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Your best bet is to get Kennedy Half Dollars. You want silver coins they just work better for performance. The 1964 coins are 80% silver and the 1965 to 1967 are 40% silver. After 1967 they are not silver. You can also get Walking Liberty Halves which are much older thN the Kennedy halves...

Simply put, it is a matter of what works for you based on what you want to accomplish. I prefer books most of the time, but some material is only available on video. Also, you can get a better sense of performance on video. However, whenever somone on a video uses a sleight, I still go back...

It's not. See Rule #3 and Rule #5. Don't take the risk that your response will tick off the rest of your audience (or get you punched by her 250 pound boyfriend who is build like a linebacker). In your situation, I'd be honest with your audience. If she ruins the effect by grabbing the card...

Rule #1: The performer is always in control. The moment you cede any control to an audience member, you have given them permission to interrupt at any time. Rule #2: Do not make magic about "See what I can do" because it is an implicit challenge to the audience to "figure out how I do it."...

Master my new linking rings routine.

There are a lot of ways to do this effect or something very similar. My first choice of method would involve http://www.penguinmagic.com/p/4882 and http://www.penguinmagic.com/p/646. There are similar methods discussed in Bannon's Destination Zero using anti-faro principles. You could also...

Life isn't an "either or" situation. Why can't you do both? Neither requires an all or nothing commitment. If you do both, I suspect that the time spent on each will vary over the course of a year. Also, sometimes focusing too much on something results in burn out -- it no longer becomes...

Typically, a pair of pants and a jacket / blazer have enough pockets. In the jacket, there are two inside breast pockets, one outside breast pocket and two side pockets. Pants typically have two front pockets and one back pocket. That is eight pockets. Based on what Josh said, you need 9...

If you have learned sleights on line, your best bet is Card College Volumes 1 and 2. Chances are that most of what you learned needs to be fine tuned. It makes sense to learn the basics properly and most online tutorials (Aaron Fisher is one exception) are poorly done.

Will: Have you previously perfomed mentalism? 13 Steps is not the best place to start for mentalism. You might want to get Anneman's Practical Mental Magic and/or Bob Cassidy's FundaMENTALs.

Tommy Wonder's Books of Wonder Paul Harris's Art of Astonishment Tom Stone's Vortex John Bannon's High Caliber John Gustaferro's One Degree and for something out of the ordinary, Roberto Giobbi's Confidences

Art of Astonishment is great for "street magic" type effects.

Exactly. Yes. That is confirmed every day when I get an e-mail saying you can perform a miracle instantly with no practice required... right out of the box. Just think of all the time I've wasted practicing my routines :) Ultimately, the more important question is does it matter? Those...

The only consideration is whether the audience will be able to understand (notice I didn't say "see") what is happening. A stage show for 35 is different from a stage show for 50 and is different from a stage show for 500. I agree with @Josh Burch that you don't have to rule out cards and don't...

You are thinking of Cards by Martin which was run by Neil Lester who passed away in September 2009. For traditionally made gaffs, check out: http://www.thecardplant.com/category/gaffed-cards http://www.martinismagic.com/Products.html (look about three quarters down the page where it says they...

Of course. There is a multi-phase Bannon routine from Six.Impossible.Things. that gets great reactions for me using a very untypical say-do-see patter. Contrast that with Bannon's new book Destination Zero which is self-working effects that (having only worked through the first half) just...

Let's see, in the last year I purchased a set of Proline linking rings, a Lynette Welch egg bag, a custom made Devil's Handkerchief, an Omni Deck, a copy of Encyclopedia of Sponge Ball Magic and Eugene Burger's Experience of Magic. What thousands of new effects?

That bowling ball production is Kevin James. You can find it here for $750 http://www.kjmagic.com/magic_store/product.php?product=24 or here for $585 (a bargain) http://www.penguinmagic.com/p/4114. I'll be honest, I've never really liked that effect. Yes it is quick and visual but it just...

Josh is right about Eric Ross's Election -- its a great effect and doesn't require two magicians. To do what you want to do with a signed card, you would have to structure the routine so that each magician did what the other does and exchanges decks twice in the process so that they end up with...

At the amateur level, it has always been about the trick. Unfortunately, I've seen way to many professionals where it has become the same. I've left too many magic shows where I felt I was bombarded by tricks without any presentation or personality. Masklyne and Devant knew it was all about...