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So due to a delay in Josh's scheduling we are actually pushing it back to 9:00 p.m. EST. Hope to see you all there.

Hey everyone! So this Friday at 8:30 p.m. EST I will be hosting a live hangout on my YouTube channel. During this livestream, I will be interviewing the producer of my stage show as well as my business partner. We will be going over several topics about starting a stage show, marketing...

Hey Maaz! So I'm not really one to talk about doing magic full time since it's more of a side gig rather than my sole source of income. I do perform gigs for money but I don't make enough for it to be sustainable for a full time career. What I can offer you though is advice and experience on an...

Hey King Louis! So Friday night, at around 8:30 p.m. EST I will be hosting a live hangout on my YouTube channel. I will be interviewing my producer that helped me put on my stage show that was my major project for this year. It will be a live interview so you can tune in and ask questions...

This is how I use to perform it: Now I use the story from the prestige. "Magic consists of three parts. The first part is called the pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary....like a sharpie (draw an x on your hand). The second act is called the turn. The magician takes the ordinary...

To be fair, are any of us professionals on here? Who would actually know? Most of the people that preach on here have no video or photo evidence of them performing so we just have to take them at their word. And the ones that do share videos of them performing, it is often done to a camera so...

I haven't been busted once while performing Double Cross and I get crazy reactions out of it. What I would recommend doing is practicing your performance before you go out and actually do it. Make sure you fully grasp the concepts of misdirection, equivoque, scripting, and the arc of performance...

I started off busking to better my skills and interactions with people. Busking is one of the best ways to see where you are at as a performer. Not a whole lot of my busking set goes into my stage set but that's okay because busking still teaches me how to be entertaining. Magic effects are just...

I think he will see that I tagged him here and respond. He was just telling me about some Harry Lorayne book he bought the other day.

Dynamo performs Dresscode which is available on this site to learn. If you perform that, no one will think your lame.

Summoning @DominusDolorum for his advice.

Perception. It's all about perception as my business partner always tells me. You need to make a plan of how you want people to perceive you and a course of action on how you plan to implement that perception to your classmates. I get where you are coming from. Magic today, at least in my...

Michael already has tons of free content on his YouTube channel that specifically deals with performance, creativity, being professional, etc. Scott Alexander is also putting out material that is essentially a course being a stand-up performer. I think there is plenty of content out there...

I need some assistance with PETS setup as well or just any solution to get Electric Touch+ to work. I've invested so much money into this stupid thing and I can't even use it in a show when I really needed it for a presentation I wanted to do. I invested the initial $200 into it, then another...

Now that the contest is over now, I want to share this image of my performance of Spider Pen Pro from my first headlining stage show. Cheers! I'll try to review it with a performance clip in the coming months.

I could not agree more with this. I try to explain it this way, did you ever see Harry Potter, Merlin, or whatever magic character in pop culture use a deck of cards to win a battle or impress someone? The answer is no and so the cards need to be justified in a magical way. *Pro-tip: 3D...

Fidget spinners can do anything these days! https://www.instagram.com/p/BZcEELqh7du/ This one was tough! For the spirit of the contest, I wanted to actually invent something so I didnt use any IT nor any magicians wax to distinguish this from Hummer Card. I had my show yesterday and levitated a...

What I typically like to do is stooge the whole audience so that they are all in on it and I coach them to react a certain way. It looks so good on camera and plays so well in live performance! I feel like a "magic god" when I do that but man does the cost add up!

I currently use two deck switches: Cooler by Cristian Engblom and Cold Case by Gregory Wilson. Both of those switches are pretty solid. There is also a book by Robert Giobbi called The Art of Switching Decks which I think you would be interested in. Shawn Farquhar put out a release just recently...

My personal favorite "which hand" effect is Tequila Hustler Deluxe by Mark Elsdon, Peter Turner, Colin McLeod, and Michael Murray (the dream team alone should tell you how good it is). It's 100% impromptu and essentially self working. Can't recommend it enough.