Organic: A Study on Engineering Miracles

Overview

Organic, A Study on Engineering Miracles, is our first venture outside of card magic, and it's full of 15 phenomenal impromptu routines perfect for the street magician. Outlined in Organic is not only the explanation of each effect, but the process in which it was developed. Learn how to create miracles with everyday normal objects and be inspired by whatever situation you find yourself in.

Contents:

Tumble: This effect takes place at the Laundromat and uses a normal pack of cards, the clothes dryer, and your pants pocket. This is the style of effect David Blaine would perform on TV.

Rigged: A method for controlling the outcome of a coin-toss, every time.

Cartel: A miracle that allows you to turn two playing cards into a virtual credit card that actually works.

Sidekick: Includes the explanation of three different effects including an impromptu signed-card through window.

Edamame: A highly visual method for restoring an empty Edamame bean.

Subway Renovation: An improved handing on our trick “Subway” found in The Trilogy DVD set.

Joker Tracking: An impossible location where the spectator finds his/her chosen card after shuffling the deck as many times as they wish. You never touch the deck! Can be used to locate multiple cards too.

Resurrection: A man asks you for a light. You remove a small box of matches, take one out and light it. After lighting the man’s cigarette, you shake the match to put out the flame. A woman walks up and also asks you for a light. Now instead of taking out another match, this is what happens. Slowly blow on the burnt match as a cloud of smoke forms around it. Both the man and the woman then see the burnt match slowly restore. After all the smoke has dissipated, strike the restored match on the box and light her cigarette.

Blinded: What if you could reach into the air with your empty hand and produce a lit match? Now you can!

Sealed & Revealed: The corner of a signed playing card appears sealed inside a sugar packet.

Deliquesce: A selected card is lost into the deck and set on the table. A saltshaker is set on top of the deck only to visually penetrate through both the deck and the table. From underneath comes the saltshaker with the signed card folded inside the saltshaker.

Autocatch: A neat Sandwich effect done on the table that uses a new flourishes called the “Hover Spring.”

Strawgami: A cleaver method for turning a drinking straw (still in its wrapper) inside out so that the wrapper ends up inside the straw.

Shake & Bake: A visual approach to Doc Eason’s “Anniversary Waltz” where two signed selections fuse together to form one card.

Mannequin: This effect takes place in a shopping center. A selected card is shuffled into the deck. With a snap of the fingers the card appears in your pocket. Again, the selection is lost into the deck and with the snap of the fingers…a clothes tag is pulled from the pocket. Turn around and point to a pair of pants on a Mannequin in the window behind you. Protruding from the pocket is the selection.

15 Effects typeset on 54 pages. Published October 31, 2008.

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Author: Michael Kras
I just bought it, and my initial thoughts are that this ebook is very inspiring, fascinating, and creative. It's essentially a look at the art of improvising magic and teaches 15 effects that Dan and Dave literally came up with on the fly. Behind each effect, they tell the story of how it came to be. Some of the improvised miracles are quite practical and others aren't. But they would do amazingly well in the right place at the right time. Places such as a fast food restaurant, breakfast house, laundromat, and shopping center are the settings of where these effects came to be. It's an interesting collection and really gets you thinking. After reading this ebook, I am certainly inspired to think more about improvising magic.

Author: Erik Jansson
The first thing that came to my mind after having finished reading Organic, was ”This can't be a Dan and Dave product”. Most of us know Dan and Dave for their creativity with a deck of cards. Imagining them flipping coins, penetrate cards through windows and restore matches simply doesn't exist in my world. At least it didn't before reading this booklet.

Organic really displays a different side of Dan and Dave, which is really interesting in my opinion. This booklet won't teach you specific methods, it will teach you the thinking behind effects. How to improvise and take care of the moment and items you are being given.

The layout is good as usual, simplistic but nice. Those of you that want a step by step guide on how to execute effects exactly, won't find any. Organic contains brief descriptions of effects, and you will realize this is all you need. It will let you understand the basic structure of the effects, but let you apply your own style and presentation to them. I firmly believe this will be healthy for some people. There are so many new people that imitate those they look up to, and forget to create their own thing, and their own style.

The booklet doesn't necessarily have to be read as a manual on magic, it is also a fictional story which you can read like any other book.

My favorite item in the booklet is definitely “Resurrection”. Check the product page for a description of it. It's the best use I've found for an old method that was previously re-released on DVD.

I understand this review may seem slightly biased, and it definitely is. It contains no lies, however, and I thoroughly enjoyed this product.

I never rate things, since it may give a false image of the product in question, so all I'll say is that it's a great product that will most likely bring you forward in magic.