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I would check out the first few seasons of Grey's Anatomy. The ones with Dr. Burke. You can learn so much. Also look at the later seasons when Teddie was the cardio fellow. Now that Yang is kinda in charge you don't learn as much.

TAOM is in a couple of week and the SAM and IBM have groups in the area. The current SAM president lives in Dallas.

I have always used on. I have a small one for tables. A lager one for bar work and I have two tables that the top is completely covered in felt with some padding under the fabric. The close up pads serve two functions. A) It is like a small stage for the close up work. It makes your cards cups...

The other thing to remember, outside of a select few performers, magicians are only famous to other magicians.

They will also do a non-profit screen for groups so if you are a member of an Ring or Assembly might be able to get a viewing now.

This is why i use bikes. I got through a brick a week between hours of practice, gaffs, signed cards, torn cards, spills at tables, sticky hands and the Houston humidity. Sure other decks look nice but you can't get them at Walgreen or Target in a pinch. Not saying I don't have some of these...

Because when you tell people that spending time with books is more valuable than time spent with a DVD or on youtube you get told why DVDs. Or you get told some people can't learn from books and they can't find a mentor. The problem is the newer group of kids want to just know how something...

The last I heard is a Q4 home release.

It was my full time job at 17/18. I knew magic was what I wanted to do and started doing table hoping, street fairs and private parties at that age. By the time I was 20 I was doing corporate events and entertaining country musicians who came to town. So it is not impossible for a 17 year old...

Looking back over the last twenty years I think it would be a tie between Crazy Man's Handcuffs and the good old fashion silk vanish. Cups and Balls is in every formal Close up and Cabaret show I do so it is up there as well.

There is also a one volume Tarbell that is a reprint og the origianl mail order course. You can pick it up as a PDF for $30 from http://www.lybrary.com/tarbell-course-p-34.html

In the busy season it is nothing to do three or four gigs a day four or five days a week.

This line invalidated your whole argument. Mindfreak is not magic. It is poor entertainment made solely for TV and contributed to the current crop of move monkeys. Also the better yet buy things that are $10 on the wire that is taught on the cover of a self working book, is a real thing. Rick...

Ok I just picked it up in an estate sell along with a bunch of stuff from the 30's and 40's Haven;t had time to read everything yet.

Magicians are entertainers. The effect is just the means by which we entertain. It doesn't matter if it is the hardest slight or the simplest slight, if your presentation plot and patter are boring then no one will care. In my 20 years of performing, the biggest reaction is from the simplest...

I have an original copy of Cardboard Connection from the 70's let me read through it to see how it ends up

Andrus wrote the book on classic safety pin magic. Turner is blind and never learned braille. These guys know and or wrote classics. What you are throwing out is a straw man. If you want to cut off the treasure trove that is in books fine. The working pros making the videos you are buying are...

They didn't learn from videos either...

There have been books for a few hundred years now. With video you end up with more people learning in the style of the guy teaching not learning and coming into their own as a performer. Like I said earlier, with find a magician on SAM and IBM and skype you can still find a mentor no matter...

Yes people learning from just video is fine. It leaves the really good stuff that is in books only to those of use who love out books. Magic was around for thousands of years before there was video and people learned the craft. Videos are just the easy way. Soon those who do love the art and...