Description
Take sixteen road-tested audience-proven routines from one of the funniest magicians on stage today combine with nine essays hundreds of stylized color photos fresh & original art and a worker’s perspective on the way to make your work your own and what do you get?
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Offbeat.
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Nick Diffatte’s first hardbound collection is not jam-packed with oodles of tricks.
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What fills its pages are deceptive engaging real-world routines devised and developed by one of the hardest-working laugh-provoking multi-talented performers in magicdom.
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From tricks with balloon animals rope and handcuffs suitable for the largest stages (that’s three different routines not one!) to close-up miracles with contact lenses sticks of gum and playing cards each effect is presented in crystal clear detail with accompanying lines sleights and insight developed in the trenches.
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These are amazing doable and practical tricks. Offbeat is a book of magic you will do – because it’s been done thousands of times in the real world by a working pro. Are there difficult sleights required? Not really (though you’ll find a few underground secrets buried in the book’s pages). Prep-work? Some. But the end result is well worth the time required.
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The effects themselves are complemented by essays on comedy magic presentation how to be bad and stage (and why that’s OK) and a host of Diffatte’s other hard-won thoughts.
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A 190-page 7 x 10″ deluxe cloth bound hard cover book with original art by Vernon James and photographs by Brett Loudermilk and a foreword by Mac King.