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    How did you do that?

    "how did you do that???" "very well."
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    Is flourishing necessary in Card Magic?

    Flourshing can be used to showcase your talent and to boost your image as an entertainer. Think of it as using the appropriate lighting in a museum to match the art you have hanging on the walls, where misuse of the lights or over use of the lights can completely take away from the experience...
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    Tips On Creationg Magic

    sell all your tricks that you bought and buy a book. Try taking the tricks you already know, and putting your own spin on them. Take a trick that uses a pass, and try to supplement a different sleight, and see how it changes the trick, and what you need to change to make the effect the same...
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    After RRCM

    Did you say, "I have read AND PERFECTED every move taught in RRCM" ?? I laughed inside for at least 5 minutes. That is a mighty claim my friend... If you are working on becoming a move monkey, then ok, I suggest The Paper Engine, and By Forces Unseen... which should keep you busy for about...
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    The Ambitious Card Routine

    here is the thing about the ACR... just asking people for which sleights to use will not make your ACR go from subpar to par or to great. the impact you get from your ACR depends completely on your experience and your audience. You can perform the EXACT same ACR using the same sleights and...
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    Favourite Control?

    HAHAHAHAHHAHAA you should make this your signature. it's like you are advertising you know nothing about what a decent control is. I would bet you that a well supported / executed cascade control looks 10 times more natural than any of your passes, especially when your hands are being...
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    Homepage - with Flash

    The key to a website: content - design - architecture - purpose all need to match and work off of each other. You can have a brilliant website with an amazing design, but if the architecture of the site is terrible, and users have no idea where things are located, than your site fails...
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    A new trick for you all

    Ok, I gotcha! took me a while but I figured it out! What you want to do is, first, take it out of the plastic bag and defrost it for about... umm... 15 minutes (depending on the altitude of where you live), BUT, do not let it get a way. because those suckers can RUN FAST!!! Trust me... I...
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    What magic websites do you visit often?

    ... just freaking wow... I am in utter disbelief that no one here has listed http://www.themagiccafe.com how do you all expect to improve at all in this art? also check out http://www.doublefacers.com http://www.vanishingincmagic.com
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    ChangE: Tony Chang

    Officially published version by Tony Chang of his color change: ChangE started originally with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvkOEUD7O5c&feature=channel_page but has now been released as : http://www.vanishingincmagic.com/magic-downloads/card-magic-downloads/ChangE/ Included...
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    THIS is how to practice

    ... the pass. One of the best classic passes around, Fujii Akira of Japan, and his pass practice method. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsJNTeZgxMU I have seen it in person many times... and it is simply perfect in every way, and I don't like saying that about anything. But, he has...
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    Pressure

    I understand where you are coming from here... but I must implore you or at least strongly suggest you to not do the trick 10 times in 2 days. Hehe... and this is not because I don't think you are doing it well, as I have no clue about your performances... I am giving you this advice for YOUR...
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    My Pressure Experience

    Ok... so I knew that pressure would hit hard in Japan, because Japanese people go for the fast, visual, simply followed but impossible to understand, type tricks. I was with a group of friends (slightly buzzed from the gin/ vodka, which I think helped), and I was standing in a half circle my...
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    may we strive...

    haha, it's not me. But in Japan, people are known for taking on one single hobby and working at it until perfection. Spare/ free time is a rare thing for most high school students/ business men (college kids have too much free time though), and thus they really just go at one thing hard-core...
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    may we strive...

    ... to be like this guy. This is what it means to strive to perfect your art, and to truly love what you do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iC3b5JnSIE
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    Transpo: comments please

    Haha. good call =). As for the pass, yeah, it is still acting a bit knacky at the moment, some days are better than others. But mainly, the video was to share the idea of the flow of the transpo in addition to the sleights. I will continue to practice the sleights, timing, etc... I have...
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    Transpo: comments please

    hehe thanks. Yeah the Top card cover pass... is the bane of my existence. I don't like to hide behind the small hands excuse, but it does make the sleight a bit harder. I am trying to work it in from a basic hand gesture preparation, into a relaxed card spread to assist in the off-beat...
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    Transpo: comments please

    I have uploaded this video to vimeo, with a password, as I am seeking feedback so that I can continue to refine the trick for another month or so. Looking for feedback on : 1 - flow 2 - are the actions leading into the sleights justified/ natural, etc... 3 - choice of sleights to match the...
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    1 minute

    I'm sorry... what turned out ok? 1: totally couldn't even come close to being able to follow what you were doing or where you were taking me in that trick... I saw a lot of face down cards, a lot of unnecessary card handling that just confused the heck out of me... some poorly executed clip...
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    What happened?

    I can't believe you said this... from reading your posts before, I had some respect for you. You told other magicians how it was, straight up, no beating around the bush. That being said, I thought you were actually a magician who knew what he was talking about, someone who held magic at a...