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This would be easier to explain over the phone or via skype. If you are interested, feel free to hit me up!

Great advice. I don't want to necessarily self promote directly, but for example if I share a video from my channel like "Check out this cool magic trick using pokemon cards!" that would be ok right?

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So I have been looking at all different forms of marketing and tend to do things the old fashioned way (well, old fashioned for my generation I guess haha) using youtube, facebook, and Instagram (along with several others) as my primary sources of advertising. My goal of course is to get people...

Looks great!

Thanks Justin. PM received and replied to.

Great! Thank you so much!

That is the thing though. Define lie? If you are saying that lying during a routine (i.e. saying you card rose from the middle to the top when in reality it didn't, it was controlled there moments before) then that really isn't a "Lie" in the same way it would be to say lie to your mom that you...

Ah I see. Is it similar in the way that you simply upload the tricks then they approve them and they go up? Or is it more like Penguin hand choses the ones they want and will post those? I guess the difference is that the marketplace is almost free reign (unless the effect isn't original) but...

Great video! Actually learned a lot form it!

This is a stretch, but you could do a sort of thing where your name looks like just a name when looking at it one way, but when turned upside doesnt it says something different, maybe like a card force? Garrett Thomas does this in his act and it is really cool actually. It is super difficult...

I hear ya. Maybe makes for a fun challenge to see if you can go an entire routine and make it magical WITHOUT telling a single lie :) would be hard but I'm sure it is possible! Maybe just tweaking the words you use could help out (ie. if you want them to believe the card is NOT on top of the...

My new Pokemon Card to Pocket Video is Finally Done! Ends with the signed card jumping to the Pokeball! Please enjoy, and if you would like, feel free to share with your friends! Would love for this to go viral :)

**NEW BLOG VIDEO** PLEASE SHARE and help make it go viral!!! With all of the recent success of the new "Pokémon GO" game, people everywhere are finding themselves with the urge to "Catch Them All!" With all of this excitement, you can bet that magician Michael O'Brien will use the local...

TBH if you perform it in such a way, there will be no reason for the audience to want to inspect anything. When I need to ditch something I usually just casually put my hands in my pockets while I talk. It is a natural thing anyway and if you do it throughout your performance it becomes...

Maybe combine it with "magma" and vanish a coin by "melting it" and show that it was absorbed by your body (naturally you would let smoke out of your mouth if that was the case haha)

I guess it all comes down to how you interpret these terms. For example, deception and misdirection go hand in hand, but mean different things. I can deceive someone without using misdirection (maybe the story gives me a reason to perform a certain action that otherwise would not make sense) I...

Sounds like a cool self working trick! My only question is how do you present the reveal? When you say, "I found your cards" how do you do it? How does the performance (storytelling aspect) go along. I feel like you could have a really cool effect, but if the audience doesn't have a compelling...

Awesome! Thank you so much for sharing! Happy birthday man!

Forgive me if this is a naïve question, but did penguin magic start doing an upload platform similar to the marketplace? can anyone explain to me how it works? :) Thank you!