John Bannon lectured at Le Double Fond on October 23, 2023. It was an unprecedented encounter with a great artist who gave us the best of his art. The Ace of Spades from a deck of cards is placed under a stem glass, and the Queen of Diamonds on top. The two cards are about to change places! Superb! To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

A card is chosen, and lost in the deck. The pack is wrapped with a rubber band... and still, the chosen card pops out of the deck! To buy a regular deck of cards click here.  

Are you interested in coin magic? Here is a routine that covers most of the effects with coins: they appear, disappear, pass from one magician's hand to another, multiply, and finally, pass into the spectator's closed hand! To buy some coins click here.  

Another magical exercise in style. A startling and baffling effect where a card that becomes four cards in an instant…  

A great trick that won't require a lot of work. Starting from a normal deck, you will be able to magically pull out the four aces from different parts of the deck. A magical moment to share without moderation with your spectators!  

In a very ordinary deck of cards, cards are shuffled face up and face down, really. Everything is clean, and yet the cards unshuffle on sight!  

A beautiful exercise in style coupled with a very strong impact on the public. A dream for a magician such as yourself! Here's the effect: thanks to your infallible powers, you are able to cut, on demand, one, two, three cards off the top of the deck, just "just by estimating"! You end up by cutting thirteen cards that turn out to be the thirteen spades!  

A must in your repertoire! A card is freely chosen and then lost in the deck. Four cards are shown, with the chosen card being among them. Magically the card disappears from the small packet of four cards, and finally ends up face up in the middle of your face down deck. It's crazy!  

In a tripartite conference, no one ever agrees, right? This magic trick starts the same way: three spectators randomly choose cards and aces, which are all different. No one is connected... it's worthy of a political debate! Only there, the magic works: the fourth ace, which was not chosen by anyone, not only has the power to find the cards chosen by each of the spectators, but also to multiply himself! Here are our three spectators now in perfect symbiosis... And that's not all! The multiplied Aces suddenly lose their backs to the famous chosen cards, so that there is only one regular Ace left. Then the chosen cards find their regular back in contact with a spectator, because deep down it's normal, the spectator is not a magician! The four multiplied Aces reappear in the hands of the mediator embodied by the magician and are transformed at sight into four perfectly different Aces, while the three chosen cards are found in the deck of cards. Another little "Duvivier" madness that will drive your spectators crazy! A little gem to be discovered without further delay!  

A coin is borrowed and then enclosed in a square of paper. A magic pass and the magician folds the paper with the coin inside: the coin vanish! You are then free to make it reappear wherever you want!  

If you want to make a silk appear, you've come to the right place! This is the easiest method you can find and at the same time the most effective. You show your empty hands and yet, clapping your hands a silk appears from nothing. It is beautiful!  

A new way to make canes appear on stage. This video contains professional principles: to hide the canes on oneself, to perform an invisible charge, to blend technique and gestures. These principles are also applicable to objects other than canes!  

Two thieves share a loot of seven ordinary coins. But the sharing won't be fair, because one bandit is more of a thief than the other! A nice little story to tell, while bluffing your spectators!  

Something very organic and that can be improvised: you spades an apple on a knife and you bite into it... From there, the "bite" will visually travel to another apple, multiply, disappear again etc... It's like the "Snowshoes at the points" trick, but can be done on stage... It's very visual and children especially love it!  

An interlude of parlour and stage magic. This is one of my favorite visual magic sequences. A candle appears and disappears twice with great naturalness and simplicity. The second time this candle turns into a clown's nose. Natural Tenkai palm, misdirection and timing theory explained in great detail with wise comments by Dominique Duvivier.  

When I was a teenager, the Mayette boutique sold a trick called "Céperlé": colored beads, shuffled in glasses, were magically separated by color. It was magical!

I pushed the idea a bit further with everyday objects: a drink and ice cubes!

You shuffle the ice cubes and the whisky (or apple juice) in two transparent cups and, with a single magic gesture, in front of everyone, you separate the cups: one ends up with all the liquid and the other with the ice cubes? Super powerful effect! Our friend Eric Antoine has even adopted the trick...