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Some of my other hobbies are more expensive than magic. However, the combination of relatively low income and demanding hobbies taught me a thing or two. Whenever possible, I will find free resources (legitimate free resources), such as library books, public domain books online or free tricks...

Do doctors have groupies? Do mechanics have groupies? Do physicists have gropies? This is a forum with people of many different skill levels. It is only common sense to defer to the better judgement of experts. If a doctor tells me that I have such and such, I am not going to listen to aunt...

To be fair, the only deck of bikes I bought in Australia was a pack of Guardians, but it was an absolute bargain. Some Bikes sell upwards of 15 AUD (12.96 USD). However, T11 shipping is cheap-ish, and I got 8 packs of cards for 50 AUD or so. I pang a little on the inside when I see local...

Well, I would prefer to get Bikes for several reasons. I'm in Australia, and getting stuff from France can be a pain. Even bikes cost 10 AUD upwards here (8.64 USD, and the AUD is lowww at the moment). Also there are size/finish issues, and as far as I am aware standard French face cards are...

I just like the elegance of the face cards to be honest. Even if it is sneaky advertising, I will be ordering these if they are ever sold. OH MY

It's nice finding a seemingly 'forgotten' effect in an older book or digging up something amazing at a secondhand book store. However, new books are different. They still bring royalties to the authors rather than the publishers. I'd be a nice if new magic books sold well enough to be...

I highly doubt it. For one, a wand like that should not detect such small amounts of metal. Otherwise your body would set it off - you have several grams of iron in you. You would have more lead in your body than a pack of cards as well.. Lead-based pigments are highly regulated and rarely...

I can imagine that Australia is like a powerful and deadly wizard. However, Australia is just way too laid back to bother with releasing the wrath of its animals on other countries. So it smites its own human inhabitants on occasion, because hey, why not?

Hehe, sorry, I realise now that may have seemed like a snappy remark rather than a nerdy-ish joke. I am nice, really. I haven't devoured anyone in weeks. Anyway, thank you for the welcome, I didn't mean to be a jerk :) I'm about as fierce as a snail really. I just haven't been called 'girl'...

Hmm, 'girl' is somewhat ill-fitting. I prefer 'many-tentacled spectral menace'. You're welcome. :D

In a way, I really really really want one and have my fingers crossed for a bottle in my city. On the other hand, I think that a lay person who doesn't know about these would derive a different, deeper kind of joy and surprise from them (or the opposite, heh). Moral conflict ahoy.

Wow, that is truly amazing. I have never seen anyone apologise for being silly and inflamatory. Most just leave forums in a huff for another, rinse and repeat until tney arrive at a cesspool of idiocy that welcomes them with open arms. Good on you for being more of an adult than most well...

Thankfully I have been old enough to drink for a couple of years now, the legal drinking age being 18 rather than 21 here. I think that makes up for the lack of cheap cherry coke, hehe. :D Interestingly, the first magic trick I ever saw was done with coins. However, the magician didn't choose...

Those backs do look kind of cute. I can get behind any design that features butterflies. However, I'm pretty sure that 'cute' is not the effect most people would be going for. I think this design is a mistake from a marketing point of view really. The vast, vast majority of magicians are male...

Dude, it was a self-deprecating joke to evoke an image of a person dripping in soda as a result of failure. I intend to try the trick again tonight, after I buy more cans of cheaper soda. In fact, as soon as I bought the can I thought "this is a great chance to try Healed and Sealed!" (I seldom...

So today I attempted Healed and Sealed in private. After wasting half a can of Cherry Cola (which is not made in Australia, and costs a pretty penny to buy here as an imported drink) and winding up with a sticky face and clothing I thought "#*@$i it, I am sticking to cards!'. As comical as this...

Hey, I also live in Brisbane and would like to know what you've got for sale. I'm a beginner, so I would happily relieve you of any old instructional DVDs you no longer use. I hope it all works out for you. All best, Alex.

I've never performed for kids, but as someone who works with youngins five and under, some tips. I can't say that this advice is in any way authoritative, but maybe it might shed some light on the minds of mini-humans. Children under 8, and sometimes older children for that matter, should...

This will sound a little strange, but I've sought help for sweaty hands for other reasons (in summer, I literally destroy any paper I touch with the deluge coming from my paws). There are pharmacy medicines to help with sweaty hands. You put them on at night and wash your hands in the morning...