Pierce, Lance: The Award-Winning Magic of John Cornelius
©2001 L&L Publishing.
Design & Composition by Andrew J. Pinard, Photographs by Anne White
Hardback, 181 pages
Thomas Edison, who knew a thing or two about the subject, said that genius was "one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration." In The Award-Winning Magic of John Cornelius, genius is apparent at every turn of the page.
John Cornelius is one of magic's most innovative performers and inspired inventors and his effects and routines are in use by magicians the world over. In this long-anticipated book, author Lance Pierce explains John's magic in meticulous detail, covering everything from legendary effects such as Marked For Life, The Fickle Nickel and the ingenious Shrinking Card Case to every last nuance of John's world-championship winning card act ("Every Card Trick In The World In Ten Minutes").
The Award-Winning Magic of John Cornelius. There's no hyperbole in the title. This is the magic that gained its subject not only accolades from his peers but won him one of magic's highest honors-a world prize at F.I.S.M. It's a journey into the mind of one of the foremost magical thinkers of our time, a man many have hailed as a creative genius.
Comments [Joe Turner]: A compilation of magic from one of the art's most prolific creators, John Cornelius. Covers some marketed effects ("Marked for Life," "The Fickle Nickel," the shrinking card case, as well as all details of the FISM-winning card act.
Contents:
1 BITS
3 Baby Boom
5 Prints Valiant
7 Roughly Mental
9 MoonShine Locations
13 Passages:
13 - On the Tip of My Tongue
14 - A Toast
15 - Instant Travelers
17 KnotSoTuff
21 MOVES
23 The Fan Steal
27 Flicker
29 Fold-A-Card
31 Peeping Tom
33 The Master Cut
33 - The Charlier Cut..
34 - The Circle and Roll Cut
37 The Apprentice Cut
39 The Oh, Calcutta! Shuffle.
41 Spring Set
43 The Winter Change
47 Go for Go Switch
49 CASUAL INTERFACES
51 Armed and Ready
53 D'Artagnan's Release
55 Dial-A-Trick
57 Lines of Flux
59 Impromptu Ghost Trap
63 Arisen!
67 An Assemblage of Silver
71 Bluff Poker
75 Marked for Life
79 THE JOHN CORNELIUS CARD SYSTEM
87 MORE BITS
89 Hanky
90 - Deck in the Round (Pocket Rocket Aces)
93 SmokeFree
95 Trying to Quit
95 - Ephemeral
96 - Chain Smoker
96 - Lip Service
99 Flashes
99 - A Smoke for Old Scratch
100 My Card, Sir
101 Hot Silver
102 Fanning the Flames
105 - The Pendulum Principle
107 FORMAL MIRACLES
109 Super (Ball) Card Rise
111 Meta-Fusion
113 MoneyTalk
115 Shrinkage
119 Slow Motion Fadeaway
123 The Jawbreakers
129 The IncrediBill Routine
129 The $100 Bill Change
137 Change of Mind
139 My Lady's Ring
143 The Fickle Nickel
147 The Ball, The Bowl, and the Big, Big Cake
155 THE F.I.S.M. ACT
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Home Magic Library |
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Mint |
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Bryan-Keith Taylor |
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John Cornelius
John Cornelius is one of the most creative magicians in the world and the first American to win a F.I.S.M. World Championship of Magic competition (First Place in Close-Up, 1979).
In 1985 he decided to enter the card division and once again won first place. For that competition he designed a very special act titled “Every Card Trick In The World In Under Ten minutes.”
He has won just about every award given for creativity.
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Cornelius, John
(1948 - )
Born John Henry Cornelius. Kept his own name as a magician and as John Cornelius, won 1st prize in close-up at the 1979 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Magiques (FISM) competition.
Invented: Pen Through Anything (1993), Bendable Pen, Perfect Pen, Rising Business Card Case, Shuffle Mat, Thought Transmitter, Fickle Nickel, Instant Pro, Unseen Forces, Deck Suspension, My First Trick, The Hundred Dollar Bill Switch and more.
Wrote: Magic of John Cornelius Lecture Notes No. 1 (1975), Cornelius Card System (1980).
Media: Creative Magic DVD, The F.I.S.M. Act DVD, The Award Winning Magic of John Cornelius by Lance Pierce (2001)
