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Date AddedAug 23, 2014
At the Table Live Lecture - Dan Hauss 9/10/2014 - video DOWNLOAD
Hauss, Dan
Murphy's Magic Supplies, Inc.
(Based on 2 reviews)
Join Dan as he presents to you a one of a kind lecture, featuring ALL NEW material.
Take a look at what the Hauss will be lecturing about:
RING & COIN ROUTINE -
Visually make a coin and ring morph, change places, appear, and disappear. This is the kind of heavy hitting stuff that Dan is known for!
ANIMATED VANISHING DECK -
This is the vanishing deck on steroids! Place a card into the middle of the deck. Lightly riffle all of the cards and in the blink of an eye, the deck completely vanishes!
STONED -
Crush a rock and mold it into a ring. Or, push your finger right through a rock. Karate Coin on crack!
EATING COTTON BALLS -
Learn a funny and cleaver way to pretend to eat cotton balls from a bag.
SUGAR BLOCK -
Dan's take on a classic! A borrowed coin goes into an empty sugar packet. The performer then pushes a small knife or toothpick right through the center of the coin.
FLOW 2.0 -
Dan is going to be teaching a new way to perform his best-selling effect, FLOW. This has NEVER been taught before.
TNR CARD -
This is a very visual torn and restored card with all of the McGuyver-Haussiness mixed in.
STRIKE CHANGE-
Dan is going to be talking about David William's classic move, while adding his idea's and theory to the already great vanish. Dan will teach you how to VISUALLY change one coin to another in your open hand.
REDLINE 2.0 -
Yet ANOTHER classic effect created by Dan with a whole new concept. This has a kicker ending that must be seen to be believed.
PORTABLE HOLE -
Dan's take on one of his favorite tricks called The Acme Portable Hole. You draw a circle on a box of cards and see it move and come to life. Dan's handling will fry you and your spectators!
BACK PALMING IDEAS -
Dan will share his ideas on back-palming in close-up situations and will discuss different effect ideas that use a back-palm.
OLD GIMMICK NEW IDEA -
This is a jam session dedicated to some classic gimmicks that Dan has re-vamped and is used in Dan's show. Breathing new life into old gimmicks!
Knowing Dan Hauss, there could be much, MUCH more!
Reviews
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The magic of Dan Hauss has been performed by many magicians around the world including David Blaine and Dynamo. He is a crazy creative. This lecture is a little all over the place but it fits Dan’s attention span. There’s some good magic on here.
Ring Magic: With a slow wave a ring appears on the performers hand. He takes it off and a spectator spins it on the table. The performer then smashes his hand on the ring and it melts through flesh and bone onto the performers finger. He places the ring on his pinky, and it slowly floats earily up the finger. The ring is taken off one more time and a spectator is asked to name a finger, the ring is then tossed and caught on the finger named.
So that’s a four phase routine without any gimmicked rings per se. For the smash through you will need something extra to make the trick work but everything else can be performed with a normal ring. None of the magic is incredibly hard. The main struggle will be to find the right ring for the trick.
Ring Bottle: A ring is balanced on the lip of a regular glass beer or soda bottle, it is then smashed down the bottle expanding as it goes down. This is a new use for Dan’s growing ring gimmick. Dan messes it up multiple times during the lecture but this is very doable and should with a little bit of practice. It should be mentioned that the ring and bottle can be closely examined before and after, even after the ring has expanded to fit the bottle neck.
Coin Ring Thing: A ring turns into a coin and the coin turns back into a ring repeatedly. This uses a gimmicked coin but some of the moves could be performed with a normal coin and a normal ring. There wasn’t anything crazy groundbreaking here and with the gimmicked coin you do have a certain clothing requirement.
Ring Jump: A ring pops from the right hand to the left in a very visual way. This uses an old gimmick that is rarely used and an extra something. It may look good on video but taking the preparation and cleanup into account it is probably not very doable in real life for most magicians.
Shugar Block: A borrowed quarter is placed in a sugar packet and a pin or toothpick is pushed through. The packet is opened so that you can see the actual point of penetration, it is then removed and the coin is returned to the spectator completely restored. This uses a gimmick that can be purchased at most magic stores in a brand new way. It looks very good and fooled me badly.
The Strike Change: A penny changes into a dime and back into a penny as it is struck by a sharpie. This uses Williamson’s striking vanish to some extent which he doesn’t teach with a small gimmick. He shows you how to do the change in your mouth as well as a version without any gimmicks.
Redline: A chapstick lid is removed and in the action of a toss it is caught right where it should be on the chapstick. This is a classic of Dan’s that is sold on Theory 11. This is very versatile and the gimmick is very simple to make. Mike teased Redline 2.0 but unfortunately Dan does not teach it. He does show some of his work with a jumbo chapstick that will be featured on Redline 2.0 but there wasn’t anything that really blew me away.
Chameleon Change: This was taught on Free Trick Friday with Murphy’s. A sharpie changes color 3 times and can be examined afterwards. This is nice but it isn’t completely groundbreaking either, fairly simple to do though.
Sandwich Trick: This is a multiphase sandwich routine where the selection repeatedly finds itself sandwiched on the top of the deck. I stuggle with most peoples version of the ambitious card as well as sandwich routines. This is an unoriginal combo of the two with an extra gaffed card required.
Jumping Jacks: This is a faux sandwich where the spectator thinks that the Jack will sandwich the card. in reality they visually change places with the selected card. The last move could be applied to other effects but it is gaffed.
Visual Sandwich: This is another sandwich routine, I love Dan but I don’t see the appeal in most sandwich routines. I also doubt that this is completely original.
Color Change: This is a tough visual angly color change. It requires a mat but it looks good, if you are at the perfect angle. You may be able to do this on camera but it would be tough live.
Sonata Restored: This is the bare handed production of four pieces of a card that immediately heal themselves. This is cool and it is a rare torn and restored card that can be performed with the same gimmicks over and over.
Flow Performance Only: The water in a bottle defies gravity when it is turned upside down. This is one of Dan’s best tricks and you can purchase it from Paul Harris. He does explain how to make the gimmick work for glass bottles as well, which is a nice bonus but you will not learn the trick.
Rubb-er Thru-hand: This may be my favorite thing on the download and probably the best place to purchase this effect. Basically a rubber band penetrates finger by finger totally uncovered. Dan Hauss’ and Blake Vogt’s Rubber Thru Hand may be the best piece of magic that you can do with a single ungimmicked rubber band. There was some problems with the cost when it was first released but this is easily remedied if you purchase this lecture.
Broke Band Mountain: A spectator breaks a rubber band and with a snap the magician heals it. This is alright but you do have to break a rubber band to do it. Dan has some ideas for routining and gives sources for tricks with broken bands.
Sleeping Queens: This fooled me so badly, a queen in a set of cards is hypnotized and she closes her eyes, with a wave of the hand she opens her eyes. This is amazing, there is a gimmick, but the deck is normal and there are no gaffs involved. There is a short prep but really it is insignificant. This looks great on camera and has no angle restrictions, I hope it looks as good live.
Card in Box: This is a move where a card vanishes and appears in the box where ever the spectator decides in the deck. In my opinion, this is kinda weak, but it may fit some magicians.
Metamorphosis Performance Only: This is a 2 card transpo using a rubber band. It will be released as a download soon so he only teased it.
Giving the Finger: This is a new handling for a Mier Yedid piece of magic. The ring finger is removed with a crack and placed back on. I’m not crazy for this but it’s more that it doesn’t fit my style rather than it being a bad trick.
Dan ends the lecture with a couple miscellaneous ideas including how to make a ring out of a rock. I really enjoyed this lecture. I do think that it is worth the money especially if you haven’t seen any of Dan’s magic.
Ring Magic: With a slow wave a ring appears on the performers hand. He takes it off and a spectator spins it on the table. The performer then smashes his hand on the ring and it melts through flesh and bone onto the performers finger. He places the ring on his pinky, and it slowly floats earily up the finger. The ring is taken off one more time and a spectator is asked to name a finger, the ring is then tossed and caught on the finger named.
So that’s a four phase routine without any gimmicked rings per se. For the smash through you will need something extra to make the trick work but everything else can be performed with a normal ring. None of the magic is incredibly hard. The main struggle will be to find the right ring for the trick.
Ring Bottle: A ring is balanced on the lip of a regular glass beer or soda bottle, it is then smashed down the bottle expanding as it goes down. This is a new use for Dan’s growing ring gimmick. Dan messes it up multiple times during the lecture but this is very doable and should with a little bit of practice. It should be mentioned that the ring and bottle can be closely examined before and after, even after the ring has expanded to fit the bottle neck.
Coin Ring Thing: A ring turns into a coin and the coin turns back into a ring repeatedly. This uses a gimmicked coin but some of the moves could be performed with a normal coin and a normal ring. There wasn’t anything crazy groundbreaking here and with the gimmicked coin you do have a certain clothing requirement.
Ring Jump: A ring pops from the right hand to the left in a very visual way. This uses an old gimmick that is rarely used and an extra something. It may look good on video but taking the preparation and cleanup into account it is probably not very doable in real life for most magicians.
Shugar Block: A borrowed quarter is placed in a sugar packet and a pin or toothpick is pushed through. The packet is opened so that you can see the actual point of penetration, it is then removed and the coin is returned to the spectator completely restored. This uses a gimmick that can be purchased at most magic stores in a brand new way. It looks very good and fooled me badly.
The Strike Change: A penny changes into a dime and back into a penny as it is struck by a sharpie. This uses Williamson’s striking vanish to some extent which he doesn’t teach with a small gimmick. He shows you how to do the change in your mouth as well as a version without any gimmicks.
Redline: A chapstick lid is removed and in the action of a toss it is caught right where it should be on the chapstick. This is a classic of Dan’s that is sold on Theory 11. This is very versatile and the gimmick is very simple to make. Mike teased Redline 2.0 but unfortunately Dan does not teach it. He does show some of his work with a jumbo chapstick that will be featured on Redline 2.0 but there wasn’t anything that really blew me away.
Chameleon Change: This was taught on Free Trick Friday with Murphy’s. A sharpie changes color 3 times and can be examined afterwards. This is nice but it isn’t completely groundbreaking either, fairly simple to do though.
Sandwich Trick: This is a multiphase sandwich routine where the selection repeatedly finds itself sandwiched on the top of the deck. I stuggle with most peoples version of the ambitious card as well as sandwich routines. This is an unoriginal combo of the two with an extra gaffed card required.
Jumping Jacks: This is a faux sandwich where the spectator thinks that the Jack will sandwich the card. in reality they visually change places with the selected card. The last move could be applied to other effects but it is gaffed.
Visual Sandwich: This is another sandwich routine, I love Dan but I don’t see the appeal in most sandwich routines. I also doubt that this is completely original.
Color Change: This is a tough visual angly color change. It requires a mat but it looks good, if you are at the perfect angle. You may be able to do this on camera but it would be tough live.
Sonata Restored: This is the bare handed production of four pieces of a card that immediately heal themselves. This is cool and it is a rare torn and restored card that can be performed with the same gimmicks over and over.
Flow Performance Only: The water in a bottle defies gravity when it is turned upside down. This is one of Dan’s best tricks and you can purchase it from Paul Harris. He does explain how to make the gimmick work for glass bottles as well, which is a nice bonus but you will not learn the trick.
Rubb-er Thru-hand: This may be my favorite thing on the download and probably the best place to purchase this effect. Basically a rubber band penetrates finger by finger totally uncovered. Dan Hauss’ and Blake Vogt’s Rubber Thru Hand may be the best piece of magic that you can do with a single ungimmicked rubber band. There was some problems with the cost when it was first released but this is easily remedied if you purchase this lecture.
Broke Band Mountain: A spectator breaks a rubber band and with a snap the magician heals it. This is alright but you do have to break a rubber band to do it. Dan has some ideas for routining and gives sources for tricks with broken bands.
Sleeping Queens: This fooled me so badly, a queen in a set of cards is hypnotized and she closes her eyes, with a wave of the hand she opens her eyes. This is amazing, there is a gimmick, but the deck is normal and there are no gaffs involved. There is a short prep but really it is insignificant. This looks great on camera and has no angle restrictions, I hope it looks as good live.
Card in Box: This is a move where a card vanishes and appears in the box where ever the spectator decides in the deck. In my opinion, this is kinda weak, but it may fit some magicians.
Metamorphosis Performance Only: This is a 2 card transpo using a rubber band. It will be released as a download soon so he only teased it.
Giving the Finger: This is a new handling for a Mier Yedid piece of magic. The ring finger is removed with a crack and placed back on. I’m not crazy for this but it’s more that it doesn’t fit my style rather than it being a bad trick.
Dan ends the lecture with a couple miscellaneous ideas including how to make a ring out of a rock. I really enjoyed this lecture. I do think that it is worth the money especially if you haven’t seen any of Dan’s magic.
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I had a hard time sitting through this lecture for a couple of reasons. First let me say that I have never seen Dan lecture and I have never used any of his products and he does seem like a really nice guy. That all has no bearing on this review.
My first issue was that there was no organization to it at all and I do realize that may be a personality thing of Dan Hauss, but having never seen his work before (I know of it but have not done/used any of it) so I cannot say whether it is or not. I mentioned the lack of organization/flow in the Shin Lim lecture - this was was more disorganized.
Second, there was quite a bit of magic covered in this lecture but just about everything he presented was rather choppy. What do I mean by that? There was no smoothness to the effects he was teaching and many of them have major angle issues. The majority of what he presented was gimmicked magic and as he points out, that is just his thing. He also says that he is a creator and not a performer - this lecture illustrates that point and there is nothing wrong with that.
I could go on a long rant about the use of gimmicks vs. sleight of hand, but I will attempt to be brief here. My personal philosophy about using gimmicks is that they are perfectly fine as long as 1) I can start and end clean (or close to clean with little clean up), 2) The gimmicks have to make the magic better and cleaner than the sleight of hand version(s) and 3) The gimmick versions should be better on angles, but that is not always possible.
To me, the problem with the gimmick material presented here is that most of them were incredibly angle sensitive and the magic moment was not so great from a visual perspective. Sometimes you can have a very strong effect that has horrible and ridiculous angle issues (such as those meant to be performed for no more than 1-3 people) - that is not the case here. To my eye, regardless of the lack of performing ability that Dan claims, the material just looked clunky.
HOWEVER, forgetting all of that, the ideas (stress on the word 'ideas') behind all of these gimmicks can make you think about certain things and even possibly inspire you. Perhaps they can lead you to a solution for a problem you have been having with an effect or routine. If that ends up being the case, you win!
Even with all of that, there were a few VERY good and visual pieces taught - namely some sandwich work and a piece of micro-magic with a queen where her eyes are seen to be shut and as you wave your hand over the card, her eyes slowly open.
The ad copy is not quite 100% accurate: There is some great work with finger rings but one item in the ad copy - 'Stoned' - was not taught; it was only verbally described. Portable Hole was not taught in the lecture either - this would have been interesting to see because there are so many methods for moving holes/moving ink that others have released.
Red Line is a nice effect that he had released some time ago and he actually explained this as well - most of the lecturers demonstrate a marketed/released item but (understandably) do not explain it. Dan gave a bunch of ideas for this one.
The Sugar Block is a very nice idea with a coin and sugar packet. Most of you will be familiar with both the effect (or at least its inspirations) and the coin itself.
Mike Hankins does a great job as usual as the host and as a friend of Dan Hauss, he is able to interact with him in a very entertaining way.
Despite the disorganized choppy/clunky nature of the lecture, if you are a fan of Dan Hauss you might get something out of this lecture. If you are not familiar with his work, I am not sure you will find much use for any of the material here but how can I be sure? I cannot - you will have to take the risk.
If the ad copy was 100% accurate I would give this lecture 4 stars for the inspiration it can possibly provide to some magicians. As it stands, 3.5 stars.
My first issue was that there was no organization to it at all and I do realize that may be a personality thing of Dan Hauss, but having never seen his work before (I know of it but have not done/used any of it) so I cannot say whether it is or not. I mentioned the lack of organization/flow in the Shin Lim lecture - this was was more disorganized.
Second, there was quite a bit of magic covered in this lecture but just about everything he presented was rather choppy. What do I mean by that? There was no smoothness to the effects he was teaching and many of them have major angle issues. The majority of what he presented was gimmicked magic and as he points out, that is just his thing. He also says that he is a creator and not a performer - this lecture illustrates that point and there is nothing wrong with that.
I could go on a long rant about the use of gimmicks vs. sleight of hand, but I will attempt to be brief here. My personal philosophy about using gimmicks is that they are perfectly fine as long as 1) I can start and end clean (or close to clean with little clean up), 2) The gimmicks have to make the magic better and cleaner than the sleight of hand version(s) and 3) The gimmick versions should be better on angles, but that is not always possible.
To me, the problem with the gimmick material presented here is that most of them were incredibly angle sensitive and the magic moment was not so great from a visual perspective. Sometimes you can have a very strong effect that has horrible and ridiculous angle issues (such as those meant to be performed for no more than 1-3 people) - that is not the case here. To my eye, regardless of the lack of performing ability that Dan claims, the material just looked clunky.
HOWEVER, forgetting all of that, the ideas (stress on the word 'ideas') behind all of these gimmicks can make you think about certain things and even possibly inspire you. Perhaps they can lead you to a solution for a problem you have been having with an effect or routine. If that ends up being the case, you win!
Even with all of that, there were a few VERY good and visual pieces taught - namely some sandwich work and a piece of micro-magic with a queen where her eyes are seen to be shut and as you wave your hand over the card, her eyes slowly open.
The ad copy is not quite 100% accurate: There is some great work with finger rings but one item in the ad copy - 'Stoned' - was not taught; it was only verbally described. Portable Hole was not taught in the lecture either - this would have been interesting to see because there are so many methods for moving holes/moving ink that others have released.
Red Line is a nice effect that he had released some time ago and he actually explained this as well - most of the lecturers demonstrate a marketed/released item but (understandably) do not explain it. Dan gave a bunch of ideas for this one.
The Sugar Block is a very nice idea with a coin and sugar packet. Most of you will be familiar with both the effect (or at least its inspirations) and the coin itself.
Mike Hankins does a great job as usual as the host and as a friend of Dan Hauss, he is able to interact with him in a very entertaining way.
Despite the disorganized choppy/clunky nature of the lecture, if you are a fan of Dan Hauss you might get something out of this lecture. If you are not familiar with his work, I am not sure you will find much use for any of the material here but how can I be sure? I cannot - you will have to take the risk.
If the ad copy was 100% accurate I would give this lecture 4 stars for the inspiration it can possibly provide to some magicians. As it stands, 3.5 stars.