 Hey everybody welcome back to magic orthodoxy my name is David and this is a magic review Hey today, we're gonna look at conscious magic from Andrew Gerard and ran pink. What is this new DVD? Basically, it is three new Mentalism effects brought to you by two of the brightest minds in mentalism. I can't wait to get into this review Let's watch the trailer Welcome to conscious magic. This is like a double feature. I'm Ron Pink and I managed Gerard and thanks for joining us Every episode in the series we're gonna be sharing with you two effects one of mine one of rands and these effects are Not only really powerful, but they're meant more for casual environment performing So you're at ours nightclubs house parties friends after dinner And you'll see us perform in all of those kinds of environments as well And not only are we gonna teach the effects We're gonna deconstruct the effects and you're gonna learn how we got there and hopefully that will teach you How to do that for yourself and how to find effects that fit you and your personality the best and how to get there Even if it takes a little bit of time So we're hoping that deconstructing these and kind of giving you guys some insights as to the wise and the house Will inspire you to kind of pull apart against some of your own magic and mentalism routines and make them better So without further ado, let's roll the footage. All right roll it enjoy nothing's happening And someone's got to turn on the footage Ever since Paul Curry released out of this world, there have been many variations But my favorites got to be Andrew Gerard's real world uses an un-gimmick regular pack of cards Spectator deals into two piles and there are no moves no sleight of hand But what's really great about this is that the method takes place in the spectator's mind and the premise itself involves a law of Attraction which is something I can relate to and a lot of know a lot of people will relate to this idea So welcome to the real world So we know magic's amazing you can create these visual moments with a deck of cards or props that leave the spectator and wow Saying, you know, how did you do that when it comes to mind reading though? They know how you did it and that's what's amazing. They believe your psychic you're getting inside their head Of course, we know that doesn't exist, but if it did it would look like rampant t-rex This is the most amazing method diabolical in nature. It's time-tested and true in my opinion Is the best way to get inside somebody's mind and reveal exactly what they're thinking? So there's lots of ways to get inside somebody's head. What's the best way? Well, it's the way that you actually the one the method you actually use right? And this is the one that I use and I know you're going to as well. Let's check out t-rex Read some minds. I want you to focus on one person pick up one person from all the people that you know And that's crazy, that's my girl. That's my wife That's not tell me what's your name so in your life So far, how many people do you think you've met? I don't know billion So I want you to clear your mind and just think of one Send it to me send it to me and look me in the eye Eat it again and again Emma No way All right, so that was conscious magic from Andrew Gerard and ran Pink couple questions. We always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is what's in the box? What's in the box? You're gonna get the DVD. Okay DVD is 65 minutes long So a little over an hour and you're gonna get the special gimmick That is needed for one of the three tricks What's the overall quality and production value of the DVD the video has both live and Studio performances, so I like that. I like that a lot, especially like to see Mentalism live that's you know instead of just talking about it hypothetically. I love seeing Performers actually do it with real people in real situations. So kudos to them All the explanations they're taught back in the studio in black and white, which I guess is fine And then it's back in kind of like a studio apartment setting with a stationary camera. It's got good Production value as far as performers being microphones. There isn't any weird background music. There's no extra bonus II like Transitions from one scene to the next so it's really really straightforward really well done. Alright, so what's taught on the DVD? What's taught on the DVD are three effects. Okay, so you're gonna get one trick from Andrew Gerrard and one trick from Rand Pink and then you're gonna get an extra bonus trick That's also from Andrew Gerrard. So the first effect is called real world. Okay, and this is Andrew Gerrard's Version of out of this world out of this world is Paul Curry right and so that's the effect where the deck is shuffled and then the spectator Randomly puts cards in one pile or the next and separates them of course red and one pile black and the other and it's a miracle So this is his version of that. Okay, this is his easy very quick Set up to do this is actually my favorite version of out of this world It's so easy to do and the spectator does all of the work The next effect on there is called T-Rex and this is Rand Pink's billet Peak and so he's gonna walk you through What this looks like bits basically? It's basically his center tear It's his version of the center tear and it's how he gets a peak just really cleanly and really easily With any spectator you can do this on the fly with your own business cards It's a really great thing to learn and then the bonus trick is called optica. This is Andrew Gerrard's bill levitations so he takes two Dollar bills and he has a spectator pick anyone and he makes one of them levitate and the great thing I liked about this was Andrew pitches this he teaches this as an optical illusion. He says here watch You might be able to see it from this angle. It's an optical illusion. So he doesn't actually pitch it as hey Look, I'm making something float Which I think some magicians do and it just seems disingenuous because if you could make something float Then you could make anything float at any time. So if you're gonna be true to your character, okay? I liked how Andrew taught this as an optical illusion that works in some settings You know at some angle. So it was a really neat neat effect positive. All right It's one of the positives to conscious magic You get three solid routines that are sure to stun and wow your audiences This is mentalism from the finest minds. Is it worth your money? It's $35 $35 sets roughly $10 a trick for all three. Of course, you're getting the gimmicks as well So if I would say if you don't own these effects, they are really good Mentalism tricks really good mentalism effects, but again $35 for three effects. You're getting the gimmick So you be the best judge if it's worth your money. Who would like this? I think people that do mentalism people that are you know fans of Andrew Gerard around pink We're definitely gonna kick out of these. These are great real-world effects. I think they work great for walk-around Especially work great for like a restaurant magic Setting where you have a table and you're working with maybe a group of people that are at a table I think that would be great. All right So that's my review for conscious magic from Andrew Gerard and ran pink as always I want to thank the people down at Murphy's magic supplies for allowing me to have this trick so that I could do the review for you And if you'd like to purchase this trick for yourself, you can find it from one of your very favorite Murphy's magic retailers Thanks. Bye