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You like playing cards. I like playing cards. So I sat down and finally decided to try my hand at designing my own deck. Apparently sometime in September I confused my engineering degrees with graphic design. Oops. Anyway, the cards have a classical element theme (water, earth, fire...

There are also a handful of tricks involving matchboxes. The first one that comes to mind is a penetration trick where a needle or coin clearly goes completely through a matchbox. The matchbox is then opened to show that it's filled with a wooden block. I forgot the precise name of the...

Well, Hank Lee himself just got thrown in jail for a couple years for $500k worth of credit card fraud. The store is still going, but I can't make any claims about its current status. I've never had problems with T11, Ellusionist, or Dan and Dave, but I'll admit to getting most of my books off...

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"is a new era magician, illusionist, master of sleight of hand and simply a person, who performs things that a trully MAGICAL! " I think you meant '...performs things that are truly MAGICAL!"

Been some time since I did one of these. I've just recently been getting back to magic - I'm starting slow, rereading Mastering the Art of Magic by Eugene Burger, as well as spending time reflecting on how I can grow my magic from what it used to be to something more substantial. Something a...

I managed to find a copy of Expert Card Technique, 3rd Ed, in decent condition for 10 bucks. It was a good day.

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I love Everywhere and Nowhere, but I find Michael Vincent's take on it pretty boring. Tommy Wonder's however, is excellent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvFJZqMUoQY

Not sure about Expert at the Card Table. It is definitely in Hugard and Braue's Card Manipulations compilation, and in the 3rd edition of Expert Card Technique (if not the 2nd)

This is something I've always wanted to ask. What makes you want to flourish? I guess more specifically - Do you get to perform your flourishes, even semi-regularly, for people other than magicians/card flourishers? Or is it just a fun activity to do in your spare time?

2 things: I did a trick where the back of the card changes from blue to red, and while my friend (a normally very logical person) didn't buy the card changing color 'by magic,' he thought I spraypainted it or used a marker to color it in. I also pulled the hail mary of all 'think of a card'...

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Baby powder works wonders in the summer for sweaty hands.

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My goal was to be able to deal seconds, bottoms, and tops smoothly from a single grip. Results Could use improvement, but a good start I think.

Expert Card Technique is only minimally laid out to be read in order. I don't have my copy on hand, but I know the early chapters focus on sleights, with the later chapters focusing on tricks and routines. That being said, I believe one of the first two or three chapters focus on false deals...

What if, at a bar, you took bottle caps and arbitrarily turned them into coins? You could run a light patter about how you like collecting bottles to return for nickels, but that the caps ares actually worth more. You just have to know how to get the money (change the cap to a quarter or...

If you're going to see cirque, skip Believe and see something guaranteed to be incredible, like 'O'.