When I perform this effect, I hardly feel like I am performing a mere card trick. Instead I feel
like I am performing something stronger, and something that goes deeper than just this one
experience.
To use a phrase from Darwin Ortiz's excellent book, Strong Magic, the
subtext, or the underlying theme, of this effect is that you are able to change the past. You are
able to change your mistakes by going through time and space and being able to pull out something
that only existed in a photograph, and replace it with something from the present. In essence, you
are creating an atmosphere of surrealism.
This has a STRONG effect on audiences. There
simply is nothing for them to grasp on to. When absolutely everything is just left out on the
table, the spectators cannot believe it.
Jay provides several alternate handlings on the
dvd, although I didn't find any of them too appealing. Jay says he does not use the alternate
handlings either, but he included them just for the sake of completion.
I believe this
will become one of your favorite card effects to take with you to gigs because it instantly resets,
it's examinable, it hits SO hard, and it goes beyond "just a card trick."
For all of these
reasons, I highly recommend Jay Sankey's Nailed.
