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25 David Blaine Tricks Explained
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ISBN13: 9798186947011
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: French
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: French
With David Blaine, there is always a trick. What sets him apart from every other magician is not his technique, almost none of which is his own, but the decoy explanation: the misdirection by which he hands the spectator a ready, believable account of what he is watching, one that recasts a magician's trick as a genuine physical feat, so that the word trick never forms in the mind and the search for the method never begins. This book is about that misdirection, and how to take it apart.
Written for professional magicians and serious students, 25 David Blaine Tricks Explained examines twenty-five of Blaine's signature effects and opens each one along the same cuts:
What the Spectator Sees, the observable effect, described plainly, stripped of Blaine's own narration.
The Method, the technique named by its proper name and anchored in the history of magic, with the performers, dates, and effects that establish where it sits in the corpus. When several known methods produce the same result, all of them are given.
Step by Step, a reproducible procedure, written so a working professional could rebuild the effect from the page. Not the gist. The actual sequence, preparation, and handling.
The Decoy Explanation, on the effects that have one, which names the ready explanation the spectator is given, the concrete pieces it is built from, the public statements and invoked authorities and staged exits, and the reason it works, which is almost always that it is largely true, a real ordeal placed exactly where the trick is.
Inside, you will find the endurance stunts and the close-up work side by side: the forty-four days in the box above the Thames, the seventeen minutes underwater, buried alive, frozen in ice, the pillar, the needle through the arm, the sewn mouth, the human flamethrower, the frog, the street levitation, the mind reading, the number force, the card in the orange, the signed card in an impossible location, the card through the window, the dart through the deck, the ambitious card, the watch steal, the coin work, the snap change, and the bullet catch.
The book traces every method to its source, the Victorian hunger artists and fasting girls, Houdini's re-engineered casket, Bruce Spangler's needle and Harry Anderson's stage version, Ed Balducci's 1974 levitation, Hadji Ali and Mac Norton's regurgitation acts, the double lift, the color change, the coin pull, and the trained pickpocket's hands. It gives you two portable tells that unlock effects far beyond these pages: the inverted warning, and the recruited authority.
Not every effect has a decoy explanation, and the book says so plainly. Many of the card and coin effects are shown as tricks and carry no such layer, and on those the fourth section is simply absent, because a decoy explanation exists only where Blaine turns a trick into a feat. That pattern, where the misdirection appears and where it does not, is itself part of the argument, because the whole of what makes David Blaine singular is the layer he builds on top of an ordinary trick.
This is not a beginner's book. It assumes you know what a force, a palm, and a double lift are, and it gets straight to the work. If you want to understand how the world's most famous magician actually operates, and how to think about method, misdirection, and the manufacture of reality at a professional level, this is the book.
What the Spectator Sees, the observable effect, described plainly, stripped of Blaine's own narration.
The Method, the technique named by its proper name and anchored in the history of magic, with the performers, dates, and effects that establish where it sits in the corpus. When several known methods produce the same result, all of them are given.
Step by Step, a reproducible procedure, written so a working professional could rebuild the effect from the page. Not the gist. The actual sequence, preparation, and handling.
The Decoy Explanation, on the effects that have one, which names the ready explanation the spectator is given, the concrete pieces it is built from, the public statements and invoked authorities and staged exits, and the reason it works, which is almost always that it is largely true, a real ordeal placed exactly where the trick is.
Inside, you will find the endurance stunts and the close-up work side by side: the forty-four days in the box above the Thames, the seventeen minutes underwater, buried alive, frozen in ice, the pillar, the needle through the arm, the sewn mouth, the human flamethrower, the frog, the street levitation, the mind reading, the number force, the card in the orange, the signed card in an impossible location, the card through the window, the dart through the deck, the ambitious card, the watch steal, the coin work, the snap change, and the bullet catch.
The book traces every method to its source, the Victorian hunger artists and fasting girls, Houdini's re-engineered casket, Bruce Spangler's needle and Harry Anderson's stage version, Ed Balducci's 1974 levitation, Hadji Ali and Mac Norton's regurgitation acts, the double lift, the color change, the coin pull, and the trained pickpocket's hands. It gives you two portable tells that unlock effects far beyond these pages: the inverted warning, and the recruited authority.
Not every effect has a decoy explanation, and the book says so plainly. Many of the card and coin effects are shown as tricks and carry no such layer, and on those the fourth section is simply absent, because a decoy explanation exists only where Blaine turns a trick into a feat. That pattern, where the misdirection appears and where it does not, is itself part of the argument, because the whole of what makes David Blaine singular is the layer he builds on top of an ordinary trick.
This is not a beginner's book. It assumes you know what a force, a palm, and a double lift are, and it gets straight to the work. If you want to understand how the world's most famous magician actually operates, and how to think about method, misdirection, and the manufacture of reality at a professional level, this is the book.
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