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How about doing 20th Century Silks / Baffling Bra but instead having a face mask appear between the silks?

If you haven't shown or counted the cards, how do the already know there is just four cards? A lot of what I mean by context is method. In a Twisting the Aces routine that uses counts to shift which card is reversed, it is necessary to use those counts as part of the method. In an Open...

I'd argue that it was never appropriate (despite having bought one years ago on clearance)...

It is all just context. Elmsley / Jordan / OPEC counts are typically four for four counts (with or without a displacement to set up the next phase). Hamman counts are typically used to either conceal blocks of cards or conceal a block of additional cards. Despite being called counts, the main...

I'd argue that the trick isn't inherently sexist. I've performed it for my parents in-law and they found it funny.:) If you follow a simple rule of treating your spectators and volunteers with respect, you are fine. The same could be said about how to treat other people in life.

Examples? Because I'm having a hard time coming up with anything that is racist or sexist.

Agree. Most of the routines were never that good. I also have read a couple routines with videotapes. Disagree. While a lot of rope magic wasn't good to begin with, there is some good stuff out there. You just have to make it relevant. I do a lot with Scouting, so I can relate to tying...

If you like to use stories in your magic (all collections of stories): Grimm's Fairy Tales One Hundred Wisdom Stories The Book of Virtues Books on the History of Magic: The Last Greatest Magician by Jim Steinmeyer Hiding the Elephant by Jim Steinmeyer NonFiction Books: Blink by Malcom Gladwell...

@Sodapop, do you have this book? If so, what effects do you recommend? Unfortunately, Art of Astonishment is mostly cards, then coins and then objects like shoes, oranges, etc. Second the recommendation.

In that case, I would guess that it's been done before (if it is a simple move) OR the effect isn't yours to teach (if the move is unique and marketed by someone else).

The only way any of us can give you a sense of the originality of your submissions is to see a performance video. Feel free to post them in the forums or send me links via a "conversation" and I'd be glad to give you a sense of their originality. But you may be reinventing ideas that others...

That.

I've got a couple of different suggestions for you to choose from: The first is to get a subscription to Genii Magazine. With an electronic only subscription, you get access to over 75 years of back issues. There is a lifetime of material there and a lot of variety from Cards and Coins to...

I love the history of magic and take any chance I get to have fun with it. A couple of questions.... Which effects did you like the most from Mark Wilson's complete course in magic? What setting do you want to perform in -- close-up sitting, close-up standing (a.k.a. "street magic"), parlor...

I did a little bit of digging and confirmed my hunch. In his Penguin Live Lecture, Harry Anderson credited the effect to U.F. Grant's Million Dollar Bill Mystery that was published in Volume 3 of the Tarbell Course in Magic in 1943 (it was not in the original Tarbell lessons). Mark Wilson's...

That is a possible method (and you could accomplish the effect this way), but I think he was using a different method that works better when you have two bills.

So for those who didn't realize it (other than @Scodischarge who did pick up on it), this list was not serious... My point is there isn't any right way or wrong way to learn. My actual suggestion is to learn effects that you can perform (and the accompanying sleight of hand) and then perform...

Exactly. Which provides "cover" for the "force" applied and lead to an assumption that the object is in the hand.

I do a variation of Theodore Deland's Inverto and a tabled riffle shuffle version inspired by Reversable Cards fromEncyclopedia of Card Tricks. An easy, in-the-hands version is Francis Carlyle's Upside Down Deck which can be found in Scarne on Card Tricks. My other favorites are Bannon’s Play...

Retention of vision is the optical illusion, continuation of motion (inertia) is the mental conclusion. They are mutually reinforcing.