Art Magic

If you read a standard history of magic, you learn that it begins in ancient Egypt with the resurrection of a goose in front of the Pharaoh. You discover how magicians were tortured and killed during the age of witchcraft. You are told how conjuring tricks were used to quell rebellious colonial natives. The history of magic is full of such stories, which turn out not to be true. Behind the smoke and mirrors, however, lies the real story of magic.

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World-Class Magic Tricks by an Award-Winning Magician: Learn Card Magic and Crazy Tricks and Astonish People Right Away!

Magic is everywhere, from the big spectacle celebrity of David Copperfield and Siegfried and Roy to the quirky Penn and Teller to the spooky David Blaine and Criss Angel to the endless material on YouTube. But until now, learning it has never been easy-that's all about to change with Magic, a book that does for close-up magic what How to Grill does for barbecue. Written by charismatic young magician Joshua Jay, Magic combines expertise, photographs, step-by-step directions showing how to perform 100 tricks

Try this: Arrange an ordinary deck of cards so that the colors alternate red-black, red-black, all the way through. Now have someone cut the deck as many times as they like. Deal off a stack of cards, one card at a time, that roughly divides the pack in two. Invite someone to shuffle the two stacks together. Then deal cards from the top in pairs. Your audience will be astonished that every pair has a red card and a black card. How can that be?

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Easy Photoshop tutorials: Learn how to use Photoshop by turning family photos into Photoshop art your family will love. In these fun and easy Photoshop projects, you will be guided through the process of turning a child's photo into a fairy, transforming a photo of a boy into a comic book character, and turning an ordinary portrait into something spectacular. In only a couple of days you can create fun, unique Photoshop art of your loved ones to hang on the wall or give as gifts.