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I've just returned from an amazing night at the Wayne Houchin Strange Ideas lecture. Let me begin by saying if you can attend any of the remaining lectures, DO IT. The lecture was chocked full of amazingly unique and original ideas. The thing that always impresses me most about Wayne isn't...

Hello all, much like the title suggests i'm curious if anyone has any additional information or first hand experience with James Clark's Sharpie Bender. Obviously the Quantum Bender has been the somewhat holy grail of coin bends for a long time. That being said, Clark makes several excellent...

Just hoping to identify a move and a location to learn it from. The move is a one hand aerial spread at :33 seconds in the White Artisan trailer. Don't know if this is an Andrei original or can be learned from somewhere else. If anyone can help me identify it i would great appreciate it...

Hello all, first let me just bring your attention, for those of you that missed it, to this amazing video made in a collaboration between Justin Willman and Sprinkles Cupcakes. The middle captures very nicely the atmosphere and essence of magic. Second, i have a question that i am hopeful...

Something i've been pondering for awhile. We see all the time comments and suggestions about creating your character. Suggestions about having to be an actor playing the part of a magician and maintaining a feeling or atmosphere within your act. For awhile i considered this and played around...

Hello all i was hoping someone could help me identify the specific product used by magician Derek Hughes in the following video. Its be far my favorite handling of the effect and i would really like to know where its from. Thanks in advance.click me

Hey guys, im debating buying LIT. Actually im almost certainly going to, but i had some questions about the dvd. I see that both T11 and Papercrane sell it, i was wondering if there was any difference in the dvd content, or if they are identical. Also, Papercrane says it included 14 cards...

Hello everybody. I recently had the privilege or receiving a copy of an upcoming dvd release entitled Classic Problems. This dvd features the works of Brian Miller and is filmed and produced by Brian Rodgers over at mental playground productions. Well to begin with the title really says it...

Hey guys, i just received some great news that i wanted to share. Im sure some of you remember an old video from around the site that i have below http://media.theory11.com/2245-theMINT?ref=s The effect is the MINT by Alan Wakeling. Well Brian Rodgers of The Mental Playground, the guy in the...

So, i was confronted with a very strange situation tonight. Its family weekend here at college and apparently my college hired a comedian/magician for last night to entertain (i didn't go cause my school sucks at advertising and i had no idea) But apparently several people who's families love...

Hey guys....and what.. .like two gals? Just finished up a project for school. It involved creating an original piece of music in garageband than setting it too a photo sequence we had done earlier. i got bored with my photos' and decided to make a video instead. thought i would share it with...

hey guys just thought i would present a few idea's ive been playing with lately and get some feedback, the first idea is an addition to Card to Mouth, one of my favorite effects. I have been playing with it for a couple months and it really seems to hit hard. If your like me the one things...

Hey i know this is kind of random but i was looking into buying a new zippo and i stumbled upon this very cool one that comes complete with a zippo bicycle deck. check this out. click here also, i will soon need to restock on flash paper, however im curious about the differences between...

Hello all, my birthday is fast approaching and i was looking for some more info and opinions on a few different products that i may be recieving. Im currently looking at Bebel's dvd Enfin, Harry Lorayne's Apocalypse #3 and The Complete works of Derek Dingle. I would love to hear some of...

Okay, its been awhile since i posted any heavy thinking questions on here for me so i thought id share something. As magician's, to a certain degree magic becomes part of our personality and our persona. Just like everyone else we are partially defined as individuals by what we do and our...

Here's a video review of the debut release by magician Jeff Prace, GUM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWiaUK_BwPk

Hello all, i have recently been approached by a gentleman about a potential job as a dealer. I tend to always have cards with me when Im in the halls at college. This gentleman had seen me and had come up to me asking if i had ever dealt cards, knew how to stack, and a myriad of other...

Hello, im looking into purchasing the original Linking Lifesaver's by Colin Gilbert. I'm curious if anyone knows if the one sold at Hank Lee's is the original? here's the link linking lifesavers and if not another place that might sell it. Thanks in advance for the help

Hey everyone have a little story to share and then a question afterward thats completely random. I have been studying sign language in school for 2 years now. Recently i have had the opportunity to attend some deaf social gatherings and participate. Well i am by no means proficient, i get...

Hey i was wondering if someone could help me identify a prop i've seen recently. Its found in this video at about 2:45, the chip to visa fold out. I can swear ive seen the gimmick somewhere else before but i cant seem to find it anymore. Any help, name or location would be great. Another...