 Hey everybody, welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a magic review Hey today, we're gonna look at float from sans minds. What is float? basically, it's a utility device that you can stick in your wallet your hip pocket wallet and It'll enable you to float a card float a business card float something about that size Float your credit card your driver's license, whatever and it's just with no setup at all I feel the spectators will literally watch an object float up out of your wallet it's a great way to open your magic routine probably and It's a great way to introduce levitation into your close-up act when I see what it looks like. This is it Levitation is one of most classic and iconic talked about magic illusions float takes a classic full-scale illusion and shrink sits down to pocket size Having an illusion set sitting flat in your wallet ready to amaze at a moment notice It's fun easy to do and fully attention-grab it With nothing extra to carry that's you and your wallet It works with any by folding wallet style once you set up. You are always ready to amaze So get ready to float All right, so that was float from the people down at sans minds a couple questions We always ask about all of our reviews and the first of which is What is in the box? What's in the box? You're getting the DVD DVDs a little short of 20 minutes long and you're gonna get the float gimmick, okay, so is it what I thought It's exactly what I thought way you watch the wallet open the way you watch the mechanics of how the object rises Even though the commercial is only for you know, they only show the levitation briefly you still see the physics of it and The physics makes logical sense in your head and your logic puts it together So it is what I thought how are the angles the angles are You really need to view this from above, okay? So you're holding the object below their eye like having people like look down So like in a circle probably looking down, okay? You're not gonna be standing and they be seated that would be terrible, okay? It'd be better if you were seated and they were standing. Okay, so that's your angle Okay, so not good eye level surrounded bad Another great thing to consider Would be lighting and so you're using an element of magic That is familiar to some of you And so it probably should be a little on the dark side or not as bright not big bright fluorescent lights Okay, not bright sunny outside. You want nighttime. You want bar lighting restaurant lighting Nighttime that's probably the best Can it be inspected? Yes and no the object that floated the levitation object can be inspected I mean once it levitates you you know hand it out and say look there it is But the wallet can't be inspected in fact if you watch the trailer You'll notice that Jason Ditches his wallet really quickly and says here, you know examine this and I think whenever we do that as a magician When we did something fast and hand something out and say here look at this it immediately makes the spectator Think that there's something fishy going on. I think they immediately say wait What you know, why are you ditching that so quickly? And I know he wants to take the heat off of his wallet fast But by removing it so quickly it feels like a dirty little secret and so no they can't inspect your wallet They can only inspect the object that you make float What's the overall quality and production value of the video a sans minds always makes very good videos They're always high quality. They're always HD. They're always well shot. They're always good venues They always have good mics. I think it is an over all well made Beautiful-looking DVD is the gimmick well made the gimmick has to be let me just preface this it has to be lightweight Okay, it's going in your wallet. So it has to be lightweight And it has to be thin because your wallet's gonna close up and has to go in your pocket That said when you make something that's lightweight and thin the gimmick is gonna feel flimsy and cheap to you It's gonna feel very delicate You're gonna want to be very careful with it, which is odd because then you're sticking it in your back pocket and you're sitting on it Usually you think of things that you sit on as being a little bit more sturdy a little bit more well made So it does feel thin it does feel cheap. I haven't had mine break or tear or rip on me yet So I mean that's a that's a plus But just be warned. It's gonna feel Inadequate to you when you first get it how much practice does it require not much I think a couple times in front of the mirror Just filling out your angles being wary of you know, do you see the device or not? You might want to practice this on another magician or a best friend or your spouse Who already understands some of the working knowledge of magic just so that you can kind of like feel out Okay, you know, can you see the gimmick that I think that would be the best thing because you're really gonna want to Practice your angles more than you're practicing the gimmick the gimmick is self-working The gimmick is easy. How much setup and reset is there? There is some initial setup It's not exactly arts and crafts. We'll say that it's not exactly arts and crafts, but there is some Craftiness you have to do to your wallet. I will say you have to have a black leather wallet. I Think that's key. I think even a fabric wallet It probably won't give you the action that you want. I think you're gonna want a black Leather wallet, so if you don't already own a black leather wallet, just know going in you're gonna have to buy one in addition to this trick Okay, so black leather wallet first second thing you need to know is once it's in it's in Which means if this is now your everyday wallet The float device is going to be there in full view all the time So maybe you want to put this in one of your black gimmick wallets And add this trick to another wallet effect. I think that'd be a great idea Positives, what are the positives to float? You know, I've seen a lot of criticism for this trick And I've seen a lot of criticism for sans minds in general But my thought is this this shouldn't be a standalone trick Okay, and I and you shouldn't be thinking of this as a standalone trick You should be thinking of this as a magic utility that will enhance Other tricks or enhance a routine. This should be used in a routine along with other effects So this would be a great reveal of a card to impossible location or a written Prediction or a trick that already has a haunted theme. So here's what I would do I would use float as part of a bigger routine say you're doing a Levitation routine. Okay, you you float a card in front of them Okay You float a ring in front of them and then you say I can't control it like everything around me floats Pull out your wallet open it float a dollar bill close it quickly and say see I can't I can't control it and then it becomes just a trick amidst a bunch of other tricks and You're showing the same effect, right? It's the same trick. Everything's floating. So everything has the same theme But you're doing all those tricks in a different way and what that does is it takes the heat off of them Because the spectator is thinking well, maybe he's doing them all the same way But you're not you're using a different utility or a different device for each one And so each trick is then counterbalancing the next okay So I think that would be a good way to do it another way to do it I think would be a great card to wallet So I already told you that you need a black leather wallet to do this trick And I already told you that once you put it in it's permanent So put this into One of your card to wallet wallets card to wallet wallets are usually black leather anyway So pick one of those stick float inside of that Put any random card in the float device Do your trick. Okay. Do your load Bring out your wallet show float and then close it up and Say something to the effect like we're catching the magic as it was happening Did you notice that the magic was happening right in front of you? Then open the wallet from a different direction and then pull your card out and reveal their signed card then Float is it the trick float is the thing that enhances the trick float Just made your card to wallet better. You see what I'm saying. Don't do float as its own effect Don't expect to walk up to a group of people and they're all talking and having a good time And you walk up and say we want to see something cool And you open your wallet and the card floats and everyone freaks out. That's not going to happen Okay, that is not going to happen. That's false advertising When people freak out and they explode and they go, oh my gosh, I can't believe it What they're reacting to is your entire presentation. The camera is picking up the the last couple seconds of Someone's routine. I would argue that in that commercial for float Jason had done a ton of tricks for them He'd probably already done some levitation tricks for them And this last one blew their mind because it was the crescendo of all the things he's been doing You need to think of float as a utility that's going to enhance your magic. How will float Improve one of the tricks you already do think about wallet tricks think about Tricks that involve floating and I think if you marry float with something else like that, you know I think it'll only enhance That trick Negatives all right, so what are the negatives to float like we say right here? There's negatives to everything. These are just the negatives that I see they don't have to be the negatives that you see I think the movement is very obvious The movement that you're doing the movement of the wallet opening and the card rising I think like I said at the beginning it makes a logical sense in your head you See the physicality of it and your brain puts two and two together and says oh, it's this It's just like when you see somebody levitate something And you see their hand pull back and the object go towards their hand the physics of it tells the person Oh, it's a string connected to his hand and his hand is making it levitate even though they can't see the string Their brain still makes the connection and that can be a bad thing Okay, you want their brain to break when they see this you want their brain to say that doesn't make sense Okay, and I think some levitation effects a lot of levitation effects make sense in the spectator's brain Even though they don't know how you did it. Okay, and I think float is one of those things the physics of it The physicality of it is Obvious it has a mechanical feel to it and you know, you push down the object moves up That's a very familiar Natural movement and so it just feels too much like a pop-up book to me And so that would be the negative. Is it worth your money? You get the DVD and you do get the gimmick It's $25 and like I said the gimmick itself feels a little lackluster, but You need to decide can float enhance the magic that you already do Is there a trick that you can already think of right now that you think man? I think float would make this other trick even better and that's how I think you need to think of float Okay, you need to think of it as a utility that's going to enhance your magic who would like this street magicians young magicians People that do shock magic people that do joke magic. I think would definitely like float from sans minds All right, so that is my review for float from sans minds I want to thank all the great people down at Murphy's magic supplies for providing this for me So that I can do a review for you And if you want to purchase your own you can find it at your favorite Murphy's magic dealer. Thanks. Bye