Price$20.00
Media TypeTrick, DVD
CategoryClose Up, Mentalism
Date AddedOct 24, 2006
Nailed
Jay Sankey
Sankey Magic
(Based on 1 review)
Includes: The Complete Presentation, Jay's Favorite Handling, Several Card Forces, A Variety of Revelations, The White Sticker Handling and the double-climax Two Card Handling.
Comes with necessary gimmicks, illustrated instructions, and a 50-minute instructional DVD (use your own deck). Encoded for worldwide viewing. Produced by Sankey Magic. Original release date: April 2006.
Reviews
(Top ▲)
Jay Sankey’s recent foray into more exclusive lines of distribution has in some ways diminished the potential for buzz (a.k.a. hype) around his new products (a.k.a. DVDs). While not comparable to, say, the tsunami in Asia, this is nonetheless a shame, given that Jay continues to create exciting, interesting, highly performable magic.
Among my favorite of his newer releases is this transposition effect wherein a chosen card suddenly (and magically) changes places with a card you nailed face up to your kitchen table at home. How does the spectator know this happened? Simple. You begin by showing him a photograph of an indifferent card nailed face up to your kitchen table, then you have him choose a card from a regular deck under the pretense that it will match the card in the photograph. The chosen card is shown to be altogether different from your prediction, whereupon you wave the face-down selection under the face-down photograph, then turn the card face up, showing it to now match the card that was in the photograph. In fact, it even has a small (nail-size) hole in the middle, suggesting that it actually is the card from the photo. The photo is then turned over, revealing the spectator’s chosen card nailed face up to your kitchen table.
The method combines two simple sleights you likely already know with a clever gimmick that’s reminiscent of (if not inspired by) a Richard Sanders gimmick employed in his revelation effect, “Trick Photography” (Close-Up Assassin, 1998). Moreover, the card, the deck, and the photo can all be examined at the end, and the trick resets instantly.
You’d be hard pressed to find a more powerful two-card transposition—Jay’s approach fleshes out the typically flat plot into a fully-realized performance piece.
David Acer
Among my favorite of his newer releases is this transposition effect wherein a chosen card suddenly (and magically) changes places with a card you nailed face up to your kitchen table at home. How does the spectator know this happened? Simple. You begin by showing him a photograph of an indifferent card nailed face up to your kitchen table, then you have him choose a card from a regular deck under the pretense that it will match the card in the photograph. The chosen card is shown to be altogether different from your prediction, whereupon you wave the face-down selection under the face-down photograph, then turn the card face up, showing it to now match the card that was in the photograph. In fact, it even has a small (nail-size) hole in the middle, suggesting that it actually is the card from the photo. The photo is then turned over, revealing the spectator’s chosen card nailed face up to your kitchen table.
The method combines two simple sleights you likely already know with a clever gimmick that’s reminiscent of (if not inspired by) a Richard Sanders gimmick employed in his revelation effect, “Trick Photography” (Close-Up Assassin, 1998). Moreover, the card, the deck, and the photo can all be examined at the end, and the trick resets instantly.
You’d be hard pressed to find a more powerful two-card transposition—Jay’s approach fleshes out the typically flat plot into a fully-realized performance piece.
David Acer