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TALK with Aaron and ask YOUR questions HERE in our forum.. As magicians, we project an air of mysterious, hidden ability. Our audiences are envious of this power, and their secret is that they wish they could do what we do. Search & Destroy gives them that opportunity — in a fun, entertaining, and completely self-working way. The plot is simple: the slow-motion sandwich effect. A card is selected and returned to the pack. Two kings are placed face-up near the top and bottom of the pack — they move in toward the center of the pack, one step at a time, until only one card is trapped between them. Of course, that one card turns out to be the selection. But here’s the rub: the entire effect happens with the spectator holding the cards! Better yet, this trick is all but self-working. If you can control a playing card, you can perform this miracle.
Practical, powerful technique — lessons that will evolve your magicSearch & Destroy also includes a detailed explanation of the Nowhere Pass — Aaron’s acclaimed and well-thought-out approach to the Bluff Pass, long considered the province of only the most advanced sleight-of-hand experts. With the care and attention that has come to define Aaron’s teaching, this segment will give you a new tool in your arsenal that you will find uses for in many of your own favorite effects. And that’s only the beginning: the lessons you learn here about tension, focus, and design in sleight of hand will improve every card trick you do.
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| Today, The Paper Engine, Aaron’s acclaimed work on sophisticated card magic, takes this notion one step further, arguing that the theatrical aesthetic can — and should — be applied on a level more fundamental than that of performance: to technique itself.
Through detailed explanations of technical artistry and principles, The Paper Engine teaches you — by exploring the important concepts of tension, focus, and design — how to construct and perform magic that’s built on a framework of impeccable structural engineering. Many of the sleights that appear in the book have become, in fact, the Gold standard for modern sleight-of-hand artists. And yet this is not a book on optimal finger positioning. On the contrary, it is a work that envisions the larger picture, even as it crafts the small. A work that makes your magic softer, tensionless … and truly invisible. While some of the material is challenging, The Paper Engine is designed to have you performing miracles for living, breathing audiences. You’ll learn powerful, audience-tested effects including: . TALK with Aaron and ask YOUR questions HERE in our forum.. |





