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Hello! As some of you know i'm rather a mentalist than a card guy but a passion of mine has been Cardistry for a few years now. A month or so ago i published my flourish: Triaerial in The Cardistry Magazine. The flourish appeared first in a video of mine back in 2008 and since then i have...

Hello forum members! I wanted to take a topic to celebrate this day. Today 4 years ago i took seat behind my computer and watched whatistheory11.com unravel into something of unspeakable delight. What i gazed upon at that time was a website in its infancy. At that point i had no idea of what...

Hey guys! I'm going to St. Petersburg tomorrow for 3 days. (ill be back on friday) If anyone is up there and wants to meet up hit me up with a reply, PM or e-mail (mikkparg[at]gmail.com) Also does anyone know of a magic shop in St. Petersburg? M.

Hello! I found a few notes i made a few years back that had some of my goals as a magician on it. One of witch was a wish to learn hypnosis. I have tried it before and succeeded in putting one person into a trance before but i have not done it on a large scale, really tried to incorporate...

Hey guys, Man it´s been a while hasn´t it. For the past few months i´ve been wondering if it is better to come early to a gig or not. It got the best of me and i decided to do a test. The back story After taking the decision i attended a few gigs early. An average of 2 and a half hours...

Hey guys! Ah, it's been too long. A lot has happened since i was last active, i've been silently stalking everyone for the past few months(no really i have, especially you Draven). Anyway, as a sign of my return i wanted to get your input on something. What do you as a performer change at...

Hey guys, i'm heading for Germany next month and thought i'd hit this place up for a little talk. Are any of you situated near Bochum? If so contact me in this thread, via PM or mail@ mikkparg[at]gmail.com . It would be nice to meet someone and see what cultures of magic there are in...

Hello! What i'm setting out to do is in the course of a month try to busk as much as i can. Using mainly mentalism for the cause. Let it be noted that in my country there is noone else doing this as of yet. Also our people are not used to this kind of performing. Thirdly the fact is that...

Failing|Thoughts Hello, long time no see eh :). I thought i'd talk a little about Failing and the actual benefit of it. So without further ado, ill go right in. My Thought Cycle: Recently i had an accident with an image duplication. It happens from time to time that something goes wrong and...

Im currently studying an awesome piece of Mentalism and came across this sentence: "You must know the presentation so well that you can focus your attention, as needed, on other things..." Whereas the current mainstream thinking is: "You must have the mechanics down so well that you devote...

"The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it." -Mark Twain M.

This was on Dave&Dans twitter. Mikk. Ps. It's crazy to make a new thread with An iTouch.

http://www.socialtrance.com Everyone, its in an hour. As i understand live feed from the web. Don't miss it! Mikk.

Theatrics An essay by Mikk Pärg Im finding myself going over already posted topics. But i feel that i have much to discuss now that ive grown a little and know much more. The first topic was posted on the 1 of October, so a good 3 months of collecting thoughts. Also i will be adding...

Hey, me after a long time of digesting this and im about to rethink everything on this topic. So lets get on with this shall we :). My Though Cycle: I have been on these forums for well over 2 years, from the beginning actually and from time to time good posts pop up that make you actually...

Believe in nothing you hear and only half of what you see... -- Dinah Mulock Craik Performance......what is it exactly? Why should i think about what i say when im performing? This seems to be the problem...

Hello! Many of you already know who i am, many of you not. This thread is not to say hello for the first time. 2007 summer. The year i started magic, and i am not kidding! 28.July.2007 is the date i can officially remember being i truly in magic. In august i heard of an event...

Hello! Me again :), the past few days have been phenomenal. Thanks to Williamdraven, David(D ICER), praetoritevong, RDChopper, Luka and everyone else who has participated in the awesome discussions we have had. This topic raised to my knowledge by cmdee who asked if he was ready for Street...

Some time ago i was in a chat where a topic raised "How can we advance the art!?". My first impressions of it were quite astonishing, the idiotic answers that came from there blew my mind. Then it hit me, the amount of people that actually get the question are performing and actually advancing...

Hei, i am aware that there are a lot of threads on this but i more want to focus on the post practicing part of both. To elaborate, which one really is the best to get the tiny details and get the most info on how to present it, how to perform it and what little things to add that will help...