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I like this premise for a lot of prediction effects. You start the presentation with, "You're not going to believe this but this is the 300th time I have experienced today. See I knew you were going to have that reaction. You want proof? Take a card..." I like that a lot!

My favorite book for beginners is Prism by Max Maven. There is a wide variety of mentalism effects in the book and a good portion of the effects provided are of a professional caliber. You do need some knowledge of magic in general for reference but this book is a solid collection for those who...

I have been thinking about plots for new magic tricks lately. I don't really care about the method as long as it gives the effect I'm looking for. One thing that has been fun has been to look at a movie and try to extract a magic trick from it. I'm completely lost at how to execute most of these...

Mitra#008 mentioned Utopia, he teaches it there.

I'd love to see a place where you can post all of the magic shows coming up in the world. Someplace where I can type in a city and the magic shows in that city pop up.

The only thing that would make this scummy is if you stole the gimmick somehow. If you literally took the gimmick from someone that's bad and actually against the law. Or if you stole the idea from someone without permission. This kind of trick is kind of commonplace though, so I wouldn't think...

There are a few versions of Blizzard out there that are great. Dean Dill had one, Magic Balay, and Patrick Kun both have clever handlings as well.

Alien Mindreading is one version. There are a few of these devices available.

I don't think so, Howie Mandel is a comic and he seems to love the comedians. I could see a magician really love the magic acts. If it was a Derren Brown, Penn Jillette, Franz Harary, or Kieth Barry type magician I think it could be a very positive thing. There are magicians that are more toxic...

Most of these are not all that reliable. Daniel Madison has several as well in his book Anthology. They are interesting for sure but there are really only three ways to perform them. -You can perform then in front of a large audience as a warm-up, interactive piece of magic. You then walk them...

I currently make my living by only doing magic. I'm in a very similar situation to Christopher but instead of working for Ellusionist I work for Penguin. As far as performing goes I also have a residency at at a ski resort in Utah. When I was a kid I really liked Magic I saw a special with...

It's not the kind of thing that is easily videoed. I'll PM you with the explanation.

Yup, buy Hondo's!

That's the question. "Created" is in quotes because I mean it very loosely. Sure I'd love to hear if you have created a brand new effect and method that David Copperfield used to close his show but I'm also interested in interesting routines and lines that you may have created yourself. For...

Javi Benitez is great, but we really don't discuss methods on the forums.

I'm having a hard time narrowing it down! Really I'd want a team of writers: Chris Phillpott Andy Nyman and Andy of the Jerx would write For new magic I'd go for: Calen Morelli Franz Harary and Ryan Stock If I had to choose just 3 though, which are the rules...I'd choose these guys. They are...

This is a pretty typical problem. You just need to work on pivoting the card and returning it back square with the top of the deck with the thumb. That's it. For me, the action is performed with the thumb and pointer finger mainly. The thumb pulls the card up and touches it to the pointer...

Yeah for sure, that doesn't break any forum rules.

Yeah, I get your line of thinking here. Often times the box wears out faster than the cards inside especially if you keep the cards in your pocket. I remember G making the argument that he throws out his boxes as soon as he opens them. I might be wrong but I don't think that's the case with...