You cannot go wrong with this set of videos. Gaetan Bloom's creations meet all of the requirements necessary of great magic and then surpass them. There is a wide variety of magic included on these tapes and most of the items pack very small and play very big. The magic is direct, creative and visual. If you ever wanted to fool magicians and laypeople so badly that the only possible explanation to what they saw is "real" magic then you must try the routines on these tapes. The methods employed are so unique that many have speculated that Gaetan Bloom must be from another planet.
Gaetan Bloom is one of the most creative magicians in the world. His magic it truly ingenious both in effect and in method. Volume One of this three-part series includes incredible magic with wristwatches, boxes, food, and cards. One of the many strengths of Gaetan's magic is that it is very easy to learn and perform. The most amazing thing about his magic is the you and your audiences will be fooled badly -- every single time.
Routines performed and explained: Your wristwatch vanishes and appears knotted in the center of a rope.
Rhodo Box Mystery: A clear box full of playing cards is shaken to mix cards. Packets of cards are shuffled and handed out. A card is selected from one group and lost in the packet. You pretend to memorize the packet with the selection. The spectator names his card and you immediately announce the exact position of the card in the deck. The spectator counts down and finds the selection. As a kicker ending you now name every single card in the second spectators packet. The impossible routine is accomplished through the devious clear box, which is easily made. Includes two bonus routines with the box.
McBloom: A brown paper bag is shown empty and an entire fast food meal is produced from it -- burgers, fries, napkins, soda, etc…
Stringing You Along: An impossible routine where the spectator shuffles the deck, cuts it into three piles and eliminates one. The procedure is repeated until only one card is left. The card matches a prediction, which has been in full view throughout the routine.
Blind Complicity: You write a prediction on a post it note. A spectator touches any facedown card and the post it note is glued on the card and the card is lost in the deck. A second spectator touches the face of any card. When the free selection is removed it is seen to have the post it note glued to it. When the post it note is unfolded the name of the card is written on it.
Fakir Royale: A board with nine nails holding lucky charms is displayed with the position of the charms hidden from view. Eight spectators each pull one nail out and keep the charm that falls. One nail is left for you and it is shown to be holding a stack of $100 bills.
Besides being one of the most creative magicians in the world Gaetan Bloom has a knack for inventing magic that not only fools laypeople but absolutely destroys magicians. If you enjoy being fooled and fooling others you must have this three-volume set of videos. It is amazing how his simple methods never fail to fool everyone. Volume Two includes magic with cigarettes, boxes, paper plates and cards.
Routines performed and explained: Teaching how to quit smoking by eating cigarette paper and a chunk of tobacco. You wash it all down with a glass of water and produce a cigarette from your mouth.
Bonux (Bleached): A card is freely selected and signed. It is thrown into a box of bleach with the rest of the deck and the box is shaken. A second spectator who selected two cards adds them up for a total. The cards are dumped out of the box and the signed selection is found at the number selected by the second spectator. As a kicker ending all the cards except the selection are now blank.
Fifty-Fifty: A guessing game where you keep betting money with a spectator on the locations of a big key and a small key. As a finale the spectator selects one of the keys -- he always looses by picking the key with an empty suitcase while the one he left for you is full of money and prizes.
Immortal: Using a deck of cards and an imaginative story about finding out when a man is going to die a spectator selects a card from one deck and it is found missing from a second deck.
The Plate Trick: A spectator shuffles a deck of cards, selects one and signs it. A second spectator shuffles some paper plates with numbers on them. A box of dice is also shaken. The plates are tossed into the audience. The dice read 2 and 6. The plate with 26 written on it is torn to show the signed selection imbedded within the paper.
Gaetan Bloom not only creates unique magic that fools but also constructs routines that are very direct and play very big. Although the routines are basically for close-up performances they are very visual and can be used for cabaret or even stage shows. Volume Three includes magic with newspapers, thread, Slinky, ropes and cards.
Routines performed and explained: A spectator thinks of any card and you tell him what card he is thinking of after asking a few simple questions.
The News: A shuffled deck of cards is scattered on a newspaper and the newspaper is shaken until cards turn face-up. The face-up cards are placed aside. You keep doing this until all the face-up cards are removed and only one face-down card remains. That card matches a prediction that has remained in full view since the beginning.
Lasso: A freely selected card is signed and returned to the deck. The deck is placed in a hat. A rope is lowered into the hat and when it is removed the signed selection is knotted on the rope.
Spring Diction: Sheets of newspaper are placed on the floor and a slinky is used to eliminate some of the sheets. The slinky is placed anywhere on the selected paper and the spectator thinks of a word located by the slinky. The thought of word has been predicted in advance.
Quarte: A horserace theme is used to randomly select the winning horses (actually playing cards from one through nine). At the conclusion a slate is shown with the correct results written in advance.
Remember the routines on these videos are easy to do and are guaranteed to entertain and fool any audience of laypeople or magicians.
