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Volume One

Close Up Conundrums

How often do you hear an ad for a magic book say, "This one effect ALONE is worth the price of the book."  Well, we could certainly say that several times over.  Consider this:

CONSIDER:  What would you pay for a virtually sleight free card effect that can play for over 5 minutes, is topical, and can be done virtually under the spectator's nose?  With UPC miracle II, you cause blank cards to become printed duplicates of freely selected cards, entire blank decks to print themselves and much more- but that is only ONE effect in Quietus Of Creativity volume One.

CONSIDER: A coins through the table effect which uses a GLASS TOP TABLE and allows the spectators to SEE the magic happen.

CONSIDER: A Magical Money Making effect which uses a plain sheet of notebook paper and ends with a REAL US LEGAL TENDER dollar printed right in the middle of the notebook paper... lines and all!

CONSIDER: Effects where popcorn visible pops itself, then moves back in time to become an unpopped kernal yet again.....  With no sleights!

From 1988- 1994, author, performer and writer; Dean Montalbano created HUNDREDS of effects and variations, many of which were published in Genii, Linking Ring, MUM, MagiGram and other magic magazines.  In 1994, he vanished from the magic world for 20 years. Much of his material was never released, and in some cases that which was released was hidden in obscurity due to publication in long out of print periodicals.

Through exclusive arrangement with Leaping Lizards Publishing, over one thousand pages of his vintage material has been unearthed, re-edited, and commented upon by the creator.

This material will be released to the magic community ONLY  at special request of the author.

Quietus Of Creativity

Volume One

Close Up Conundrums

By Dean Montalbano

Click here for full Table Of Contents contents, pricing, and order information.  The run is limited to 500 Numbered copies, signed by the author, The books will be available for 365 days from the date of publication, or until they are sold out, whichever comes FIRST!

Note this book has been criticized for the $69.95 price for this Limited edition, Signed and Numbered title. It is high to be certain- but if you find one routine or item you decide to use, adapt or add to your performances, to many it would be worth more than that.  It is expensive!  That is certain... and it is exclusive. Less than 500 people in the magic world will have access to this material, then it will be gone.

Consider this: How many individual tricks have you paid for that were half or even as much as the price of this book that are sitting on your shelf unused?  How many tricks have you bought "just to see how they work" and then found they were not practical? This books is filled with creative ideas, many are ready to go, others you will have to adapt to your style, situation or skill- THAT is great!  The whole idea behind this material is to get you to be creative!

 It has been pointed out, as it does in the text; that this book IS NOT for beginners!  Often the methods are hinted at or, reference other standard effects-  again this is intentional and as noted- the material was originally created for those with a more vast performance experience.

Hard Cover, Over 220 Pages, Illustrated. For a full List of Contents scroll Down.

 6 X 9 Hardcover Signed, Numbered  Book!

Other volumes will follow dealing in bizarrism, mentalism, stand-up and stage illusions.

You may download a PDF version of this information by Clicking Here, or simply scroll down to read it online!

Table Of Contents

Here is a complete list of titles and contents for this first volume.  Please note that the volume is limited edition in TWO ways.  It is limited to 500 copies or to 365 days whichever passes FIRST.  So, if you are readings this any later than December 1st 2005, you are too late to order it from the publisher.  You may find it still in stock with some dealer or in rare magic book seller lists.  Feel free to contact the publisher, Leaping Lizards Publishing at www.leapinglizardspublishing.com for information on other publications.

 In these 200 Plus pages you will find: 

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

RING AROUND THE ROSY   21            

A spectator’s borrowed finger ring is caused to pass through a  solid object. Then, as a follow up effect, the ring vanishes and reappears on the stem of a rose!

TOOTHPICK TO PARASOL   24

A self explanatory title in which a toothpick is wrapped with tissue, and stroked by the performer. It transforms into a small paper cocktail parasol.

THE U.P.C. MIRACLE II   26

An amazing routine for you card workers with a modern premise that requires NO complicate sleight of hand.  The performer shows a blank deck of “laser beam cards” and another deck on which every card has a barcode.  A card is freely selected.  The performer passes a blank card over the barcode, and the laser card  “reads” the barcode and becomes a DUPLICATE of the freely select card… But that is ONLY the start!

DIVE CAPTAIN DIVE   34

A non-gimmicked version of the submerged card mystery which offers TWO versions of the effect and two varied methods!

CHEWED AND RESTORED GUM   39

A nice piece of visual magic in which both wrapper and gum are restored to pre-chewed condition with the wave of a hand.

OF DOGS AND HANDKERCHIEFS   42

A peculiar story involving human sized gold fish and other oddities. A handkerchief penetrates a deck of cards and ends up with a selected card magically impaled in the center of the knotted hank!

WHEN THE MOON IS FULL   47

Marked photographs handled by the spectator transform during the full moon during this amusing story.  The finale happens when ALL the photo’s turn blank. All with little sleight of hand.

BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES   52

A magical key is somehow inserted into a solid deck of cards. It seems to slide right into the solid deck. Later a selected card is found to magically have a key hole through  the center!

RAINBOWS AND RIDDLES   54

Imagine a sunbeam was in your hands.  Spray some water and colors of the rainbow appear. That is the premise in this charming routine wherein a golden cone of “sunshine” is misted and causes rainbow color balls to appear.  The finale is a large colored ball too big to have hidden in the cone!

GOLDI-BEAR AND THE 36 LOCKS   58

The performer causes a signed picture of a locked padlock to UNLOCK in the spectator’s hand.  In a follow up effect a padlock picture has a ring locked on it, and inside the card on which the picture is printed, SEALED between the layers, a previously vanished spectator's ring appears.

REMOTE CONTROL   61

A remote control deck of cards is shown and demonstrated to actually control which cards come flying out of the repeatedly shuffled deck.  Then, due to a malfunction, the deck FUSES together into a solid stack!

MOLECULES OF MATTER   64

A card is selected and genuinely buried in the deck. A joker is stuck lengthwise through the width of the deck.  The performer smashes a stapler down on the deck, and when the joker is lifted, the spectator’s card is seen to be stapled to it. The two cards are ripped apart, and give to the spectator.. ALL CAN BE EXAMINED!

FORT KNOX   67

A borrowed ring is trapped in a hand and handkerchief. With the wave of a Magic Key, the ring appears on the shaft of the key.  In a follow up effect the same key is used to “open” a coin which is seen at the end to have a pie shaped CHUNK missing from it!

NAILED AND SCREWED    70

A nail is hammered into a block of wood.  With everyone watching, the performer  causes it to change into a screw which must then be removed from the block of wood using a screwdriver! All may be examined!

A FAMILIAR RING   73

A cool variation on the destroyed and restored dollar bill classic, which ends up involving the performer’s finger ring.

POP GOES ORVILLE REDENBACHER   77

A performer causes a kernel of popcorn to pop VISIBLY while sealed in a small clear tube.  Then an entire bowl of unpopped kernels is caused to pop by magic.

REHCABNEDER ELLIVRO SEOG POP    82

A follow up effect causes a POPPED kernel of corn to go back in time and become an unpopped kernel right under the spectator’s nose!

THE TOAST OF THE TOWN   85

A failed card trick is recouped when the performer causes a slice of bread to be magically toasted. The toast forms the pattern of the name of the selected card. Spectators may eat toast.

DOUBLE COUPON DAZE   87

A magic coupon is used to reveal a spectator’s freely selected signed card, they might suspect some trickery until it is seen that SOMEHOW the coupon is actually printed on the BACK of the spectator’s  SIGNED CARD. But wait… there is more…  Turns out, the entire rest of the deck is ALL BLANK!  No complicated sleights.

CRYSTAL IMAGE   92

An awesome coin through the table effect using a CLEAR glass table and a CLEAR glass!  After several demonstrations of the coins penetrating down through the table, a coin is also caused to penetrate from the underside UP, quite visibly!

LIKE SANDS THROUGH THE HOURGLASS  97

An hourglass vanishes from inside a small three fold screen made of previously blank cards.  One of the cards bears a ghostly image of the now ethereal hourglass.

DON’T DRINK AND GAMBLE  100

A series of coin penetrations…  First the coins penetrate through a  solid table, Then through a handkerchief, and lastly through a solid mug. Very simple combination of some old and some new ideas!

THE GREAT BADGE OF MAGIC  103

A cute role playing effect with a couple spectators. The spectators get to do some magic of their own with this gender role reversal, a dollar bill vanish and reappearance in spite of impossible circumstances!

HAIR OF THE WITCHES HEAD  106

Another revisitation of the gypsy thread effect.

SUGAR AND SPICE   109

A chop cup type routine using an ice cream come, chocolate coins and a few surprises.

THE HAZARDS OF NUCLEAR FALL OUT   112

After being exposed to a “reactor in a can” the spectator is shown to have become victim to the fall-out of the nuclear reactor; they are now unable to lift a light-weight canister.

BATTER UP   115

A cookie and a donut change place with no sleight of hand, then multiply and later combine so the donut has a cookie center and the cookie has a donut-like hole it the middle!

THERE’S A SPOT ON YOUR TIE   119

A home made version of a commercial effect in which a selected card appears on the performer’s tie tack.  It can be handed out at the end.  This routine includes several other variations using a dollar bill and more.

GIVE HIM DA SCREWS MUGSY   122

A peculiar mad-capped gangster-themed routine for a simple mind reading effect using screw drivers and colored screws!

VISUAL IMAGERY   126 

A great routine for a close-up mind reading effect using various colored markers. Method is simple as can be, the routine makes this powerful!

TABLE MANNERS   129  

A cool effect involving audience participation.  The spectators use mental concentration to try and cause a fork to become a spoon and a spoon to become a fork.  They try, and they ALMOST succeed.  The tops of the utensils DO indeed change places, but they are slightly mangled in the process.

CREDIT CARD CALAMITY   133

A great comedy routine involving a spectator’s credit card, a thousand dollar phone bill, a set of ginsu knives and an unexpected reappearance INSIDE another object!

COWABUNGA DUDE   137

An odd chop cup effect themed after certain now outdated ninja turtles using a turtle shell and featuring an appearance of the famous foursome at the end!

PASTA PRESENT AND FUTURE   141

A penetration of lasagna noodles that later transform into a pile of macaroni!

THAT’S THE WAY THE (FORTUNE) COOKIE CRUMBLES  145

The spectator becomes  famous Chinese magician and does some amazing things without even knowing how!

DON’T POP YOUR TOP   149

A nifty presentation in which a signed sketch of a bottle POPS, shoots a stream of water and the sketch changes to an opened bottle!

PING PONG COASTER   153

A coaster, a tack, a Ping Pong Paddle and a deck of cards… Sounds like an opportunity to have a card selected, marked, and magically end up tacked to the coaster while cards fly everywhere when hit with a Ping Pong Paddle!

A TWIST OF FATE   156

A spooky effect using tarot cards and an old skeleton key. Before the adventure is over, the key twists around the shank, and the deck is scorched. The twisting key ends up bent but not before it reveals the spectators selected card!

ESPECIALLY TRICKY   160

An E.S.P. effect goes awry, and ends with a VISUAL transformation of one E.S.P. card to match the other, followed by an unexpected change of the ENTIRE deck moments later! Also offers a SECOND effect that is strictly mind reading, but uses the SAME method. 

MATCHY-SNAP   163

A nice quickie. Broken and restored match stick. Very clean and very visual!

COUNTERFEITING IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE   166

A great VISIBLE money printing effecting using a plain sheet of note book paper. In the end, the bill is printed in the middle of the sheet of paper, complete with little lines across its face, front and back… the bills is cut from the center of the pager is LEGAL TENDER and can be given away to a spectator.

HOW TO SNAG A HOOKER  172

You’ll have to wait to read this one…. Don’t want to spoilt the surprise.

RING IN THE MORN   176

A variation of an old ring off string effect that happens in the spectators hands and in a very clean looking manner!

A CARD ASKEW   179

A zig zag card effect that is done without cover and can be handed out at the end!

A RAT THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS   182

A close up mirror penetration with a  few twists and a mirror that changes to a slice of swiss cheese at the end.

VAMPIRES DON’T PROTOGRAPH  185

A good press getter.  A Polaroid picture is taken of the performer who claims to be a vampire. When the reporter finally gets to look at the picture, he will find that though the background is there… the performer is invisible in the photo.

THE CHEESE STANDS ALONE  188

A piece of Swiss cheese is seen wrapped in clear plastic.  The performer causes the packaging and the cheese to change nature so that the PLASTIC has holes, and the cheese become SOLID.

CARBON CONJURING   191

Carbon paper, dollar bill doodles, and vanishing sketches.  An unusual effect and clever method!

DIE SUGAR DIE   195

A white spotted die is dropped into a cup of coffee.  It vanishes.  A spectator rolls another die to select any number they like.  The coffee is poured out. The die in the coffee has VANISHED, but spots on the bottom of the cup match the number rolled by the spectator. NO FORCE!

STAMP IT   198

A rubber stamp comes to life, stamps and creates a business card for the performer. Must be ghosts!

A KISS BEFORE MAGIC   201

An effect especially for the female performer. Lipstick on the collar vanishes without a trace!

CAM-CORD-ER   203

A magical camera made from two cards is show.  The camera takes PHYSICAL pictures!  A rope is cut, the knot is sandwiched between the cards. A picture is taken, the cards WERE blank, now one has a picture of the knot upon it, and the knot has vanished leaving the rope solid!

A NAKED WARP   205

A special kicker ending for the classic card warp effect involving the king of hearts baring his buttocks!

THE CHESHIRE GRANDPA  207 

A photo of your grandfather penetrates a mirror, ala Alice in wonderland. Then the picture is initialed by a spectator.  Gramps will imitate his favorite character, the Cheshire cat. Moments later, the initialed photo is BLANK and grandpa's dentures are all that are left on the table!

THE SELF AUDIT KIT, ANOTHER BRILLIANT GOVERNMENT CONCEPT  209

A bizarre premise for a cut and restored shoe lace!

BOUNCE!   211

A wonderfully weird card trick using a drier fabric softener sheet, hands that turn to foam rubber and of course a pick-a-card trick!

DON’T WATCH TOO CLOSELY   214

An experiment in time travel where drawings change, broken things are not, and watches flip themselves over magically!

BEWARE O’ PAINTED LADIES   217

Another effect JUST for the gals.  Nail polish color changes to reveal a thought of card.

TO DOLLARS DO NOTS     219

A dollar bill becomes somehow folded INSIDE OUT, so the printing is on the INSIDE!

FLORA-YOUTH    221

The fountain of youth is discovered and demonstrated with plants that get younger and chickens that return to the egg!

CHOCO-FLORA-AURUM    224

A spectator’s ring is destroyed and mixed with chocolate… moments later the chocolate forms an edible chocolate rose and therein, restored, is the spectator’s ring!