Destination Zero by John Bannon introduces Bannon's hands off style of card magic.
Fasten your seatbelt. You are travelling to a special province in the world of magic: Self-working card magic. Deceptive, automatic, and turbo-charged.
In Destination Zero, you join John Bannon on a twenty-five stop wide-ranging tour of self-working card magic. Not your typical non-sleight-of-hand tricks, Bannon has thoroughly analyzed these effects and backed up subtle principles with the careful, layered construction he is known for.
Anyone can cobble together a couple of principles and call it a “trick.” Bannon looks for synergies and leverages the method as much as possible. His objective: “One plus one should equal three—or more. Otherwise, why bother?”
You get the trick and you get Bannon talking about the trick, all in his precise, but easy-to-read style. The perfect travel companion on this exciting journey.
All with regular cards, without gaffs, crimps, pencil dots, “punches,” or marks. These highly-refined constructions will change the way you think about self-working card magic.
It’s not just the destination, it’s the journey. Enjoy the ride. Let's roll ...
Destination Zero Contents: Bluff Oracle Aces I: Free cut finds four Aces. Bluff Oracle Aces II: Performer cuts to an Ace; the Participant finds the other three. Ulterior: A card discovery and a secret cull. Petal To The Metal: Participant divines the identity of a predicted card. Four-Sided Gemini: Brand new Gemini Twins variation. Seriously. Ban-nihilation: Cameron Francis’ “Annihilation Deck”—without the deck. Perennial: The Diary trick—without the Diary. Prophet Motive: Participant shuffles and deals. The prediction cannot be explained. The Thirty-Second Sense: Pocket change misses, then finds the participant’s mental selection. Mousetrap: Two Queens trap a mental selection. Second Reckoning: Mental selection is mentally spelled to…and found. Leverage: Performer predicts that participant will miss the target card and by exactly how much. Tiny Contrary Killer: Participants select a card and think of one. Both have been predicted—sort of. Perfect: Participant freely cuts, deals, and stops at a particular card. The performer has predicted it. Cross Purposes: Mentally-selected card at a chosen number. Sort Of Psychic: After a few warm-up exercises, the participant cuts to her genuinely thought-of card. Origami Poker Revisited: Fast fold finds (Royal) flush. From High Caliber. Box Of Doom: Einstein would not have stood a chance. Free Willy: Participant shuffles, cuts, makes a few free choices. Esmeralda knows. Matchismo: Performer and Participant each shuffle and cut—and find matching cards. The three digit number has been predicted. The Koko Test: After a short pop psychology test, the Participant has cut to a subliminally-selected card. Nationwide: Four freely selected cards match the States of four US quarters—sort of. AK-47: Any card is thought of. The performer commits to one card and removes it. Nailed it! Depth Charge: Any card at any number—sort of. Banco Bank Night Bonus: Over one million dollars at stake—really.
Through-out Destination Zero you will learn valuable card moves and subtleties which will help you improve you card magic.
Only started this booked and read the 1st few effects but so far they have been fun and powerful tricks can’t wait to read the other 22!
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John O'Keeffe
Great book for all abilities
Great for the beginner but there’s something for everyone in here. Who said no sleight tricks had to be boring.
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Ben Levy
Absolutely superb
I've already added two routines to my close up set.
These are incredibly strong effects and SO easy to execute.
And very enjoyable writing style from Mr B.
Couldn't be happier.
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Adrian Tritton
Brilliant book
This is full of gold, as well as tricks John also shows how to join them together to make a routine out of them. As the title suggests there are no tricky sleights, you will need to shuffle a deck and perhaps retain some stock but John will also show how to do that with no ‘moves’ is a cut a move, not really. Buy the book and love every page before it goes out of print again
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Needs a bit of practice to get angles / timing down , but put that in and you’ve got a visual masterpiece in your hands . Instant reset , tutorial is fantastic 100% a worker
This effect is superb , props are excellently made and this is what a tutorial is meant to be like ! Very in depth , multiple angles , close up , parlour and stage options . 100% workable table hopping and walk around . The “jam” session with peter turner is excellent giving you a few additional effects which are really really good . Over all very pleased with the whole package .5 stars all day long !
I love this so much. It’s so simple but so unbelievable good. It stays on me all the time now and holds my coins ready for a trick at any time. Love it. Buy it, practice with it, create with it. Wonderful.
This is great fun. It’s well made and reasonably sturdy + should last for a while. The bank card fits well and is a realistic size. Check to see if a slightly thicker playing card (x5 cards thickness) will actually fit in your wallet/phone case though!
