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- May 27th, 2011, 2:20 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Books vs. Dvd
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4307
Re: Books vs. Dvd
Thank you for your correction. BTW, Charlie and I have had an off-list conversation about this whole thing. He is a nice young man. He is also not anonymous as are some of the putzes who frequent this forum. Regarding the e-mail I received from one fellow -- I don't spend as much time on this forum ...
- May 24th, 2011, 12:45 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Books vs. Dvd
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4307
Re: Books vs. Dvd
Kendell the Book computer on Amazon. No we don't need a Broken Wand Service. Charlie This is a perfect example of semi-functional semi-illiteracy. KINDLE. "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter it's the difference between a lightning bug and t...
- April 6th, 2011, 5:21 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Update to the Auction of the Century - The Christopher Collection
- Replies: 85
- Views: 21903
Re: Update to the Auction of the Century - The Christopher Collection
The longer they wait, the more difficult it will be for people to make the necessary arrangements.
- February 16th, 2011, 2:28 pm
- Forum: Light From the Lamp
- Topic: The Square Circle IS a Classic!
- Replies: 69
- Views: 17959
Re: The Square Circle IS a Classic!
Regarding the Square Circle and/or its deceptiveness and its appropriateness, consider this: The first application of this particular trick was by Louis Histed, in the form of a sentry box. That was appropriate for his style of show. It probably fooled a lot of people. The ABC Chewing Gum Recombobul...
- February 16th, 2011, 2:15 pm
- Forum: Light From the Lamp
- Topic: The Square Circle IS a Classic!
- Replies: 69
- Views: 17959
Re: The Square Circle IS a Classic!
The Zig-Zag is really a bad choice for this particular thread, I think. Shortly after the Harbin book went into print, I saw the trick done well by someone who knew what he was doing. I wasn't even involved in doing any kind of illusion work at the time, and the prop SCREAMED the method to me. Yet i...
- January 27th, 2011, 7:27 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Wilson/Jennings Chop Cup Routine Question
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7540
Re: Wilson/Jennings Chop Cup Routine Question
Bob Stencil also deserves some inspirational credit for this routine. Pete Biro has the whole story.
- January 26th, 2011, 5:24 am
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Cube-A-Libre House Of Magic (1960s)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4766
Re: Cube-A-Libre House Of Magic (1960s) Price Reduced
I sent you an e-mail. Why haven't you answered me?
- January 22nd, 2011, 6:59 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Anverdi item on eBay.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 804
Anverdi item on eBay.
Ja-Ramy of Mexico has an Anverdi die for sale on eBay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 500wt_1156
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 500wt_1156
- January 22nd, 2011, 6:57 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Department Of The Oh So Slightly Wrong
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5025
Re: Department Of The Oh So Slightly Wrong
There is more to this than the auction indicates. The London media picked up on the fact that Paul is auctioning off some of his old props, and started spreading the word that Paul is ticked off at the Magic Circle (WRONG!!!) and that he is somehow seeking revenge on the Magic Circle (WRONG!!!) for ...
- January 16th, 2011, 4:27 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Credit Question: Silk from Spectator's Sleeve Using a Thumbtip
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4560
Re: Credit Question: Silk from Spectator's Sleeve Using a Thumbtip
I got the idea for doing it from Roger Klause's spongeball routine. However, I was fairly certain someone else had done it with a silk before I did.
- January 13th, 2011, 4:29 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Want to buy cups and balls
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7284
Re: Want to buy cups and balls
I don't know if these would even interest you, but about 50 years ago I was given a trunk of magic that belonged to an magician who died. In it was what I perceive to be a cheap set of C&B. They are light weight & have one bead around the middle. Shiny copper color on the outside, and a dul...
- January 13th, 2011, 4:27 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Latest Potter and Potter auction -- Jan 29
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1942
Latest Potter and Potter auction -- Jan 29
If you are at all interested in crooked gambling apparatus or books about gambling, please take a look at the latest Potter and Potter auction catalog. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.potterauctions.com/">http://www.potterauctions.com/</a><!-- m --> This auction has Ray Goulet's colle...
- January 8th, 2011, 4:47 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: WTB: P & L or Owen table base
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6211
Re: Was able to fix: P & L table base
Not to disagree with someone who has your experience, Mr. Riser; however, nearly every web site that lists these taps and dies lists them as "special fractional sizes" and not with the standard sizes. You won't find them at your local hardware store. I can't imagine anyone shopping for tap...
- January 8th, 2011, 4:38 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Wondering how much this would be before eBaying it
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1463
- January 8th, 2011, 4:37 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Want to buy cups and balls
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7284
- January 8th, 2011, 4:36 pm
- Forum: Convention Reports
- Topic: I.B.M. Convention Last Chance Discount Registration
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2714
Re: I.B.M. Convention Last Chance Discount Registration
Why do you expect anyone to sign up for a convention if nobody has ANY idea who is going to be on the program? "new and exciting changes to the I.B.M. Convention experience" is a rather nebulous advertisement. AFAIC, people who will register for this would buy plastic "equilibrium bra...
- January 8th, 2011, 1:58 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Want to buy cups and balls
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7284
Re: Want to buy cups and balls
Frank: The Paul Fox cups on the RnT II site are good cups. The Foxy II.V's are also excellent cups. The copper cups by Bazar de Magia are decent cups for the money. Go to the cups and balls museum site. If you don't have a username and password, send an e-mail to me as directed on the site, and I wi...
- January 8th, 2011, 1:54 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Want to buy cups and balls
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7284
- January 8th, 2011, 1:52 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Disappointment ! please be awarethat fake Tarantulas are on sale
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4200
Re: Disappointment ! please be awarethat fake Tarantulas are on sale
Sometimes the Chinese make a translational mistake that says it all! ;)
- January 8th, 2011, 4:09 am
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Want to buy cups and balls
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7284
Re: Want to buy cups and balls
What kind of budget do you have? What type of cups are you looking for? Great ones? Small ones? Some as big as your head?
What metal? Copper, Brass, Silver, Aluminum?
Chop cup, three cup set, Combo cups?
What metal? Copper, Brass, Silver, Aluminum?
Chop cup, three cup set, Combo cups?
- January 8th, 2011, 4:07 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Disappointment ! please be awarethat fake Tarantulas are on sale
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4200
Re: Disappointment ! please be awarethat fake Tarantulas are on sale
Just be glad it wasn't a fake Blaney hoop. BTW, Blaney took a lot of heat from the European magicians, because his ladder levitation is so expensive. They complained that they could get one cheaper from a source in Italy. A few of them bought the counterfeits. The ones who had the real ones wrote Wa...
- January 8th, 2011, 1:01 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: The Stupidity of Scientists
- Replies: 91
- Views: 22502
- January 8th, 2011, 12:51 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Dean Dill has a serious question.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4540
Re: Dean Dill has a serious question.
I sent this to one of my former banjo students who is an ace veterinarian, too.
- January 8th, 2011, 12:42 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Disappointment ! please be awarethat fake Tarantulas are on sale
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4200
Re: Disappointment ! please be awarethat fake Tarantulas are on sale
There is a web site based in China that is advertising knockoffs of Blaney's Miracle Hoop for a price that is wonderfully tantalizing. They have even copied the ad copy from his site. If you purchase this knockoff, you deserve what you get. Just to see what you got for your money, Walter ordered one...
- January 7th, 2011, 1:03 am
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: how to dye flash paper
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7367
Re: how to dye flash paper
For years, I used a piece of flash paper inside the envelope I burned when I did the Bill in the Lemon. In the US, there were three basic thicknesses of flash paper offered. One was called "super flash." It was very thin and burned rapidly. There was a medium grade paper that burned a bit ...
- January 7th, 2011, 12:48 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Alan Wakeling's Liquid Sands
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6581
Re: Alan Wakeling's Liquid Sands
I don't understand why the version Ted was doing failed every time he brought it out. The only time Ted actually used it was when he was doing his lecture tour in 2003. He tried it a couple of times, and the thing basically didn't work right. The version he was doing started with the liquids in the ...
- January 7th, 2011, 12:39 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Happy Birthday Eddy Taytelbaum!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2794
Re: Happy Birthday Eddy Taytelbaum!
When I was working on the Ren Clark book, which was never published because Ren's estate decided to "split with the office trailer," Eddy came to Fort Worth and spent a couple of weeks at Ren's. Eddy and I wrote the instructions to all of the Taytelbaum items that were in Ren's collection....
- January 7th, 2011, 12:32 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Chuck & Jan Jones
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2430
Re: Chuck & Jan Jones
Chuck and Jan are two of the best people in magic. I hope that someone, somewhere will be able to help them get their items back.
- January 5th, 2011, 3:49 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Magicians seek to reinvent an old art for the Internet age
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4352
Re: Magicians seek to reinvent an old art for the Internet age
Sankey knows what he is talking about. If anyone knows about arrogance, he should. However, when you have non-magicians (who are musicians) writing reports based upon what a few magicians say, you have results similar to those you have when there are non-musicians (who are magicians) writing reports...
- January 5th, 2011, 3:21 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Surrealistic promo for magic club
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4291
- January 5th, 2011, 3:15 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Magician falls off stage
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4412
Re: Magician falls off stage
When the TAOM convention was held in Tyler, Texas a few years back, MarcoM was supposed to MC the first evening show. He gave the stagehands notes as to where the microphone was to be placed, etc. But the stagehands missed their cue, and forgot to put the microphone downstage center where it belonge...
- January 4th, 2011, 7:12 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: WTB: P & L or Owen table base
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6211
Re: Was able to fix: P & L table base
First of all, the P&L bases were aluminum with nickel-plated brass center columns. I can't tell you what the plating on your column is, because it may have been replated. However, if you look at the column (center tube) in sunlight or its equivalent, you may be able to determine the plating by w...
- January 3rd, 2011, 12:15 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: how to dye flash paper
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7367
Re: how to dye flash paper
Joe Webster, who lived in Houston for about a decade, was a research chemist for Shell. He had a huge book he wrote on chemical magic, that had everything in it from making colored flash paper, making flash paper that burned in different colors, clock reactions, you name it. He submitted it to sever...
- January 3rd, 2011, 12:10 pm
- Forum: Magicana
- Topic: Getting in touch with Patrik Kuffs
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4065
- January 2nd, 2011, 2:05 am
- Forum: Columns
- Topic: Roberto Giobbi’s Column “On Practicing Magic”
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6153
Re: Roberto Giobbi’s Column “On Practicing Magic”
Thanks Bill, might make a good excuse to stop down to NYC and visit my father, who likely has that book on the shelf. I guess the Neil Diamond and The Monkeys versions of I'm a Believer are equally valid (orchestrated differently, I know)... What I was getting at is a proposition that we don't get ...
- January 1st, 2011, 12:59 am
- Forum: Columns
- Topic: Roberto Giobbi’s Column “On Practicing Magic”
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6153
Re: Roberto Giobbi’s Column “On Practicing Magic”
Jonathan -- The interpretation of the notes on the page is left up to the performer. There can be many different valid interpretations of the same piece. In fact, in many different types of music, the notes on the page are merely a framework in which the musician worked. There is not enough room on ...
- January 1st, 2011, 12:50 am
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Something different from yours truly!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2836
Re: Something different from yours truly!
Both of you are!
Happy New Year to both of you.
Happy New Year to both of you.
- January 1st, 2011, 12:37 am
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Jack Benny Introduces two up and coming magicians - 1929
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5280
Re: Jack Benny Introduces two up and coming magicians - 1929
They were masters of setting up punch lines. Watch "Wrong Again" and see how they set up "just the reverse."
- January 1st, 2011, 12:09 am
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: For your closeup pad while you drive?.......
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1000
Re: For your closeup pad while you drive?.......
That's great. It gives you something to do when you are driving and taking a break from texting. I can just see this scene. Driver: "Officer, why did you pull me over? I wasn't speeding." Officer: "You were texting while driving. That's illegal in this state." "I wasn't text...
- December 31st, 2010, 11:51 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Happy Boxing Day
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3012
Re: Happy Boxing Day
Don't say that in Quebec!
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