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- Yo, what's up guys?
Welcome back.
Thanks for joining me today.
As you've seen by the trailer, today we're going
to be learning some pen magic, some Sharpie pen magic.
Now, some of these are original creations of mine that
I came up with, I'll get into that in a second.
I just got back from my trip from New York,
it was amazing, I had a gig there, which went splendidly.
And I came back and I felt like it's been a couple
days, I haven't posted, I couldn't wait for Monday's
tutorial, and I was wracking my head thinking,
well, what do I want to teach them?
What do I want to look into?
And we've done a lot of card stuff, we've done
some coin stuff, but we have yet to do some
impromptu sort of borrowed objects.
The things you're gonna learn here can be borrowed,
but they can also be impromptu.
Some of them require preparation, but whatever,
we'll get into that in a second.
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All right guys, we got a lot to go over,
so let's get right into it.
I'm gonna start off by just teaching the
flip stick vanish.
If you're not familiar with this, it's the vanish
that (pop) sort of looks really cool and you're
left very clean.
How to do that?
You want to take the pen, put it between your two indexes.
Your middle fingers are going to contact them as well,
just like this.
Let me get the focus right here, my camera's going nuts.
You want to grab it like this.
Now, ideally, if you want to end clean, you have to
have a sweater with a little bit of a loose sleeve,
'cause you're gonna end up sleeving this.
What you're gonna do, is this middle finger here
is gonna put pressure on here.
And I'm gonna stop it with my thumb.
So that pressure's building up,
and as soon as my thumb lets go, it kind of vanishes.
Now if I just do this to somebody like that,
it's not gonna be super fooling, because you kinda
see the trajectory, pardon me, of where it's going.
So that's why the bigger motion hides the smaller motion.
So if you're gonna do this, maybe pfft go upwards,
or downwards, anywhere you wanna go, as long as
you kind of give it a little bit of a (snaps) motion first.
It'll always help the illusion.
So what I like to do when I'm performing, I do this with
straws a lot as well, and I'll look up.
So as I do it, I'll do it upwards and I'll look up
at the same time, and that way the audience is also
looking up, and in that case, if it's a straw at a bar,
this is exactly what I'll do,
no sleeving, I'll just do this.
(pen crashes)
That went to the ground, so no sleeving at all.
I just kind of boom and shove it on the ground,
because there's straws on the ground already,
it's an impromptu vanish, kind of like bam,
whoosh, gone, and I show my hands empty.
They're not looking on the ground, they're just like
where did it go?
They're looking up in the air.
So that's something you can do.
But if you want to sleeve it, here's what you need to do.
Practice this, it goes between your index,
your middle fingers here, your thumbs in the back.
Pressure, that's gonna curl in.
You don't want it curling up here or down here.
You want it straight.
A straight plane.
Not up, not down, straight.
The straighter it is, the more visual the vanish.
Get your sleeve just sort of opened up like this.
Boom, once it's gone, I like to use the middle finger
here on the edge of it, see how it's already lined up
with my sleeve?
Lined up on my sleeve, the middle finger's just
gonna push down and I'm gonna open my hands like this.
It's kind of like all in one gesture, as I'm here, boom.
Now here's the cool part, with some misdirection
you can use this hand to reach out somewhere,
so everybody's looking over here.
This hand drops and watch what happens
with the Sharpie, it drops right into my hand.
So as it drops into my hand, I'm gonna clip it like this.
Kind of the same way I vanished it, just kind of
holding it here like this, okay?
Once it's here, I take this hand and I pretend
to toss something over here, and as I do,
my ring finger's gonna go behind here
and kind of produce it.
So that happens really quickly, whoosh, gone, disappeared,
I come over here, I grab and I pretend to, pop, toss.
And that's how it sort of appears.
So it just kind of appears at your fingertips.
All you're doing is using your ring finger
or your middle finger if you'd like.
That's the first one, let's move on.
The next trick here is a color change.
This is like a color changing cap, which is pretty cool.
The way that this works is the same thing as the
flip stick, all right, the same exact move,
except you're gonna have it clipped in this hand,
ready to produce just like I showed you.
This one here is gonna do the vanish as that one
is produced.
Same sort of flip stick, except this time, you don't
have to add so much pressure, 'cause you don't have
to touch this hand.
So you're here, practice this, where it just disappears.
And this one appears.
Now this one goes underneath.
You don't want to go over, because it looks weird.
I find it's always better if you go underneath,
'cause this hand comes up.
So it kind of like replaces the visual retention.
Kind of in this position where you're pinching that
one and holding this one.
So what I like to do is, once that's done, is boom,
you vanish that one, so now you're left with this.
Now if you want, (snaps) you can vanish them both.
Retrieve them from your sleeves, you're gonna have
like 40 pens in your sleeve at this point.
So first of all, both caps need to be on the same
side if you're changing the cap, right?
It goes under, and always, this is really, really important,
always go straight, as straight as possible.
It's gonna take a lot of practice, guys, this is not
something that's gonna come easy to you.
And it's not something I want you posting on
Instagram the second you learn this.
Give it like a couple weeks, at least, of practice.
At least, please.
Because this move needs to be almost equal.
They need to come from an equal place.
Have it equal as possible, straight on to the
spectator's eyes, right?
Boom.
In your left here, now again, you can sleeve it,
here, show this one, (blows) gone too, sleeve it.
That flashed, but you get the point.
Next.
Oh, this is a cool one.
This probably fooled a lot of people actually.
It's actually not a cap at all, here's the secret,
check this out.
Oooh, it's a hot one.
All I did, was I took a black sharpie marker and I
drew a fake sharpie cap on the back.
What, what the?
See, that's a magic trick, I didn't even know
this was orange.
I took a black marker and I drew on the back of
that, so if I hold it like this, your mind thinks
it's a cap, and now all I have to do is twist and open
up my hand, or twist that way and open up my hand, right?
So I'm here, pop, like that and now it jumps.
Pop, it jumps back.
So it's essentially the paddle move.
You just want to draw half, literally just half,
so that way if I turn it around you're not gonna see it,
and then you see it completely.
This one's good for the camera, if you want to
do this for Instagram or something, it's a quick one.
You can wave it and it looks like the cap moves.
This focus is driving me...
I think it's 'cause I'm wearing a black shirt,
it doesn't catch.
Here's what you can do as well, you can hold
it like this and cover up the cap, so that when this
hand comes in, do it with whatever hand you're
comfortable with, as this hand comes in, I'm
gonna move this hand and twist, so it looks like
the cap jumps down.
Here, I'm gonna come in, grab that, and it looks
like the cap just jumped to the bottom.
All you have to do, you come in here and you want to
get your fingers ready to twist.
As I grab it, and I let go, the instant I let go
is the second I twist.
So, boom.
This last one is definitely my favorite.
Definitely 100% my favorite.
I came up with this.
I call it the Sharpie Double.
It's a silly thing, but it actually works and it works
really well, and the physics of it are completely insane.
Much like a center double, when you go like this and you
take two cards out of the center, right?
That's a center double.
But we're gonna do that with a Sharpie instead.
And here's how you're gonna do it, it's pretty weird.
They say stop whenever they want,
you insert the Sharpie here, wherever they say stop.
Now you're gonna riffle off two, one, two, and you're gonna
roll the Sharpie cap over those two cards,
pushing it down and now extract those two cards.
Now check this out, look at how amazing this is.
I can freely handle this, I can shake it.
Look how I'm shaking it
And it hasn't split yet.
That's two cards, believe it or not.
I'm sitting here...
You might not believe me now 'cause they flew away,
but I'll do it again.
One, two, you roll it in.
Extract it.
And now I have two cards here.
I can shake, I can do anything I want.
So I can grab those, and if you don't believe me,
there's two cards.
It's just this weird thing that when you have
two cards in here, you can have them hold this.
You can go, "All right, here," really super bold,
"Hold that right there, hold your card, I'm gonna
"do something else" for whatever the routine requires.
But they can handle that any way they want.
That's their card.
So what I like to do, because this is a Sharpie,
once I've extracted it, I like to bring it to the top,
keep my break, have them sign it, right?
Because you're holding a Sharpie, it's super organic.
Here you go, sign this card.
So boom, boom, boom, boom.
Turn them both around, take the top one, which is
the indifferent one, put it in the middle.
Use the Sharpie to tap it in as the magic wand.
Tap, it jumps right back to the top.
A great way to start your ambitious card routine.
What you're doing is you're first of all setting
a precedent for what's gonna happen, but at the
same time, you're actually using what you're going
to use to sign the deck as part of the trick.
So it's like super cool and organic and it really
works for some reason.
So again, you riffle down with your thumb,
you insert the sharpie, and this happens quick,
one, two, you roll the Sharpie around so that
it catches in there,
come on camera,
and you want to insert it to the middle, start to
turn this way so you can grab it with the sort of
physics of it, and then you're left with, oh,
see that was like the first time it's ever split.
'Cause normally look at this.
These are brand new cards, by the way.
I purposely use a brand new deck of cards
to show you how crazy this principle is, that you
don't need sticky cards.
This can be done with sticky cards, or it can be
done with brand new cards.
Point is, that's a double.
So if you want, I mean, I played around with different
ideas, where I was here and then I'd somehow grab
the bottom card, extract all of this, give it a shake,
and then say boom and it turns mid-air.
I don't know, you can play around with whatever you want.
But it's a cool way to get a double lift using the
Sharpie and having them sign it.
So hope you enjoy that, that's original to me,
I came up with that, and that's my gift to you,
the Sharpie double.
So that's all I got, guys.
All right guys, that was it for me.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I know this video was a little bit lengthy
because I did cover a few things.
I covered a lot of things, actually, so many
things that you can do, including just something
with a borrowed Sharpie or a Sharpie that's in
your pocket that you're gonna use for magic anyway.
I love doing magic with stuff that's already in
my pocket.
Now whether or not I have to prepare that stuff,
you know, doesn't matter to me, as long as I
usually carry it.
So if it's like a lighter, or my wallet, or a
credit card, or Sharpie in this case, or a deck
of cards or a ring or rubber band, these are
usually all things that I have on me.
I love creating effects that revolve around these things,
and as you probably know, with these sort of
organic items, you will always get a crazy reaction,
because they know what these items are, they're
familiar with them.
You're not presenting some weird okito box or blinking
rings or anything.
These are items that they are very well familiar with.
That being said, do practice, do try these out.
Some of these are better off for camera,
I'll be honest.
I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that
the one with the cap jumping back and forth
that I perform that in my gigs, I don't.
But if you want to sit in front of Instagram
and film something cool.
It's pretty dope.
The double lift that I taught was actually, is
actually amazing.
I don't know how the physics of that works,
like I said, it's just something that does work.
It's kinda cool.
It's original, it's interesting.
Is it the best double lift?
No, but it's something you can do and can have fun with.
So, enjoy that.
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