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Pseudo Psychometry Bag Set Featured Product: Fabric Manipulation

 

 

Ted Annemann

Ted Annemann’s Incredible Pseudo Psychometry was and is one of the classics of Mentalism.  Mr. Annemann’s ability to identify objects with their owners seemed impossible to audiences then, and readers of his writings today. 

 

Fabric Manipulation has brought this time-tested effect to market with their usual quality and style.  Mr. Annemann’s method is incorporated into props and a routine assembled with the working professional in mind. 

 

The audience is shown five identical jewelry bags as they are handed to random volunteers.  Each volunteer places some personally significant object in their respective bag before another volunteer collects the bags, mixes their order and stands ready for the impossible. 

 

The volunteer hands the performer one bag at a time ? in no specific order.  As the performer receives each bag, he or she is able to concentrate, focus, and then correctly divine the object’s owner. 

 

Just as in Mr. Annemann’s performances, there appears to be no logical explanation for this talent.  The process is entirely out of the performer’s hands. 

 

Even blindfolded, the performer will properly discern the impossible.  In addition, as Fabric Manipulation’s Lynetta Welch suggests, with addition of some cold reading, this effect moves from amazing to impossible. 

 

The effect is not inexpensive.  Fabric Manipulation creates each bag by hand from black velvet, lined in satin.  This is not an effect for the amateur magician, but the working professional.  Your competition will likely not be performing this miracle but chances are they will hear about it from your past audiences. 

 

The Fabric Manipulation Pseudo Psychometry is true to the Annemann tradition of outstanding mental effects and the Fabric Manipulation reputation for the highest quality product for the working professional. 

 

Inside Magic Rating: Five out of Five ? Best Effect of its…
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January 7th, 2005 | Category: Magic Stories | Leave a comment

Darren Romeo Returns to Nevada

 

 

One of the most underrated magicians of our era, Darren Romeo, has moved his show from Mississippi back to Nevada to take over the Eldorado Showroom in downtown Reno. 

 

Mr. Romeo, a good friend to us here at Inside Magic, has what it takes to make it back to Vegas and participate in the Magic of the Strip.  He will be performing in the outstanding Voice of Magic show that brings together his talented singing voice, great stage presence, energy and outstanding magic skills until February 27th. 

 

Mr. Romeo has performed magic since nine and worked in the longest running off-Broadway musical, “The Fantastics” before Siegfried & Roy (winners of the 2004 Inside Magic Magicians of the Year Award) discovered him. 

 

The Duo brought Mr. Romeo to their home stage in the Mirage for a critically acclaimed but too short run as an afternoon show. 

 

Mr. Romeo’s show at the Mirage was outstanding.  He showed an appreciation for the great effects and great magicians in our Art’s history; his singing and the show’s staging brought the classic effects into the modern era. 

 

Perhaps because there are no other singing magicians (or magicians who can sing with the talent Mr. Romeo possesses), his show received mixed reviews among the magic press.  While the public enjoyed the matinee performances, it became almost “cool” to dismiss Mr. Romeo’s hard work and flawless combination of music and magic.  That was a shame.  His durability and continued success throughout his many significant runs around the country testify to his abilities and his status as one of our stars. 

 

Inside Magic reviewed Mr. Romeo’s show when he appeared in the Siegfried & Roy Theater.  We found it then, as we expect it to be now, to be almost flawless.  He clearly understood the risk of trying something new but was willing to accept that risk to make his mark in the business. 

 

We sat behind Siegfried at the matinee and enjoyed seeing his enthusiasm for his prot?g?e’s performance.  At one point in the show, Mr. Romeo vanished…
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January 7th, 2005 | Category: Magic News | Leave a comment