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Before I Forget
by Mark Elsdon

On this DVD...
Mark explains the method and psychology behind his opener Balance which surely has to be one of the most incredible close-up suspensions ever released. No fake deck no magnets yet a deck of cards impossibly defies gravity. Twice

No Moves is a delightfully clean ambitious card routine (wait hang on) which climaxes with the selection eerily creeping out of the deck whilst out of the performers hands Again easy to do and entirely self-contained.

Chaos is Marks final handling of his previously marketed Chaos and Order trick. It is that rarest of creatures - a self-working triumph effect. As is Elsdons way it is of course so much more than that. How many other card tricks offer entropy throughout the universe as an alternative ending

The opening to a more formal show or stand-up performance Memorisation looks exactly like the real thing the performer remembers the order of a shuffled and cut deck. He proves his claim twice and then ups the ante for the finale by claiming to memorise a participants voice patterns. Packs small plays massive.

Celebrities is a very commercial version of the Fred trick which offers the ultimate synthesis of presentation and method and has the happy side-effect of being the ideal way to hand out your business card.

Swindl-esque offers an unusual visit to everyones secret passion - thats right binary mathematics Using number cards for what looks like the most mathematical card trick ever things turn odd (as usual) as Elsdon seems to become more pre-occupied with the color of a new hat which the spectator may or may not buy of course amongst all the laughter the chosen number is revealed.

Pre-prefiguration is Marks work on a Jennings effect. It is so clean and direct that one of Larrys friends declared it to be the best trick that he saw during the whole of his lecture tour throughout the UK a few