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@ChristopherT I understand why he believes it was a good idea. In all reality, his show continued to run and it didn't stop his success.

I like that aspect of "Mystery". I only wonder if it's possible for that to exist in other art forms. At the end of Inception or Stanley Kubrick's The Shining we have a great deal of ambiguity. Is this ambiguity related to mystery? Is the mystery caused by a magical presentation in a different...

It's all good :)

Not everything he exposes is from Brad Christian's DVD's. Jarek has stolen and revealed material from Wayne Houchin, Blake Vogt, Jay Noblezada, Dan Harlan, and Hansen Chein to name just a few more.

I was aware of this. I mentioned it because Maaz Hasan asked for examples of popular effects that are used by professionals that were revealed by the Masked Magician. Personally, I think that Lance's idea was misguided. I think that this helped out the plot of the Magic Revealed episodes. The...

This is the best

Great interview. All artistic pursuits have high achievers, but what can an audience experience in a magic show that is unique to that genre? What can they experience that is different than chess, tennis, music, or theater?

It has nothing to do with our current definition of geek. It has to do with circus freak type magic, it's usually physical in some way and looks like a stunt almost. Harry Anderson explains it here:

The feel with any bottom deal should be "light". That said, your hands will hurt in this deal. One of the best examples I have seen of the push out method taught in ECT is in this video.

I think he's a young talented magician that had some misguided ideas about his routines on AGT. He used routines that other people created without permission, this got him a lot of flack. I think he appeals to a certain crowd, and there is an audience out there that enjoy his magic. Many...

I asked this question on Facebook and was surprised by the responses I got from magicians. Here's the question: (Edit: ) What defines magic as a medium? What does magic offer that no other art does? (Let us stipulate that we are talking about the best possible magic: Lance Burton, David...

Here's your 15 tricks that are still or were currently popular at the time of the specials Lady to Tiger - Was used by Doug Henning as well as Seigfried and Roy(by Seigfried and Roy during the run of the specials infact) Zig Zag Girl - One of the most popular stage illusions of all time Chinese...

The specials were overwhelmingly negative in my view. A focus on the methods rather than style or emotion, poor performances overall and the pesky tendency to continue to reveal the magic long after the specials are over. He continues to do damage. Many of the effects that he exposed were...

Oh no! Well, you have to start somewhere I guess. I'm going to really try to help you out here and ignore the problems for now. First off, a bottom deal and double lift are methods. These are not tricks. Do you know any tricks? Focus on what the spectator sees and how it is magical. So, the...

There is a tendency to look at card magic in classic books and assume that it just came to be or that it is very old. In reality much of what we think about in card magic was written down in the last hundred years. Some moves go back further (the pass for example) but many plots that we look at...

Haha, that's great!

One correction, the decks are Maiden backs not Mandolin. This falls in line with all of Rick Lax's gimicked cards.

Neville Maskelyne 1908 preceding General Murphy by 40 or so years. He wrote Murphy's Law before Murphy wrote Murphy's law! "everything that can go wrong will go wrong. "

Wow!

So, I've seen this done a bunch. It's a mentalism go to especially on talk shows. The method is in Corrinda but it doesn't give you the whole picture. Peter Turner touches on the ploy that I believe is used most to accomplish this in his phone number/pin reveal on his first Penguin Lecture. Luke...