The Master Sessions
A Course in Magic Thinking

4 Disc DVD set

My new DVD teaching project, The Master Sessions, have been beautifully produced by Frankie Glass and Jim Steinmeyer, and contain complete sleight of hand lessons with a variety of objects. Here, you will learn the why and how, the real secrets. These lessons teach universal principles, using specific examples from well-crafted routines. Only a few of the pieces have appeared in print, and almost none have appeared on video.
All four DVDs are now finished and will be mailed to you, as a set.

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More magic from Carneycopia. An Everywhere and Nowhere routine with a surprising finish, a Borrowed Bill in Pen routine, the production of a pack of cards, the penetration of a stack of quarters through a spectator's hand, a color change routine with cards, and the clean and amazing transposition of the red and black aces. Also advice on the Classic pass and side steal.

Further magic from Carneycopia. Includes an Aces up the Sleeve routine, a very direct version of the Oil and Water plot with a great finish, a prediction effect with cards, a flashy production of four jokers which change to aces, pieces of paper magically jump off the floor and on to a knife blade, and a coins across routine using bullets, climaxing with a bang and the performer catching the bullet in his teeth. This is great, commercial magic.

Magic from Carneycopia. Includes the Napkin Trilogy, an impromptu animated matchbox, a revolutionary display for changing the colors of cards, a chop cup routine with a borrowed bill and a coffee cup, climaxing with the appearance of a lemon around the bill, a visible Triumph effect and the impossible bare handed vanish and reproduction of two coins.

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Many of the most powerful effects in card magic require the palming of a playing card. Yet nothing else strikes fear in the heart of the uninitiated as much as this prospect. The fear itself is the single greatest obstacle to effective palming.
Fear not, for John Carney is acknowledged as one of the finest sleight of hand artists and teachers in the world. In this instructional DVD he gives you practical tips and effective techniques for stealing, concealing and controlling playing cards. This information is indispensable to students of pure and amazing card magic.

An excellent resource, providing thorough instruction from an expert practitioner. Considering the quality of the information, it is cheap at the price.
Mike Close - MAGIC Magazine

Highly recommended … a splendid, patient teacher … with the wisdom and experience shared here by John Carney, the payoff is immeasurable.
Dustin Stinett - Genii Magazine

… purely inspirational ... the real secrets that make palming work. A most valuable addition to the palming canon.
Steve Byant - Little Egypt Gazette

Superb … a revelation ... Destined to become the definitive work on palming. Treat yourself to this disc and master some real magic.
Duncan Trillo - Magic Week

… a tremendous asset to any card magician's library … you can see what the moves you've been reading about all of these years should look like.
Jim Sisti - Magic Spin

John Ramsay was one of the world's greatest exponents of visual and psychological misdirection. His most famous application of these ideas was in his brilliant Cylinder and Coins and Coins in the Hat. John Carney is one of Ramsay's greatest admirers, owing much to that master teacher. In this enlightening video, John offers his insights and interpretations of the Ramsay technique, explaining concepts which may be applied in tricks of every description, from close-up magic to stage illusion. Here are the real secrets of sleight of hand; how to effectively apply knowledge of the machinations of the spectator's mind and eye toward a more perfect illusion. These are lessons for all who wish to understand the art and science of misdirection.

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Five routines from The Book of Secrets. This DVD contains John's practical handling of the cigars from the purse, two little known linking ring moves, his take on the classic miser's dream, a humorous ball routine using grapes, and variations on one of the best and most visual card tricks ever: Leipzig's Opener.

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This DVD contains five more ideas from The Book of Secrets. John explains several very visual methods for vanishing a handkerchief, a variation of the classic Victor-Vernon routine with five coins and a champagne glass, a most efficient control of several cards, a hybrid of the Rosini and Ramsay thimble routines, and the classic cards up the sleeve using the entire deck, with a surprise finish.

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Books, etc...

The Book of Secrets (Hardbound Book)

Critics and readers alike, proclaim it one of the best magic books ever! This comprehensive course of study is a 377 page hardbound book filled with stand up magic, close up, and essays. More information and reviews

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The Book of Secrets
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Beautifully written by Stephen Minch, this book has been acclaimed by critics as one of the best books of the decade. Within these pages are taught the prized secrets of one of today's finest and most creative magical entertainers, John Carney. Here is the close-up magic of which he is proudest; magic that has won its creator the acclaim of his peers and the public alike. Each routine, trick and sleight is taught in painstaking detail. Here, waiting to amaze your audiences, is a compendium of close-up magic, formulated on the classic values of entertainment and baffling mystery. 43 routines.

John's legendary character Mr. Mysto has had some astounding misadventures, as illustrated in this beautiful full color poster measuring 18 by 24. Executed with great humor by artist Daniel Sylvester, Mysto's ill-fated mystery magazine cover is reproduced on high quality paper. At last you may invite Mysto into your home without all the fuss and muss associated with the genuine article.