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Brilliant. The answer is because you like to do false shuffles. To expand on what @Maaz Hasan said, put your focus on the audience's experience. One shuffle by the magician often is enough to convince the audience that the cards are shuffled. Five shuffles convinces the audience that the...

Nah, a small portable vice is the best way to do it.

For that, I'd go with Tangled Web, Drawing Room Deceptions and Approaching Magic. That will give you the best performance material. For that type of magic, I think the best resource for that sort of magic is Paul Harris's Art of Astonishment three volume set. Tarbell is great as is Modern...

How long have you been doing magic and what type of magic do you typically perform and for who do you usually perform? You mention that you want magic to be your full time job. What type of magic do you want to perform and where do you want to perform? My sense is that you should focus on...

No. Just no. On so many levels... no.

https://www.conjuringarchive.com/list/category/842 Book with most applications is Encyclopedia of Card Tricks.

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It was actually Moses and the double lift followed by the springing thing with the stone tablets didn't quite turn out that well. As others have said, there are a variety of ways to do this. The earliest reverse card effect I can find in print in English s in T. Nelson Downs's Art of Magic...

So, I perform cups and balls standing up in front of a table. I've never got the hang of doing them sitting down. When performing, be aware of your angles.

I would go with Kirk Charles's book, Hidden in Plain Sight. It contains Boris Wild's work within the book and is the marked deck bible as far as I'm concerned.

Tagged by Rich Ferguson is similar, but it word appears on their arm :cool: There are a lot of ways to do this using fundamental mentalism techniques. HOWEVER, why would you want to ruin a great effect by having the word appear on a slip of paper in your pocket? You have just managed to...

Yes.

Pick up Annemann’s Practical Mental Magic and Fulves’s Self Working Mental Magic. There is so much material in those two books you can’t go wrong

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Do you mean “without” knowing it? If you are talking about forces that are done in the spectator’s hands, there are many ways to do that. Check out Mark Wilson’s Complete Course for several methods such as cut deeper, 10 to 20, perfect force and cross cut force.

http://www.penguinmagic.com/p/497 (Six Left in Stock) http://www.penguinmagic.com/p/496 (More than 20 Left in Stock) One Degree by John Guastaferro

I'm thinking of a bizarre presentation would revolve around four words... "Remember", "Regret", "Repent" and "Rejoice" each representing the visits of the three ghosts and Marley's conversion. Thinking about spirt cabinets, Glorpys, slate writing and Frixon pens. Something along the lines of...

You have just taken this to another level... game on.

What in the Dickens am I talking about? Exactly. Charles Dickens's Christmas Carol which is subtitled Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. I was reading the description for an effect last night which involved a reference to "spirits" and it got me thinking... wouldn't a visit by Dickens three...

The more I learn, the more I think that Card College is the best place to start. Don't get me wrong, I love the classics like Royal Road and Expert Card Technique, but Card College gives you a much better foundation. After that, go back and review the earlier books -- they will make a lot more...