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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVXiG6oy5eo Everybody in every discipline fails. It's part of learning and growing. Evaluate what went wrong and don't do it again. Watch your angles and control your audience (if possible) so they're not in bad angles. If you can't get the angles...don't do the...

Awesome! I'll read about it Saturday morning(noonish)...I'll more than likely be out at 11 tomorrow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDO_Xw0OQpw Geoff Williams has something similar, you can find it in one of his lecture notes.

Start with the end and work your way back. Figure out what you want an effect to look like and work your way from the end result to the beginning. Sometimes combining moves and sleights you already know into a trick that doesn't make any sense can eventually work into something that is worth...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SfaTbMHMl4 Or a cheap plastic set.

Best advice in the thread. There are a number of books and dvd's that will help you, but no one method is going to be good without a strong(convincing) character.

Jason England has a 1 on 1 that teaches the Classic Pass. While it won't help you anytime soon (years of work to master it) it is a pretty awesome control.

For starters, that's awesome. Secondly, if I were to do a smash and stab effect I would take the time to create my own method, something I can be sure of and possibly have a backup in case of emergency (knock a cup over by accident...start over). Brian Brushwood has a pretty good take on this...

If directed at me, DnD do allow it. 'Spring Cleaning' is what the forum is called. If directed at Chris Ebay is also a place to sell used items. And Rich seems apt to know what books, but you better do such conversing in PM's or Emails.

Which hand effects, a prediction effect on Corner Project by G (the principle anyway), and I've been playing with some billet work (3 questions and some other general stuff).

I believe Dan and Dave allow such shenanigans on their forums.

I use the classic more than any other, a handling of Vernon's Topping the Deck Palm and one other that I've been playing with are my main ways of getting into it. I've had success with the gamblers cop, but not the tenkai. I think the gamblers cop is great for certain situations, none of which...

Post it on youtube, but keep it unlisted. That way only people with the link can access it.

While I did say a presentation would make the effect, I think the structure could use some work. Overall it's not bad (after re-watching) there is just one point that makes no sense at all to me. If there are no switches or palming then the card that was touched doesn't need to go back into the...

Actually a move like the glide, when done properly and in the context of a routine, is very deceptive. Design for Laughter (from RRTCM) is a perfect example of a trick that utilizes simple sleights and can play very big for the right performers. I never had a problem using my fingers for the...

I don't know much about Ke$ha, but what little I just googled, you should use glitter, she likes glitter apparently. Of course, she could be very open to you performing and love every minute of it-that's the great part about meeting people, you don't have to assume they're not nice.

Okay, so you make a prediction and put it in their hands. And then you have them freely select a card. Then it's put back in the deck. And then you show that they match. Without seeing how much interaction you do with a spectator during the trick I can't really say anything, the effect by...

Or even just one trick, sometime simple that everyone knows or could learn quickly (possibly something with a free tutorial to view) and then give everyone a few hours (or a whole day) to come up with an awesome presentation.

It wasn't a bad way, but you should go and talk to him, maybe about magic. Maybe you can become friends and help each other get better. If he's apologetic and wants to be friends you'll not only have solved your heckler problem but found someone to practice with BEFORE you perfect your routines.

You could read the news daily (for free online!) to keep up with current events. As far as books that aren't magic...The Tipping Point or Blink by Malcolm Gladwell.