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Magic is not inherently art. You can make it art, but in order to do so, you have to have very, very, very, VERY good presentational skills. You've got to be creative, original, and deceptive. Call your Tivo Transpo art, and people close your Youtube video. Show off your classic pass, and...

X-rated is Sean's second set of mentalism notes, the first being Explicit Content. X-rated is sort of a follow up, a grab bag of random concepts ranging from freaky PK routines to metal building to new sleights. It's meant to be read through a few times and allow the creativity to soak in, and...

Summary: Quite simply some of the best notes I've come across. That may sound biased because I'm a Sean Fields fan, but take into account hat I'm a fan BECAUSE of his notes. What you get: 7 effects and 1 sleight - a billet peek, which ties into one of the routines. In detail: 20 B-Low -...

What are some tricks or concepts you apply to magic, that aren't big, but still work? What tiny actions, words, gestures, etc. do you employ to provide a kick to your performance? An example: it goes without saying, but: silence. When a spectator is reacting, that's your cue to shut up...

Introduction Anybody ever see Room 401 on MTV? Kind of a magician's candid camera, if you haven't - random targets being subjected to magic, but in a more "horror-genre" sense. It's all special effects, illusions, and magic, and featured a few classics like the torn and restored newspaper...

They just didn't have their interview with Sean Fields, and they manage about a post every two weeks. Shame, their trick creation forums were great ideas. The whole trick-sharing flea market thing, though - pushing it, I thought.

So I picked up Sean Fields's X-Rated notes and learned his North of the Border center tear (in a nutshell - you can show your hands clean, holding no pieces of the billet, when it is ripped up. Very, very clever. I recommend anything and everything the man markets, if you haven't gotten it all...

Official Spam: For years Tank and Kenton have been working on a "ultimate" system for "psychic readings". They dreamed of a system using absolutely no memorization. No props whatsoever. No having to read a spectator's body language for information. A system you could do over the telephone...

Sleight-of-hand question for everyone: What's a way you could secretly add about 5 teaspoons of sugar to a water bottle? For this idea, let's assume the sugar is hot pink, so it has to be loaded carefully so it won't flash. It also needs to be READY to mix in the water without actually...

How many effects should you have ready to go before you head out and perform for new people? How many tricks to a routine? Essentially, at what point do you cap your purchases and decide to put them to good use?

(This is pretty much an account of what I'm trying to do with magic. It probably won't benefit the community as a whole, and it may even seem a little boisterous or self-indulgent. But then again, maybe you guys will find it interesting: I love hearing other peoples' theories and practices :D)...

Has anybody tried to make the Greed gimmick with the new 10s and 20s? Any problems? I want to make one, but I'm not sure if it'll look right since they have a new design and slightly different coloring. Anyone know?

A magic routine is typically defined as a performance of effects that have a common element: a coins across, a coin production, and a coin vanish, for example. But what if you wanted to perform a routine with a variety of effects that don't really have a common theme? For example, say you...

Anyone know a good resource for learning to swallow razor blades? Including ways to show harmless, gimmicked blades as actual sharp bastions of death (and smooth chins!) I'm working on a routine where I swallow three or four blades, then remove them from the body in various gory methods...