The GLOMM Charity Auction (Current Bid $2450)

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A few weeks ago, when there was a bunch of GLOMM-related activity on this site, I received the following email from Timon K.

Regarding your most recent post - I'd like to offer to auction away the last remaining copy (save for my personal one) of my book "Which Hand - Method & Philosophy" through your blog, in support of the GLOMM […]

The book was limited to 500 copies and sold out pretty much immediately. People still message me about it regularly, so I'm sure it would generate at least a little bit of cash.

So that’s exactly what we’re going to do. Over the course of the next week I am going to auction off Timon’s acclaimed book and the money made will be donated to RAINN - The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, which is the largest anti-sexual violence organization. I chose this organization in honor of Meadow P., who refocused attention on this issue in the magic community with her facebook post last month.

Here is some more information from Timon about the book, a copy of which recently sold for $500.

This is an impromptu, gimmickless which hand method. You do not need to touch the participant, nor do you need to ask any questions - this could, in fact, be done naked and silent (yay). I've used this on Fool Us (it was a Fooler).

Came out in 2019, limited to 500 copies and sold out in under two weeks.

The copy for auction is one I kept for sale, trade or for a good cause at some point in time, and here we are now.

Here's the original promotional text:

"The single most convincing method for the which hand effect that you will ever learn!” - Michael Murray

Now is your chance to learn the singular routine that has taken Timon across the globe for the past nine years. Not only did Timon use this routine to fool Pen and Teller, but it also secured Timon the title of the Best European Mentalist in 2016.

Now is your chance to learn the routine that Timon used to fool Penn and Teller on the hit TV show ‘Fool Us’.

Inside this book, you will learn two incredible scripts and presentations that Timon uses on an almost daily basis. This is coupled with all of the variations, subtleties and additional ideas that Timon has finessed over a nine-year period.

You will also learn Timon’s entire script writing process and his thoughts on the philosophy of magic and mentalism and there is even a bonus Q&A routine that requires nothing more than a single coin!

This is as real as it gets, no gimmicks, no questions, you just know!

The Which Hand method presented within this book is the single most convincing method you can learn to determine in which of the spectator’s hands an object is hidden. This method does not rely on gimmicks or electronics of any kind, nor is a complex verbal process involved, making it incredibly versatile.

In fact, it would be perfectly possible to perform this method with both the performer and the participant being completely silent. Taking it one step further, you could perform this being completely silent and void of any clothing. On top of that, whatever object you decide to use is completely examinable.

Lastly, you do not need to be particularly close to the participant nor do you need to touch them. All that happens, in terms of a mechanical process, is that the participant hides an object and extends their hands, as is custom in most effects of this nature. Once this is done, using the Which Hand method, we are instantly able to know where the object is hidden.

While some may think that a method fulfilling all the above conditions cannot possibly be sure-fire, we can assure you that it absolutely is. Which Hand will work 100% of the time, provided you follow the exact process laid out here and fulfil the necessary conditions to ensure the method will do its work. Do that, and soon you will feel as confident with this as with any other method you may have used before, with the added benefit of complete liberation, both in terms of not needing any special aid and in terms of creating your own presentations around this devastatingly clean method.

While Timon’s long sold-out book is the centerpiece of this auction, I’m going to add a few other bonuses to sweeten the deal, because I’ve been sent some “extra” stuff recently.

First we have Post-It Decision Maker

This is a new release from Michael Weber and Tim Trono.

As they describe it:

“A simple tool that you can slip in any wallet, money clip, purse, or pocket. It allows you to completely control the choices of others while they feel like they are making a free choice. They will believe they are deciding on the restaurant, movie, vacation spot, or anything you desire, but you are always secretly in control.”

I just got this in the mail today, in fact I was sent two (which I why I can part with one). I haven’t had a chance to perform it yet, but this is the sort of thing I like.

For more information, or if you’re not on their mailing list, you can write them here: psience.mail@gmail.com.

The second “bonus” item is Desire by Bobby H. at Dark Artifice.

Dark Artifice is a company that takes simple tricks and makes tremendous looking props with cool stories baked into them to surround those tricks. Desire is an effect that involves a lost Twilight Zone script and a prop coin that was made for the episode.

Like everything I’ve seen from Dark Artifice (I have a friend who has purchased a few of their items), this is a little piece of art.

Bobby H. sent this to me along with another product I’ll be reviewing in the upcoming newsletter. I’m giving this one up for the sake of the auction, and because my friend has a copy of this and I can always borrow his copy if I ever want to perform it.

Check out all the cool stuff Dark Artifice is putting out at their site.

And the final bonus item will be a complete set of the bonus Jerx decks from previous seasons.

The Original Jerx Deck

The Jerx Deck Squishers

The Jerx Deck Fannies

And the Mushroom Sprite deck—the most viral deck of cards ever created (I mean…I think)—which can be used to get 2.5 million views on tiktok if you so desire.

How to Bid on this Auction

You can bid on this auction by sending me an email, and letting me know who you are (if I don’t already know you) and what your max bid is. Bid increments should be at least $5 over where the bid currently stands.

I will update the current high bid on a banner at the top of this site.

The auction will end next weekend. You don’t need to know exactly when it’s going to end, because this isn’t ebay where you’re going to swoop in at the end and try and steal it away. This is for charity, for god’s sake.

Thanks to Timon for suggesting this and offering up the sole remaining free copy of his out-of-print book. Thanks to Tim, Michael, and Bobby as well. (Even though they had no idea they were going to be a part of this when they sent me their effects.)

And thanks to everyone who bids.