 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy, my name's David and this is the Magic Review. Now watch this, this is a weird optical illusion you can do with these things. Yeah, it bends a little. Yeah, but look if you go like this. What? Yeah, wow. Wait, wait, wait, stay where you are. Doesn't that look weird? Oh, it's a little... I'll turn it back. If you give this a twist back and forth, you probably feel it roll a bit, brother. God damn. Isn't that wow? That's crazy, man. And lean your head right over top of the match. Okay? Okay. Now you can see it there, right? Yeah. This is what we're going to do. Spread your fingers a little bit. Hold on. I'm going to do a... Just... Now I'm just going to take out the match for a sec. Now you can see the match, right? Mm-hmm. Now look down through the lens, watch this. You can feel it under your hand. Mm-hmm. You're just going to feel, do you feel this? I guess. Yeah, it's found a lot. Yeah, hold on. Yeah. Watch. Cool. How did you do that? Did you feel that? What is this? It's great. Watch all your twists. Oh, where? I can tell. Hey, today we're going to look at the book, Astonishing New Twist with Paul Harris's Reality Twister and the Luber Lens. This was a book put out by Pete McCabe. He's the author. He's kind of also the editor, since a lot of the tricks in here are submitted by other magicians. So what is it? It's a book that features some ideas on using the Luber Lens. You might be familiar with the Luber Lens. I did a review for that a while back. It's one of the tricks that's released from Paul Harris Presents. Got a lot of great contributors in this book. People like R. Par Wilson, Brad Burke, Ben Harris, Kenton Nepper, Michael Weber, Greg Wilson, just to name a few. Over 20 contributors. Really, really cool book. This book is published by Murphy's Magic. And if you'd like to purchase it yourself, you can find it at one of your favorite Murphy's Magic suppliers. So a couple of questions we always ask about all of our magic reviews. The first of which is what is in the box? What's in the box? You're going to get this book. It's 100 pages long. 100 pages long. And you're going to get a lens. You're going to get the Luber Lens as well. So if you don't have a lens yet, you can buy this book. It comes with a lens you need. And you're going to get a grip of tricks that you can do with it. All right. So is it what I thought? It's better than what I thought. I actually thought it was just a book by one guy. Turns out it's a book that has 20 different contributors. 20 contributors, it's well made. It's better than what I thought. It's a great, great book. How are the angles on the Luber Lens? If you've used a lens before or even if you haven't, you just need to know that there's only one angle. This trick works the best if your spectator is sitting down or if you're just above them a little bit, you're holding the lens this way and you're having your spectator look down through the lens at the object underneath. It's not a great trick to perform surrounded or to be with other people. And so it's really kind of a one on one or a one on two situation. Great for table hopping. Great for people who are seated and you're standing next to them and you're able to direct their attention. So you do have an angle issue. Can it be inspected? The lens can be inspected, but anyone who's ever handed this out in the past, you know that the spectator can make the magic happen just like you can. Because really the lens is what does all the work. So the great thing about this book is they go through a process that enables you to do a switch and hand out a different card or to actually make the card vanish in front of them. Both of those ideas are really super cool and well worth the price of the book right there. Alright, so what's the overall quality and production value of the book? Ben Harris, you might remember him. He's a magician in and of himself. He used to have a company called Wow Bound. Ben Harris actually designed the book and it actually looks like a Ben Harris magic book. So if you're familiar with that already or if you've ever had a Ben Harris magic book before, it looks just like that. It's really well made, very well bound. It's going to fit well on your shelf with all of your other favorite magic books. How much practice does it require? How much setup and reset is there? Again, if you're already familiar with the lens, it's all based off of the same principle. All the tricks kind of work the same. You're just introducing different elements, doing different things with it. The positives for this, positives for this book, it just gets your brain buzzing. There's just so many great ideas in here, so many different ways to explore using the lens. I think even just the idea of figuring out a way to use it with a trick that you're already doing. How do you add the lens to a thumb tip routine or a card trick? How can you do that? I think if you explore the book, it's just going to open up a wealth of ideas for you and give you a lot to think about. All right, so negatives. Negatives for this book, there aren't really any negatives to this book. I think the book is great. I think a lot of people are just used to videos, and so we're just used to learning that way, and I think you might be tempted to buy the DVD that comes with the lens, but just realize that if you do that, you're limiting yourself, okay? And let's just go to the question, is it worth your money? Is it worth your money? The book is $15, and it comes with a lens. The DVD is $15, and it comes with a lens, and you might say, well, I'll buy the DVD. The DVD's not going to give you as much magic, okay? For the same price, and you're getting the utility, you're going to want to go with the book. You're going to get way more with the book, and if you're just not used to books or if you're just not used to reading, I would still recommend it, because you're just going to get more for your money. So between the book and the DVD, I would definitely get the book. But hey, maybe you want to get to that point where you have both. Certainly, they're great companions to each other, and I think both are really well done. All right, so who would like this? Anybody that does walk around, especially people that do restaurant magic, I think would definitely like this the best. You're going to want, like I said, your audience to be seated. And so I think those environments work the best, but street magic would work too, where you just walk up to somebody and you hold this and have them look down. Again, I think it would work in both of those situations. All right, so that is my review of the astonishing new twist with Paul Harris, which was a reality twister. And if you'd like to purchase your own, you can find it at one of your favorite Murphy's Magic suppliers. Thanks, bye.