Tuesday 13 December 2016

Conversation As Mentalism 5

"This may well be the strongest CAM yet, and as you know I'm a big fan of the series!" - Tim Trono


Would you like to learn some brand new killer effects that you can perform anytime, anyplace and without any props?

Then you're in luck! Mark Elsdon’s new Conversation As Mentalism Volume 5 is just what you’re looking for.

Contents:
In The Stars – A recording that impossibly predicts EVERY choice a participant will make!
ACDC – The performer correctly identifies the exact date on a random coin that he never touches.
Three Objects One Brain – Three participants choose and hide three random objects whilst the performer’s back is turned. Nevertheless, he immediately knows everything!
No Weigh! – Under increasingly impossible conditions the performer is able to tell the 'weight' of a word.
Poetry In Motion – Several participants compose a Haiku. A Haiku that inexplicably already exists…
The Pen That Cannot Lie – The truth will out. A killer (and very easy!) two-person coding system.
Dreamachine – An incredible number revelation from the devious mind of Andrew Brown.
Oodles of Doodles – A simple yet powerful impromptu psychometry demonstration.
BPW – A random book, a random page, a random word. A not-at-all random revelation.

Nine brand new effects that have been designed with one outcome in mind – to amaze whoever you are talking to without the aid of any gadgets, gizmos or gimmicks.

Conversation As Mentalism 5 once again teaches pure, propless mentalism at its most organic.

Praise for the Conversation As Mentalism series:

“It is my firm belief that the title of these books should be changed to The Essential Handbooks of Impromptu Mentalism. The routines taught are all very simple, direct and deeply fooling. This material should be in the arsenal of every modern mentalist! I give it my highest recommendation.”
 - Michael Murray

“These are Mark's other great releases up there with the Meridian Technique. As well as the clever effects, and probably more importantly, you're going to learn an attitude which can be used to approach performing in all real world situations."
 - Colin McLeod

CAM 5 is available as both a printed booklet and an eBook*.
 

Sunday 20 November 2016

Easy Elsdon eBooks



                       

"If you haven't yet managed to get hold of these magnificent eBooks your certainly missing out! Mark has painstakingly put together a plethora of hugely usable and easy to learn material which I highly recommend... a compendium of magic to suit every performer!"
- Moz 'Mozique' Powrie

"I love getting Easy Elsdon in my email every month. There hasn't been a single issue where I haven't found at least one thing that I've started using immediately. That's an incredible hit rate. Keep it up mate!"
- Jerry O'Dowd  

Easy Elsdon is a new series of eBooks featuring material that is powerful enough to use at a gig, but VERY easy to learn. So easy, in fact, that you can learn it in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee!

Each eBook contains six killer effects that will simply stun laymen. Tricks that you can learn in 5 minutes and perform immediately, yet are still strong enough for a working pro!

These tricks and methods were devised as a result of realising that a lot of casual (and some professional!) performers simply do not have the time to become serious students of magic, spend hundreds (thousands?) of hours practicing sleight-of-hand or collect a several-thousand-book library. Agree or disagree, this is just a fact of life...

So in assembling these eBooks, I created, adapted and simplified a ton of material that had to meet the two basic requirements mentioned above:

1.    Is this trick strong enough to use at a gig?

2.    Can someone learn it in just a few minutes?

The results can be read in this new Easy Elsdon series, of which the first eight eBooks are now available:

Mentalism 1, 2 & 3, Card Magic 1 & 2, Coin Magic 1 & 2 and Paper Magic.
They are currently only available directly from me. The price is £15 per eBook.

However the best and cheapest option is to subscribe for the year:

The price of these eBooks is be £15 each, meaning a total cost of £180 for the first year. However, you can to subscribe to the whole year’s worth of eBooks for just £99 - an almost 50% discount!

This means that each eBook will cost you just £8.25 instead of £15. You will also receive a Winter Bonus eBook that is only available to subscribers.

And you’ll be pleased to hear that there is zero chance of the eBook releases being delayed or falling behind schedule, because all the tricks are already written :-)

Forthcoming volumes of Easy Elsdon include Phone Magic, Word Magic, Card Magic 3 and Borrowed Object Magic.

To buy one eBook (please specify in the Pp comments which one) for £15:




To subscribe to the whole series (12 issues and the Winter bonus) for £99:



*Please note: eBooks(s) delivered within 24 hours maximum. And usually 24 minutes :-)
If you subscribe you will receive all 5 eBooks released to date.

Saturday 16 July 2016

Any Liar At Any Truth-teller

This trick has fooled EVERY magician and mentalist who has seen it!


After a lot of research and experimentation, I've applied one of my favourite creative techniques from Hegarty to a delightful twist of logic from Smullyan and have created an absolute wowser of a card trick! 

It's titled Any Liar At Any Truth-teller (you can probably guess the plot!) and rather counter-intuitively, adding the liar/truth-teller element into the ACAAN effect not only ramps up the impact immeasurably, it also really clarifies the impossibility of THAT specific card being at THAT specific number. Particularly since you don't know which one of the participants is lying about their card or number until the very last second...

Suffice it to say, if you already use Tequila Hustler or Strange Oblique then Any Liar will probably go into your repertoire immediately. I honestly can't see myself ever doing the ACAAN effect any other way from this point on.

And best of all, the liar/truth-teller element has nothing whatsoever to do with the method, it merely serves to enhance the presentation and up the ante.

Two versions are taught: one using a gaffed deck (my favourite and the only one I'll use, although your mileage may vary) and a second handling which closely replicates the effect using a regular deck.

Here are the first two reviews I received: 

"Mark's new 'Any Liar' is a hugely powerful and totally entertaining worker. How does he keep coming up with them?!? I don't know either, but I'm glad he does!"
- Marc Oberon


"Mark has a knack of threading together unrelated ideas and principles and turning them into a coherent, intricate work of art! This routine is equally as beguiling to the performer as it is to the spectator and I cannot recommend it highly enough."
 - Jamie Badman

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Saturday 16 April 2016

Strange Oblique

If you like Tequila Hustler, then you're going to love:



This brand new release takes the classic 'Sixth Sense' effect and makes it both impromptu and completely prop-less! 

The classic effect where the mentalist determines which spectator has the only odd coloured ball can now been done on the spur of the moment with pocket change and zero apparatus - nothing at all!
  
That's right: no bag, no balls or marbles, no magnets and no gimmicks. And you can even be out of the room whilst the objects are chosen!

The booklet explains several versions: the main one uses just pocket change that you never ever touch or need to see. Another handling that is bound to spawn multiple variations uses nothing more than random words written on scraps of paper.

But whichever handling you prefer, you always know who is lying, who is telling the truth and exactly who is holding the target object!

It is strong enough to use in a show, and yet still casual enough to perform for a few friends in a pub or coffee shop. And yes, it can be adapted to any language.

The widely-lauded Tequila Hustler has been called one of the major breakthroughs in mentalism of recent times, providing a completely different, logic-based approach to the 'which hand' problem. Strange Oblique does the exact same thing for the 'Sixth Sense' plot.

An unsolicited review:

"Very short review of Strange Oblique. It's by Mark Elsdon... 'nuff said!!

Let's just say that SO is to Kurotsuke what TH is to 'which hand'. Can be performed completely impromptu. 5 or even more spectators one has the impromptu equivalent of a black ball (or on stage it could actually be a black ball) the rest have the impromptu equivalent of a white ball (or a white ball). The performer with only a few questions, most being funny or random, is able, with 100% accuracy, to locate who has the target object and who is lying.
 

IMO worth every penny. Also if you use an electronic version for a Sixth Sense/Kurotsuke routine this gives you the perfect out if the electronics fail."

 - Mark Chandaue 


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