AboutJohn Gordon - Master Magician Expertise I am a professional performer, and attained status of Gold Star Member of The Inner Magic Circle and, over and above this highest degree, I am only one of 5 perfromers alive who has been awarded their coveted 'Silver Wand'. I perform at the highest level as well as train and coach both beginners and experts in learning a few tricks to creating a brand new award winning act. I ran The Summer School at The Magic Circle for many years as well as booked performers for the monthly public shows. I run a company called `MagicWorks` which provides magic for adult private and corporate events, television, film and theatre productions. I also hold training workshops and seminars, teleconferences and online training on using magic in business, performing at Trade Shows, Magic for Presenters etc and provide after dinner or conference talks and speeches all on the subject of business and personnel development. This includes creativity, presentation, online and offline marketing etc.
Experience Whilst I have been a performer for many years I now spend an increasing amount of time as a personal and business coach, using magic as a metaphor in my teaching and training sessions. I have several Internet Businesses that include Coaching and Mentoring entertainers in the whole business of self Branding, Promotion, Marketing and filling their diaries with bookings.
Question I am an aspiring magician and I have realy ben working hard at learning as
much as I can. I would LOVE to know a few person vanishes. Also, I bought
this "trick" in theory call spontaneous combustion on e-bay. It's supposed to
ignite whatever can burn within 10-45 seconds based on mixing A' with B'. I
was not e-mailed the instructiions and as of now it's useless to me. Do you
know how to get it to work? If you have any more time I am curious how to
make a quick switch from a glass of water to a frozen glass of ice, not cubed
but totally frozen, then back again. What kind of gimmick is that?
Answer Hi marco
There are hundreds of ways to make someone disappear ... the method used will entirely depend upon the location, the audience proximity and position and the budget. If you have an event in mind, describe it and perhaps I can then tell you more.
Spontaneous combustion sounds like a chemical trick and I don't mess with this stuff. Sounds to me as though you need to ask the vendor fro instructions or ask eBay for your money back!
WHY do you want to change water to ice and back?
On what exact conditions?
Where are the audience?
Are you sitting, standing?
What else is near you?
I can work out methods fro most things, but would waste our time IF it didn't suit the conditions. The secret to many trick methods is making best use of the conditions.
