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I performed this at work today (from chapter 3 in Corinda). Got great results! But the best part of all is that someone walked into the effect midway as I was doing it... she was under the impression that I was never told what the objects were... someone wrote down 20 objects without me...

I have never done this before, but I have photographer friends who want to help me with this. What are some pitfalls to be aware of or things I should definitely do before this for a successful outcome? Thank you!

I find it interesting how different companies' business cultures seems to affect individual people there, and how they respond if you perform for them. One place I worked at loved my mentalism and magic, and everyone wanted me to show it to their friend. "You gotta see this!" At a different...

Today I heard through the grape vine that some people liked a lot of the things I performed, but that the more direct telepathy related effects I did made them feel uncomfortable. Has this ever happened to anyone here? Or perhaps the spectator had a negative reaction in real time? What can I...

What mentalism effects or routines could you do if you spoke 6 languages? I have a passion for language, and think this could lend itself well to performance. If you were a polyglot, what could you and would you do with it in a performance?

I have been running into a problem lately that annoys me... I will do some amazing predictions and mind reading material, and then that spectator will grab a friend and say "you've gotta check this out, this guy does amazing magic tricks!" Ultimately I suppose it doesn't matter as long as they...

A lot of people I speculate would be doing nail writing, but it intimidates them. It I hard to do, and get comfortable with. You can't look at the card when you write the word, it isn't legible etc. There is an effect that helps with this considerably . Corinda has an effect called "The...

Do you ever get lost in the sheer amount of stuff you know? Make an excel sheet. Put all the tricks you know in it, even ones you know how to do but never performed. Make columns for things like: Opener, Middle, Closer, Strength of effect, Angle sensitivity, Resets, Table required, Audience...

I usually don't do metal bending as part of my mentalism, though I have in the past. But I think I will start doing more coin bends because they make a nice souvenir for the audience. I discovered something the other day though... It is possible to bend a coin (I prefer nickels) in such a way...

Few tricks in magic or mentalism score the rank of "perfect trick." Something that packs small and plays big... something that is angle proof. Something that can be done with a borrowed prop, and if it is a deck of cards as it is in my case, it doesn't even have to be a full deck! Tonight I...

So some time ago I purchased a live lecture on Penguin for Eugene Burger ... I thought it was great and had a lot of knowledge and advice about performing. That being said, the first effect he did, the haunted deck by Alan Baker was not taught in completion. He showed how to get the deck to...

I seek the advice of the wonderful magicians and mentalists here who perform professionally. All of you went through that phase... what started out as a fun hobby is something you became more serious about. In the beginning, you got caught a lot. Then you stopped getting caught, but you weren't...

How many of you have had this happen? You ask someone to think of a number from one to a thousand... you even give them the opportunity to change it. You write down a number on a piece of paper and give it to them. You ask them to open it and it was the exact number they were thinking of...

Greetings, I stumbled onto this site while searching for any magic forums that are active. I was a member of Ellusionist for a long time, and their forums were very active in the early 2000's, but started to become less and less lively, eventually shutting down altogether and becoming...