"Time Machine" routine in Genii in mid-'80s
"Time Machine" routine in Genii in mid-'80s
Does anyone remember a routine titled, I think, "Time Machine" from Genii in about '84? I've been doing it since that time because it had a couple of cool moves (a rotating-out-from-the-center double-lift and another spin of an out-jogged card, representing two cards transposing or "going back in time".)
Ron Bauer is coming out with a new routine with the same title but it's not the same trick. The irony is that I believe Ron Bauer authored the one from Genii.
His business partner, Dowdy, says the new routine is totally different.
Can anyone remember or research the author and / or history of the prior trick?
Thanks much.
Steve H
Ron Bauer is coming out with a new routine with the same title but it's not the same trick. The irony is that I believe Ron Bauer authored the one from Genii.
His business partner, Dowdy, says the new routine is totally different.
Can anyone remember or research the author and / or history of the prior trick?
Thanks much.
Steve H
Re: "Time Machine" routine in Genii in mid-'80s
It's a routine by Steve Freeman and is written up in the Card College, either #3 or #4. :)
Re: "Time Machine" routine in Genii in mid-'80s
Hello,
I learned it from Giobbi's description in volume 3 of card college. Giobbi also mentions the exact issue of Genii where the routine was originaly described.
It's one of my favorite impromptu routine.
On one of the Revelation videos, Vernon tells a funny story about the bit of pivoting of the outjogged card:
Back in the '20, he noticed that a lot of local magicians were imitating his mannerism so he start doing this gesture here and there without any reason just to see how long it will take before everybody start to do it also.
Best regards
Thomas
I learned it from Giobbi's description in volume 3 of card college. Giobbi also mentions the exact issue of Genii where the routine was originaly described.
It's one of my favorite impromptu routine.
On one of the Revelation videos, Vernon tells a funny story about the bit of pivoting of the outjogged card:
Back in the '20, he noticed that a lot of local magicians were imitating his mannerism so he start doing this gesture here and there without any reason just to see how long it will take before everybody start to do it also.
Best regards
Thomas
Re: "Time Machine" routine in Genii in mid-'80s
In Roy Walton's The Complete Walton, Vol. Two, he has an effect entitled "Back Into Time," which is identical to the routine by Steve Freeman (Genii Vol. 45, No. 7, 1981, according to Giobbi).
The finesse of rotating the card counterclockwise brillantly sells this effect. I've seen it performed for 25 to 30 people, producing literal gasps. Kudos to whomever added that idea.
--Randy Campbell
The finesse of rotating the card counterclockwise brillantly sells this effect. I've seen it performed for 25 to 30 people, producing literal gasps. Kudos to whomever added that idea.
--Randy Campbell
Re: "Time Machine" routine in Genii in mid-'80s
By the way, I had trouble with the card rotation initially. Didn't take a lot to figure out the if the index finger beneath the outjogged card contacted the card near the front edge of the deck, extending the index finger during the spin would keep the card in place relatively.
Steve H
Steve H
Re: "Time Machine" routine in Genii in mid-'80s
Dan Fleshman has a variation of this trick entitled "Malini-Freeman Twist." It can be found in THE MAGIC MENU:The First Five Years, page 130.
Re: "Time Machine" routine in Genii in mid-'80s
A great companion to that routine is Jay Sankey's Back in Time. I to use this (Freeman routine) quite often, and love how it deviates from a standard two card transpo. I believe the twisting flourish id Dr.Daily's
DJM
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Re: "Time Machine" routine in Genii in mid-'80s
Curious to know where Jay Sankey's "Back In Time" is located in literature? Thanks! :)
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Re: "Time Machine" routine in Genii in mid-'80s
I think it's in "100% Sankey" but am not sure. Haven't looked at the book in ten years!
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Re: "Time Machine" routine in Genii in mid-'80s
Giobbi credits the spinning move to Dr Daley - as published in Stars of Magic.
While checking this up I discovered I do the move completely wrongly - clockwise, and a 360 degree spin (using the right index then second finger). Whoops!
It works really well for a "hypnosis" patter - getting the spectators to look at the spinning pattern on the back of the card to send them deeper, deeper, etc.
Rgds,
Ian
While checking this up I discovered I do the move completely wrongly - clockwise, and a 360 degree spin (using the right index then second finger). Whoops!
It works really well for a "hypnosis" patter - getting the spectators to look at the spinning pattern on the back of the card to send them deeper, deeper, etc.
Rgds,
Ian
Re: "Time Machine" routine in Genii in mid-'80s
The application of the spin flourish to this routine in the context of "turning back time" is where my kudos were aimed; nice to know it is original to Doc Daley.
--Randy Campbell
--Randy Campbell
Re: "Time Machine" routine in Genii in mid-'80s
>>Curious to know where Jay Sankey's
>>"Back In Time" is located in literature?
Sankey's time trick (IMO: one of the best card tricks of all time) can be found on Jay's Sankeytized #1 video and/or vol#2 of the L&L Sankey vids.
It also saw print in an old set of Jay's lecture notes (not the %100 Sankey book) Now... the question is... which set of notes was/is it??? A magic kewpie doll goes to the person who answers this question (friends and family of D.M.E. excluded from this contest ;)
Doug Conn
>>"Back In Time" is located in literature?
Sankey's time trick (IMO: one of the best card tricks of all time) can be found on Jay's Sankeytized #1 video and/or vol#2 of the L&L Sankey vids.
It also saw print in an old set of Jay's lecture notes (not the %100 Sankey book) Now... the question is... which set of notes was/is it??? A magic kewpie doll goes to the person who answers this question (friends and family of D.M.E. excluded from this contest ;)
Doug Conn
Re: "Time Machine" routine in Genii in mid-'80s
Now... the question is... which set of notes was/is it??? A magic kewpie doll goes to the person who answers this question (friends and family of D.M.E. excluded from this contest ;)
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Re: "Time Machine" routine in Genii in mid-'80s
The Very Best of Jay Sankey Volume 2, and Sankeytized 2
I remeber Reading a J.C. Wagner routine that featured a similar kicker ending in Commercial Magic of J.C. Wagner
not to stear on a tangent topic, but can anyone provide info on the ending that Sankey uses ( spectator holding selection)
thanks
DJM
I remeber Reading a J.C. Wagner routine that featured a similar kicker ending in Commercial Magic of J.C. Wagner
not to stear on a tangent topic, but can anyone provide info on the ending that Sankey uses ( spectator holding selection)
thanks
DJM
Re: "Time Machine" routine in Genii in mid-'80s
What is the idea of routining that makes Jay Sankey's routine so great? Thanks! :)
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Michael Skinner's clean-up after you display the two cards at the ending is the way to go here. It's described in the November 2000 Skinner issue of Genii.
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hi, its in Card College 3 page 588
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