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For sponge routines, check out Pips a Poppin (get an extra set of the pip sponges to add some depth to the routine) and 3D Sponge Bunnies. You can develop a nice routine with Scotch and Soda (again, get an extra English Penny to make the routine more interesting). You can easily do a torn and...

I think you are overreacting just a bit. Political humor is different than political arguments. I enjoy the Saturday Night Live political skits regardless of whether they are poking fun at a politician that I like or dislike. My favorite was Dana Carvey doing George H.W. Bush (especially the...

Decide on the effects you want your audience to experience and then take the gimmicks that you need to produce those effects. If it all fits in your pockets, fine. If you need a knapsack, perfect.

Check out the book: Magic 1400s - 1950s

May I suggest a different approach? Take a look at your ability and how you present your performance. In terms of ability, you may not be performing the sleights in the correct manner. For example, if your hand is curved too much when palming a card it is obvious there is something there...

Get some 1964 Kennedy Silver Half Dollars or some Walking Liberty Silver Half Dollars.

Check out Penguin Magic and MJM Magic. Davenports is great in the UK. Also, for books and DVDs check out L&L Magic (they provide a 10% discount if you buy three or more items and free U.S. shipping over $50 ot $75) and Hermetic Press. Stevens in the U.S. has a lot of unique pieces. Denny...

The classic trick and refills are here: http://www.penguinmagic.com/search.php?q=snowstorm The only version of Kevin James Snow Animator for retail sale is the speaker version here:http://www.kjmagic.com/product/speaker-animator/ You can find prior versions used by searching Kevin James Snow...

Also, check out this listing of effects -- many use other methods of revealing the selected cards: http://www.conjuringarchive.com/show.php?cat=566

It is John Scarne's "Calling the Cards" which is the first effect in Scarne on Card Tricks, published in 1950. There is no crediting of the effect in the book. I suspect the effect isn't original to Scarne based on the simplicity of the method involving a glimpse and the use of the one ahead...

Perform in a way that shows them that it is a normal deck, even if it isn't. If all else fails, put the deck in your pocket before they ask and then pull out a normal deck.

The version you are looking at uses Kevin James's animator. They run a couple of thousand dollars. You can do a pretty good job with the standard version that uses a Japanese fan.

The small section of the corner rounder is a perfect match for playing cards. It makes short cards or strippers invisible by removing the "flat" section of the edge.

So here is the question... why should the spectator care about what you are doing? Reading your post gives me the impression that you view magic as something that is intrinsically interesting and that despite your best efforts to trivialize it (I'm doing it because I can, spectators don't care...

I use a Bypass Paper Trimmer and a Sunstar Corner Rounder. Check our James Riser's instructions HERE for trimmer.

You can switch in a gimmicked deck (Invisible, Brainwave, Cheek to Cheek, One Way Force, Svengali, etc.) or a stacked deck (Mnemonica, Aronson, etc.). I was fooled very badly by Cristian Engblom using his Cooler gimmick to switch in a Cheek to Cheek deck to perform aTriumph routine. Also...

So let's learn some terminology: Effect - What the audience sees as magic. Essentially, the effect that appears to have happened. Method - The means of accomplishing an effect. Trick - The difference between the effect and the method. Presentation - What we say and do as we present an...

Let's distinguish between Mental Magic and Mentalism. Mental Magic is a magic trick that has a pseudo-psychological explanation as part of the presentation. I'd put pretty much any card trick that people call mentalism in this category. If it involves a deck of playing cards -- its a magic...

Try Jim Steinmeyer's Khardova Deck in the May 2010 issue of Genii -- one of my favorites. It is an in the hands version of a solution to the Open Prediction plot. If you don't mind getting a force deck try making a McCombical Deck or a Pop Eyed Popper deck (which are the reverse of each...

The key words to search are "Quck Change Artist." This site might be a good starting point :http://www.quick-change-artistry.com/quickchange.html