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Cheerwine and bojangles, and if you live in the right areas-The Dog House. NC is just full of everything great. I'm still up for a meet-up/jam. If it's going to be a weekend day I can drive up to an hour or more if we're going to hang out for a while in any direction. I'm still in...

You can make a performance video, and post the link. An instructional one would have to be private, if you decide to make one of those the link can be sent via PM, and it'd probably be better if you used vimeo and had a password. I just want to see it in performance, I don't know about the...

Just a thought, and this is one most laymen won't come to, but to the wrong audience this is a possible effect. Finding a signed card in a spread isn't rocket science (to laymen) and they will assume what they may with the wallet load. If it works, I can't argue with it, but the spread...

Only here to help. It really is a great effect without the signature. Just make sure they don't second guess seeing it, they have to be 100% sure that they saw whatever card it was they saw.

Good thoughts Asher, and everyone, but I really like how you put everyone into two groups. I would say that you're either moving forward or standing still...and if you're standing still you'll be sliding backwards before you know it. I like what David Stone said about the difference between...

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With the posts coming up every day I decided to bump this, it's not my thread, but is important enough to be brought back.

That's pretty awesome. I will agree many magicians are pompous when it comes to people calling and asking for lessons. It's easy to teach a few things that are powerful when presented properly, but not really deep secrets. Thumb tips are so versatile that you could easily teach him different...

Agreed, and instead of editing my previous post...it really is a gradual process. Everything in magic is. Fans got it right (not uncommon) there is no one point in magic where a 'newb' is now an amateur. Nor is there a point where an amateur is now intermediate in anything, and the...

Well, let me put it this way. If a psychic reads your mind. And then pulls out a sheet of paper with information written about you on it, would it be impressive? If you reveal a selected card through any means other than a production of the card, and then you produce the card, it kind of kills...

Great advice, The Real Hustle has tons of short cons and scams. Long cons are a completely different animal. Real con men stand out with their confidence and blend in with whoever they're trying to con. Sounds easy, but it takes tons of research to be able to even do short bar-cons...

I think going from newb to amateur is getting past wanting to know the secret to everything just to be able to do cool tricks. Any serious student of magic could be called an amateur, even the hobbyist, even if they don't own books or dvds and just happen to have a mind that creates magic; if...

I don't think I've seen that version done before, very clever method for OOTW. I'll probably just go with the setup version in the spectators hands anyway. As far as impromptu, self-working miracles go...hmmm. You could take a look at Steve Beams Semi-Automatic Card Trick Series (7...

Sounds similar to a spread-cull type force, if it's not a classic force. If it's a new method, is as clean as you claim, and works 100% without any wasted movements then I'd also like to see it.

The end result is signed card in wallet? That kind of ending will kill any presentation I was thinking of. You could do a 'memory demonstration'. Pretend to memorize the entire deck in its order, force a selection (or peek...or something) and be able to run through the deck and see which...

On having cards on you all the time:: I often have a deck for two reasons. One, I am a magician. Two, Me and my girlfriend (and my regular friends) all play card games when we get together. We might sit and play tunk or rummy in a bar over pitchers of beer. Eventually I'll do some magic, if...

Good advice. I like it. I still say creating should start with presentations. If you can create a presentation for an existing trick then it will be easier to build from the ground up. You have to understand why tricks are constructed the way they are before you can start constructing your own...

You can learn short-cons from everywhere, like the real hustle for example, and if you do enough for people in bars they will teach you theirs as well. To actually be a con-man? There is a lot of stuff you'll never be able to learn, things you'd have to get straight from the lips of actual...

Maybe you weren't meant to create? Create a good performing character, take other peoples effects and put your spin on them. Not everyone needs to sit and create all day, it's not a necessity to create in able to be a magician.

how long have you been doing magic?