Tricks With Cell Phones

[David Acer]

I'm curious to know if anyone is aware of any published tricks using cell phones, other than Simon Lovell's "Waiting For God" and my own "Mitosis." Please respond in English and with as little swearing as possible.

[Charlie Chang]

Paul Gertner has a cell phone effect in his lecture notes.

[Nathan]

The June 2003 issue of The Linking Ring contains a clever cell phone to impossible location effect.

[Guest]

I'm pretty sure Docc Hilford uses one in the context of a seance routine in his book "Band of the Hand"

[Adam Brooks]

Tim Ellis has a couple of nifty ideas in his lecture notes: "Twenty Years of Living Next Door to Ellis" (title may not be exactly right)

[Andi]

My buddy Liam Montier has several effects using mobile phones and has fooled me with each and every one of them. They're not published right now, but if you want some info David, drop me an e-mail and I'll put you in touch with him as I'm almost certain that he'll share. He's kind like that.

--Andi
andi@andigladwin.co.uk

[Guest]

Not to direct anyone from the wonderful Genii magazine but in the July issue of MAGIC magazine there is an effect of mine where a cardbox "changes" into a "cellphone" as part of a card effect. Take care.

Luke

[Guest]

Actually, I believe Tim Ellis's cell phone trick is in his other lecture notes, ELLIS IN WONDERLAND, although I can't be sure. Tim responded to another thread on this board, so perhaps he can straighten out the citation.

In his trick, you talk about a psychic friend. Everyone decides on a card (or whatever--a name, a number, whatever), and the friend is called. He/she is able to divine that item immediately.

[Guest]

When I saw Steve Cohen's "Chamber Magic" show in NYC, he did a wonderful cellphone effect. I'm not sure if he is the originator of the effect, or even if it may be one of the ones already mentioned in this thread. It involved calling an audience member's cellphone.

-David L.

[Tim Ellis]

David Groves is quite right. The trick is CELLULAR THINKING and it's in the lecture notes ELLIS IN WONDERLAND. You can get them on line from us at www.MagicUnlimited.com or - we will be at the SAM in Las Vegas and will have some copies of all our products there.

If you just want this trick, it was also published in MAGIC MAGAZINE, October 1995 on page 74. Also in ALADIN & INNOVATOR, April 1997 on page 16.


TIM ELLIS

[Guest]

I'm about to publish a manuscript teaching what i may call the best phone effect ever!
It is called The Wizard Is Dead:you call someone or better yet,someone calls you.
You ask them to draw something on a piece of paper.You then tell them what they drew!
No stooges or pre-show work.

Here's what Banachek had to say about it:

"I love your style of writing. I think it is wonderful and shows a wonderful exercise in the way mentalists produce miracles. Your thinking is superb. The work is brilliant."

Feel free to contact me at yanivdeautsch@hotmail.com

Yaniv Deautsch

[Guest]

For those intersted:here is a list of most phone effects I know:

Lewis Jones-Person to Person

Al Mann-Phantom voices
Psi Clone
Six Columns

Banachek-
Radio Magic
Psychological Subtleties

Karl Fulve-Self Working Card Tricks:
Long Distance 71-72 Audley Walsh
The Phone Miracle 72-73 J.G.Thompson

Self Working Mental Magic:
The Faraday cage 106-108
Tele-Poker 11-13 Jack Miller

The Jinx:
The Unknown Subject 47 Annemann
Publicity Stunt 53 Annemann
On The Wire 137-138 Annemann
Wired Thought 201-202 Annemann
Operator Calling 220 Harris Solomon
Phoned Thots 478 Orville Meyer
Right Number 421 Kent Arthur
Weird Wire 557-559 Annemann
Forty Nine 513+524 Chas.T.Jordan

Anemann-Sh-h-h! Its A secret:
Call Me Up Sometime 4-6
The Bell Mystery 44-45

The Magic Of Milt Kort:
Svengali of The Phone Line

Ted Lesley-Paramiracles:
Medium in Your Pocket 42-45

T.A.Waters-Mind,Myth and Magick:
Zodiaxis 265-268
Zodiaccent 600-601

Tony Cordina-13 Steps to mentalism:
Across The Void 327-329 Paul Marcus

Eddie Fields-The Greatful Dodges Of Eddie Fields:
Silent Transmission Telephone Mystery 68-69
Tell a Phony 111-112

Paul Harris-The Art Of Astonishment:
411 277-279 Gregory Wilson

Encyclopdia of card Tricks:
Number Please 325-326 Audley Walsh
326-327 Al Baker

Phil Goldstein-Doth:
Telephone Bonsai 4-5
Numpersone 12-13
Massage Units 13-14
Thabbatical:
Contimental 3-5

Greater Magic:
The Impossible Location 269 George G.Kaplan
The Telephone Trick 566 William H McCaffrey

Barrie Richardson-Theater of the Mind:
Little Jackpot Coins 177

Terry Rogers:
Dollar Con

Bill Goldman:
Mental Yarn

Al Smith:
Cadioz Effect

Lee Earle:
Quintuple

Paul Cummins:
Phone Home

Roy Johnson:
Dialmite

Steinmeyer:
Nine Card Problem

David Regal:
Mind On Line

Dan Harlan Aarron Fisher
Play Dough

Rafael Benatar:
Sleight Of Phone