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Get Volume 1. You will find that there are things you aren't doing correctly and it will get you used to Giobbi's style of writing / teaching. A lot of the later volumes refer back to things in the earlier volumes. Doing them the way described in the earlier volumes helps with sleights in...

I'd argue that hecklers are spectators that try to disrupt your performance to draw attention to themselves. If they see magic as a puzzle or a challenge, that is the performer's fault. As @WitchDocIsIn said, impossible is not necessarily magical. Things like a Pin code matter because they...

If you are focused on the method, what makes you think the audience will not be? There is a circularity to your argument. You say that an impossible moment is created when the audience can't figure the method out but that creating an impossible moment (which presupposes they tried and failed...

So let's take an effect like card to wallet. A lot of the presentations bring the wallet out and put it on the table at the beginning and then go back to it to find he signed card. The focus starts with the wallet and ends with the wallet. Even if you are not using a gimmicked wallet, the...

Agree with @MohanaMisra and @WitchDocIsIn. In most instances, signing a prop isn't necessary. There are three card routines where I have someone sign a card: The first is a Stranger Card routine where I hand a spectator a blue back card and have another spectator pick a red backed card. The...

It is interesting that you referred to them as card "tricks." I think the word "trick" signifies something other than strong magic. It is common knowledge that people can do tricks with cards. As a result, most card tricks come across as skill. That may be why magicians like card tricks a...

It is harder with a more simple effect. My effect with worry stones (where four worry stones becomes five) is an example of how it can work. I also do an effect from Larry Haas's Gift Magic where a small plastic star appears in my hand. The presentation is about making a wish and the star...

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My goal is suspension of belief. As in "Forget what you believe to be true and come with me on a journey..." What does for "stand for something" mean? It means that the audience has an emotional reaction to your magic that is more than admiring the seeming impossibility of what you have...

I've always just used the basic. I suspect that other options may work better in certain circumstances. It is, as @WitchDocIsIn said, personal preference as well as the needs of the routine. As for string, I suspect it wouldn't work in that effect because the paper can be passed off as the...

The question that you need to answer for the audience is "Why should they care?"

It was an Orange... and another magician doesn't count as a stooge. :cool:

They are similar. The main difference is that the second and third books include more effects in additions to subtleties.

I would read the book through cover to cover, taking note of what effects you want to learn to perform (writing page numbers, using post-it notes, sticking in playing cards or $20 bills). By reading it, you get a master class in both methods and in how effects are constructed. Essentially, it...

Was that "Bill from Nowhere" on page 223? That's why its better to use playing cards as bookmarks. :cool: While you are reading the book, my favorites are Bigger Card, Bill in Lemon, Tic Tac Toe, Chapstick Caper!

THIS. It is a timing thing. You have to let go at the right moment. Let go too soon, it drops on something and lights it on fire. Let go too late, you've got a burn on your fingers.

1. What tricks go down well for these two scenarios (mainly for busking) Avoid card tricks that don't go outside the bounds of a normal deck of cards. For example, ACAAN, Ambitious Card, Pick-a-Card/Lose-a-Card/Find-a-Card tricks, Ace Productions. Magicians love those effects more than...

The vanish is done using flash paper. Jay Sankey has a great video Spontaneous Combustion which talks about how to use flash paper in vanishes (and other uses) and has a lot of great effects using flash paper. It is available on Penguin for around $12.50 and available as a download from...