Chris Philpott's French Surprise
French Surprise is a limited release available exclusively through this website to people who own French Postcards.
Special thanks to Steve Valentine.
Effect:
After you perform French Postcards, and the spectator has
used their intuition to separate the destination cards from the erotic French
postcards, you try one last experiment in intuition: you spread out the cards,
and the spectator picks any one – and they can change their minds as
often as they want – it is a totally free choice. And then you turn
over the close-up pad and there is a large picture of one of the cards --
lo and behold: it matches the postcard they chose!
Why is this exclusive?
Doing a magic release the usual way takes a lot of time. My last DVD (Babel)
had over 400 jpegs! Then there are the written instructions, video instructions,
performance footage, promotional footage, ads… As a result, I can only
release a small fraction of the effects I come up with. So I thought, what
if from time to time I release a few effects without all the promotional hoo
haw. I skip the ads and market directly to people who’ve bought my effects
in the past, I can keep the costs down but also it allows me to be more open,
because I know I’m talking strictly to magicians.
What do you get with French
Surprise?
You get a postcard forcing deck – 24 all of one image from the original
effect. When you finish French Postcards and you’re
putting the cards away, you say: “You know what? Let me try one more
thing...” And then you bring out the forcing deck! It’s the easiest
deck switch imaginable because the trick is done – there’s no
heat. (If you’re a move monkey and you want to get fancy, by all means,
and I’ll have a few further tips on the video instructions.)
And that’s another thing: you get some video instructions.
Finally, you get access to a dropbox with the jpegs for the images –
you take the one you need and print it up any size you want (I got a 16X20
inch one done for $12 at Walmart). Anyway, you can put the large picture under
a close up pad, on a wall, folded up on a table. Heck, you could have it on
your phone, but if you want a really big finish, go big.
Also, I’ll give you instructions for how to make a more elaborate forcing
deck, where you can show the cards all different, and then they can peek anywhere,
and the card they peek at is the force.
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By the way, if you're interested in buying several of my items, you can always email me at chris@magicaonline.com for multi-order pricing.
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