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It would help if you had a link to this effect so we old guys can know what you're talking about.

I should ask you, "How Much Do You Want to Spend?" A basic piece, such as you find in the Mark Wilson Course, will cost a couple hundred dollars to build and somewhere around $800.00 to $1,200.00 to own. . . more, if you go for the Walter Blaney variation and the like. The Sharpe Encyclopedia...

{Part II} MENTALISM is a key axiom found within the Hermetic traditions of occultism – All is Mind; Mind is All. It is an idea echoed within the halls of science and academia in that it is our mind, our very thoughts and thought processes, that bring about the “miraculous” – uncanny...

A Mirror’s Reflection Recently I received an IM from someone thinking themselves “cute” in which some of my views weren’t just being “challenged” but to the sender’s mind, “slammed” – he/she thought, or so it would seem, that a video by a comic that slams the precepts of “faith” would hurt me...

No, we just respect the craft and expect the young know-it-alls to do the same. Too, those of us that have already been bloodied like the idea of giving young people that are serious about actually LEARNING MAGIC the opportunity to not endure the same ill-consequences they had to endure when...

I'd slap you very hard for such thinking. It's unethical to begin with (but, unfortunately true on far too many levels) but to suggest such a thing is all that much more irresponsible.

Not that I'd Play the Devil's Advocate, BUT. . . How would you GUYS feel if someone used Magic to Pick YOU up and get YOU into their bed. . . I mean, another male magician picking you, another male magician, up for "tricks" & "Treats"??? Firstly, I know it happens. . . magic is an equal...

Please Clarify Something. . . by "getting started in the magic biz" does this mean you are new to magic altogether or you are simply taking the next step? If it is the latter, how familiar are you with the basics such as Slight of Hand (that huge stumbling block most try to get around)? How...

I'd say that you're not noticing how the performer manipulates folks into giving a certain answer -- psychological force. There are ways of guiding people to most any sum you have in mind, provided you have a knack at words & body language so as to get there. While there may be other...

Mr. Draven has really given you some sound pointers here but there are a few things you also need to consider; Firstly, is Magic going to continue as a hobby that "pays for itself" via a party here and there and maybe some weekend warrior type work? OR Do you really want to move towards the...

First off, what are you guys calling "Improvisation"? Over the past few years this concept has gone from the idea of working with what you've got on the spot by exploiting your personal knowledge, skill-sets and creativity to how much pre-set junk can I carry on me in order to show-off the next...

I didn't want to post list on the forum. . . drop me an email and we'll go from there pcraigbrowning@earthlink.net

The Reeza piece is a fairly stock set-up, without the bike you could probably buy the completed piece from someone like Bill Smith for somewhere in the $8-10k area. You could build something similar for a about a third of that cost. Understand, big illusions of most any type a bloody expensive...

What exactly are you looking for? There are several versions available that can be made for cheap-- Ray Pierce had one of the neatest I've ever seen, it was all fabric -- a set of "bars" made of vinyl I believe it was. It was raised up and in a puff of smoke, the bike & rider appear. My "Car...

Firstly, I do hope you learned the more important lesson in this situation -- STOP BEING CODEPENDENT ON PLAYING CARDS, there's a hell of a lot more to the world of magic and while they can be amusing in small doses, it gets boring and repetitive. At minimum you should invest in material about...

Actually Johnny Meah, one of the legends of the side show world, did do some serious damage to his sinus cavity doing Block Head... he also learned to never snort a line of coke just prior to going on stage and doing that particular act.

Sort of... the whole tippy-toe gag was and has always been a Parlor gag, even Balducci saw it as a bit of silliness, I'm certain he's bent over in hysterics when it comes to how so many have turned his thinking into a key part of their focus. Yes, there are few other variations that go beyond...

Let's clarify something in what you're saying first -- in the magic community for most of the past 150 years or so, the term "Illusion" has always referred to large scaled effects like a sawing in half or genuine levitation (not this tippy-toe B.S. everyone thinks to be so cool) the smaller...

In the forums you have several things mixed into one arena; strong opinions tied to strong personalities is just one, the other ingredients include Armchair Experts -- the clowns that speak with authority who've might do a couple of charity shows a year, if that. But the love to argue with the...

I've re-set the link, try it now