Sweet-talking is an essential quality of a hustler! Claude Rix brilliantly illustrates this observation with a masterful routine in which he mixes a “Three Card Monte” routine with a small chain and coin magic in a very personal way. The demonstration ends with a succession of unexpected climaxes!  

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!  

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!  

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”!  

Based on a Pavel's trick, but with an unexpected and very funny ending... It's not a miracle,but a great trick for an emcee. If you want a guaranteed laugh... this is for you!  

A second new way to make canes appear on stage (the first one is already published on this platform). This video contains professional principles: to hide the canes on oneself, to load it invisibly, to blend technique and gestures. These principles are also applicable to objects other than canes! To buy an “Appearing Cane” click here.  

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!  

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!  

It's just a gag, a surprise, to slip in when you feel like it... always ready, no reset, but a nice recipe. You produce a slice of sausage from a spectator’s pocket! Then you bite into it, you eat the end... zut! There is pepper! You blow towards the slice, which is restored... and you put it back in the spectator's pocket. That's all: no flap, or rubber band that breaks. Ideal in cocktail conditions.  

Paul Dassonville's rope routine. Dominique Duvivier performs it at the Double Fond, Paul Dassonville explains his routine. An exceptional document! To buy some rope for magic click here.  

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.  

Alexandra Duvivier shows you a way to produce the four Aces one by one. Each Ace appears in a different way. In the process, you will learn various techniques that will enrich your technical toolbox. This routine is the result of 20 years of reflection, because Alexandra wanted to produce the Aces in a way that suited her. To buy a “Regular Bicycle Rider Deck” click here.  

It is a marvel of a trick, ideal for parlour or stage conditions, and permitting to create a real pandemonium, very playful and with a tremendous end... Beyond the trick, you will see that it is really the play that you set up with the spectators that brings the magic... It is by seeing my so dear Ali Bongo using cardboard plates (for a completely different trick) that I came to this idea... Sure that you will not be disappointed!  

Le Double Fond opened its doors on June 1st, 1988. This exceptional archive allows you to discover Dominique Duvivier and Gaetan Bloom in excerpts from various shows of the time. These excerpts have been divided into six parts. - Episode #1 : To prepare for FISM 88 Dominique learned his famous "Chameleon Card" trick in English and performs it in front of Jeff McBride. - Episodes #2, #4 et #5 : Dominique Duvivier and Gaetan Bloom - Episodes #3 et #6 : Gaetan Bloom Not to be missed under any circumstances !  

The magician gives a folded paper to the spectator: this is his prediction. He will invite the spectator to make an imaginary trip: the latter takes out of a purse various virtual (and therefore invisible!) coins from different countries of the world. He chooses the country of origin of each coin. Then he chooses one of them, and flips it. The prediction is then read: the magician has not only predicted which coin it is, but also if it fell on the heads or tails side! A completely impromptu trick... really crazy!  

The "Bloom Touch" version of this classic close-up trick. A card is chosen, torn up by a spectator, who keeps a piece of it. The other pieces are placed in the magician's pocket. A coin is borrowed, signed by another spectator, and placed in the magician's pocket. The magician then takes out of his pocket two wooden plates linked by rubber bands. The spectator removes the rubber bands and between the two plates, the spectator's card is found, which has been restored; but a piece is missing... which corresponds exactly to the one the spectator had kept. The climax is crazy: the spectator feels that there is something inside the card: he tears it up, and in its "entrails" there is... the signed coin! A real miracle. To buy an “Intercessor” click here.