The "Stand-Up With Cards" performance on this video features unusual magic with cards and is suitable for small audiences in a relaxed environment like a house party or other social gathering. The innovative routines highlight the diversity of magic with cards and get everyone involved in the fun. There are no boring card tricks here, only the best and most entertaining prestidigitation with a pack of pasteboards you can present.

The show begins with a classic effect of stand-up card magic, "Through The Veil," in which a chosen card mysteriously penetrates the fabric of a handkerchief wrapped around the deck, leaving the handkerchief unharmed. This astonishing penetration effect, seldom seen by modern audiences, immediately creates the impression that your card magic will be different and unexpected. Quick, visual, and perplexing, this effect captures everyone's attention.

Then, Harlan's novel approach to a Cards Across routine, "Equalibrium," lets the audience get aquainted with the performer and involved directly in the show. Two helpers are each given ten cards to hold, yet the performer is miraculously able to transfer cards from one packet to the other invisibly and without touching the cards. This ingenious routine involves no palming and culminates with a spectator somehow managing to magically make a card travel across with no clue to how it was done.

Bringing the first section to a close is "Rodeo," in which a rope strangely fashions itself into a hanging noose and captures the selected playing card desperado. The diversity of your card magic is once again displayed with this creative routine. The chosen card is mixed in the deck, then the deck is dropped in a paper bag and further mixed. The performer drops the end of the rope into the bag and waits just a few moments. When the rope is withdrawn, the selected card is seen captured in a noose that has unbelievably tied itself into the rope.

To bring the pace up and inject a little more humor into the show, Harlan moves into his presentation of "Shooting Card." Continuing with the theme of the old west, this effect re-creates the desperado's ruthless shooting of an innocent victim. To provide the proper amusement, a spectator is chosen to portray the desperado and is given a suitable disguise to wear. A card is chosen to represent the victim, and although it is lost in the deck and the deck is held firmly by a rubber band, surprisingly the spectator is able to shoot the card out of the deck. There's even a bullet hole through the card.

At this point, Harlan demonstrates his ingenuity with his unique treatment of the classic rising cards, "EZ Riser," which requires no thread hook-ups or mechanical devices. Using a combination of subtle and bold methods, this fabulous routine accomplishes the impossible in the most practical manner. The cards rise from the center of the deck with no visible movement by the performer. The last card even rises while the deck is in the case, and isolated inside a glass. You'll never have to worry about a pre-set thread or the possibility of it breaking when you use this simple method.

To highten the comedic mood, Harlan presents the constant favorite, "Egg Beater Mindreader," which is a modern classic of stand-up card magic. This zany routine never fails to play big and get lots of laughs. Not only is the entire audience involved and amused throughout the routine, but the spectator on stage with you is completely astounded by the revelation of the selected card. An easy-to-perform, audience-pleasing routine that will quickly become one of your favorites.

To really impress the audience with his affinity with the cards, the performer instantly names any card chosen in "Stebbins Standing," using the Si Stebbins stack. This ingenious stack is so easy to use, yet so powerful in performance. Harlan also provides you with a very convincing false shuffle that looks just like a riffle shuffle and can be done standing. This effect is mind-blowing magic that's impossible for anyone to figure out and finishes with the performer naming multiple chosen cards in rapid succession.

To finish, "Size 9" leaves the audience with a lasting impression of the phenomenal card magic they've just seen. A signed card ends up folded in the performer's shoe although he apparently never goes near it. Harlan provides a detailed, step-by-step method that's practical, bold, yet indetectible. This method works while you are standing, with no advance preparation and no switching of the folded card. The signed card really ends up in your shoe.

Enjoy the show, then prepare to learn the secrets of a master as every nuance is revealed. Soon, you too will Pack Small, and Play Big.

actual briefcase & props not included.