Issue No. 2 Lite RE-INVENTING THE MAGIC MODEL MONDAY NIGHT MAGIC PROS & CONS PETER THE OPENER A WORD FROM THE EDITOR elcome to doubt have heard of Peter who Cons article, and we provide a the second has a great reputation as a lovely flashy 4 Ace Production issue of creative thinker and performer, called Riffle Four from the July Magicseen and so we are delighted to be Masterclass trick section. Lite, the able to speak to him to find taster out more about the man who Plus....our esteemed Design edition has almost more tattoos on his Manager Phil Shaw writes a of the body than he has body! review of Monday Night Magic consider taking out a printed UK's only independent magic in New York, which he and his copy or download subscription Wmagazine. This time we are Also in this issue Jez Rose family experienced on a recent and receive the whole unabridged providing for you completely provides some intriguing thoughts holiday trip, and we even include versions? 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Anyone who is involved in the or otherwise, of using invisible selected contents, and if it gives world of mentalism will no thread in the latest Pros and you the taste for more, why not Mark Leveridge CONTENTS Masterclass – Riffle Four................................6 Peter Turner ....................................................8 Shout Outs .....................................................18 Reinventing The Magic Model .......................22 Monday Night Magic Review .........................23 Pros and Cons ...............................................25 Reviews ........................................................30 SUBSCRIBE AT: WWW.MAGICSEEN.COM 5 THE TRICKS MASTER CLASS RIFFLE FOUR Chiam Yu Sheng The magician riffles the deck and asks the spectator 1 2 to say stop at any point. After the spectator says stop, the magician instantly produces the four Aces from the place where the spectator stopped at. BACKGROUND Explain to the spectator that they I came up with this idea when I was 3have stopped at one card. You 15 years old. Back then, I was very will now extend your right index and interested in Cardistry and I tried to middle finger and clip the top card incorporate flashy moves into my in the left hand. Notice that the right 3 4 magic routines. The Riffle Force was middle finger is on top and the right my favourite method for forcing a index finger is on the bottom while card and I had the idea of producing clipping the top card (Fig 5). a four of a kind using it. You are now going to do a few SET-UP 4moves simultaneously. Your right Place one Ace on the bottom of the hand rotates the wrist clockwise and deck. Place two Aces face up on this will immediately reveal two Aces top of the deck. Finally, place the last (Fig. 6). Ace face down on top of the two face up Aces. So the setup from top Once the right hand has rotated 5 6 to bottom is: face down Ace, two 5the wrist, your left thumb is used face up Aces, the face down deck to push the face up Ace to the top and a face down Ace. left so that you will show another two Aces in the left hand (Fig. 7). METHOD By performing these moves Begin by holding the deck in a 6simultaneously, you will have 1 left hand Mechanic’s Grip. Your created an instant appearance of the right hand approaches the deck and four Aces (Fig. 8). executes a Swing Cut (Fig 1). Hold a pinky break at the spot that you CREDITS have cut to (Fig. 2). You are now in a The Riffle Force is described in 7 8 position to do the Riffle Force. Theodore Annemann’s The Jinx, Winter Extra 1938/39, p. 369. Execute the Riffle Force by having 2the spectator say stop at any point (Fig. 3). Once the spectator says stop, your right hand will lose the real chosen position and simply lift away all the cards above the pinky break. Please note that you are lifting the cards with your right thumb and ring finger (Fig. 4). The right index and middle finger should be free. 6 MAGICSEEN MAGAZINE - LITE - ISSUE 2 Hocus Pocus 215_9x279_4:Layout 1 13/06/2019 14:00 Page 1 Hocus Pocus 215_9x279_4:Layout 1 13/06/2019 14:00 Page 1 PETER TURNER PETER Just a few years ago, no-one had heard of Peter Turner. How times have changed. From leaving school and being homeless for a while, he is now acknowledged as a true original thinker in the world of mentalism and is in demand as an advisor on TV shows. His original mentalism effects and unique methods are passionately discussed on social media forums around the world and his books really do sell like hotcakes. Graham Hey meets the tattooed tormentor! meet Peter in Bradford – a West ‘I often get asked if I could go back and change ‘My creativity continued through middle Yorkshire town famous for its anything from my upbringing what would I school,’ says Peter, ‘and well into high connection to the wool industry. He’s change? The honest answer to that question is, I school until I started to feel restricted and immaculately turned-out, is friendly wouldn’t change a thing. uninspired by the monotonous lesson plans and says he can’t believe he’s going to and lacklustre teaching methods employed be on the cover of Magicseen. He’s a ‘I may not have had much as a child by my teachers. Short staffed and underpaid, Ivery friendly guy and has already paid for materialistically but my nan who was supposed I could tell the teachers didn’t want to be my coffee and cake! to be enjoying her own life after her own there any more than I did and right before children had left the nest, sacrificed everything my fifteenth birthday I left and never I ask Peter to tell me about his background to make sure we didn’t end up a ‘number’ in returned!’ and upbringing. ‘My background, if I’m the system. What my siblings and I lacked in honest is pretty cliché. I’m from a small material wealth we gained in unconditional It was at this point that Peter’s uncle had a village in West Yorkshire called ‘Queensbury’. love from my nan. In hindsight, even though word with him! ‘When my aforementioned As a child I grew up on the rough fringes my nickname was ‘Pov’ as a child (short uncle found out he gave me the ultimatum or ‘the ghetto’ as we referred to it (a council for poverty) I was rich in ways money to go back to school or leave home. Most estate) on the outskirts of the same village. couldn’t buy.’ people in my position would be worried at I was brought up by my grandma who I the thought of having nowhere to go and call ‘nan’ and never really had a consistent It’s always nice to see someone succeed against no way to sustain themselves but I’ve never relationship with my mother or father whilst the odds, and Peter really was an underdog in really been one to do anything that didn’t growing up, who separated at that time.’ his early life. He says that in terms of his school ring true with the way I want to do things. life, he was always referred to as a ‘gifted’ child. If you haven’t already guessed, I was forced Peter’s brother, sister, uncle, nan and himself He could read and write long before his school to leave home.’ were all crammed into a two bedroom flat life ever began and before he’d left primary and he says that although it was difficult school (Foxhill First School), he’d pretty much Peter lived on the streets for a period of time, sharing such a crowded living space, it was read every book he could get his hands on from moving vagrantly from place to place and his “everything”. within the school. learning what it took to survive. 8 MAGICSEEN MAGAZINE - LITE - ISSUE 2 PETER TURNER I often get asked if I could go back and change anything from my upbringing what would I change? The honest answer to that question is, I wouldn’t change a thing. SUBSCRIBE AT: WWW.MAGICSEEN.COM 9 PETER TURNER ‘I’ve never been so sure of anything else in my life, I wanted to be a magician. I wanted to be just like Lance Burton. It was, and is, one of the wisest decisions I’ve made to date!’ 10 MAGICSEEN MAGAZINE - LITE - ISSUE 2 PETER TURNER ‘I also learned how to entertain myself whilst my friends still attended school. I met so many interesting people and learnt many a life lesson during my time on the streets but those are stories for another time! ‘Not long after, I applied for a job as a joiner’s apprentice (carpentry) and won over the interviewer using magic.