15 Apr 2011

TSC Sessions, Justin Miller


This a varied collection of moves and effects, all of which are sleight of hand based.

There's some pretty neat ideas here, lets start with the 'drop change', this is a visual colour change which appears to happen as the card falls from one packet to another, easy to do and looks magical, nice.

The 'sick control' is a slightly knackier move used to deceptively switch cards during an in-transit motion.

'Doppleganger control' is a one handed technique to display a card supposedly in the centre, might take some practice but I like this, convincing.

The 'silky change' is sweet! It looks incredible and there are so many ways of going about it, one of the best items on the download, thumbs up!

'Eclipse' is a nice card & coin transpo which I'm definitely going to start using.

'Abyss change' is a very open colour change which in JM's hands looks great, I'm still struggling with this one a bit but I think it's worth the time and effort, so shall keep going!

'Conviction' is an awesome colour changing torn card - a selection is lost in deck, the corner from an X card is ripped off, visually you change the X card into the selection and the torn off corner also changes (in specs hand!), the two pieces fit together and boom you've got yourself a screaming crowd! Strong stuff! I'd say this routine alone is worth the asking price, it's easy to set up, simple handling and extremely high impact, thumbs up!

So that's my highlights, there's some other effects, one of which is '4 on da floor' which I've already reviewed and the others I thought were OK.

The cons! The download appears to be shot on a mobile phone - this makes the quality fairly poor, you can still learn from it, but leads to some light and audio issues.

Overall I felt the production was poor, but magic-wise it does contain some decent material. 


2 comments:

  1. do u find all the contents? i am having trouble to find VCR, explanation of window washer change, 4 on da floor, as well as other stuff
    please reply
    btw nice reviews, helped me a lot to choose products, you should do video reviews on youtubue

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  2. Cheers Nicholas, I've since spoken to JM, he's going to look into it soon. Shall keep you posted!

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