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I was an orphan and I lived under the stairs until my eleventh birthday when a giant.... wait that wasn't me that was Harry Potter. Anyway I do remember the first bit of magic I ever saw. I was at a birthday party for a brother of a friend and they had hired a clown. I don't remember being too...

I'm not making excuses. I completely agree that what hid did was criminal and he needs to be punished. But there is a huge difference between criminal negligence, malicious assault, and religious nuttering, especially in a court of law. That's why at least here in america we have the concept of...

If you go to Houchin's Facebook you can see the release from the program where it states the the host offered "to give them the gift of a blessing" and you can see in the pictures that Houchin had time enough to opt out but not knowing what that loon was about to do why would he. While what the...

Not only does calling it a flammable chemical mislead with sinister tones you have the series of events backwards. He poured Florida Water in his hand lit it and then threw it in Houchin's face. Florida Water is a cologne with an alcohol base used in various vodun-based religions in that part of...

In the picture he looks shocked and worried, not evil. I think this was a ritual gone awry not an attack on Houchin. I think the man wanted to perform a vodou style blessing and to do it up big for the cameras and screwed up and is as shocked as anyone that Houchin is on fire.

A short video I did to break up the monotony of shooting the same effect over and over in search of a best take. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rGZjrocUTs

I graduated in the early 2000's which I feel is when technology hit it's stride especially in schools, in elementary all we had were old macs running from the command line with 5" floppies, we used those only one time to type letters to pen pals. In middle school we had two computer labs one lab...

They are very Danial Madison, he even put his face on the king of diamonds.

I don't know that I'd blame technology for the lack of proper penmanship. Computers and texting didn't hit until the end of my High School years. But after teaching cursive in third grade penmanship never came up for the rest of my schooling.

I read a book on graphology quite some time ago and as I recall the book said that to do a full graphology analysis you needed a full page of text on unlined paper. So it would seemed to be a little on the hard side to get a large enough sample on stage but you could get a glimpse of some traits...

Last night I had my first troublemaker participant before that all I had to contend with was the type that treats all effects as puzzles lest people think they're stupid. Troublemakers are much worse than puzzlers. The effect I did for her was one called Cut with Confidence from Scam School...

What is this 1960, sell them for one billion dollars.

Reverse DL, show the top card pluck out the second and do what ever the DL would be used for.

I like the way the question is worded. I've seen several threads on various forums about what people wear while performing. This is first one where the question is about what they do to look like a magician. I've always felt the be at least as well dressed as the best dressed person there was a...

Ever since I read Teller's Smithsonian articles I've found myself agreeing with Teller about how magic is an intellectual experience. Specifically I think magic happens in the part of our brain that compares what our senses tell us with our opinion of reality.

It looks more like a set put together from other sets. In addition to the other effects named, the kennedy shell, the kennedy/centavo, and one centavo make an up an effect called Scotch and Soda so named because it's a sucker effect/bar bet and the patter is about betting a Scotch and Soda.

Recently-ish an effect came out called Blackmail, besides being a good effect it is practically strait from 13 steps method wise. And to really get the most out of it a copy of 13 steps would be helpful.