- Here, watch, if I just go like this,
like that? - (gasps)
- There's like ... - Oh my god!
- Look, look! - (censor bleep)
Oh no! (laughs)
(speaking French)
- Yo, what's up guys?
Welcome back.
Oh, what's this, Chris Ramsay without a hat?
What is going on?
The world upside-down today?
I dunno, I actually have my hat with me.
Maybe I should, you know what,
I don't wanna wear a hat today!
I've got luscious blond hair.
Ah, as you can see, I'm sitting in my car right now,
so this is my new studio.
I like the lighting, got a nice little lighting setup,
got some air conditioning, got the radio ...
(rock music)
Today we're going to end up performing some magic.
As well, I'm going to teach you
something really, really cool.
Basically, a card to cellphone.
You can make a playing card appear inside of a cell phone,
which is pretty cool.
It's a really magical sort of moment with the spectator.
Basically, the cellphone acts as a tool
to help you accomplish this effect.
I kinda like that a little bit more
because when the trick becomes about the technology,
and people start to question the technology,
and they start to be like, oh, you know,
it's probably an app or something, bro.
So instead, we're going to use it as a part of the trick,
in effect, something like that.
So before I get into anything else, actually,
first of all, I wanna say, I put up an uncut sheet
of Knights Playing Cards, signed, up for auction,
one of a kind, and raise money for StompOutBullying.org.
We raised, so far, $1700, 17 hundred!
That's a lot of money, and I'm gonna put up $1000
of my own money to support this cause, as well.
So we are now a total of $2700 and going.
One day left on this, so if you guys wanna check that out,
feel free to do so.
All right, let's take a look at the performance,
uh, right now.
Got a deck of cards here.
And, first of all, I want you to see
that every card is different.
- Okay.
- I want you to go ahead and take any card you like.
Any one at all.
That one there?
You sure, the ... all right.
Show everybody the Queen of Spades.
All right, okay.
Well, look, it's okay!
Queen of Spades is your card.
So look, if I put the Queen of Spades, see it?
Watch, if I put the Queen of Spades in the middle,
guess what?
I go like this.
It jumps right to the top.
That's kinda crazy, right?
But like, magicians, we have sleight of hand, right?
We use this, like, sleight of hand stuff.
So here's what I'm gonna do.
I'll actually show you the moment
it jumps to the top, if you watch it here,
the Queen of Spades, if I bend it,
see it bent, (speaking French)?
Watch.
(tongue click) Just like that.
It jumps right up to the top, right?
This time, we'll try something different.
We got the Queen of Spades.
And we're gonna leave it right here, okay?
We use our cell phones to store personal information.
All right?
Well, the card that you have,
it's not really personal information
because you know what card it is, right?
It's the Queen of Spades.
But I like to store certain things inside my phone.
Here, hold this.
Here, watch, if I just go like this,
like that?
There's, like ... - Oh my god!
- But look, look. - (censor bleep) Oh no!
- All right, guys, so that was the performance.
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All right, all you're gonna need is a deck of cards,
a standard deck of cards, and one more thing,
and this is the secret right here.
This is an app called C2Phone, Card2Phone, C2P, C2P.
Basically it looks like this.
(soft jazz music)
And the way that works, once you get this app,
and I'll try to find the link below,
but I'll write it out nice and clearly, Card2Phone.
What's great about this is that yes,
there is a pro upgraded version that you can buy,
which unlocks a whole bunch of other things,
but if you get the simplified version,
I believe you can get this included.
It doesn't have the objects or anything,
but you don't need that to do this trick,
so you don't need to buy the upgrade,
I don't think, for this trick.
But if you do, it's a lot of fun,
because the upgrade, and this, by the way,
is not a sponsored post,
I've just been using this for a long time.
Like the pro would have different items, such as,
coins, lighters.
You wanna produce this Chinese coin,
bam, and it makes a little sound, listen.
And then I can (tongue click) produce it.
And the way that works is, as soon as you touch,
it moves around, then you slide it offscreen,
and it disappears, so, super incredibly easy.
One of the things I like to do,
because I love this app, actually,
this is the first magic app
that I've ever got in my life that I actually paid for it.
First app, magic app I've ever paid for.
I really like it a lot.
Now they have all these folded cards,
literally, like, almost every card in existence.
I wouldn't go that far, but they've got a lot of cards.
Then they've got the full cards like this,
and that's what you wanna use for this,
so you go Start Trick, you wanna set your background,
so you take a screenshot of your background
and you set it up to this.
All you have to do is give it a little shake,
and it appears, right?
Once you've downloaded the app and you've set the card there
you wanna change your sensitivity as well for shaking,
and so you go into the options and there's a sensitivity.
I put it super high so all I have to do is kind of like
give it a little nudge and it'll appear.
So once the app is on, you can turn your phone off directly.
(tongue click) Have them hold this or leave this
in your pocket, or leave it on a surface somewhere,
and now you can take out your playing cards.
So in this video, as you've seen,
I performed a little bit of an ambitious card.
I do ambitious card in my walk-around set.
Some of those phases I use, sometimes I cycle them out,
I change it up, depending on the mood,
and depending on what other people saw that night.
Sometimes I don't wanna repeat a trick,
but somebody says, "Oh, can you do that one
"where the card jumps to the top?"
And then I don't wanna do the same thing,
so I do something else, but anyways.
The only thing I strung together, basically was,
I controlled the card at the top.
This is actually the simpler switch by Dan and Dave.
Basically what you do is a take on the simple switch,
which is this, just throwing it on top of the deck.
But instead, I'm popping this card like this, right?
This is gonna take some practice if you wanna practice this,
by all means you don't have to do this.
I'm just saying this is what I do actually in walk-around.
And I look up at the spectator while I'm doing this.
I take a card, and while I'm looking up,
it's now second from the top.
I talk about sleight-of-hand, how magicians,
we often use sleight-of-hand, as I demonstrate
this little flourish, and as I go to put it back,
now it's second from the top.
But we're not gonna get into a tutorial for that.
What we're going to get into is just basically the setup
for the trick for the card to phone.
Now basically for card to phone is the same thing
as card to wallet, you want to control the card
in a place where you can load it.
And to load it on the phone is very very simple.
If you want to control the card to the top,
a good way to do so, if you don't wanna do
the simpler switch, is basically,
Vernon's Turnover, Pants Turnover.
After they have this card, this hand drops down
to your side and on your jeans,
you're just going to turn over a card
to have it face up like this.
And you're gonna hold the break with your pinky here.
Any card they want, let's say they want this one here.
As they look on it, on my jeans, so down here,
I'm going to turn this card over
and keep it keeled towards my body.
That way, when they give it back,
I can take it and I can come here,
and now with that break, I can turn over two as one.
And then you're gonna take the top card
which they think is their card,
and you're gonna lose it in the middle somewhere.
Now that's very convincing that it's gone.
You don't have to say, "and, uh, look, it's not on top,"
and do another double on the bottom.
You just, they know it's in the middle.
At this point, they're holding the phone
or your phone is on the desk, and,
if you haven't seen the card,
here's a great little thing now.
I didn't use this exact pattern.
In hindsight, I probably should have,
but, if they look at the card,
and you do not know what the card is,
it's great to use this sort of presentation.
I think it's great because we often use our phone
to store personal information.
My phone also stores personal information,
but not the information that you might store in your phone.
My phone stores information like, for instance,
what card you may be thinking of.
In this act, I'm going to take my phone out
and I'm gonna turn it on.
Now, I'm on the app.
This is the app right here, okay?
So I'm ready to go.
You're going to get a break under the first card
which is their card which you controlled to the top.
Now, to do this, there are multiple ways.
The best and most efficient way to do it
is to do a pinky count, and to keep that break there.
If not, if you just want to drop your hands down,
and you wanna push over and break,
that's fine if you're beginning,
but I do suggest to practice a pinky count.
It comes in handy way more often than not.
So once I'm here, I'm gonna take the phone.
If they have a pen, this is a great time to
take the pen back, put it in your pocket,
and that justifies putting the phone in this hand.
And all I'm doing here is I'm loading the card
behind the phone, all right?
So I'm here, I've got my break,
I take the phone back, and I say something like,
"Oh, can you hold the deck of cards?"
or, "Here, can I have that marker back?"
They give you the marker back.
"Now can you hold the deck of cards?"
And they hold the deck and I'm loaded
with the card behind my phone.
At this point, you can hold it very cleanly
like with one hand or the other hand.
Holding the card back there, you know,
you can take it from the pack and just go (tongue click)
like this, have it appear, and once it appears
they can see it in there, you kinda milk that moment.
And you just press your thumb and here,
here's what the great part is, if you just swipe out
in one motion, it really looks like you pulled it
out of the phone, how magical does that look?
All you're doing here is holding it in the back,
sliding it around, and pulling it out.
Look how magical that looks!
That's incredible.
It doesn't have to be a quick thing,
you do not have to ...
Speed up a bit, there you go.
Looks like I'm just plucking it out of the phone.
It's very magical and it's a cool thing for the spectator
and you usually get a good reaction off that.
So that's it, basically, that's the app,
and you do a whole bunch of stuff with it,
but that's one routine that you can do,
which is card to phone, super easy,
go ahead and practice this on your friends.
So it doesn't make it about the app,
it makes it about the performance and the trick itself,
so if you find a good justification, just like I said,
the storing information in your phone,
I think is a great little justification for that,
but find your own, play around with it, and have fun.
And, uh, outro. (whoosh)
All right, guys, so that was it.
I hope you enjoyed that, that was a lot of fun to do.
It was a lot of fun to perform,
and this effect is just a lot of fun in general.
It uses technology, it uses a smartphone,
which is super cool.
All the kids are doing it.
Thanks so much for tuning in.
I will see you guys on the next video.
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