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THIS site features products and information
on card magic by Justin Higham. See below for books and pdf ebooks currently available from this address.
(Dealer enquiries welcome.)
To order any products, click here for ordering information.
While you're here, please see the archive page for some free articles on card magic by this author.
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>NEW FOR FEBRUARY 2010
Secrets of Improvisational
Magic by Justin Higham
£12.50
Add postage & packing: £1.10 inland/£2.00 surface worldwide/£2.15
airmail Europe/£3.35 airmail rest of world
click here to view pdf sample
In this concise guide to improvisation,
Justin Higham reveals the fundamental secrets of creating and performing close-up card magic on-the-fly.
Including chapters on Interactive Magic, the Improv Show, Jazz Magic, and The Trick That Cannot
Be Explained, the various styles and modes of improvisation are stripped down to basics and their methodologies revealed.
Topics include:
What Jazz Magic is and how it worksHow to create an Improv ShowHow to transform a standard trick
into an impossible near miracleMeet challenges, such as when someone
says, "Tell me what card I am thinking of!"
This book is an invaluable aid to anyone wishing to gain insight into a form of performing which can not only help us create
more amazing magic, but also form a closer bond with our audiences.
8
chapters plus bibliography, 72 pages, A5 saddle-stitched booklet.
"...a must have gem"
- Magic Week (see two separate reviews by Al Smith and Alan Hudson).
"Justin has given voice to a too-often ignored side of card magic (indeed, all magic) and his
carefully considered thoughts will make you reconsider what you do. And that's a good thing." - The Magic Circular.
"...the information could be a little dangerous for the inexperienced magician" - Magic Seen (rated
5 stars).
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>SECOND EDITION JUNE 2010
Pseudo Card-Cheating Switches
by Justin Higham
Price: £7.50 This is a pdf e-book
not a hard-copy book
Mention ‘card-cheating
switches’ and magicians very often shy away, due to (a) the fact that such switches are not really meant for
performing, and (b) they are often quite difficult to execute. In particular, switches requiring one-handed pick-ups
and throw-downs, or complex palm changes and re-gripping, are avoided.
However, the switches in the present ms.
are pseudo cheating switches, and the reader may be pleasantly surprised to find that (a) they are not that difficult
(requiring more coordination than manual dexterity), and (b) they can be used in pseudo-cheating demonstrations to good effect
without having to reveal their methodology. At least one of the switches may also be used in a magical context.
Explained is the Basic Move and eight Variations. All the switches are packet switches, not single-card switches.
Most of them require palming, but not always in the conventional sense, and none require lapping (as in scooping or dropping
cards into the lap or similar).
This ebook is equivalent in size to a 13-page A4 manuscript, illustrated with over 75
photographs.
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Notes
on the Illogical Dribble Force by Justin Higham
£7.50
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packing: £1.10
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This is the second volume of The Illogical Dribble Force, and contains over forty variations,
applications and effects including ideas from Kevin Baker, Bobby Bernard, David Davies, Bob Farmer, Paul Gordon, Will Houstoun,
Andrew Murray, Paul Sommersguter and the author.
Please note: You will need to have purchased
The Illogical Dribble Force in order to understand most of the items, as the basic Illogical Dribble Force is not re-explained
here. CONTENTS INCLUDE: IDF as an Indicator Force,
IDF Convincer, Face-Down IDF, Second-from-Top IDF, Non-Discrepant Face-Up IDF, Side-Jogged IDF, Dribble Application of the
Card Transfer No. 1, Face-Up IDF Control Plus Transfer, Dribble Application of the Card Transfer No. 2, IDF as a Cover for
the Side Steal, To Force the Return, IDF as a Disguised Cut, IDF Prophecy, Pseudo IDF 2.1 & 3, Casual Longitudinal Palm-Replacement
IDF, Casual Palm-Replacement Second-Deal IDF, Bluff Dribble Force, Dribble-Action Tabled Bluff Pass, Tabled Bluff Pass No.
2, Illogical Swing-Cut Force, Illogical Riffle Force, Logical Riffle Force, K.B. Illogical Dribble Force, IDF Count-Down Plus
Poker, Fast IDF Ace Production, IDF Mates, Double Odd-Colour IDF Coincidence, ID Card, IDF Bluff Ace Production, Impromptu
Illogical Prefiguration, Dribble-Transfer Aces, Dribble-Transfer Spell-Down, Illogical Spell-Down, Face-Up Illogical Spell-Down,
Triple-Layer Sandwich, IDF Sandwich Mates, IDF Sandwich Reworked, Palm-Replacement IDF Production, Mystic Thirteen, IDF Jumping
Card, IDF Double Production, Illogical Everywhere & Nowhere, Gambler’s Cop Applications, Credit-Card Production,
Flip-Over Dribble Force, Slide-Around Top/Bottom Dribble Force, and Illogical Acid-Jazz Aces – in the Bag. Note: Two items – ‘IDF Glimpse’ and ‘Illogical Riffle Force’ – have previously
seen print, the first in The Illogical Dribble Force and the second in Dexterity Manual. All other items are previously
unpublished. Over forty items in all, 33 pages, 13 photos, saddle-stitched A5 booklet with card
covers.
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by
Justin Higham
£12.50
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This is Justin Higham's largest card book since Collected Card Notes (1999), and contains an array
of moves, subtleties, and effects. Although the format is a technical manual - or rather, a 'dexterity manual' - most
items require only an intermediate level of manual dexterity.
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
- The Anti-Gravity Shift – A one-handed pass as featured on Benjamin Earl's 'Past Midnight'
DVD, explained here in full detail with eight 'covers', including two by Will Houstoun.
- Illogical Strip-Cut Force plus... – Those who liked the Illogical
Dribble Force will appreciate the Illogical Strip-Cut Force, Illogical Spread Force, Illogical False Throw-Cut Force,
One-Handed IDF and Illogical Riffle Force, all explained here (no knowledge of the Illogical Dribble Force is needed).
- Logical Strip-Cut Force – For those who prefer logicality, Benjamin Earl offers this
flexible and deceptive force of one or more cards.
- Fake Zarrow Shuffle – For those who haven’t mastered a real one. Two versions
are given.
- CO2 - A bold, no-palming version of C.O. Williams' popular card-to-pocket.
- Biddle Appearance Sandwich – Two buried Kings instantly and visually appear on top
of the deck with a selection sandwiched between them – no passes or difficult sleights.
- Jungian Poker – A spectator thinks of one of five random cards, and the thought-of
card is produced along with its matching straight-flush cards. No large stacks or false deals.
- Spectator Cuts a Run of Seven – A 'mega' version of 'Spectator Cuts the Aces' based
on Randy Wakeman's popular method.
- Digital Poker – A full house is pulled interlaced between the fingers from a shuffled,
pocketed deck.
- The Magician, The Fool, and The Wheel of Fortune – The names of three Tarot cards
are spelt in any chosen order to arrive at three playing-cards, one of which is selected. This matches a tabled prediction.
- Off-Center Coincidence – Two selections turn up together as cards are dealt simultaneously
from two tabled halves. Nothing special – except the spectator shuffled the deck after the selections were lost.
No palming or crimps.
- Pseudo Topper - An impromptu version of Marlo's 'Mental Topper', where a 'mental selection'
is revealed along with its three mates. Can be done straightaway with a borrowed deck.
- Intuitive 21-Card Trick – Identical to the classic lay person’s version...except
the entire trick is done with the cards face down.
ALSO INCLUDES: One-Handed Slip Pass, One-Handed Pull-Out, Around-the-Deck Reversal,
Svengali-ish Convincer, Up-the-Ladder Finesse, Multiple Undershuffle, Deal Shuffle, One-Handed Flip-Over Force, Third-Eye
Force, Tilted Fake Removal, Cognitive Transposition, Biddle-Appearance Collectors, Chinatown Bluff, Longitudinal Monte, Mini
Faro – Pseudo Centers, Subconscious Culling, Riffle-Shuffle Sandwich, Deal – Count – Spell, Sense of Touch
Location, The NoBo Lie Detector (including methods by Kevin Baker), and more.
Over three dozen items in all, 68 pages, 50 photos, saddle-stitched A5 booklet with card covers.
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The
Illogical Dribble Force by Justin
Higham
£10.00
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‘Someday, perhaps, the average performer will have at his
disposal many...near perfect tricks devoid of illogical action and designed for...intelligent audiences.’ – Paul
Curry, The Phoenix.
There is, of course, illogicality and illogicality. Actions which
are illogical from an effect viewpoint are, naturally, to be shunned. But there are certain moves which, although illogical
or discrepant, pass by unnoticed. Examples include the Tenkai Optical Revolve, Through-the-Fist Turnover, Flushtration Count,
Olram Subtlety, So-Simple Force, and Jay Ose False Cut.
In this treatise on the Illogical Dribble Force, Justin Higham explains
a method for forcing one or more cards from either a face-down or face-up deck. Although illogical, the move is easy, casual,
and visually deceptive, and can be done in an instant with no get-ready.
20 pages, 15 photos, saddle-stitched with light card covers and illustrative
cover design.
> I have a few left in the
larger A4 format. Copies available from dealers are A5 (smaller).
"I've been playing around with the IDF and I like it a lot...." - R.F., Canada
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Clairvoyant and
Related Effects
by Justin Higham
Price: £10.00
This is a pdf e-book not a hard-copy book
In the early 1950s, Bob Hummer caused a stir with his rendition
of 'Think-a-Card' called 'Mind-Reader's Dream', in which a card merely thought of was discovered without any questions
asked. It's drawback - a fairly complex dealing procedure and a book of tables consulted by the magician - inspired
many card magicians to seek streamlined methods.
Three decades later Justin Higham devised a method
for the Hummer effect in which the dealing procedure was greatly simiplified and the book of tables eliminated. This
provides the basis for this new study of 'Clairvoyant' and related effects, including Marlo's seminal 'Mental Topper': an
effect where not only is a thought-of card produced, but also its three 'mates'.
The present ms. complements, and further examines themes previously
studied in, Jon Racherbaumer's 2004 ms., Dreamwork: Minding the Mindreader's Dream.
66 pages, over 50 variations on 'Clairvoyant', 'Mind-Reader's Dream',
and 'Mental Topper'.
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Tricks with the Side-Faro False Shuffle
by
Justin Higham
£5.00
This is a pdf e-book not a hard-copy book
The Side-Faro False
Shuffle is a flexible, in-the-hands full-deck false shuffle as featured on the ‘Three False Shuffles’ DVD by Justin
Higham (also see Benjamin Earl’s ‘Past Midnight’ DVD disc 1).
Justin has been using this shuffle since the mid-1980s to not only fool top card magicians (Marlo, Vernon, Jennings, Elmsley,
etc.), but more important entertain lay people with routines requiring a partial or full-deck stack
The shuffle involves a simulation of butting two halves of the deck into each other in a sideways fashion – a form
of ‘sideways Faro’, but not requiring any perfect weaves. There is no waterfall or flourish/cascade at the end,
but a genuinely deceptive unweaving and square-up action. The shuffle could be likened to an ‘in-the-hands Shank Shuffle’
but with less spreading of the cover cards.
Angle-wise the shuffle is totally foolproof. Not even the operator him- or herself can clearly see the mechanics of
the shuffle. It can literally be done surrounded.
The present e-book explains the false shuffle in full detail, along with details on how it can be used as both a control
of a selected card (or cards) and a key-card placement. Over 15 effects are also given which specifically use this shuffle.
This e-book contains just over 10 pages (equivalent to A4 in size).
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The Simulation of Miracles
by
Justin Higham
£5.00
This is a pdf e-book not a hard-copy book
This pdf e-book looks
into the thought processes used when devising new methods and effects. A dozen card effects are also explained in Part
2 which - while complete in themselves as usable effects - illustrate the theory in Part 1.
Includes 'Mind-Reading In Reverse', where a specator cuts off a packet
from a shuffled deck, fans it out, and thinks of one card - the mind-reader slowly reading their mind from across the room
and naming the card. As recommended by Luke Jermay and Benjamin Earl.
Note that Part 1 in its entirety is available for viewing free of
charge on the archive page of this website. The pdf available here is for those who wish to purchase the effects in Part 2.
This pdf contains the complete, 34-page manuscript (Parts 1 and 2), the full contents of which is viewable in the link
below.
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Expansions and
Notes on Expansions
by Justin Higham
£3.00
These are pdf e-books not
hard-copy books
The
Expansions pdf e-book explains 15 effects, sleights, and ideas with cards, coins, and sponges. Includes
'Crossover Coins', a sleight-free, no-palming copper/silver routine for use at the table (no lapping).
This electronic edition is a pdf scan of the original, 1993 first edition booklet. (Other than a
digitally modified cover and title page, the scanned images are reproductions of the original pages from the booklet.)
Notes
on Expansions contains several additional ideas, notes, and corrections, and comes free with the main book. (If
you already own Expansions, email me to request the free Notes.)
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