Dan Hauss
FLOW
$32
Suggested Retail Price $35

THE BLURB:
Dan Hauss has discovered a rare piece of strange that
brilliantly abuses the laws of nature-allowing you to
mysteriously and from a distance stop and start the flow of
liquid from an innocent bottle of designer water.

Your spectator actually experiences the entire astonishment
in her own hands! You never touch the bottle-or
water-throughout the entire effect. All can be immediately
examined: the empty bottle, the spectator, you, the water,
the street, everything!

Dan Hauss' Flow uses a completely original crazy new
principle that will leave you gushing with delight!

    * Prepare any bottle in under ten seconds
    * Works with bottled soda, tea, and most other
beverages.
    * No discs or caps used. Nothing to hide, steal or get
rid of.
    * Perform Flow completely surrounded.
    * Once the effect starts the performer never touches the
bottle, the water or the spectator.

Comes Complete with gimmick and an instructional DVD with
Bonus Effects.

Running Time Approximately 32min

MY COMMENTS:
You may remember that little plastic gimmick that's now
included in many magic sets.  It enables you to turn a
bottle over and the liquid doesn't fall out.  You can even
stick a toothpick into the mouth.  On command, the liquid
falls out.  This was the inspiration behind this.  Dan Hauss
searched for a modern method that allows the participant to
handle the bottle.  And it's a great method.

Considerations for this trick are that you must use a
plastic bottle.  It won't work with other types of bottles.
Also, even though it does take "under ten seconds" to
prepare, it cannot be done impromptu.  The bottle is
prepared in advance and can't be done while the participants
watch.  It's a simple matter to take a bottle, go off
privately somewhere, and do what needs to be done.  Finally,
the gimmick is consumable and you will need more if you
perform this regularly.  At the time of this writing,
replacements are quite inexpensive and can be obtained
easily through many sources.

As the blurb says, it can be done surrounded and it can all
be done in the participants hands.  The DVD contains not
only a presentation, but a teach-in where Dan teaches an
attractive young lady how to prepare the bottle and do the
effect.  It's a great format that feels much like being at
an instructional workshop.  In the package, you get the DVD
and the gimmick.  If PK is a genre of mentalism that you
perform, or this effect interests you, then I certainly
recommend this.