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Please don't bump old threads. The last post was nine years ago and pretty much all of the people posting haven't been active on the forums for years.

Start with Mark Wilson's Complete Course. As for creating magic, hold off on that until you have a strong knowledge of the fundamentals. Without it, you will be wasting time that could be spent learning reinventing effects that have already been done. That is, in the time it takes you to...

So to give you a sense of where I'm coming from, I'm an attorney who frequently speaks in front of large groups 200+ and I was a speech communications major in college (although I did debate rather than individual events). Your speech has two "hooks", the magic trick and the "think of an art...

Shirt pocket, left inside jacket pocket, right inside jacket pocket, outside jacket breast pocket, left outside jacket pocket, right outside jacket pocket, left front pants pocket, right front pants pocket, left back pants pocket and right back pants pocket. By my math, your chances are 1 in 5.2.

Reverse a card in the deck. Let’s say it is the seven of hearts. Ask them to name a card. It it is the seven of hearts you have a win. If it is another card, do something else.

My opinion is based on my sense that it is not foreseeable that a reasonable person would react to the performer's show in that manner and that the intervening actions of the "bad apple" psychic are the real cause of the person's injury. I understand that your opinion is based on your sense...

As @DominusDolorum said, think about whether it is important to have the spectator sign a card. If the sole reason is to prove that there are no duplicate cards in the deck, then I don't think signing the card is necessary because most of the time, there isn't a duplicate card in the deck. Why...

Ultimately, I think the answer lies in the quote above. Absent a harmful intent, each performer is responsible for curating their content in a way they feel comfortable with. Some devoutly religious magic performers are uncomfortable with lying in any way (i.e. @Deryn's the 3C is on the top of...

The problem with hypotheticals and examples are that you start arguing about the hypotheticals and examples. On the main topic, here are my thoughts: 1. The number of people who see a mentalism show where the mentalist claims true ESP or claims to use pseudo-scientific explanations and then...

If you substitute "pseudo-scientific study" for "demonstration" in your sentences above, you can see my point about drawing conclusions about the study. There are a lot of potential problems with this study: 1) lack of a control group - that is a group that took the survey, saw a juggler and...

Six or seven. I don't remember. They are buried in a box, in another box in a plastic tub in a closet.

Why do I think I should delete the video or ban you or something like that? :eek:

No, I'm pretty sure he didn't use thread.

Roberto Giobbi has a book called Stand Up Card Magic. Also, a lot of the routines in Guy Hollingsworth Drawing Room Deceptions would work great.

Go to a library and look for magic books. Register at lybrary.com and get access to the Learned Pig Project which has lots of magic books in public domain.

Do you normally refer to yourself in the third person?

Nice collection. I always like the understated elegance of the Artifice decks, especially the version 1 decks without the border. Maybe it is time to put some of my red decks on eBay.

Actually, it is the opposite in this situation. The dreaded click bend is a result of a change in humidity. The cards are at a set humidity in the box. When they are exposed to a different humidity, the edges of the cards either expand (due to a higher humidity) or contract (due to a lower...

So, I'm not a big fan of structured sociological studies being able to draw greater conclusions beyond the result of the study. That is, 90 people in China gave a slightly greater weight to possibility of pseudo-psychology after seeing someone perform a "guess what hand the coin is" trick. I...

Luis... how are you my friend? Good to see you posting. Anyone seeing a trend here? I've been working on a needle swallowing routine using Jim Steinmeyer's method in Device and Illusion. I picked up Kainoa Harbottle's Victorian Coins and an trying to figure out a presentation using the...