Just Performed the best Mentalism Trick of my Life

Matt Sconce

Matt Sconce

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Hello! I just pulled off one of the best mentalism effects I have ever done. It is using a new method I thought of several days ago.

Effect: I had a room of 13 Junior Highers and one adult. I asked the adult to think of the first word that floated into her mind. She wrote the word down on a piece of paper, not showing anyone. I then stared into her eyes and after a few moments asked her if the word she wrote was Bubble. She said it was, and everyone was amazed. I then asked her if it would be more amazing if it was written on her arm. She checked and saw that it was written on her arm in pen. Everyone freaked out, and then I asked them how many of them would be amazed if it was on their arms too. The junior highers checked their arms and it was written on each of their arms as well. That is when the pandemonium started. Everyone was absolutely blown away!

I am attempting to market the method, but I do not really know where to start.
 
Matt Sconce said:
Hello! I just pulled off one of the best mentalism effects I have ever done. It is using a new method I thought of several days ago.

Effect: I had a room of 13 Junior Highers and one adult. I asked the adult to think of the first word that floated into her mind. She wrote the word down on a piece of paper, not showing anyone. I then stared into her eyes and after a few moments asked her if the word she wrote was Bubble. She said it was, and everyone was amazed. I then asked her if it would be more amazing if it was written on her arm. She checked and saw that it was written on her arm in pen. Everyone freaked out, and then I asked them how many of them would be amazed if it was on their arms too. The junior highers checked their arms and it was written on each of their arms as well. That is when the pandemonium started. Everyone was absolutely blown away!

I am attempting to market the method, but I do not really know where to start.
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I don't believe it. I know you're into magic, but I just can't believe something like that until I see it in person.

Sounds really cool though if it's real.
 
Today I levitated out of my chair!

All mocking aside, Matt, I have a question to pose to you: did you set this up before hand or are you alleging that real "magic" was involved? I take no issue with either, as I have my own curiosities concerning that stuff.

On an unrelated note: I ran into your dad in the restroom the other day. He was telling me about the crap in the water that turns the sinks yellow. I was going to introduce myself as The Penguin but he was in a rush to get to class and, in all honestly, so was I. I decided it was not an appropriate time (or place :grin:) to get into a conversation of that magnitude. I keep meaning to stop in and say hi to him but I am always so busy with stuff. I will make it in sometime.
 
Hey everyone! I am just a freak, but an honest one as the Dvxusers who have met me can attest. I am definitely NOT claiming real magic was done. I have developed a method to create the illusion that real magic has been done.

I have been testing and developing the method over the last week. I tried it out last Tuesday and made the name of a kid randomly pointed to appear on a girl's arm. I tried the larger reveal today on the entire room of kids. It definitely worked. I had one kid walk out because he thought the writing was inside his arm and he was freaked out. I had to explain it was just pen ink. I am excited to see what becomes of this. I know Rich Ferguson is coming out with a trick like this soon, and I am curious to see how similar our methods are? Anyway, I am going to research how to go about marketing this, but I really do not know where to start. It is pretty high impact and very visual. I call it "Whisper" at the moment. I have never heard of a close up word to arm trick of this mass caliber so I hope someone is interested in amrketing it as that will help the old finances. You can see some bits of the test I did last Tuesday on the girl here: www.mattillusion.com

I just want to be clear that it is not the concept I have originated, but the method. Criss Angel, Blaine, Mike Super on Phenomenon, and others have pulled this effect off in different ways, but my method allows the performer to write on a spectator and end clean. It is not the concept I have originated, it is my method. I just wanted to say that in case others accuse me of taking credit for creating the trick.


I have performed this 5 times now with success everytime. The first time I told my wife I loved her so much, and that I had given her a gift to remember that by. I then had her look at her arm and written on it were the words, "I love you." The next time one of my bosses at the local NBC affiliate was joking that I could not write on her. I told her to look at her arm and on it was written the words "Ha! Ha!" She freaked. The next time was Last Tuesday at Youth group where the name of a randomly pointed at child's name appeared on a little girl's arm. Bits of that can be seen at the above web site. The next time I performed the mass effect on the room of 13 students and the one adult. Finally, I got my grandma this afternoon. She said "There is no way you have written something on me." I had her look at her arm and indeed...I had. Again, it is the method I have thought of that lets the performer write on a spectator and then end clean. This is what I am so excited about!


Oh and Hudson.....Check your OTHER arm....haha
 
Try to get one of the producers of Mindfreak interested or take it on the road yourself.

-Nate
 
Sounds very cool.

Question: When you say it was written on the students arms as well, do you mean it "looked" as though it was written on their arms (meaning, the students eyes were fooling them), or that it actually was written in pen on their arms (meaning, you are a warlock and we should all kneel before you)?
 
This sounds awesome and would love to figure out how to do this. Would a kidney suffice?
 
do a David Blaine style "magic-reality-street-documentary"

have a camera crew follow you around as if by magic :)
 
yeah matt, would you do this with a camera so we can see? Single shot, of course, no cuts :) Seriously, tape it.
 
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