Tom Stone’s Session Notes features expertly designed magic that will captivate audiences and bring a smile to your face. Unleash the power of Swedish ingenuity. Highly recommended.Review by Tom Frame, in Genii magazine, June 2024

Overview of Tom Stone’s Session Notes

These are Tom Stone’s lecture notes from The Session convention held in London in January 2024. In Session Notes 2024, you will discover six engaging routines suitable for both parlour and close-up performances:

• Mittens: The magician displays his hands, claiming it’s unfair to use “weapons of deception” against the audience. To level the playing field, he dons thick oven mittens before performing a card trick. Surprisingly, two signed cards are discovered inside the mittens.

• The Suss: A parlour routine utilizing postcards, inspired by the ‘Ship of Theseus’ paradox. A signed postcard is gradually replaced with another, yet the new postcard retains the original signature.

• A Handy Gift: An amusing intermission act. The magician receives a wrapped gift that proves challenging to open. After struggling, scissors are produced, leading to a humorous twist where the scissors in hand vanish as a pair falls from the package.

• Flatworm Fry: A fascinating demonstration of memory transfer. One spectator glimpses a card but forgets it, while another, who has never seen the card, recalls it perfectly.

• Color Deaf: A lighthearted piece where various colors are mistakenly recorded as “Grey” due to a fictional “color deafness.” As the condition is humorously cured, the colors transform into their true names.

• White Death: A close-up routine blending Darwinism and precognition, where the spectator attempts to escape a chilling fate.

12 pages

31 illustrations