Wonders by Mike Caveney

Mike Caveney – Wonders

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For the past five years I have been working on a set of books that document basically everything I have performed during my career. When I started I had no idea that the finished product would fill 700 pages over two volumes. As a long time collector of books and because this will be my legacy, I decided to make the finished product as nice as I possibly could. And now that they are finished I can honestly say that they are everything I had hoped for.

I knew that I could write up the methods, theories, history and funny stories about each routine but I also knew that illustrating them would be a problem. I am no artist. That’s when my long time friend and Hollywood special effects man, Bill Taylor, came to the rescue. Bill turned my basement into a photo studio and for fourteen months we shot pictures. Many hundreds of them made it into the finished books and they are the clearest explanatory photos I have ever seen in a magic book. Because both of these books are printed in full color, each tiny detail is visible.

Volume I is called Mike Caveney Wonders and it contains all of the routines that I have performed going back to my days as a teenage magician in the Long Beach Mystics right up to my current act that includes Magic Paper, The Bow & Arrow and Scissors, Coat, Silverware & Chicken. More than just a How-To book, I have described the creative process behind each routine. In the case of Magic Paper (the torn, restored and animated toilet paper) I have explained all five methods that I have used and why each one was discarded in favor of a new version and why I stuck with method five for nearly thirty years. The goal is to teach and encourage the readers how to create their own original routines. A peek at the table of contents reveals the variety of material.

contents

Foreword 11

Introduction 15

Preface 19

The Long Beach Mystics 23

Giant Thimble Production 23

The Substitution Barrel 35

Trade Show Act 43

Amazing Mechanical Merlin 44

Split Deck 49

Crystal Card Catch 50

Anverdi Key Chest 53

Jumping Straw 57

The Nailed Card 61

The Benson Plunger 67

Two, One, None 83

Coin Vanish 89

Our Own Worst Enemy 94

Money Machine 99

Impromptu Linking Coat Hangers 109

Linking Coat Hangers 117

Lubor Die 127

Lie Detector 135

Halloween Card Stab 141

The Phome Book 151

Idiot Rings 159

The Powers of Darkness 171

Impromptu Powers of Darkness 187

Serious Laughter 195

Chinese Pipes 201

Nind Reading 209

Ten Dollar Bill Trick 219

Bill in Cigar 239

3-Arm Juggling 269

Coffee Juggling 281

Magic Paper 297

Bow & Arrow 345

Scissors, Coat, Silverware & Chicken 373

Billy’s Chicken Trick 417

The Chicken Chronicles 423

Mastering the Ceremonies 439

PLEASE NOTE: This item is a digital download ,Gimmick not included