In the first volume of The Bat magic magazine there’s a fun little close up trick. It’s the Color Changing Toothpick by Jack Vosburgh.
It’s a nice, simple little trick. The plot is clear, and it’s not hard to do. It’s something that I’m going to file in the back of my head for impromptu situations. In the video above, I colored the toothpicks with markers, so that’s something that could easily be made at a restaurant with a Sharpie marker.
This is what I love about going through old books or magazines, there are little tricks like this that people should still be doing.
-Louie
Check out Jack Vosburgh’s “Slow Motion Vanishing Match” in “Genii” December, 1949. (Gene Anderson has it in his book ,”The Book”, and also does it on his Penguin Live lecture based on material from “The Book” … he thought he came up with it independently , but later found out it was almost exactly what Jack Vosburgh had previously published in Genii in Dec. 1949)
I’ll have to dig it up…er…download it from the genii site!
thanks for the lead
Louie