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Hey guys, David Blaine came to the UK today (apparently for the first time since his box stunt) to give a talk at the Cambridge Union society. I had the good fortune to be able to attend and see Blaine up close - I can honestly tell you, it was an amazing experience. The talk itself was...

Hey everyone, Last month, I posted on here asking for advice about some close-up I was due to perform - that event was last night. A big thank you to everyone who commented on that thread, your tips really helped :) Just thought I'd do a quick write up of what happened and what could have...

Thanks for the great post - it was enormously helpful! I think you've got it spot on - I've been dismissing stuff like acr and triumph without really considering things from the spectators' eyes, thank you for pointing that out :)

Hey everyone, Haven't posted on here in a while - sadly magic has taken a back seat since university started, but hopefully that should be changing soon :) I've been called upon to perform some walk around magic at a ball we're hosting on 9th Feb. Experience wise, I did some "shows" at a...

It's moments like this when it pays to have an Invisible Deck in your pocket at all times :) (From what I've heard, anyway)

On a slightly unrelated note, before getting into magic, I remember watching a YouTube clip of Derren performing "Smoke" to Stephen Fry. It was, at the time, the most amazing thing I had ever seen. Now that I know the method behind it though, I still look back to that moment whenever I find...

Wow, that sounds absolutely amazing! You have no idea how jealous I am of you at this moment :) I saw Svengali last year and would literally do anything to meet him - you've got a great opportunity to talk to and hopefully learn something from a true master. Good luck, and please do tell us how...

Michael Jordan, who was the Magic Circle's Young Magician of the Year in 2009, has several routines which are based around poetry. It you do a youtube search for him you should find some interesting stuff.

Congratulations, sounds like it went really well :) If I might ask, what sort of things did you do walk-around?

Thanks for all the kind words and advice everyone. Really appreciate it :)

Hello. This will be quite a long post/rant, I warn you now. Little bit of background in case anyone is interested: I'm 17, living in Essex (UK) and been into magic for about a year now. A friend's uncle owns an Indian restaurant in the area, and last month when I finally asked him if he...

I would recommend www.themeforest.net There's a blogging platform called Wordpress that is very popular, and a lot of normal (ie: non blog) websites are made using it. Themeforest sells beautiful Wordpress themes for around $35 so they're a relatively inexpensive way of getting a professional...

Apart from timing, what's the difference between submitting a trick to Theory11 and submitting a trick to the Wire?

Thanks for the replies; a lot of great advice that I'll definitely take on board. I found out today that I'll be performing for a "small group", which (judging by the pictures of the lounge) will be about 5-7 people. I've emailed back asking about the physical/mental abilities (thanks for that...

Hey everyone, So after about 8 months of practising magic at home and for a few friends at school (I'm 17), I've finally got my first performance at the local hospice's day care centre next Wednesday... the only problem is that I have no idea what I'm going to do. I emailed them last week...

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1. Calen Morelli 2. Blake Vogt 3. Chris Mayhew 4. Mike Hankins 5. Andrei Jikh 6. B. Smith 7. Eric Ross 8. Dan White 9. Alex Geiser

What's your biggest regret in your magic career? If you could give 3 pieces of advice to newcomers to the art, what would they be?

That's pretty amazing :)

I learned the classic pass from YouTube when I got started with cards, then got The Blue Crown's video on the Brick Pass to improve it a little.