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Andrew Mayne is to magic as Lloyd Kaufman is to movies.

I know what many of you are thinking now. Stop that. Get it out of your heads. I do not mean that in a negative way. I have the highest regard & respect for both of these highly creative individuals.

Andrew has a natural way of original thinking. He comes up with the some outrageous ideas for illusions and tricks many that you can make or do easily and many of them on a land clammer’s budget (Can collector’s budget).

Take a look at The Secret Illusion Show. This booklet teaches how to make five full stage illusions that take a very short amount of time to put together and for little or NO, that’s right NO money. $12.00 for 5 full stage illusions are you kidding me?

Andrew produces his own magic DVD’s. Some of them have a Hollywood look and experience to them. See Wizard School.

His latest creation is Gut Buster. This is his Big Budget release. A Hollywood looking special effect done live. At only $75.00 this is a real bargain and comes complete with everything you need to get started.

For those of you who already own Gut Buster, I have devised a way to make it gory. I have not seen the entire DVD, so forgive me if it or something like it is already explained on it. I’ll be vague as I do not want to tip the method. Silicone a rubber sheet or part of a rain coat behind, fill with whatever. Arm in between. Only the shirt may have residue when complete. Performer can wear a rubber glove.

My comparison to Lloyd Kaufman the independent film maker and president of Troma Studios should be a little more clear now. Lloyd Kaufman can write, direct, produce, act in and distribute some of the most entertaining feature films I’ve ever seen for a very modest fee. His biggest budget movie to date, Citizen Toxie, the Toxic Avenger Part IV cost under $250,000. (The cost for a few CGI shots in a studio flick). The rest of the Troma library of films from over the past 30 + years combined were made for fractions of that! Some at just a few thousand bucks and some no doubt with nothing more than time well (or if you don’t like Troma time poorly) spent.

Mayne has the creative juices to let a children’s imagination become a living comic book super character. See The Handbook of Super Powers.

Andrew offers you the power to freak people out in a way no other performer I have ever seen do. Mad Mojo is one of my favorite crazy books. The performance concept of Twister For One is worth the price of the book alone. If you ever learned The Twisting Arm Illusion, you’ll want to know how Andrew makes this a hilarious piece.

Over the past several years, Andrew Mayne has released a slew of books, booklets, manuscripts, videos and props. Each are unique. All are exciting (to the intended client). A grown adult really has little use for the Superpowers Book (although there are a several things in here that are useful and can come in handy for any performer), likewise a child has no business for building Razor Wire.

At last the real analogy to Mayne & Kaufman or should I say Harter & Weil?

Andrew Mayne’s real name is Andrew Harter. Andrew Harter completed an action movie from start to finish and he did it for get this only $99.00. The film Full Motion Blur was the official selection of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.

Are you interested to learn how to make a No Budget movie yourself? See Andrew’s book How To Make An Action Movie For $99. The part about getting a wheelchair from the Salvation Army to get a steady rolling shot and then returning it is a hoot, bullet holes in cars made with tin foil and magnets a genius way not to ruin your vehicle! This is a great title and a little off our regular path for magicians but noteworthy for sure.

See also Kaufman’s book entitled All I Need To Know About Filmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger.

We proudly offer the entire Andrew Mayne product line 28 in all at the time of this writing. Just search for MAYNE here. (and 1 if you look under Harter).

Not everything Mayne has put out will appeal to you. Some of his things are very diverse. We can say for sure, he has something to offer everyone and can’t wait to see what he will think of next.

So long for now.

Pete

P.S. Andrew, Still waiting for Full Motion Blurr to be released on DVD. Please put it out soon?

Hello all,

In case you didn’t know the new season of Criss Angel Mindfreak airs tonight on A&E at 10:00 EST PM and a second NEW episode right after at 10:30 PM EST. (check your local listings)

Criss, We wish you the best of luck with Season 2.

Let there be a Season 3,4,5,6 and more. Mindfreak forever.

TTFN

Many years ago, Ricky Jay had a TV special with the same name as his book, Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women. I was especially blown away by the Odic Force segment. I genuinely loved it. And it stuck in my mind for years.

I was talking about this show to a magician friend of mine couple of years ago, and he pulled out an historic book, The Autobiography of Lulu Hurst.

I borrowed it and it was an amazing read.

At the time, this was the only historic book that I ever read in the realm of magic, even though it is not a really magic book. The first half is a biography and the second half is methods.

Right after I read it, we immediately began selling all the Tom Jorgenson publications. Three titles on the Georgia Magnet and several other fascinating things from years gone by. All informative and interesting.

I won’t go into details here but if you have some free time, search our site for these other great hard to find Jorgenson titles : Henry Hardin’s Lost Manuscript, The Medicine Show Manual Red Light Mystery, The Arandal Code-x, Sectrets of the Magnetic Girl & The New Gerogia Magnet Act. Search by title here.

Some of these titles date back to the mid 1800’s, some are more current but all are not readily accessible.

Anyway, I am getting off track back to the subject at hand, Lulu Hurst.

In 2004 Barry Wiley author of The Georgia Wonder hit the stores. This book is fantastic. The first portion of the book is a reprint of The autobiography of Lulu Hurst. With new type set and crystal clear reprints of the original photographs. 414 page in all and covers everything on the Georgia Magnet Act.

I am still off track on where I was heading with this Blog.

The point I was really trying to make is that I don’t really ever read historic books but rather tricks and methods, showmanship but not history.

I am currently reading two books at once. Don’t ask me how that happened, it just did. On top of that, they are both historic books. Love’em them both so far.

One is Jim Steinmeyer’s Hiding The Elephant
and the other is Gabe Fajuri’s Laurant: Man of Many Mysteries

I started the Laurant book and I wanted to find the chapter in the Steinmeyer book on Pepper’s Ghost for an independent reason. That was it, caught between two books at once.

We’ll talk to you soon.

Pete

Hello friends,

I am curious as to why there are so few magic or mentalism effects based on premises of popular books or motion pictures?

Perhaps it because the theme is short lived.

I am excited to see The Davinci Code. I am going tomorrow.

Hopefully someone will be inspired to create an effect based on The Davinci Code.

There has just got to be hundreds of ideas waiting to be realized.

I know someone is already selling an instant download for a Davinci Code Book test but for me that doesn’t satisfy. I want a premise based on it and not using the book as a tool. Besides there are just way too many better book tests out there for example Larry Becker’s Ultimate Flashback and better methods with any book such as the Hoy Book Test found in booklet, The Bold & Subtle Miracles of Dr. Faust.

Check out these other items Fraud by Terry Nosek, contains the now classic Star Wars routine and Andy Nyman’s Killer Elite Pro with a story line using characters from Reservoir Dogs, Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction & Scarface.

Take care,

From all at Ronjo

Hello Friends,

We hope everyone has a pleasant three day weekend.

Life is short. So if you are able to, slow down just a bit and take the time to enjoy your life, your family & friends and your hobbies, please do so.

Have fun with whatever it is you are doing and whomever you are doing with it. Be it at a barbecue, going boating or fishing, a day at the state fair, playing poker or baseball or just relaxing in a hammock with a beer. Enjoy some quality time off with your loved ones.

For many us, we understand it is easier said than done. We may need to exclude ourselves from such activities and opportunities as many of us will be spending most of the weekend performing for other people’s get-togethers; depriving ourselves of some R&R but this is what we live for. We need to see the jaw dropping expressions and smiles on their faces as we make a silk disappear, reveal the thought of word in a book, make a dove appear or escape from a mail bag. We need that or we don’t feel whole.

And as entertainers, we certainly don’t want and in many cases can’t afford to turn away the income.

Our special weekends will come to us in the off time. We are just on a different schedule than the rest of our neighbors. But if we neglect to slow down and remind ourselves to take a look around once in a while or life will fly by us and that can’t be good.

So don’t forget to hug you parents, kiss you wife, call us grandma, put your kids on you knee and read them a story and find some quality time with you and yours. Go out and have fun. You will be happy you did.

Take care of yourself.

From all at Ronjo Magic