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There once was a man from old Chico His goatee was ever so sleek-o But his eyes were too dark Like eyeshadow marks Cuz in secret he runs a boutique-o There once was a girl on this site She practiced with all of her might She would session with Bucks And was quite a good..... magician...

I got Kenner.... Interesting. That means I'm gonna have a hot girlfriend who knows how to do magic.

I recently did a performance in front of a seated audience. It was my first time in that environment; I (like so many of you, I'm sure) love to perform in walk-around situations more than anything else, but I was requested to do this so I decided to take on the challenge. The key is being...

I'm real big on Derren Brown; I think the man's absolutely a genius. What bothers me is that I overheard some guys talking about his special over the summer, when he did a quick miniseries for the Scifi channel. They were talking about that British guy who was on tv last night, how it was so...

It's not an issue of improving. Madison didn't see Sankey's effects and think, "How can I take that and make it better?" In fact, he didn't see them at all. At least, that's what I got from reading through the thread. And I really only paid attention to the posts by Wayne and Daniel, because...

Seriously? You're going to stay this bitter about the entire issue? You have GOT to be kidding me. I stand by what I wrote on my previous post on this thread, and it was written with what was made known to me at the time. After skimming through the posts that followed and finding out the...

Here's what I saw a whole bunch of: "It's ok to steal as long as I like the person who's stealing and dislike the person he's stealing from." Now that's all well and good when you talk about the altruism of Robin Hood, but that's not what this is about. A theft is a theft, and if this is...

One of my absolute favorite tricks ever. John Bannon is an absolute genius and I love him for it. His tricks are always so absolutely awesome, so I'm glad to see some of his material posted here. The only advice I can give you is that you should relax a little bit and avoid the fidgeting...

The beauty of the cup and ball routine is that when performed perfectly, every single motion is justified and completely expected, and therefore it looks less like the magician is doing something and more like the cups and balls are doing something. I won't go into specifics for fear of...

I've heard nothing but great things about Expert Card Technique. Hugard, Braue, and Buckley are all extremely credible names in card magic, and not without reason. I personally own Card Control, and I'm going to warn you now that I would put it in the same general category as Erdnase's classic...

She's holding a camera; I used a picture she gave me. It's a fun idea though, making playing cards that have your friends on the faces. -SS

I know people usually hop on here and design a nice back, but I'm far too lazy to figure out the intricacies of that, so here's a queen of hearts I made for a friend. -SS

Whoa, you can use lemon juice?? See now I want to try it out, but Farrell needs to respond.

So basically sky_lark is almost 118 years old. So how did YOU react to the Titanic sinking? I am happily sitting at 19 years old. And yeah, the older age group being summed up as simply "21+" is a little bit odd.

Definitely not an Asher Twist video. It's a play on the old Twisting the Aces routine by Vernon. The ending is obviously different (I would have preferred the last two cards at the very least MATCH), and I just didn't like the way it was handled. His movements were very twitchy, very fast...

Lee Asher should slap you... With his tiny, tiny hands. So yeah, Lee Asher has some of the smallest hands I've ever seen on an adult male, but he's absolutely phenomenal at magic. Small hands are more of an excuse than an impediment, so like everybody said (or should have said), practice...

And if that's not enough, Justin Miller is totally just an awesome guy. He's ridiculously nice and treats all of his customers very well. I actually got an email from him today, wishing me a happy Thanksgiving from the Miller family. How cool is that!? So yeah, I heavily push anybody and...

Thanks a lot Kaite. You may very well have ruined my Thanksgiving right there. I'm working for 10 hours at the mall on Friday. I may just go insane. Also, happy turkey day! -SS

One more thing, after you pen tool the cards, you have to right click and make the seleciton before you select inverse (CTRL+SHIFT+I). Also, if you're unfamiliar with the pen tool and are perhaps unwilling to learn, you can just use the polygonal lasso tool too. -SS

My apologies if I'm doing something that breaks forum policy. But.. um.. does anybody have John Bannon's email address? I can't find a trace of his site anywhere. -SS