This book is in like new condition. Like brand new!
Singapore's Harapan Ong has caused an online sensation with his technical abilities. Videos began to circulate some years ago from a pair of hands doing extraordinary things. His style is natural, unassuming, and soft. But Aces appear, selections transpose, and magical things just seem to happen in Harapan's hands.
Principia is our very favorite kind of magic book: the kind of book that you pore over every page, trying out each and every piece Harapan describes. EVERY single effect in the book (and there are 60 effects described) is practical, and fun and radically new.
The concept of Principia is a magic book fused with a scientific paper on physics. By day, Harapan is a physics teacher and he uses the same laser-focus and precision in both his career and his magic.
The book features impromptu magic, gaffed card magic (while supplies last, the gimmicked cards included!), and dead-on easy tricks you can do the first time you try. We predict that Principia will be the most talked-about card book of the year, and that it will be studied and returned to for many years to come.
Hard cover. 253 pages.
“Wonderful”
David Williamson
“My favourite magician.”
Stephen Long / Hector Chadwick
“Buy it!”
Tony Chang
“Buy the book.”
Kevin Ho
“The most beautifully constructed card magic I’ve ever seen.”
Henry Harrius
Contents of Principia
Thinking Like a Physicist
Streamlined Pocket Transposition
The Card Across
On Producing a Four-of-a-Kind
Hadouken Production
Stress Production
Passport Production
Kaleidoscope Production
Straight Ace
Poker Player’s Picnic Plus
Michalevator
Jacob’s Elevator
Royal Explosion One
Royal Explosion Two
Simple Bean Aces
Daley’s Last Sandwiches
Sudden Surprise Sandwich
Head Over Heels, Face to Face
Triumph Squared
Play It Crooked
Twisting Morph
Three Degrees of Separation
Direct Triple Prediction
Sandwich-ception
Oops
Three Chances
Bigger Transpo
Tiny Transpo
Perspective
Faro Pharaoh
Extensions to the Cheek to Cheek Deck
Dude, You’re not Even Trying
The More You Shuffle
Followers of Christ
Countdown Packet
Rapid Fire Benzais
That Escalated Quickly
Particle Physics
Daley Express
Triumph in the Trash
Blank in the Bin
Remix in the Rubbish
King’s Overture
On the Alfonso-Giobbi Twisting sequence
Cascading Twist
Plot Twist
Gag Packs
Change Back
One Direction
World’s Smallest Colour Change
Direct Ambigrams
The Law of Non-Conservation of Card Magic
Tawanokomu
Checkmate
Have a Break, Have a Kit Kat
Flexacard
The Frog Prince
2 + 2 = 4
4, 3, 2, 1
On the Fundamental Structures of Routines
On Apophenia and Coincidence Effects
On Magic, Evolution and Bottom-Up Design
Thoughts on “The Trick That Cannot Be Explained”
Count or Spell
Twisted Choices
A Blind Mess
What Magicians Can Learn From Scientists