I won't say much but one simple question, when there are those that are interested, how do you know they won't simply learn the tricks and never do magic? Many people quit magic because of the effort it takes to actually be good.
I have recently gotten into gambling demonstrations and have been putting practice to all sorts of false cuts, shuffles, and deals. However I purchased Jason England's Second Deal to start off and he recommended Richard Turner who is the best card technician hands down from what I have seen. Yet...
I have a few effects that were my favorite in each category of mentalism
Card Effect
ESPerfect, Easily the coolest card trick I own
Metal Bending
Liquid Metal, sorry Dee but this trumps all
Predictions
Super Sharpie
Mindreading
Universal Impression
Coinbending-similar to...
As a former mentalism exclusive guy the biggest problem was opening with a mentatlism effect.
What would be helpful are what type of mentalism effects you have. Psychological forces, secret writers, predictions, mind reading, etc.
My mentalism routine consisted of three parts, a mentalism...
Part of the reasoning behind the bee stingers in mint condition is at least for my stores none of them are in good condition. They all have a part of the corner cut off, they are usually pretty crappy from people stealing them or ripping cases open for w/e reason. I bought a few decks and they...
I agree with the previous post. There are places that sell a limited amount of magic and try to improve on what magic is and stands for or maybe a separate goal of their own.
However penguinmagic is pretty much crap except for a few effects that are exclusive to them. Mjmmagic.com is much...
It would be nice if nobody flamed me for the comments I am going to list. Do you think that people label David Blaine or Criss Angel as nerds? You have to put an entertaining show on for everybody watching, an effect that you can present in a non nerdy way.
Since you already have a...
Quick little story on how I received this trick. I was on dananddave.com and personally not many things interest me just simply to much eye candy. However I saw Pixel and Svengali control and decided to purchase them. Well to make this shorter, I never received the tricks until a week later due...
Witness
Fiber Optics
Zombie Ball
Only ones coming to mind nobody said. Of course if you don't know those or don't own the materials guess this really isn't helpful.
I never knew many controls but svengali control is my new favorite one. So easy and so deceptive. I'm not really a big fan of the twins but a few of their releases have been pretty good over at their site.
Way to take that out of context. Contributing means answering the question that was posted not regurgitate the same answer and talk about celebracadabra in all caps. If you could post w/e you wanted then there wouldn't be moderators or rules.
To contribute, I perform card magic as gambling...
That was very much what I was looking for. I have a lot of time ahead of me and I really want to get the sleights down, the demonstration he showed is something similar to what I want to do. I want to incorporate tricks usually listed as mentalism into my gambling set that will seem to enhance...
I guess I will need to elaborate a bit more. I don't mean to show any types of magic techniques or anything like that. Invisible Palm is on my list of effects for this type of category.
I am working on my 3 card monte, The shell game, something similar to that effect. I know this is scam...
I have watched some videos of gambling "magic" and it really has peaked my interest. I know of Jason England's products on T11, however I was wondering of other gambling "magic" effects. Table, stand up, whatever sort of setting besides stage is perfectly fine with me. So any recommendations...
Breathe, sleep, eat, poop, pet my cat, BJJ class, work out, eat some more, poop even more, this is everyday but Sunday. Sunday I breathe, sleep, eat, poop, sleep.
Maybe it is a slight change in character but that's how I am all the time. I try my hardest to be myself since I get along with many people and can entertain them with a conversation with or without magic.
If I would perform mentalism then I would go into character for sure. Just some guy...
"Congrats, you succeeded?" Um... I don't see where the sarcasm is relating to anything.
I have no character when I perform, I am similar to a DGarcia when I perform. I keep it light, crack jokes and make sure that it's not just the magic keeping them entertained. I have some philosophies...
I knew someone would say this thread is irrelevant, thank you praetoritevong for your argument. The thing is, is that everybody seems to take the context of what people say and turn them into an ultimatum almost. The real reason behind this thread was just to see who would say something similar...
One of the biggest lessons many of us learn that we are selfish when performing. Somehow we learn through mentor, forums, friends or whatever that it's ALL about the spectator and what they experience. However my question isn't about that at all, instead what do you feel as you perform for real...