For time immemorial, man has been intrigued with the unknown. Our quest to communicate with those who have passed on has been recorded in the oldest of texts. Modern Bizarre Magicians have adopted methods used by the Spiritualists and are supplementing their performances with modern technology and new techniques to create even more realistic presentations.
Most bizarre type of presentations are primarily story based. Since modern props would look out of place and ruin the dénouement, bizarre performers often rely on props specifically built for the presentation. An example of such a routine is Luna created by Gemini Artifacts. Gemini Artifacts is one of a few prop and effect builders whose main body of work centers around the bizarre magic performing crowd. Luna is a series of books designed to replicate a Patient Registry of a long gone insane asylum. The Luna registries are gateways to receiving signals from the forgotten souls of the asylum. The registries are records of the residents of the asylum, their ages, affliction and other pertinent information. Whether you have one, two or three books the spectator(s) looks up a patient’s room number and the performer starts to reveal accurate information about that particular patient. The performer also reveals the information about others in the same ward. All this with no clue as to which room number they are looking at. Although there does require quite a bit of memory work, the whole routine is based on the acting skills of the performer. This effect is naturally more suited for a parlor where other support props can be placed such as old clocks, lamps and boxes.
This current permutation of Luna is the third and final version. A grandiose effort has been put into this project by Vic Nadata, owner of Gemini Artifacts to make this definitive version the best. Painstaking attention to detail and correctness has made this final version of Luna a real performance piece. Bare in mind, props such as these are not cheap. These props require much hand work and the limited production runs make these effects unique but pricey.
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