Description
Unexpected Agenda is the sequel to Secret Agenda and Hidden Agenda, completing the trilogy of one of the most unusual and acclaimed publications in the world of magic. It is your invitation to spend a year inside the head of Roberto Giobbi!
There, for every day of that year, you will open a fresh door in Giobbi‘s mind and have something surprising and enriching spring out to greet you—a new trick, sleight, technique, refinement, performance tip, business strategy, concept or insight, drawn from the thoughts, experience and notebooks of a full-time international performer and one of magic’s great teachers.
With Unexpected Agenda, Roberto Giobbi, the world-renowned author of theCard College and Card College Light series, has written an invaluable text for his fellow magicians, and one entirely unlike anything in the literature of magic. Unexpected Agenda contains 365 articles, one for each day of the year. The reader is invited to read just one of these articles a day—enjoying, learning, absorbing or being challenged by fresh thoughts and information—throughout an entire year.
For over four decades, Roberto Giobbi has devoted his life to exploring the world of magic, learning deeply about it from its vast international literature and the greatest magicians. Those whose unpublished work Giobbi draws on include Fred Kaps, Ascanio, Juan Tamariz, Lennart Green, Vanni Bossi, and many others.
Over the years Giobbi has methodically, meticulously, exhaustively kept records of all he has learned. Unexpected Agenda is more than the work of one performer. It is an accumulation of priceless information, gathered from a lifetime dedicated to the study and performance of magic, laid out idea by idea, day by day, for the reader to enjoy and profit by.
While the material presented addresses in part the expected field of card magic, it covers much more: coin and close-up magic, platform and stage conjuring, theory, philosophy and humor. Unexpected Agenda is wide in scope, with invaluable information and insights for all magicians.
We have attempted to give a work of such uniqueness a fitting format. Unexpected Agenda is a large, sumptuous volume, bound in ornately foil-stamped cloth, and includes a book ribbon—a volume comfortable to the hand and inviting to the mind, offering pleasure for much more than one year, and advice for a lifetime.
384 pages in decorated hardcover binding, simply a beautiful book for students, readers and even collectors!
- … how to do Mel Stover’s “Days of Force” with an emotional hook.
- … what criteria to apply when buying a new deck of cards?
- … how card experts break in a new deck of cards?
- … professional advice on signing cards (why, how, when, and when not).
- … how an idea from the Biedermeier period led to a Transparent Card you will use.
- … what Dai Vernon considered the best close-up trick for laypeople.
- … what Roberto Giobbi’s favorite magic books and non-magic books are, and why.
- … how you can turn the famous “Seventeen Camels Problem” into an entertaining card trick.
- … ten more ways of using a wallet than producing a signed card from it.
- … five ruses of using a Key Card you have never heard of before.
- … how to enhance any prediction effect by using an ancient Japanese idea.
- … how to read magic books and watch videos efficiently.
- … how to make notes that you will later find when sourcing for solutions.
- … nine original ways to have a card thought of (instead of saying, “Think of a card”).
- … half a dozen original deck switches that do not require any sleight-of-hand
- … novel ways of forcing a card with absolutely natural procedures.
- … a few cool new tricks – not only with cards.
- … to do a new Pass that you can do after only a few hours practice.
