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I suspect the case is that he wrote down every idea he had... somewhere... regardless of whether it was good, bad, practical or impracical Nice. I love shuffling with a short card or having a spectator do the shuffling. I do something similar applying a variation of part of the method from...

It is. ADVANCED Fingertip Control isn't.

Maaz, I'm a middle-aged, balding upper middle class white guy, so no. But I don't think that means I can't relate. Re-read @Timewise64's post - we all have encountered idiots and ignorance in our lives. An insult is an insult regardless of the basis. The perspective that you are getting from...

It depends on the card trick. Most of them are boring. After three of them they all start looking the same. I like doing tricks with cards instead -- that is tricks where the card does something (get burned, disappear, reappear, turn upside down in a sealed deck, change color, etc.)

Interesting. I've been researching and working on a bunch of ideas with Short Cards lately. More working with corner shorts and scalloped shorts. Feel free to PM if you want to talk effects and usages. The main books are: Hoffman's Tricks With Cards Kapplan's Fine Art of Magic (OOP as you...

My first comment is that I have to wait 40 seconds before you get to the trick -- cut the intro stuff. At the most basic level, your mechanics grip is too deep. The tips of your fingers should be level with the top of the deck. The deck should float on your hand - not touching your palm...

The Kaplan book runs around $200. I did see one on e-Bay go for around $95 a while ago (my max bid was $85). My sense is that a lot of the Kaplan book is in other books that you can get inexpensively - Art of Magic, Our Magic, Modern Magic, More Magic, Latest Magic but my recommendation is to...

Maaz: I need some more concrete examples (real or hypothetical) to be able to provide better advice. I've never had or seen someone repeatedly heckle a magician for any reason. For me, it seems so out of context for someone to use racial / religious/ ethnic slurs to heckle a magician. Let me...

Maaz: The key is professionalism. That means looking and acting the part of the magician. Take a look at Eric Jones or Michael Vincent -- what strikes you is their professionalism including their dress, knowledge and demeanor, not their skin color. Part of professionalism is confidence. You...

You are correct, sir.

Great book. Don't skip the introduction. :)

Pretty cool find and probably authentic. I'm sure you can sell the book for at least double what you paid for it. :) I'm not a big fan of using a projector for stage magic. I think close-up magic loses something when projected on a screen. There are a lot of great stage illusions in Mark...

I guess we have different definitions of knowledge. From the sound of it, I suspect most of your learning is from people teaching effects that aren't theirs on YouTube. Not the best way to learn. For me, I wouldn't advise even trying to create a card trick without having read Royal Road...

The best I've got is Waiving the Aces from Guy Hollingsworth's Drawing Room Deceptions. It is a reddish brown book and Hollingsworth is emminently British. Used a move called the Optical Alignment which is similar to Jenning's Optical Resolve.

I think you are combining one of the free Ellusionist effects using a key card (where you deal past their card and then say "how much do you want to bet that the next card I turn over is your card?" and then turn over their card that is already on the table) and Designed for Laughter which is...

"Here's the question: What does magic offer that no other art does?" I'm in the "nothing" camp. It is the medium of performance. It has the potential to be art and evoke emotion and beauty, but that potential is rarely recognized.

As long as it doesn't involve using a pen and paper! It is hard to judge how difficult it is without knowing what you would have to do.

It is only illegal if you are pretending to do it. If you actually do it, it is perfectly legal.:cool: Anneman, T.A. Waters and Max Maven all use(d) playing cards, so there really isn't a big issue there. I think the confusion is whether a mentalist should mix card tricks (or any other magic...

I've played with Poker Player's Picnic so that the spectator picks the number of cards that are shifted to the bottom and the number of card dealt to each pile. The last stack was my choice based on addition, division and determining a remainder. I found out it is a lot more difficult to do...

If you are asking questions like this, I'm guessing you don't have the knowledge base necessary to be creating tricks. My method is to read all you can and learn all you can. Eventually, you will come up with and idea and know several methods of how to do it.