Cloth Bag rip-off
Get these shit drawstring bags for $197. What a god damn bargain.
Ok, basically these are bags that let you do a psychometry routine. You can read about them here.
I know a lot of spazzo's say that if you spend good money you get good quality or a great trick or whatever. But almost $200 for five cloth bags is taking the fucking piss.
I thought Lee Earle (click that Lee Earle link - it's worth it) was taking the piss when his 'No Brainer Bags' were available, but they were a bargain at $60 compared to these, although the ones Lee Earle sold did look like they were made out the material left over from a clowns underpants.
Psuedo Psychometry is one of the greatest one-man psychic effects ever conceived. Our version is based on the Annemann original, but with the modern working professional in mind. Imagine, you hand out five identical jewelry bags to different members of the audience; each person places a personal object in their bag and closes the bag. A member of the audience mixes up all
the bags; as each bag is handed to you, you successfully describe and locate the owner of the property inside. Add some cold reading and you have a miracle.
I don't disagree that it's a great routine, but if you read some Annemann or Milborne Christopher, you'll soon see the original psychometry routines used five marked manilla envelopes and I think they appear more innocent and 'everyday' than five stupid cloth bags. And a few envelopes is going to set you back a few cents at most.
Of course for $197 you do get 'the secret'. But I suspect its just something obvious like the ones Lee Earle put out where the lining of each was a different color.
I don't care how well made they are, they're not worth $197.
MW.
posted by Mr Whack at
12:44 PM
3 Comments:
1) I can think of several ways you could do envelopes blindfolded.
2) Mentalism is not the same as being an illusionist. Sure a fancy wooden box looks better on stage, but a cardboard one might look less gaffed. But with illusions - people expect to see glitz. Mentalism looks better with everyday objects.
3) I didn't say your 'secret method' was the same as Lee's bags. I said that I SUSPECTED it was something like it.
4) Audiences are not as fucking dumb as most magicians would like to think. You stick objects in bags and 'know' whose is whose there is a good chance people will suspect the bags - and rightly so.
5) $200 IS too fucking much - and you know it.
MW
By
Mr Whack, at 11:26 AM
And for those who don't want to pay too much for a bunch of shit cloth baggies, go to amazon.com and buy practical mental magic for under $15 and a pack of manilla envelopes. And if you want to do it blindfold then mark them in a way you can FEEL. It aint rocket science.
MW
By
Mr Whack, at 3:56 PM
And another idea...
It really isn't hard to figure out how to mark some cloth bags. You can find cloth bags that look just like the ones sold by fabric manipulations for a few bucks a piece. So if you really must use cloth bags, do a little looking online and you can make the whole outfit for $20 max.
I don't care how well made they are, you could find quality cloth bags for a lot less than $200. Lynetta is a fucking rip off merchant.
MW.
By
Mr Whack, at 4:00 PM
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