Wesley James - The Complete Mojo

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From November 2006 through October 2007 Wesley James-one of the last of the under-groundlegends of magic-wrote, edited and released 12 issues of an e-zine containing some of the mostsophisticated close-up magic in the history of magic periodicals, all described in Wesley'sinimitably detailed style.

Originally released at $10 per issue, $100 to subscribers, the entire contents of the e-zine havenow been re-typeset for easy reading and compiled into one PDF volume at a significantlyreduced price.

More than 250 fully illustrated pages, plus a complete index and extensive table of contents.More than a dozen contributors, including a complete Sol Stone issue, 60 plus effects andsleights with cards, coins and other objects, plus essays and tutorials.

Some of the material in this volume is technically demanding, some is easy, but self-workingmagic is a myth. All magic must be well presented to play powerfully with real world audiences and that requires practice and rehearsal. However, all the material in this volume is practical and fully explained. It is intended for the serious student of close-up magic.

List of items (all without a creator name are by Wesley James):

• 1-2-3 Rise
• 1-2-3-4 Rise
• 4 Story ElevAces
• Ace Producer Revisited (Randy Wakeman and Wesley james)
• Amazing Disposable Wallet (Laura Kruskol)
• Any Second Middle (Jack Diamond)
• AutoCraft (Carl Albright and Wesley James)
• Back Maker
• Beveled Whisper Bottom Deal
• Beveled Whisper Middle Deal
• Beveled Whisper Second Deal
• BRJ Tabled Shift (S. Reynolds and Wesley James)
• Chang Change (Tony Chang)
• Child's Ancient International Box
• Crunch'em If You've Got'em (Sol Stone)
• Count-Revertable Aces
• Da Brooklyn 8ces
• Diamond Shift Stratagem (Jack Diamond)
• Domino Cards
• Drop Pass (Gordon Bruce)
• Eagles of Ishtar
• Etymology of Uppity
• Fake Reverse Reverse Redux
• Flight of Amelia
• Friedhoffer's Ring Toss (Bob Friedhoffer)
• Funky Jazz Aces
• Half-Way Passed Malini
• H-Ace-tory
• I Think You Thunk
• I've Got a System (Carl Albright)
• Jack in the Box
• Jazz Transform
• May the Force Triumph With Ossip (Randy Wakeman and Wesley James)
• My Universal Card
• No Questions Asked II (Randy Wakeman)
• Nova Sight (Matt Sedlak and Wesley James)
• Olive Oil on the Side
• Original Stone Dice Routine (Sol Stone)
• Out of Sight Discernment
• Packet of Ten
• Poppy's Playboy Prophecy
• Progressive Ladies
• Reset Meets Below Zero Minus None
• Reset Wild Card (N. Coughlin and Wesley James)
• Rubber Meets Houdini (Tom Gagnon)
• Slip Pop Knot
• S Collins meets Progressive Aces
• Ten Card Hold'em Deal
• They're Never There
• Tiger in the Bush
• Tippler's Flush
• Trans-Warp Transpo (Randy Wakeman)
• TreAce Sheik
• Two-phased Ace Producer
• Ungaffed B'Wave
• Viagran Cork (Sol Stone)
• Visible Twist
• Waterfall Blatancy
• Why Knot Your Knot (Sol Stone)
• You See, I'll Remember

Mojo, Volume 1, Issue 1

Tippler's Flush, by Wesley James -- Based on an idea from Ron Zollweg, the performer makes aprediction by removing a card from the deck and placing it aside. He then removes all the blackcards from the deck and, at the direction of a spectator, mixes them in a face-up/face-downcondition. The prediction is shown to reveal the number of face-down cards, which are thenturned over to reveal a Royal Flush.

Tiger in the Bush, by Wesley James -- A variation of William McCaffrey's Prizewinner, madepopular in Eddie Joseph's Premonition. This version can be done 100% impromptu with aborrowed deck. The only requirement is that the deck is complete. Any card can be named --there is no restricted choice. The title is explained as part of Wes's presentational hook.

TreAce Sheik, by Wesley James -- An addition to the Reset genre, based on ideas from LeeAsher and Aaron Fisher. The four aces instantly transpose with the four kings.

Mojo, Volume 1, Issue 2

Ace Producer Revisited by Randy Wakeman and Wesley James -- Using Marlo's Ace Produceras a starting point, this handling of the Sleeve Aces plot provides a simple set-up as well as asimultaneous double production of the two final aces.

Funky Jazz Aces by Wesley James -- A handling which Wes has kept to himself for close to 35years, it includes several presentational and technical touches not seen anywhere else. Eachof those touches greatly increases the conviction that each ace is where it is supposed to bebefore it travels.

Jazz Transform by Wesley James -- More on Jazz Aces, this time with a double-kicker ending.

I Think, You Thunk by Wesley James -- The performer divines three cards merely thought of byspectators. Includes thoughts on justifying procedures that may at first seem less-than-logical.

Poppy's Playboy Prophecy by Wesley James -- The first non-card item to appear in themagazine. A large glass full of coins of various denominations and dates is mixed up and aspectator chooses one of the them. The performer correctly divines both the denomination andthe date on the coin. Note that a significant sampling of the coins are dumped into the spectatorshand and he may freely examine them to see that they truly do represent a wide variety of datesand denominations, and that the coins are very fairly mixed by shaking them between twoglasses.

Mojo, Volume 1, Issue 3

Visible Twist, by Wesley James -- Wes's variation of Hollingworth's Waving the Aces, whichkeeps the hands within the upper-torso frame.

No Questions Asked II, by Randy Wakeman -- Randy's take on Marlo's Amazing, Isn't It?, whichderives from Mental Discernment/Out of Sight, Out of Mind. Includes a detailed history of the'Think-a-card' plot, as well as thoughts on limiting the selection. As the title suggests, noquestions are asked until the card has apparently already been located.

Out of Sight Discernment, by Wesley James -- Wes's refinements on Randy's effect.

Nova Sight, by Matt Sedlak and Wesley James -- A variation on Walton's Oversight, where thefour aces visibly vanish when dropped face-up upon the deck, only to be discovered when themagician deals out several poker hands, and all the aces appear face-up in his own hand.

I've Got A System, by Carl Albright -- A presentation for John Kennedy's Red Black, whichgives three successive reaction points at the climax, each building on the one before it.

1st edition 2006, 287 pages.
word count: 158348 which is equivalent to 633 standard pages of text