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Penn Jillette says that magic is the one art where you don't have to suspend your disbelief. You ask your audience to bring everything they got and you still are able to ruin logic. I feel like the second that they have to imagine you have done what you said you were going to do it cheapens the...

David Copperfield, when he performs his scorpion card trick, performs a single card spring and it illicits a gasp from the audience. It's a super basic flourish but he gets a great reaction. So keep in mind that keeping it simple can really help. David Blaine performs some pretty difficult...

We perform for intelligent people. People who are at least as smart as you are. Do we expect them to believe we are performing real magic? If we are, wouldn't it be immoral to claim something that is false like that?

Yeah, as long as his presentation was significantly different he could have used the same method and got away with it. From what I understand.

Yeah, I agree. The same way a group of tricks can make an ice skating routine that can move you. A magic trick framed right can be more than just a sport.

For many years we in the magic community have avoided the use of the word "trick". There are many reason we have avoided using the word, some claim that it cheapens the magic referring to dogs and prostitutes who perform "tricks". Some act like what we perform should always be called something...

"The second one is probably a camera trick !" Calen doesn't use camera tricks

I can see the value in a self contained gimmick. It means you only have to pull out that prop and nothing else. Of course there is the invisible deck as well as Smoke. I think most Paul Harris products shoot for this self contained idea.

I'm not sure of the exact method but I do know Andre Kole wasn't very happy with it. He performed it on a special on the discovery channel or something talking about Jesus Christ and asked that no one perform a walking on water illusion for a little bit, I think he actually said a year. Penn and...

I figured out how Criss Angel walked on water, so I made a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqhR_sV4J3g

I think this is cool, was it a lot of hype for a box of cards? Maybe. I do feel like there is more to this though. I don't mean to be combative at all or argumentative but I think I can see what makes this a big deal. J.J. Abrams, an A list celebrity endorses and collaborates on a project...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sOIasW8Xek&feature=youtu.be

Justin your reveal videos are great! Congrats!

Oh man I don't think I'll have enough time to do one. I love these though. Here's one of the last ones I did. I thought I'd share, maybe it will get your juices going. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwK6Q94CrV4

Hey there! I've noticed that lots of people are getting Pinterest accounts in the magic community. Ellusionist, Paul Draper and Peter Mckinnon all have pages for example. If you don't know what Pinterest is I'll explain, it is a social media website similar to Facebook with basically only...

A tshirt to formal would be conceivable but not ideal. He does teach formal to formal on the DVD and that's really the ideal situation for this trick.

Jarek is an alright magician and performer but he has terrible magic ethics. He is doing a great disservice to magic by ripping off all the effects he has many from Theory11 artists. He looks like a nice guy and is a decent performer but he really needs to take the outright exposure off his...

Just one picture no post editing besides the filter Instagram provides http://instagram.com/p/jXReC2pFcZ/

Exactly! The next big thing in magic will be a You Tube magician we can help the next David Blaine out by saturating the market with other things besides reveals. If making fake tutorials, using buzzwords and taking the initiative to report magic piracy is stupid then why does Theory11 and...