His name is Bryan Berg. He’s crazy. You can have a look at the original article from Ellusionist’s blog here. This is a rather extreme extreme card manipulation type. See for yourself…

Matches are magically magnetized, suspended in mid air, and finally demagnetized in this very clever free illusion.

Effect: Magician introduces that match sticks have a special property…they can be made ” magnetic “. The magician pulls out a matchbox and opens it 1/4 of the way to show the heads of the matches and shake them around to show they are loose, then closes the matchbox shut. The magician then turns the matchbox over and waves a hand over the box claiming to “ magnetize ” the matches. The magician then proceeds to open the box upside down, holding the match head end of the box lightly between two fingers. The matches do not fall. Then…with a quick shift of the hand, the magician then ” de-magnetizes ” the matchbox and the matches fall to the ground.

Preparation: Take a box of wooden matchsticks, shorten one matchstick to the width of the matchbox and press it into place ACROSS the other matchsticks at the half-way point in the box. It should be tight enough to hold the other matches in place and still allow you to open and close the matchbox. This match holds the others in place. A gentle squeeze on the sides of the box will cause the matches to fall out.

1)Prepare matchbox ………………….. 2)Show matches to spectators

3) Open matchbox upside down …………… 4)Gently squeeze sides to release.

Obtained and hot-linked from GoodTricks (Dot) Net: A very complete magic related resource.

This is a nice card trick used to be performed by card magicians between two illusions and card tricks. You start with four cards, the four kings. Then the card trick consists of putting all cards down and give the audience a great illusion… hehehe. Watch:

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Update in our card magic section; if you’re new to card magic, the following video will teach you how to learn magic trick that is also in the ambitious card routine. The double lift is the most basic sleight of hand anyone wanting to perform basic card magic will need to learn. Here goes:

You might also be interested to learn a more advanced sleight of hand if you want to combine the double lift with another sleight of hand in the same performance to get a good reaction from your audience by closing with a kick ass magic trick, that could be the pass. The pass has a few variations, notably the turn-over pass, the riffle pass, and the dribble pass.

The double lift is great in card magic tricks and is used in many card tricks. You can invent different performances using the double lift alone. I hope you will take the patience to learn the double lift, it will be a great friend in card magic.

Have fun!

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This is trick performed by Criss Angel in the superhuman episode of mindfreak, it’s very easy to perform and should really get good reactions. How the hell can you just RIP a jumbo phonebook!?

I home you like it!

As many people know we have lots of secrets we share at OpenMagic. Criss Angel Secrets, Revealed Tricks, Performance, Presentations and a lot more. For one, this has been used by many people out there to fool others and stuff you know what I’m talking about. Yeah. Secrets Revealed…

Criss Angel secrets broken from the routine and exposed. They are Criss Angel’s secrets for people who use the tricks of the magic trade to take advantage of their audience. He will perform an elaborate demonstration of ‘psychic surgery’ for you to see and understand.

Dark was Criss Angel who dared Uri Geller $1,000,000 on the Phenomonon magic tricks television series. He tried and explained Criss Angel tricks but what was in a certain envelope and then rapidly cut Geller off when he appeared to intuitively Begin zoning in on it’s content. What was in the certain envelope were the Book of Numbers 911. When Criss Angel asked Geller what was in the envelope Geller for some reason began rattling of dates that unknown to Geller were zoning in on the contents. We revealed phenomenon secrets and other Criss Angel tricks but if Uri Geller said Angel was Max Born on the 19th , just 1 day prior to Geller’ s birthday and he had bent his 1st spoon when Angel was 1 years old. A nervous Angel, knowing what was in the envelope apace cut him off, and diverted attention by chop-chop gap the envelope.

On yet some other Recent show Angel challenged co - host Uri Geller as to what was in the envelope. Criss explained “I will spray on you a million dollars of my personal money right now if you can tell me particular inside information of what’ s in here right now, “Uri seemed willing to try but the show touched on . Criss Angel of mindfreak proven that he had, or brought with him his million dollars.

This is the thought of Dick Brooks , a managing director of the noted Houdini Museum in Scranton, PA is a nationally known paranormalist, psychic research worker and managing director of Scranton’ s Psychic Theater. A few phenomenon tricks will be revealed on this site but he has been called by many a “Supernormalist”. The theater is currently presenting America’ s longest running and well reviewed extrasensory show and session. In phenomenon some tricks explained here, telekinesis , unseeing vision , mentalism that ends with an attempt at recreating an old time sitting. The presentation explained the story of phenomenon and revealed tricks in the edifice going to the Houdini era that were caused by various events that included a execution , suicide , and electrocution. People at phenomenon don’t reveal nor will explain their tricks, instead they explore the pros and cons of such events.

Watch our phenomenon video here

Watch Criss Angel dismantling this self proclaimed psychic who has nothing special except some guts to claim he can do better than mindfreak tricks invented and kept secret by Chris Angel! This dude joined NBC’s show, Phenomenon, in which Criss Angel the famous Illusionist is part of the jury. He hummiliated this guy after he presented an act of mindreading, an act of illusion but not as good as criss’s own tricks revealed on this site x-D. Are Psychic powers real? Do Criss believe They are? Watch this video to find out the answer…

The commercials for the show give that impression, to be sure - visit the show’s website if you don’t believe me. Co-hosting with famous mentalist Uri Gellar, whose “powers” can be precisely duplicated by stage magic tricks, only made things worse. Had Criss Angel allied with the dark side of magic tricks and illusionist highest secrets ?

I’m posting this because it’s even better than posts revealing how criss performs his mindfreak tricks.

This is Pure Entertainment. Hah!

Have you seen “Criss Angel Mindfreak” the A&E reality series starring weirdo illusionist/mentalist Criss Angel? It’s great and his secrets are revealed on our site. Let’s have a laugh at this 1989 video clip of Criss Angel who had no big secrets to be revealed back then, he was only singing with an unidentified hair band:

In addition to the many parallels between late-period hair metal and cheesy magic shows — combined here brilliantly — there’s much to be learned from “Don’t You Want My Love”:

• Criss Angel’s Secrets Revealed on our Criss Angel and Criss Angel Mindfreak pages

• How does he maneuver his microphone stand like that? I’ll tell ya: magic!

• Where did he get the arsenal of secrets to reveal in tight pants and chest-exposing shirts?

• This would have worked better if the band was playing “The Final Countdown.”

• What’s cooler than escaping from a straight jacket? Doing it upside down.

• Whenever a magic video claims it uses no camera tricks, it’s a clue the performers are blowing smoke up your rear. Note the obvious camera cut at 1:26.

• “Hey guys, know what would make this more metal? Balloons falling from the ceiling.”

Stay tuned for more secrets and mindfreak tricks revealed.