Questions about Digital Dissolve...

[mattjones]

Hey guys,
Just so you'll know where I'm coming from- I'm fairly new to magic and I haven't quite got a set routine that I perform on a regular basis, but I do know most of the basics of slight of hand.
I know that they didn't really go into a lot of details in the DVD, but I have a few questions about Digital Dissolve:
1.) Opener, Filler, or Closer? Where would you put this in your routine, coming form a card guy?
2.) Start by walking up with two coins? Seems a little wierd... Is there any way to take the coins out of your pocket without exposing anything and go into the trick from there?
3.) Can you have the spectators inspect the coins before the trick, then, as you take them back, be in position to perform?

Any answers would be great,

-Matt

 

[BlueBackedBikes]

1. Either opener or filler. It's a strong, quick trick so it would technically be a good opener, but it would be very hard to follow up with material that is even more hard-hitting (always trying to make the tricks in your routines grow progressively more amazing and impossible. Problem is that this is such a good trick that the audience will likely be less impressed with whatever you do next, so I don't recommend it as an opener - it's too powerful).

The way Dan does it in the Vegas performances on the DVD is that he opens to the group with Here Then There (ultimate 2 cards transpo), then says "All right, that happened kind of fast, so we're going to slow it down now. I'll show you a coin trick...". This actually worked quite well, and I've performed it this way a couple of times and it has worked wonderfully. So I would either use it as a single trick or a closer to a short routine. Only use it as an opener if you've got some really powerful stuff next in your routine (even more powerful than Digital Dissolve).

2. It's not taught, but it would not be too hard at all. You would just need to note the positioning of the coins in your pocket so you don't expose anything taking them out. So yes, you could easily take them out of your pocket and perform.

3. Absolutely. It would be a lot easier to give out one coin for inspection, take it back and then hand the other out, but with a little thinking you could hand both coins out and take them both back at the same time (and be ready to go).

To sum it up, this is my favorite trick right now. It's so stupidly easy and clean to do but it leave your audiences dumbfounded. They'll walk away from this trick feeling like they just walked through a hurricane. This is, for sure, my favorite of the 3 Theory11 tricks available at this time. I can't recommend it enough.

 

[mattjones]

Good deal. I'll definitely have to work out a routine and use that trick really soon. Thanks for the insight.

-Matt

 

[AllanLuu]

1. Either opener or filler. It's a strong, quick trick so it would technically be a good opener, but it would be very hard to follow up with material that is even more hard-hitting (always trying to make the tricks in your routines grow progressively more amazing and impossible. Problem is that this is such a good trick that the audience will likely be less impressed with whatever you do next, so I don't recommend it as an opener - it's too powerful).

The way Dan does it in the Vegas performances on the DVD is that he opens to the group with Here Then There (ultimate 2 cards transpo), then says "All right, that happened kind of fast, so we're going to slow it down now. I'll show you a coin trick...". This actually worked quite well, and I've performed it this way a couple of times and it has worked wonderfully. So I would either use it as a single trick or a closer to a short routine. Only use it as an opener if you've got some really powerful stuff next in your routine (even more powerful than Digital Dissolve).

2. It's not taught, but it would not be too hard at all. You would just need to note the positioning of the coins in your pocket so you don't expose anything taking them out. So yes, you could easily take them out of your pocket and perform.

3. Absolutely. It would be a lot easier to give out one coin for inspection, take it back and then hand the other out, but with a little thinking you could hand both coins out and take them both back at the same time (and be ready to go).

To sum it up, this is my favorite trick right now. It's so stupidly easy and clean to do but it leave your audiences dumbfounded. They'll walk away from this trick feeling like they just walked through a hurricane. This is, for sure, my favorite of the 3 Theory11 tricks available at this time. I can't recommend it enough.

So dan performed it with here then there? How about using distortion .


Wait nevermind, he said lets slow it down and distortion is slow soo nevermind cancel that, but it could work still.

 

[JoeCarr]

yeh or start with say 2 card monte or tivo 2.0 as there not as powerful but still great transpo effects...

of course you could walk up to them and say something about transporation, then do a card transpo, followed by a coin one.... a coin transpo seems a lot more impossible than coin one...