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single cards kinda feel the same. Whole deck not so much.

Brian the library analogy for Youtube is not a solid one. If you go to the library to do research on a local bakery, you do not have the librarian coming up with three different books on how to bake the cake that made the bakery famous. You go to youtube and to show a coworker that cool trick...

I started magic when I was 15 years old. I was a teenager. It was total chance I met my mentor. Up until that time all the magic I ever saw was Henning and Copperfield on TV or illusion shows at school in the 80's. It wasn;t my thing. I wanted to do stuff like I read in a DragonLance book. My...

Again those guys on youtube are teaching things in an open public forum so it is exposure. You can't change the definition just because you like some of those guys. It is exposure. It seems like you want to change what is and isn't exposure based on who you like and their skill level. 99.9% of...

That is exposure. He is teaching things he did not create in an open public forum. Know what it is called when you take something that is for sell but you do not pay for it? Theft. They are stealing. When I first started my mentor would show my things. He would lend me books but most of all I...

Charlie Miller did teach his stuff. You might have heard of two of his students Ricky Jay and Michael Weber. Dai Vernon had students. My mentor was one of them. I'm not speaking for the whole. I'm saying what I have seen, what I have read other places. What I have heard in lectures, at...

If he was going to feel bad he would have never exposed it in the first place. There are a great many people out there who hate magic. They look at it as a puzzle that has to be solved and they you insulted their intelligence by performing for them. For them there is no trade off. And it;s not...

The fact that not only did he expose the ID and tell you how to make it, he has exposed more than a few strong principals all in the name of pimping his book test and driving up views for his sponsors. How would he feel is someone exposed his book test? Being a magician is better than being the...

Yet he exposed the ID for free on his channel purely to drive people to his channel for more ad revenue and to sell his book test. ID is in no way a scam or a bar bet. It is a very very commercial effect. He can try to spin it anyway he wants but it is still exposure and exposure hurts the magic...

To me teaching is a one on one, or in a lecture type setting. Exposure is putting something you did not create on youtube for everyone to see. Really bad exposure is putting it on youtube using a famous magician's name or the real name of the effect.

The you have people crying stooge.

It would have to be a really big pad. I know the effect. I wouldn't do it for more that 75 to 100 people. Also if no one else sees the selected card how do they know that really was the card? There is no plot.

This is not always true. You need to find out if the others are being paid, because sometimes it is really an everyone donated goods and services for the tax right off. I will do free gigs from time to time but I bill them my normal rate and then donate it back to them for tax deduction.

I do not watch anything he puts up since he exposes magic on his channel. Not only does he expose he exposes with titles that lay people would use to find stuff. Words like David Blaine and Dynamo. AS magicians we should not support someone who exposes magic he did not create in a public forum.

It can be done but you would need a local coin gimmick.

You say this is on stage and Cariographic is more of a parlor effect. Really anytime you have to have a card selected, it doesn't play well on a large stage.

I wouldn;t trust yelp anymore. Too many people who really do not understand how to review a place on there trying way to hard. This is why I go toa place a few different times over a three week time frame. Go lunch diner weekday and weekends. It lets you get a better feel then wanna be food critics.

And for the love of everything holy branch out from cards. Learn some sponge balls some coin work maybe a chop cup. Card tricks get old fast. You will want a three or four sets of different effects so by the time you get back to the first effect you are far enough away that the table you are at...

He did a video where the change was button down.

Also do you belong to an IBM Ring or SAM Assembly? Know the local workers will keep you from stepping on people's toes as far as fees and places guys are working.