Human Gimmick

Sep 1, 2007
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Belgrade, Serbia
I've had this idea for a while, to make myself into a walking human gimmick. I want to put as many tricks on myself without any obvious magician props. So basically I could do a half an hour show (or longer), or a restaurant gig, wearing/carrying nothing else than what a normal person would. So no cards, no coins (you can have spare change, but a normal person would not carry half dollars or morgan dollars in their pockets), no pads, no rubber bands, no sharpies, no sponge balls, no thumb tips, nothing that a normal person would not have on them. It will make more sense when I list the effects bellow. So the list goes like this:

- Infinity Ring around my neck for ring and chain effect
- Class Ring for De'Vo's De Ring
- Stitched by Alexander Kole on my pants
- Interlace by Richard Sanders in one of my pants sleeve
- Self Tying Shoelace by Jay Noblezada in the other
- Dress Code by Calen Morelli
- Ring Flight Revolution as my key chain
- Ignition (key through anything) on the ring flight revolution
- Shift, self bending key also on the key chain
- Disjointed (not really a gimmick but it can be done without anything)
- A Quarter for Prevaricator
- Warning by Kostya Kimlat (uses a lighter)
- Extreme Burn 2.0 or any other Easy Money effect in my wallet
- PK ring for watch stop effect and telekinesis type effects
- Loops around my wrist, even though they are not something a normal person would wear, they should be invisible anyways

Those are just the ones off the top of my head. As you can see, all of these are items that would not seem suspicious to anyone (even though they are gimmicks), and you could do a one hour show with just the ones I listed above.
Now, if you have any other effects (and I'm pretty sure there are tons out there), please add them up to the list, and let's make an ultimate walking gimmick.
 
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Josh Burch

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Aug 11, 2011
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I like the idea a lot. It all helps to make your magic look more organic and impromptu.

I'm surprised you didn't include Garrett Thomas' Ring Thing. Stiched by David Gabay seems to fit the bill as well for the kind of magic you're doing. My effect Unbuttoned on the Wire is also an organic piece of magic that it looks like you might like.

Also I have a hard time with your choice of gimmicks. You choose to do Dresscode, Extreme Burn, Stitched, and self tying Shoe lace which all require a gimmicks that only do one effect. You wouldn't wear them if you didn't want to do a magic trick. At the same time you have nixed a TT. This gimmick is just as invisible as the others mentioned yet can be used in multiple effects.
 
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Sep 1, 2007
1,395
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39
Belgrade, Serbia
I like the idea a lot. It all helps to make your magic look more organic and impromptu.

I'm surprised you didn't include Garrett Thomas' Ring Thing. Stiched by David Gabay seems to fit the bill as well for the kind of magic you're doing. My effect Unbuttoned on the Wire is also an organic piece of magic that it looks like you might like.

Also I have a hard time with your choice of gimmicks. You choose to do Dresscode, Extreme Burn, Stitched, and self tying Shoe lace which all require a gimmicks that only do one effect. You wouldn't wear them if you didn't want to do a magic trick. At the same time you have nixed a TT. This gimmick is just as invisible as the others mentioned yet can be used in multiple effects.
I'm not really routining these effects, I'm just listing the possibilities. The whole point is not to carry any of the classic magicians items (including TT), so maybe loops should go off the list too. And yeah, the Ring Thing is a great effect and should be on there. Well, with these kinds of effects it doesn't really matter if you can only do one or more effects with one gimmick, as it's supposed to seem impromptu and organic anyways.
 
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