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To answer your question - the standard top change is the one I use the most but Earl Nelson has a great top change in his book Variations that I use in a stand up situation/crowd. Variations Revisited is $40 and includes a ton of magic/moves/ideas that you may find useful - it's the same...

Not terribly done - but there is no context. Watch this clip of David Blaine when he was doing Magic for Haiti - the second trick he does is a 3 phase inversion routine :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnAxtZN4HjE I do something similar to this (based off of this clip actually) where a...

If you use the same cards all the time they make great dupes - you can show the big and little joker and then say 'we'll just use the big one' and then have dupes setup for the trick, they've seen both jokers and won't think 'oh, he's got more than one joker in there...' Also practice for...

To be fair -a lot of people who are magicians, very well taught and obsessed, fall into at least one of these conditions for a laymen. Great advice - Shakespeare can be done both well and terrible depending on who is on stage performing for you.

This - What do you perform already and what are you good at?

Just to move the discussion forward, and this is for everyone to answer - how does Jump make the impossible more unbelievable than anything else you could say? And if it's moving from the middle to the top without the deck moving what sort of words do you think could take place of it? I agree...

I can second this post - I just got back into magic after 6-8 months of guitar and disc golf almost exclusively as hobbies. Of course a friend of mine sent me some things he'd been working on and it brought me right back to magic. It's not only nice that I can get back into it - but I feel...

Uhhh - What Darwin and Jason said. I own too many books that I don't reference often enough. Card College 1 and 2 (and recently 3) are my go-to card magic books. Any time I need a move for a situation it's in one of these books and explained very clearly. Don't skip the forwards and history of...

It looks very good. Independently created it's wonderful - but as said already the moves have been done. I learned about The Haunted Card from Earl Nelson's book Variations (uses it in a 4 ace production) and it's always fun to practice. In the hands gimmickless haunted packs are rare -I've...

Quick note : David Stone's method doesn't start with handing a business card - he just goes in and does magic, causes a stir at his table and gets the wait staffs attention, eventually the manager comes over and he says that he does occasionally work for restaurants. If Rick had done this before...

I recall hearing that Eric Jones uses a metronome (possibly in his interview with David Corsaro @ Time to Be Awesome). I've never used one myself, but I can see the practical uses, the hardest part I would think is finding what setting to have the metronome on to match with on your own natural...

Are you attempting being hired to do magic at a coffee shop? Or hired at a coffee shop and hope to do magic? Either way everyone has given great advice - I think it's Joel Givens who pulls a coffee stirrer from a sugar packet and then shrinks it to a smaller size (that would fit into the packet).

A good idea, but it's a transformation not a prediction. They've seen the back of the card already, it was blue, now it's red. Cool idea, and I bet it plays well with laymen, but it's a transformation under the assumption that you're predicting the card. Something I would add would be a double...

7C Brian Brushwood has some data on this somewhere online...not for magicians, but for laymen.

The fabled color changing deck in sealed box! This is the reason I couldn't work at a factory (in general), I would find ways to make sure things like this happened every once in a while just to mess with people...and then I'd get fired.

Excellent point, which is why practicing your sleights while delivering your script at the same time during rehearsal is important. Going over the move a bajillion times is good, as long as you also practice while saying what you're going to say when you're doing the move. Very true.

RealityOne has some solid advice that can transcend knowing effects and actually help create routines. If you perform an effect enough you can put in the word document if you think it's a good opener, middle effect, or closer. When it comes time to build small routines or even bigger shows you...

FASDIU or FASIDU II? Paul Cummins has some great material inside those volumes.

Craig Browning hit on a point that I've put some thought into: Natural actions versus naturalness in your actions. It's a matter of character. If you ask a spectator to shuffle and then shuffle a different way then you are shuffling in a way that is unnatural to them. Do they notice? No, they...