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I'm for real most of the time. I'm here to help people develop their magic. Not to just make repeated inane posts.

Just enjoy the wonder. The explanation isn't nearly as intriguing as the effect.

I think the God or Hero are very valid characters. The Percy Jackson books give really great insights to the multiple variations on those themes showing that both Gods and Heros have their flaws which both work for them and against them. But don't be limited to those characters. There are...

In life, we are most drawn to that which we want to become. What you are noticing is the difference between tricks and presentation pieces. Larry Haas talks about how to turn tricks into magic in his book Transformations. He says that "Tricks become magic through powerful presentation." He...

Doesn't that change what you do into a demonstration of skill rather than a demonstration of the impossible by explicitly stating that there is a method?

Magic can do all of the things you mention. It also can do more. Sometimes a card trick is just a card trick done for fun. There is nothing wrong with that. Our lives would be pretty drab without any fun or any games. Seeing magicians like Dani DaOrtiz perform, you can't help but get a...

So this is what the Behr Archive has on Gerald Kosky http://archive.denisbehr.de/show.php?people=235&all=1 The best Table of Contents for his book, The Magic of Gerald Kosky, that I could find is here: http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=132112&forum=110 If you want to buy...

The magician he is referencing is Gerald Kosky - http://geniimagazine.com/magicpedia/Gerald_Kosky I'm guessing that the move is the Three Card Catch which he published in Karl Fulves Epilogue #17 which was based on Reinhard Müller's Three Card Catch that was published in Epilogue #14. The move...

For kids magic, go and watch videos of David Ginn. You will see that there is a sort of silliness to the interaction. You really need to pick effects that allow a lot of interaction and comedy with the kids. David's videos demonstate a lot of great effects for kids. I tend to stay away from...

Congratulations. The key here is that you need to do a show rather than a series of tricks. The presentation is extremely important in that you need to be ENTERTAINING. Agreed. You need to keep the effects easy to comprehend. But then again, if your spectator in any performance can't...

1. Jim Steinmeyer 2. Marc DeSouza 3. Robert Neale 4. Roberto Giobbi 5. Arturo Ascanio

If you do a bill or card to lemon (or orange), it really doesn't need to signed. That is magician thinking because we assume that it isn't the same item. Lay people don't think the same way. I have a selected card vanish from a deck and appear in a bottle held by a spectator and nobody...

The reason that the Vanishing Bandana won is because it couples magic with presentation -- it is funny and entertaining. Linking rings is hard to do well in a month and it is even more difficult to make entertaining. If you are a card guy, get Wayne Dobson's book WD-40. There are several...

Tarbell Volume 4.

I think that your presentation of yourself as a "visual effects artist" and not a magician is strained. I tried to read that as a lay person and my thoughts (in the order I thought of them are as follows (need to expand quote to see purple comments): Please don't use that presentation. It is...

So the question is, how do you make income from magic? More specifically, where would you perform? What type of performance would it be (close-up, parlor, stage, kids, etc.)? Once you answer those questions, I'd be glad to help you develop one or more shows. A show is more than a collection...

The "Do It Again" question really is an indication that you are presenting magic as a challenge. The spectators are really saying, I didn't figure it out the first time, can you do it again so I can try to figure it out?" Much of that is a result of people being conditioned that magic is a...

So can banging your head against a desk. EATCT is poorly written, difficult to understand and at times technically inaccurate. Without a sufficient foundation in card magic, you are setting yourself up for frustration and failure.

Now that's alot better. I'm sensing some passion rather than laziness. Notice how you've refined your questions. Notice how your response lets us actually sense your frustration. Start your journey with the best book on performing -- Ken Webber's Maximum Entertainment. Next, I'd recommend...

So why should we spoon feed you information that you likely will ignore because you can't be bothered to put in hard work? Again, if you can't be bothered to list what books you have, any DVDs you have, what you perform -- why should we bother to provide you with any guidance. From what you...