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'''Paul Harris''' is an inventor, magician, and writer. Described by the magazine [[Genii_Magazine| Genii Magazine]] (December 1996) as "the most innovative magic mind of our day" and is listed in [[MAGIC_Magazine| MAGIC Magazine]] (August 1999) as one of "the 100 magicians who shaped the art of magic in America."  
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'''Paul Harris''' (b.1954) is an inventor, magician, and writer. Described in  [[Genii 1996 December]] as "the most innovative magic mind of our day" and listed in [[MAGIC_Magazine| MAGIC Magazine]] (August 1999) as one of "the 100 magicians who shaped the art of magic in America."  
  
He has invented many original tricks including: Linking playing cards, a solid deck, a torn and restored card effect, coins materializing from mirrors,  a card that appears to turning ninety degrees when pushed into the pack, and a torn and restored quarter.
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== Biography ==
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Harris has invented many original tricks including: Linking playing cards, a solid deck, a torn and restored card effect, coins materializing from mirrors,  a card that appears to turning ninety degrees when pushed into the pack, and a torn and restored quarter.
  
''MAGIC'' magazine (August 1999) states that "the feats of astonishments that Paul creates and teaches are in the repertoires of a multitude of working pros."
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''MAGIC'' magazine (August 1999) states that "the feats of astonishment that Paul creates and teaches are in the repertoires of a multitude of working pros."
  
Harris has performed at the Dunes Hotel and at other locations on the Las Vegas Strip and was a technical advisor for [[David Blaine]]'s ''Magic Man'' and ''Street Magic'' TV shows. He also wrote the screenplay for the abysmal 1987 film ''Nice Girls Don't Explode.''
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Harris has performed at the Dunes Hotel and at other locations on the Las Vegas Strip and was a technical adviser for [[David Blaine]]'s ''Magic Man'' and ''Street Magic'' TV shows. He also wrote the screenplay for the abysmal 1987 film ''Nice Girls Don't Explode.''
  
In 2007, his effect "LadyBug" won 3rd place in The Magic Woods Awards for Best Trick 2007.
 
  
MAGIC magazine did a Paul Harris cover issue for June 2007, which contained a great cover story "Living in Astonishment" by [[Eric Mead]].
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== Awards ==
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* In 2006, Paul received the "Creative Fellowship" honor from The Board of Trustees of the [[Academy of Magical Arts]].
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* In 2009, [[Tannen's Magic]] awarded Harris the 27th "Louie Award".
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== Noted illusions ==
 
== Noted illusions ==
 
Amongst the magicians who are known to have presented Paul Harris creations are [[David Copperfield]] and [[Doug Henning]]. In the field of card and close-up magic, Paul Harris more or less re-innovated the genre during the 1970-80s, and is held in very high regard among magicians in the western world.
 
Amongst the magicians who are known to have presented Paul Harris creations are [[David Copperfield]] and [[Doug Henning]]. In the field of card and close-up magic, Paul Harris more or less re-innovated the genre during the 1970-80s, and is held in very high regard among magicians in the western world.
  
Doug Henning performed a routine called "Twilight" on his third TV special (December 13, 1977). An effect using a coin and a mirror where the mirror image of the coin becomes real. A surreal piece.
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Doug Henning performed a routine called "[[Twilight]]" on his third TV special (December 17, 1977). An effect using a coin and a mirror where the mirror image of the coin becomes real. A surreal piece.
  
David Copperfield in a 1984 special (the one where he made the Statue of Liberty disappear) performed a linking card effect "The Immaculate Connection." In this routine, the  magician tears holes in the center of three playing cards in order to create three "frames." The illusion consists in causing the frames to appear to link and unlink without damaging any of the cards. At the  conclusion, the cards are sometimes passed for inspection; to all appearances no extra cards or gimmicks are employed.  
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David Copperfield in a 1984 special (the one where he made the Statue of Liberty disappear) performed a linking card effect "The [[Immaculate Connection]]." In this routine, the  magician tears holes in the center of three playing cards in order to create three "frames." The illusion consists in causing the frames to appear to link and unlink without damaging any of the cards. At the  conclusion, the cards are sometimes passed for inspection; to all appearances no extra cards or gimmicks are employed.  
  
[[Rudy Coby]], in his English TV series, used Paul Harris's odd idea of letting the helium in a balloon magically change place with the air in the performer's lungs—-so, as the balloon slowly sunk to the floor, the performer simultaneously went up in the air with an all squeaky voice.
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[[Rudy Coby]], in his English TV series, used Paul Harris' odd idea of letting the helium in a balloon magically change place with the air in the performer's lungs—-so, as the balloon slowly sunk to the floor, the performer simultaneously went up in the air with an all squeaky voice.
  
Paul Harris has been a technical advisor/magic consultant for [[David Blaine]]'s TV Shows.
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Paul Harris has been a technical adviser/magic consultant for [[David Blaine]]'s TV Shows.
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== Features ==
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Paul has been featured in:
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*[[Genii 1985 September]] 
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*Tannen's [[Magic Manuscript]] Magazine - Nov/Dec 1984 
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* [[Genii December 1996]]
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*[[Magic Magazine]]  August 1999 Page 54  as one of the top influential magician of the century and a June 2007 cover issue.
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*[[Reel Magic Quarterly]] DVD (Volume 1 Episode 1) 2007 which contained a Paul Harris Interview.
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* Magic magazine June 2007 did a Paul Harris  issue which contained the cover story "Living in Astonishment" by [[Eric Mead]].
  
 
== Bibliography ==
 
== Bibliography ==
===Books by Paul Harris===
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=== Books, Manuscripts and Notes ===
 
* ''[[Magic of Paul Harris]]'' (1976)
 
* ''[[Magic of Paul Harris]]'' (1976)
 
* ''[[Paul Harris Reveals Some of His Most Intimate Secrets]]'' (1976)
 
* ''[[Paul Harris Reveals Some of His Most Intimate Secrets]]'' (1976)
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* ''[[Cardboard Connection]]'' (Manuscript) (1977)
 
* ''[[Cardboard Connection]]'' (Manuscript) (1977)
 
* ''[[Supermagic]]'' (1977)
 
* ''[[Supermagic]]'' (1977)
* ''[[Las Vegas close-up]]'' (1978)
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*  [[Return of the Bizarre Shrink]] (manuscript) (1977)
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* ''[[Las Vegas Close Up]]'' (1978)
 
* ''[[Close-Up Entertainer]]'' (1979)
 
* ''[[Close-Up Entertainer]]'' (1979)
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* ''[[Twilight]]'' (1979)
 
* ''[[Close Up Fantasies Book One]]'' (1980)
 
* ''[[Close Up Fantasies Book One]]'' (1980)
 
* ''[[Close Up Fantasies Book Two]]'' (1980)
 
* ''[[Close Up Fantasies Book Two]]'' (1980)
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* ''[[P.H. Breakthrough]]'' (Manuscript) (1981)
 
* ''[[P.H. Breakthrough]]'' (Manuscript) (1981)
 
* ''[[Immaculate Connection]]'' (Manuscript) (1983)
 
* ''[[Immaculate Connection]]'' (Manuscript) (1983)
* ''[[Close-Up Kinda Guy]]'' (1983)
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* ''A [[Close-Up Kinda Guy]]'' (1983)
 
* ''[[Brainstorm in the Bahamas]]'' (with Mike Ammar, Daryl) (1983)
 
* ''[[Brainstorm in the Bahamas]]'' (with Mike Ammar, Daryl) (1983)
 
* ''[[Close-Up Seductions]]'' (1984)
 
* ''[[Close-Up Seductions]]'' (1984)
 
* ''[[Secrets of the Astonishing Executive]] with Bill Herz'' (1991)
 
* ''[[Secrets of the Astonishing Executive]] with Bill Herz'' (1991)
 
* ''[[Art of Astonishment]] Vol 1-3'' (1996)
 
* ''[[Art of Astonishment]] Vol 1-3'' (1996)
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* ''[[The P.H. Super Sampler Volume 1]]'' - Flash Fold, Solid Deception, Seductive Switch Flap Jacks Bleached Black Jack, Vacuum Cleaner Cards (?)
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* ''[[The P.H. Super Sampler Volume 2]]'' - Super Swindle, Overkill, Ultimate Rip-off, Silver and Aces, Opern Revelation, Bizarre Twist. (?)
  
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=== Products  ===
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*1973 Vanishing Deck 
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*1976  SIGNED CARD IN MATCH BOX (Flash Fold) GEM & JANA PRODUCTIONS
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*1979 Twilight
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*1980 Screwed Deck 
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*1980 Hard Boiled Quarter / Half 
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*1980 Solid Deception 
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*1992? Portable Smoke, Viking Mfg. Co.,  was fashioned by Paul Harris, Charlie Hatchette, and George Robinson, Jr., with advice and aid from Eric Mead, Patrick Martin
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*1993? Night Shades 
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*2000 Naked Angels on Bikes 
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*2000 Reality Twister 
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*2000 Lip Smacker 
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*2000 Twilight Angels 
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*2004 Deep Astonishment 
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*2005 One and Only 
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*2006 Deep Astonishment II
  
=== Contibutions ===
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=== Videos ===
Books, videos and products that Paul Harris has provided contributions:
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*Stars of Magic Video #3-Paul Harris One / A-1Multimedia
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*Stars of Magic Video #4-Paul Harris Two / A-1Multimedia
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*Stars of Magic Video #5-Paul Harris Three/A-1Multimedia
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*Stars of Magic Video #6-Paul Harris Four/A-1Multimedia
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*Stars of Magic Video #7-Paul Harris Five/A-1Multimedia
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*(1983) PAUL HARRIS #1 – Tannen’s Video Tape Series No. 2 (Same as Stars of Magic Video #3)
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*(1985) PAUL HARRIS #2 – Tannen’s Video Tape Series No. 5 (Same as Stars of Magic Video #4)
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*(1987) PAUL HARRIS #3 – Tannen’s Video Tape Series No. 10 (Same as Stars of Magic Video #5)
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*(1989) PAUL HARRIS #4 - Tannen’s Video Tape Series No. 12 (Same as Stars of Magic Video #6)
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*(1991) PAUL HARRIS #5 - Tannen’s Video Tape Series No. 14 (Same as Stars of Magic Video#7)
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*PAUL HARRIS IMMACULATE CLOSE-UP (Same as Stars of Magic Video #6)
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*Art of Astonishment Video
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*Cardian Angel Video Tips: Handlings and perfomance tips: Includes like "Double Animation". "Tug-Of-War", "Packet Cardian", "Foreign Cardian", "What About Girls?" Hosted by Mike Maxwell.
  
* [[Encore III]] by [[Michael Ammar]] (book) - Cards Into Case (Mark Lefler) Page 46: Cards are fanned when the magician suddenly realizes he forgot to take them from the case. Contains a Paul Harris' presentation and handling.
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===Published Effects===
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Paul has [[Effects by Paul Harris| published hundreds of his effects]] in books, magazines, videos and manuscripts.
  
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=== Paul Harris Presents ===
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These are products developed by others, sometimes in coordination with Paul and marketed under the "Paul Harris Presents" product line.
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* Darryl Vanamburg's "Black Widow" - The Black Widow enables you to invisibly exchange objects on a spectators hand
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* Ultra Visual Nightshades by Mark Allen and Paul Harris - an update to Paul's Improv Nightshades. Includes Ultra Peeler, Mark Allen's up-grade of Paul's peeled and restored playing card from [[AOA]].
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*Ladybug by Paul Vigil, Paul Harris and Roy Kueppers  - Placing the blade on bare flesh, you pierce a fingetip and squeeze out a single drop of blood. The drop of blood turns into a real ladybug.
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*Linking Laces by Harris, Jockisch, and Goodwin  - link someone's shoe laces
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*The Incredible Shrinking Finger by Dan Hauss (Additional handling by Paul Harris) - Shrink your pinkie down to a weird stumpy thing
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*Daniel Garcia Project DVDs
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*Dis Jointed by Joe Russell - new method for "Shinko's classic Arm Twist"
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*Escalator by Gaetan Bloom, Paul Harris, Rodney Whitlock
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*Gut Buster by Andrew Mayne
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*Juan Hundred Dollar Bill Switch (with Hundy 500 Bonus) by Doug McKenzie
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*Puncture by Alex Linian
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*Strange Travelers by David Blaine
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*Warp One by David Jenkins
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*Torn by Daniel Garcia
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*UV Nightshades by Mark Allen and Paul Harris, includes Ultra Peeler, Mark Allen's up-grade of Paul's peeled and restored playing card from AOA.
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* Flow by Dan Hauss
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=== Contributions ===
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Books, videos and products with contributions by Paul Harris:
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* Cros Bones by Daniel Cros and Paul Harris. (1978) - a modified, miniaturized "Talking Skull".
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* [[Encore III]] by [[Michael Ammar]] (book 1983) - Cards Into Case (Mark Lefler) Page 46: Cards are fanned when the magician suddenly realizes he forgot to take them from the case. Contains a Paul Harris' presentation and handling.
 
*[[Astonishing New Twists with Paul Harris’ Reality Twister]] by [[Pete McCabe]] (book): Includes new tips from Paul.
 
*[[Astonishing New Twists with Paul Harris’ Reality Twister]] by [[Pete McCabe]] (book): Includes new tips from Paul.
 
 
*[[Magic for Dummies]] by [[David Pogue]] (book): Paul is in the credits and includes a card tick called the shuffling Lesson by Chad Long which is from AoA.
 
*[[Magic for Dummies]] by [[David Pogue]] (book): Paul is in the credits and includes a card tick called the shuffling Lesson by Chad Long which is from AoA.
 
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*[[Robert Neale]] [[Folding Money Fooling]] (book 1997): Included in this book is Robert Neale’s famous “Bunny Bill,” long sold as a separate manuscript. (A bunny magically appears from a top hat folded from a bill. Paul Harris adds presentational tips.
*[[Robert Neal]] [[Folding Money Fooling]] (book): Included in this book is Robert Neale’s famous “Bunny Bill,” long sold as a separate manuscript. (A bunny magically appears from a top hat folded from a bill. Paul Harris adds presentational tips.
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*[[Mystery School]] by [[Eugene Burger]] and [[Jeff McBride]] book: chapter Orange/Bryce Kuhlman by Paul Harris
 
*[[Mystery School]] by [[Eugene Burger]] and [[Jeff McBride]] book: chapter Orange/Bryce Kuhlman by Paul Harris
 
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*[[Stars of Magic Video #01]]-[[Frank Garcia]]/A-1Multimedia: Contents includes Paul Harris’ Overkill (performance only on this effect).
*[[Stars of Magic Video #1]]-[[Frank Garcia]]/A-1Multimedia: Contents includes Paul Harris’ Overkill (performance only on this effect).
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*[[Stars of Magic Video #11]]-All Stars/ Garcia, Roth, Harris, Dingle/ A-1 Multimedia: Paul Harris (Cards Across, 4 Ace Revelation),
 
*[[Stars of Magic Video #11]]-All Stars/ Garcia, Roth, Harris, Dingle/ A-1 Multimedia: Paul Harris (Cards Across, 4 Ace Revelation),
 
 
*[[Stars of Magic Video #16]]-Sampler / Garcia/Harris/Dingle/Roth/Bilis& DeCamps / A-1 Multimedia: contains  Harris’ Super Swindle
 
*[[Stars of Magic Video #16]]-Sampler / Garcia/Harris/Dingle/Roth/Bilis& DeCamps / A-1 Multimedia: contains  Harris’ Super Swindle
 
 
*[[The Exciting World of Magic]] Video/Videotape / Ammar, Michael / L&LPublishing : Coproduced by Michael Ammar and Paul Harris.
 
*[[The Exciting World of Magic]] Video/Videotape / Ammar, Michael / L&LPublishing : Coproduced by Michael Ammar and Paul Harris.
 
 
* [[Learn to Levitate - Teaching Video Tape]]:  Includes the 3 minutes from Paul Harris, Swiss Movement (Paul Harris’ Animated Pocket Knife)
 
* [[Learn to Levitate - Teaching Video Tape]]:  Includes the 3 minutes from Paul Harris, Swiss Movement (Paul Harris’ Animated Pocket Knife)
 
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*[[Self Levitation Video]]: [[Michael Maxwell]] teaches how to perform The Balducci Levitation. Also, tips from Paul Harris.  
*[[Self Levitation Video]]: [[Michael Maxwell]] teaches how to perform The Balducci Levitation. Also, tips from [[David Roth]] and Paul Harris.  
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*[[Eye Exam]] by [[Danny Archer]] (product): Includes a page of additional tips and hints called Eye Exam Extras that give hints and tips, and a finish where the cards are examinable (thanks to a Paul Harris suggestion).
 
*[[Eye Exam]] by [[Danny Archer]] (product): Includes a page of additional tips and hints called Eye Exam Extras that give hints and tips, and a finish where the cards are examinable (thanks to a Paul Harris suggestion).
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*[[Hole In The Head]] (product) by [[Ben Harris]]  - Complete with bonus handlings and clever ideas by Paul Harris.
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*[[Stockholder]] by [[Gregory Wilson]] (product): Includes a routine by  Paul Harris.
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*[[One In The Eye]] by [[Keith Charnley]] - Coin across effect with a glass-eye, routine consists of ideas by Paul Harris in [[Pabular]], Vol. 7, no. 3, march 1982, page 1005
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*[[Freakey]] by [[Gregory Wilson]] (product): contains additional approaches and ideas by [[Paul Harris]]
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* Blister Book by Jack Kent Tillar: contributions by Paul Harris.
  
*[[Hole In The Head]] (product)  by [[Ben Harris]]  - Complete with bonus handlings and clever ideas by Paul Harris and [[Michael Weber]].
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{{References}}
 
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{{Wikipedia|Paul_Harris_(magician)}}
*[[Stockholder]] by [[Gregory Wilson]] (product): Included with The Stockholder is a portfolio of more than 20 routines in a fully illustrated booklet with a routine by  Paul Harris.
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===Effects by Paul Harris===
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!Effect
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!Summary
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!Publication
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!Date
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!Page
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|4 Ace Revelation
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|? Is this a rename of another effect? I don't have tape to verify
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|Stars of magic #11 Video All stars
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|1999
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|-
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|Absorption
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|A card is 'absorbed' into the card case during an amusing 'memory test'. Paul calls this a 'sort of cardician's whoopee cushion'.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
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|175
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|-
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|Acapulco Thinker
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|Deck spread, spectator mentally selects card, deck turned around, one card up-jogged, spectator names card, up-jogged card matches.
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|Close-Up Entertainer
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|1979
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|-
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|Ace Trap
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|A four ace routine where a trap (made of cards) is baited with one ace to collect the other three.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
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|155
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|-
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|Air
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|The air in your lungs changes places with the helium in a balloon.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
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|231
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|-
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|Angel Case
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|Ingenious gimmicked card case that can be used to switch billets or other small bits of paper, torn corners etc. Can be held be the spectator.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
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|1996
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|27
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|-
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|Anything Deck
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|you have a card selected and ask for a 'special' word. The special word is used to locate the selection. Finally, the packet of cards is displayed and each has a large letter on it's back. The letters spell out the special word.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|-
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|Apple
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|Torn and restored Mackintosh, or Granny Smith or Golden Delicious.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
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|35
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|-
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|Arrow-split-arrow (Zen and the Art of Boomerang)
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|An impromptu version of Stephen Minch's Robin hood Caper. A card is tossed into the air and boomerang's back into the deck splitting a card
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|-
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|Backlash
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|A 'no palm' card to pocket transposition effect.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
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|29
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|-
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|Bad Estimate
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|A demo of cut estimation goes wrong with entertaining results.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|-
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|Bat Fishing
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|A dollar bill is borrowed and a eight cards are selected. The numerical values of the eight cards make up the serial number of the borrowed bill. Uses the often misunderstood PH throw pillow switch…
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|-
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|Bayberry Bag Swindle
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|Impromptu cups and ball routine with paper bag
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
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|63
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|-
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|Bazarre Stretch
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|The same principle used in the Bizarre Twist, Vanish and Shrink is applied to the streching card illusion.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|-
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|Beast With Two Backs
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|By Paul & Looy--Prediction card matches spectator's, two cards then placed face to face, melt together forming double-backed card.
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|Close Up Fantasies Finale
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|1981
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|-
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|Bee Bop
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|Card case does a back flip onto the deck, changing one card for another.
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|Close-Up Kinda Guy
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|1983
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|
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|-
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|Bent Copper-Silver Transposition
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|During a simple penny and dime transposition a spectator bends the penny.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Big-Time Leaper
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|Cards Across routine
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Bill Collector
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|A card penetrates a bill and rises from the deck.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|-
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|Biological Shuffle (Original)
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|The performer accidentally shuffles his fingers into the deck. Extracting them a number of cards stick to his fingers... they turn out to be four of a kind (your choice)
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|Richard's Almanac Vol 1 No 2 Oct 1982
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|1982
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|-
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|Biological Shuffle (Revised)
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|The performer accidentally shuffles his fingers into the deck. Extracting them a number of cards stick to his fingers... they turn out to be four of a kind (your choice)
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|-
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|Bizarre Penetration
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|Card openly penetrates two others, one at a time, then both at once.
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|Close-Up Kinda Guy
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|1983
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|-
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|Bizarre Shrink
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|Card placed crosswise between two others grasped by spectator, other two cards removed as spectator's visibly shrinks.
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|Close-Up Kinda Guy
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|1983
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|Bizarre Stretch
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|The same principle used in the Bizarre Twist, Vanish and Shrink is applied The same principle used in the Bizarre Twist, Vanish and Shrink is applied to the streching card illusion.
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|Tannen's MAGIC MANUSCRIPT Oct/Nov 1981
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|1981
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|Bizarre Twist
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|two face down red aces are used to sandwich the ace of spades which is positioned at a right angle (crosswise) to the red aces. The cards are twisted ala Twisting the aces and the spade visibly turns from face down to face up
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
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|101
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|Bizarre Vanish
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|The Bizarre Twist mutates to a method of vanishing a card.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|-
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|Blackjack Challenge
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|Nice (and easy): stacked deck routine producing four Blackjacks followed by a Royal Flush.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
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|1996
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|125
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|-
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|Bleached BlackJack (revised from Bleached Blonde)
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|Showing a bad hand of sixteen the magician erases the six, leaving a blank card. The blank card is tranformed into an Ace giving the performer a winning Blackjack hand.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|-
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|Bleached Blonde
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|Queen seemingly changed to blank card, can be done with borrowed deck and does not involve ringing in an extra card or gimmick.
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|Close-Up Seductions
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|1984
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|-
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|Blue Tattoo (Original)
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|Blue backed card causes three others to turn blue as well.
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|Close-Up Seductions
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|1984
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|87
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|-
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|Blue Tattoo (Revised)
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|One by one a number of red cards absorb a bit of blue ink from a blue card and change color. This fades leaving you with red cards once again.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|-
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|Breaking Point
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|A humorous bit where you can't remove the cap from a pen so move it to the other end of the pen.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Buck Naked
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|1 to 5 dollar bill change with 2 $5 and $1
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
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|11
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|-
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|Buck Naked Spectator
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|Another way to switch the Bill
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Burbling of a Pea
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|A pea floats on a cushion of air, coming out of your mouth.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|-
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|Bushwacker
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|A version of Larry Jenning's Close Up Illusion without the slit card.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|Cab Fare
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|One Jack place into card case, remaining three buried in deck, Jack spectator thinks of is in card case ... in fact all four Jacks are in card case.
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|Close-Up Seductions
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|1984
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|Card Cuffs
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|While his thumbs are locked in a pair of thumbcuffs made from a playing card a selected card is found.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|Card In the Hand Is Worth Two In the Deck
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|Three cards selected, indifferent card inserted halfway into deck by spectator, cards on either side are two of the selections, up-jogged card turns into third.
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|Close-Up Entertainer
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|1979
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|-
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|Card Well Hung
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|A complex equivoke routine. A card trick without cards.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Cardboard Connection
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|Linking playing cards
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
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|1996
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|-
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|Cardician's Blendo
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|After missing twice (4 of diamonds, 6 of diamonds) the magician takes the two incorrect cards and blends them into the selection (10 of diamonds)
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
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|205
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|Cards Across
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|? Is this really Las Vegas Leapers???? I don't have tape to check
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|Stars of magic #11 Video All stars
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|1999
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|Carlyle False Count (aka The False Count) (aka Mondo Nifty False Count)
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|Paul's variation of the Francis Carlyle False Count originally taught to Paul by Michael Skinner
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|The Magical Arts Journal MAJ Paul Harris Issue
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|1987
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|Castle Conspiracy
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|A card transformation effect using the theme of building card castles.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
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|1996
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|-
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|Cheap Juggler
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|Pennies are balanced on edge which would be very impressive if you didn't reveal that they have been stapled together!
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
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|241
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|Cheap Shot Boomerang
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|A signed card is tossed out an open window only to Boomerang back and be caught inside your coat.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
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|1996
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|-
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|Chocolate Coin
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|The surface of a quater is pulled back revealing that it is a clever Swiss (chocolate) countfeit.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|-
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|Cincinnati Blues
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|Something to use the words on the tongue of the card case for.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
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|1996
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|-
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|Cincinnatti Two-Faced Blues
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|Effects using the extra cards that come with each deck of playing cards.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Classic Eleven Card Trick
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|Paul reinvents the classic 11 card trick with hilarious results and adds the revelation of a selected card for a climax.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
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|233
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|-
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|Client Confidence Sugar Shocker
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|The performer accidentally shuffles his fingers into the deck. Extracting them a number of cards stick to his fingers... they turn out to be four of a kind (your choice)
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|263
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|-
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|Close Quarters by Daryl
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|Daryl's method of welding two quarters into a half dollar. Easy and impromptu, this would be a great way to introduce a half dollar before doing a one coin routine.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Color Stunner
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|Color changing deck routine
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
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|55
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|Copper/Silver Connection
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|A freak property of the original cardboard connection routine enables you do to a copper/silver transposition from the two torn center sections.
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|Tannen's MAGIC MANUSCRIPT August /Sep 1982
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|1982
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|
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|-
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|Counterfeit Spectator
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|A spectator's name appears on a dollar bill in the place usually occupied by the Secretary of the Treasury.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Cube
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|A cube is made out of playing cards. The four fours are shown. One vanishes and becomes part of the cube
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Cue Cards
+
|? On stars of magic 5
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|Stars of Magic #7 Video Paul Harris Volume 5
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|1983
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|
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|-
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|Curly-Cue-Move
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|Randy Holt's odd flourish where a one handed fan springs from the top of the pack.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|105
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|Deep Astonishment (Product)
+
|Commercial version of Anything Deck
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|Deep Astonishment product
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|2004
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|
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|-
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|Dehydrated Deck
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|A small packet is unfolded and assembled into a card case. The case is opened and a deck is removed!
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
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|99
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|Déjà Vu
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|Four half dollars placed in the hand disappear and reappear underneath four cards on the table.
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|Close-Up Seductions
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|1984
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|
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|-
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|Discount Deck
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|A deck'' consisting of one card is given to the spectator, card held behind their back changes to another.
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|Close Up Fantasies Book One
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|1980
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|
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|-
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|Double Decker
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|Color changing deck routine
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Double Monte
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|Two aces change places with one queen. A follow up for Three Card Monte
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
+
|121
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|Double Suicide
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|Spectator holds King of Hearts at fingertips, Ace of Spades balanced on back of hand, deck placed on Ace, Ace travels to join King.
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|Close-Up Kinda Guy
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|1983
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|
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|-
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|Drop Shot
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|A corner is torn from a card and placed in the pocket as a receipt. The damaged card is lost in the deck which is placed atop a glass where all can see. The corner drops into the glass and the selection is removed from the pocket where the corner was!
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
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|
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|-
+
|Easy Royal
+
|Spectator names favorite Ace, four cards removed from borrowed deck, each shown to be Ace named by spectator, cards dealt to table showing five cards instead of four, cards turned over to reveal Royal Flush in suit of spectator's Ace.
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|Supermagic
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|1977
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|
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|-
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|El Warpo
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|The card case turns inside out... or you try to convince the audience they are INSIDE the case and prove it.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
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|
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|-
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|Electric Aces
+
|A four aces effects that combines the invisible palm, cards across, and elevator aces with a no-moves penetration of the final ace through the spectator's hand.
+
|Close Up Fantasies Finale
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|1981
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|
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|-
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|Elevator Card Trick
+
|Bonus effect on Stars of Magic Video?
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|Stars of Magic #3 Video Paul Harris Volume 1
+
|1980
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|
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|-
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|Erase the Cube
+
|The ink on the ace of spades is completely erased transforming the ace into a blank card, then proceed to print an ace on the blank
+
|Genii magazine September 1985
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|1985
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|
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|-
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|Fan Dance
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|Card selected, spectator initials small piece of paper, deck fanned and piece of paper placed on edge of fan where it magically sticks, paper travels along edge of fan, spectator grabs it….
+
|Close-Up Seductions
+
|1984
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|
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|-
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|Fanatasy Aces
+
|Daryl and Paul join forces to produce the four aces.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
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|
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|-
+
|Fantasy Coins Thru Table
+
|New approach allows magician to keep both hands on table while coins penetrate.
+
|Close Up Fantasies Book Two
+
|1980
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|
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|-
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|Fizz Master
+
|Two cans of soda are shown. One is shaken vigourously so that it will spray when opened. The magician then magically removes the fizz and transfers it to the other can which sprays when opened.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
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|
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|-
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|Flap Jacks
+
|A very nice flourish production of four of a kind.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
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|
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|-
+
|Flash Control
+
|A flourish and control
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|153
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|-
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|Flash-Fold
+
|Dead simple signed business card to matchbox using an ingenious gaff.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|87
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|-
+
|Flesh
+
|physical mentalism effect where the power of the mind is used to move small pieces of a broken toothpick from hand to hand.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
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|-
+
|Flip Flop Plop
+
|Card control based on the Three Card Monte toss.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|59
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|-
+
|Floating Deck
+
|One on one close-up levitation.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
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|-
+
|Fluffer Deck
+
|A spectators name which was written on the back of a card vanishes and reappears on written large on the entire spread deck.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
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|-
+
|Force
+
|Deck ribbon spread, spectator touches card, magician turns card face up without looking, card is actually forced.
+
|Close-Up Entertainer
+
|1979
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|
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|-
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|Four Finger Finale
+
|A flashy ending for coins across.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
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|-
+
|Free Flight
+
|Coins vanish from your hand and appear under a single playing card.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
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|-
+
|Free Lunch
+
|Visual oddity wherein a cocktail weenie is produces at the spectator's fingertips.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
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|-
+
|Free Ride
+
|A simple method of adding a card or cards to the deck during a performance. Uses the card case but the cards are NOT place inside the case.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
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|-
+
|Galaxy
+
|Out Of This World variation
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|253
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|-
+
|Gambler vs. Mentalist vs. Magician
+
|Another lesson in presentation... this time a Triumph routine.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|191
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|-
+
|Giant Killer Coin
+
|Coin Matrix with giant coin kicker
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|79
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|-
+
|Grasshopper (original)
+
|Selected card vanishes from between two Kings to appear between the other two Kings.
+
|Supermagic
+
|1977
+
|23
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|-
+
|Grasshopper (revised)
+
|A card jumps from between one pair of kings to the other.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|125
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|-
+
|Guts
+
|Signed card to wallet using a new principle.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
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|-
+
|Handful of yogurt through table
+
|A goofy routine
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|46
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|-
+
|Hard Boiled Quarter (Product)
+
|Broken and restored quarter. A commercial product for the torn and restored quarter?
+
|Hard Boiled Quarter / Half product
+
|1980
+
|
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|-
+
|Hard Core Travelers
+
|Four Aces travel, one at a time, from magician's hand to table.
+
|Close-Up Kinda Guy
+
|1983
+
|
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|-
+
|Hard Way
+
|Magician shows how a thin film of saliva will cause two dice to cling together, dice then shown to be permanently glued together.
+
|Las Vegas close-up
+
|1978
+
|
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|-
+
|Headache
+
|A King of Hearts stabs himself in the head with a sword.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
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|-
+
|Hearburn
+
|A playing card is struck on a matchbook and ignites. The burning card can be used to light a cigarette.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Hedonists make up all the rules
+
|A complex equivoke routine. A card trick without cards.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Hefty Penetration
+
|A card, locked inside a Ziplock bag rises and penetrates the bag.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Hi Ho Silver
+
|A coin vanish using the deck for cover.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|157
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|-
+
|Hi There Baby Cakes
+
|One of Paul's best 'movable ink' effects. A name and phone number, written on two cards fuse together on one card.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|hiccup
+
|A 'normal' card trick. A clever and visual card transposition.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Hit Me Again
+
|Performer deals two Jacks, then third Jack, third Jack changes to Ace.
+
|Close Up Fantasies Finale
+
|1981
+
|
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|-
+
|Hot Chocoloate
+
|The principle from The Dehydrated Deck is used to produce a full bar of chocolate from the folded wrapper you carry in your wallet.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|House Guest
+
|Conversations from the Edge
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|305
+
|-
+
|Illusion
+
|A card, placed between two Jacks vanishes and reappears face up in the center of the pack.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|51
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|-
+
|Immaculate Connection
+
|Linking playing cards II
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Immaculate Video Scam and the Ultra P.H. Immaculate Psychological Switch
+
|A card transposes with a card on the screen. Video tape itself is used as part of the trick.
+
|Stars of Magic #6 Video Paul Harris Volume 4
+
|1982
+
|
+
|-
+
|Improv Nightshades
+
|Sunglasses drawn on a dollar bill flip up to show George's eyes.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|31
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|-
+
|Improved Screwed Deck (Revised)
+
|A deck is twisted so that one end is face up and one is face down and then restored. Sort of a full deck Card Warp…
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|99
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|-
+
|Incredible Shrinking Hand
+
|Magician's hand (not hand of cards, but real hand) seems to visibly shrink when an attempt to palm a card is made.
+
|Close Up Fantasies Finale
+
|1981
+
|
+
|-
+
|Incredible Tap Dancing Aces
+
|hree aces vanish one at a time from your hands, reappearing moments later in the tabled deck--the fourth ace having magically penetrated a spectator's hand.
+
|Las Vegas close-up
+
|1978
+
|
+
|-
+
|Infamous Tap-Dancing Cards
+
|A selected card travels from the center of one packet to another, two Jacks placed one on each side of it, second card selected and returned to the other packet, card between Jacks chan
+
|Paul Harris Reveals Some of His Most Intimate Secrets
+
|1976
+
|
+
|-
+
|Inner Circle
+
|A card is selected from a borrowed deck, returned and the deck shuffled. A rubber band is stretched around the deck, when suddenly and visibly the rubber band melts away. It simply disappears to be found just around the select card.
+
|The Inner Circle manuscript
+
|1980
+
|
+
|-
+
|Instant Castle
+
|Two cards held in each hand, performer is able to instantly construct a castle.
+
|Close-Up Entertainer
+
|1979
+
|
+
|-
+
|Instant Icompetency I.Q. Test
+
|Self working card trick
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Instant Replay
+
|A card hops off the deck and into your other hand. It then hops back onto the deck. A bonus application allows a card to change to another in mid air.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|115
+
|-
+
|Interlaced Space
+
|Refinment of Interlaced Vanish
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|223
+
|-
+
|Interlaced Vanish
+
|Three cards, face down between the four kings, vanish!
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|219
+
|-
+
|Interlaced Vanish II
+
|Aces interlaced betwen Jacks vanish.
+
|Close-Up Kinda Guy
+
|1983
+
|
+
|-
+
|Invisible Rising Card
+
|A Invisible Deck routine without the trick deck!
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|207
+
|-
+
|J.A.P.H. Maneuver
+
|Altman Maneuver with Paul Harris touches
+
|Stars of Magic #6 Video Paul Harris Volume 4
+
|1982
+
|
+
|-
+
|Jack Puzzle
+
|Spectator given Ace, magician keeps two Jacks, one Jack openly exchanged with Ace, spectator finds they still have Ace, magician still has two Jacks, Ace placed aside, spectator given one Jack, Jack changes to Ace, spectator …
+
|Close Up Fantasies Book Two
+
|1980
+
|
+
|-
+
|Jigsaw
+
|It starts off as a pleasant little transposition of a signed card, escalates into a mind-bending version matrix using 4 pieces of torn cards
+
|Paul Harris Reveals Some of His Most Intimate Secrets
+
|1976
+
|
+
|-
+
|Joker Poker
+
|Triumph effect with color changing deck kicker
+
|The Magic of Paul Harris
+
|1976
+
|
+
|-
+
|Just Call me Mr. Wonderful
+
|A flourish for removing the pack from it's case using only one hand.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|La La's Lu Lu aka The Phantom aka Cue Cards Etc (revised)
+
|Inspired by Larry Jenning's classic 'The Visitor'. This is a showy, rapid transposition of a chosen card in one packet of cards with an unknown phantom card in another packet.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|95
+
|-
+
|Language of the Cards
+
|Three cards selected, first two revealed by arranging tabled cards into letters 7H, 10S, last selection dealt to but card dealt to is wrong, card split into three, all three selections.
+
|Close-Up Kinda Guy
+
|1983
+
|
+
|-
+
|Las Vegas Leaper
+
|Cards Across routines
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|185
+
|-
+
|Las Vegas Split (aka Ballerina Cards)
+
|The magician tells the tale of a Blackjack game where he was dealt a pair of deuces. He makes good by splitting the deuces into four aces. Then the four jacks are produced to make four winning hands!
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|147
+
|-
+
|Late for Lunch Miracle Maneuver
+
|A waiter is asked to set your watch to a random time and conceal it's face from you. You borrow a friends watch and set it to a random time. They match!
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Leaf
+
|A leaf is removed from a plant, marked and reattached.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Library Card
+
|Card selected, signed, returned to deck, paperback book given to spectator to hold, deck riffled at book, folded up page pops out of deck, spectator turns to that page and finds it missing with the signed card in its place.
+
|Supermagic
+
|1977
+
|
+
|-
+
|License to Astonish
+
|your drivers license changes places with a spectators
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|275
+
|-
+
|Light and Heavy Dime
+
|A penny becomes stuck to the table
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|27
+
|-
+
|Limo Service
+
|A great Aces and Jacks routine that fits well with Las Vegas Split or Reset. The jacks are magically transported into the card case while the audience is distracted by the aces.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Lip Balm
+
|Okito box-like effect using a common drugstore item.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|37
+
|-
+
|Lip Smacker (Product)
+
|Make a breath mint disappear from the spectator's hand and reappear on your lips.
+
|Lip Smacker product
+
|2000
+
|
+
|-
+
|Looker
+
|Self-working joke/trick.
+
|Close-Up Seductions
+
|1984
+
|
+
|-
+
|Lysdexia
+
|A word in an ungimmicked book moves from one part of the page to another. Uses the same principle as 'Buck Naked' and 'Seductive Switch' applied to a page in a book rather than a dollar bill or playing
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|McGimmick
+
|Almost too weird to think about. Tricks using the lid to a fast food milkshake…
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Membrane
+
|A card is selected and turns out to be the one with the 'secret mark'. The mark is then transfered onto the card case, vanishes from there and appears on another card.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Membrane with a pack of smokes
+
|Same principle, different props.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Michael's Proposition
+
|Michael Ammar's addition to to Free Flight which causes the final coin AND the card to appear under the spectator's hand.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Mikey Mouse Math
+
|A nine spot is split into two and a seven. The two is subtracted from the seven leaving a five. Futher magical math is done until the selection is created.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Moms come and go but rolex is forever
+
|Fako Deck trick without the Fako deck
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Mondo Nifty Invisible Palm
+
|More invisible palm stuff.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Mr. Lucky
+
|A spectator places a dime, penny and nickel each on one packet. They can change the positions as much as they like. Luck is with you as you reveal that the spectator has placed the dime on a ten, the nickel on a five and the one on an ace.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
+
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|Mystery of the Inner Aces
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|Three selected cards appear face down intermixed with the four face up Aces.
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|The Magic of Paul Harris
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|1976
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|Naked Angels on Bikes (product)
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|The magician takes one of the 52 cards from the deck and openly slides it under the clear cellophane of the card case to protect it from outside. The two naked angels on the card are clearly visible. Slide card out from under the cellophane. One is gone.
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|Naked Angels on Bikes product
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|2000
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|-
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|Nightshades (Product)
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|Drawn on sunglasses on a dollar bill move.
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|Nightshades product
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|1980
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|One and Only (product)
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|You remove a flat, invitation-size envelope from your pocket and dump out an invisible deck. You direct a spectator to freely destroy these imaginary cards until only a single card remains. That card is then pulled out of envelope.
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|One and Only product
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|2005
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|-
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|Open Revelation (original)
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|card production
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|The Magic of Paul Harris
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|1976
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|Open Revelations (Revised)
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|Two one-handed fans are waved over the table and a face up ace appears. The fans are shown on both sides and another aces is produced. In this way all four aces are produced.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
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|127
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|-
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|Overexposed
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|The deck is turned into a disposable camera (using a Queen as a flash Qube) and magic ensues..
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
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|171
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|-
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|P.D.Q. #2
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|coins across
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
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|1996
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|107
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|-
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|P.D.Q. Coins Across (original)
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|Coins Across--Four coins travel one at a time from one hand to the other, very fast, clean handling.
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|Supermagic
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|1977
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|-
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|P.H. Breakthrough (revised) (aka Immaculate Breaktrhough)
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|A deck is set atop it's case then pushed through the top and back inside.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|295
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|-
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|P.H. Invisible Palm (aka Real World Invisible Palm)
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|Humorous pseudo-explaination of how the Tap Dancing Aces works.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|-
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|P.H. Vanishing Deck
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|Remove a deck from it's case, cover it with your hand. Remove the Joker from the top, wave it over the hand and the deck vanishes only to appear back in the box.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
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|41
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|-
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|P.U.S.H.
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|Utility move for exchanging one up-jogged card with another.
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|Close-Up Entertainer
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|1979
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|-
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|Paper Chase
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|Chink-A-Chink with paper balls
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
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|211
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|-
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|Peanut Buter and Jellyfish
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|The Jerry Andrus' floating card theory applied to the top half of a sandwich. This is weird even by Paul standards.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Peeler
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|A small 'nick' in the back of a card is peeled back and then restored. This is the trick that eventually will become the Chocolate Coin trick.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Pen-Ultimate*
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|signed card is inserted under the clip of ballpoint pen, spectator holds both ends of pen, fan of cards covers card, when removed signed card is seen to be impaled on the pen.
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|Las Vegas close-up
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|1978
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|
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|-
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|Perfectionist (aka The Unshuffle)
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|A three phase routine in which the cards separate into red and black piles, the piles transpose and the deck instantly mixes using 'reverse psychology'.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Perfection-Ten Paper Clip Paradox
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|old mathamatical puzzle done with office supplies.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Perpetual-motion coin myth
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|An impossible (!?!) coin flourish
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
+
|217
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|-
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|Phantom
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|card transposition
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|The Magic of Paul Harris
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|1976
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|
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|-
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|Press
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|Kind of a quickie collectors type effect using small packet.
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|The Magic of Paul Harris
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|1976
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|
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|-
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|Putty Buddy (Official Tyke-trick)
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|Paul takes on the paddle move with a routine that use a pair of pennies stuck in Silly Puddy.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Putty Buddy's Pal
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|Copper/Silver with silly putty
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Pyramid
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|King displayed and placed face down on table, deck placed on top of King, leaving behind three cards in Magician's hand in shape of triangular prism, deck cut and cut completed, deck riffled at prism, which is dismatled to show King.
+
|Close-Up Kinda Guy
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|1983
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|
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|-
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|Quarter Caper
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|Three half dollars are produced from 'inside' a borrowed quarter.
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|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Re-set
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|Two packets, aces and jacks are shown. Jacks are placed on the table and aces are held in the hands. One at a time the aces change places with the jacks. For a kicker ending the four jacks reset and become aces once again
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
+
|137
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|-
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|Res-set Options
+
|Further thoughts twenty years after the original publication of Re-Set.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
+
|143
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|-
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|Return of the Bizzare Shrink
+
|The Bizarre principle is used to shrink a playing card.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Revised Revelation
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|Aces openly distributed throughout the deck, deck cut and each half fanned to show fronts and backs of cards, fans held face down above table, touch briefly, one Ace appears face up on table, repeated for other three.
+
|Supermagic
+
|1977
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|
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|-
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|Rip-Off Reverse
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|Paul's first 'impromptu flap card' effect which came to full fruition in 'Buck Naked'.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
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|1996
+
|83
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|-
+
|Rubber Band Scam
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|? On stars of magic 5
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|Stars of Magic #7 Video Paul Harris Volume 5
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|1983
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|
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|-
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|Rumpled Splitskin
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|A pair of business cards (one of which is signed) magically weld together. Paul suggests secretly getting a hold of someone's business card and preparing the gaff with that. Then ask for their card and floor them with this!
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
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|1996
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|
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|-
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|Safe Cracker
+
|Three half dollars appear and vanish from within a deck of cards.
+
|Close Up Fantasies Book One
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|1980
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|
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|-
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|Screenplay
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|Video effect on Stars of magic video 2
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|Stars of Magic #4 Video Paul Harris Volume 2
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|1981
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|
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|-
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|Screwed Deck
+
|Remove two halves of a deck of cards from your pocket. Explain these are your emergency cards. Screw them together much like you would a pool cue. Open the case and out comes the full deck of cards.
+
|Screwed Deck product
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|1980
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|
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|-
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|Screwed Deck (Improved)
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|See Screwed Deck
+
|Magic Magazine 1/1993
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|1993
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|
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|-
+
|Second Middle Bottom
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|Magician demonstrates a false deal that allows cheating from the second, middle, and bottom cards at same time, magician deals Ace of Spades, Ace….
+
|Close Up Fantasies Finale
+
|1981
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|
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|-
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|Seductive Switch
+
|The principle used in Buck Naked and Lysdexia is put to use in a Blackjack themed
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
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|
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|-
+
|Sensuous Shuffle
+
|Deck shuffled with half the cards face up, instantly changes to all face up as cards are spread, face down cards then rise out of deck, deck given shake, face up cards visibly change to face down, deck shown as mixture of face up and face down.
+
|Close-Up Seductions
+
|1984
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|
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|-
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|Shape of Astonishment
+
|The image of the head side of a coin is embossed on a scrap of foil. When the coin is turned over the image changes to the tail side.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
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|
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|-
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|Side-Winder
+
|Attempts to push a card into the deck fail when the card slips out of the pack at odd angles.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
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|
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|-
+
|Silver and Aces (original)
+
|Spectator cuts to the aces with kicker production of coins from beneath them.
+
|The Magic of Paul Harris
+
|1976
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|
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|-
+
|Silver and Aces (revised)
+
|Gaff to carry and produce four coins for a card/coin routine
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|75
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|-
+
|Silver Elevator
+
|Coins penetrate UP from the table into the deck.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
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|
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|-
+
|Silver Slide
+
|Coin production
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|197
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|-
+
|Simple Switch
+
|A 'both directions at once version' of Instant Replay. A great gag explaination of how cards transpose.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
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|-
+
|Skin Job
+
|Part of a spectator's business card penitrates into a book.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
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|-
+
|Sleight of Ear
+
|Seven of Spades forced, Four Kings and Seven used to show how more ink on card makes it crackle: packet of Kings flexed makes noise, Seven flexed is silent, Spectator guesses which card is Seven by listening, audible King changes to silent Seven…
+
|Close-Up Seductions
+
|1984
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|
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|-
+
|Slider
+
|4 Ace and 4 Jack effect
+
|Richard's Almanac 21 May 84
+
|1984
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|
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|-
+
|Sliding Ink
+
|A card is marked on the back. The mark is removed tossed into the air and caught on the back of another card in the center of the deck. The mark is then dragged off of the second card and returned to the selection.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
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|-
+
|Solid Deception
+
|A short ambitious card routine which ends with the deck being welded into a solid block.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|107
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|-
+
|Splits Unlimited
+
|A Two is visibly split into two Aces, various methods given.
+
|Las Vegas close-up
+
|1978
+
|
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|-
+
|Stamped Second
+
|Methods for demonstrating a (fake): perfect second deal by placing a stamp on the back of the top card.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
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|-
+
|Stapled (aka Staple and Stab)
+
|Two Jokers are stapled together. A signed card changes places with one of the stapled cards and is now stapled to the other joker!
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|167
+
|-
+
|Sticky Fingers
+
|bonus effect on Stars of magic video 3?
+
|Stars of Magic #5 Video Paul Harris Volume 3
+
|1981
+
|
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|-
+
|Strange Exchange
+
|An unbelievable transposition between a card and a coin!
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|79
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|-
+
|Strange-O
+
|A spectator makes a loop in a piece of string. You thread a pen into the loop and use it to slide the loop off leaving the specator holding a circle of string with no ends.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
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|-
+
|Streaker
+
|Spectator streaks finger along face-down spread, winds up with only one card under finger: the selected card.
+
|Close-Up Entertainer
+
|1979
+
|
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|-
+
|Stretch (Revised) (AKA Rubber Band Scam) (aka Inner Circle)
+
|A two phase routine with a deck and a rubber band.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Subtle Poker Move (original)
+
|Magician deals five cards to self, spectator, when spread, both hands have grown to over fifteen cards each.
+
|Close-Up Entertainer
+
|1979
+
|
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|-
+
|Subtle Poker Move (Revised)
+
|Spectator shuffles the deck and you deal two poker hands. After a gag where the spectators sees that you have three times the number of cards he was dealt you shuffle the deck and legitimately deal yourself a winning hand!
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|123
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|-
+
|Suffle Time
+
|Cards are produced to show that the deck can tell time. However, the time is incorrect until the magician waves his hands and changed the time zone to local time. The cards then display the correct time.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|75
+
|-
+
|Suffle Time
+
|Cards are produced to show that the deck can tell time. However, the time is incorrect until the magician waves his hands and changed the time zone to local time. The cards then display the correct time.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|75
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|-
+
|Super Swindle
+
|A selection is placed face down between a pair (red threes for example): . All three cards are rolled into a 'blow dart gun'. A spectator blows the selection into the center of the deck face up and unfolded!
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Sweet Stuff
+
|A coin and the contents of a sugar packet change places.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Swing Thing
+
|A packet of Equal sweetner (or sugar) is opened, dumped into a folded bill, and then restored to it's original state.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Swiss Movement (aka Animated Pocket Knife)
+
|An animation effect using an ungaffed Swiss Army Knife and a playing (or credit): card.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Tallahassee Tent
+
|A refinement to the tent vanish
+
|The New York Magic Symposium Collection Four
+
|1985
+
|
+
|-
+
|Tap Dancing Aces
+
|Aces vanish from your hands and appear in and one the deck.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|219
+
|-
+
|Tap Dancing Finale
+
|A few changes to The Infamous Tap-Dancing Cards which make it possible to spread the deck face down to show that, except for the two selections, all of the backs have changed to a different color
+
|Paul Harris Reveals Some of His Most Intimate Secrets
+
|1976
+
|
+
|-
+
|Tayari's Camouflage
+
|Card shown with metallic gold coating on one side, metallic silver on other, coin covered with matching material produced from gold side, vanishes back into it, coin covered with silver material produced from other side…
+
|Close Up Fantasies Finale
+
|1981
+
|
+
|-
+
|They are $2 Aces
+
|Four half dollars are sandwiched together in the center of the Four half dollars are sandwiched together in the center of the deck. The four coins rise and fall throughout the deck like tiny round elevators.
+
|Genii magazine September 1985
+
|1985
+
|
+
|-
+
|Think of a card
+
|impromptu think of a card effect
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|67
+
|-
+
|Three Fourth
+
|A corner is torn off a card, and the card is added to the deck. Torn corner is also added to the deck, and the corner and torn card instantly change places. Used as a lead in to Paul's Ultimate Rip Off from Super Magic
+
|The New York Symposium: Close-Up Collection by Richard Kaufman
+
|1982
+
|
+
|-
+
|Three Way Display
+
|Card flourish in which the deck is split into three one-handed fans in quick succession.
+
|Supermagic
+
|1977
+
|
+
|-
+
|Three Way Display
+
|Another flourish: the deck is cut into three one handed fans.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|131
+
|-
+
|Thumb-Break
+
|Spectator selects card, magician sticks thumb into deck to explain thumb-break, thumb visibly flattened across face of selection, magician re-inflates thumb, spectator places hand over card and cards below it, magcian makes card disappear and reappear
+
|Close Up Fantasies Finale
+
|1981
+
|
+
|-
+
|Tic Tac
+
|Coin in the bottle done with a dime and a box of Tic Tacs.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Time Machine
+
|After introducing the subject of toys purchased from the back of comic books the performer introduces his childhood favorite: a 25 cent time machine (a small black paper square): . A demonstration of it's power is then down with a deck of cards.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Too Slick
+
|Ace is buttered for cheating purposes, Ace slides out from between cards to disappear, finally appearing face down in face up deck.
+
|Close-Up Seductions
+
|1984
+
|
+
|-
+
|Torn and Restored Coin (original)
+
|Coin shown in three seperate pieces, pieces stacked and placed in magician's hand, hand open to reveal whole coin.
+
|Supermagic
+
|1977
+
|
+
|-
+
|Torn and Restored Coin (Revised)
+
|Torn and Restored Coin
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|145
+
|-
+
|Torn and Restored Deck
+
|Bro. John Hamman's Micro-Macro principle is used to create the illusion of a torn pack of cards.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|71
+
|-
+
|Torn and Restored Mentalist
+
|A torn off section of a card case is used to write a prediction. The flap is used to stab the deck and finds the two matching selections. Finally, the flap with written prediction is restored to the card case
+
|The New York Symposium: Close-Up Collection by Richard Kaufman
+
|1982
+
|
+
|-
+
|Torn Mentalist (1981)
+
|Card case flap used to select card and predict and then restored
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Transfusion Confusion
+
|signed torn and restored card and transposition
+
|The Magic of Paul Harris
+
|1976
+
|
+
|-
+
|Traveling Triumph
+
|A Triumph effect disguised as a shuffling test for dealers in Las Vegas
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|185
+
|-
+
|Tuning Fork
+
|An odd bit where a selected card rises out of the deck.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Tunnel Vision
+
|Conversations from the Edge
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|303
+
|-
+
|TV Magic Card
+
|Video effect on Stars of magic video 3?
+
|Stars of Magic #5 Video Paul Harris Volume 3
+
|1981
+
|
+
|-
+
|Twilight
+
|A single coin is place in front of a small mirror so it appear two coins are on the table. The coin and it's reflection are then dragged to the side and the reflection becomes a real coin.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Twilight Angels (Product)
+
|This is a very visual effect where you actually capture an angel off of the back of a Bicycle playing card, using a small mirror, and place the captured angel next to the one on the other end of the card.
+
|Twilight Angels product
+
|2000
+
|
+
|-
+
|Twinkie Bottle
+
|A washer is placed over the opening in a bottle. A tube is formed around the neck and a pen is dropped into the bottle through the too small hole in the washer.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Twinkie Too
+
|Optional phase 2 to Twinkie Bottle
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Ultimate Rip-off
+
|A torn and restored card using only ONE playing card.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|113
+
|-
+
|Ultimate Rip-off: Dancing with the Last Piece
+
|Further thoughts on the Ultimate Rip-off
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|119
+
|-
+
|Uncanny
+
|A one cup, cup and ball routine using a Beenie Weenie can. At the end the can fills with Beenie Weenies so that you enjoy a hot meal!
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|225
+
|-
+
|Uncut Version
+
|An odd visual where two halves of torn cards are restored to their 'uncut' versions.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Uncut Version of The Uncut Version
+
|Variant handling of above, two cards torn in half to create needed half cards
+
|Close Up Fantasies Book Two
+
|1980
+
|
+
|-
+
|Unhinged
+
|A folding deck effect.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Unshuffling Rebecca
+
|visual triumph-like effect
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|23
+
|-
+
|Up the Ladder and down the shorts
+
|Extension of Charlie Miller's false shufffle
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Vacuum Cleaner Card Case
+
|Card selected, vacuum cleaner (card case) used to reveal it, card case sticks to top of deck, when pried off found to be holding selection.
+
|Close Up Fantasies Finale
+
|1981
+
|
+
|-
+
|Vacuum Cleaner Cards
+
|An invisible hairball causes the Vacuum Cleaner Card Case to inhale a selected card. A very funny four ace routine with a script full of bad puns and innuendo.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 1
+
|1996
+
|159
+
|-
+
|Venezuela Vanish
+
|Paul's subtleties to the tent vanish
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|232
+
|-
+
|Wax Lips
+
|A spectator blows you a kiss which is caught on the face of a selected card. You remove the kiss in the form of a pair of wax lips.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 2
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Whack Your Pack (aka reflex)
+
|A spectator thinks of a card, it vanishes and reappears in your pocket under test conditions and with amazing humor.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|207
+
|-
+
|Whirlpool
+
|Card torn in spiral fashion, restored.
+
|Close-Up Kinda Guy
+
|1983
+
|
+
|-
+
|Window of Opportunity
+
|While performing magic at party your signed business card vanishes and reappears inside an unopened envelope that someone else mailed to your host. The host opens the envelope.
+
|Art of Astonishment Vol 3
+
|1996
+
|
+
|-
+
|Wonder Woman
+
|Wherein anatomically accurate character portraits of you and a spectator are fashioned from a common deck of cards.
+
|Close-Up Seductions
+
|1984
+
|
+
|-
+
|X-Press
+
|A variation of P.H.'s own Press with different handling:
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== External links and references==
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* [http://www.theastonishmentproject.com The Astonishment Project Website]
 
* [http://www.theastonishmentproject.com The Astonishment Project Website]
 
* [http://archive.denisbehr.de/archive/resultkey.php?search=Harris,%20Paul&connect=string&creator=creator&prop=all&bookonly=all&order=title Denis Behr's Searchable Magic Book Contents]
 
* [http://archive.denisbehr.de/archive/resultkey.php?search=Harris,%20Paul&connect=string&creator=creator&prop=all&bookonly=all&order=title Denis Behr's Searchable Magic Book Contents]
 
* [http://www.geocities.com/magicpaulharris The Ultimate Paul Harris fan page]
 
* [http://www.geocities.com/magicpaulharris The Ultimate Paul Harris fan page]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Harris_%28magician%29 Wikipedia article]
 
 
* [http://magicref.tripod.com/magref/pharris.htm Paul Harris Reference Guide]
 
* [http://magicref.tripod.com/magref/pharris.htm Paul Harris Reference Guide]
 
* [http://www.magicbooks.be/ Jacky Kahan MagicBook listings]
 
* [http://www.magicbooks.be/ Jacky Kahan MagicBook listings]
 
* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ArtOfAstonishment Paul Harris discussion group]
 
* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ArtOfAstonishment Paul Harris discussion group]
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* [http://www.magicnook.com/forum/bioHIJ.htm Brief Biography] at The Magic Nook
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* [http://www.all-about-magicians.com/paul-harris.html] at All About Magicians.com
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* [http://www.paulharrispresents.com/]
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Latest revision as of 07:09, 15 June 2019

Paul Harris

Cover of Genii (1985)
BornPaul Thomas Harris
1954

NationalityAmerican
Known forClose-up Magic
AwardsCreative Fellowship
CategoriesBooks by Paul Harris

Paul Harris (b.1954) is an inventor, magician, and writer. Described in Genii 1996 December as "the most innovative magic mind of our day" and listed in MAGIC Magazine (August 1999) as one of "the 100 magicians who shaped the art of magic in America."

Biography

Harris has invented many original tricks including: Linking playing cards, a solid deck, a torn and restored card effect, coins materializing from mirrors, a card that appears to turning ninety degrees when pushed into the pack, and a torn and restored quarter.

MAGIC magazine (August 1999) states that "the feats of astonishment that Paul creates and teaches are in the repertoires of a multitude of working pros."

Harris has performed at the Dunes Hotel and at other locations on the Las Vegas Strip and was a technical adviser for David Blaine's Magic Man and Street Magic TV shows. He also wrote the screenplay for the abysmal 1987 film Nice Girls Don't Explode.


Awards

Noted illusions

Amongst the magicians who are known to have presented Paul Harris creations are David Copperfield and Doug Henning. In the field of card and close-up magic, Paul Harris more or less re-innovated the genre during the 1970-80s, and is held in very high regard among magicians in the western world.

Doug Henning performed a routine called "Twilight" on his third TV special (December 17, 1977). An effect using a coin and a mirror where the mirror image of the coin becomes real. A surreal piece.

David Copperfield in a 1984 special (the one where he made the Statue of Liberty disappear) performed a linking card effect "The Immaculate Connection." In this routine, the magician tears holes in the center of three playing cards in order to create three "frames." The illusion consists in causing the frames to appear to link and unlink without damaging any of the cards. At the conclusion, the cards are sometimes passed for inspection; to all appearances no extra cards or gimmicks are employed.

Rudy Coby, in his English TV series, used Paul Harris' odd idea of letting the helium in a balloon magically change place with the air in the performer's lungs—-so, as the balloon slowly sunk to the floor, the performer simultaneously went up in the air with an all squeaky voice.

Paul Harris has been a technical adviser/magic consultant for David Blaine's TV Shows.

Features

Paul has been featured in:

Bibliography

Books, Manuscripts and Notes

Products

  • 1973 Vanishing Deck
  • 1976 SIGNED CARD IN MATCH BOX (Flash Fold) GEM & JANA PRODUCTIONS
  • 1979 Twilight
  • 1980 Screwed Deck
  • 1980 Hard Boiled Quarter / Half
  • 1980 Solid Deception
  • 1992? Portable Smoke, Viking Mfg. Co., was fashioned by Paul Harris, Charlie Hatchette, and George Robinson, Jr., with advice and aid from Eric Mead, Patrick Martin
  • 1993? Night Shades
  • 2000 Naked Angels on Bikes
  • 2000 Reality Twister
  • 2000 Lip Smacker
  • 2000 Twilight Angels
  • 2004 Deep Astonishment
  • 2005 One and Only
  • 2006 Deep Astonishment II

Videos

  • Stars of Magic Video #3-Paul Harris One / A-1Multimedia
  • Stars of Magic Video #4-Paul Harris Two / A-1Multimedia
  • Stars of Magic Video #5-Paul Harris Three/A-1Multimedia
  • Stars of Magic Video #6-Paul Harris Four/A-1Multimedia
  • Stars of Magic Video #7-Paul Harris Five/A-1Multimedia
  • (1983) PAUL HARRIS #1 – Tannen’s Video Tape Series No. 2 (Same as Stars of Magic Video #3)
  • (1985) PAUL HARRIS #2 – Tannen’s Video Tape Series No. 5 (Same as Stars of Magic Video #4)
  • (1987) PAUL HARRIS #3 – Tannen’s Video Tape Series No. 10 (Same as Stars of Magic Video #5)
  • (1989) PAUL HARRIS #4 - Tannen’s Video Tape Series No. 12 (Same as Stars of Magic Video #6)
  • (1991) PAUL HARRIS #5 - Tannen’s Video Tape Series No. 14 (Same as Stars of Magic Video#7)
  • PAUL HARRIS IMMACULATE CLOSE-UP (Same as Stars of Magic Video #6)
  • Art of Astonishment Video
  • Cardian Angel Video Tips: Handlings and perfomance tips: Includes like "Double Animation". "Tug-Of-War", "Packet Cardian", "Foreign Cardian", "What About Girls?" Hosted by Mike Maxwell.

Published Effects

Paul has published hundreds of his effects in books, magazines, videos and manuscripts.

Paul Harris Presents

These are products developed by others, sometimes in coordination with Paul and marketed under the "Paul Harris Presents" product line.

  • Darryl Vanamburg's "Black Widow" - The Black Widow enables you to invisibly exchange objects on a spectators hand
  • Ultra Visual Nightshades by Mark Allen and Paul Harris - an update to Paul's Improv Nightshades. Includes Ultra Peeler, Mark Allen's up-grade of Paul's peeled and restored playing card from AOA.
  • Ladybug by Paul Vigil, Paul Harris and Roy Kueppers - Placing the blade on bare flesh, you pierce a fingetip and squeeze out a single drop of blood. The drop of blood turns into a real ladybug.
  • Linking Laces by Harris, Jockisch, and Goodwin - link someone's shoe laces
  • The Incredible Shrinking Finger by Dan Hauss (Additional handling by Paul Harris) - Shrink your pinkie down to a weird stumpy thing
  • Daniel Garcia Project DVDs
  • Dis Jointed by Joe Russell - new method for "Shinko's classic Arm Twist"
  • Escalator by Gaetan Bloom, Paul Harris, Rodney Whitlock
  • Gut Buster by Andrew Mayne
  • Juan Hundred Dollar Bill Switch (with Hundy 500 Bonus) by Doug McKenzie
  • Puncture by Alex Linian
  • Strange Travelers by David Blaine
  • Warp One by David Jenkins
  • Torn by Daniel Garcia
  • UV Nightshades by Mark Allen and Paul Harris, includes Ultra Peeler, Mark Allen's up-grade of Paul's peeled and restored playing card from AOA.
  • Flow by Dan Hauss

Contributions

Books, videos and products with contributions by Paul Harris:

References

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Paul Harris Navigation
Books Magic of Paul Harris (1976) Paul Harris Reveals Some of His Most Intimate Secrets (1976) Supermagic (1977) Las Vegas Close Up (1978) Close-Up Entertainer (1979) Close Up Fantasies Book I (1980) Close Up Fantasies Book II (1980) Close Up Fantasies Finale (1981) Close-Up Kinda Guy (1983) Brainstorm in the Bahamas (1983) Close-Up Seductions (1984) Secrets of the Astonishing Executive (1991) Art of Astonishment (1996)
Manuscripts Super Swindle (1976) Cardboard Connection (1977) Return of the Bizarre Shrink (1977) Inner Circle (1980) P.H. Breakthrough (1981) Immaculate Connection (1983)
Lecture Notes and Products Vanishing Deck (1973) Inside/Close up (1976) Signed Card in Match Box (1976) Twilight (1979) Hard Boiled Quarter (1980) Solid Deception (1980) Screwed Deck (1991) Portable Smoke (c.1992) Night Shades (c.1993) Cardian Angels (1995) Naked Angels on Bikes (2000) Reality Twister (2000) Lip Smacker (2000) Twilight Angels (2000) Deep Astonishment (2004) One and Only (2005) Deep Astonishment II (2006)
Misc Paul Harris in Print | Effects not in AoA


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