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I think we're just instigating now. We all know what he meant when he asked question. It's hypothetical. We're only just pretending. It's for fun. Either pretend and answer the question, or don't. Circling the actual question with ego statements is just making everyone roll their eyes. Come...

I get the spirit of "method doesn't matter, it's the effect that counts!" and appreciate and agree with it to an extent, but, people, the method does matter. There are situations where some methods just aren't practical. There's some situations where you have a personal reason against a...

It's not that cards are a cursed item, and that anyone using them is a bad performer. No one ever said that. But why do people enjoy magic? They want to see something mysterious, something exotic. They want to see impossible feats happen before their eyes. They want to welcome a suspension of...

I was thinking the same thing. Why didn't you just hang out at your friend's house for a while?

Which is all well and good if we're talking about a heartwarming story of a young child overcoming shyness through a branch of art, and learning to perform. But we're not. We're discussing competent performers in comparison with other competent performers. The ability to have an interesting...

Bob Cassidy's Fundamentals will not help this guy unless he's looking to develop into a serious student of mentalism. Sure, it's got a handful of tricks, but at its core it's a piece on showmanship and theory in the field of mentalism - far from what he's asking for. Let's see... I'm thinking...

Amazing video! I'd known about the TED talks but neglected to really listen to any of them - but this changed that. To bring this back around to magic before someone starts crying about it being off-topic, I think this illustrates why some of us are trying to move the community as a whole...

Not even that, necessarily - as long as you have some sort of character that can facilitate magical capability. Blaine's mysterious and minimalistic, a bit creepy and weird, giving you the notion that something's not right, and from there you draw your own wild conclusions about what can of...

Did you write that, or are you copying someone else's review from somewhere?

I would say that there are two types of magical gestures: explicit and implicit. Your's is implicit. There's no flash, no bang - just subtle, natural movement. Your hand pulls at the air, and the card rises towards it. You don't need to add anything to it because it makes sense, and the audience...

This not only makes you a Johnny Wrongpants, but also a Richard Falsebottoms Cunningham III.

I think he's just trying to talk about the book since he just got it and he's excited about it. He didn't ask us to pick out tricks for him. It's getting to where, no matter what, if you ask someone's opinion on anything, you get a handful of people scolding you for it or giving you a pep talk...

If you ignore the first half of the book, Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic fits the bill. I've seen copies at Barnes & Noble, so you might be able to head to your local book store and find a copy and see if you're up for it.

Caleb Strange, in his book Garden of the Strange, has a drawing duplication that's done by an audience member. Someone selects a picture from a book (though there's numerous ways to have them select and imagine this image), and the audience member is able to replicate it through free-drawing...

Yes! I need time to order a special something and for it to get here. So, next-next weekend.

But so would a community with standards. I mean, you guys realize we can, whenever we want, improve our magic drastically? We can make it a million billion times better? You don't need a special admittance only community or anything like that - all you have to do is practice and think! The more...

Aside from vis, does anyone make non-card effects? Because those are pretty cool.

Because what we need in magic is more ego and a less unified community, yep!

I think the thoughts brought up in the piracy thread we had a while back are applicable. Why not target the problems that cause piracy (or the bulk of them, anyway) instead of leading the angry mob with fire and pitchforks?

Mind you, character is a broad thing. When Wayne performs Control or Thread on their respective DVDs, he's playing a character - a guy who's adventurous, likes to take risks, and throws caution to the wind; he knows a thing or two about cons and scams and some psychology. His being able to...