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What was the selection process, what happened to the card and deck after it was selected and was the card signed?

This is a perfectly ordinary deck of cards.

Yep.

OK, my first piece of advice is to never agree to do a show that you don't have prepared. We are beyond that now, so let make the best of this. My second piece of advice is not to think that kids magic is easy because they are kids. I think you have to be actually more entertaining for kids...

I've seen Kevin's show and he is amazing. Hobson is hilarious.

I’m not sure about shipping costs, but check out Vanishing and L&L Publishing’s websites.

Wow. Sad news. I remember watching him on Night Court.

Love the monkey!

I haven't killed anybody.... recently. Get the three books in Paul Harris's Art of Astonishment for $135. I'd also say to get the five Volume Card College Series for #185. For $320. With those eight books, you will be able to CORRECTLY learn the vast majority of known card slights (most of...

Start with Fulves Self Working Mental Magic. It is a book with mentalism tricks you can do.

I was at a lecture with Darwin Ortiz. About halfway through an effect, he stopped, spread the deck face-up and then said, "I don't think this is going to work this time. Maybe, I'll come back to it a little later in the show." I've had props fail, methods fail, spectators do the unexpected...

I think those cards are only valuable is you like them and find them interesting. Nothing extremely rare or valuable. I didn't see a price, so I can't say if they are worth the price.

Yikes. Kudos to you for pulling off a great performance under those conditions. It is a good idea for any performance to have a checklist that you send to the person booking you. From a stage show, to a parlor show, to a kids show to walk around. Present it to the person as "for my...

I'm going to take a different approach than @ChristopherT. I think there are a number of methods you can use to know what a person is thinking and what makes it convincing is the performer. If you have a solid method, structure the effect properly and then surround it with subtleties, it...

Maybe. But isn't your style a set of rules? What if your style is bad (not saying yours is, but talking hypothetically)? Then you are ignoring a rule that would help you become better. Without getting too esoteric, I think you may be wrapping up rules, opinions, beliefs and world views all...

Is anybody ever really happy about having to pick a card? The real question is why are you asking that? Does it move your performance forward? In one of the pieces that I perform, I ask the person assisting me to "shuffle the deck to your heart's content." When they hand that to me, I ask...

Without knowing anything else about you, that would be my recommendation also. If I had to keep only one book from my collection, it would be a different book. If I had to recommend one book for doing close up performance it would be a different book. If you need to learn the basics, it would...

Not necessarily. If you don't understand the "why" behind the rule, you shouldn't change it. If you do understand the "why", you most likely wouldn't want to change it. What of those "rules" would you change and why? BTW - Is your rule about not having set and unchangeable rules able to be...

Please don't bump six year old threads. If they haven't found Vectra by now, I'm pretty sure they've given up.

Although I suspect you have already read it, there is great advice about this sort of stuff in Maximum Entertainment. From your post, it sounds like the coordinators were completely unprofessional. Often it helps to assume that whoever hired you doesn't have a clue of what they are doing...