Amazing Tricks for the Urban Magician! This book covers everything from lighting a match twice to floating on air two differant ways! These days magicians have to work hard to keep their public happy. The traditional figure on stage, in sweeping tailcoats and top hats, hat gone, usurped by a cooler and edgier trickster taking their own brand of magic to the streets.

In Street Magic, Gary Sumpter offers readers a wide range of tricks that will wow the public up-close and personal. From impressive effects involving everyday objects, such as coins and rubber bands to playing cards, he moves on to mind magic and stunning illusions to confuse the street-willed and scare the strong of stomach, with useful tips and advice throughout.

Wherever you go: Pubs, clubs, markets, and restaurants, Street Magic gives you everything needed to entertain, perplex, and baffle all sorts of modern audiences!

• Restoration - Tear a card into pieces and fuse it back together!
• Dextrous Disappearence - Make a card disappear into thin air!
• Cost of Living - Change a large note into a low-value note!
• Two-to-One - Melt two rubber bands into one!
• Match Revival - Bring a dead match back to life!
• Finger Flash - Light a match using nothing but your fingers!
• Ashes - An amazing prediciton from flame!
• Vanishing Thought - Vanish a thought of card!
• Lift Up - Remove a spectator's strength!
• Impaled - Push the tines of a fork through your fingers!
• Glassed - Smash a bottle and eat the evidence!
• PLUS The Street Levitation & Jacket Levitation!

This book also contains info on flourishes, card shooting, one-handed cut, coin rool, and even more effects not listed! There's a section devoted to getting started, establishing yourself, and how to deal with hecklers!

David Blaine and Chris Angel have sparked the thought of street magic into the minds of the general public. So there is a need for street magicians, even more today than ever! Street magic is the new trend that will not go away! It's raw and in your face! This book is HOT! GET YOURS NOW! 128 8.5x11 Pages, Hardbound!