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Don't forget Osterland... his effects are fantastic for small crowd work.

As previously stated, I am always doing something with the cards, even if its just riffling them in order to keep my hands moving and keep my spectator used to me moving the cards around. The pass is a method to get a card to tthe top. There are other methods too, and personally I enjoy the...

/me defends self Pass and then false shuffle crying? C'mon... you pop the pass and then you can do whatever you want because its already at the top. You can sit back, false shuffle, false cut till your fingers bleed and the sepctator has no clue, they just see shuffling and cutting being...

In a marketing sense its a fantastic idea. 4.95 to learn an individual sleight? Awesome because you have to fill an hour DVD with a lot of material and sell it for 25.00. It's basically drug dealing*... you can make more money on the street if you sell in smaller quantities at an inflated...

My best performance was at the shopping district in downtown Kansas City. It started with an ACR for two 14-16 year old girls, and ended up with about 40 people around me watching me do 2CM, then moving to Card to Window ended by Saw and Staked By Subterfuge. People were going crazy and before...

You have to be careful when purchasing HD camcorders due to the AVHCD (I think thats the acronym).. most editors don't allow for this file type that comes off of the HD camcorder.. then you end up having to convert the file to a mpeg or something which pretty much defeats the purpose of HD...

I personally love the pass, it gets things done in a ridiculously quick amount of time in a tiny space. And with just a bit of "ha ha" misdirection its over and done without anyone noticing. The turn over pass is fantastic too, alls they see is the deck turning over so you can "show them all...

As long as its on tape you should be golden.

Magneto is totally awesome.. with that power you can pretty much do anything you want.

As for the camera question, it all depends on your budget. Mid range you'd want a GL1 or Cannon XL series High range - Canon XL HD series. Although anything HD right now is pretty much pointless, cause the consumer market doesn't have HD capability. Well, at least 90% of them don't...

To be honest, if you're shooting anything that is going to be used commercially on a location, say, downtown Anytown, USA you have to have a permit to film there. If you are going to use anybodies image on a commercial presentation you have to have a written agreement signed by that person...

Well, today was my first performance of distortion... and it killed. One of the platoon sergeants in my company is always wanting me to do magic for him, and typically I do.. its been getting a bit stale lately though due to 7 months of doing at least one trick a day for him... but about 3...

With a little "research" anything can work on a mac. :)

I think one of the problems is that everyone wants to be the next Criss Angel, David Blaine, or David Copperfield... they want to be the next big name in magic and that keeps the art from progressing and being percieved as an art form. Artists get together, artists share methods and technique...

I know it sucks, and I know it hurts like hell, and risking like sounding like a typical cliche'... There are a million other women... its better to find out now than a few more years down the line. I've been in the same situation more than once.. let me tell you, its better to know now...

Whats good about magic is whats good about everything that is an art. Creativity. There are bad magicians, bad directors, bad writers... but the fact that you are able to actually _create_ something is whats good about magic as an art. Sure, there are a lot of people who look at only...

So what if a few cards are signed, bent, etc? Just because a deck is missing 6 or 7 cards doesn't mean that the spectator will notice it. I almost always give out a signed card with their signature and mine at the end of a routine. It gives them something to hold onto and remember. Humans...

Mine is on my sig... feel free to add me, and I'll go thru and add everyone else.

A quick search for "blue distortion" brought up this: Distortion - Some Things You Need To Know... As for the other question, exposure. :D

you can say you're not up for performing... but people will beg. And that really puts you on the spot. Your job as a magician is to entertain and amaze people when they want or are looking for amazement. The "dollar" trick should be easy enough, I carry that with me all the time. You can't...