Close-up charming is charming amusement that haps right in presence of you, magic you can not only see but experience and touch. This familiarity is what do it so different from other types of magic. An expert close-up prestidigitator will affect and interact with the audience far more than than a phase prestidigitator (or any other word form of entertainer for that matter).
Most close-up prestidigitators utilize common props such as as playing cards, coins, sponge balls and rope. And all prestidigitators execute the same basic charming personal effects with these props, making them appear, disappear, change, levitate, interruption and restore, and perforate other objects. What is astonishing about close-up magic is that it haps so fold to you, sometimes while you are holding the props!
There are many criterion close-up magic personal effects and standard modus operandis used to show them. For example, the ‘Ambitious Card’ where a chosen card repeatedly lifts to the top place in a deck of cards without any milling or cutting, or the ‘Sponge Balls’ where the balls move invisibly between the magician’s hands and those of the spectator’s. Inch fact, these modus operandis are freely available if you care to look. Anyone can seek the cyberspace and purchase books and DVDs on close-up magic, or even the props and standard routines.
What really put one close-up prestidigitator apart from another is how they show their magic. In fact, presentation is the cardinal - it is what do close-up magic entertaining. A really good, professional prestidigitator will be originative and present their magic in an original and entertaining way. Sometimes humorous, sometimes mysterious, sometimes just apparent eldritch and freaky. The magic goes a vehicle for the personality and thoughts of the performer.
This is what do close-up magic great entertainment. An interesting, unusual and amusing individual shows the impossible, eldritch and wonderful, right under your nose!