Andrew Mayne
Andrew Mayne (real name Andrew Harter ) is an American magician , illusion designer / trick inventor and filmmaker . Mayne has authored and published over 30 books, DVDs and manuscripts on various topics in the arts of magic .
The magician
As a teenager, Andrew Mayne began his professional wizarding career with the circus , where he performed during the summer. At the age of 19, he was already performing regularly in holiday clubs and on cruise ships - including Norwegian Cruise Lines, Majesty Cruise Lines and Carnival Cruise Linesmit - with his illusions. At that time he was the youngest magician to appear internationally with his own show.
Advisory activity
Mayne worked as a consultant for the magician duo Penn & Teller and the action and magician artist David Blaine , among others . One of his most famous creations is a modernized version of the “arm through body” illusion by Horace Goldin, which he first developed for David Blaine under the title Gut Buster together with Paul Harris . In Mayne's version of this illusion, which can be performed almost impromptu , a hand penetrates a person's upper body.
Books
Mayne's first books, Solo-X and Illusion FX, included new stage illusions. Solo-X included his method of going through a mirror, which has since been adapted and performed in various variations by many other artists. In Illusion FX , Mayne presented his revision of the old "Indian sword basket" trick.
After he had published some work on grand illusions, Mayne devoted himself to magic tricks with disgust or shock factor, which he publishes under the heading "Shock Magic" and to which Gut Buster belongs. Among other things, he explains there an impromptu version of "pencil through cheek" and a prediction with a live cockroach.
More work
Mayne spent five years as an observer for the James Randi Educational Foundation and its “One Million Dollar Challenge” and was also a lecturer on teaching critical thinking . He also published various instructional videos and published the paranormally tinged magic trick "Ghost Vision", in which a ghostly shadow appears on an image that was photographed with the camera of a cell phone borrowed from a viewer.
He is the operator of iTricks.com and the producer of the official Criss Angel podcast.
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mayne, Andrew |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harter, Andrew (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American magician, illusion designer / trick inventor and filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |