Tyler Wilson's MAGIC magazine credits
This page contains the complete credits from Tyler Wilson's one-man MAGIC mazgazine issue (January 2008). The tricks are:
Call Girl
- The game of Telephone is based on the concept of cumulative errors. It is also known under the name Chinese Whispers in British countries.
- The Top Change was published in Nouvelle Magie Blanche Devoilee (1854), by Jean Nicholas Ponsin. David Williamson's technique for the switch is second to none and can be found in Williamson's Wonders (1989), written by Richard Kaufman.
- The Pass can be found in New Recreations in Physics and Mathematics (1740), written by Gilles-Edme Guyot. A better, and more accessible, description can be found in S.W. Erdnase's Expert at the Card Table (1902); its use of the left thumb to lever the bottom packet up is wonderful. As well, Gary Ouellet has an entire book dedicated to the subject, aptly titled The Pass (1994).
- Edward Marlo's Bottop Change was published in his book The Cardician (1953).
- The Secondfromthetop Change was published in Richard Kaufman's Cardmagic (1979), but was first developed by Ken Krenzel and Bill Simon in the 1950s.
Bling
- John Ramsay used the interlock concealment in his Ten Thimble routine from The Ramsay Legend (1969), written by Andrew Galloway. Joe Cottone's card manipulation technique was published within Victor Sendax's Interlocked Card Production from Cliff Green's Professional Card Magic (1961).
- Geoffrey Latta's Nowhere Palm was published within Gary Kurtz's Trio routine from Unexplainable Acts (1990), written by Richard Kaufman.
- David Harkey's published Goldfinger, along with several applications, in Simply Harkey (1991).
- Garret Thomas' Ring Thing was taught on his Any Questions video (2002).
Token
- The Copper/Silver coin was first described in Reginald Scot's A Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), under the title A notable trick to transform a Counter to a Groat.
Guns N' roses
- The history of the Oil & Water plot is murky. Hofzinser originated the card problem of separating the full deck into reds and blacks, and claimed to have had at least one method using a regular deck (although its method has yet to be discovered). The effect description was unbelievably vague, so while it may have been a full deck Oil & Water routine, it could have just as easily been more closely related to Paul Curry's Out Of This World. Regardless, it appeared as Card Problem 12: The Magic Separation in Hofzinser's Card Conjuring written by Ottokar Fischer and translated into English by S.H. Sharpe (1931). Walter Gibson created the first contemporary version of the plot, "Like Seeks Like" which first appeared in Ted Annemann's magazine The Jinx (issue 91, November 1940) and utilized a Glide to make the alternating colours disunite. Although Edward Marlo didn't claim to invent the actual plot, he is commonly associated with the oil and water metaphor, which he originally published in his pioneering book The Cardician (1953).
- The Elmsley count was first published, although unnamed, in the marketed trick The Four Card Trick (1959). The move's roots go back to the Jordan Count found in Charles Jordan's Phantom Aces trick from his book, Thirty Card Mysteries (1919), and Eric de la Mare's Fingertip Block Push-off Count which itself was founded on Edward Victor's E-Y-E Count from his book, Magic of the Hands (1946).
Running Man
- The Fusion plot is covered in mud when it comes to credits, but what the heck, I'll give it a go. Wesley James is generally credited with introducing the plot with his Forgery routine. He claims it was created in 1965, although it wasn't published until inclusion in his Stop Fooling Us! lecture notes (1989). In the interim, J.G. Thompson Jr. published a routine entitled Joint Signature in The Pallbearers Review (October, 1970) which involved two signatures appearing on the same card, although the presentation did not frame it as a fusion. Later on, Richard Kaufman, Gene Maze, and David Arthur published Fusion in Kaufman's CardWorks (1981) which was the first routine to use a gaffed card in the plot; in this case a double backer. Strictly speaking it wasn't a fusion routine in the sense we've come to know and love (regardless of the title), the cards aren't fused but rather merely "stuck together" (which while being similar, are conceptually very different) and then the double backer is separated back into two cards, meaning the fusion had no permanency. Paul Harris, with the help of Looy Simonoff, published The Beast With Two Backs in Close-Up Fantasies Finale (1981) which climaxed with two cards together in all their permanent glory in the form of a red/blue double backer. Jay Sankey put a double facer handling of the Fusion plot in print called Hotfoot in Sankey Pankey (1986) as a kicker to a dual Ambitious Card routine. Christopher Carter published Cold Fusion in The Linking Ring magazine (September, 1990) of which its only merit in the plot's genealogy is that Doc Eason got a hold of it and reworked it with the good-enough-to-be-adapted-into-a-chick-flick presentation he epically titled Anniversary Waltz. Can I go now?
- An early reference for the Classic Force can be found in Robert Houdin's Secrets of Conjuring and Magic (1868), although more complete and refined descriptions can be found in Hugard and Braue's Expert Card Technique (1940), Paul Gertner's How to Force a Card in the Classical Manner (1980), and Card College Volume One (1995) among other places.
- The K.M. Move was published in a booklet of the same name (1962) and was created by Tony Kardyro and Ed Marlo.
- The basis for the Half Pass was published within the contexts of a Stop trick in Henri Decremp's book Testament de Jerome Sharp (1789).
- The Double Lift was published in Richard Neve's The Merry Companion: or, Delights for the Ingenious (1716) under the title of To Seem to Change the Top Card of the Pack into Another.
- Roy Walton's Trigger was published in a manuscript of the same name (1976), and later reprinted in The Complete Walton Volume One (1981).
- Dai Vernon, Henry Christ and Theodore Annemann have all been associated with the Alignment Move. In The Vernon Chronicles, Volume 1 (1987) Stephen Minch explains that Vernon created the move in 1933. Jon Racherbaumer, however, reports that Ted Annemann used the move in a marketed trick titled Remote Control, which was released in February 1931. A brief glance at the Tarbell course also reveals that Annemann published the sleight within his Synthetic Sympathy routine as well. Chances are that we'll never know the true originator, but one thing remains true: you still owe me $14.
- Theodore DeLand's Two Card Monte Move was described in the marketed version of his Two Card Monte routine (1909). A refined technique can be found in Dai Vernon's Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic (1961) written by Lewis Ganson, called the Optical Move.
- David Blaine said "Watch," precisely sixty times in his Street Magic television special. Thank goodness I didn't have to count every "Look."
- Kostya Kimlat's ending for the Anniversary Waltz plot was published in his lecture notes A Lecture Collection (2004) within his Marriage a la Mode routine.
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