Parker, Mark: Vivify ©2009 Mark Parker Hardcover, 9.75x9.75, 142 pages

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Comments: ten original stage illusions described and illustrated in color. Was limited to 500 copies.

Contents (from book ToC & web description):

7 Foreword (Brett Daniels)
9 Introduction
11 Logic & Reasoning

19 Stage Illusions
19 Bodybuilder: A rustic open framework houses an assistant, who is penetrated with shiny metal
33 Hiding Place: Instant appearance of an assisant, can be performed surrounded in the right conditions
45 95% Gone!: Volunteer's body appears to disappear in a horizontal prop
55 EMB: New take on the classic sword box
65 Asrah Table: thin re-design
71 Abdomen: Gothic illusion, where girl rises up from the horizontal torso of the magician
83 Dissolve: Assistant slowly gets compacted and vanishes in an upright cabinet
95 Vivisectioned: Assistant is impaled with blades, and then rotated
113 Sanction: sharp angled blades rotate and penetrate the thin cabinet
129 Motorbike: assistant and motorcycle appear in an open metal framework in a flash

140 A Cut Above the Rest
144 Acknowledgements