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This is my latest book on brand-new and updated magic creations. It includes templates for all the necessary tricks and includes full colour photo step-by-step breakdowns for all the explanations. In 2011-2012, I lectured to numerous magic clubs on all the tricks in this book. Included is my latest Story-Deck routine as performed in the British Championships of Magic, my Champagne Compass, Love has great Power, Swings and Circles and Angry Bird Tricks that all retail separately at more than the cost of the book! The Dream Prediction is my currently closing trick in my adult stage Mentalism show and is a sure-fire knockout with any audience. There are two effects with an iPhone included which I perform when stopped in the street and basically, every trick in this book I have performed for years and I perform each week.
This book is basically my lecture for the speakers circuit. I perform a lecture called 'Don't believe Your Eyes' which looks at human perception and how our eyes are fooled into making assumptions that are different to what we are actually seeing. These are my notes tidied up into a book, with a couple of added examples for each category along with my social commentary throughout the book making it a thoroughly entertaining read. Within the pages we look at optical illusions, perception tricks, blind-spots, common presumptions along with tricks in advertising. We explore the early history of camouflage and how illusions played a pivotal part in both World War 1 and 2. Along with popular illusions of today that include fashion and make-up.
Synopsis Mr Grimm is a Reaper, a man with no real face (like Joan Rivers) who has not spoken a single word in over a thousand years (probably because he doesn’t have anything interesting to say). After reaping Arnold Schwarzenegger who this time, won’t be back, he has decided to retire from the profession and move in with the human race, accepting all that it entails. Getting a job, falling in love, driving a car and paying taxes (maybe not that last one). His adventures will see him experiencing the best (and worst) that our world has to offer ‐ from taking a glorious holiday in rainy Blackpool to speed‐dating. From understanding Football to understanding women (an impossible task that I’m sure you already know), Mr Grimm is about to experience it all.Prepare to the meet Mr Grimm – the life of the party! This is my Comedy Fiction novel. It is currently being printed and will be available as a paperback shortly. However, those that prefer eBooks can order this very special advance copy now.
This is my children's picture book. Fully
written, illustrated and designed by Stephen Ablettl. It is
currently being printed and will be available as a paperback shortly.
However, those that prefer eBooks can order this very special advance
copy now.
This book is an accumulation of stories from my sixteen years career in magic. These are the shows where I went above and beyond to help out people in need, using my skills as a magician to help save the day. Stories like when the scheduled entertainer failed to arrive, and I stepped in with no props to hand, and still performed a full show. When I performed a lecture for a group of fellow magicians with absolutely no preparation time and how I mentored younger magicians to follow their passion in the art of magic. Also included are the more unusual shows, such as when I performed for a room full of adults wearing diapers. When I taught magic at a summer school in America and when I performed at Rio Ferdinand’s New Year Eve Party. So sit back, and enjoy these funny antidotes from my career as a professional magician and how I persevered through some troubling shows, to come out as an outstanding success.
Disaster Stories is an accumulation of funny stories from my career in magic. The ones where nothing went as planned. The times where I got the card wrong, set the building on fire, was held hostage on a boat and was humiliated on Britain’s Got Talent in front of 14 million people. Understand now that I have performed over 3000 shows in my career and almost all of them went smoothly. These stories of the very rare exceptions when not everything went the way it should have done. I look back and read these stories in my twilight years (I’m only 30) and reminisce about what happened, and what I learnt from the experience. Unusually I learn to get paid in advance but occasionally I also learn a valuable life lesson as well. So sit back, enjoy and laugh as I amuse you with the stories of a magicians learning his trade and coping with the madness that surrounds him.
This book is an accumulation of articles which I wrote for numerous magazines in magic, including the famous Magic Circle Magazine. They are my insights, thoughts and feelings about certain aspects of my profession as a magician. I look at other entertainers starting out and feel that my years of experience may give them some insight in how to improve their skills. Each chapter is a different article looking at a certain topic such as how to perform on a big stage, what length should your show be and how to get a standing ovation. All these articles were written over the last several years and compiled into this one book for you to read and enjoy (or most likely disagree with and decide to sell this book in the next magic auction). So sit back, relax and enjoy the book; but remember - it’s all just my opinion!
This 328 page e-book answers over 500 questions on the business of being a professional children's entertainer. Over the 29 chapters, we explore everything from what tricks to perform to show structure. Child control to character, advertising and marketing to filing your tax return. Its a marketing system, reference guide and encyclopaedia all rolled into one! Presented in Q & A format with a complete hyperlinked index of questions to navigate to any part of the book immediately. This is the ultimate resource for information on the real business of performing professionally.
This book is an accumulation of all my knowledge from the last fifteen years of performing. It is suitable for everyone from a complete beginner wishing to start out in magic to the professional wishing to expand the business to new markets. I discuss many points including the secrets of getting celebrity clients to showing examples of my contract, confirmation sheets, leaflets and colouring book competition. It basically tells you absolutely everything you need to make a very good living as a children's entertainer along with all the secrets to be the busiest and best paid entertainer in your area. 328 pages, A4 size with overstretched margins to make it printer friendly. 511 questions / topics answered with a full index system and chapter bookmarks within the PDF.
This booklet contains the complete routines for an educational magic show based around astronomy and Space. The entire show is narrative based, with a story that runs throughout the entire show. It starts at Space camp, where the children undergo special astronaut training. They then learn a little about how we left earth and the first monkey that went into space. We leave the earth and take a trip to the moon, before moving onto the planet Saturn. We then finally return back home which concludes the show. At each part of the mission, there are magical effects that help tell the educational message. Each trick has a number of scientific facts that build on the teachings of astronomy. Most of the tricks can either be made or bought and help fill an entire stage or the corner of the classroom. An educational show such as this one can be utilised to promote yourself during the school year, as it teaches the curriculum. It can help obtain more work, and promote your name for other shows down the line.
Chapter 1: Introduction
A collection of illusion plans designed by Stephen. Theses include various method to produce and vanish people, place swords and blades through them and slice them into several pieces. I wrote this book when I was 16 years old and it was the very first book I ever wrote. I built and performed several of the illusions for many years and those illusions are more detailed in their explanation and measurements. But some of the others only reached the blue-print stage, and were never actually built. But I include them in this book for others who may be able to make use of them. 1) Production - A complete Guide
A collection of close-up tricks, children's magic and cabaret comedy pieces. These include all his original tricks and routines as seen in his current and past shows. Included is his comedy bullet catch trick which won him the 'Comedy Magician Of The year Trophy' in 2003. Paper Cut: A playing card or business card is sliced straight through your finger, penetrating it. This is an impromptu, un-gimmick trick. Star Card Trick: Four cards are shown, with stars on the front of each card, and a simple design on the back. Tie Through Neck: A Neck tie is placed around the neck, and then magically penetrates it, coming out the other side. This is an impromptu, un-gimmicked trick. Levitating Shoe: You borrow a spectators shoe, and lay it across your hands. After a few moments, it levitates into the air before landing again. This is an impromptu, un-gimmick trick. Thought Projection: You are able to predict what object the spectator chooses. Jack Spade: PI: The cards are shuffled, cut and mixed but still the magician is able to deal out the cards one at a time in the frame of a story…the detective story of Private Jack. Pull The Nose: The nose is removed from a child’s face, shown to them and then magically restored. Paddle Pen: A pen is blank to begin with, but suddenly is covered in writing. Royal Murder: The picture cards act out in a murder-mystery routine, which involves finding the victim, and the spectator playing detective, in order to find the killer! Pen Through Money - A normal pen is pushed through a banknote, yet the money is left unharmed. Impromptu Book Test: You are telepathically predict the word that a spectator has chosen from a book. Over The Phone Card Trick: The spectator shuffles the cards, selects one, and then loses it back in the pack. However you are able to find it even when you are several miles away! Keypad Phone Trick: Using the numerical d-pad on a phone, the spectator follows some simple instructions, and the magician is able to telepathically tell the spectator what number they have chosen. Light Levitation: The magician levitates in the air several inches. A light shines under his feet, without an obstructions and the spectator can even look under him and see nothing. Tattoo: The arm is shown clear. The magician takes a small pendant and rubs it onto his arm showing that he is rubbing it into his skin. Moments later the object has vanished and a tattoo of that object is pictured on the skin. Soft Toy Babies - Two soft toys change places and vanish in mid air. Singing Lobster: A singing Lobster eats worm chosen by the spectator. Teddy Bear Bullet Catch: A teddy bear tries to catch to catch a bullet between his teeth, however he fails and gets blown to pieces! Bee Surprise: The spectators dangling Bee is able to locate the hidden treasure! Broken & Restored Mobile Phone: A mobile phone is broken to pieces with a hammer, before being magically restored. Sawing Barbie In Half: A Barbie doll is sawn in half, and then eaten alive by a monster raccoon! Explanations include numerous full-color photographs. THIS IS THE NEW 2009 FORMATTED VERSION.
This book contains 35 effects that you can use to run a magic workshop with. The idea behind this book, was to produce a series of effects that simply need cutting out of a piece of paper before teaching and performing. The book itself can be reproduced in a photocopier, and can work in black and white, this makes the book cheap and easy to distribute to all children. The effects themselves are designed to be efficient time-fillers in any magic class. The children cut out the props and assemble the effect. You can then perform and teach the effect in the class. All the effects have simple instructions, so the children can take the book away with them after the class and can continue working through it. Or you can give the book away as a gift for them helping out in your show etc. There are a few optical illusion based tricks for the very young, and more complex tricks such as cards and mind reading for the older children. I use this book for magic workshops, and choose the effects I want to teach depending on the audience. We usually get through 8 of the tricks, upon which the children then take the rest of the book home to do in their own free time. This means the parents are getting extra piece of mind at home, and off course, you have your advertising details on the back of the book!
21 Murder Mystery themed Riddles / Puzzles for you to solve. They are all poems in the form of a Riddle, wrapped up in a Conundrum, within a Haiku. They each describe a crime scene, with all the clues woven within it, in order for you, the reader to tell me who committed the crime and how you arrived at that conclusion. There is a logical answer for each poem; you just have to use your deductive reasoning skills to find the solution. Here's the first one for you: (The answers are included in the book).
Contained herein are many stories of fiction as authored by Stephen Ablett. Spanning the last 15 years, this collection of poetry, short stories, fan-fiction and screenplays will delight in taking you on a magical journey that expands your understanding of the imaginary world. The stories are often intriguing and thought-provoking. They speak of adventures from the after-life to the deep reaches of space, everywhere including the back streets of Manchester. I hope you enjoy the stories and find delight in the imagery world they absorb you into.
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