Jay, Joshua: Session - The Magic
of Joel Givens ©2007 Joshua Jay Productions, Murphy's Magic Supplies, CA Hardcover, w/dj, 275 pages ISBN: 1931482055 |
Image courtesy QuickerThanTheEye |
Comments: B&W photography by Stephen Heinzelmann. The magic is explained in a story format.
Contents (from web descriptions, numbers are not page numbers):
1 Sweet Straw: stirrer removed from a Sweet-n-Low packet, then
shrunk
2 The Peek: revelation of a peeked at card
3 Cup O' Joel: creamer vanished in hand, yet coffee has creamer,
and package is sealed
4 Laser Aces: a Four Aces effect where at the end the piles become
solid blocks of cards
5 Sidejogged Hop: sleight
5 Silly Psychic: a book test with a unique reveal and way to hand
out your business card
6 Matches All Gone: matches vanish from a packet to appear in a
straw
7 Kicking Ace: flourishy Ace production
8 Sponge Aces: Aces and a named pair transpose between the
spectator's hands and the magicians
9 Givens on Hofzinser: Ace of Spades turns into selection, with a
kicker
10 Brain Cleaner: quick bit pushing a Q-Tip into your ear
11 Identification Cards: revelation of six cards selected by six
spectators
12 Minor Revelations
13 Spread Production
14 Ninja Coin: coins pass hand-to-hand with a Karate coin climax
15 Across Coins: coins across routine
16 Dave's Proposition: gravity defying water
17 Tubular Bills: bill changes to a straw wrapper with bill found
in the straw
18 More Memory Man: a memorized deck effect
19 Heckler Stopper: mixed up deck card revelation with a kicker
20 Monte 101: 3 Card Monte routine
21 It's a Tie: three card discovery
22 The Magidoodle: Snoopy card prediction for children
23 Easy Time: borrowed ring to watch
24 The Human Slot Machine: a coin routine around the theme of a
slot machine
25 Slop Machine: Triumph routine
26 Hungry Cannibals: Kings seem to eat cards and they vanish; then
they have bites out of them, etc.
27 Collectors for Collectors: collectors routine
28 Backstage Pass: card slieght
29 Rubbed Away: selection is rubbed away, and found face up in the
deck
30 Hover: floating deck
31 Whitewashed
32 Lean Time: balanced deck
33 Bottom Deal Crimp: card sleight
34 Uncrossed Cross Cut: card force
35 New Way Pop: producing a card as the deck is bridged
36 EZ Color Change: card sticking out of the deck changes to
selection
37 EZ Change Aces: using the color change
38 Quadruple Open Prediction: not explained