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I'm also a big fan of the creative contests--whether its making a video or doing a parody or showing off flourishing skills or showing different approaches/solutions to achieve a single effect. I'd enjoy seeing how we each perform a given trick (for example, Witness or Chris Kenner's Five...

I think there are two ways to define 'purist'. The first is someone who performs his/her effects in the tradition of the great magicians of the past--keeping in mind that many of the great magicians used gimmicks, gaffs, props, confederates and the technology of the day to achieve their goals...

Well, I'd say it depends on how much money you want to spend. I just got the Extractor and it does exactly what the ad copy says it does--it enables you to perform a seemingly totally impossible card-to-deck-to-anywhere. However, it's not cheap--but that also ensures that not many of your...

You're not the only magic shopaholic out there--I bought too many tricks and books and decks right off the bat and overwhelmed myself with them...but then went through a process of examining them and figuring out which was right for which circumstance and which audience, and which would...

On Friday the Twenty-Seventh. I. Will. Go. Bankrupt.

I like the style of the video--bright and clean instead of dark and gloomy, but with great moments of surrealism. The moment with him and 'Chucky' is amazing. Oh yeah, and there were card tricks too :p

Browser's is great...and Jeff Hinchliffe who works there (the younger Jeff) is a skilled card guy. Older Jeff knows his way around a deck of cards as well ;)

I have bought quite a few DVDs and books that have 12 or 20 or 60 effects and techniques for $40, and that's great, but it's unlikely that I'll use every single effect or technique in them. Also, there are times where I just don't have $40-$60 that I can blow on magic, particularly if I'm...

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1. What's the greatest compliment you've ever received on your work? (and from whom?) 2. You guys are very 'deadpan' in your videos--except for the rare remark like "Instead of making a porn movie..." or "I'm pregnant!" Are you the same when you're off camera? 3. Do you see any particular...

There have been a few threads about it in the Dan and Dave forums and on Cardistry. I was under the impression that the magazine ad said that the deck was coming in "two colors" and didn't specify Red and Blue...but maybe I've missed the latest...

That's completely it for me. In card magic, you generally have to sell the effect with your personality, your misdirection and patter so that the cards themselves are almost secondary. You spend most of your time trying to keep them out of the heat. Whereas in flourishing, the cards are the...

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There is one reveal--at least in the blue deck: The Queen of Spades is holding a card, the Four of Spades. Also, if you hold the Ace of Spades at arms length and squint a little, you'll see the optical illusion of the face of a lion.

I was under the impression that it is the Mnemonica stack--or something that is very close to it. (Perhaps 'off by one'.)

I purchased ID and Blood the other day. Until I did, I hadn't thought much about using gimmicked or marked decks--mostly because I think the general methods are now fairly familiar to mainstream audiences and they can be the ultimate example of ending 'dirty'. I really enjoyed both pdfs...

I have the DVDs and the deck as well. If you're open to using gaffs at all, then buy them. The gaffs themselves are very good, and even if you never use them, the DVDs are very entertaining and give plenty of insights into card handling, sleights and performing that go beyond how to slip gaffs...

I am completely inept (it's true, I might as well have stumps for hands), and while I've purchased a number of downloads and DVDs from Theory 11, Witness was the first trick I showed to anyone. In this case, it was a friend who knew I was trying some card magic and he wanted to see a card trick...

I live outside the US (Canada, but still) and I find Theory 11's shipping prices are not very different from most other online stores. As always, it helps to order several things instead of just one, and to pick the medium priced option rather than the fastest or the cheapest. Shipping usually...

I'm not sure that it's logical in the strictest sense, but there is such a strong tradition of magically placing or revealing items in impossible places--particularly if it's an item that is unique and can't be duplicated. It is more than just a disappearance/reappearance. The biggest problem...