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My suggestion would be to get BOTH Rene Levand BOOKS (plus two other books) for the $150. Mysteries of My Life is $50. If you buy one other book for around $50, you get one free here: http://geniimagazine.com/kaufman/booksandtapes.html (you could also get it for $37...

Mentalist - Someone who is obsessed with the power of their own mind. Hypnotist - Someone who is obsessed with the power of a spectator's mind.

I hate the word "tricks." To me, that reflects a mindset that takes the magic out of what we do. At a minimum, let's call them "effects" which reflects what the audience sees or "methods" which reflects what we do. I like the idea (from Larry Haas' book Transformations) of talking about...

For most books, I read them through once, cover to cover, taking mental notes of things that I like. Pick them up a couple of years later and skim them trying to remember the things that I liked the first time I read them. Other books (primarily Card College and Tarbell), I use as references...

For a couple of additional suggestions: http://www.conjuringarchive.com/show.php?cat=1318

Most of the moves marketed for cheating at cards are really impractical if you are playing with anyone who knows what they are doing. If you like card cheating, you have two options. First is to do what Steven suggested -- learn about cheating and work security at the casinos. If you want to...

I would recomend Mnemonica. Lots of effects you can do with it. Also, check out this free pdf on memorized stacks: http://www.simonaronson.com/Memories%20Are%20Made%20of%20This.pdf

I don't think it is camera tricks. It is hard to tell if the spectators see exactly what we see. The angles on this seem pretty good, but the spectators are really close. I have several ideas of how this can be done. All of which require a heck of a lot of chops to pull it off that cleanly...

I'm not sure that the plot is too exciting. Essentially, the spectator sees something and then it vanishes. Unless the effect is absolutely clean, I think you would have a problem because the spectator would want to examine the deck. There are so many other better plots out there involving a...

Get a copy of Bobo's Modern Coin Magic (the answer to all coin questions). Find the explanation for the Bobo switch. Toss disc in air, catch it in hand which has coin in a palmed, use the Bobo switch to tranfer coin to other hand to show it has changed.

A pass switches the position of the top packet of a deck with the bottom packet of the deck. That is why I referred to it as reversing a cut (which I believe that is the use Erdnase suggested, although it isn't practical in a real card game). If a cut puts the bottom packet on the top, a pass...

I'll echo what others have said in terms of moves: a good double lift, several forces, several methods to control cards to the top or bottom, a false shuffle, a good false cut, a card fold, a color change or two, mastery of the overhand shuffle controls, mastery of basic riffle shuffle controls...

By Forces Unseen by Earnst Earnick Trilogy by Dan and Dave

The definative resource is Levent's Linking Rings DVD set. Another good resource is Mark DeSouza's Master Works of Conjuring. I don't have Daryl's or the WGM but for the price, I suspect thay will have what you need. If you just need a false count, send me a PM with a list of the rings you...

Got it. I'll send a PM.

I have a couple of ideas, but would need the context of the effect.

There is lots to choose from out there. What are you interested in learning?

Well done. I think that it looked like you were "doing something" when you got the first break. That may fly in a performance because the audience would be being shown the cards by the spectator who selected them. However, a pinkie count would work better. I also would suggest not to over...

Sleights, in and of themselves are useless. Learn routines. My recommendation is to start with Card College Volumes 1 and 2. You will learn sleights in the context of routines to perform. You also will learn the sleights correctly -- which is my greatest complaint about Youtube magic...

http://www.conjuringarchive.com/show.php?search=puzzle Also, click on the "categories" at the top to see additional results. There are some "puzzle" like effects in Jim Steimeyer's Impuzzabilities series. I can post specific effects when I get home and can look at the books.