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CONTENTS

EDITOR Paul Romhany

CONTRIBUTING EDITORBen Robinson

CONTRIBUTING EDITORNick Lewin

PRODUCT REVIEWERSPaul Romhany & Friends

COVER PHOTONing Cai

ADVERTISING COORDINATORPaul Romhany/Sydnie Anderson

SENIOR MARKETING SPECIALISTSteve Hocevar

EDITORIAL DIRECTORPaul Romhany

ART DIRECTOR and LAYOUTPaul Romhany

PROOF READERSRichard Webster, Mick Peck

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BAMBOOZLERS 8DIAMOND JIM TYLER

BBQ BUDDIES 10THOM PATTERSON

HAVE A DRINK 14BUTZI, MAGICIAN

HEAD TO HEAD POKER 20PAUL GORDON

SMOKING GUM 22KIERRON JOHNSON

WHY EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER READ IS WRONG? 24RANDY WAKEMAN

THROWING SHADE 32JONATHAN FRIEDMAN

ONE CUT 38LOUIE FOXX

NEWS 44

BARRIE RICHARDSON IN MEMORY 50RICHARD BUSCH

PLAYING CARD ON THE TITANIC 52TOM DAWSON

FEATURE STORY - MAGIC BABE NING INTERVIEW 58

DYNAMO LIVE REVIEW 72DAVID PENN

YOUR PROMO PHOTO SUCKS 78BIZZARO

MAGIC ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS 82LUCA VOLPE

MASTERS OF ILLUSION LIVE 84NICK LEWIN

TEN LITTLE SECRETS 92TIMOTHY HYDE

PREMATURE PASSING 94LEE ALEX

EPIC FAILS IN MAGIC PART 4 98CHARLES BACH

NING CAI: MAGIC BABE NINGAn exlcusive interview where Ning talks about life after magic

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THE BEAUTY OF MAGICNick Lewin interviews Jade110

DYNAMO REVIEWDavid Penn reviews the live show72

BACHSTAGEEpic fails in magic part 498

BRAINSTORMINGInteractive look at creating large scale magic by Majinx134

BIGGER BETTER - NOT NECESSARILY 104PAUL ROMHANY

JADE: THE BEAUTY OF MAGIC 110NICK LEWIN

MR. PEARL - BAR MAGICIAN 116ANN SHIN

MAGIC BROTHERS ON FISM 2015 118ANNA SHIN

MARRIED IN MAGIC - HAINES MAGIC 120MATTHEW FALLON

CHANGING GEARS 124P CRAIG BROWNING

BRAINSTORMING WITH MAJINX 130LAWRENCE LAROUCHE

CAPE TOWN MANOR CLOSE-UP THEATRE 134WOLFGANG RIEBE

MAGIC REVIEWS 144

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What a whirlwind few months it has been. I started October by flying

to Sweden to perform and lecture at the Magic Weekend in Lund then travelled to New Zealand for the Wellington Magic Convention where I also performed and lec-tured. Both conventions were amaz-ing and the New Zealand conven-tion was made even more special because on October 25th, my birthday, I was presented with The Grand Master of Magic Award by my fellow New Zealand magicians. This took me completely by surprise and am honoured to be recognised by all my peers in the business. I have included an article this issue with photos from both conventions and an article I wrote on why I enjoy smaller and more intimate magic conventions over some of the larger ones.

Our feature artist this issue is Ning Cai who performed under the name Magic Babe Ning. Ning has always impressed me with her ability to be a trend setter and her hard work paid off while working with JC Sum becoming a well known celebrity in Asia. Her move from magic came as quite a shock to those in magic

and it’s great to catch up with her and find out what she has been up to showing that there is indeed “Life After Magic.”

Congratulations to Franz Harary and all the performers who have appeared at his House Of Magic. All reports coming in are showing that it was an incredible opening month and the show will definitely become THE place for magicians to gather and perform from around the world. You can download the Special Edition on Franz and the House Of Magic from our website for FREE. Franz also supplied us with photos from the opening week so enjoy the

montage VANISH I put together. With FISM having just finished plans are well under way to hold the next one in Korea in 2018. Having been to Korea I feel it has a lot to offer both magically and culturally. We are featuring a few acts from Korea and neighbouring countries to give you a taste of what to expect. Thank you to Anna Shin for helping with the articles and interviewing the artists for us.

All that remains is to wish every-body a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. VANISH will be back in 2016 with all the articles, tricks and feature stories you love to read.

Paul Romhany

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BAMBOOZLERS DIAMOND JIM TYLER

BET: Wager that someone cannot balance a pair of dice, side by side, atop a single die.

Someone can actually watch you do this and witness the pair of dice atop the single die, but yet if they try it, one or both dice will typically fall off.

SECRET: Secretly moisten your fingertip with water or saliva and stick the dice together. For the best results I have found it is best to wet the 2, 4 or 6 side of a die be-cause each of these numbers has no middle spot or pip. Once I’ve secretly moistened the 2, 4 or 6 side of the die I’ll place it next to the 2, 4 or 6 side of another die temporarily bonding them together. Now it is a simple matter to balance them both atop the single die.

What’s clever is that one can disassemble your example and not be able to reconstruct it; that is if you used a small amount of moisture. As soon as they pull the dice apart the moisture evaporates.

Cards are sometimes called the Devil’s playthings but dice are said to be just as evil. Did you know that if you

DIE HARDroll a pair of dice one million times that each number will come up 16.666 percent of the time? Also when playing craps that the number seven, thought to be lucky, also comes up 16.666 percent of the time. The “Number of the Beast” carries on into infinity in both cases just like the Roman emperor Claudius’ descent into Hades for being a gambler who was cursed to shake a bottomless dice cup for eternity. Now if you round off the number after the decimal point it is 667 which is actually “The Neighbor of the Beast”.

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BBQ BUDDIES

INTRODUCTIONBilly McComb’s genius and practical approach to our craft cast one of the largest shadows ever felt on the magic world. One effect that’s inspired variations upon variations is his wonderful “McCombical Deck.” What follows is my version in which I endeavored to make the routine more self-revelatory.

EFFECTA stack of photos are shown one at a time as the performer explains that these are his ideal guests for a fictitious barbeque. Choosing a guest for one of the spectators the magician removes a card that appears to be a picture of himself. When the spectator is asked to make a “free” selection from a duplicate stack of photos, the audience can see that they are all images of the magician. In the end, the magician’s and the spectator’s photos are both shown to reveal a surprise for both the magician and the audience.

REQUIREDTo perform this you’ll need two sets of cards. One set consists of eight pairs that are rough and smoothed

together. Let’s call this the “red set.” Mine are pairs of pictures of me and pictures of Homer Simpson. So, the face of Homer Simpson is sprayed with roughing spray, and the back of my pictures are sprayed with roughing spray.

In addition, you need eight photos of people you’d want at your ideal barbeque party, as well as one more rough and smoothed pair of you and Homer (or who-ever your punch line character is). Let’s call this set the “blue set.” (Fig. 1)

A note about construction: The set of cards I use are perfect for a cabaret/parlor environment. If you plan to use these on a large stage or close up, you’ll need to ad-just the size accordingly. The size of the cards I currently use are about 7” x 5”. These are printed on smooth, but not glossy photo card stock. Each of the celebrity photo cards are actually made up of two pieces of cardstock glued together. That gives each of the stacks a similar thickness. This also gives both the single celebrity cards and the rough and smoothed pairs the same appear-ance.

THOM PETERSON