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Here are some sites that may be more for looking than buying. They sell the real deal: http://www.magicposters.com http://www.magicgallery.com/name_lindex.htm http://www.nnmagic.com Neilson (the last one) sells reprints. They are very nice but are still an investment. Norm is a great guy and...

Scotty York used to place the deck into the box and then bring out a razor blade. He claimed he could place the blade right next to their card, "The 4 of diamonds." He slid the blade into the deck triumphantly, and the spectator let him know that wasn't his card. Scotty would shake the box...

If a stranger came up to me and asked to show me "something" I would probably decline. Now, if they had a camera crew with them, then I might play along because I know this is TV and could be interesting. Without the camera crew, they could be trying to sell me something, they could want to talk...

You can make have a very succesful career as a performing magician without having to sell products. Admittedly, most of the "names" in magic today have become magic dealers (even if they don't own their own shop). Selling magic to magicians has become a big business. Sometime people claim to...

This is very wrong. (Excuse the directness, but it's an important topic.) If the idea has been published or already linked to someone else (via performance for example), regardless of whether or not you independently created it, the idea belongs to that other person. You cannot teach it without...

There is no such thing as a "stand up comedy trick." A great comedian is what makes something funny. Look at the material in Mac King's, Larry Wilson's, or Michael Finney's act - there is nothing inherently funny about any of it. THEY make it funny. Now, there are some tricks that come with a...

There are many types of people who love magic. There are people who collect magic. There are people who like to watch magic. There are people who like to perform magic. And their are people who like to create magic. Today, a lot of people are making money simply by creating tricks for other...

The voice of the creator is always to be given primacy. Al Baker understood his material better than anyone else. To read Roy Benson in his own words is to reveal elements of magical performance that cannot be found in print anywhere else. When we allow others to translate for us, we are...

Thanks for the kind word, Jim. I'm glad you found it funny. It was painful having to review it. Brad Henderson

Steerpike, When you study literary criticism you will learn that there is always an issue when it comes to translations. If a text is written in one language and translated into another, that translation can NEVER capture the full meaning and quality of the original. Teller himself was quoted...

You are confusing teaching and performance. Theory cannot exist without practice. From a teaching perspective, books do a much better job of communicating theory explicitly. Of course, without putting those ideas into practice in your own work, it remains purely academic. We have hundreds of...

I worked a few corporate meetings there. I had a pleasant time. I would not say I disliked the city at all. Only that the city itself was not a draw. But then again, if the magic convention is hopping, I hardly ever even notice what city it's in! B

No. First, you cannot equate the ability to understand abstract concepts with the idea that people process information better through certain channels over others based on the degree of abstraction inherent in those channels. Some ideas will always be abstract by their nature. Whether the...

I reviewed this item in its original form for Magic Magazine. There is a lot of material in this book. If you have been studying bets and scams for years, some of it will be old hat. Even then, there will be some ideas that are probably new to you. The book is written in an unusual style...

I did not attend last year. I was busy working on an event here in Austin. But, given the line up and the city (Corpus holds far less appeal for me than it does for you) I don't know that I would have attended had my schedule allowed. I will probably be in Ft Worth this year unless I am out...

Of course, you can watch a performance and glean information from it. However, that is different from a teacher communicating theory in a usable form to the student. DVDs are an excellent tool for communicating visual information visually. However, there is more to our art than understanding...

The TAOM is an odd situation. It is a "traveling" convention. Each year a different Texas city earns the right to host it. Each year the convention can be VERY different. For a while (around 00) there were a string of TAOM conventions that rivaled any international convention you could attend...

If your understanding of "magic" is merely, "I place this finger here, I place this finger there, and they can't see the coin" then maybe a DVD is all you will ever need. But as far as magic as an art, a tool which provides a feelingful response from those who participate/witness it, the...

CD, Whether or not modalities are an accurate theory is irrelevant to my point. As learning modalities are defined, a visual learner (which is a term from that theory) is someone who learns well from information which includes READING - by definition. When someone chooses to say, "I am...

No...no, they don't.