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00:00 [Opening Music]
00:24 Greetings and welcome to A Marked Man.
00:27 This is a DVD version of the original e-book, but we have a bunch of new stuff, as well
00:31 as some updates on the original material.
00:34 One thing of course you'll find is all the magic takes place with regular Sharpie markers.
00:38 No weird shells or gaffs, and the pens can be used before and after.
00:42 So, let's see what we have in store for you.
00:45 The first thing we're going to look at on this DVD are tricks that involve no gaffs,
00:49 no reels, no magnets, nothing of any kind like that.
00:52 Pretty much pure sleight of hand.
00:54 However, to do a lot of these, not all of them, but a lot of these, you're going to
00:57 have to be able to do a flip stick move.
01:00 Traditionally, it is done like this, where you are pulling it back into your hand, like
01:06 this.
01:07 This is the position.
01:08 Now, some places I've seen teach you to do it with all the fingers.
01:11 However, I find it's easiest to just use the middle finger.
01:14 All you're doing is you're curling in your middle finger like this, pivoting it inside
01:17 of your hand.
01:18 From upside down, it looks like this.
01:21 This is the move right here.
01:24 To reverse it, it's the same idea.
01:26 You're just kicking it out with your middle finger.
01:27 There should be very little movement of the other fingers.
01:31 One big tip is to use your thumb as resistance.
01:35 As you push with the middle finger, you keep it against the thumb and let it slide off.
01:39 This gives you a really nice kick like that.
01:42 So with some practice, you can get this move down every time and also be able to reproduce
01:47 it.
01:48 So with that having been said, and a little quick guerrilla tutorial of the flip stick
01:53 move, let's move on.
01:54 You guys see these?
01:55 These right here?
01:56 These are the invisible Sharpie markers to put on still your office supplies.
01:57 All you have to do is take them, shake, and make that appear, which is kind of cool.
02:08 Of course, you can also reverse it like that.
02:13 It's great.
02:16 I'm a firm believer in the concept of if you give the audience a little bit of truth,
02:21 they believe a great big lie.
02:23 And this is one of those routines that really showcases that.
02:27 You talk about invisible pens that have been invented so people won't steal your pens out
02:31 of whatever receptacle they're in.
02:33 And this is very simple.
02:35 There's two versions.
02:36 The original version, which worked like this, where you would say you have an invisible
02:39 pen here and you hold it like this, and all you have to do to get it to appear is twist
02:45 the cap like that.
02:47 And that was the original production.
02:48 You'd start here, show it, and just shake it to get it to appear, or twist the cap like
02:54 that.
02:55 All I'm doing with this is I am flipping it out, using the flip stick move from before
02:59 like this, as I bring my hand up like this.
03:02 So in slow motion, it looks like this.
03:05 And you just put it in between the two fingers.
03:09 That was the original version, and it worked okay for a while.
03:12 I started thinking of a different thing, something a little more interesting, a little more visual,
03:17 and not as jerky of a motion.
03:20 And it's the same idea.
03:21 You have your marker here, hiding in your hand like this, and you talk about the invisible
03:25 pen and how they've invented them so people wouldn't steal them.
03:30 And what I'll do is I'll just show an invisible pen, and what I'll do is I'll grab it, pretend
03:33 to grab it, using the thumb and the first finger.
03:36 I'm in the position to do a flip stick move outwards, and so all I'm doing is I'm pretending
03:40 to grab it.
03:41 And what I'm going to do is I'm going to shake my hand once, and then nothing.
03:43 Now I'm going to do the flip stick move in slow motion.
03:46 Most people do it like this, really quick, to produce something.
03:49 But I thought, what if you slowed it down?
03:51 What would it look like?
03:53 So obviously doing it like this isn't that impressive.
03:55 However, if you add a little shake to it like this, and you produce it very slow, you get
04:00 a really nice image.
04:02 I do tend to find that if you hold the cap, do it at the cap end here, because the color
04:07 almost instantly comes out.
04:09 If you hold it at the cap, it gets a little slower of a burn like that.
04:13 However, you want to set up the image in their head of you shaking the marker.
04:17 So you show the marker invisible, you grab, you shake, nothing, and then you start to
04:22 shake again, and slowly the marker comes into view.
04:25 Now the nice thing is this can actually be done in reverse as well.
04:28 You get into the vanish position for the flip stick move, like this, and you just start
04:33 shaking it again and slowly bring it into your hand.
04:36 So slowly bring it out like this, and then you slowly bring it in.
04:41 And as long as you keep it moving, the blur, motion blur, will hide how it works.
04:47 Of course, later on, after you learn how to do sleeving, you can vanish it and then sleeve
04:51 it and show your hands empty afterwards and take the pen and show it and put it away.
04:55 So that is the invisible pen routine.
04:59 So I have a, I got a hold of one of the Sharpie markers that has a card reveal on the side
05:03 of it one time.
05:04 And I was thinking, what can I do with that?
05:06 How can I incorporate that into just, hey, pick up the Sharpie, show it to them?
05:09 So I started thinking of ideas, and this is what I came up with using a deck of cards.
05:13 It enables you to take the Sharpie marker and you put it inside the deck, and you pull
05:18 it back out of the deck.
05:20 It's pretty easy, and if you own one of those Sharpie markers with a card reveal, this works
05:25 great for it.
05:26 All I'm doing is I'm tapping the deck, and as I go down to hit it on the third try, flip
05:31 stick, and I hit it with my finger, like this.
05:34 So one more time, boom, boom.
05:36 And I stop and I look at the deck.
05:38 Now I'm going to riffle right about here, halfway down, and I'm going to turn my hand,
05:44 palm down, with the cards open in a break.
05:47 And what's going to happen is I'm going to flip stick the marker into this break.
05:52 So as I turn this over, I flip stick this in, and then I slowly pull it out of the deck.
05:57 So it looks like it went into the deck, and then I pulled it out of the deck.
06:03 And so the presentation for this would be something along the lines of, we're going
06:07 to take the marker, we're going to have the marker find your card.
06:09 Oh, whoops.
06:10 Hold on a second.
06:11 Let me get that out of there.
06:12 Like this.
06:13 Look at that.
06:14 And then you show them what it says.
06:15 Your card is the 12 of cups, or whatever it would be.
06:18 So that's just a little quickie thing, idea if you have one of the card reveal Sharpie
06:23 markers.
06:24 [MUSIC PLAYING]
06:39 This is a great way to get into any kind of routine where a bill needs to be signed.
06:44 What you do is you borrow the bill from somebody, like this.
06:46 And what's going to happen is you're going to hide the marker behind the bill, and transfer
06:50 it from the fingertips.
06:52 And again, it's all in the flip-sticking kind of move here.
06:55 So you're going to take the bill, and you're going to grab at it here with these fingers.
06:59 And as you do that, you're going to flip-stick this behind, like that.
07:03 Now remember, it needs to go horizontal.
07:04 It needs to come out completely like this.
07:07 Because if it comes out at an angle, you'll sometimes end up with this, and this is bad.
07:11 Bad.
07:13 So again, you're going to come here, grab the bill, flip-stick this, and now you're
07:16 going to trap it behind with your thumb in this finger, like this.
07:20 Now you're going to do a little subtlety here.
07:21 Don't draw a lot of attention to it, it's just a subtlety.
07:24 You're going to sit here and say, "Now you give me this 20."
07:27 And that is grabbing it here with the thumb and first finger.
07:30 These fingers stay here to mask, like this.
07:33 And you're just moving it back and forth over the marker.
07:38 So once you've done that, all you have to do is roll up the tube like this.
07:43 And now, this is the best part.
07:44 You want to use a black Sharpie, because you end up getting a black artifact.
07:48 You can just kind of briefly flash the inside of the bill.
07:52 This is black art on a budget, is what this is.
07:54 So you can show the inside of the bill, give it a shake, and the marker comes out of the
08:00 bill, just like that.
08:01 And you're good to go.
08:03 It's a great little bit.
08:04 It's a lot of fun.
08:05 And practice it.
08:06 I think you'll like it.
08:09 So this might look familiar to you.
08:11 If when you opened up the package, you probably found this inside.
08:14 Whoa, that's weird.
08:18 What kind of horrible person would make something like this?
08:24 Me, I would.
08:26 I thought a Sharpie marker that was double-ended was hilarious.
08:29 So I made one and used it for years, and it's got a really good reaction.
08:33 Now there's a couple things you can do with this.
08:35 One is what you just saw.
08:36 This is the best way to do it if you're on a big stage.
08:40 If you close up, it's a little different.
08:41 But if you're on a big stage and you want to get a use out of this, what I tend to do
08:44 is I say, "I need you to sign something," and I remove the cap and put it on, and then
08:48 hmm, strange.
08:56 All you're doing is you're flipping this down to the bottom, removing the cap, putting it
09:01 back on the end, and showing.
09:03 It's a very surreal kind of moment where you can just be like, "What's going on?"
09:07 You're freaking out because you don't know what's happening with the magic.
09:10 I'll just do that and throw the marker on the ground or in my case and pull out another
09:13 one.
09:14 Or sometimes I'll reveal it.
09:15 I'll just be like, "Whoa, that's weird."
09:16 If you're doing this close up or in a smaller group, what's a lot of fun is you hand them
09:21 the marker to have them sign the card.
09:23 Now what you want to do when they're signing the card or right before they do is you start
09:26 pointing out where you want them to sign.
09:28 Say, "I want you to sign right here across the front.
09:29 Don't sign in the back."
09:30 And the reason you do this is so they're staring at you.
09:32 Get their eye contact.
09:35 You want them to be looking right at you the whole time because what's going to happen,
09:38 and you can see it while you're talking to them.
09:40 This is a great moment for you and them.
09:43 What happens is they're talking, right, right, and their muscle memory motor skills kick
09:47 in and they take the cap off and put it on and they go to sign and they look down.
09:50 And for a split second they think they are crazy.
09:54 They're looking at it going, "I know I just took the cap off that."
09:57 And they go to do it again and all of a sudden they get here.
09:59 You watch it.
10:00 You'll see it.
10:01 They get here.
10:02 They put the cap on and look at you like you're a jerk.
10:06 And you are.
10:07 And you take it back and you reveal, I always reveal at this point, "Oh, what kind of person
10:10 would make something like this?
10:11 Ha ha ha ha."
10:12 So this is a great little joke utility prop.
10:16 Find your own uses for it and I hope you enjoy.
10:19 So this is a devilishly clever idea that I wish I could claim was mine.
10:24 However, my friend Mike Williams gave me permission to use it and put it out so it can be seen
10:29 by people because I think it really needs to be known.
10:32 It's a mentalism kind of thing using a Sharpie marker.
10:35 I'm not much of a mentalist, but if I was, I would use this all the time.
10:39 Something interesting a lot of people don't know.
10:40 If you buy a pack of Sharpie markers and when you first open them, you'll notice that they're
10:44 very, very shiny.
10:45 The top is just very, very reflective.
10:48 Something he noticed was when you tell somebody to sign their card, he realized that right
10:53 here in the curvature of the marker, you could see the card that you're asking them to sign.
11:00 Like I can see that that is the eight of clubs right there.
11:03 I'll do it again.
11:05 Just let me cut the cards like this.
11:06 I don't know what this card is, but I want you to sign this card right here.
11:10 That's the five of diamonds.
11:12 It's a shiner, a built-in shiner on a Sharpie marker.
11:15 Now if you own an older Sharpie or even if you just want to do this with a new one, you
11:19 take Arm Roll and you polish it up.
11:21 It gets even more reflective.
11:23 You shine the top of the Sharpie marker and it is almost like a little black mirror.
11:28 It's very strange.
11:29 So by doing this and saying I want you to sign this, you can see what card it is.
11:33 And I'm using Jumbo Index and it's actually even easier with normal pipped cards.
11:36 It's a little more difficult with Jumbo Index I've discovered.
11:40 Here in a second, I'll show you a close-up of exactly what you're seeing.
11:43 And send Mike Williams a thank you at his website and tell him how awesome this is because
11:49 quite frankly, it is.
11:50 Now here's the close-up.
11:51 So this is my double-ended Sharpie marker color change idea.
12:18 A little history on this effect.
12:20 In 2003, I think it was, I came up with this.
12:23 I was standing in line waiting my turn to do a close-up competition at a TAOM, a Texas
12:28 Association of Magicians convention.
12:29 And I started thinking about the old pen up the nose gag because I've always found it
12:32 hysterical.
12:33 And I thought, I wonder if there's a way to make it actually more magical.
12:37 And for some reason, the idea popped in my head to use two different colored caps.
12:41 And two or three minutes before I went on, I came up with this.
12:44 I put it right into the act immediately before I handed out a marker.
12:47 Got a great reaction and it's been in my act ever since.
12:50 So I'll show you pretty much how it works.
12:52 Pretty simple.
12:53 All you need is a Sharpie marker and a different colored cap.
12:56 It doesn't have to be green.
12:57 I like to use green because it's a good contrast.
12:59 You can use red, you can use yellow, you can use any color you want.
13:01 Just don't use another black or same color down here.
13:05 So I put this on here.
13:06 What I tend to do is I tend to put the clips facing opposite of each other like this.
13:10 It actually helps with the handling.
13:13 Because what you're going to do is you're going to slide this.
13:14 And the slide, if this is, this actually is hard to slide against.
13:18 So this is why.
13:20 So what's going to happen is you're going to do the old classic pen up the nose gag.
13:24 Like this.
13:25 So this is your situation.
13:26 This is where the marker sits in your hand.
13:27 And what's going to happen is this part is going to go in your mouth as you pull the
13:30 marker down out of your mouth.
13:33 Now you react.
13:35 Like, whoa.
13:36 And look around.
13:37 Wait a second.
13:38 Leave it in your mouth.
13:39 Look around.
13:40 Like, what just happened?
13:41 Let people kind of really get what just happened.
13:42 They'll appreciate the effect.
13:43 Because sometimes it takes a little bit for them to catch on what's going on.
13:47 So then you remove the marker like this.
13:50 And all I'm doing is hiding this behind my hand like that as I remove it.
13:57 So it flips up and out.
13:58 I look at it and I'm like, "Ew.
13:59 That's kind of weird."
14:00 So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to shake the marker once and nothing happens.
14:03 Don't do that.
14:04 I shake the marker once, nothing happens.
14:06 And I shake the marker again and it changes.
14:08 And then I can hand the marker out.
14:10 And the reason, the way the change works is this.
14:14 You shake the marker once and nothing happens.
14:16 That's to set them up for the motion happening.
14:19 So I shake, nothing.
14:21 And now what's going to happen is I shake as my hand comes up.
14:25 You want to do this on the upswing, not the downswing.
14:27 Because of the way the motion blur of this move works, it's going in the same motion
14:32 as your arm.
14:33 It'll make sense in a second.
14:34 So I shake.
14:35 And what's going to happen is my fingers are going to do this.
14:39 Middle finger on top.
14:40 And I'm going to rotate between these two fingers.
14:45 So I'll do this in slow motion.
14:47 Shake.
14:48 And then, like this.
14:51 It goes up just like that.
14:54 Done it fast, it happens like this.
14:57 So that's really it.
14:59 This is the only move you really have to learn for this.
15:01 It's nothing too complicated, nothing too crazy.
15:04 And then all you have to do is push up with the thumb and first finger, dislodge it from
15:07 the cap and you can hand it out.
15:09 Now I started playing with other ideas with this.
15:11 For a while I thought of other uses for this move.
15:15 And I ended up coming up with this idea.
15:18 Let's say I have here a $20 bill.
15:23 And I have somebody sign it or whatever I want them to do with it.
15:28 So what's going to happen is we're going to place it here for safekeeping, just like this.
15:35 Now the bill is going to be safe and you set it on the table or something like that.
15:40 And what ends up happening is you've switched it for another bill, just like that.
15:45 You can use this move as a bill switch, which is kind of cool.
15:49 Now the setup for this is a little different, obviously.
15:51 What you're going to do is you're going to take whatever bill you're switching it for,
15:54 a flash bill, a duplicate bill, something like that, just whatever you need.
15:58 And you're going to slip it right here.
15:59 Now you're going to take a duplicate colored cap, like this, and you're going to place
16:04 it here on the bill, like this.
16:07 As you can see, it fits like this.
16:10 And what happens is this, with the bill, goes into your pocket on the inside.
16:15 I just slide it here and I let the bill and the clip hang over the pocket, like that.
16:20 So you have them sign their bill, you fold it up into a little square.
16:24 Now one thing, I will say, if you're switching it for a different denomination of bill, you're
16:28 going to want to make sure that no numbers are exposed on the outside.
16:31 You don't want the 20 showing, like this.
16:34 You want just a green bill with a random pattern on it.
16:38 So you're going to reach in and you're going to remove the bill.
16:41 And you're going to obscure this with your hand, like this.
16:45 This is here.
16:46 Now, you're going to slip this up underneath there, like this.
16:49 And you're not going to do any kind of shake, shake, shake move.
16:51 What's going to happen is you're going to drop your hand just for a second and then
16:55 come up.
16:56 And as you come up, you're going to execute the move.
16:59 It's hard to see on the camera, but again, as you come down, you just, like this.
17:04 And it can almost be done fairly slow.
17:06 But again, it shouldn't be, tension should not be drawn to it.
17:09 So you slip the bill in there like that.
17:11 You come down, so we're going to put it right there.
17:13 And now what happens is you steal off the duplicate cap here and set it down.
17:19 So now you've stolen out the bill and can do whatever you want with it.
17:22 You can stick it in a lemon if you want to, just like that.
17:25 And of course, I suppose you could also do this as an actual bill change itself.
17:30 After that, you would want the bills to be folded with the 20 out like this.
17:36 So one more time, you're going to start out with the bill you want to change to on the
17:41 real cap, not the duplicate cap, but you want this on the real cap like this, just like
17:45 that.
17:46 Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn the cap facing the opposite direction.
17:49 So the clip is here, the clip is here.
17:51 So you take this and you place the 20 facing out like this.
17:55 And say, "Watch, we're going to cut your money in half by shaking the bill like that."
18:01 And then you can hand them the marker.
18:02 You can say, "Here, I want you to take that."
18:04 And they take it and fold it and it's changed.
18:06 So that's a few things you can do with the color changing cap idea.
18:11 Hi, I'm Nick Dufat and this is the Plane Change.
18:15 Hey guys, here's a little explanation for the plane change.
18:22 All you're going to need is a bright colored marker and a cap from another marker that
18:26 contrasts the regular marker that you're going to be using.
18:30 All you need is to put it on the other end but not too tight because you will be pulling
18:33 it off with your pinky in just a second.
18:36 The basic idea of the change is that you're putting your middle finger behind the pen
18:39 and quickly turning the pen and hiding the cap behind the flushing bit of your thumb
18:45 so from the front you can't see it.
18:47 Now this is only in this position for a second because you will be repositioning it, putting
18:51 it inside of the hand and removing the cap, repositioning it to kind of a weird cap palm,
18:58 grabbing the pen sideways and displaying it.
19:01 So I'll go through that in full right now.
19:03 You have the X-Cap on the other side of the pen, regular pen is on the inside of your
19:07 hand.
19:08 You come forward to blow on it and you quickly turn the pen with your middle finger to the
19:14 back of your hand.
19:15 You're going to make a gesture and as you gesture your pen is going to go right around
19:21 your thumb, push the pen forward.
19:23 This is going to aid you in removing the cap to display the pen.
19:27 As that happens you take the cap and you put it into your cap palm position of your middle
19:32 finger and your second finger, grabbing the pen and your final display.
19:37 Thanks for watching and that is the plane change.
19:42 Okay so now we're going to talk about reels.
19:44 These are some of my favorite things to play with.
19:48 You can do so much with reels.
19:49 Now obviously using reels with sharpening markers is nothing new.
19:52 You can obviously use them to vanish them and stuff like that, switch them.
19:55 There's been a lot of stuff explored with it but I started working on some ideas that
19:59 were not explored I think.
20:02 So these are the kind of reels I use.
20:04 I use badge reels.
20:05 Cheap, easy to find, easily accessible badge reels.
20:08 You can get them from a lot of places.
20:10 This one I got from a place called Axeman up in Minnesota.
20:13 It's a cool store.
20:15 Go there.
20:16 And these work great.
20:17 These are smooth.
20:18 These are quiet for a badge reel.
20:20 The thing is not all badge reels are made the same.
20:23 You pick up some say from Walmart and they'll be very rough and noisy.
20:26 They'll like get stuck and you'll hear like it sounds like pull starting a lawnmower.
20:32 So shop around.
20:33 Find a reel that works for you.
20:35 Sometimes they're pricey but sometimes it's worth it.
20:38 Office supply stores tend to have nicer ones than dollar stores do.
20:43 So this is one of the badge reels I'm using right now.
20:47 For all the things you're going to learn here you're going to want to take off this piece
20:50 right here.
20:51 This little metal and plastic hangy thing.
20:53 Just take some needle nose pliers or any pliers really and bend the metal and get rid of it.
20:57 That's really all you have to do.
20:59 That will end you up with something like this.
21:02 There's a little nubbin here on the end like that.
21:05 So now a number of these effects are going to use the badge reel attached to a marker
21:13 but not permanently attached.
21:14 You can permanently attach them and some of them you should but you'll know what those
21:19 are.
21:20 Now you can also go out and spend a lot of money and pick up a really nice one like something
21:23 like this.
21:24 Steel cable, really long, very powerful.
21:27 It's not necessary.
21:28 If you have one, if you have a nice magic reel, locking reel or something sitting around,
21:32 go ahead and use it if you like but quite frankly this is all you're going to need.
21:37 You need to have two objects signed but you only have one marker.
21:39 What do you do?
21:40 Simple.
21:41 Break it into two.
21:46 Usually my creative process starts out something like this.
21:48 Wouldn't it be funny if...
21:50 Yeah, yeah it would.
21:52 And so I'm always trying to find interesting ways to do things and this is one where I
21:55 wanted to be able to have two people sign something at the same time without just handing
21:59 them two markers because that's boring.
22:01 So I came up with the idea of snapping a marker into two tiny markers when I saw these, these
22:06 little tiny keychain markers.
22:07 So what you're going to need for this is a normal Sharpie marker.
22:10 You're going to need two little tiny keychain Sharpie markers.
22:13 You can just pull the little keychain part off.
22:15 They snap right on and off and make sure they're the same color because otherwise that's going
22:18 to be strange.
22:20 So these go into my pocket over here on the sides of my side coat pocket or my pants pocket.
22:25 It doesn't matter which, just somewhere out of sight.
22:27 I also have my badge reel which is here on my side, clipped onto my belt.
22:32 Some of them clip, some of them tend to slide on like a money clip.
22:35 It doesn't matter but you want to make sure it's on the side.
22:38 If it's on the front of the back, if it's on the front it's not going to be amazing
22:42 when it's hanging there in front of you and back it's a little hard to reach to.
22:45 So I tend to put it on my side.
22:47 Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this part right here, the little nubbin as
22:51 you can see hanging, and I'm going to slip this just right here onto there.
22:55 The tension keeps it on, the little bead keeps it in place.
22:58 You can permanently affix it but I find there's no reason to do that so I just tend to leave
23:02 it on like that because it's just going to hang by your side.
23:05 That is now set up here by my side.
23:08 One other thing you can do before we go on, I've done this but it isn't necessary.
23:13 Sometimes I will trap the second marker between the bead and the marker like this so there's
23:18 two of them hanging next to each other.
23:21 And then that negates having to search your pockets the first time.
23:26 But you can play with that if you want because all that happens is you come up and then the
23:31 marker slides off the string into your hand because it's teeny tiny.
23:34 But for argument's sake we're going to use this presentation where they start out in
23:38 your pockets.
23:39 So start in your pockets, you go looking around, you say I need to find a marker and you steal
23:45 out this one right here.
23:47 And then you reach back into what appears to be your back pocket or your side pocket
23:51 and you find out there's one and then you start looking around for a second one.
23:54 Now you're holding on the tiny marker along to this marker attached to the reel.
23:58 You start looking for a second one and you don't find anything but you steal out this
24:02 marker.
24:03 So you're like that's weird, oh I got an idea.
24:05 So you're going to bring your hands together.
24:07 One little tip is you want to make sure this marker here, the cap is facing out like this
24:13 and you'll know why in a second.
24:15 So I was like I got an idea.
24:16 Now you're going to use both hands while holding out to obscure this marker like this.
24:21 And you're going to do this a little lower.
24:23 For the camera's sake I'm doing it up here but you're going to do it a little lower in
24:26 a horizontal, basically in line with the badge reel.
24:30 This way it'll shoot straight in horizontally and not down at an angle.
24:34 So you come here and then what's going to happen is I'm going to let, once my hand's
24:37 obscured I'm going to let go of the marker and it's going to shoot into my coat like
24:40 this.
24:41 Now I'm going to reach over and I'm going to snap the top of this like that with my
24:45 fingers.
24:46 I kind of turn palm up to palm down.
24:49 And as I snap this I actually make a snapping motion with my fingers.
24:54 So it looks like you take the marker and you snap it into two tiny markers.
24:59 I also like to set them next to each other so you can see the sizes are the same and
25:03 you can tell they've definitely changed size.
25:05 But now you can hand this out, have two things signed at the same time and you've done a
25:09 little bit of magic for the people.
25:11 So there is what I like to call snap crackle twins.
25:15 If you've ever seen one of these before these actually can hold a lot of stuff inside of
25:19 them which is actually pretty cool.
25:20 It's right here.
25:21 You can see right there.
25:24 Now the hard part of course is not taking the marker out of the bag, it's putting the
25:30 bag inside the marker.
25:33 Now we need to get the bag out of the marker there and then just push it back inside.
25:47 So this is a way to produce a marker just to kind of get into.
25:50 What kind of inspired this was I was watching John Carney do the old, I want to say Leipzig
25:54 cigar purses.
25:55 Or you know pulling a cigar in and out and everything.
25:58 But it's a lot of sleight of hand, a lot of sleeving.
26:00 I'm not against sleeving but it was a lot of work.
26:04 So I wanted to simplify it and I thought well I also don't smoke cigars and nobody I hang
26:07 out with does.
26:08 So what I ended up coming up with was shopping markers are the same size as cigars so let's
26:13 use those.
26:14 So I ended up getting a hold of some of these little cigar purses.
26:18 Brian O'Neill in Dallas originally supplied these and you can still find some of them
26:21 online but all you need is a little purse like this.
26:23 You can actually use a little tiny coin purse as well.
26:26 It's going to require a little bit of a different modification to it but just find some sort
26:30 of small purse that is a lot smaller than a shopping marker.
26:34 And then what you're going to do is you're going to cut a small hole in the back, big
26:37 enough for a shopping marker to fit through right here.
26:40 And one thing I have found that really helps for this routine is to reinforce this part
26:45 right here.
26:46 You want a lip, a little edge on this and you want to reinforce it a little bit.
26:49 You can use glue, you can stick some post-it board or even take a cut up a Coke can and
26:54 put some metal in there and glue it in.
26:56 You just want it reinforced a little bit, a little stiffer than just the leather.
27:00 So this is, you're going to need a little coin purse like this or a little cigar purse
27:04 if you will.
27:05 What you're also going to need is a little badge reel here with a marker cap, shopping
27:11 marker cap permanently attached to it.
27:13 All I did with this was I took the marker, the line and I tied it around the cap of the
27:19 pen here, pen cap and I just wrapped it in electrical tape.
27:23 I've had this for years and it's never come apart so this will last you forever until
27:28 the thread breaks basically.
27:30 So that is the other gimmick you need.
27:32 And of course you need a shopping marker.
27:34 So I used this black one here for this.
27:37 So what we're going to do is you're going to load this up here like this.
27:41 What's going to happen is you're going to stick this marker into the bag or the purse
27:47 here like this.
27:48 Now the reason I attach it to the clip and not like drill a hole in there is because
27:53 I want this edge.
27:54 I want this little rounded edge right here because what's going to happen is this is
27:59 going to go in and the edge is what keeps this cap inside of the purse.
28:06 As you can see this doesn't shoot out because of the reinforced edge.
28:10 Now one thing that does help is to stuff it off into the side of the purse just for extra
28:14 safety like that.
28:16 I suppose if you were really paranoid about it you could embed a magnet in there and put
28:20 some shim on there and more velcro.
28:22 You could do these things but I find they're not necessary.
28:24 Second thing you're going to do is you're going to take the shopping marker and you're
28:28 going to stuff it up next to the cap inside.
28:32 We'll do it through this way like this.
28:34 And you're going to hook the clip onto that lip.
28:38 So now everything is hanging by that lip of the bag like this.
28:42 And so this is your situation and you're going to clip this onto your belt like this.
28:48 Put this on and the nice thing about this is your setup is like that and you're good
28:53 to go.
28:54 It just hangs at your side.
28:55 It stays contained.
28:57 No problems.
28:58 So now here's how the production works.
28:59 You're going to reach back into your pocket and you're going to remove the purse.
29:04 Now it looks like you're holding the purse at your fingertips but this is what's going
29:07 on right here.
29:08 You've got this thing all hidden behind your hand.
29:10 You're going to open up the purse like this and you're going to slowly remove the shopping
29:15 marker.
29:16 And when I say slowly I mean you pull a little bit out like this and you stop.
29:19 You pull a little bit more out and you stop.
29:21 Let them appreciate the effect.
29:22 This is actually one of the same things Carney says on his, I want to say it's the Carnecopia
29:26 DVD.
29:27 Don't get me wrong.
29:28 I could be wrong about that but we'll check.
29:31 So you produce this like this and there's a couple of different places you can go from
29:34 here.
29:35 But before we go over those options, what you do is you close the purse and now what's
29:41 going to happen is you're going to flip your middle finger underneath the line.
29:46 I take it like that.
29:48 So this is what's happening.
29:49 This is what it looks like here.
29:51 But you're going to be holding your hand flat.
29:53 So you're here.
29:54 Your middle finger goes underneath all your fingers.
29:57 The only finger that isn't is this one.
29:59 And you're going to lay the purse flat on your hand.
30:01 So now it looks like it's not attached to anything.
30:03 And I like to lay the marker right next to it so they can really appreciate the size
30:07 difference of what just happened.
30:09 This is where the effect really sinks in.
30:10 You just go, "Oh, that's interesting."
30:13 So now what you can do is you can just put the bag away.
30:14 You can just reach back into your back pocket and put it back and save it for the next bit.
30:19 One of the things I like to do is I like to get to this point here and I'm going to turn
30:24 my hand over, which actually gets you out of this move.
30:28 The reel will just go back under your hand.
30:31 So then what happens is I show the Sharpie marker and I let the bag shoot into my coat
30:35 like that.
30:36 Obviously not this high up.
30:37 You want to do it closer down to your belt and closer to your jacket edge.
30:41 So you let the bag go and I say, "Now, getting the marker out of the bag is not the hard
30:46 part.
30:47 The hard part is getting the bag into the marker."
30:51 And that's just kind of a weird moment for the people.
30:54 Now you can hand out the marker, let them do whatever you need to with it, and when
30:57 you're done you can put the marker away.
30:59 Or you can go back into, you can put the marker back into the purse.
31:04 What I tended to do with that was I would, while they're signing something, I would reach
31:07 back and I'd steal the bag back into my hand.
31:10 And I'd say, "Let me pull the bag out of the purse."
31:14 Or let me pull the bag, excuse me, "Let me pull the purse out of the marker."
31:17 You can also remove the cap like this and you can try to pull it out, but I find it's
31:22 not necessary at all.
31:24 So you can just pretend to pull it out of the marker and there you go.
31:29 So, sorry I knocked the cap loose here.
31:32 So now you're going to put the pen back inside the marker.
31:35 One thing I suggest is you tightly grip the pen cap gimmick through the purse here so
31:40 it doesn't shoot out or shift around too much.
31:43 That's also good advice when you're removing the marker as well.
31:47 It just helps keep everything in place.
31:48 So you're going to pop the purse open.
31:51 And you don't want to open it up like this because then you can see the Sharpie marker
31:54 cap.
31:55 Just pop the back open.
31:56 You just need to open it up just a little bit.
31:57 That's all you need.
31:58 So now you're going to place the Sharpie marker into the cap gimmick.
32:02 You're going to push it in snug and now you're going to go from a vertical position to a
32:06 horizontal position as you're trying to force.
32:09 You want to make it look like it's hard to do this.
32:11 You're going to, but what's happening is, I'm going to show you, this is the back side,
32:15 you're forcing this out through the hole, but your fingers are hiding it like this.
32:22 Realist bullet.
32:23 So you're like, okay.
32:25 Now as you're doing that, you're going to push this thing and as soon as you get it
32:29 pushed out of the hole, you're going to let it go.
32:31 It's going to shoot into your coat.
32:33 As long as your hands are down here, like I said, you want this by your belt.
32:37 So you want to make sure all the motion is here like you're, because you don't want to
32:40 start and then all of a sudden drop your hands for no reason.
32:43 You want to make sure all the actions are congruent.
32:47 So you push, push, push, push.
32:49 And now what I do is I stick my finger all the way into the bag as I'm pushing the marker
32:53 through and then I curl my first finger like this and keep the three fingers tight next
32:59 to it like this.
33:00 So it looks like, pretend this is the marker.
33:04 You can tilt your hand back towards yourself.
33:06 Don't go straight up and down because you can maybe flash this.
33:09 So I kind of keep my hand tilted back.
33:12 Now what I'm doing is I'm reaching over and I'm pinching and pulling it off, which looks,
33:15 gives you this great depth illusion.
33:17 But what's actually happening is I'm here and my fingers hide that.
33:24 So I can curl my finger up and open as I remove that.
33:27 So it gives you this really nice illusion of depth.
33:30 And all I'm doing is just pinching the edge of the bag as it comes up like that.
33:36 Now you can close.
33:38 Now what I, a little subtlety again, these are things that you can do if you feel like
33:41 you want to, but as the saying goes, don't run if you're not being chased.
33:47 As you remove the bag from your finger like this, you can rotate the bag, hiding the hole
33:53 with your fingers to close it.
33:55 And now you can turn the bag over.
33:57 So it looks like you've showed the back, even though you've just altered the orientation
34:02 a little bit.
34:03 So let me, I did that kind of slow.
34:04 Let me run you through that last part again at a little bit more of a speed.
34:09 So you take the purse, drop the Sharpie in there like this, push, push, push, like this,
34:17 let the marker go, come up, release, show, snap closed and put the purse away back where
34:26 you got it from.
34:28 And that is Itty Bitty Living Space.
34:31 [music]
34:49 So this next routine uses a specialty reel, if you will.
34:54 It uses one of these.
34:55 This is called a lighter leash.
34:57 They're used to hold lighters on your side.
35:00 Now this is an older style model.
35:01 The older ones have a black thread on them and a little money clip type holder.
35:05 The new ones have kind of a carabiner clip on the top of them and the thread is white.
35:10 If you look around eBay, online or some older gas stations, you can probably still find
35:14 these.
35:15 However, also Nate Cranzo had a, I think a DVD and a lot of magic with this.
35:19 He had some great stuff.
35:21 So get a hold of him.
35:22 He could probably help you out or just get the DVD because it had some good stuff on
35:25 it.
35:26 So this is what you're going to need.
35:27 It's like this.
35:28 There's a whole bunch of stuff in these, including Sharpie markers.
35:32 One is kind of loose, but two is nice and snug.
35:35 So I started thinking about the idea of mixing colors together and I thought, "Oh, that's
35:41 kind of cool.
35:42 I wonder what I could do with that."
35:43 So I came up with this concept using, let's say, red and yellow make orange.
35:48 Well, what happened if I squished two Sharpie markers together to make another color?
35:52 I started thinking of all these ideas with like shells and cheese and a bunch of other
35:56 stuff, but I didn't like any of it.
35:58 I thought I found the lighter leash in my bag and went, "Wait a minute.
36:02 That's perfect.
36:03 It's exactly what I need."
36:04 So any color combination that equals another color will work.
36:08 Yellow and red make orange.
36:11 Yellow and blue make green and red and blue make purple.
36:15 I really should know my colors better.
36:18 So anyway, this is what you have.
36:20 You can start out with, you want the orange.
36:23 This is what the color you're going to end up with.
36:24 You want the orange either up your sleeve or you want it into your pocket here on the
36:29 side.
36:30 Either way is fine.
36:32 And this, you hand these out.
36:33 And this is something you do at the end of having something signed.
36:36 A lot of the tricks on this DVD are before the markers get handed out.
36:40 This is when they get handed back.
36:42 So you take the markers, hand them out, let them be signed.
36:44 While they're signing them, you do two things.
36:46 You reach over to behind you and you steal out off your side, which I have not attached
36:50 yet.
36:51 So this needs to go on your side first.
36:54 This clips onto the belt loop like that.
36:57 So you steal this off here and you also steal out this from your hand here.
37:03 Now you're going to take back the markers.
37:07 You don't have to steal it out right this second.
37:09 This is where I tend to do it.
37:10 I'm going to put it to my side just for a minute so I can talk.
37:12 You steal back one marker, you get back one marker and you insert it into the lighter
37:16 leash like this.
37:17 It goes in there.
37:18 And it'll stay in there.
37:19 It's a rubbery grip, it won't fall out or anything like that.
37:22 So then you take back the second one like this.
37:24 And you can kind of stagger them like this.
37:26 You can just shove them down together.
37:27 And what I do is I look at them.
37:29 At this point you can put your hand in your pocket and steal out the orange one or you
37:32 can have it the whole time and just use it to insert this here.
37:36 So I've got this.
37:37 Now I look at the markers and I go, "Hmm, I wonder."
37:40 Now I don't tell them what's about to happen.
37:41 I just kind of get a weird look in my face about something I'd like to do.
37:45 So now what's going to happen is I'm going to reach over and I'm going to start squeezing
37:48 like this.
37:49 But nothing's going to happen.
37:50 What I'm going to do is I'm going to push my first finger in the middle of these two
37:55 markers like this, which separates them, which makes them look like they're not connected
37:59 to anything.
38:00 They're separated like this.
38:01 Holding them like this seems strange.
38:03 So I do this.
38:04 Now because of the rubber of the lighter leash, it just chills out like that.
38:08 It actually stretches and flexes and it goes right back to its shape.
38:12 So I look at it like this.
38:14 Now what's going to happen is I'm going to go up and grab this one more time.
38:19 And a little note, you want to make sure the cap is the same orientation as this.
38:23 So this actually is the way it should be being held by me right now.
38:27 So I'm going to reach over and I'm going to grip this, the end of this marker, with the
38:31 thumb as I start doing "er-er-er."
38:34 But right as you do that, you let go.
38:36 And I'll do this up here so you can see.
38:38 So right as you come over and you do your squeeze, I'm going to let go of this like
38:44 that.
38:45 And that goes inside like this.
38:46 And I'm going to crush, crush, crush.
38:47 And I come away from my body when I do this.
38:48 I go "er-er-er" like this.
38:50 And now I have one color.
38:51 And the marker can then be handed out to be signed for something else or just left on
38:55 a table.
38:56 It is still a usable marker.
38:57 That was what was the most important to me, was to be able to have the markers be borrowed
39:01 or handled.
39:03 No gimmicks, no nothing.
39:05 Except for obviously this one right here.
39:07 So one more time.
39:08 I'm going to do this up here where you can see it.
39:09 It's going to be like this.
39:10 I'm going to come over and go "er-er-er."
39:13 Like that.
39:16 And it squeezes.
39:17 All of this stuff is mirror practice.
39:18 You've got to find your sweet zone, if you will, where the reels will go in and out on
39:24 your body.
39:25 There is no place I can tell you that exactly will do it.
39:28 So that's that right there.
39:31 And now it's time to have a little talk on sleeving.
39:35 That's right.
39:36 One of the magician's secret weapons.
39:38 But a lot of people think they know about it or don't know much about it but always
39:42 want to try it.
39:43 And I am here to help you.
39:45 That's right.
39:46 I've been doing sleeving for a very long time.
39:47 I have a lot of tips and little tricks and my own kind of methods for it.
39:50 I kind of self-taught myself and so I'm going to share with you the things that I've discovered
39:55 that makes it very easy.
39:57 For a longer object, such as a Sharpie marker in this example, what we're going to do is
40:01 we're going to sleeve using the first finger.
40:04 A lot of resources tell you to use the middle finger.
40:07 But I don't think it has the same power and it also leaves you looking a little awkward.
40:13 So I tend to use the first finger for what I do and it works just fine.
40:17 And the reason for that is since I also do a lot of flip stick moves, this puts me into
40:21 the perfect position for what I need.
40:24 And I'll show you what I mean.
40:25 Let's say you're holding a flat object such as a Sharpie marker.
40:29 What you're going to do is you're going to have it laying as the hand like this.
40:33 Now you want the end touching here, around the first finger.
40:36 You're actually going to curl in the middle finger like this.
40:41 The reason for this is so when you turn your hand it doesn't fall and drop on the floor.
40:45 That's the main reason for it.
40:47 But this also happens to be the exact positioning once you flip stick something.
40:52 This is your position.
40:53 But when you start out using a flat hand, let's say you go from this position to this
40:57 position, this is what you're going to do.
41:00 So you're going to do this and then you're going to turn your hand, palm down like this.
41:06 Now, you can also use your thumb to hold it in place but it's not necessary.
41:10 Do this and you push with the first finger like this, boom.
41:14 And it sleeves it, goes right in.
41:17 And so going from this position to this position using the big motion to hide the small motion,
41:22 you end up with a vanish.
41:24 And a lot of people I think don't use the sleeving as an effect in itself and I think
41:28 it's a great purpose for it like that.
41:30 So it's gone.
41:31 Now, that's the basics of it right there but there's a lot of little things that you need
41:38 to know about this.
41:40 One is I have my undershirt, my button up shirt rolled up.
41:43 The sleeve is actually rolled up to here.
41:45 That way there's very little resistance here in the jacket.
41:48 Also this jacket doesn't have a whole lot of extra liner.
41:52 This is also something if you have a jacket with a lot of bunched up liner inside, you
41:55 want to get it tacked down, sewn down or glued down, something like that.
41:59 One of the two.
42:00 The object can fly up with very little obstruction.
42:06 That's a big tip right there.
42:08 So with a little bit of practice, you can slip stick it, vanish it.
42:13 You can do stuff like this or disappears like that.
42:16 There's many, many things you can do with sleeving once you learn the secrets.
42:21 Also here's something I haven't really shared with anybody yet so you're kind of the first
42:24 ones to know about it.
42:26 There's the one time you use the middle fingers when you want to re-sleeve something.
42:30 Like a lot of times when you put your arms down to catch an object like this, what's
42:34 going to happen is it's going to fall into your hand.
42:37 But then if you need to re-sleeve it or somebody's burning your hand and you want to show your
42:40 hand empty, that's when the middle finger is good to sleeve with.
42:45 As you come up, you push in with the middle finger like that.
42:48 And that tends to work okay.
42:50 However, the problem is you kind of get this weird motion here with your wrist to kind
42:56 of push down as you come up.
42:57 And something I recently realized that works with normal suit jackets, trench coats, coats
43:04 like this, it's a little harder to do this.
43:06 What's going to happen is after you sleeve your object, as you're dropping your hand
43:09 to your side, you're going to use your middle finger to trap your coat against the side
43:14 of the palm of your, the heel of your hand like this.
43:17 So what's going to happen is as you drop your hand down, that object is going to stay trapped
43:21 here.
43:22 The marker's right here.
43:23 It's going to stay trapped and won't fall out.
43:26 And now if you need to resleeve something, you lift your hand up like this and immediately
43:29 it slides back down.
43:32 One also, one also, also one tip that you should know is when you drop your hand down
43:38 to your side after you sleeve something, you generally either want it to be both hands
43:42 going from a moment of excitement to a moment of rest.
43:45 I believe Sladini has a term of, about this of hands being alive and then dead, I believe
43:51 is the term for it.
43:53 Or you need to be reaching forward for something.
43:55 So once I sleeve something like this, once something disappears, I drop both my hands
43:59 down so it's a symmetrical, symmetrical look to it.
44:04 The, or if I sleeve something like this, I reach for something and this hand drops to
44:09 its side naturally while they're looking here.
44:12 If you do this and then just go down to immediately sleeve and catch it, their eye follows that
44:17 movement like a cat with a laser pointer.
44:20 They follow it.
44:21 So you want it to be symmetrical.
44:22 And if you end up doing this motion here where you catch it and the object doesn't fall out,
44:27 then if they see them burning, you immediately come up and there's no weird motion of your
44:31 hands whatsoever.
44:32 It's just kind of a weird thing I noticed.
44:34 You also want to not have your hand curled in too much.
44:37 You want to kind of keep your wrist pulled out like this so your hands, get in front
44:41 of a mirror and check this out.
44:42 So you want your hands to look kind of the same as they hang there at your sides.
44:46 So there's, there's some tips on sleeving.
44:48 I hope you enjoyed it.
44:49 Now let's get on to the magic.
44:51 You ever seen that optical illusion where you take a pen and do this, it looks like
44:54 it's shrinking.
44:55 Yeah, I've been trying to get it to work for years and I've never been able to get it to
44:58 get any smaller.
45:01 So earlier you saw me snap a normal size sharpener marker into two tiny ones like this.
45:05 And I love little weird objects like this, a little weird, incongruent objects that are
45:10 similar to what people know, but not, you know, it's, even though they know these exist,
45:15 they still go, Ooh, magic.
45:16 It's like why some, some iPhone app magic still works.
45:20 People just immediately dismiss it as technology because they want to believe in the magic
45:24 so much.
45:25 They don't run to the obvious method immediately or ever sometimes.
45:28 So even though these exist and people have seen them, it's still amazing when you do
45:31 something with them.
45:32 So you need a little tiny sharpie marker, a little key chain marker again, you're going
45:36 to need a marker of the same color like this.
45:38 So these are going to go into separate pockets like this.
45:41 Now this is based on an old optical illusion.
45:43 I was reading, you know, I thought of the old optical illusion where it looks like you're
45:45 shrinking a marker.
45:46 And I thought, well, if you could really shrink a marker, how would I shrink a marker?
45:50 And there are a couple of people who have done something similar like this.
45:52 If you take your fingers and do this, get real close and you do this in front and look
45:55 forward, you get a little weird kind of mutant finger floating in front of your eyes.
45:59 Just an optical illusion, but there's a magician, I forget his name and I apologize, who actually
46:03 sells what appears to be a little thing and you can do it out here and it's visual and
46:07 it looks, it's hilarious.
46:08 So I love stuff like that.
46:10 And so this is kind of the inspiration for this trick.
46:13 So what you're gonna do is you're going to reach in your pockets and pull out both markers,
46:15 but you palm this one right here.
46:18 You pull this one out.
46:19 You say, have you ever seen the thing where you, where it looks like the marker is shrinking
46:23 in a book like this?
46:25 And this is in a lot of optical illusion books, which I've always find it strange that optical
46:30 illusion books and books on magic are in the games and hobbies section of bookstores, but
46:33 yet books on mime are still in the performing arts section.
46:37 Somebody needs to explain that to me.
46:39 I digress.
46:40 So you're holding this out and you do the little shrinking.
46:42 Oh, does it look like it's shrinking?
46:43 It looks like it's getting smaller.
46:44 It doesn't matter what they say.
46:46 They say yes, they say no, whatever.
46:48 So what's going to happen is you're not going to lay the marker flat on your hand and get
46:53 ready to sleeve it.
46:54 You're about to sleeve the marker.
46:55 Okay.
46:56 And, but you do this, you say, I've been trying this for years and never gotten it to work.
47:00 And as you say that you sleeve the marker and immediately you go back into the motion
47:04 and you just load the little marker in between your hands.
47:07 So it looks like it's getting smaller and you stop and you wait for them to notice it.
47:11 Don't go, ta-da, don't do that.
47:13 Just wait and let it be weird to you.
47:15 Be like, Whoa, look at that.
47:17 Huh, well here you go.
47:18 Sign the card or whatever you're going to do with it.
47:19 So one more time.
47:20 You're here.
47:21 Ta-da, does it look like it's shrinking?
47:23 Yes, no, maybe so.
47:24 Like that.
47:25 You say, I've been trying it for years.
47:26 I don't know how it's supposed to work.
47:28 And I usually keep eye contact.
47:29 I mean, I look at them.
47:31 So this is kind of peripheral.
47:32 They just kind of see it happen.
47:34 They're not focusing on it.
47:36 It's weird.
47:37 I don't understand.
47:38 I, Whoa, look at that.
47:39 That's magic.
47:40 Much like the shrinking marker trick previously, this effect is based on something people already
47:57 know.
47:58 It's the old vanishing marker thing.
47:59 One, two, three.
48:00 Oh, look at that.
48:01 It's gone.
48:02 And this still amazes some people.
48:04 And I'm amazed by that personally.
48:06 So but it's up here in case you didn't know.
48:09 But it's a great little joke trick and everything.
48:11 But I thought, what if you really did it?
48:13 You know, do it with a joke the first time and then really did what you said you were
48:16 going to do.
48:17 So I started playing with the idea and I came up with this.
48:19 So you need two markers of the same color.
48:22 Don't use black.
48:23 Don't use markers with black caps on them because it won't really pop against the side
48:28 of your head.
48:29 Now, of course, I'm wearing a red hat and using red markers.
48:31 So whatever.
48:32 It's really two duplicate markers I really had.
48:35 So you're going to start out with this in your sleeve.
48:38 You already learned about sleeving.
48:39 So you could have this pre-sleeved.
48:40 You could have it in your pocket.
48:41 But having it in your sleeve is the best way to go.
48:44 And so what you would do is you would have this in your coat or you would have it in
48:48 your pocket or something like that.
48:50 You reach into your coat and sleeve the marker, which is pretty easy.
48:54 You just reach in your pocket.
48:55 You're looking for something.
48:56 Steal this out and just sleeve it as you reach for this.
49:00 Pretty little simple load.
49:01 So now you're going to do the gag.
49:02 And you want to make sure that you hold it by the colored cap because that way the colored
49:06 cap is here, is showing like this.
49:09 So you're going to do the move.
49:11 You're going to go one, two, three.
49:13 It's gone.
49:14 And then you're going to point.
49:15 And as you do this, you're going to drop this hand to the side and catch the marker out
49:20 of your sleeve.
49:21 So look at that.
49:22 It's up there.
49:23 And they're going to go, "Oh, cool.
49:25 Whatever."
49:26 So now you're going to come up to your ear here.
49:30 Like you're going to reach up.
49:32 And as you do it, you pull it out like you've removed the marker.
49:36 And I keep my head turned for a second so they don't see anything.
49:38 Now I say, "Now watch the marker."
49:40 Like this.
49:41 And I'm looking down here, but I'm going to look at you.
49:44 So you're going to do whatever vanish you want to do.
49:46 You're actually going to vanish the marker.
49:47 You can go one, two, three, vanish.
49:50 Show it gone.
49:51 And then go, "Look.
49:52 Here it is."
49:53 And they're like, "Whoa."
49:54 And now you've really done what you said you were going to do.
49:57 And all it takes is a duplicate marker.
49:59 This is kind of impromptu.
50:00 If you see two of them sitting around together in a cup, you just go, "Let me show you something."
50:04 So that is the behind-the-ear vanish for real.
50:09 [laughs]
50:10 Hi there.
50:12 What evidence?
50:14 You have no proof of anything I'm doing here.
50:19 None at all.
50:24 This is a vanishing marker idea I've been doing for a long time.
50:27 It just kind of made sense to me.
50:29 There's a couple jokes that they're talking about how permanent markers, the writing rubs
50:33 off and that's funny and everything.
50:35 But I thought, you know, a permanent marker, but how permanent is it?
50:38 So I started running it through my hands like this and I realized I could sleeve it and
50:42 make it disappear like that.
50:45 And it's a great little vanish.
50:46 I've been doing it for a long time and I'm glad I can share it with you now.
50:49 In the book, in the e-book, it was a little hard.
50:51 It was in there, but it's really kind of hard to read.
50:54 So this way you finally get to see what it's supposed to look like and how it's done.
50:58 Start with your marker.
50:59 This is a simple kind of thing.
51:01 What's going to happen is you're going to run the marker through your hands.
51:03 You're just going to place it in your hands and push it with your thumb.
51:06 Grab, push.
51:07 And you're just turning your hands 180 like this.
51:10 This is all you're doing until you get to the moment where you want to vanish the marker.
51:14 What's going to happen is you're going to get it into that position like I taught you
51:17 earlier right here and you're going to sleeve it.
51:20 But the hard part is you're going to not break rhythm.
51:22 So you're here, here, here.
51:25 You grab, go into that position, sleeve and keep going a few times until it seems to have
51:31 just evaporated.
51:33 If you own one of those smoke gimmicks that makes things, shoots puffs of smoke in your
51:37 sleeve, this is perfect for that.
51:38 So you run the marker through your hand like this and then you just go and it like dissolves
51:43 away in your hands.
51:44 And it works great for that.
51:46 So practice it.
51:47 The hardest part is going to be keeping the rhythm of the pen.
51:52 And it's actually very angle proof.
51:54 Your angles are really covered pretty well on it, even dead on.
51:57 And so this is a little vanish I've been doing for a long time.
51:59 I hope you enjoy.
52:03 So that's the DVD.
52:04 I hope you enjoyed it.
52:05 I hope some of the things from the eBook make more sense now for you.
52:07 And just remember, all of these are layers.
52:10 These are things you do at the beginning of a trick or at the end of a trick.
52:14 They're just there to add some spice to the routines you're doing.
52:18 They're not tricks that exist on their own.
52:20 So if you have any cool ideas, additions to this, I'd like to see them.
52:23 Send them my way.
52:24 You can go to the website right down here.
52:26 And so that is a marked man.
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