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Coin bending, first and foremost. Sean Fields had his some stuff in Explicit Content that's visual, like causing a spoon to glow red with heat before breaking, water to visually boil (and also freeze, but I think that's on his X-Rated notes), and even more still, take a blank, uncut key and run...

Without giving too much away, there's a version of B. Smith's Wounded where you display your open palm, and a wound simply opens up out of nowhere. The wound itself is quite small, but due to psychology and a simple move, you actually plant the image in your spectator's mind that the wound...

Heh. Many, but not all. That's an important distinction. Not that I'm accusing you of bad language, but simply setting up my own further arguments. And here we have the million dollar statement. This is the end problem that almost every other problem in magic causes. I agree with...

So let's see those ideas instead of those complaints, is all I'm saying.

I don't think the analogy quite applies. We're going out there and peddling deception to people who are wary of it. You know when you go to see a magician perform that he is doing something tricky. He's using sleight of hand, special props, and misdirection to create an illusion. When you...

Right, except your opinion isn't doing anything constructive or helpful. You're basically just complaining. If you want better questions, nothing's stopping you from starting up your own thread with your own debates, or proposing a different format or different questions. But right now...

Postmentalism uses a sealed letter, not a tape recorder. And Into the Abyss isn't exactly what he's asking for. I've been looking for this exact same thing, if anyone has any ideas.

It's not a card trick, and I know it's a bit out from left field, but... Fraud. Danny Garcia's Fraud. Method, concept, execution, all of them are amazing and to this day I think it's the best money trick you can get - and beyond that, one of the better tricks made, period. It has to be on...

I just today got the Wounded DVD and wanted to put a review up, because the other review didn't go into much detail. There's been a bit of controversy surrounding this one, mainly over one of the methods, which only fuels the hype. I really like Wounded and can see myself performing it a lot...

Oh, I know. In a Daily Update recently he discussed how he read about Houdini's needle swallowing and then went to craft his own method (he says he started with a toothpick swallowing, first, and that it was really clever). But he made it seem as if he developed his own handling of the effect...

So it's Fight Club.

I'm hoping for his needle-swallowing routine, where he gulps down 40 sewing needles and brings them back up threaded.

So it goes. Stick around long enough, and you'll get a hunch as to what's good for your performance. Learn more sleights and methods, and you start to see patterns. You build that instinct. Maybe "experience" is a better word. And I was saying that going with brand loyalty is often a...

This is what I was thinking. He says he uses it as his opener, and there's all that footage of him doing it over and over in the old Thread video. Obviously if he thought we'd all go blind, if he thought the risk was too severe, he'd stick with his sleight method.

That depends on the book. Just because it's a book doesn't mean it's not going to make much money. If a current, popular magician released a book - say instead of a PDF, they just made it a physical book - it'd probably sell really well. Anything you charge money for, you're hoping to make...

Books are also produced for money. Or else they'd be free. Last time I checked, the Art of Astonishment was still 30-something bucks a pop. A more accurate statement would be, DVDs, instant downloads, and PDFs are put out to be accessible to buyers who shop through the computer. Some books...

Originality in magic exists in the unexplored areas that we've yet to plumb. It's odd that magic has existed for so long, yet we're still doing the same things over and over. We're not challenging ourselves as far as material, presentation, and artistic endeavor goes. Well, not everyone...

I had no idea. I'd love to see these, since I've been focusing mainly on a using a borrowed water bottle (which is cool, because they have a container to take it home with) but I'm fairly certain I see where your description is heading, there.

Hey guys. Most people know that Swami / Mantra is a good source for bizarre stunts and geek magic, and that Thomas Medina put out a DVD on geek magic. But what else is there for someone looking for something weird, visual, and possibly a bit icky? To compare to a real-world example, I think...

I've got some things. Ooh, ooh, look at my things. Water to Snow (though I'll probably rename it something catchier). Simple enough. Borrow a water bottle, give it a few shakes, and with no cover or anything tricky, the water visually changes right in front of everyone, quite literally [I...