Who Is Calen Morelli?
Calen Morelli comes from Las Vegas, Nevada. He had been doing magic for 20 years, and have created a few magical effects. His first debut of his magic creation is Dresscode, a trick where a shirt magically changes when you turn around 360 degrees and it can change while you are wearing a jacket. He had made a few magic trick for Theory 11, and also, he had served as a creative consultant for David Blaine, Dynamo, and David Copperfield. He sets up an Instagram account [@thenothingexperiment] to present some of the tricks that questions reality. Most of it are tricks based on human perception, and some of it are definitely out of this world - like melting the Apple logo on the back of the iPhone, resizing a hand-held iPhone and then turn it into an iPad, or turning a unflap tuckbox into a filled deck of cards! Probably one of the most mind-blowing trick he made is called "Phantasma" - a piece of tape is placed on the tuckbox, and a card magically appeared and disappear right below the tape!
Illusion Pack
Calen is called in to create the first ever Fontaine Gaff Deck - A deck with specially printed cards to work along with the normal standard deck. All of these gaffs are specially designed to create optical illusions that defies reality. Unlike most gaffs cards that the performer has to keep it secret of all times, these ones are tailored to be openly revealed for a deconstructed reality style that Calen is known for.
Tuckbox
The tuckbox has a vibrant red color for the top, left and front side - with the top side brandished the "Fontaine" logo. The right side features the address of the brand's store, The bottom side has the name of the deck along with edition numbers. The back side features a gaffed back design - two Fs on top with a bit portion of the letter on the bottom. The tuckbox itself can be used as part of an optical illusion trick (if you have a lot of it)
List of Gaff Cards
This is a list of the gaff cards that can be found in the deck [SPOILER ALERT - for those who wishes to keep the deck sealed due to the nature of the brand]
- Three of Hearts w/ Seven of Clubs index
- Queen of Hearts - Stack of Packs Print
- Double Backer
- Black / Denim Backer
- Card Spread Print
- Six of Spades w/ Black Fontaine Back
- Full Bleed Cards Edge Print
- Extra Eight of Spades
- Eight of Clubs - Full Bleed Cards Edge Print
- Eight of Diamonds - Queen of Diamonds
- Eight of Hearts - Full Bleed Cards Edge Print
- Double Side Tape Prop Card
- (2) QR code link to trick instruction w/ Calen's Signature - Spread of Cards Print w/ Cut Portion
- Fontaine Joker - Two Fs w/ trimmed part of the letter
- Two Fs tumbled down on the bottom - Two Fs tumbled to the left
- Extra set of Fs on the left of the original Fs
- Ten of Hearts - Back without Fs
- (2) Cut-Out Portion for Deck Illusion feat. Jack of Spades
- Squeezed Eight of Diamonds w/ Cut-Out Portion
- Squeezed Card w/ Red Fill-Out
- Mini Card Gaff - Red Full Background
- Top Halved Queen of Clubs and Queen of Spades
- Bottom Halved Queen of Clubs and Queen of Spades
- Seven of Spades - Side View of the Box w/ Folding Instructions
- Seven of Clubs - Top View of the Box w/ Folding and Trick Instructions
- Seven of Diamonds - Front View of the Box
- Jack of Diamonds - Side View of the Box w/ Folding Instructions
- Jack of Clubs - Top View of the Box w. Folding and Trick Instructions
- Jack of Hearts - Front View of the Box
- Jack of Clubs Double
- Jack of Clubs - Normal Back with Half Fontaine Ace of Spades
- Ace of Spades Double
- Two of Diamonds - Stack of Packs Print
- Two of Spades - Black Full Background
- Two of Clubs - Side and Front View of Tuckbox
- Two of Hearts - Overlapping Cards Print
- (5) Red Full Background - Spread of Cards Print
- Ace of Spades - Spread of Cards Print
- Red Full Background
- Red Lighter Illusion Art Part 1: Bottom Base
- Red Lighter Illusion Art Part 2: The Lower Casing
- Red Lighter Illusion Art Part 3: The Upper Casing
- Red Lighter Illusion Art Part 4: The Spark Point
- Two Cards Stack feat. Ace of Spades
- Melted Pip of Ace of Spades
- Two Cards Stack feat. Five of Clubs
- Melted Pips of Five of Clubs
- Two Cards Stac feat. Card Back
- Melted Letter of the Card Back
- Illusion Pack Info w/ Credits and Special Thanks
Perfomance with Illusion Pack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ToX1yvEe8 - Calen's performance with the Gaff Pack
Here is a list of possible optical illusion tricks that you can do with the Illusion Pack.
- Spread of Cards across the table that is just consists of a few specially printed cards. You can switch the cards on both end, and it stills looked like a card spread. Rotating the table, you produced AirPods case, and rotate it back again to form the Card Spread again.
- Classic Finding Four of a Kind with a twist = Locate one card from the main deck, and then you revealed that the box is fake. As you start to deconstruct it, you find the remaining three cards. You got the option to choose either 7s or Js.
- Extend the cards and stretch the print. You get to stretch either the F letter, Ace of Spades, or Five of Clubs.
- Create a formation of Card Spread of using only 8 specially-printed cards. As people believed its the entire deck spread on the table, just slide the cards apart to reveal it is just an illusion.
- Pick up the Eight of Diamonds, and have it flicked onto the Gaff Tuckbox. You just make the card actually squeezed, and then you restore it magically.
- Build up a spread pile of cards, and on top of the pile, there appears to be a print of a lighter. Through the correct angle, the lighter appears to be real. Touch and slide the cards to reveal the art is an illusion.
- A tuckbox appeared to have a deck of cards inside, but suddenly you just pulled out a portion of it.
- Finding Four of a Kind with even more twist = Locate all four of 2s (or use another deck to choose any 2s from it). You found the first one hidden among the four spread of cards, then the other hidden among the stacks of card packets. There is one hidden on top of the tuckbox, and then for the final twist, found the last one hidden in the black mirror of a smartphone.