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Penn Jillette said during Shin Lim's performance on Fool Us "A lot of people do card tricks. The idea of doing card tricks which are silly at their very core, really seriously and really, really importantly is wonderful." Take away from that quote what you will. I agree that performing magic...

Shaking is a result of anxiety on your body so your body will go into a fight or flight response. During intense anxiety, your body is flooded with adrenaline/epinephrine. Adrenaline is pure energy, and your body shakes as a result. So basically your excitement/nervousness over performing in...

Shin Lim studied music with a focus in piano at university.

This one is a bit tricky since luck plays a big part of it but I will do my best to help. A big thing that helps me is who I know. I highly recommend you build up book of contacts through networking. The current director of a historic theater is my old football coach and he is very supportive...

Everyday objects magic (I refer to it as organic magic) is one of my favorite genres of magic and what I primarily focus my creations in. As far as money goes, I tend to go with a fire wallet, Prophet by Tom Isaacson, Fraud by Daniel Garcia, Coinbite, and Superman Coinbend 2.0 by Roy Keupers...

I personally prefer the pinky count since it can be done one handed and thus takes attention away from my hands and people can make eye contact with me and focus on my patter. I highly recommend at least practicing the pinky count since it is relatively simple to just pick and attempt to do...

Hey Lyle, Is there anyway for us to track how many units we have sold?

If you release it, be sure to credit the work of other magicians that came up with the original effect. There is no way to really copyright magic effects so it's up to us as a community to acknowledge the works of others who came before us. It just makes everyone happier this way.

I think you get paid as long as you have accumulated at least $5.00 USD by the eleventh of the month.

J. Bayme back in the day!

I'd personally like to see some variations in the Break gimmick as well. That would be really cool to perform.

Thank you so much for your advice! I really do appreciate it. I'm going to try and film it too so that way you guys can get a better understanding of what's going on and give me specific examples of what is going right and what is going wrong.

Hey everyone! I've been performing street magic for a while but I have never thought about busking. I've always felt awkward taking people's money directly when I barely know them and much prefer money coming through direct deposit into my bank account. Money is tight right now since tuition...

Thank you for sharing this!

Depends. Here's the thing you have to know about Peter Turner's style; it's not sure-fire. He basically makes the schemes happen as he's rolling along. He says he's just "jazzing it up" and just takes advantage of the situation. The other half of what he does is clever scripting to force the...

So he teaches a couple of different ACAANs but to answer your question, yes he does do one with a borrowed shuffle deck.

I just watched it! The man is a freaking genius! I think I may attempt to try his ACAAN out at sometime. If I do, I will share it with you guys.

Dominus is exactly right! Huge props to anyone that is bold and brave enough to film themselves in a limited time space and share their creation with the world. What I love is how everyone is doing something different with a ring in this particular contest. Dean did an altered version of...

Here's my entry! Sorry for the low quality of video. I filmed this using my the webcam on my laptop. Good luck to all involved!

Excellent blog post with great advice! Can't wait to check out your next blog post. Great work!