SYNOPSIS:
What the heck is a Close-up kinda guy anyways?
On the one hand you’ve got your asic skilled Close-up artist, well-versed in bold bluffs, cheap shots, and other pseudo strategies of deception.
While on the other hand (the clean one) you’ve got your basic fun kinda guy, genetically compelled to provoke verbal warmies, mental feelies, and other impromptu acts of social intimacy.
It’s a tough job bringing these two hands together, but when carefully combined you just might end up with the ten tap dancing fingers and thumbs of a close-up kinda guy. That’s right; a special kinda guy who creates awesome entertainment whenever he stands up, sits down, or leaves the room.
The unique nature of Close-up creates an instant bond of intimacy between the performer and his audience. It’s up to the individual whether this bond of intimacy is used for the forces of darkness and evil: mentally beating up beating up spectators with: ”Ha, I fooled you” type presentations.
Or whether this special bond of intimacy is recruited for the forces of goodness and wonderfulness: a magical tool to secretly stuff a little sunshine into the enlighted corners of your spectator’s soul-provoking verbal warmies, mental feelies and generally making people happy and glad for the chance to bask in the shadow of the genuine Close-up kinda guy.
BOOK DETAILS
Author/Creator: Paul Harris
Publisher: Tannen Magic LTD
Edition: 1st
Publication Year: 1983
Type: Instructional
Pages: 132
Skill Level: Intermediate
Availability: Out of Print
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter One
A Fun Kinda Guy
• Biological Shuffle (p. 3)
• The No-Nonsense Biological Shuffle (p. 9)
• Bee Bop (p. 10)
• Language of the Cards (p. 14)
• Hi There Baby Cakes (p. 21)
Chapter Two
A Gutsy Kinda Guy
• Double Suicide (p. 27)
• Bad Estimate (p. 31)
• Mike’s Dwarf (Mike Powers) (p. 36)
• Mr. Biller’s Wild Ride (Steve Biller) (p. 39)
• Hard Core Travelers (p. 44)
Chapter Three
A Semi-Impressive Kinda Guy
• The Perfectionist (p. 56)
• Transposed Perfectionist (p. 60)
• Mixed-Up Perfectionist (p. 63)
Chapter Four
A Strange Kinda Guy
• Pyramid (p. 69)
• Modern Pyramid (p. 73)
• Elevator Pyramid (p. 74)
• Dana’s Double Pyramid (p. 74)
• Screwed Deck (p. 75)
• Chocolate Coin (P.H. and Dick Ryan) (p. 81)
• Twilight Restoration (Doug Bennett) (p. 84)
• P.H.’s Shrunken Twilight (p. 87)
• Headache (p. 89)
• Another Headache (Richard Kaufman) (p. 92)
• Whirlpool (p. 93)
Chapter Five
A Never Satisfied Kinda Guy
• Bizarre Penetration (p. 101)
• Bizarre Stretch (p. 107)
• Bizarre Shrink (p. 114)
• Interlaced Vanish II (p. 118)
Chapter Six
A Determined Kinda Guy
• Instant Replay (p. 125)
• Simple Switch (p. 129)
