Check out this month’s Magicana column in Genii Magazine (Dec 2022)for a trick that I co-created with Chris Beason!
Indentation is a fun and strange little trick that uses a key and your finger. Once you know how to do it, it’s something that you can do in many impromptu situations!
-Louie
When creating magic tricks, there are a few reasons why. Sometimes you’ll have a need to create something, other times an idea will just pop into your head. Then sometimes you will have something, or a lot of something and are trying to figure out a use for it. Somehow I ended up with a … Continue reading “Not “Organic”, Organic Props…”
When creating magic tricks, there are a few reasons why. Sometimes you’ll have a need to create something, other times an idea will just pop into your head. Then sometimes you will have something, or a lot of something and are trying to figure out a use for it. Somehow I ended up with a lot of chapstick and am trying to figure out what to do with it.
I have some issues with using chapstick, the main one is while it’s an “organic” item, it’s as out of place in a magic show as a toothbrush is. Sure you can justify it by needing it, but I can’t think of a ever seeing a performer use chapstick during their show. It’d be like a performer brushing their teeth in the middle of a show. That leaves it to informal situations and the drawback to that is that whatever you are doing needs to be fairly simple is set up.
I have an interesting idea, but it will probably end up as something in a magazine, simply because no one will do it. Essentially it’s a transposition with a signed coin and the lip balm inside the tube. It’s really too much work for an informal situation, and too out of place for a formal situation.
