Richard Osterlind's Mind Mysteries (DVD)
Richard Osterlind's Mind Mysteries (DVD)
Now
available on Video and DVD! Four Volumes...
Richard Osterlind has long been considered one of mentalism and magic's
most creative minds. In this exciting new video series, he shares with
you not only his most famous creations but also many highly guarded secrets,
ideas and routines, many of which are right out of his professional act.
These aren't tricks - they're Mind Mysteries!
See- Watch Routine (1 Mb) ... Radar Deck (4 Mb) from Volume 1
Volume
1 - The Act
It's
a rare thing when one of mentalism's leading minds divulges the secrets
to his professional act - the material he's been earning a living with
for decades. Yet, on this volume of an extraordinary video series, that's
exactly what Richard Osterlind does - sharing not only the methods, but
the fine details, of the powerhouse effects he's been wowing corporate
and trade show audiences all over the world with. Watch him amaze the
audience in performance and then go behind the scenes as Osterlind, along
with host Jim Sisti, shows you how it's all done.
Bank Night - Osterlind's original, tried and proven version of a classic, complete with a commercial kicker that will endear you to any audience. A great opener for any act!
The Perfected Center Tear - Complete instruction in the ultimate version of Osterlind's legendary center tear, which can be done in slow motion and completely surrounded. You rip up the paper...and return all of the pieces!
Radar Deck - Four spectators just think of a card and the performer names them all! The full workings and never-before-disclosed handling tips are here, including instructions on how to make your own Radar Deck.
Watch Routine - One spectator thinks of a time while another turns the hands of a face-down watch. When the watch is turned over, it's found to display the first spectator's thought-of time. Perform this miracle anywhere, anytime...and with any watch! Thought Scan - Originally marketed for $250.00, Osterlind's version of the classic Q&A routine is an act in itself. If one could actually read minds, it would look like this!
Magazine Test - In this never-before-released miracle, the performer predicts the word a spectator will circle on a freely-selected page in a magazine. This was the finale for Richard Osterlind's act for many years.
Linking Finger Rings - Wedding bands borrowed from three spectators are linked together in the fairest manner possible. This routine has been called the very best version of this classic effect ever conceived and this is the clearest and most-detailed explanation of the real work.
Volume
2 - The Osterlind Breakthrough Card System
In
this volume of Richard Osterlind's landmark video series, he shares perhaps
his greatest contribution to magic and mentalism - the Breakthrough Card
System, considered by many to be the most ingenious playing card stack
ever devised. The spectators could look at the cards for hours and never
discover its devilish secret and, for the first time, Richard Osterlind,
along with host Jim Sisti, shares twenty years of effects, performance
tips, ideas and shortcuts with his inspired creation.
Card Calling - A group of cards are removed from a shuffled jumbo-sized deck and the performer names them all. This effect, one that will play to the largest audience, has been a staple in Osterlind's stage show for over two decades.
Two Cards in Pocket - A spectator places two cards in his pockets from a deck he's been mixing. Not only does the performer name them but also divines which one is in which pocket. This is a true killer!
Challenge Mind Reading - A thought-of card is named without the performer ever touching the deck. Quite possibly the most impossible-looking card trick ever!
Corinda Effect - The performer names a card that was reversed in the deck by a spectator while he was holding the deck underneath the table. This is the trick that started it all!
Blackjack Demonstration - Your spectators will be convinced that you are the greatest blackjack player ever! You not only know their hole card but also instruct them, quite successfully, on how to play their hands!
Volume
3 - Assorted Mysteries
In
the third volume of this groundbreaking video series, Richard Osterlind
shares some of his most treasured Mind Mysteries. There are impromptu
miracles to perform for friends at the dinner table along with more elaborate
pieces suitable for large stage audiences. Watch him as he baffles a live
audience and then go behind the scenes as Osterlind, along with host Jim
Sisti, shows you how it's all done.
Sweeter and Lower - Osterlind updates his classic "Sweet and Low"
effect. A signed packet of sweetener is torn and restored under extremely
fair conditions.
Change of Mind- This novel routine allows you to predict the coins that spectators will remove from their pockets. Complete instructions are given for making the ingenious gimmick and Osterlind supplies handlings for both close-up and stage.
Spoon Bending - Learn how Richard Osterlind bends spoons in the fairest and most visual way. A knockout technique that amazes audiences.
Radio Sum Total - Osterlind's version of Larry Becker's basic effect where the audience forms the problem to a mathematical answer that's already on display. Suitable for a live audience and even more amazing to perform on the radio!
Uncanny - An ordinary playing card slowly turns over by itself to reveal it's the thought-of card. No threads, magnets or other gimmicks are used!
The Nail Writer - Osterlind's personal handling, plus additional tips, for this ingenious tool.
Lottery Effect - The performer predicts the winning lottery number that 3 spectators freely form.
Cell Phone Effect - An audience member with a cell phone calls anyone they know and asks them to select a number. It matches the performer's prediction.
Bill in Cigarette - A spectator's signed bill is destroyed and found inside a borrowed cigarette. An incredibly easy and astounding way to perform this classic effect.
Volume
4 - More Assorted Mysteries
In
this final volume of his amazing video series, Richard Osterlind performs
some of his most well-known routines in addition to some new, astounding
effects that have never been revealed before. You'll see how strong this
material is in front of a live audience and then you'll go behind the
scenes as Osterlind, along with host Jim Sisti, shows you how it's all
done.
Glass of Water Production - Osterlind's classic glass of water production from an empty and examined paper bag. Paul Daniels and many other stars of magic have featured this on their television specials.
Imp Pad - Duplicate one of Dunninger's Brain Busters! This is the real way to get information before the show. Plus, complete instructions are given on how to construct the ingenious pad.
Marked Coin in Bottle - In this version of one of magic's classic effects, the coin is marked by a spectator before being magically passed into a soda bottle by the performer. The spectator's marked coin is actually in the bottle, which must be smashed in order to retrieve the coin.
Signed Torn and Restored Post-It Note - An ordinary Post-It Note is signed and torn to pieces. The performer restores and returns the signed Note in the fairest possible way.
Spike Bending - Metal bending for a large stage audience! The performer passes out huge spikes for examination and then apparently bends them with the power of his mind in full view!
S.O.S. Pseudo-Psychometry Bag - Five spectators drop personal items into a black cloth bag without the performer knowing which person the items belong to. The performer returns each item to its proper owner while giving a psychometric reading for each.
Signed
Torn and Restored Newspaper - This is the most guarded secret in this
video series! Any page is selected from a newspaper and signed by a spectator.
The paper is torn in half five times and then restored. The signed paper
is then returned to the spectator to keep as a souvenir. What's more,
the performer is totally clean at the effect's conclusion. This effect
has been fooling the best minds in magic for over 15 years and is finally
being released!
VOLUME 5
ULTRA BOARD—For the first time on video, see Richard Osterlind perform
his classic Mental Epic type effect with an ungimmicked board!
SPOON BEND—A totally new bend with an ordinary spoon that looks impossible!
This takes spoon bending to new heights!
FORK BEND—Three forks just melt over at the mentalist’s command!
It looks like power shoots from the mentalist’s hands!
THE VERY MODERN MINDREADER—This is a whole act that uses nothing
but a few cards and envelopes. This one can make your reputation as a
mind reader!
DIGITAL FEEDBACK—This is the best calculator effect ever! You will
stun your audience numerous times and leave them with an ending they will
remember!
INSIDE THE FOLD—This is one of Richard’s most cherished secrets!
An audience member calls out a number. He is handed a folded card which
has been in the performer’s empty hands from the beginning. The chosen
number is predicted inside. It is that clean!
STAINLESS STEEL BLINDFOLD—This is one of the classics of mentalism.
See Richard perform his favorite routine right out of the manual!
PENOMENALLY (PSYCHIC CONTROL)—A pen placed on a bottle moves at the
mentalist’s command! There are no threads and the movement is totally
under the performer’s control!
STOPPING A WATCH—The actual mechanics of stopping watches and changing
the times are demonstrated. Richard discusses the applications to many
types of watches. Also included is controlling a compass and how to mentally
destroy a hotel room key!
VOLUME 6
MIRACLE FLYING CARDS—See Richard do his classic routine in a new
updated fashion in front of a large audience. You will see why this has
been called one of the best stand-up card effects ever created!
SPIRIT WRITING ON CARD—This is a totally new routine! A number of
blank and ungimmicked index cards are displayed. One is chosen and a design
is called out. When a lighter is run across the card, the chosen design
is burned into the card! Richard also shows how to control the flame of
a lighter!
MULTIPLE KEY BENDING—This is Richard’s personal routine for
bending a number of borrowed keys in the hands of a spectator! See how
Richard uses suggestion to first cause her hands to lock together and
how she feels the keys bending! The best method for bending keys on stage!
CLIP LINE DELUXE—Once you see this effect, you will really understand
what’s so special about Richard’s thinking! The classic Clip
Line effect is performed in such a way as to look totally impossible even
if you know the original secret! This is spectacular!
AMAZING MEMORY DEMONSTRATION—This may be the most important routine
in the series! Not only will you learn one of the most stunning demonstrations
you can perform, but the advice Richard gives could change the very way
you live!
STENO ESP—This is Richard’s method of doing the classic Mental
Epic-type effect with nothing but a steno pad! Not only is this easy and
fun, but you will see how Richard’s thinking reverses some of the
workings!
OUT OF HAND—This routine has long been unavailable. It won widespread
acceptance when it first appeared on Richard’s Challenge Magic. With
this, you will have one of the most entertaining Six-Card Repeat-type
effects ever invented!
INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH LINK—The performer repeatedly links and unlinks
a large industrial spring from a coat hanger with ease while the spectator
fails every time! The routine grows in impossibility until the spring
actually unlinks in the spectator’s hand!
COIN SNATCH—Richard Osterlind’s own way of doing the old classic
with a clever new addition which will convince your audience that you
have the fastest hands in the world!
ORIGINAL INSIDE OUT—This is the first time this effect has appeared
anywhere! A single folded card repeatedly turns itself inside out with
just a wave of the hand! The effect grows as a paper clip is placed onto
it. What’s more, the card is given out at the end!
VOLUME 7
QUESTION AND ANSWER ACT—This act is worth the price of the whole
series! Questions are written by the audience and collected in open view.
Still the mentalist answers them in an impossible way! Not only is this
act new and stunning, it is the simplest Q&A act of them all! You
will LOVE this!
TEST CONDITIONS II—Remember the Test Condition Card Effect from Richard’s
first series? This is another effect with the Breakthrough Card System
that will floor even advanced card men! You find a chosen card under impossible
conditions after the spectator returns the card himself and shuffles the
deck!
TRIBUTE TO TARBELL—A spectator thinks of a card. Another spectator
brings her hand down on the spread deck and finds the first person’s
card! A killer anytime, anywhere mystery!
PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPOSSIBILITY—A mentally chosen card mysteriously vanishes
from one half of a deck to appear in the performer’s pocket! See
how Richard takes a standard effect and turns it into a major mystery!
MATCHBOOK PREDICTION—This is one of the most entertaining and mysterious
card effects you can do! A chosen card appears on the inside cover of
a book of matches not once—but twice! The audience howls with delight!
ESP STACK—Richard shows his new ESP stack and how it is used to duplicate
the actual tests devised for these cards. This routine looks just like
the real thing!
OSTERLIND DESIGN DUPLICATION (ODDS)—Richard’s revolutionary
method of doing the design duplication effect. This routine was developed
based on actual laboratory techniques for testing ESP and is the closest
thing to real ESP!
ASHES ON THE ARM—The classic effect is updated by Richard. A spectator
writes the initials of a family member on a piece of paper which is burned.
The ashes from the burned paper are rubbed on the mentalist’s arm
(or hand) and the initials appear in the ashes! This looks uncanny!
PEN PADDLE MOVE—This is Richard’s trademark routine which he
uses in trade shows. The writing on a pen repeatedly appears and vanishes.
You will be amazed at the effect Richard achieves using this classic principle!
DAD’S FAVORITE—The spectator cuts a deck of cards over and over
into four final piles. The top cards are turned over and found to be the
four Aces! This amazing effect was actually taught to Richard by his father
when he was a young boy!
HAUNTED KEY—Richard performs the classic Haunted Key effect using
the methods from his classic book, Making Magic Real. You will see how
the key turns over with no movement of the performer’s hands!
SOLID GHOST—This classic is one of Richard’s favorites! A solid
ghost appears inside the dark recesses of a folded handkerchief! It is
tapped with a spoon and felt by a spectator before it disappears back
into nothingness! Watch how Richard uses this to close the show!
Questions or Queries ?
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