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For cold reading, Richard Webster is my favorite. Bob Cassidy also has a good book on the subject, as does Craig Browning. As for memory systems, I'm actually a user of Dave Farrow's memory systems, though he learned a few techniques from Harry Lorrayne. Dave is the Guinness world record...

I'll take that bet. I say it will be... 17 more.

There is such a thing as visual learning, but not that many people seem to know what it actually means. When people describe sensory learning, it's simply the context we filter it through. The three types are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Visual learners don't necessarily benefit more...

Would you care to develop that thought at all? Are you asking us to tell you what to buy because you need a fix? Do you want recommendations on where to start learning? What? Give me something to work with here. If you ask a question like that and make no attempt to qualify it, you're not...

Mental magic or mentalism. They are not the same thing. Saying "mentalism magic," is like saying "film video."

The only fanatics yelling are the people who are just mad that I'm not kissing up to them like they're used to. That's a fallacious comparison. There's a whole lot of middle ground between, "Meh," and "Die, heathen scum!!" Which no one has done so far. Again, that's a fallacious...

To be a better performer, you have get better with people in general. There's no glass ceiling, you can always improve. Here's a opst from my blog to get you started: http://pittandpendulum.blogspot.com/2010/05/getting-over-approach-anxiety.html Very encouraging to see someone who wants to...

So the only way to push myself toward something better is to risk a hospital visit? Please. Good for you. What does this have to do with other people? A valid complaint. Though that has more to do with public perception than anything else. Because if we all sat around and pretended to...

Hell to you too sunshine. Nice to see you still have that chip on your shoulder. Then don't put it in the show. Do what the audience can actually give a rat's ass about. Stop indulging yourself on stage and do what you're paid to do.

Why do you think you need mentalism? Why did you book the show before the act was complete?

Then once again I have to ask who else is going to step up to the plate and do it? Everyone here talks a big game, but the proof is in the pudding. And I've had this conversation before. The card specialists here at Theory 11 are all talk and no action. There's an easy way to prove me wrong...

Okay, how many out there are actually going to read both of these statements and how many will stop reading after the first to continue being smug, know-nothing webcam jockies? Anyone want to get a betting pool going? The qusetion then becomes, "How many people here are hobbyists but don't...

Not the way I would have said it, but at least someone else is on the right track. Just don't make a big deal out of it, and this dude will get bored and move on to something else.

Exactly. They point to other people doing it, but they don't have the balls to do it themselves. Are they too lazy? Are they too entitled to do the work? What? Yes, talk about me as if I'm not even in this conversation anymore. Very classy. Did you type that with your pinkie extended as...

I'm going to leave my dispute with your answer aside and simply say that I specifically asked eostresh if he can articulate his point. Nice of you to volunteer an answer, but I'm asking him to explain himself. Are those the only two possibilities? Did you start the thread? No? Well...

It seems I didn't make myself clear. You said that putting routines on video could count as performance art, but you made no move to qualify it further. All you did was give the webcam jockeys an excuse to continue sitting in their rooms fiddling with cards without learning anything about...

I'm starting to see the fundamental disconnect in the argument. The trouble I have with that logic is that it seems to reference people like Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and Marcel DuChamp without actually communicating a comprehension of their reasoning and philosophical approach to their...

That's sort of my thing. Someone's gotta rock the boat now and again.

I find myself deeply frustrated to see what few discussions there are worth having slip off the first page with only a couple of replies. Same reason I ultimately left. A lot of people here it seems just don't want to learn. So maybe I'm finally giving in? Don't know really. Ask me again in...

None of those are correct, but keep guessing. Maybe you'll get lucky. I don't care. So far, visualartist is the only one doing what I approve of. No. I never actually said I had poor technical skill. Just that I can in no way be considered the greatest. I would describe my...