Hemispheres

THE BLURB:
HEMISPHERES is an ingenious collection of 20 startling
psychic effects, many of which Jay is sharing for the very
first time. This exciting dvd includes "experiments and
demonstrations" with business cards, coins, watches, playing
cards, fortune cookies, photographs, magazines, notepads,
paper money, tarot cards, play-doh and even a doll's eye!

And thanks to Jay's philosophy of "mind over muscle," the
majority of these truly startling routines require VERY
LITTLE SLEIGHT-OF-HAND ABILITY! Instead, the emphasis is on
full presentations and nurturing a REAL connection with your
audiences. Jay even includes an enormous amount of scripting
right out of his own professional repertoire!

Jay also discusses the importance of making your mentalism
as visual as possible, deflecting focus away from yourself,
the relationship between simplicity and flexibility, the
power of the implicit, and the performance of what Jay calls
"meaningful mentalism." Here are JUST A FEW of the 20
incredible routines:

NONEXISTENT
The mentalist predicts the name of person nobody has ever
met!

THIRD EYE
Three randomly selected cards are "seen" with a doll's eye!

DOLLARS & SENSE
From several different receipts, an audience member chooses
the receipt matching the exact amount of money held in their
own hand!

HYPERSENSITVE
The dates of three borrowed coins are divined in an
exceptionally fair fashion!

CONSTELLATION
With just two business cards and two markers the mentalist
reveals an inexplicable connection between himself and a
member of the audience.

RECEPTION
The psychic successfully "sends" a mental image of a glass
of wine, right down to the exact level of the liquid!

And as a very special ADDED BONUS Jay has included a
professionally printed, full-color photograph for his
incredible PHOTO FINISH routine!

Runtime: 200 minutes

MY COMMENTS:
Jay Sankey is VERY prolific and very creative. I think most
will agree. This collection certainly is more proof of
that. With Jay, though, he feels that mentalism is an
exciting branch of magic and there are many mentalists who
disagree with that. Hence, much of what he does plays like
mental magic, though a majority of that can easily be used
for mentalism routines. In other words, there's a wide
variety of stuff here and a little something for everyone.

I liked Child's Play, which involves a participant naming
ANY color and that color playdough is shown to be the only
blob in a small playdough container. Hypersensitive is a
very nice handling of an old idea as applied to coins,
making it a sweet impromptu piece of mentalism. XS+Ohmygod
is a wonderful new take on the Tic-Tac-Toe predition.
Alphamail is a really cool headline prediction that doesn't
use headlines. However, it does deal with sending material
to the host ahead of time, it does use known principles
including pre-show work, and is a very strong mind control
or premonition experiment.

That's just four out of the twenty routines and ideas on
this disc. Here is the complete list of routines:
Director's Cut, Choice Effect, Dollars $ Sense, Third Eye,
How Fortunate, Child's Play, Lottery, X-Ray Vision,
Nonexistent, Hypersensitive, Witching Hour, Alphamail,
Constellation, Secrets, Group Hypnosis, Reception,
Painkiller, Intersection, XS+Ohmygod, Photo Finish.

As usual, there's very little crediting and a fair amount of
playing card material, but Sankey is clever and a lot of fun
to watch and the material certainly lives up to that.