Andi Gladwin Masterclass Credits

Andi Gladwin
Vanishing Inc.
Masterclass:
Credits
Week One Credits
Collective Cutting
• This trick was inspired by Dani DaOrtiz’s magic. While I
cannot recall any specific routine of Dani’s that I was
inspired from, I created this as an excercise of building
a routine from Dani’s starting points. Paul Wilson’s “Con
Cam Coincidencia” was also a likely inspiration.
• Mickael Chatelain’s M-Case is a marketed item and is

useful in this routine, and many others.
• The first use of the reverse cull is in a centuries old

manuscript that, until recently, went unpublished. The Asti
Manuscript (estimated to have been written somewhere
between 1670 and 1730) describes a technique for
stealing the bottom card (a prior selection) underneath a
spread, effectively switching it for a selection. I categorise
this more as a steal than a spread cull. The manuscript
was eventually translated from Italian by Lori Pieper and
published in the Winter 2013 edition of Gibecière (Vol. 8,
No. 1).
Jump forward a few hundred years and we find a reverse

cull in full use around the 1800s. This move was also used
within a Hofzinser-style spread force and can be found
in the library of London’s Magic Circle. A transcription
and commentary can be found in Will Houstoun’s The
Notebook (2009).
Okito Box
• Kostya Kimlat’s Okito Box Routine was published as a
download at Vanishing Inc. His modular structure inspired
my work, and I use his first two phases to get into my
routine.
• Paul Daniels’ Okito Box routine can be found on YouTube.
While I have been unable to track down the creator of the
final phase, I suspect it was a creation of Ken Brooke.
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Everywhere, Nowhere and Everywhere

Else Between
• Hofzinser’s “Everywhere and Nowhere” was published in
English in Downs and Hilliard’s The Art of Magic, 1909.
• I first taught Tomas Blomberg’s TB Spread Double in our

book, Blomberg Laboratories (2014).
• Aaron Fisher’s Diminishing Lift ending was published in

his book The Paper Engine (2007).
• The Hatton and Plate Change was published in Magicians’

Tricks and How They are Done by Henry Hatton & Adrian
Plate (1910).
Perfect Order
• Kostya Kimlat’s “Culligula” was first published on his
Roadrunner Cull DVD (2007).
• John Bannon’s “Play It Straight Triumph” was published in

his wonderful book, Impossibilia (1990).
• Woody Aragón’s Wiper Move was published in A Book in

English (2011).
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Surprise Stacking
• Inspiration was Scarne’s “Instant Stack” from Fulves’
Charlatan magazine (Number 5, 2001). Scarne’s routine
was considerably easier, but less direct.
• Luke Jermay was extremely kind in allowing me to use his

Cull Stacking idea in both of these routines.
Week Two Credits
Ghost
• Dominique Duvivier’s “Ghost Kings” appeared in his book
Duvivier Magic by Jon Racherbaumer (1996).
• Phil Goldstein’s “One Less” from The New Tops (Volume

17, Number 4, April 1977) applies a similar methodology
of having a participant name which card to vanish, then
using wordplay to suggest that you have followed their
instructions.
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Monty Python
• Scott Robinson’s “Sucker Monte” appeared in issue 28 of
The Trapdoor magazine (1989), his Illogical lecture notes
(1993) and then later in my book of his magic titled Pure
Imagination (2019, coauthored with John Cambell).
• The Backward Alignment Move used within the routine

can be found in Bill Goodwin’s Lecture 1988 booklet. Scott
Robinson independently created the same move and
published it within his explanations of “Sucker Monte.”
• Dai Vernon’s Optical Move was published in Further Inner

Secrets of Card Magic (1961), written by Lewis Ganson,
and was based on Theodore DeLand’s Two Card Monte
move (marketed 1913).
• The idea of having the money card transpose with the
two indifferent cards was published in a slightly different
context in “Double Monte” within Paul Harris’ Supermagic
(1977) and was posed to Paul by Allan Ackerman.
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Undo Shuffle
• My starting point was Doug Edwards’ perhaps overlooked
Off-Hand Overhand Shuffle from Doug Edwards Packs a
Wallop (1997) by Harry Lorayne. Doug’s shuffle was a one-
shuffle sequence without the run of single cards.
• While not exactly the same, a sequence of this nature

certainly stems from Roger Klause’s concept of half moves.
Roger’s concept divides a sleight into separate, smaller
parts so that they cannot be detected. Here, I use two
actions that seem separate to achieve one goal. A brief
essay on this can be found in Roger Klause in Concert by
Lance Pierce (1991).
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Optical Shuffle
• The basic idea can be traced back at least to C. Lang
Neil’s The Modern Conjurer (1902), credited to Henri De
Manche.
Undo Cut
• The inspiration for this cut was Denis Behr’s Chaotic Chaos
Cut from his book Handcrafted Card Magic, Volume 2
(2011). The initial cut sequence is very similar to the cut
in David Davis and Benjamin Earl’s Broken Thompson
Shuffle, which appears on the second disc in Ben’s Past
Midnight DVD set (2007).
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Cut, Stop, Shuffle

• The Harry Riser subtlety of removing a packet first and
then putting it back on top was first published in Randy
Wakeman’s Formula One Close-Up (1985).
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Scripted ShuffleBored
• Simon Aronson’s “Shuffle-Bored” was originally published
in 1980 and was later reprinted in Bound to Please (1994).
• While this presentation fits any handling of “Shuffle-

Bored,” the actual handling I use is Lennart Green’s
“Rainman” from The Green Northern Lights Magic (2008).
• I think it’s fair to say that I wouldn’t have created this idea
had it not been for two marketed effects: Jon Allen’s “Silent
Treatment” and Angelo Carbone’s “Cue the Magic,” both
of which I have performed for many years.
• It seems that Dan White independently created a similar
presentation for “Shuffle-Bored” and performed it on the
Jimmy Fallon show in 2017. To my knowledge, he has
not published his version. I have been performing this,
including for magicians, since 2011
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Silent Movie
• My starting point for this effect was Allan Kronzek’s “The
Mirror” from his book Artful Deceptions (2017).
• I have been unable to find the creator of the old water

gag. I originally learned it in Simon Lovell’s Billion Dollar
Bunko (2003).
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Cross Cut Force Finesse

• Max Holden published this force within his “The New Knife
and Selected Cards” in Edward Bagshawe’s The Magical
Monthly, Vol. 2 No. 10, July 1925, p. 199-200.
Slip Cut
• While I created it independently, I was clearly beaten to
the punch by Bruce Cervon who published what I believe
is the same move in his Castle Notebooks, Volume 1. As
with most things in those notebooks, is it difficult to fully
know the details of the method as everything is written in
notation form, but Bruce really should get full credit for
the technique.

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• Mickael Chatelain’s M-Case is a marketed item and is

• The first use of the reverse cull is in a centuries old

Jump forward a few hundred years and we find a reverse

Everywhere, Nowhere and Everywhere

• I first taught Tomas Blomberg’s TB Spread Double in our

• Aaron Fisher’s Diminishing Lift ending was published in

• The Hatton and Plate Change was published in Magicians’

• John Bannon’s “Play It Straight Triumph” was published in

• Woody Aragón’s Wiper Move was published in A Book in

• Luke Jermay was extremely kind in allowing me to use his

• Phil Goldstein’s “One Less” from The New Tops (Volume

• The Backward Alignment Move used within the routine

• Dai Vernon’s Optical Move was published in Further Inner

• While not exactly the same, a sequence of this nature

Cut, Stop, Shuffle

• While this presentation fits any handling of “Shuffle-

• I have been unable to find the creator of the old water

Cross Cut Force Finesse

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