[MyMagic] Fryed

Meir’s Muses
MyMagic eNewsletter #1,133
September 2, 2023

Charlie Frye is an enigma! Clowns who know him think he is one of the best clowns. Jugglers who know him think he is one of the best jugglers. Stage magicians who know him think he is one of the best stage magicians. Close-up magicians who know him think he is one of the best close-up magicians. Cardicians who know him think he is one of the best card handlers. And the list goes on.

Can they all be right? This is your chance to find out for yourself and even find other categories which he is the best at. He spilled his guts out, in a new book featuring around 50 of his routines and ideas and some very important essays about performing. The book sold out very quickly at Magic Live! and we just got our shipment.

During the global shutdown he released a series of videos performing magic all over social media where he became a sensation. You can watch most of those videos on his YouTube channel: HERE

►Sleightly Absurd:

Sleightly Absurd is a journey through the mind of a mastermind–Charlie Frye. Within its pages, you’ll find a slew of the secrets he has developed, refined, and performed over some four decades on six continents, as a professional entertainer on stages the world over.

You will learn the ins, outs, and inside outs of more than fifty fantastic feats, each mined from the mind of this peerless prestidigitator.

Among the high-class conjuring conceits explained are tricks with coins and cards, including a lengthy and advanced treatise on the elusive “ACAAN”; parlor and stage effects; three versions of the “oldest trick in the book”; Frye’s trademark Eccentricks (cartoon-illustrated gags, tricks, and stunts); mind reading miracles; close-up dodges with dice; and more.

Get a copy: HERE

►BACK IN STOCK:

►Parallax:

Parallax is a collection of 61 influential, thought-provoking, and oftentimes controversial essays he contributed to MAGIC magazine from September 1991 to August 1996.

There are very few collections of essays in the world of magic, and fewer still that are as pointed or as relevant to those who consider themselves a genuine student of the art. Nor are there many examples of writing as deeply serious and simultaneously laugh-out-loud funny.

Rich with commentary, observations, and caustic editorializing, all composed in in a tone both rich and distinct, these essays have finally been collected in a single volume.

Watch and buy: HERE

►Destination Zero:

John Bannon presents twenty-five new self-working card routines. Not your typical non-sleight-of-hand tricks, Bannon has thoroughly analyzed these effects and backed up subtle principles with the careful, layered construction he is known for.

All with regular cards, without gaffs, crimps, pencil dots, “punches,” or marks. These highly-refined constructions will change the way you think about self-working card magic.

Get a copy: HERE

►Mentalissimo:

John Bannon brings his devious card magic talents to bear on mentalism and mental magic with playing cards. John is known for constructing layered, easy-to-do effects with playing cards. These routines are no exception.

​Despite this particular focus, Mentalissimo is aimed at mentalists and magicians, amateurs and professionals, who like finely-crafted, practical, and commercial demonstrations of psychic phenomena.

Get a copy: HERE

►OUR LATEST RELEASE:

►Meaningful Conjuring:

Ed Solomon, who was also known as DeNomolos, was a master storyteller who used magic to emphasize the point or moral of his stories. He wanted his magic to appeal to the intellect and touch the soul of his audiences, or as he put it: “People may not remember my name or the magic that I performed, but they will remember how it made them feel.”

Between 2004 and 2015 Ed wrote 125 columns in The Linking Ring magazine that featured short stories that used simple magic to highlight their messages. All those columns are included in this book along with some bonus tricks, essays, and more.

If you ever wanted to elevate your magic from just being a series of puzzles into meaningful moments of magic, this book may inspire you to think along those lines.

Watch and buy: HERE

►UPCOMING APPEARANCES:

►Sunday September 10: Performing at Comix @ Mohegan Sun Casino. Tickets: HERE

►Friday October 13: Mind Games Reloaded with Marc Salem at the Turning Point in New York. Info/Tickets: HERE

Stay happy, Meir

“Fooling people isn’t enough. You want to leave them thinking.”
…Charlie Frye (Sleightly Absurd, 2023)