Evidence of a Well Spent Life by Helge Thun Book - Card Magic That Tells a Story
Most card magic books teach you tricks. This one teaches you how to create experiences.
Helge Thun is a member of the prestigious Flicking Fingers and a successful stand-up comedian in Germany. Evidence of a Well Spent Life is his first full-length book in English, and it's unlike any card magic book you've read before.
Card Magic With Theatrical Structure
As Guy Hollingworth writes in the foreword, very few card magic books focus on longer, structured routines the way this one does. Each piece is a complete performance, with every moment building toward a powerful, memorable finish.
In Better Safe than Sorry 3, three cards are found despite the deck being wrapped in rubber bands. Then the effect repeats under stricter test conditions, with the final card appearing folded into quarters inside a sealed plastic box. That's not just a trick. That's a journey.
Eight Ahead pushes the One Ahead principle to its limits. Four signed cards are lost and found in increasingly impossible ways before transforming into Aces. Then each selection appears in a different location: sandwiched between cards, in the card case, in your wallet, and in a matchbox.
Revolutionary Signed Duplicate Work
One of the most valuable sections is Helge's groundbreaking work on signed duplicate cards. You'll learn the complete method plus killer applications including a devastating Brainwave effect, an impossible Torn and Restored card, and one of the strongest Travelers routines ever devised.
Each copy includes eight special cards so you can start performing these routines immediately.
Original Techniques and Performance Essays
Helge includes original sleights designed for stand-up, close up, and strolling performers. Many techniques include QR codes so you can watch them in action.
The performance essays offer genuine insight. Helge's piece on using humor for deception will transform how you structure your patter. His guide to adapting card magic for stand-up solves problems most magicians struggle with for years. And his essay on how to treat spectators should be required reading for every serious performer.
What's Inside
Single card effects with maximum impact, original techniques with video references, multi-phase routines with theatrical structure, complete signed duplicate card system, stand-up card magic methods, and performance essays on humor, structure, and audience management.
Evidence of a Well Spent Life isn't just another collection of card tricks. It's a masterclass in creating magic that matters, from one of the finest performers working today.
Hardcover with quality production, foreword by Guy Hollingworth, and eight special cards included.
Full Table of Contents
Foreword- Guy Hollingworth
Introduction - Helge Thun
Chapter 1: Single Cards
Instant Camera Card
Bulkoki Reloaded
Humor as Deception
Chapter 2: Technique
Action Fan Palm
The Bent Cop Transfer
Card in Matchbox - Three Loading Methods
Hands up!
Chapter 3: Beauty of Complexity
Better Safe than Sorry 3
Strangers or Friends?
The Flying Four
Eight Ahead!
Pockets Full of Presents
Chapter 4: The Duplicate Principle
The Signatures
4 Card Brainwave
Free Choice
Cornered
Round the Corner
Filling the Gap
The Cloth of Death
Duplicate Travelers
Boxed
Chapter 5: Encore
Clear Voyage
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