The next two items in this set features “The Psychotronic Card” and “Four To One”. I have used this effect since its first publication in 1988 and it is a powerful gambling routine that starts out as an impressive piece of card control and ends with an impossible climax. On Disc One, Darwin opens with a routine from his first book “At The Card Table”, “The Vegas Shuffle”. The performances are, quite frankly, wonderful and I believe this is where the real value of this DVD product will be found. Not a single presentation of an effect and then the explanation, but a “show”.
Each DVD begins with what I personally consider to be the most important part of any DVD project and that is a live performance of the material. The collection of material represents some of his finest creations. Many of the effects have become classics and it is a real treat to see them again presented to a new and very appreciative audience. This new project also features many new technical enhancements Darwin has added to his routines, which have appeared in print.
With “Nothing But The Best”, Darwin has taken material he has been performing for well over thirty years and decided to revisit them in the DVD format, (shot in High Definition,) to showcase how he now performs for laypeople, illustrating many of the concepts he has written about in his ground-breaking books “Strong Magic” and “Designing Miracles”. You may be wondering what sets this new project apart from Darwin’s previous DVD releases. In the last five years, Darwin has released two additional DVDs, both shot and released by International Magic featuring material that appears on this new release. This new project is different to any of his previous releases for a number of reasons.įirstly, with the exception of five effects, all of the material has appeared previously on DVD and in book form “Darwin Ortiz At the Card Table”, “Cardshark” and his last effort “Scams and Fantasies”. This new collection comes from L and L Publishing and it is fantastic. It has been seven years since Darwin Ortiz released a triple DVD set to the marketplace. NOTHING BUT THE BEST- A REVIEW by Michael Vincent
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