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If you don't know what you want then you don't need anything. No one can pick the stuff that's right for you except you. This is how you end up like me, with a room full of magic stuff you never use cos you bought it without thinking. I suspect you will probably buy something anyway, but I'm...

Hmm, interesting idea, kinda reminds me of that coin through glass thing you can do with the muscle pass. The replacing of the card on the face off the deck just before you did the palm was a bit clumsy, but I probably noticed it a bit more because, if I'm honest, it was what I was expecting...

As someone said, it's called VDP. It was invented by 'Piff' (or John Van Der Put as he is known by his mum) and i have seen him perform it live. Looks just as good live as it did on TV. Rev

I've seen a lot of comments on facebook etc about how impossible Daniels performance was. I don't feel smug or anything, but to me, what he did, from a magicians/card technicians point of view was fairly straightforward, using two standard moves. And yes, the blindfold was real. Anyone who knows...

Not in the UK (where the poster is from) it isn't, It's one of the thing about 'autocorrect' that always annoys me, it's always chaning words like 'organise' 'realise' and 'Colour' to the American spellings. Anyway... I'm off to Disney Land.... and I'm not even kidding... Rev

How do you get a magician to show you a hundred card tricks? Ask him to show you one. What's the difference between a pizza and a magician? A Pizza can feed a family of four.

How do you get a professional magician off your doorstep? Pay for the pizza...

Surely this all really depends on your character, where you are performing and what you are performing. If the trick is that you will shuffle the cards and then find four aces, one at a time, as quickly as possible, then pausing and slowly turning over every card is going to just completely ruin...

Ah, but here's a thing to remember. It seems like just one trick or routine in YOUR eyes, but spectators have no concept of a magic 'routine'. If three magical things happen in one routine, as far as they are concerned that have seen three tricks, not one as you say. Not a big issue, just...

I don't get it. You describe this amazing sounding trick, and then post a video of you drinking coke from a card case... which you then don't show the inside of. You've posted a demo of nothing really, so what's the point? What have you invented exactly? By the sounds of it, the part where...

Except for the fact Houdini also did a great deal of magic. In his early days he was a card guy (got the poster to prove it!) and later on in life he did a full magic show where he, amoungst other standards, made an elephant disappear live on stage. In fact, Houdini wanted nothing more than to...

I agree with how you describe Houdini, but wasn't most of Thurston's act stolen as well? Pretty sure I read somewhere that Thurston's act was bought from Harry Kellar who was notorious for stealing other peoples effects. I also remember hearing a story about Thurston where he would do a...

Before you go off and start practicing double lifts and passes, make sure you can just handle cards normally and not look like you terrified of dropping them all the time. Practice the following, and many sleights will come easily: Overhand shuffle Riffle shuffle (both on the table and in the...

Exactly. I probably fall into the age bracket of you typical iMagician (a term I'm hoping will catch on) in that I'm only 25, but I started learning magic seriously about 15 years ago. We never had the internet in my house until I was 18, so the first 8 years of my magical learning was based on...

Not necessarily. I find most spectators don't realise that magicians generally don't give a toss about damaging their cards. Therefore, signing on the BACK seems more logical to them because then they aren't ruining a card. I.e., they will naturally want to write on, and therefore ruin, the...

Clearly we've been spoilt by Google because most people seem to find using even that a chore... Type in 'self working card magic books' and you'll get tons. Some will even have really imaginative names like 'Self Working Card Magic' and can be bought for a few quid. Anything be Karl Fulves is a...

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Oh yeah, just remembered something. I remember seeing a version of this where instead of putting a nail under the cup, you put a raw egg. OK, it's not an 'edge of your seat' type scenario, but why does everything have to be dangerous all the time? Plus, there must be some potential for a...

Never heard this effect being called 'Russian Roulette' before.... I've always known it as 'Smash and Stab.' If you want persuading why you shouldn't do this, look it up on YouTube. There are tons of videos of magicians cocking it up using both their own hands and spectators hands! In...

Some companies do. I have a bunch of International Magic lecture DVDs that were recorded at the International Magic Convention which is held in London every year (and I have attended for the last three). In fact, when I was younger, I had VHS tapes of magicians lectures recorded at...