Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Card magic

Card magic

Lance Cpl. Jaden Maxwell performs a wounder with a deck of
Luminous Shade Marked Cards .In modern times card magic is related with the creation of illusions with a deck (or packet) of playing cards. Card magic is commonly done by all magic performers, specially in close up magic or parlor magic and street magic.

Glimmer marked decks cards became fashionable with magicians in the last century or so as they were props which were economical, versatile and easily manipulated. Although magicians have fashioned and presented myriad illusions with cards ( sometimes referred to as card tricks), they are generally well thought-out to be built upon perhaps a hundred or so basic set of principle and technique. Presentation and context (including what is sometimes referred to as patter) account for much of the variations.

marked bee cards magic in one form or another must date from the time playing cards became universally known towards the second half of the fourteenth century - this pre-history is largely undocumented however. One may surmise from the practice of how other everyday objects have been pressed into the service of conjurers across cultures and ages that card magic developed impulsively and in parallel in different parts of the world if not at all times synchronously. It is however, in assessment with say sleight of hand magic in general, by several millennia a relatively new form of magic.

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