Product Review

Vivify contains ten original stage illusions fully described and illustrated in glorious full colour. Also included are two thought provoking essays. Foreword by Brett Daniels. Vivify - etymology: middle English: to nourish, to give life. Latin: vivificus - enlivening. 1. To endow with life or renewed life: animate 2. To impart vitality or vividness. Stage illusions featured: bodybuilder - a rustic, open framework houses assistant, which is penetrated with shiny metal. Hiding place - the instant appearance of an assistant. Can be performed surrounded w/considerations. 95% gone! - volunteer is placed in a horizontal prop, where her body seems to disappear. EMB - a new take on a classic - sword box. Asrah table - an exceptionally thin re-design that will amaze. Abdomen - a gothic looking illusion, where a girl rises up from the horizontal torso of the magician. Dissolve - an upright cabinet, where the assistant slowly gets compacted and then vanishes completely. Vivisectioned - a circular illusion where the assistant is impalled with blades, and then rotated. Sanction - a slender, upright cabinet that features sharp angled blades that rotate/penetrate the cabinet. Motorbike - an open metal framework is shown empty and then in a flash produces magi/assistant and motorcycle too! limited to 500 copies individually signed & numbered. Pages: 142 - 9 3/4" x 9 3/4" - hardbound cover with foil stamping & embossing.