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Bartering can be a very beneficial course of actions for everyone. I've gotten tons of FREE photography, printing, travel benefits (everything from limousine use to private flights in corporate jets) and a long list of other neat advantages. Catch is, you need to consider just how far you will...

As I said, this really isn't my field. The people I knew in a long ago time in life came by way of the Carney world . . . the sort that would would gladly sell their mother and convince you she was still a virgin in the process. I learned a ton from these guys when it came to flim-flams...

You guys must be attracting a different breed, most of the hustlers I know have been betrayed by once trusted partners and thus, refuse to have such. Those that work with a partner are typically using some kind of electronic signaling device or might be using a combination of techniques that...

Ignoring the possibility that someone would use what we do in a criminal manner I must look at the other side of the argument here -- EXPOSURE If one is showing an audience what to look for does this mean you are tipping methods? Now I knew/know several top rated card guys like Martin Nash...

How is theft and worse, taking credit for someone else's work a "Joke"? I could have swore I wasn't on the Magic Cafe. . .

I wasn't going to reply to this thread but something about it kept bugging me. If you use coded methods even with a confederate, you will get caught! If this happens in a high stakes game or worse, a major casino, you will discover quickly, why it is believed that "The Dessert Will Come...

I believe that was the Homes of the Rich & Famous and thus, quite out of date with things. I know they were shooting something about the Warehouse/Museum/Apartment some years ago but I don't know if it was every aired. Too, David at the time, was planning to build a really nice Ranch styled...

Not so unusual, it's one of those things that will come and go over time. I've had many days of wanting to throw everything into the trash and walk away. I even sold off a show long ago and made a good try of getting totally out of magic but found myself drug right back in. When it comes to...

I knew the old guy as well. He told me once that the biggest reason he liked me was that I didn't bother him.

In my youth I had many mentors and teachers but the one I give the most credit to is the guy that taught me most in both, living life as well as magic. You will find that the old sayi9ng "When the student is ready the teacher will come" holds true; we can look and look and wish but until we are...

I find that view to be strange; why wouldn't you do a piece on someone without doing a demonstration of something they created or were known for? Some of Dai's lesser known moves like the Vernon Reach Around or an enactment of him getting all red-faced when Larry Jennings would show up. . . or...

Actually Walking on Coals has nothing to do with your theory, Punyesh and more to do with mind-set and how fast you move across them. To date I've not seen any magician actually do this stunt in the way the various shaman do it -- very slow and even dancing across some exceptionally hot stone...

Yea, but this is the U.S.A. where EVERYTHING is disposable. . . even one's mind or sense of purpose. Our education system SUCKS for so many reasons, the biggest of which is the downfall of discipline (both, at home as well as the schools) followed closely by teachers that are only allowed to...

Magic is tricks but it's NOT Mentalism . . . and I remember P&T being boycotted at one point because they were exposing how certain bits they thought to be old and out-dated. . . like the Linking Rings. So long as people choose to see what a Mentalist does as "tricks" they will not be able to...

Ok, I'm going to play the Parent part of this chat. . . I am the token old fart around here I believe, so it's my job. First of all, you're a typical 19 year old "kid" who is impatient and therefore "blind" when it comes to where the formal education can and will take you. So start by looking...

For starters, you're not supposed to be "guessing" the sum but rather "telling" them how much they have and when done right, you will seemingly be off by a dime, only for that dime to be found in the opposite pocket, a back pocket, etc. Secondly, why are you telling folks that it's just...

Yep! The whole table pitch thing was in fact an ad. . . don't you just love how sneaky SPAM has gotten over the years? Yes, I've seen and worked with several different kinds of floating tables but my work with them is based more like the old Mediums did things vs. those in our present that do a...

The community as a whole, has it's moments of grace. The one thing I've noticed most however, is the new generation of Magic (those under 35ish) tend to have a far more gracious soul when it comes to actually "helping thy fellow man" -- I hope this trend continues, not just here but globally.

I've heard nothing but good things about this system, my problem is that it is being marketed to the general magic community and not be held back for the Mentalism and more specifically "Seance" workers market. To most that might sound like an odd grievance but there is a reason for it that any...

I was just made aware of a FREE download of Eddie Joseph's classic "Come Good Spirits", probably one of the best and hardest to get manuscripts on the topic of Table Tipping and now we have the actual publisher of that tract releasing it to us FOR FREE! Anyone interested in the art of Seance...