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Some of my Magical Inventions

1977 "Sutz Cutz" - an unusual cut and restored rope effect.
1978 "Coin Balloon-acy" -Borrowed marked coin winds up inside a balloon. The first ever coin in balloon effect. (four stars in Genii magazine)
1980 "Best dam Tricks" book- on the rubber dam effect
1978 "Disc Go Dime (four stars in Genii magazine) - bingo chip placed on a key visually changes to a dime.
1980 Refreshments- 6 glasses full of liquid are produced from a production chamber (4 stars genii).
1980 Dependelite match pull
1980 Diminishing sponge ball -4 stars n genii
 1981 Spirit of 76 floating ball
1980 Flagtastick- 3 silks change to a flag on a flagpole (4 stars i...
1982 Traveling silks - acrobatic silks without the bar
1980 universal utility clip

1980 Multiplying coins (4 stars in Genii)

1980 Slapcuffs

1979 Pepsilkola (4 stars in Genii) (5000 pieces sold the first year)

1984 Mylar (silver) Mouth coils (first one ever on the market)
1983 pipsqueak
1982 thumb dyed
1982 super-steal holdout
1983 blendo tie
2008 Dances with ropes
2000 110 tricks with a svengali deck (booklet)
2000 110 tricks with a stripper deck
2000 Haunted Deck: book of revelations (originally e-book) now in soft bound
2008 Matrix reloaded - DVD from lecture
2010 Ring and Spring DVD
1980 Magic with a Steel Ball and Tube
2008 Coin Balloonacy DVD
2009 Diminishing Sponge Ball DVD and sponges

old news

Magicians Make Laughter Appear

A Group Of 20 'Odd' Magicians Band Together For The First Time To Put On A Show In Leesburg.

November 21, 1991|By Kevin Spear Of The Sentinel Staff

LEESBURG — ''Hello. My name is Ian. I-A-N. The last three letters of magician.''
With that, Ian Sutz announced the first-ever magic show of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, Ring 258, Leesburg chapter, home to what Sutz described as 20 ''odd'' magicians.

They are veterans of their craft, some with long lifetimes of performing. They performed Wednesday afternoon to an audience of about two dozen, mostly people of retirement age, who paid $2.50 each for a plush rocking seat in the old Tropic theater in downtown Leesburg.
Judd and Beverly Freyd, who live near the Lake Square Mall, came because they like magic, such as David Copperfield's recent act in Orlando during which he made an airliner disappear.
''It's fun to be fooled,'' he said.
While no planes vanished in Leesburg Wednesday, Sutz got the show going with a laughing clown he called ''Happy'' who ''just sits on the pot all day and sometimes we have to empty the pot.''
Sutz, who owns the Tropic Cinemagic theater, made popcorn and was the emcee for Ring 258's magic show. That gave him several chances to empty Happy's pot of a clear liquid.
The trick, better seen than told, was that Happy the doll appeared somehow to use the pot as a commode.
Sutz was swept up with the humor of Happy and stood there laughing for a moment, his white-shirted belly rising and falling under his magician's black tail coat.
A lot of the magic was a classic mix with comedy, a patter of one-liners and puns. In that, the practitioners were polished.
A magician called LeMac (read it backward) did a cigarette trick, one he had done for years, even in the Navy.
The trick was to make his left hand appear to produce a cigarette as fast as his right hand could pocket them.
By the way, LeMac got a Navy medal for saving two girls - one for himself and one for the commander, he joked.
LeMac stepped aside after that one-liner.
Among those sharing excerpts from their magical careers was Bob Hayes. Fifty years ago at age 12, his grandmother took him to watch magician Harry Blackstone pull a rabbit out of his hat.

Lecture Review

New this Month...June 11th 2004 Ian "Magic Ian" Sutz

In 1974, Ian Stuz saw his first lecture by George Sands, and it inspired him to create some rope effects on his own. He started lecturing that year and along his magical career, he was influenced by some very talented inspirations: Walter Gibson, Ed Mishel, a quirky fellow named Bob Reinhardt, George Post, and Jeff McBride. Jeff was fourteen when he and Ian first met. Together, they started an SAM assembly in Middletown, N.Y. Meetings were held in the back of Ian's magic shop and lasted until the wee hours of the morning, usually with Jeff, his buddy Abe, and Ian doing techniques and developing effects. Jeff and Ian traveled to the New York conventions together as Jeff built up his reputation and Ian made his lecture and product connections. Within 3 years, Ian had developed several new effects. His first, coin balloonacy, won 4 stars in Genii and swept the industry. Picked up by Tannens, and George Schindler, it put him on the map. Michael Ammar got his inspiration for his "ring in balloon" after seeing Ian's lecture at one of the national conventions. Soon, rising stars of magic like McBride, Copperfield, and Lance Burton were all using Ian's highly rated gimmicks and gadgets.

For the record, Ian opened his shop without knowing much magic; he learned from ordering and demos. Since he was a dealer selling magic to Tannens, Ian was given back-room privileges to the stock room, where the big names "hung out" showing off the new moves and asking advice. Ian was learning from the masters. But, he routinely would find a really new method to do an effect because he wasn't clouded by older, stale techniques. This made his magic non-derivative and, therefore, new and original. This served him well; his quirky moves were welcome to manipulators, close-up pros, and beginners.

Ian's theatrical background helped him to be at home performing, even though he had never done stage shows before. He always volunteered to do stand-in spots at conventions, and saw no difference between theater, demonstrating, and doing shows.

The lecture Ian is doing this month at TBMC is a compilation of original effects, quirky moves with everyday apparatus, and his own inventions. He was commissioned to write some booklets for D. Robbins, and has added some special touches to the classic gimmicked deck of cards you all have in the bottom of your magic boxes. Ian took the rubber square trick and made a book out of it; same with the steel ball and tube, stripper deck, and svengali deck; you will also find some online, unpublished books and routines at this lecture.

Get ready to have fun, and be ready to learn some rope effects, silk, coins, gimmick use, some platform blocking, and some darned clever easy magic. It all begins at 7:35 p.m. at the Largo Cultural Center, June 8th.