About 12 years ago a very creative magician by the name of Steve Fearson had a sort of magic revelation. Like a voice it cried out to him, "Magicians have been stuffing people into boxes since the dark ages...It's time someone shed some light on the subject."
Steve was that someone. He made it his duty to wake up magic by taking 3 classic illusions and bringing them into modern times. Up close.. full lights.. no more boxes.. no more BS!
The first was the levitation. At that time there was no close up self levitation on the market. Zip.. nada.. nope.. none. The idea was to be able to levitate himself in a close up situation, in full light, without any weird props. Just over 2 years later he eventually released Fearson's Fantastic Floatation.
The next target was the Sawing in Half illusion. When people think of magic they think of sawing someone in half. It is the definition of modern magic. Sawing yourself in half close up without a box proved to be a huge challenge. But after a couple years he had a workable method and could perform it.
However, Steve only got to perform it once before it was purchased by David Copperfield and became his "Laser Illusion". I know there is a copy of his original performance floating around on the web, a quick search for "fearson sawing" on google turns up a few sites where you can see it.
The final chapter in his magical odyessey was to be the Self Vanish Illusion. So many times while performing I have heard people joking, "Can you make my wife vanish?" or, "if you're a magician let's see you vanish." Well as it turns out the vanish was the tougest of the 3 illusions to accomplish close up without props. Steve had been tossing around different ideas for years and felt none were worth pursuing seriously. None met the "no BS" requirement. In fact, untill very recently he had all but abandoned the project.
Several months ago, while was lying awake in bed one morning, Steve had a shift of perspective regarding the vanish. Suddenly he saw a real, workable solution. One with no props or gimmicks that could be done virtually anytime, anywhere by anyone. He was able to perform a rough version of the trick for his wife that very day!
Since then his core idea has undergone a lot of "fine tuning" by a very select magicians. Angelo Carbone and Paul Harris, two of today's forerunners in creative magic, are among the few to have played with it and help refine it. And now it has been released, in a brand new downloadable format! And, best of all, due to the ingenious simpliciy of it's design, it is very inexpensive. The Goodbye Vanish, as it has been named, is now availible, as well as many other ingenious tricks, at Steve Fearson's website.
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