- What's up guys?
Welcome back to my channel.
Thank you so much for tuning in,
and today I have a very special treat for you.
I know a lot of you were waiting on a tutorial,
and I was working very closely with a good friend of mine
to bring you something very special.
We are going to introduce today, Peter McKinnon.
Peter McKinnon is a master cinematographer and photographer,
and good friend of mine.
Everything I learned from my photography and filmmaking,
and whatever I do is from Pete.
So, make sure you subscribe to him
'cause he's got some amazing tips to up your photography
and your video game,
but today, he's going to be teaching you an insanely cool
and practical magic trick using a credit card
and a single playing card.
So, let's check that out.
- What's up guys? Peter McKinnon here.
Coming to you with a tutorial today.
Not for photography, but for magic.
So, stay tuned 'til the end of the video
'cause we're gonna do a give away for one of my books,
"Origin," which are now out of print.
There's a few left, we're gonna give one away.
So, be sure to hang around.
Just stay.
If you want to, just don't go anywhere.
Check this out.
Alright, this is how it works.
The credit card trick.
It works with the reflective sticker.
So, when somebody deals a selection into your hand,
you're essentially using that sticker as a shiner.
So, that you can peek the card without anybody knowing.
So, whenever someone deals down any free card
into your hand, you're picking it up and you're saying,
"Look at it one more time. You're happy with that?"
They say, "yes," but what you've done is just put
this card into position to peek the index off
the sticker on your credit card.
Woah! So good!
So, why a credit card? It needs to be justified.
I justify it by saying,
"I'm not gonna mess this trick up.
So, I'm gonna bet you my credit card,
that you can go buy something after the fact.
I don't have any cash on me,
so we'll use my credit card."
That's the justification for actually having a credit card
in my hand in the context of a bet.
So, when someone starts dealing cards down
and they decide they wanna stop on this one,
they deal it on top,
I say "you got it?"
They say, "yes" and I hand them both off.
Now, if we mess this up, you can keep my credit card.
You can go buy drinks for all your buddies.
That's the justification for having
a credit card be the peek.
Alright, so, now that we have that established,
we're gonna throw this over the shoulder
so you guys can see exactly how this works in play
of an actual performance.
Okay, so it's a simple clean effect.
Somebody takes the deck of cards, you can shuffle it,
they can mix it up, it doesn't matter.
You're gonna hand the spectator the deck of cards,
they are going to deal,
as long as they want,
onto any surface,
onto their own hands,
onto a table,
it doesn't matter at all.
They're gonna stop anywhere.
Let's say they wanna stop here.
Now, we've already established this credit card
as the context of our bet.
We've got it in your hands,
and when they wanna stop you're saying,
"Deal that card into my hand.
Are you sure? Oh, you wanna change your mind? Okay.
You want this one? It really doesn't matter.
One last time, I want you to see the card that is selected."
So, you guys can see the reflection,
and I can already peek and see that it's the ten of Clubs,
but in the context of me showing this to the spectator.
I'm just double checking that,
that's the card they want.
They say, "yes," I close it up
and hand them both the credit card
and the playing card because that's my assurance
that I'm not gonna mess this trick up.
Hand it off to them,
and you've now successfully peeked the ten of Clubs
that you can reveal in any way you want.
Be it through your phone or a revelation,
or you can read their mind,
which is really, really powerful.
"Just do some cold reading, I'm getting it was a high card.
Maybe, I'm thinking it was maybe a nine or a ten,
it was a ten, okay, I saw that you nodded.
We got red and black.
Now when I went black like this,
you kinda leaned to the side,
so I'm thinking it was black.
So, it was a black ten; that's Clubs and Spades.
You instantly blinked when I said Clubs.
So, I'm thinking it was a ten of Clubs that you stopped on."
They say, "yes," boom you get your credit card back,
drinks are on them, you just throw everything up in the air,
you flip the table, and everyone just start shouting,
dancing, planes start flying over,
there's a banner in the air,
confetti falls from the ceiling,
from the rooftops, everyone is cheering.
The best thing is it's Christmas time,
and Santa Claus is arraigned, ha!
- Guys, thank you so much for tuning in.
Uh, and learning this trick with us.
Pete is a good friend of mine,
a fantastic photographer, and as he mentioned,
he's giving away a signed copy of "Origin."
You're signing it, right? - I'm signing it in blood.
- Signing it in blood, is that a real thing?
- Nah, I'm gonna do it in pen.
- (chuckles) Okay, maybe a Sharpie.
So, you're gonna win a signed copy of "Origin,"
but I'm actually gonna throw in three
brand new sealed decks of cards to sweeten the deal,
and all you have to do is
A) Subscribe to Peter's channel, I'll leave the link below.
B) Leave a comment on his video that has,
it's the eight photo hacks video.
It's an amazing video,
which shows you like crazy photography hacks
you can do with stuff in your pocket.
I'll leave the link below as well.
So, subscribe to him, like that video,
comment on that video, and you're automatically entered,
and sometime next week, Pete on his channel
will announce the winner of this contest.
Is that correct? - I will do that.
- Thanks for sticking around guys,
and we'll see you next time.
- Peace! - Peace.