Sefalaljia is the close-up version of the "Spirit Cabinet" routine designed by Stewart James. Gaetan Bloom has revisited the principle by including his famous "Bloom Touch": the "cabinet" is a simple cardboard box that he hands out for examination. Different "spirit" phenomena happen to various objects while they are isolated inside the box: - A borrowed ring is threaded onto a cord. - A small rugby ball, placed inside the box, mysteriously comes to life. A great classic... revisited by Gaetan Bloom.  

This very old effect has been revisited by Gaetan Bloom. The basic "recipe" of Al Baker's trick has been enhanced with a little extra "Bloom Touch" that gives it such a special taste! A pie tin is blackened with soot. A mysterious inscription appears in this soot... it's the name of the card that has been chosen beforehand by a spectator!  

A ring is borrowed, and is slipped onto the handle of a small spoon, which is held by a spectator. Despite these impossible conditions, the magician mysteriously releases the ring!  

An impromptu trick par excellence: how to make a coin enclosed in a piece of paper disappear. This great classic is performed without any sleight of hand, and with the most ordinary props: a piece of paper, and a coin.  

Isaac Newton has to be careful! Here, it is a pear which is used, for an effect of making a solid go through another solid... in impossible conditions! A nice tribute to the great magician Stewart James, with Gaetan’s “Bloom Touch”!  

This trick is a close-up classic. A handkerchief is threaded onto a length of sewing thread. This thread is stretched in front of the magician, one end is held by his foot, and the other by his hand. The silk, placed on top, slides along the thread, but inexplicably obeys the magician's orders: it falls or stops at will! Gaetan Bloom started from the classical process, and applied his "Bloom Touch", which allows you to hand the props out for examination!  

For lack of a pet, Toto is a white bean adopted by the magician! The latter shows a glass filled with white beans. The beans are abundantly shuffled, and despite this, he finds the only bean on which his name is written: "Toto"! Success guaranteed!  

Frank Chapman's presentation of the famous "Jiffy Coin Trick": « Metamorphosis » (or the "Substitution Trunk") close-up version! One of the coins is enclosed by a spectator in a little bag, which is itself enclosed in a small box, and the whole in a larger box; each of these elements is hermetically sealed by rubber bands. The two signed coins mysteriously change places! Success guaranteed! To buy a “Renelys Box” click here.  

This excerpt from the DVD " The School of Objects - Vol #2 " is the introduction of Gaetan Bloom by Alexandra and Dominique Duvivier.  

A book test with a regular book. And the icing on the cake is that you can guess the card that was chosen by the spectator, and that allowed him to choose the page of the book! A book test with the "Bloom Touch"! This trick is extracted from the DVD " School of Objects - Vol 2 " that you can buy in click here.  

From a deck, the magician takes out the four aces. A succession of breathtaking effects then occurs: - The aces are separated by color: two red, two black. The aces change position! - They turn into kings! - The aces reappear, then the packets of kings and aces are transposed. - After some card travels, the four queens appear, then the four jacks. - Finally, the deck splits into two separate packets: the red cards are on one side, and the black cards on the other! A crazy routine! A guaranteed success! To buy a “Regular Bicycle Rider Deck” click here.  

The four Aces are shown, and placed in a row face down on the table. A spectator points to one of the Aces, and any three cards are placed on top of it. The other three Aces are inserted in different places inside the deck. The miracle: the Aces disappear from the deck... and take the place of the cards on the table! The actions are incomparably clear! To buy a “Regular Bicycle Rider Deck” click here.  

You're going to love this routine full of twists and turns! You take the Aces out of your deck, lose them back in different ways, and off you go for a series of mind-boggling effects to find them again! You're going to fool your friends, that's for sure! This trick has already been described by Dominique Duvivier.  

Card technique: The principle of the peek is to secretly know the identity of a card in the deck. This particular technique has already been described by Alexandra Duvivier.  

A card is freely chosen, lost in the deck; the deck is enclosed in its case. A silk is handed for examination, and placed on top of the case. Despite these laboratory conditions, the chosen card will disappear from the deck and end up in the folds of the silk!  

An exceptional card transposition! Two cards are chosen, and lost in the deck. The magician asks the first spectator what the value of his card is (e.g. a 9). He takes out the corresponding four of a kind. 1st effect: the chosen card (e.g. the 9 of Diamonds) is magically turned face down among the three other 9s, which remain face up. 2nd effect: The magician announces that the second card in the deck will turn over. When he ribbon spreads the deck, astonishment, it is not the second card chosen that is face up, but... the 9 of Diamonds! 3rd effect: the card face down in the four of a kind is shown: it is the other chosen card! Guaranteed impact.