“I am proud and grateful to be alive and a part of the Mentalism community during an era in which most of us are shifting away from the quantity of information-gathering methods, and instead putting our focus on the quality of how information is shared with an audience. This book is a labor of love for the performers striving to share a poetic worldview with their audience.”
Christopher Parrish
After receiving much praise for his creative approach to app-based Mentalism in the first volume of Digital Mentalism, Christopher returns with a deeper work. More than a PDF on original app thinking, DMV II details Christopher’s approach to the elusive concept of Pre-Show — and beyond technique, his main goal for this volume was to shed light on how to develop routines worthy of a modern audience: pieces that go beyond asking people to think of information and divining it in a boring, uninspiring way.
Expanding on threads from his other work, DMV II introduces what Christopher calls Segue Routines — a performance philosophy that gives mentalists space to focus all their creative effort on writing emotionally relevant and engaging pieces.
Contents
Parrish on Pre-Show
Minimalistic Pre-Show for the 21st century. This chapter details how the Cipher Pro app enables a style of Pre-Show Christopher calls Covert Pre-Show — leaving Impression Devices at home and conducting Pre-Show in a way that genuinely engages your secretly chosen participants.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
An app-free alternative to the Pre-Show detailed in the previous chapter.
Remembrance
The first full routine in the book, focused on accurately divining intimate details about a memory the participant holds dear. Performable two ways — one linguistically bold, one using traditional methodology — with a wide range of linguistic techniques refined to craft the illusion of knowing more than you actually do.
If Seinfeld Could Guess PIN Codes
A contribution to the PIN Divination, and a case study of how genuine understanding of character and inspiration from art forms outside Mentalism can lead to creating unique effects and routines.
The Lazy Psychic
Imagine using a genuine psychic tradition to facilitate an intuitive reading, while still divining emotionally relevant information. Real psychics wish they were this accurate.
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Christopher’s full ten-to-fifteen-minute parlor routine — one of many bonus chapters in this work. A Parrish book on Pre-Show work wouldn’t feel complete without it.
A 90-page e-book with all of the above, plus discussions on the creative process, crafting demonstrations, introducing premise, and divining information.
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