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Could be used with a blindfold routine. Get blindfolded, do whatever type of craziness you can, when the blindfold comes off make an off comment about your eyes adjusting... Just a thought.

throw cards around in ways you know you can't do, and have never seen done. Only hold 1 card, half the deck...two decks...just play around outside of the box.

On top of Wonder Words, get Pete McCabe's Scripting Magic. Even if you never write a script it will help your magic.

Overhand shuffle controls can do this, depending on your situation will determine which sequence you'll need. The bluff pass is, as stated, a great move for what you're attempting. As is the Marlo Tilt.

Oh! Pick me! Pick me! I know! It doesn't! But it does leave a lot to speculation. He means don't be like 'that guy' who uses stock patter to deliver a worn out trick in such a way that your audience doesn't care and you don't connect.

After thinking about it I know where some confusion set in, I won't worry anyone with it, but any offense against your intelligence was unintentional, and for any that resulted I do apologize. Onwards, Saying we shouldn't give future Nobel Peace Prizes away without proper credentials is, in...

So by ignoring the past, we can better mess up in the future? By pointing out mistakes we can help to prevent them in the future. Arguing day and night may not change the past, but did you ever stop to think it might help someday down the road? An example? I perform, I mess up. You can tell...

Anyone who's half-decent at something in an area with foot traffic should be good. Culdesac's aren't very good for these sorts of things...I learned my lesson though.

Looking back, Prae mentions others he was disappointed in, and some who did fine. This'll probably be the last post for our discussion as there isn't much more to say, it is true that different people react different when placed in atmospheres or situations that are foreign to almost everyone (a...

Different, agreed. But I've attended lectures where there was no loss in the magic from the performer. No stutters or um's and uhhs, they know what they're trying to portray and practice teaching these effects just like you practice in order to perform them. I will agree, a room filled with...

My bartending instructor(just took the class) told us that bartending was 95%+ social interaction, 5% knowing how to pour the drinks. I think the same is true for magic, even if it takes 100 hours of work to get a routine ready from a technical standpoint, it's only a fraction of what your...

That's what I've heard, and can attest to Cassidy's Fundamentals as being a great resource for starting. You'll eventually want 13 steps for a resource, but a lot of people will tell you to wait until you've learned some mentalism before tackling Corinda's text.

Oh, btw, I'm selling my copy bootleg for 10 cents....:rolleyes: Yeah, I think they were doing a psychological experiment when they filmed this...'how many magician's will buy something that we hype as 'super-mega-awesome-ultimate from an underground artist'.

Not too much of a flourisher, but I do hobby it. I'm downloading right now, webcam quality-I apologize, but I hope you like it. I don't look happy in the video lol...oh well. Good luck everyone. Http://drop.io/trisibangle I don't watch a lot of flourish videos, so I'm not sure how...

This is something I've read a lot about, but never figured out. Why do we do magic? A lot of people say to entertain. Great, but why magic? Jugglers, actors, singers, and small children can all entertain you, so why choose magic? I don't know, I just know I enjoy every minute of it...

Alright, I'll state it again without comparisons, no professional magician has any excuse to not be technically perfect. What he's doing is entertaining, and may fly by most laymen, but that's not an excuse for less than perfection. He does these moves and routines day in and day out when he's...

Anyone who does magic to perform for magicians is wasting their time in my opinion. With that said, there is no excuse for poor technique or being unprepared. It's just laziness on the magicians part to think 'good enough' is good enough. Sometimes it's okay to settle on things, sometimes...

There are also people who create to make effects easier for the magician, but in the process make the effect much weaker. The original Out Of This World is probably one of the (if not the) strongest method for the effect. It's simple, direct, and amazing. Since then there are quite a few...

Perfect way to go about it. And this probably makes up most of my time in magic. But having limited resources at my disposal (just under 20 books, while all good...sometimes they don't have the answer) and unlimited problems when trying to create the effect I want to be exactly how I want it...

Well, I still say the easiest way is to read all the threads you want to read now. Click the menu and 'mark forum's read' and next time you log on everything that is marked as new posts will show up as new posts. I can do a picture tutorial if you think it would help. ;) Subscribing to...