books on performance magic
The following publications are available for purchase to fellow practitioners of sleight of hand. Please contact me for ordering information.
Daydreams
8 1/2 x 11, 28 Pages
This set of lecture notes contains three essays and three effects.
Effects include:
-Outside the Box: a handheld production box with which you can produce anything that will fit inside after clearly showing the box empty, and without the use of any gimmicks!
-Virus: A card effect in which the information on the cards slowly deteriorates after a computer virus (the joker) is inserted into the hard-drive (the deck).
-The Sound of Music: A card gimmick which allows for you to literally play music from your pack of cards.
Essays include Daydreams, What is Magic?, and Thinking Like a Filmmaker
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Box Book (Daydreams Supplement)
8 1/2 x 11, 20 Pages
One year after Daydreams was published, David returns to the subject offering up all that he has discovered in that year.
New thoughts on construction, design variations, various handlings, subtleties, multiple glass productions and much more.
Learn the current work on a versatile prop that will leave your head spinning with its simplicity and possibilities.
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Alchemy a la Ascanio
Being a treatise on the theory, history & mechanics of a twisting effect with a color change utilizing the technology of the Ascanio Spread
8 1/2 x 11, 44 Pages
A complete exploration of a fast paced card effect performed upright to make it suitable for platform and walk-around settings! Contains complete instructions and necessary cards to perform all five variations of this effect. Also contains several historical and theoretical essays by David London, Jon Racherbaumer and Jesus Etcheverry.
A thorough explanation and examination of an effect whose history is just as colorful as the final phase of the routine.
Effects include:
-Basic Twisting
-Twisting into Oblivion
-Basic Color Change
-Color Change
-Alchemy
Also included are two complete presentations as well as some thoughts on getting into the effect as well as the 7th Phase of Alchemy.
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Toenails and Wonder Bread
8 1/2 x 11, 40 Pages
In this manuscript, David delves deep into four routines from his actual show, and also includes several new brainstorms.
Table of Contents: 
-Introduction
-Good Morning
-Toenails
-Train of Thought
-Wonder Bread
-Wonder Man
-Closing
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Imagining The Imagination
8 1/2 x 11, 20 Pages
Lecture notes from a 2007 lecture given at The Inner Circle of Bizarre Magick Gathering just outside Hartford, CT.
This book contains mostly scripts that David has utilized as well as props he has created in his attempt to capture the imagination theatrically.
Included in the book is:
-Imagination in a Bottle
-Imag-A-Matic
-Imagination Ball Vase
-Imagination Catcher
-Imagination in a Box
-Phantasmata Flower
This manuscript not only offers up several valid effects and routines, it also track David’s obsession with trying to put his hands on the ever elusive Imagination…
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