: : STREET MAGIC REVELATIONS sy RANDALL FREEMANWhen you can’t find me trying to bend spoons or shatter windows with my mind without succession (which succeeds in making one look like a specially ‘challenged’ chap) you can always find me strolling the floors of the grandest casi- nos in the UK, suited up with a freshly combed moustache, a devils smile and a snifter brimmed with the finest cognac in the house, and I’m not even joking. But when I’m not trend- setting in the pompous-lounge I’m hanging out with the chavs in the back streets of any shit-hole city tagging up shop walls, garages and public toilets with a can of the deftest red spray paint one can find which coincidently happens to be a nice little introduction to this book, as the magic you are about to find all happens following the result of your finest graffiti work ever...Graffiti is a book of revelations which all pan out at the pinnacle of a card effect or two offering the selected card in the form of a work of graffiti, | could have said that simpler and | will... The selected card is revealed in a form of graffiti. The idea borrows a method from Papa Madison’s book ‘BURN. And after reading Graffiti, you will have no need to buy Burn as the methods will be obvi- ous. Thanks Dan. Before we begin, | would like to say that | in no way condone or promote the act of illegal graffiti, the ideas in this book should only be applied to ones own property and any suggestions to graffiti public or private property are only for the sake of explanation. You will need to make templates which you will use for your graffiti. To do this, you must decide on the playing cards which you want to use tor the revela- tions. As you will be cutting out parts of the card you will need to choose spe- cific cards that won’t lose any information. Anybody out there who can cut a template from a Jack of Spades has my utter otter respect. Here's a list of cards, which can be sed for templates... 2,3,5 & 7 - of - Spades, Hearts and Diamonds. Although Clubs can be achieved, they are the hardest pips to cut and they do not leave the best graffiti on the wall. The suggested cards are simply the easi- est cards to create templates from. Here’s a visual image for which you can offer to your eyes for an aid of aim when creating the templates... | z= meOnce you have the templates cut, gather a reel of double-sided tape and apply to the back of the card making sure you do not cover any of the cut out holes. Be generous, get as much on as you can and get as close to the cuts as possible... the better stick on the target object the better the graffiti will look. Stick the card firmly to the wall spray the card from about 2 feet away making sure you get a fill circular spread. Leave the template to dry before removing it to ensure you don’t smudge the paint. When you remove the template you'll have a rather spectacular painting of a playing card. SOME THINGS TO GRAFFITI... Wall | Door | Floor | Ceiling | Neighbours Car / Cat | Fridge | Person | Clothes | Newspaper / Mag- azine | Money | Slice of Ham Not just wanting to offer you suggestions of things to tag up | wanted to offer you a few effects which | never perform...GRAFFITI sy RANDALL FREEMAN - JIG Using four random cards, lay them all face down in a messy pile on top of some newspaper and place a template on top of them. Spray the cards so that you cover each one. Once dried you will have what looks like that in the images. Gather the cards and have them on the bottom of the deck. Force the graffiti revelation card - 7D - and have the spectator return it. Scan the deck asking the spectator to touch four cards, as they do so you will out-jog them. These will be seen as ‘four chances to locate their selected card’ You now need to use any technique / methoid to switch the four for the bottom four cards... Once four cards are out-jogged, get a break above the bottom four cards. You will now shift these forward under the deck taking them out under the four chosen cards as you pull them from the deck. Instantly place the deck on top of the eight cards and turn the deck over. Deal off the four cards to the table, face up and match up the jigsaw to reveal the graffiti of the selected card. You can also spray this to the back of the cards for a further suspense revelation.GRAFFITI sy RANDALL FREEMAN - GREASE Stick a template to a wall, fridge or slice of cheese and grab one of the following items... Butter | Hair Gel | Wax | Grease Paste a layer of one of the above over the template covering the outside edges also. When ready to perform, force the card and have the spectator lose it in the deck. Spray the offending wall, fridge or cheese with a tin of paint. You'll notice that it will appear to be nothing more than a sprayed area. Wait for a good 30 seconds before using the spectators jacket or neckerchief to wipe the wall in attempt to clear away the vandalism. You will now notice that the greased area will clear away taking the paint with it, however, the natural wall will remain tagged thus revealing the selected card. GRAFFITI sy RANDALL FREEMAN - DUSTY Following the same bleeder as Grease you can perform an ash effect.. Have the spectator write the name of their card on a piece of paper and fold it up. Burn the paper till there is nothing but the ash left. Gather the Ash and blow it over the greasy wall, fridge, cheese. You'll notice that the ash sticks to the greasy area thus revealing the selected card,Stick a template to your jean-pocket and use a red or black sharpie to fill in the holes leaving the image of a card on the pocket. You may wish to add edges to the card through the medium of inter- prative freestyle sharpie-art as the images to the left so that the image will suffice as actual design. You can follow this up with a card to pocket routine which ends with the card actually embedded into the pocket. You may find a smile in the post- wash state of the jeans as a standard clense will still leave a faint image of the card, which | think looks much better than raw ink, but you don’t have to worry about the ink staining as it will come out after a few washes. The same idea can be applied to any item of clothing that will take the ink, you may even wish to apply this to a friends item of clothing in hope that they don’t see it for an ultiom- ate revelation. GRAFFITI sy RANDALL FREEMAN - IN-POCKETGRAFFITI sy RANDALL FREEMAN - TRANS Take another card and stick a template to it square on. Spray the card and allow it to dry, your result should be as that in the images below. When near a wall, fridge, car or bobsled the same color as the spray, force the card - in this case the 3 of Heart - and double lift the other card (the 4 of Spades) to show an unsprayed 4S, take the sprayed card and rub it aginst the colour item as if taking the color away and onto the card thus revealing the selected 3H on the 4S You will find that the paint will hit the sides of the offending card \e which | find quite pleasing for my eyes and leaves a nice touch when rub-adub-dubbing the 4H on the \ Q red surface. Done on a red car you \ may actually convice some moron that the paint did in fact actuate from the car.Special thanks to Daniel Madison and Jesus for being so cool. Thanks to the police for giving me the opportunity to correct my vandalisms via community service. Please, please, please reader, DO NOT graffiti anything you do not own, the consequences are not fun. The suggestion of vandalising food within this book is merely for comical gesture, those who do choose to tarnish food with graffiti, please think of all the starving orphans in the 2nd world And please, for Bob’s sake, =, don't eat it. am. a Thanks for reading my gear | promise to load my next book with more and more satire and effect which | actually use. My best to you and your lover. R3man © Randall Freeman & Daniel Madison 2009 for Devils Advocate Productions All Rights reserved DevilsAdvocateProductions.com