I have a trick I've came up with and I was wondering if it would be something worth trying to submit.. It is a signed card to box effect. I have performed it multiple times and have received good reactions. This is what it looks like.. "You pull out a deck of cards for the spectators. You then take the cards out and hand a spectator the box to hold onto. You then have a spectator select and sign any card they wish using no force. You then take the card back showing it one last time before you place it back in the deck. The deck is then handed out to be shuffled. The spectator can keep the deck of cards at this point. You tell them how one card has jumped from the deck to the card box. You then take the card box that the spectator has been holding onto the entire time, holding it out right in front of them for everyone to see. You even shake the box so they can even here that there is something inside of it. You then open the box and pull out a single card. You ask what card they chose, then reveal their chosen card with their signature."
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Card 2 Box trick
- Thread starter ClcCray
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You have to perform it for us in order to see if we would like it. This sounds like every other card to box I've ever seen, since you haven't given a performance.
a video of the effect being performed. For people would be great. Otherwise it is just a guy giving a power point of all of the great tricks he does but the airlines lost. Yes that was a real act at Magi Fest in the mid 90's
So please a one take performance for people. But it really does sound like most other card to box effects out there.
Without seeing your performance its hard to judge, but from your description I could think of quite a few ways of doing this, from my own methods to already published method on the same trick, which there are many. So Unless your method is extremely different from the many signed card to box effects out there I wouldn't recommend submitting it.
What books magazines and DVD have you used to check to see if the method and presentation are original?
To give you an example.
I have this one effect. I have been doing it for years. Was 100% sure it was 100% original. Then about three months ago while digging into some old Linking Rings, from before I first joined the IBM, I see almost the same effect. The patter was different but it was pretty much the same thing. I was able to track down the person who published the effect. While talking, he told me when we published it he was 100% sure it was 100% original. Now when he published his, the internet was still fairly new. There was AOL and Compuserve and that was pretty much it. He had talked to people and searched his books and magazines and found nothing like it.
Move to fifteen years later and he finds pretty much the same effect online from the 1930's, before he was born. The person who originated it was from Scotland and it was in some little booklet. Method was the same only the props were different. This time though the story was almost the same.
So while it might seem we have something new, it really does help to search your books and magazines. To ask someplace with a larger group of magicians. And to search the online databases pf effects to make sure.
I have this one effect. I have been doing it for years. Was 100% sure it was 100% original. Then about three months ago while digging into some old Linking Rings, from before I first joined the IBM, I see almost the same effect. The patter was different but it was pretty much the same thing. I was able to track down the person who published the effect. While talking, he told me when we published it he was 100% sure it was 100% original. Now when he published his, the internet was still fairly new. There was AOL and Compuserve and that was pretty much it. He had talked to people and searched his books and magazines and found nothing like it.
Move to fifteen years later and he finds pretty much the same effect online from the 1930's, before he was born. The person who originated it was from Scotland and it was in some little booklet. Method was the same only the props were different. This time though the story was almost the same.
So while it might seem we have something new, it really does help to search your books and magazines. To ask someplace with a larger group of magicians. And to search the online databases pf effects to make sure.
With everything that is out there right now that the "I don't live in an area that" fill in the blank really works anymore. It's more about where you look. I think people need to understand that T11 is a forum for people who are still really new and/or mostly card workers. You do have some seasoned pros here imparting what we can when we can, but by and large the user base here is mostly new magicians. Guys like Bob Cassidy Dan Harlan Harry Lorayne Richard Kaufman Jon Allen Sin Lim and others are not posting here.
Then you have site like Conjuring Arts, Lybrary and L&L offering out of print books and magazines for dirt cheap prices. The Dover book line that can be had from Amazon for $.99 to $15. A subscription to Genii gets you every issue they ever produced. You can even book time for one on one skype lessons with some pretty famous and skilled magicians like Eugene Burger for less than you might think.
It just takes time. and more than you might think to really do the leg work to see if your effect is new.