Would it be worth it? I have no doubt that the effect could be a very powerful effect and the value could far outway the cost of $1000. However I would not purchase it. For one simple reason and that is that it is Paul's effect. If you will be using his patter, his effect essentially being an...
Quite a nice presentation. I especially like the Tamariz subtlety on the first card and how smooth the removal of the card on the transposition. However that cards movement looked a little weird.
I personally don't like predictions as card effects.
Most of them seem over done adding wallets, envelopes pockets are well at least in my eyes adding a prop for the sake of adding one and more often than not it does not add to the effect. To say I have a card in my wallet and remove the...
I use a lot of suggestion in my work, when I am performing. The primary point I was trying make was that you should really learn what suggestion is and what it is capable to do. The secondary point was that a more powerful technique is ambiguity and to actually use it as Banachek does so well...
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The tangent of ambiguity was to highlight that as a tool it is a more effective tool than suggestion as to the method of the effect. In the example the reason for using the ambiguous language is that you have not peeked the card in the early stages of the effect. Distancing the cards...
WOW where do I begin.
Sankey has not been in magic for 40 years, I just found that funny.
I would consider the Buck Twin's to be more classical than Sankey. And we all know how 'classical' they are. But Sankey's ideas not just in presentation but in method are so unconventional that...
I did not notice your being away from t11 (your 2600+ posts don't help you there)
I love equivocal techniques especially with playing cards. In Joshua Quinn's Paralies he talks about this topic at length and anyone who wants to learn more show look there. If you want something a little...
Thanks for the kind words.
We have not spoke in a while we should do it again some time :P
Also thanks for picking up on one of the two main points I was trying to get out there with the suggestion is best suited to heighten the effect and not create it. The other being that people need...
Don't.
Well I am not exactly saying that but you have to be 100% certain that you want to learn this very powerful tool. The primary mistake a lot of younger people make is that, if they learn suggestion they will be able to achieve amazing feats that Derren Brown does. Rational thought and a...
Do you perform any other genre's of magic? If so how do you present them as pickpocketing to the audience as a whole is a combination of dexterity and misdirection? Almost all audiences understand that these are the two main aspects of magic. However they momentarily suspend that rational...
Kenton's work is like a introduction to that final 25%. How to polish the routine and take it to the next level. Paul Brook's book Alchemical Tools is unreal in that regard as it does everything Kenton's work wants to and much more. IN the example effects there is a 20 something page write up...
Mentalism is a truly different genre of magic. There are so many differences between it and traditional magic, and Bob Cassidy is one of if not the best at describing those and how to apply them to your magic.
As the cards are to be read from a spread Madison's Blood is probably the best system, as you can edge read it. If the card is removed from the spread I would use the Spelmann's system as it can be read from a distance.