Recently I saw a social media post about someone trying to come up with magic with eyeballs.
In the post, the list a few trick ideas which include:
-zombie eyeball
-sponge eyeballs
The thing is that all of those have been done…I don’t mean that those tricks have been themed with eyeballs before (they have), they’re things that exist as a trick. When creating, why not go beyond your “magic vocabulary” and create something new, or at least try?
Here are a few ideas:
- Plastic Eyeball and plastic letter “I” switch places.
- Plastic eyeball turns into a plastic letter “I”
- You take your eyeball out of your face, it changes into a letter “i” and you put that back into your eye socket and instead of your eye, it’s the letter “i”. Method would use a contact with an i printed on it?
- You make a circle of objects on the table and one is selected. You have a plastic eyeball and spin it around, when it stops spinning it’s looking at the selected item
- Your hands are shown empty. You then take a bottle of eye drops a put a drop into your palm. You close your hand and when you open it an eyeball has appeared.
- You have a plastic eye that you balance on a salt shaker. You take out some eye drops and have the spectator hold the bottle upside down. Whenever they want, they squeeze the bottle. The moment they do and the eye drop hits the table, the plastic eyeball also falls off the salt shaker.
Ok, those are just a few ideas that I came up with sitting in front of my computer writing this. I did have an idea Googly Eye Trick that I wrote about in the past as well. The point is that we need to push past standard things. YES, there are reasons to do standards, but the more we try to get away from them, the more we break the stereotype of “all magicians are the same”.
-Louie