In So Many,

mystical fantasy films,

photographs @mikel_cresson/Twitter, magic books appear, with which you can cast spells or runes, or find secret information, books like this fascinated a Japanese DIY prop enthusiast, so he decided to make a 'magic' book of his own, the book featuring mysterious text that glowed a vivid green in the dark,

it looked so good that people started asking how much he wanted to sell it for and if he took commissions. However, the young DIY master did something even better – he shared exactly how he did it using only simple stuff anyone can buy on Amazon, the magic book’s vintage cover was the easiest part of the project, as all the DIY enthusiast had to do was order it from Amazon. The old-looking pages were first smeared with coffee and some were partially burned to give them a vintage look. Once that was done, it was time to do the text,

@mikel_cresson discovered that his friend’s fluorescent tape couldn’t really be used for a circular shape, so, in the end he settled for cutting letters out of it,

to create the antique mystical look of the writing, shapes were cut using pinking scissors,

that was all the easy bit, as filling just two pages took him over nine hours. It was painstaking work, and sometimes the alien-looking text didn’t turn out right, so he had to redo entire lines, this process is basically the reason why he said he would never attempt this project again, but all that work paid off after he posted pictures and videos of the book on Twitter. His post got almost 200,000 likes, tens of thousands of retweets and loads of positive comments. People lost their minds when they saw the text light up green after being illuminated with a flashlight, and they started throwing their wallets at the original poster, it is unclear whether @mikel_cresson will start taking commissions from people too rich or lazy to make their own magic books, but at least his instructions are available for whoever wants to use them, but here is some good news if you look here you will see a video of the book, I have to say it looks like magic!