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Hey Theory 11 crew, I know it's been awhile since I've posted on here, but I saw this tonight and it made me think of you all. If you haven't seen this yet, it's a documentary about the comedy Magician, The Amazing Johnathan. This is not my youtube channel nor is this something I'm promoting...

Hey Theory 11 crew, So I have the chance to go buy some books this Friday and I would love to add a couple of books on Mentalism to my shelf. Does any one have any recommendations on books that explain the fundamentals and systems of Mentalism, not really looking for just a book of "tricks"...

Hey theory 11 crew, I was just given Villian from Daniel Madison as a gift and I was wondering if any one had a good source on how to best use rough/smooth additives to cards. The well meaning gift giver decided to give it to me and delete the email that had the how to vid. Soooo..if anyone...

Hey Theory 11 crew! So I just wanted to start a thread to see what cool magic books/dvds/gimmicks you were gifted this season. It's fun to see what people received and how it changes what they are doing, if it changes anything at all. For me, I was gifted,Tangled Web by Eric Mead, The Pass...

Hey Theory 11 Crew! So last night I was fortunate enough to perform at a local shop in the area for a small crowd and I decided that for this show, I was not going to use a deck of cards. A quick side note about me, I started learning magic on card tricks and have devoted 90% of my time...

Hey Theory 11 crew, I just got back from the auditions for the Cincinnati America's Got Talent auditions. Naturally I auditioned as a magician and I would love to give you all a run down of how the day went. Maybe this will help those who want to audition in the future. 11:00 am: I arrived...

Hey Theory 11 crew, Tomorrow I will be auditioning for AGT and I can't wait. I'm doing a mentalism trick with a deck of cards that I've written all over. Don't want to go too much further into it but it's super visual and should be a lot of fun! Here's to waiting in a line for seven hours...

Hey Theory 11 crew! So last night I had a show hosted by a really cool local business and it was my first true parlor show. For those of you who do not know, I'm a close up magician and up until this point I've done a bunch of walk around gigs for different companies and parties. So last...

Hey theory 11 crew! So just got home from a great Halloween, and I've had this come up a lot lately and wanted to see what you all think. When a random person who hears you are a magician *or whatever you call yourself* comes up to you and ask if they can see a trick, what do you do for them...

Hey Theory 11 crew! Just got back from a gig that I booked for a company near me that had a special super sale/event party today. I knew going into it, when I took the gig, that it was going to be a lot of little kids *5-10 year old kids* and their parents. I had never performed for...

Hey theory 11 crew! I was working on a new routine today for a corporate event that I just booked and was wondering, what is your method to building a routine? Do you pick a theme and work from there or do you create a story arc that your routine follows? I know for me personally, I three...

Hey theory 11 crew! Just did my first street performance today and it was awesome. Was able to set up and did two separate shows for a little over 20 people each time! Also, based on the money I got from that and the gigs I've been getting, I'm now doing Magic full time. It's kinda scary to...

Hey everyone, So I was wondering, is there a move, or a control or force that you seemed to have a really hard time getting down? For example, and I know that this is silly...I can't get a fan to look clean to save my life. I try and try and try, I have look at every tutorial I can, and for...

I wonder how much he hears that lol. On the advise of RealityOne I got my hand on the Card College DVD and already I have learned and fixed many of the different sleights. It is like have a great mentor on your screen and it even broke down some tricks that I had been wondering about. I'm...

Hey theory 11 forum friends, So I wanted to let you all in on a couple things that I have done that I hope I can share and perhaps encourage any one who might be struggling in certain aspects of their technical skill with close up magic. When it comes to the performance part of doing a...

So in the little over a month that I have been doing this, I've made a couple friends in the magic community in my local area and one of them just bought me a Svengali deck, it's being shipped to my place now. So I figured I would do a little research on it before it got here. Anyone have a...

Hi everyone! I was hoping I could get some insight from some people who have been in the magic community for awhile. When did you feel comfortable calling yourself a magician? I've been learning magic for a little over a month now, and I did my first performance today and it went really well...

Hey everyone! I'm relatively new to magic and have been learning all I can about it. This is an overview of one of the cooler tricks I learned about called Triumph. Would love for you to check it out and give me some advice, I don't really know anyone in my area that is doing close up magic...