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I think Blaine had them take their card and hold it face down, then held the lit match underneath it. The heat from the match magically transformed it, and when they flipped it over it was a different card. Of course, the original card was in the matchbook.

"...step one of Sinful - slamming the signed coin through the sealed can." He means where you pop the coin through the bottom, right? I'm talking about towards the end, when you actually prove the coin's inside. There's something you have to do before you can show the coin inside the can, and...

The idea for Tumble was posted on the bunnyboycollective forums, wasn't it? I think that's cool, seeing someone's idea in infancy and then fully realized.

Did anyone ever find a fix for those situations when you couldn't use a quarter? I remember a year or so ago, I think, a lot of people were saying that with certain cans they couldn't use certain coins.

This is true. Related, we need to get rid of the whole, "I'm just a visual learner" crap when you're only saying it because you don't want to appear stupid for saying you like DVDs better. If you like a trick but don't quite conceptualize it as written, that should only inspire you to attack...

1.- What are the tricks that your spectators remember the most from you, try to explain why are they so memorable... You'll find me stuck a few years in the past here, with Stigmata and Saw. With Saw - and I'll always back up geek magic here - anything bloody, disgusting, or dangerous is...

I second the mentalism. Something visual, hopefully. Barring that, some geek magic. Just anything to get away from the cards, really.

I'm pretty excited about this, and plan to pick it up release day. I doubt Wayne's method is the one from Swami / Mantra. He has an emphasis on simplicity and his tricks being impromptu, so more than likely it's just really creative sleight of hand. If it were dangerous in any way, we'd...

Awesome. I need a reason to go out and perform. I haven't performed for anyone in, well, forever.

Scuplture and art are extremely dependent upon personality, yes - all art is. It's what separates a hack from a pro. Your approach, your natural talent, your theory on the practice. And you can't learn your own opinion from a DVD, not in full. But you can learn others' opinions, and you mix...

Pure curiosity here: do musicians have this same debate? Like, when you're learning to play piano, is there a long-standing issue about whether it's easier to learn from a book or a video? What about painters, or sculptors? Actors? If someone knows, point it out, please. But I'm going to...

Have to go with Passing Thru on this one, too. CIB, or whatever-in-bottles are awesome tricks, but not being able to borrow a bottle kills it, and so does just slamming it in instead of a visual, slow penetration. You actually get to see the coin go right in, slide through the glass, and you...

My girlfriend was in an improv comedy group a few years back, and every so often I'd go sit in with them. I'd get to watch them practice, see all their performances, and was let in on all their special exercises and training. One of the things the teacher went over with them was the concept of...

It wasn't even that. I'm not attempting to bash anyone - you don't know me, but I'm an eternal optimist. Rather, I purposefully phrased it harshly so that people would think about it. If I had been nice and sugarcoated, people would just pass it by. For all the problems with the community...

Part 2. ============= ============= Hi. Have you seen my videos on youtube? That's the only place I perform for, except for my parents every now and then. But you're not missing out - if you saw me perform live, you'd get bored to tears. 99% of my tricks are performed in complete...

Part 1. Hi. I'm a new magician, just starting out with no idea where to go. I really like watching Criss Angel on TV, and my friends and I talk about it. I've seen David Blaine, too, and even went to go see a magician perform during a vacation my family took. It all seems pretty cool, and...

Geek magic has a big place in my heart (it's all the nasty, bloody, gory stuff in magic, for those unaware). Sean Fields' Saw is just a work of art, and I'm eagerly awaiting Thread as well. Sean also has a trick called Excised, where you swallow a borrowed necklace then pull it out your...