Nu, Alain: Nu Discoveries ©1998 Alain Nu Softcover, comb-bound, 8.5x11", 36 pages

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Comments: From the introduction, "This manuscript begins with some of my personal thoughts on magic which leads to an interview with me from "Behind the Smoke and Mirrors" where I get a chance to stand on my soap box and discuss my philosophies and concerns. Following the interview are fifteen descrptions of my favorite audience tested effect that span the most recent five years of my life as a full-time magician. Perhaps challenging to the sleight-of-hand enthusiast as well as interesting to the real-world entertainers, these effects were designed to balance a blend of presentation, subtlety and sleight-of-hand."

Contents (from book):

1 Nu Discoveries: introduction
2 Alain Nu - Thoughts
3 A Conversation With Alain Nu (David London): interview from Behind the Smoke and Mirrors
6 The Funnel Vanish: for coins
7 Ring Thru Head: finger ring becomes invisible, passes through spectator's head, and re-materializes on the magician's finger; impromptu
8 Ghost Coins: three coins vanish and reappear in a ghostly manner; uses sleeving with a jacket and three old coins
8 - Cloak & Dagger Vanish
10 The Fifth Dimension: four coins vanish and reappear, stand up and no sleeving, no gimmicks.
12 Unpredictable: one coin routine ending with production of a spoon; requires a jacket
15 Eraser Head: a coins is slowly erased and then found restored in the eraser; need to buy or make an "eraser" coin
16 Eraser-Head Concepts: coin and eraser transpose, then coin is vanished and reappears
18 Forked-Up (Alain Nu and Scott Grocki): fork immersed in coffee cup emerges with matching coin in its tines
19 Pen & Quarter: pen through quarter presentation, uses a Presley Guitar style coin
21 The Key Chain: a padlock key penetrates on and off a beaded chain
24 Spare: a borrowed key vanishes and reappears in a sealed envelope between two clipped business cards
26 Shadow Triumphant: a version of Triumph where the selected card is found by the magician's shadow
28 The Dirty Dozen Deal: a second spectator says stop at the first spectator's card, done twice with the spectators changing roles; uses a confederate
29 Psi-Click (Alain Nu & Raj Madhok): cards match a mathematical total using a stacked packet and an invisible die
32 Warpogami: climax to Card Warp wherein the torn card pieces tranform into an origami box
34 - Performance of Warpogamis
35 - The Creation of Warpogami
36 Zodiesque: determining a person's Zodiac sign