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There are better books if you want to learn stuff with cards.

I perform at the college I attend and wherever and whenever I get the chance when I am just out on my free time. I have tried busking a few times. I felt the other street performers were a tad hostile, and I was unwanted there, but I still came back a few more times. Seems they are more cool...

Perhaps you do learn fast, but I still highly encourage and recommend you start with Royal Road or Card College as RealityOne suggests. I know you want to jump to the really mind blowing magic, but there are a lot of basics, history, and theory to be learned in these suggested books that would...

Forgive me if I am wrong, but the way you asked your question leads me to believe you may be new to card magic. Don't underestimate the magic in some of the more beginner books like Royal Road to Card Magic. Only $3 for the kindle edition and like $10-15 for paperback. There is a trick in there...

I agree with R1 here on keeping it simple when asking her out to prom. If you want to do a bigger effect like he suggests here with French Kiss, I'd offer my suggestion to utilize it some time DURING prom. If she is feeling you like that after a couple of dances this is a good way to set up a...

If you think you can land a gig to make back your money, @Maaz Hasan, go for it. Very worth, much good. If you're a beginner at doing shows, or even if you've done a few, $600 sounds a little generous. I just know my friend who has been doing this for 10 years charges around $500-600/hr when he...

If you have a Costco near you, a brick of bicycle standard decks is ~$15. If you cycle through each deck during practice they'll last you forever.

You won't be able to perform the trailer stuff out the box. You'll need 'other' things. It has some limitations that the trailer doesn't show. Is it worth $140? It can be, but iirc you're a high school student? I would have to say it is not worth it. At least if I was in high school I wouldn't...

A previous thread on if Zach King should be considered a magician or not got me thinking. As well as a thread on Criss Angel. Besides the fact Zach King doesn't claim to be a magician, what makes him not a magician? Camera tricks? So what does that make Criss Angel? What about stooges or...

When doing an argumentative paper, and siding with the favorable side of the argument, it makes the paper weak. If everyone and their mother would agree that Blaine is the superior magician, then why bother writing on that paper? It's not as arguable as a topic such as the legalization of...

Knights are a thinner paper so they supposedly feel a little more broken in upon opening. They come in a special order so that if you do a faro it arranges them in Mnemonica stack. It comes with identical jokers which the Carpe Noctem does not. Knights are marked, but it only tells value, not...

Record yourself. Watch your recording muted. Take notes. Watch yourself with the sound on, but with your back turned so you cant see. Take notes. Watch it all together. Takes notes.

A movie is not a trick. It is not an illusion. It is a story or event recorded by camera. A director, as the name implies, directs the technical crew and actors of a movie to fulfill the director's vision of how the story/movie should look and feel. He controls the artistic elements. A...

I don't see anywhere that being my definition. I guess I'll clarify. This is all from Merriam Webster Dictionary. Magician: one who performs tricks of illusion and sleight of hand Illusion: the state or fact of being intellectually deceived or misled Trick: a crafty procedure or practice meant...

I see where you are coming from, but I'm looking at the macro not the micro. You can include a magician is an artist, a vessel who uses the art of magic to form connections with people. Yada yada, I get that; however, I'm talking about the actual definition if you asked the whole world what they...

What is a magician really? To me its a person who uses tricks to deceive, mystify or create illusions with. Zach is using camera tricks to create illusions. Isn't he essentially a magician, even if he doesn't claim to be one?