Search results

I do coin magic coz it's freakin awesome! And not everyone can do coin magic (well they can, it just doesn't look very good) Good coin magic is a really fun challenge (especially the Harbottle stuff) I've been doing coins for about 3 years now.

There's a lot of... dead moments in this, doesn't seem to flow all that well really. You make a lot of unneeded gestures, a lot of flipping coins around and such. A coin routine like this should be able to be done silent to music if need be. You also have a little bit of what I call "crab...

well 1966 isn't all that new besides, most people won't even have seen a round silver 50c piece before. Anyway, you use a sulfur solution (liver of sulfur) to darken the coins so they have an aged effect. You can buy it commercially. After you darken it, you'll have to polish out some bits...

You need more practice - hand positions are kind of forced and unnatural. Alright for one month but that doesn't really mean a thing. on the side note... Why are people still putting up videos like this, This is on the same level as a "watch my pass" video.

a rough grade to do the initial sanding, then moving to the extremely fine stuff to finish it off. I recommend the use of a file in addition to the sandpaper. you'd probably want to do some darkening to your coin as well.

Actually we're a proper club that encourages new people to come and learn magic so we do mostly teaching and stuff but we also have sessions for the more experienced crowd. Sometimes we invite guest lecturers to teach as well.

Let's see...i'll prob only point you toward books but.. Please buy and read The Expert at the Card Table (it's a short book), and also Royal Road to Card Magic and Card College 1-5. on the side reading: Classic Magic of Larry Jennings, Close-up card magic - Harry Lorayne, Steranko on Cards...

Both the University of Melbourne and RMIT (City Campus) have a magic club. Swing by if you have the chance, i'm in the UniMelb one. cheers

The original version belonged to Shawn Farquhar (as far as I know), I suggest you check out his work to compare. cheers

Coins across? coin matrix? spellbound? charming chinese challenge? just to throw out a few.

That's nice and all, but i'm sure you don't need a reference for these kinds of things. Also with it being a 'shell' i'm sure its not hard to figure out what to do. They hard part is buying the equipment for it and making lots of em to polish your skills. I dunno about you emailing todd... but I...

heyyy that's my buddy David.. lol when I saw this thread I was thinking "hmm I should post up his vid" ...turns out it was

In terms of the spectators being able to check themselves if the cards are really mixed up ... Kostya's would be the best choice because the audience actually get to shuffle the cards up... A cheek to cheek deck needs to be switched out if you wanna continue performing with it... and it's...

There is an IBM ring and also a Magic Circle society... But it's pretty much all the same people ... haha... People just flock to the ASM because it's the bigger club (4th oldest in the world)

Go with Andrus, I'm so bored of people saying "oh get BFU! it's t3h pwn" take the road less traveled ... Or get them both... can never have too many books.. haha...

First off, you might want to check the Magic Store at Southgate (Southbank) http://www.themagicstore.com.au/ Every 1st Monday of the month there is Magic Mondays at Dante's in Fitzroy, you can get info when you visit the magic store. Every 2nd Monday of the month there is the Australian...

Classic stuff. Dai Vernon book of Magic - Lewis Ganson.. good stuff...

Well if you want some harder stuff, why not pick up Kaufman's Coin Magic book? It's a great resource with a lot of super awesome tricks. If you want DVDs then pick up David Roth's set - go for the Expert Coin Magic made easy set first. cheers

Take off your pants and run around the room/area Look at the great reactions you'll get.... mwahahah...

You guys are leaving out the fact that it's more fun to do something hard too.. all you move monkeys should understand... hahaha... You COULD just do (as you said) a control to the top and then the transformation, but where would be the fun in that... so boring..! Let's spice things up abit! -...