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The routine is named "The Rite of Initiation", on page 169 of his book Mnemonica, one of his books that is actually easy to find. While the book's main focus the stacked deck, there are a few ideas on faros and anti-faros (not the flourish) included that. If you're not currently using a...

Tamariz has a routine where, throught it all, he does tricks that don't alter the order of the deck, and over the whole 10 or so minutes of the routines he faros 8 times. The climax is a new deck order.

report it if you think so. Doesn't teach any methods to any effects or show how any loop effects work. @Mat Thanks heaps for showing us the loops storage. That's a great idea, and I'll definitely be using it.

I second Bannon's "Dawn Patrol", which you can find in his book, "Dear Mr. Fantasy".

Cutting to 26 while looking at your hands is second nature, yes. Simply lifting up with your thumb at 26, or simply pulling down with your pinky at 26, isn't so much. I find an index at 26 necessary when I need to rapidly find cards without arousing any suspicion that I have even begun to focus...

Extremely surprised I'm on the list. Even though I consider myself a magican at this point, I'll give my thoughts anyway, since the others have. I'll echo what prae said, that what makes the effect personal is you. "Think of a card" effects can be made extremely personal. I generally open my...

Yeah, sometimes I make the 13th, 26th and 39th cards short cards, but lately I've been drifting away from that.

Music. My high school music teacher was big on "making the piece your own", which I've taken to magic. I'm also a psychology major, so I like doing pseudo enhanced cognition routines.

When I'm spreading through the deck with the faces to them saying something like "Now you can see all these cards are different", or "I want you to think of any card in the deck", I down-jog 13th, 26th and 39th card. So that when I close the spread, I have an impromptu index, so that the most i...

I use mnemonica purely because it's the first stack I learnt. Since I don't do any of the stack specific tricks like "Any Hand Called For", or "Deal of a complete suit", any memorised stack would work for me. I usually open my card act with multiple divinations, or "The Joker". But my all time...

I second this. One of Will Arnott's best roles.

You take the deck, spread the cards face up, under the guise of looking for jokers or something similar, and close the spread. Set up finished. You can do it FASDIU. It's impromptu.

Have you tried it with newer cards?

You're seriously asking a flourisher whether he performs? [jokes]

:P And it's an excellent line.

That's not really the best way to help people who aren't familiar with a language. The best way is to use perfect, simple grammar. As if people learn how to write another language phonetically with their own accent attached. Are you multilingual? If not, please don't make assumptions...

Wooooooooooooow... *facepalm* If you've seriously never thought about this before, then there's a problem. I hope we can get Steerpike's opinion on this. (I'm not sucking up, it's just his opinion is spot on).

It depends on your character, what you're trying to portray yourself as, what you aim to acheive through your magic. I like Paul Harris' approach. People are going to rationalize in their head how it's done, and you can't stop that. You aim for the few seconds after a trick where you see...

He's not a Criss Angel wannabe. In interviews he said he's drawn inspiration for his style from a variety of different sources. They just happen to be both on the more gothic side.

More than likely it's the other way, to be honest, but it's up to T11 if they want to let us know if that's the case.