Hey guys/gals...Ive been into magic for 10 to 11 years an doing it professionally for 1 year 1/2 2 years. Now Ive been inspired over the many years to create my own effects or to expand apon more classic effects. Now I have 2 effects that I have created or put my take on it. A variation sandwhich trick with a twist, an a t.n.r now im not saying spill ur effects...but merely im curious as to how many of you use ur own personal effects into ur routine.
i do an effect in which i adopted from an earlier card merger, its called CONSUMMATED, it can be seen on myspace under my myspace videos....
i also have an adaption called LIVING PROOF, if you would like access to see the full effect, let me know, its a vanish and a reproduction from a pretty kool spot, lets just say nature takes it course.....
an effect i have been working on for months, and also have performed for a select few called, PIERCED, its where i take an move a piercing from ear to ear and even the nose only to put the earring in a spot where there was never a peircing.....
i've been working on my own ACR effect called PRESENT'S PAST, where i take a card, have a spectator sign it, lose it in the deck and turn the obvious wrong card into the card they had signed...it really messes with the mind,
over the years and past few months, THE GREAT Lee Asher, told me that a lot of the times its not always creating new effects, sometimes putting your own spin to things is just as important, also when it comes to creating something entirely new, thats very hard, because a lot of things in magic has already been done is some form...
not that its impossible to do so, it is however, hard to create, something totally new....but keep putting my spin on stuff like ACR's....vanishes.....and other stuff....
i also like body magic...where the body does things that it normally shouldn't do....this effect i like to do called PLASTIC SURGERY is a simple effect, in which i got from on old tai chi method...i just adapt it to magic since magicians, never use it....u should try it out....
sometimes different patter is just as good as a new effect, imagine if every magician did the same patter, wouldn't that be boring...thats when i do certain levitations, i use a patter on the streets such as saying: "the higher your Alcohol level goes, the higher you can rise", that will then enable me to do the balducci, kings rising, and even some of criss angels methods, i've done the iccarus effect before on the streets and freaked people out....
but yeah i think you get my point....
One of the first tricks I learnt, I still use it.