Columnist: Banachek
Back in 1993, Raj Madhok used a wonderful principle in an effect he published in the PEA’s publication called Vibrations. The effect involved a prescription bottle with the following on the label:
FOR THE NEXT FOURTEEN
DAYS. TAKE ONE
PINK CAPSULE DAILY.
You either covered the ‘TEEN’ up with your thumb to show that the person should take a capsule for the next four days, or let them r...
Columnist: Banachek
The Blindfold Drive
With an April fool’s joke on this network that I got caught up in, came some pretty good advice about the blindfold drive. The original post asked for advice on a blindfold drive for the Indy 500 pace car that was to be driven at 75 miles an hour. The joke was the fact anyone would attempt to drive a car that fast. Problem for me was I actually did once drive a car almost t...
Columnist: Banachek
The following is taken from Teller’s introduction in new book “Psychological Subtelties”, available from Joe Stevens or Scott Wells. It is a simple effect but one that gives us an interesting way to think about how to present mentalism.
Imagine a mentalist who began:
“There are no psychic forces – no vibes, no auras, no influences from the stars, no voices from beyond the grave. I am an illu...
Columnist: Banachek
This effect has it’s roots in an Eddie Joseph effect titled “Psychic Identification” in his magazine “Swami.” I lay no rights to the method at all. I am only giving you my presentation. The original is a wonderful impromptu effect performed in person. I have adapted it to the telephone. I call it:
Call someone on the phone. Ask him to take out five of his business cards. He is to turn the...
Columnist: Banachek
Think a Month
This first appeared in the late Bascom Jones’ Magick Magazine.
This routine came to me about four o’clock in the morning one night. The time that most good ideas come to me. I was pondering the reason an old effect worked. The one where you have someone secretly pick a number on a watch and you start to tap the watch and each time you tap they add one to their number and they sto...
