Rubinstein, Michael: Rubinstein Coin Magic
©2020 R.O.P.S. Press
HardCover, perfect-bound, 512 pages
ISBN- 9-780578-658339
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD by Bill Wells
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE – SLEIGHTS, MOVES, AND TECHNIQUES
CHAPTER ONE - R.O.P.S. TECHNIQUE
1. R.O.P.S. Move
2. R.O.P.S. New Theory Retention Pass
3. R.O.P.S. Click Pass
4. R.O.P.S. Double Click Pass
CHAPTER TWO - VANISHES, SHUTTLE PASSES, LOADS, AND CHANGEOVER PALMS
1. Variation Retention Pass
2. The Bronx Take
3. Miracle One Hand Coin Vanish
4. Roll-Down Retention Pass
5. Fingertip Shuttle Pass
6. Fingertip Shuttle-Pass Display
7. Palm-Down Fingertip Shuttle Pass
8. Fingertip Load
9. Tap Load
10. Spellbound Changeover Palm
11. Spellbound Changeover-Palm Variation and Display
12. Nowhere Palm Changeover Palm
13. Rubinstein Put-back Move
CHAPTER THREE - CLICK PASSES
Introduction
1. Rubinstein Click Pass
2. Air Drop Click Pass
3. Turnover Double Click Pass
4. Snap Down Double Click Pass
5.Nowhere Palm Click Pass
6. Nowhere Palm Double Click Pass
7. Fan Double Click Pass
8. Reverse Double Click Pass
CHAPTER FOUR – SPELLBOUND MOVES
1. Impromptu Touch Change
2. The Wave Change
3. The Rubinstein Steal Back
4. Flip-Over Change
5. The Soft change
6. The Strike Change
7. The Rub Change
8. Spellbound 9333
9. The Blow Change
10. The Cartwheel Change
11. Spellbound Times Three
12. Triple E.G. Spell
CHAPTER FIVE - FALSE COUNTS AND USEFUL MOVES
1. The PH (Pseudo Himber) Count
2. The Fidget Count
3. The R.O.P.S Discrepancy Count
4. The Combination Count
5. The Click Steal Back
6. The Clip Steal Back
7. Purse-Palm Subtlety
8. Fingertip Utility Switch
9. Angle-Finger Palm Switch
10. Multi-Coin Angle-Palm Switch
11. The Slide Move
12. Crossed Arms Subtlety
13. The Rubinstein Subtlety
CHAPTER SIX - STEALTH PALM
CHAPTER SEVEN – ADDITIONAL TECHNIQUES
1. Matting
2. Pocket Management
PART TWO – ROUTINES
CHAPTER EIGHT – COPPER-SILVER
1. The Purse and Glass
2. Magical Change Purse (Purse, No Glass)
3. The Substitution Trunk Mystery
4. Stand Up Sucker Copper-Silver Routine
5. Copper or Silver Extraction
6. Copper Penetration
7. Handy Copper-Silver Transposition
8. Cup of Copper Silver
9. Stealth Copper-Silver Transposition
10. Ungimmicked Copper-Silver-Brass
11. Oil and Water
12. Matchbox Treasury Redux
CHAPTER NINE – WILD COIN
1. Twilight Zone Wild Coin Introduction
2. Twilight Zone Wild Coin Show Version
3. Twilight Zone Wild Coin Impromptu Version
4. Twilight Zone Wild Coin Cup Version
5. Twilight Zone Wild Coin Purse Version
6. Twilight Zone Wild Coin Original Handling
7. Twilight Zone Wild Coin Multi Gold Version
8. Sliding Wild Coin
CHAPTER TEN – SPELLBOUND ROUTINES
1. Thoughts on Spellbound
2. Ultimate Silver Lint
3. The Chocolate Coin
4. Imagine a Coin
5. Four-Way Spellbound
6. Shattered Spellbound
7. Chinese Explosion
CHAPTER ELEVEN - COINS THROUGH THE TABLE
1. Rubinstein Coins Through the Table
2. Standup Coins Through the Table
3. CSB Coins Through the Table
4. Giant Four Coins through the Table
CHAPTER TWELVE - COINS ACROSS
1. Tallahassee Jumping Coins
2. Impossible Four Coin Trick I
3. Impossible Four Coin Trick 2
4. Long Term Short Term
5. Retro Fly
6. The Specciolini Brothers
7. Shell CSB Coins Across
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - COIN PRODUCTIONS AND VANISHES
1.Triple Play
2. Magical Money Rap
3. The Wishing Well
4. Vegas Math
5. Fuzzy Math
6. Bologna Debut
7. Stealth Hanging Coins
8. Stealth Showcase
9. Deja vu Coin Vanish
10. Tri-Coin
11. Flash Vanish
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - COINS AND CARDS
1. Voodoo Revelation
2. Voodoo Revelation SOH Version
3. Two Coin Monte (Two Card Reverse Matrix)
4. Quadra Coin Reverse Matrix
5. Ultra Reverse Matrix
6. The Mentalist
7. Triple Coin to Card
8. Case Solved
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - GAFFED COINS
1. Silver Extraction
2. The Double-Faced Coin Routine
3. The Bent Coin Routine
4. Magnetic Coins
5. Thumb Through Coin
6. Signed Bill Through Coin
7. Smileys
8. Smileys Jr.
9. Fusion
10. Three Quarters of a Trick
11. Key Fobulous
12. Goodbye, Hello, Now Change
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - MISCELLANEOUS
1. The Purse Routine
2. The Blank Coin Routine
3. The Mystery of the Chinese Coin
4. The Black Hole
5. Mint Condition
6. Next of Boxes
7. Coin in Coin Roll
8. Coins to Glass
9. Polarized Plastic
10. Time for Change
11. The Counterfeit Coin
12. Nest of Envelopes
13. Nest of Envelopes Method Two
14. The Sympathy Card
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN – COINS AND POKER CHIPS
1. May the Force Be with You
2. Poker Chip Spellbound
3. 3-D Printing
4. My Coin Collection
5. Conviction Prediction
6. Conviction Prediction, and Some Magishin’
7. The Famous Three Coin Trick
8. Three Coin Monte
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN – FRIENDS SECTION
1. Introduction
2. Mike Gallo – I Got It Covered
3. Nathan Kranzo – Shuzbut Coins
4. Jean Emmanuel Franzis – Aegean Coins
5. Moritz Mueller – Slide of Hand Vanish
6. Bill Citino – Coins Walking Wildly Ahead
7. Tom Gagnon – Shell-Acted
8. Marc DeSouza – Cylinder and Coins for Three Friends
9. Eric Roumestan – Touch, No Touch
10. Brenden Wolf – Differential
11. Lawrens Godon – Three-ality Routine
12. Tri Ryuzaki – Synchronized Spellbound
13. Giacomo Bertini – Coinmeleon II
14. Etienne Lorenceau – Faustus Chameleon Skin Purse
15. Danny Goldsmith – The Frenetic Change
16. Leonard Rangel – Three Flight
17. Doug Brewer – Left-Handed Coins in a Box
18. John Carey – Simplex Positive Negative
19. Miguel Angel Gea – Coin Munch
20. Bill Wisch – The Elbow Servante
21. Jay Wang – Purse-onal Coin Production
22. Karen Dorangrichia – WOW Magic Chicken
23. David Roth - The Roth Blank Coin Routine
PART THREE – BONUS SECTION
CHAPTER NINETEEN - PUNS FOR ANY OCCASION
1. Introduction
2. Medical
3. Professional
4. Animals
5. Sports
6. Home
7. Car and Travel
8. Food
9. Personal
9. Bars and Drinks
10. Miscellaneous
CHAPTER TWENTY – CURTAIN CALL
1. Chinese Explosion II
2. Quarter Steal
3. Baseball Miser’s Dream
FINAL THOUGHTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Michael Rubinstein has had a lifelong passion for magic with coins. Over his lifetime he has earned a reputation as being one of the handful Coin Magic Experts. He has offered hundreds of techniques and routines in books, magazines and on video.
As he was working on his legacy project, he selected what he felt were the best of his routines and techniques and added many new routines and improvements for most others. You will find work on just about every known coin plot and some that you never heard of. Most of the magic uses sleight-of-hand although there are sections on gaffs, chips, coins with cards and even some coin mentalism!
He also added a section on puns that he likes to intersperse within his magic and even a chapter featuring routines from some of his friends. You will find additional coin magic by: Mike Gallo, Nathan Kranzo, Jean Emmanuel Francis, Moritz Mueller, Bill Cintino, Tom Gagnon, Marc DeSouza, Eric Roumestan, Brenden Wolf, Lawrens Godon, Tri Ryuzaki, Giacomo Bertini, Etienne Lorenceau, Danny Goldsmith, Leonard Rangel, Doug Brewer, John Carey, Miguel Angel Gea, Bill Wisch, Jay Wang, and David Roth.
This is a massive and heavy book. Published in 2020 by Dr. Michael Rubinstein. It is an oversized 9”x11.5” hardcover with dustjacket. 512 high-gloss pages with 930+ photographs.
"Michael Rubinstein has created a major contribution to the cannon of coin magic. If you love coin magic, you are going to find inspiration, and a lot of terrific ideas, all presented in a beautiful package." …John Carney
"It is very difficult to fool magicians using sleight of hand. Michael has been fooling me with his coin magic for more than 40 years. Now I get to learn how he did it. This a monumental work in the field of coin magic and I highly recommend you get it and study what he has to offer." …Meir Yedid
| Edition |
[2d ed.] |
| Extras |
Author autograph, Inscribed |
| No. of Pages |
512 |
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No |
| Location |
Magic Library (Home) |
| Condition |
Mint |
| Owner |
Bryan-Keith Taylor |
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Michael Rubinstein (b. 1956)
began working in New York as a veterinarian while still publishing coin magic in various books and magazines.
Contents
1 Biography
2 Awards
3 Books and Lecture Notes
4 DVDs and Downloads
5 References
Biography
Michael Rubinstein, was born in New York in 1956. He became interested in magic when his aunt bought him some magic tricks at the age of nine, but didn't become serious until after someone showed him how to do the French Drop at age fifteen. He got his parents to buy him the Modern Coin Magic book for his birthday and after reading the book cover to cover he began developing his own moves and techniques.
In 1977, Rubinstein moved to Italy to study Veterinary Medicine. It was there that he hooked up with the Italian Magic Organization, and began lecturing, and developing many of the retention techniques that have since defined his style. Rubinstein won first place in the International Magic Congress Close up Competition in Bologna Italy in 1983 (the most important competition in Europe in an off FISM year), and repeated his success by winning first place at the International Close up Competition in St. Vincent in 1984. In 1985 Rubinstein produced the Master Coin Technique video series in Germany, which was later turned into the Encyclopedia of Coin Sleights, sold by L&L. Many famous magicians, like Reed McClintock and Giacomo Bertini, got their start in coin magic by studying these videos. In 1986 with Videonics, Rubinstein released his Knockout Coin Magic video series, which were the first videos to release unpublished material to magic audiences.
After a brief hiatus from magic, Rubinstein came back with a vengeance, forming the The York Coin Magic Seminar with David Roth, Geoff Latta, and Mike Gallo. Their 16 volume 17 disc DVD set, the New York Coin Magic Seminar DVD series, is the biggest collection of coin magic ever produced on DVD, and contains additional contributions from Kainoa Harbottle, Giacomo Bertini, Scotty York, Bob Fitch, Al Schneider, Eric Jones, Bill Citino, Marc DeSouza, Eric DeCamps, Doug Brewer, Vic Trabucco, Scott Robinson, Jean Emmanuel Francis, and Dan Watkins. It has been called by Bill Wells the video Bobo for the 21st century.
Dr. Rubinstein has also published his magical creations in Apocalypse, Richard's Almanac, Magic Magazine, Genii, Looking Glass, Ruminations, Best of Friends II, and Spectacle, as well as many foreigh pubblications, and appeared on the cover of the April 2019 issue of The Linking Ring. Dr.Michael Rubinstein has also appeared on the Coinvention DVD, LVMI 2003 DVD, and the European Coin Magic Symposium DVD set.
Dr. Rubinstein has developed many commcercial effects over the years, that can still be found at many magic dealers. Back in the 1980s Rubinstein worked with Art Kahn of Xanadu to produce and sell Voodoo Revelation, a new plot using both coins and cards. At the same time Tannens released Rubinstein’s FUSION, where a penny magically is embedded into a quarter or half dollar. FUSION is still a popular item, as is SMILEYS, where a frown drawn on a coin becomes a smile, then turns into a yellow Smiley face. His latest release, MIGRATE, is a comedy coins across routine about Bears, using special replica commemorative half dollars or poker chips.
Dr. Rubinstein has lectured and performed all over the world. He was the guest of Honor at the Second European Coin Magic Symposium, held in Milan, Italy, in 2011, and was a featured performer at the famed Magic Castle in Hollywood, in February, 2016. In 2018, Dr. Rubinstein appeared on season five of Penn and Teller: Fool US, performing one of his signature effects, Twilight Zone Wild Coin. The episode, entitled, "The Fool Us Zone", was named after his routine. In 2020 Dr. Rubinstein put out his long awaited book, RUBINSTEIN COIN MAGIC, the biggest book on coin magic since Bobo's Modern Coin Magic, and the most important since David Roth's Expert Coin Magic. Dr. Michael Rubinstein currently lives in New York with his wife Karen, Spike the cat, and Angie the wonder dog.
Awards
First place in close-up at the International Magic Congress in Bologna Italy (1983)
First place in close-up at the International Magic Congress in St. Vincent (1984)
Creativity Award at the Magicians Alliance of Eastern States Convention (1986)
Guest of Honor at the 2nd European Coin Magic Symposium in Milan, Italy (2011)
The Linking Ring Award of Excellence for the One Man Parade (April 2019)
Books and Lecture Notes
Intermediate and Advanced Coin Technique, in English, Italian, and French (1982) .
Creative Coin Magic Lecture Notes 1 (1982)
Creative Coin Magic Lecture Notes 2 (1983)
Inside Street Magic (1985)
Creative Coin Magic Lecture Notes 3 (1985)
La Bibbia della Micromagia (Italy) (1985)
Coinvention Lecture Notes (2003)
Secret Stuff Notes (2005)
Coin Magic European Lecture Tour (2010)
Twilight Zone Wild Coin manuscript (2018)
Rubinstein Coin Magic (2020)
DVDs and Downloads
1. The Encyclopedia of Coin sleights Volume 1,2,3
2. Knockout Coin Magic 3 dvd set on one disc
3. Coinvention DVD
4. LVMI DVD
5. Creative Coin Magic 1986 Lecture DVD
6. Creative Coin Magic 2004 Lecture DVD
7. New York Coin Magic Seminar DVD series volume 1-16 (download available at www.vanishingincmagic.com ).
8. European Coin Magic Symposium DVD series volumes 2,3,4
9. Penguin Live lecture DVD and download (2013)
10. Penguin Live Lecture #2 download (2016)
11. At the Table Lecture DVD and download (2017)
References
Catalog of Magic, by L & L Publishing (2002), Michael Rubinstein, page 134, Michael Rubinstein Knockout Coin Magic, page 135
http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=38680
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Michael-Rubinstein/320421894
http://www.closeupmagicsymposium.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=16
e-mail rubinsteindvm@aol.com
