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I think part of this is the idea that people watch a magic show to figure out how they did it. That idea is reinforced by The Masked Magician and even Penn & Teller's Fool Us. If you figure it out, you are smart. If not, you are fooled or maybe just a fool. Stooges and camera tricks (which...

I'm here. Let me know when and where and I can give you all the secrets.

Do a different effect that doesn't require the card to be forced. Learn a memorized deck so you can know the identity of the card they picked Learn some glimpses that you can use returning the card to the deck Control the card to bottom and glimpse Use a key card to track their card and then...

This is brilliant. There are so many ways to go with this. It's too good to discuss in the open forums.

This really makes me want a button that is the opposite of "LIKE."

The one book I would buy if I only could buy one book would be different than the book you should buy if you could only have one book. @Josh Burch's questions are right on point. I'd just add two questions: Do you want to perform street magic (i.e. close-up without a table), close-up with a...

A couple of questions... 1) Are you performing: a) to get tips; b) because you are being paid by the farmer's market; c) to get people to buy magic tricks (e.g. Svengali decks, Stripper Decks, Drawer Boxes, Ball Vases, etc.); d) to market yourself for paid gigs; or e) to have fun and get...

"OK, how about a voodoo demonstration then?" In all seriousness, I would go with the "thank you and have a nice day." I've never had anyone say that magic is against their religion, but I'm sure its possible. I suspect that there is a pretty basic understanding that magic is just a trick, so...

A more comprehensive source, there isn't.

This issue typically is not that frequent and when it is, the situation is handled with some level of grace and dignity. Multiple magicians can perform the same effect (what the audience sees) with a different presentation and it will look different. The problem arises where one person has...

For a great free resource, check out Dan Watkin's coinvanish.com and click on foundations. For DVDs, check out Michael Ammar, David Roth, David Stone and Eric Jones. Check out Kainoa Harbottle's website http://www.magicofkainoa.com/shop - there is some great stuff there (I just bought his...

Books.

And what do you do for your second trick? The audience knows you you were trolling them by pretending to be sloppy the first time... how will they react the second time? My guess is the audience will think "you were doing something sneaky the first time and covered it up by being sloppy... I'm...

Just don't buy from those websites.

I don't have it, so I don't know the exact language of the limitation. However, my understanding from reading various websites and forum posts is that the performance limitation is that you can't perform the act in its entirety. This is what Vanishing's website says: "While it's not...

We don't permit the posting of links to tutorials on the forums. Most people "teaching" tutorials are not that good (i.e. they only perform for a camera filming their hands) and most of the material taught isn't theirs to teach (i.e. they are exposing somebody else's magic). A bit of...

I think the only place it is legitimately for sale is on Michael Vincent's website. For $3 for a PDF that isn't available anywhere else, it is pirated.

Based on the coin not going in the other direction when it stops spinning and not reflecting any light (which can be seen on the coin) onto the glass, I think it is pretty much just satanic influence aka CGI. To replicate, Fearson Hookup and wax.