A magician's most basic job description would be to consider the impossible to make it possible. If you want to learn how to do magic, you have to first know precisely what's impossible. Or rather, what ordinary people think is impossible.

In all of magic, you can find only seven basic effects. Of course there are more than seven tricks available, but every one of these is just a variation of the seven basic effects. Here they are:

Appearance: Regulations of conservation of matter states that you can’t make something from nothing. However, a magician says, “BOOM…flowers.”

Vanish: This is exactly the alternative of your appearance. A vanish is when you are taking something and transform it into nothing. This should actually be impossible, but magicians do it all time. In fact, it’s our most requested trick. People always ask me to produce their mother-in-law disappear, however i don’t accomplish that type of thing. Instead, I send these to my Fat Uncle Tony. He’s a “magician” who specializes in making people “disappear”.

Transportation: Science informs us that nothing in the universe can go faster compared to the speed of light. Magicians just roll their eyes and shake their heads. A transportation effect is really a mixture of both a vanish plus an appearance. This is where you make something disappear in one place and INSTANTLY reappear in another place. Take that, science.

Transformation: An alchemist’s dream is usually to turn lead into gold, but alas. Science says it’s a no-no. Fortunately, magicians say it’s a yes-yes. Perhaps this might be considered another mix of a vanish and an appearance Body object disappears and a different object instantly appears as an alternative. As an example, some magicians turn a red scarf right into a blue scarf. I don’t bother with that crap; I recently turn everything into beer and rigatoni.

Levitation: Gravity is relentless. However, magicians are relentless-er. We’ve found approaches to provide the illusion an object is floating with no visible means of support. Defying gravity is wicked. Under this category fall variations like “suspension” (making a physical object do a hopeless joggling act) and “animation” (making an inanimate object move on it's own). In order to learn how to do magic, then you’ve got to make stuff float. (Please, no jokes about how exactly you may make a root beer float.)

Penetration: This one is just referred to as solid passing through solid. Normally, on the atomic level, the force of electromagnetism makes this impossible. Needless to say, magicians know ways for this. The most famous penetration I'm able to think of occurs when David Copperfield walked with the Great Wall of China. Oh, might the time I put one fourth by way of a glass table.

Restoration: The past effect occurs when an item is destroyed then put back together. Magicians are notorious for smashing someone’s watch and then magically repairing it (usually). David Blaine may be proven to restore a dead fly back to normal. Me? I haven’t quite got this one down yet. I recently break stuff. Y’know…rules, molds, banks, ladies’ hearts…

To see a good example of each one of these seven magic effects for action, look at this YouTube video called “How To Do Magic"