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What exactly are eight extra non-Joker cards supposed to accomplish? Why should I care? What problem does this solve?

It was a nice piece of parody. My main criticism is that the video could have been shorter by about half and the joke would work just as well.

If they go straight to burning your hands the instant your mouth stops moving, it's a pretty safe bet that what you were saying wasn't that interesting to begin with. Their eyes will go where yours go. If you stop talking and look at your hands, where do you think they're going to look?

Seconded. There are three major reasons for this. 1. Children don't have the focus to follow complex plots yet. That's not to say that they can't follow at all, but they need to be more engaged because they haven't had the time to learn patience yet. You don't do a complicated, involved...

I've seen self-working effects presented well. But they were never presented as math.

Not many people around here use books to learn flourishing, but the Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes is one of those ur-texts that comes up. This is the old school stuff. This is stuff you'd see Jeff McBride doing. It's the foundation on which modern card manipulation was built. So if...

To put it bluntly, it's a terrible idea. It's another case of magicians thinking that they know better than the audience what is and is not entertaining, that everyone else will find our ideas fascinating. For a teenage girl's birthday party, your job is to make her look like the proverbial...

Let me answer those with more questions. 1. What's your target market? 2. What time frame are you expecting to complete all of this in? 3. Do you have any experience whatsoever in marketing and copywriting? 4. Why should someone hire you instead of someone else?

That was a mistake. And now you've gotten your father mixed up in it too, which is worse. How long do you have?

Please break that into complete sentences. It's really hard to read with no punctuation. That said, there really is no cure except to get out there and perform more. There are lots of books about social dynamics that I love, but until you get out there and talk to people it's all just words...

Why did you accept a gig for which you did not have an act ready to go?

There's a stickied thread in the General forum I wrote last Spring about improving your videos. I included a link to a list of the best freeware editing programs.

Have to admit, I thought that this would be the one opinion I wouldn't take any **** for. And yet here we are. I call out a guy exposing his own methods publicly in a transparent grab for attention, and this is somehow a controversial opinion. Totally did not see that coming.

Wait... you posted a video for a contest, lost, and then decided to compound that loss by publicly revealing the method you used in the video you posted? Just for the sake of "anyone interested?" Okay, I'll play along. You've got my attention. Now what are you going to do with it?

Craig, myself, and others spend months trying to get people to understand the difference between mentalism and mental magic. Then this contest comes up, which is guaranteed to make absolutely no distinction between the two. While I'm not so paranoid/arrogant to believe that this contest was...

Last week, our heroes recovered the Teslatronic engine from Baron von Chaos and were speeding toward the border when his minions attacked the train and... wait no, sorry. That's the serial I'm writing. In last week's thread, I talked about interacting with potential customers and turning...