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I'd love to get a better idea on what type of magicians we have here. Where do you perform most? For me I perform on a professional basis for cocktail parties, weddings and upscale restaurants. Mostly this is close-up walk around magic. Occasionally, I will perform a platform show for...

The device doesn't fit my style. I don't do magic with headphones most of the time. All that said, a magician won our last club competition using Decibel. We had 3 lay people judges and they loved it. He didn't use any secret assistants, it was all self contained. I would follow David's...

I'm going to disagree with you, and I mean it with all due respect. In close-up, I do not think that hiding the feke or providing misdirection is a back up measure. I think that the fact that it looks like a thumb and is flesh colored is more of a back up measure. In my experience the thumb...

There is a school of thumb tip magicians who would argue that the thumb tip should never be seen. The example that is often used is that the magician could paint their thumb tip green and the audience should never notice. Most of the time I follow this logic with seldom exceptions perhaps on...

Buying new magic is a gamble. Sometimes it is a real surprise that something is practical and well within your skill level.

A perfect pass, a center deal, Domicio's second deal and the clip shift are all difficult. A perfect on the table riffle shuffle is tough. I think pick pocket magic can be very difficult, watch steals, belt steals, tie steals and so on. Jazz magic is really tough. Magic with 35 outs and you...

Right, I think I agree with this completely. I do think that the method we use is important. I was trying to quell any concerns that I was thinking like a magician and thinking that the method was some how the only thing that was important. If a method doesn't fool then you have not...

This has been put together in a compelling cool way. Both of these are well known marketed effects. Keep studying! I don't like to give away other's material but seeing as Lennart Green is a master and you'd do well to learn from him here is a link to the DVD set where he teaches the first bit...

This is not a forum that reveals the secrets to magic.

Hi everyone! I am of the opinion that most of the time methods are the least important part of a piece of magic. If it gets the job done and tells the story that you would like, then there isn't much more to it. The rest of you energy can turn to the presentation. That said, there are some...

I asked Richard Hatch, the foremost living expert on the identity of Erdnase, about the multiple persons theory. This was his response: "Hi Josh. Well, I'm not sure how "popular" the theory is currently, but Martin Gardner's early research led to the conjecture that James "Harto" Harte, an...

Yeah there's a ton out there! Theory11 has a bunch of products that don't require a table and on the Marketplace you can see even more. Many pieces can be adapted to be performed without a table. Here's an example:

The action didn't bother me at all. I have a ton of material that is more illogical than the motion required for the cooler. The DVD suggested that it would be best suited for stage or parlor, I agreed. If you have handled the gimmick you can see that it is much larger than a normal deck of...

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I'm confused at what type of a routine you would need this for. I don't think that the Blaney levitation would work for a small scale illusion. I don't think that it exists for this reason. You can gimmick a stage prop differently than you do a close up prop. In close up, you want to have...

I just talked to a non magician friend about Zach King. King is not a magician but this friend was surprised to hear that I didn't call him a magician. I think Zach is great and a lot of fun to watch. It frustrates me to think that people get confused.

Paul Draper performs and hour long show with 5 or 6 effects I've seen some magicians do it with less. There is also an experiencial illusion at the end of many shows. For some reason when I leave concerts, they may have played 15 songs but I only remember 3 really well. It makes it feel like...

Predicting the way that the market will do with any investment is incredibly difficult to do, that's why when someone like Warren Buffet manages to make money we pay attention. There are things to pay attention to but I don't know if you can ever say definitively how much the market will value...

I know they have a huge repertoire, I'm surprised to hear that there wasn't a ton of magic.

I'm not familiar with that routine