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First of all, good to hear from you again. How have things been on your end? Now, I don't think that I stipulated anywhere that one needs to garner the sort of reactions that you described. You are right in that these reactions are less astonishment and more shock. What we're all really...

Well, as for that last part, I'm flattered, but no thanks... I think that it would be wonderful to see more members post live performances, but not just live performances--good live performances. It's not enough to simply go up to people. We should really try to engage them.

Alright. An example. Even better, how about someone from these forums I can cite. Look at Michael Kras' stuff, he has a bunch of videos floating around. Also, Nexusmagic has some good pieces. I admit that you are right. There will need to be a lot more bad performances before a really good...

All I would say is that you should first learn the ambitious riser move. It'll help.

That means you. First of all, I hate magic performed exclusively for a camera. Magic is meant to be performed for a live audience and I stand by that. Now, I understand that it is well within one's rights as a human being to post just about whatever they want on the internet, be it a bad coin...

I never said that you were emo. But that music sure is. All I'm saying is that people might get tired of straight up card and packet tricks. Mix it up some. I mean, there are plenty of great card ticks with more wow factor. Angle Zero is great. Distortion is great. Card in Bottle is...

I'd first of all recommend that you don't do all card tricks. What you have looks good, but I'd throw in one other non-card trick, maybe as a closer. Something that really looks like pure magic--maybe a trick with a bottle (coin in, flow, tk, etc) or a tnr sort of effect. As for the music...

Very well done. Great patter, wonderful execution of sleights, and a very nice trick, too.

You can always try it in classic Marlo position, where instead of the cards being held vertically, they are held horizontally.

Actually, what you kids just witnessed was a beautiful thing. You see now, when a man and a woman love each other very very much... But enough of that.

I keep them in the box, reserved for sandwich effects.

The following happened today. I'm currently in New Orleans on my winter break, catching up with friends, etc. One of my closest friends who goes to Reed College and I went out to get some shrimp po-boys at this hole-in-the-wall place and while waiting, I did my version of Out of this World...

I'd seriously be down with some coin basics from HL.

Actually, as part of my presentation, I'll usually teach a trick or two during a full performance to give my audience an idea of how the human mind perceives things. I generally teach that Paul Harris sugar packet trick (as featured in David Blaine's book) or a key card trick. If someone came...

I like the video footage editing idea. It could be something like Stephen Colbert's Green Screen Challenge or something (did I say "something" enough times?). Also, I think that presentation is an oft-overlooked aspect of magic (let's face it, it's half the battle). I think a contest that...

Montage is possibly one of the most important parts of film. I don't mean the inspirational Rocky-style push-it-to-the-limit kind of montage. I refer to the Soviet school of montage, that is the marriage of two shot together. Every cut that is made should have purpose. There should always be...

Yeah, seriously, Jason England looks like Marlon Brando in the Godfather.

Double Post, sorry...

Danny Garcia, perhaps? And Katie Egelston... Robert Smith's is pretty epic, by the way...

Perhaps it'll be a skype-like tool to let us converse across the internet via video...