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Read Banachek's Psychological Subtleties.

Brett - Have a Great Birthday. Wait, you've never visited me....

And the OP hasn't visited the site in 6 year.... Please don't bring up old threads.

What Josh is describing are typical behaviors which have more to do with audience control rather than quality of performance. I suspect that they are actually over excited rather than bored. Essentially, it is kid's natural curiosity of figuring out the world combined with a lack of social...

There are a lot of good stuff being reprinted. I'm glad Magic Way was reprinted and that Mnemonica is back in print. I'd love to see Tamariz's Sonata reprinted (was supposed to be this year... still waiting). I would love to see Frank Garcia's works reprinted. I've got a couple of originals...

And what is in the public domain is not even the tip of the iceberg. Anneman has to be up there too.

Most of what I buy is books and they are typically from Vanishing. If I need a standard prop or gimmick or DVD - MJM or Penguin. I also get a lot of stuff from specialty shops/individuals like Rings and Things, Lynetta Welch, Proline for Linking Rings. There are also a bunch of longstanding...

The guys who disappeared were actors, not stooges. They weren't in on it. Why else watch magic? Like what happened to the guy in the video who disappeared and didn't reappear. :cool:

First, check out Eric Mead's Bunny Bill Swindle in Tangled Web ;) But more seriously... how about telling them that if they want to watch (either following you or coming over to you), they need to be accompanied by a parent? That would take you out of the babysitter role and the parents (if...

Examples for stooges? The only thing that comes close is where something is named and then produced. When you are only showing a portion of the full interaction and you have multiple takes with multiple people, you don't need a stooge. The semi-surprised reaction of the spectators tends to go...

Agreed. Although what we see isn't the same as what the spectators experienced, most everything I've seen on that show can be replicated without stooges or CGI. If you liken it to a stage performance, on stage you can only see what happens once the audience member comes up on stage and only...

Newbie: Do you want to see my pass? RealityOne: No. Isn't that the point?

Use Card College. Go page by page as if you were taking a class. Practice effects rather than moves. Walk through the move, step by step. Slowly at first and then until you get up to the hang of it. Then go back at look at the explanation again. You actually will be amazed how frequently...

1. Erdnase / Houdini Change and Shapeshifter 2. Of course not, that would be magic. However, there are many ways to make your audience think that is what you did but they all have tradeoffs. 3. The move at :30 looks like a Benzais Spin Out found...

Books Anneman's Enigma Deland - Mystery and Magic Scott Robinson's Pure Imagination Tamariz - Magic Rainbow Haas - Burger From Beyond Burger - Teaching Magic Come to think of it... I'm not sure if I got anything other than books this year.

Ehh... no. Have you read both of those books cover to cover? Do you have more than those two books to be able to give a good comparison? That.

Deleted it. Make your magic performance worthy.

This is the best advice.

Cassidy's FundaMentals is the best starting point. You also might want to check this free e-book by Craig Browning out: https://www.lybrary.com/an-introduction-to-mentalism-p-682145.html

Art of Astonishment by Paul Harris. Start with Volume 1.