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Deep Thought (Limited)
by Gregory Arce
Greg's first book that took the mentalism fraternity by storm... 7 powerhouse routines and effects contained within 52-pages that are easy to perform and highly commercial.
Some of the effects included are:
EMOTION-ALL - The performer recreates the emotions spectator's are feeling.
ADAM'S PREDICTION - A cute and very entertaining nailwriting routine, but still has a big surprise at the end.
DATE ME - The easy Calendar/Card routine around. With this method you'll be able to use your cards and any calendar and you can make it stage size... practically self-working once you make the initial set up.
SCORCH & FLOATER - Two equivoque routines that allow any performer to get the spectators to name the one card that is in an envelope or inside of a balloon... this one regularly destroys audiences!
"DEEP THOUGHT contains some very powerful and commercial pieces of mental theater. The Balloon trick is worth its weight in gold. I predict thoughtful performers from all over will consider adding at least one of these pieces to their working repertaire, and novices will benifit from seeing how powerful mentalsim is constructed."
- Brad Henderson, author of The Dance
"Beware when Greg Arce puts on his thinking cap... weird surprises await you!"
- Paolo Cavalli, author of UPSILON
"I love EVERYTHING you have to say about mentalism."
- Larry Becker, godfather of mentalism
Pages 52 - Saddle Stitch
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Four Thought
by Gregory Arce
What you will find in Four Thought--
M.O.M. - a one-on-one drawing dupe where a spectator stares at a photo of your mom and then you are able to redraw his secret drawing by looking into her eyes.. your mom's. Within that section there will also be two other ideas using the basic method and gimmick including one in which the spectator stares into your palm and you draw his drawing right on your own hand as he watches.. his secret drawing, of course. Includes the gimmick necessary to make up your own M.O.M. and some extra for you to try it out on the other ideas.
Drop-See - another one-on-one drawing dupe where the spectator draws on one of your business cards then that card is placed into a small pay envelope. That envelope, along with others like it, are mixed by the spectator while your back is turned and then you proceed to find the correct envelope that contains his drawing. To end the effect you duplicate the drawing inside.
A Coffee At Any Number - a quirky card at any number where the spectator stops you as you drop mini-cards into a coffee mug and he ends up stopping you at his earlier chosen card.
All Cards At All Numbers - an even quirkier ACAAN effect where the spectator stops you at one place in the deck and it turns out to be the only place that contains a facsimile of his card.. a 52 to 1 card. There several handlings for this that are explained.
Bonus Effect:
Dark Soul - a bizarre story that uses a Bounce-No Bounce ball to do an effect that deals with a very dark story about an evil man.
"Liked it very much. You have some very evocative themes in a few of the effects and I love them. All are fine and well thought out and each person will pick his or her favorites, and I am sure everyone will find something that will hit with them.
Your photo thing is priceless! "
- Allen Zingg
"This is more good work from you -- I especially like the ACAAN with the mini cards!"
-Millard Longman
"Greg, I really enjoyed this. You have a very personable approach to Mentalism and your mind works in devious and twisted ways that delight me. Good job man."
- John Riggs
Pages 24 - Saddle Stitched
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Freestyle Book Test
by Greg Arce and Federico Luduena
"once agin we mentalists are fortunate to benefit from Greg's unique perspective - and his obsessive-compulsive disorder - as he brings us what may be the most individualized booktest yet. Read, enjoy, marvel ... you never would have come up with this yourself!"
- John Riggs
Mentalism Legend
The freestyle book test is a powerful book test that you can make at home... with practically any book.
Imagine... you display a book that you say you've had for a long time and have even written and doodled ininside of it... throughout the book there aree notations of cards, serial numbers, dates, locations, names, drawing, highlighting...
A pectator stop at any page and holds onto the book...you begin to call out various words from the book, numbers, doodles, colors, names and all sorts of information.
You've also written in playing cards throughout the book. you have the spectator call out their favorite card and then have them find it in the book...without touching the book you begin to call out information fromthe pages they are looking at... including cards thatare inscribed next to their card!
The freestyle Book Test uses a method that has now been dubbed "The Interlocking Mnemonic Lists." You'll be able to incorporate this method into any of your books plus even incorporate the method into other effects.
Now you can take any book and use your own personal history to make up a book test. And with a little effort, you can do this in any language.
The Freestyle Book test gives you a book test that looks like no other used in mentalism.
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Lost in Thought
by Gregory Arce
Greg's new book is jam-packed with powerful, impactful and easy-to-perform mentalism routines designed to be highly useable and commercial. Within these pages of "Lost In Thought" you'll discover:
Sticky Pop - The whole audience decides on one card - no force - and that card is inside a balloon that has been visible throughout the routine. No equivoque. It uses a very sneaky method.
Add Sense - A spectator decides on one of many newspapers then tears down to one piece on any of the pages and you tell him what's on that piece. You are nowhere near the spectator and the paper is not gimmicked in any way. This is remote viewing at its best.
Hypno-Math - You are able to not only remove a piece of memory from a spectator, but change what he now remembers.
Pinhead's Roulette - The audience chooses 9 of 10 paper bags for you to smash - no force - yet the last bag contains a very menacing spike ball that would have impaled you if you had smashed that bag. Absolutely idiot-proof roulette. Look dangerous, but is very safe.
The _____ Book - A new book test that you can make yourself. Four spectators randomly look in their books and you are able to tell them what they are reading. This is just plain weird. It was planned as a marketed item, but now you can make it up yourself.
Sticky Dupe - Now you can redraw a spectator's hidden drawing using a few business cards, an envelope...and a little secret something you probably already own.
Hallmark Memory - A Derren-like effect where you know details of someone's past event.
Bizarre Dupe & Super Swindle Steal - Two mentalism takes on Paul Harris effects that even took Paul by surprise.
Plus: Various ideas, techniques, essays, rants, and bits of business...and two other roulette routines...and yes, even more.
"All the routines are solid and worth the attention of anyone. I can see how strong they would play with good presentation."
- Richard Osterlind
"Several clever routines."
- Chuck Hickok
"Loved it."
- Larry Becker
"Killer material as usual, and I mean it!"
- Paolo Cavalli
"You truly are a unique thinker."
- Banachek
Pages 125 - Comb Binding
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Simple Minded (Limited)
by Gregory Arce
Greg's second jam-packed book was another rousing success... within its 73-pages are 10 explosive routines you can put to use right away... Greg reveals the complete details of many items taken directly from his own celebrated act, including:
POINTILISM - A drawing duplication effect for those who don't like peeks or switches or pre-show work. It has a very "free-will" feel to it, while being sneaky as hell! (Greg, should have marketed this on its own, but it's all detailed in this book).
THINK THAT TUNE - This is an idea based on Pointilism, however, the effect is totally different. Basically, you predict the song a spectator will play: the spectator comes up and plays a song on an xylophone, and SOMEONE ELSE comes up to guess the name of the song. When you pick up your prediction, it has the name of the song, the spectator's name and how many notes it took before they got the song.
AWE-SOME TOTAL - Based on Larry Becker's work. The audience are shown a small paper bag onstage; inside is a calculator and some slips of paper. The audience then calls out numbers, eventually creating a six-digit number. Then, someone comes up and adds the numbered slips in the gift bag - the total is the same as the just-created six-digit number. No forcing, no switching. No trick calculator. The numbers on the slips can change every night you do it AND can be examined before the effect begins. Amazing - This has blown away magicians and other mentalists, even those who know Becker's routine!
"Thanks once again, Greg, always fascinated by your thinking. Really cool stuff. I like the map idea a lot by the way. And, yes, I think indeed it could be manufactured.
I like your version of Sum total as well. Very, very nice."
- Banachek
Pages 73 - Saddle Stitched
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