SleightfulModular Card Magic - Tobias Hudson | Book Trailer
The video promotes 'Modular Card Magic', a debut book by Tobias Hudson, showcasing a diverse collection of card magic tricks, sleights, and principles. Hudson advocates for a modular approach to magic, allowing performers to adapt tricks to various contexts. The book includes over 30 effects, ranging from simple to complex, and features video tutorials for challenging techniques. Notable contributions include essays on performance and original sleights like the Full Cover Dribble Pass and the Automatic Card Shift. Endorsed by Roger Curzon, the book is praised for its innovative ideas and is aimed at magicians seeking to enrich their repertoire with adaptable and deceptive card magic.
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The book spans 300 pages and includes video tutorials for technically demanding material.
Content ranges from self-working to mathematical effects, with a mix of classical plots, magician foolers, and original sleights.
Three performance essays and The Vault—a section of 15 quick effects—round out the offerings.
Roger Curzon endorses it as a 'cornucopia of new and novel ideas from outside the box.'
Hudson emphasizes adaptability, encouraging magicians to treat tricks as interchangeable modules.