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This is not bashing anybody in anyway but more of how I see this sort of thing right now by many younger magicians. Many of the new threads coming up and posting a vid of this "new" effect is getting a bit old. I see so many young people performing effects that just randomly use a few different...

1. Do you do your impressions in your routines? 2. Something like the harbor change, is it just messing around or dreaming or a actual creative process? 3. If there was one effect or sleight that you wished you could have been a part of or just created what would it have been?

Arggg, I had this ready for my next post along with some other "gods." Watch the movie with Bill Maher talk about religion, I believe it's called Religulous. It talks about all the sorts of religion and how misguided people are into believing it. If you really do all your research and still...

Everything LucasCG is correct, maybe a bit disagreeable about hecklers but pretty much everything is correct. My opinion about hecklers is not to say I don't care, because it means you don't care about not getting caught which translates to quite a few as I don't care about showing you the...

Please don't do the stigmata card version, it is so cheesy to what it should be. You don't do the effect any justice if you show a card on the arm, make it personal, make it impossible. Why would you stop performing something that entertains your audience? If it's because you honestly just...

I'll take that challenge visual, of course it's been awhile since a wonderful little debate. MSN is coasttocoast33@yahoo.com if you wanna have a little chat.

I have it and will not expose anything but I'll say one thing, what do you think? It's a great little change that I've been practicing every second since it came out. The thing you do to change is so easy and simple, it's not something that is very difficult.

Doesn't matter if the effect is good if the handling is poor. It's a fairly simple concept, probably been done before in some magic book maybe. Keep working on other material and practice your handling and not worry about creating effects.

You know the problem with Christianity? People turn into hypocrites, they leave out many many key important details in the bible. They say that we advcanced and things we have to leave out of the bible. The problem with it they nitpick the good things from the old and new testament and then say...

Like I wrote in my previous post, if somebody had a christian based routine and started it then I would walk away. It's to awkward listening to someone who seems crazy and loony showing some card tricks and talking about god.

The one's I recommend more than anything. Fraud, Greed, Extreme Burn, and 5 & 1 Transpo. I don't like Jacob's ladder for many reasons, practicality for one, and without exposing anything the angles aren't good for a closeup setting where people just can walk on at any time. Fraud is...

I wouldn't do it, not at all. Especially for the close up scene it isn't very right to impose something like this on someone. I'm not talking about trying to convert them as I would assume you would have enough sense not to. The problem is having these scripts based on christianity and it...

I don't believe any effect needs three phases, there can be to many phases probably something past five or six. The reason they most likely like these effects is because of the presentation they build around it. It's probably easier for them to present them and like the way they are shown to...

Just to but in this conversation and hopefully end this little dispute. I agree with Orb on this one, he said u which everybody understands just fine and this is an informal type of speaking of a not so serious subject. Unfortunately Ian you really didn't contribute to the thread and just...

My only problem with the post is one part about the pass and squaring up the deck, the subconscious barriers come up. I think you are over analyzing this part, the person most likely isn't looking at the deck. If it's flawless and it gets squared up a bit the spectator isn't going to think...

Well if we wanted to talk about hype and the effect that least lived up to it is probably pressure. Not a horrible effect, but certainly not the hype T11 sprinkled on it. The effect I would least recommend is probably Rainmaker by Peter Loughran. Great friend and this trick is amazing...

Hmm.... maybe some Jay Sankey with business cards, oh.... you meant new material not rehashed old stuff, sorry. I'm thinking Derren Brown doing a classic stage effect similar to sawing but without ever doing it. Some sort of crazy psychological method him and Nyman cook up. Or maybe just...

I still believe that an effect should be done once and one time only. I am sure changing either two of your minds on this subject is lost and that's fine. One day you will be repeating an effect and regret it deeply, whether you get caught, some wild explanations are thrown out, or they don't...

Look up William Draven's posts, how to keep clients and get gigs. I believe that is what it is called or something similar. Read all of that, or at least what pertains to your situation. Red Robin is famous for hiring entertainment and Mexican restaurants to.

The line between the two isn't necessarily just the end result. It's how you the magician present it, and presenting it several times gives off the taste of a trick. It may be amazing but still just a trick if you show it again and again. If Copperfield said he was going to vanish the statue...