Fourth production (card appears on face of deck in glass with handkerchief cover)
  • Transition to the Torn and Restored Card
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Carmen D'Amico D'Amico Multiple Shift sliding block
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Karl Germain The Flash Card Change in glass while covored with handkerchief
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Helge Thun Duplicate Travelers travelers in which deck travels to pocket, another card appears folded in matchbox and one in another deck that a spectator has been holding from the start
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 131
Diagonal Insertion multiple cards at different positions
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Guy Hollingworth All-Around Square-Up Palm multiple cards at different positions
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Variations
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Morris Loewy Loewy Palm
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Helge Thun Boxed four signed Kings travel folded into matchbox one by one, then matchbox vanishes with a signed King and both reappear inside card case that spectator holds since the beginning
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Helge Thun Chapter 5: Encore on using transparent cards for duplicate signature purposes
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Helge Thun Clear Voyage four signed cards are found in different ways, last one inside a sealed different deck, one travels again from a translucent envelope that vanishes into wallet that spectator has been holding since the beginning
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Re-Sealing Deck
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Edward Marlo Card to Case Technique
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Data entered by Denis Behr, July 2025.