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An advice of a master: I think the bold thing is very important. Buying more and more material is contra-productive, especially in the beginning.

The Tamariz/Gordon Bruce unload (Giobbi credited it to both, because they came up with it independently) can also be found in Card College 3 . I don`t use the Ken Simmons/Stuart Gordon double very often, only in special situations. But it is a great double in combination with, for example...

http://theburnabykid.com/blog/audiologs-talking-with-tyler-erickson/ :)

But it`s a book. Don`t expect the kids to read. It`s actually hard enough to watch a DVD ;) To be honest, it`s a bit disappointing that even a free book of that caliber doesn`t get nearly the attention a free DVD or download would have. "If you want to keep a secret, put it in print" is more...

Both. A Memorized deck itself is nothing really special or hard. Absolutely everyone can do it. You just have to learn it in a way that you can tell the identity of a card by it`s number without thinking and vice versa. The tools however, which you will need to make use of the MD, varies...

I got an email from vanishing. I still cannot believe they give that away for free. Insane. Although I know some of the essays because they are part of books I own, it`s sooo great to have them alltogether and I appreciate the hard work. Again. They are insane to give that away for free. Josh...

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Although Sankey has an unrivaled output (the only living magician that beats him in that regard is Max Maven AFAIK), I think most of the stuff he publishes today is utter crap. He beats the **** out of every single idea that comes to his mind, regardless of whether it`s good or not. IMO Kevin...

My actual favorites are Darwin Ortiz "Lessons in Card Mastery" and Woody Aragon`s "A book in English". Both contain more material that I like than any other card magic book I own. Woodys book isn`t very demanding on sleight of hand, although there is some soh, if you`re more into that, but the...

I like http://www.vanishingincmagic.com/magic-downloads/card-magic-downloads/more-memory-man/ and Pit Hartling`s Unforgettable (can be found in his book "Card Fictions") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knP3VkeBQIY Both have memory as theme, are not the real thing, but are very convincing IMO.

What`s wrong with the Fisher video ? It is not easy to relearn something you`ve done in a different way for a long time. It`s harder to get rid of old habbits than learning it from scratch. It takes time and discipline. A good resource for grips and variations is Card College Vol.1.

Only one ? Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser. Because he is one of my greatest inspirations and I could talk to him in my mother tongue ;) The other three departed magicians I want to meet are Cardini, because I`ve never seen a better manipulator than him. Fred Kaps, because he is one of the best...

I always thought Flourishing was different from manipulation. Manipulation is something like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVe7chIgn0w while flourishing is more like showing skill and card juggling without the magic, meaning and structure! of an "old school" manipulation act. I could be...

Ok. I think this is perfect for your http://www.stackview.com/ I use it myself sometimes. Very useful.

A master of both fields, magic and mathematics, Persi Diaconis: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~cgates/PERSI/papers/83_05_shuffles.pdf

Even if you`re doing magic for XX+ years, this will probably not change (much) ;) Tamariz, one of the most knowledgable magicians alive (he`s doing magic for 60 years now and has forgotten more about magic than people like me will ever learn), once said that he still is an apprentice of the...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=W6J-dJYbaaE#t=570s Martin Nash doing the Strike with an ultra small brief and Dead Thumb. Starts at 9:30. Looks deceptive to me. Even with the top card face up and in slowmo.

I don`t know, but I`ve read that the reason famous cheats, such as Sir Walter Scott (AFAIK he invented ?! this second), used a second with an invisible small brief is that in fomer times ?! the moving of the thumb (what some people today criticize as not being natural. But I think the...

Not really. You can memorize any deck order and it is as easy or hard to learn as any other. Neither Aronson nor Tamariz-stack is easier to learn than a deck in random order. For a memorized deck (Aronson, Tamariz, etc.) it is important that it withstands proper examination (in terms of...

"The magic happens in the mind of the spectator." That`s the single most important aspect of any magic in my opinion. Everything else are just tools to make this happen ;)