Price$35.00
Media TypeDVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedMay 11, 2009
New York Coin Seminar #7
Various
Reels in Motion
(Based on 1 review)
PENETRATIONS leads off with Roth's Coins Through the Mini Table. Gallo's offering is a multiple coin penetration called Three Times Through. Dr. Rubinstein presents a Stand up Coins Thrugh the Table, as well as a unique Karate Coin routine. The section finishes with Gallo's handling of the Cylinder and Coins.
The BONUS section completes the material in the series. Roth presents ideas for a complete show with coins, in a segment of his own workshop from the New York Coin Magic Seminar. Guest host Marc DeSouza goes back to the classics with Ramsay's Three Coins in the Hat. To finish, guest contributor Dan Watkins offers an entertaining routine called The Imperceptual Purse.
Running Time Approximately 168min
Reviews
(Top ▲)
I have a love hate relationship with coin magic. On the love side, it’s hard to beat having a whole repertoire of strong magic that uses only pocket change. Even if you don’t have any change, you can borrow a coin from anywhere in the world and be on your way.
On the hate side, it takes years to perfect the palms, moves, and subtleties needed to pull off this material. While the variety in effects you can have is endless, for some reason, magicians are just obsessed with making the little things vanish, appear, change, and jump from hand to hand.
To further this love hate relationship, this DVD comes along, and it was a pain to get through the whole thing. When I later put in Volume Nine for review, it was fantastic. I’ll go into that in my Volume Nine review. For now, unfortunately, I have to deliver the bad news.
There are too many problems in the material on this DVD for me to address. There are moments when it’s apparent the performer is holding out one or more coins, and stealing them out of the hand. For example, there is a move where you point to a coin in the other hand, and steal it out as you close your hand, and it looks exactly like what you are really doing. There is no deceptive quality about it. Why do a move like this? Especially when there are so many better moves like the retention vanish.
The DVD is well made with easy to work menus, and clear video quality.
As for the routines, they are poorly written, poorly constructed, and make absolutely no sense at times. Why would you put coins through a doll house table, unless you are performing for magicians? Why do these guys feel compelled to have multiple phases for these routines? There were moments I was fooled, but then the effect was immediately repeated a second later, so I was able to figure out exactly how they did it.
All in all, if you like coin magic, and want to learn some interesting new approaches, don’t bother with this DVD. Take a look at Volume Nine instead.
Two Stars
On the hate side, it takes years to perfect the palms, moves, and subtleties needed to pull off this material. While the variety in effects you can have is endless, for some reason, magicians are just obsessed with making the little things vanish, appear, change, and jump from hand to hand.
To further this love hate relationship, this DVD comes along, and it was a pain to get through the whole thing. When I later put in Volume Nine for review, it was fantastic. I’ll go into that in my Volume Nine review. For now, unfortunately, I have to deliver the bad news.
There are too many problems in the material on this DVD for me to address. There are moments when it’s apparent the performer is holding out one or more coins, and stealing them out of the hand. For example, there is a move where you point to a coin in the other hand, and steal it out as you close your hand, and it looks exactly like what you are really doing. There is no deceptive quality about it. Why do a move like this? Especially when there are so many better moves like the retention vanish.
The DVD is well made with easy to work menus, and clear video quality.
As for the routines, they are poorly written, poorly constructed, and make absolutely no sense at times. Why would you put coins through a doll house table, unless you are performing for magicians? Why do these guys feel compelled to have multiple phases for these routines? There were moments I was fooled, but then the effect was immediately repeated a second later, so I was able to figure out exactly how they did it.
All in all, if you like coin magic, and want to learn some interesting new approaches, don’t bother with this DVD. Take a look at Volume Nine instead.
Two Stars