I don't know a lot about magic history so stop calling me out and stating false claims to make yourself look superior.[\quote] This makes no sense. I said you didnt know your magic history, and you agreed then told me I was making false claims. Well done sir, very impressive, way to understand how arguments work.
The k thx was made to show you how stupid this whole freaking argument was.. But feel free to take it otherwise.
And lets be honest, if anyones a whiny 12 year old here....
Now, Nick.
The trick looks sick on camera, but I fail to see how it actually adds anything to a sandwhich effect for laymen. Its very cool methodology wise, and it looks badass, but I'm just not sure it really adds anything to the effect itself, not to mention complicating the patter a little.
What I can see being done for patter here, which would make the effect make sense though, is to be talking about mirages and how something can look completely different from what it really is. That way you can talk about how it can look like its there, when in reality its not, but for fractions of seconds, our eyes seem to trick us. Talk about how magicians use this to their advantage so that the card looks like its in the deck, but isnt, etc.
Or, we can take it the other direction, which I believe Bill Goodwin uses, and talk about how it looks for a fraction of a second like its in between the aces, do what we see on video, and then do a vanish from in between the aces to prove it was never there at all... The do the move AGAIN (except that the selection is probably on top of the deck after the vanish) so we use a similar move to tivo to display that the card is still in the middle.
I think it looks great, but that there is for sure work to be done with this before its real world ready.
Cheers,
Lucas