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I think the cull should be on everyone's list. You can use it as a control, an out, a force, to invisibly set up the deck for effects, or to even use your own shuffled deck in use as a card index. It's easily one of the most versatile moves in card magic.

You need a pen, a coin, and something extra about the size of your pinky.

Agreed. I'm surprised one hasn't been set up already. If anyone still needs any help with anything feel free to PM me. I've been using Smoke quite a bit and I'm loving it.

A Sharpie cannot be used in eXile. You need to use a specific pen to achieve the effect.

Wow, that went really quick. Glad I got my registration in when I did. :)

Saying something you do not actually believe does not make it true, and is quite different from saying something you actually do believe--something I'm sure we are all quite aware of. They are not the same thing. You can verbally say anything you want, but that does not change your experience...

So do I, which was my whole point as to why I agree with the original quote ("You can't deny what you see, but you can question what it is") and disagree with Elite Pretension's rambling.

Can you provide an example? I don't follow you. If I see the ghost of an elephant float through my living room, I can't deny what I saw. My eyes saw it cut and dry, and my brain recorded it--my senses have confirmed the event happened. All I can do after that is question its authenticity and try...

I think if you had one shot to make a piece of magic truly memorable you'd want to get in as deep as possible--like borrowing an object, altering it magically, and then giving it back in an impossible condition, or using something personal and/or private like a name or a memory. Just my...

I don't really do big drawn-out presentations for my close-up material. Usually I just come up with a presentational hook and then let the effect speak for itself. What I've found is that magicians either tend to talk way too much because either A) they feel that's what good presentation is, or...

Statements like that are early excuses for failure. You have a great idea here. Decide to do it and follow it through with it. I hope you do. Sounds like a cool project. :)

All I'm going to say is if you have one shot to really impress a celebrity and get them to really take notice of you, you aren't going to be doing a damn card trick.

Before you start performing this, really consider whether it fits you or not, because it definitely doesn't fit the guy in the video clip you posted. What I'm saying is basically this--it may sound silly or harsh, but if you're going to do this effect, have a nice looking stomach. Don't have a...

Thanks for the reply, man. I appreciate it.

Is this one of the same forces taught Rich taught on the Tagged DVD or is it something new?

I use Mesika's Elastics thread. Best thread out there for Loops in my opinion.

Great effect. It can also be found in the book Magic for Dummies by David Pogue.

Glad some of you are benefitting from the video and can continue to. :)

Good thread. Cards Across: "Strange Travelers" (Blaine and PH). It's a freely thought of card across that's very clean looking. When the time is right I'm also a fan of PH's "Las Vegas Leaper." Juan Tameriz has a killer version of Cards Across too. Very similar to Strange Travelers. T&R Card...

One more I want to throw your way is David Forrest's DVD Radio Rental. I think the material on the DVD is exactly what you're looking for. David performed some of the material off this DVD for me once and it's all great stuff. His effect Two Birds with One Stone is a knockout. Here's the skinny...