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The Blurb
Imagine having all the advantages and possibilities of the change bags. Also, of the traditional forcing bags, only without having to use any bag, no clothing restrictions, no complicated mechanism… absolutely nothing, just your two hands in the bowl. Imagine being able to control the process and the result 100%, every time, no mess, no failures.
Imagine that you put your hands in and take out a few, which they can see clearly. Imagine that someone picks one up at random. Now, the stage curtain opens, to reveal hundreds of balloons inflated with the same color. Imagine someone hands you a sheet of newspaper, and you start tearing, very neatly, everything into pieces. Imagine someone picks one out – maybe a word, maybe a picture, maybe a headline? Now you could reveal it as a burnt sum, as a giant banner, with a tattoo, in a giant graffiti, in a hot air balloon, go crazy!
Imagine any kind of prediction, maybe in smaller formats, a few simple Post It, some coins, some candies, handkerchiefs, ballots… You can use no bag in any format, for any kind of magic, in any situation.
The method is very simple and practically invisible.
The method is a new method, not explored before.
It can be adapted to almost any element or idea, and there are proposals and solutions for multiple outputs, results, options… Anyone can use it, in any condition.
In the tutorial, you will learn about the history of change and forcing bags, about how to make and adapt your No Bags, handlings and more than 40 ideas and routines with balloons, confetti, paper, bills, envelopes, chips, coins, photos… a lot of years of working with this ingenious prop.
No Bag has a lot to offer… enjoy it!
Jheff's Guide
WHAT IT IS:
Gimmick with routine(s) included
HOW ACCURATE OR COMPLETE THE AD COPY IS:
The ad copy is definitely misleading as it should emphasize that the audience or participants see no bag, not that there isn’t one. This is a very significant distinction. The gimmick is debatably a form of a bag. More importantly, when it says that use “absolutely nothing, just your two hands in the bowl,” that’s not true, either. It does lead you to believe that this can be totally impromptu and nothing else is used besides the props in play, such as balloons, sticky notes, newspaper, etc. This is not true since there is a gimmick that you must use that makes this all work. In other words, the ad should read that the audience or participants see “absolutely nothing, just your two hands in the bowl.” If it said that, it would be accurate.
SET-UP AND RE-SET:
Though it does depend upon the routine you are doing, it is highly recommended by the creator to disguise the gimmick which involves gluing. If you use rubber cement, then you can re-use the gimmick. Otherwise, once you prepare the gimmick, it will be dedicated to that routine and will need to purchase additional gimmicks if you wish to do other routines.
WHAT’S NOT INCLUDED THAT YOU NEED OR NEED TO KNOW:
(list of what’s not included that the performer needs)
SUITABLE VENUES:
Close-up, Parlour, Stage, Walkaround
JHEFF’S JUDGMENT:
Despite the ad issues, this is a very clever use of an EDC item that’s been used in magic and mentalism before, notably by Larry Becker and Mark Strivings. Now it’s being used as an invisible force bag that has great potential. And it gets kudos to having a ten-minute history of the force bag at the beginning of the instructional video.