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  1. William Draven

    Improve Your Mind: Forum Contest for the Intellectual Magician

    It is with GREAT pleasure that I get to announce the prize support details for this event has been seen... and then raised by members of our own community and once again by the staff of Theory11 itself. It is with out further adue that I am given the great honor of updating the prize details...
  2. William Draven

    Improve Your Mind: Forum Contest for the Intellectual Magician

    The stakes just went up. I was just contacted by Jon Raiker. T11 is going to add some sweetener to the prize pool. You'll have to stay tuned to see what sweet deal they're stacking ontop of Dee's already generous offer! Thanks Jon and the rest of the T11 staff!
  3. William Draven

    Improve Your Mind: Forum Contest for the Intellectual Magician

    Got it. Thanks. I read the "I'm" and "in" bypassed the "not" completely.
  4. William Draven

    How would you PRESENT this? A great exercise!

    Well the symbology that exists between the two decks are amazingly simular. The tarot deck consists of 4 suits. Wands(clubs), Swords(spades), Cups(hearts), and Penticals or Coins(diamonds). The associated meaning behind the modern suits and the tarot suits hasn't changed much. Even today...
  5. William Draven

    Improve Your Mind: Forum Contest for the Intellectual Magician

    With about a day to go until registration cuts off, all I can say is this is shapping up to be one hell of an event! I'm excited to see everyone's essays! So far, as it stands this is what the event is looking like for participation. Sinful – Judge Reverhart – Judge Draven- Judge...
  6. William Draven

    How would you PRESENT this? A great exercise!

    Props: 1 deck of poker sized Tarot cards. Pre-Show: Gather a group of people together by performing a bit of cold reading and having them select a card from the pack. Do spot one card reads while I work the crowd over and give some history on the Tarot cards, and their modern brother the...
  7. William Draven

    How to become a good magician?

    There are volumes of information that could be written about this subject. Everything from theory to practicality. The easiest way to sum it all up is this. Always strive to be better than you were yesterday. Imporve your mind, your knowledge of history, your knowledge of effects & their...
  8. William Draven

    You've Got Talent: Part 5

    I'm bumping my own thread.
  9. William Draven

    Magic dealer?

    I was wondering how long it would take before someone pointed out that the same site that they are posting this question on IS a retailer of playing cards themself. I'm just surprised it was JB who took the initiative.
  10. William Draven

    Justin Miller on Piracy

    to quote Admiral Akbar: "It's A Trraaaaaaaaaaaap!"
  11. William Draven

    So Long

    Ah. That makes more sense then. Business before pleasure and all. School does come first. Come back when you pass!
  12. William Draven

    So Long

    Wow... that was. Sudden. Later sir, best to you.
  13. William Draven

    Improve Your Mind: Forum Contest for the Intellectual Magician

    I had posted something earlier today about improving this forum by improving your minds. The result was an outstanding amount of support from many forum leaders, as well as a kick ass prize support offer from Dee Christopher. Here's the deal folks. I'm going to take sign ups for the...
  14. William Draven

    You've Got Talent: Part 5

    You’ve Got Talent: Characterizing the Presentation of Magic (Chapter 8 of 15) VIII. Practice Like any skill, character building takes practice and time to perfect. This isn’t like a RPG game where you can design a new character should your last attempt fail. This is your career. It’s...
  15. William Draven

    Improve This Forum: Improve Your Mind!

    That is one hell of a prize. Done! I'll set up the challenge!
  16. William Draven

    Improve This Forum: Improve Your Mind!

    I've got a contest worthy of this forum. Enough with posting videos about the latest card trick. I say we demonstrate that the pen is mightier than the card to sword! I think we should pick a completely random subject matter and let everyone battle it out for a cool prize over submitting an...
  17. William Draven

    You've Got Talent: Part 4

    You’ve Got Talent: Characterizing the Presentation of Magic (Chapter 7 of 15) VII. Research Anything worth doing is worth researching, and to correctly present the kind of character you want for your act you’re going to need to do some research. If you think about it, actors and writers...
  18. William Draven

    A Battle Half Lost

    ... Where's a newspaper when I need one?
  19. William Draven

    A Battle Half Lost

    I'm lost. What book is this? And where can I find it?
  20. William Draven

    Reputation Makers: What's Yours?

    I haven't seen Diplopia yet, but I hear it's great.
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