I don't usually post, but I do feel this is a thread worth putting my 2 cents into (which I hope doesn't end up being a change for $20)
We were bored of playing wow one day, so we were looking up youtube videos and my friend showed me his favorite magician, Cyril Takayama and an act with a cigarette. >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Deo8X6iVMf0 <
Magic became the topic of the night.
I watched an ambitious card done by Cyril >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2y5AiKkScs < and I was absolutely hooked on to magic. Shame on me, but I youtubed how to do this trick and found out how. I was decently satisfied at that time, but the more card tricks I looked up the more fascinated I became with the subject. Next thing you know, I goggled where to start learning magic and landed on the website we all know as E. I got the crash courses, shortly thereafter I found T11.