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- April 8th, 2023, 3:38 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Ambitious Classic
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2782
- April 4th, 2023, 4:41 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Ambitious Classic
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2782
- April 4th, 2023, 1:08 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Ambitious Classic
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2782
- April 4th, 2023, 8:03 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Ambitious Classic
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2782
- April 3rd, 2023, 11:56 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Ambitious Classic
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2782
- April 3rd, 2023, 11:54 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Ambitious Classic
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2782
Re: Ambitious Classic
Thank you Richard!
That’s it. I was reading Jamey’s review in Genii.
Now I can sleep.
That’s it. I was reading Jamey’s review in Genii.
Now I can sleep.
- April 3rd, 2023, 7:02 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Ambitious Classic
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2782
Ambitious Classic
I’ve been revisiting this effect for the last few months, looking at the original in Classic Magic of LJ, and the revised version in LJ takes it easy, as well as shoot offs therefrom. However, about 2 or 3 weeks ago, I think I read about a newly published variation with particular attention to the f...
- March 14th, 2023, 10:12 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Aussie magician gets attacked on cruise line
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4021
Re: Aussie magician gets attacked on cruise line
Sign on Farmer’s amp
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Black Magic Woman $100
Hotel California $200
Stairway to Heaven $300
Freebird “You don’t have that much money”
- March 1st, 2023, 8:34 am
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Eric Mead’s Tangled Web
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1052
- November 22nd, 2022, 10:10 am
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Card Warp (not the trick)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4277
Re: Card Warp (not the trick)
The problem in the winter is lack of humidity. I have two stand alone humidifiers, one in my music room for my acoustic guitars, and one in my magic room for cards and overall comfort. I try to keep the humidity between 45% and 50%. Even a popping deck can be revived if spread out widely in a humidi...
- July 13th, 2021, 4:11 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Slydini Protege Bill Wisch performs his version of the "Delben Domino" 1987
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2748
Re: Slydini Protege Bill Wisch performs his version of the "Delben Domino" 1987
That’s done very well. It’s not easy to get the spots to line up without discernible movement.
Ben was a great builder and an even greater human being. He and his wife Del were two of my very favorite people.
Ben was a great builder and an even greater human being. He and his wife Del were two of my very favorite people.
- December 3rd, 2020, 10:52 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: ZOMBIE Hand-Little Hand New Version
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8175
Re: ZOMBIE Hand-Little Hand New Version
I have loved this gag for a long time so I ordered this because, like Erdnase, Farmer probably needs the money. Ha! Seriously though, this product beats amputating doll hands. More importantly, it represents how magic crediting should be done. Credit is given on the box as well as in the video, I’m ...
- September 7th, 2020, 7:36 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Bill Wisch Tony Slydini Lesson Audio Clip- Basic Timing Technique - January 16, 1974
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2706
Re: Bill Wisch Tony Slydini Lesson Audio Clip- Basic Timing Technique - January 16, 1974
I remember Bill doing a lecture in St. Louis in the late 1970s and it was one of the best. I still do the two “palm changes”. It’s one of the upper tier lectures that taught something I still do.
- August 27th, 2020, 2:31 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: A question about Michael Skinner's Notebooks
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2770
Re: A question about Michael Skinner's Notebooks
Interesting thinking here on Invisible Palm Aces. I was visiting Michael years ago staying at his condo when he gave me a video tape of this performance which also contained his Tonight Show performance when Tony Curtis was host. Anyway, we watched this together and discussed in detail many aspects ...
Re: ERDNASE
Assuming Forte is correct that Erdnase wasn't a professional gambler but a magician, this to me is the most compelling reason why he didn't use his real name. His peers would have called him out as a fraud.
- February 12th, 2020, 1:58 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Top Change Effect
- Replies: 37
- Views: 6599
- February 12th, 2020, 1:33 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Top Change Effect
- Replies: 37
- Views: 6599
Top Change Effect
I would so appreciate some guidance on this. I'm wanting to learn a card routine whereby the spectator, for example, holds two black queens between thumb and forefinger and the magician asks whether, for example, the Queen of clubs or spades is on top, and after byplay and pretending to switch cards...
- January 30th, 2020, 2:35 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Help with Credit
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9075
Re: Help with Credit
FYI all, thanks to Justin, I found the answer in Ortiz At The Card Table. It was Skinner's handling of the Fechter spring card revelation. Apparently, the fan was Mike's idea. I should have known that.
- January 30th, 2020, 2:18 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Help with Credit
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9075
Re: Help with Credit
I know the video you are talking about and I can't find it either. I think it was taken down a few years ago.
- January 30th, 2020, 1:43 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Help with Credit
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9075
Re: Help with Credit
That makes perfect sense as Michael Skinner taught this to me years ago and he used it all the time. He most probably got it from Eddie.
Many thanks.
Many thanks.
- January 30th, 2020, 1:26 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Help with Credit
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9075
- January 30th, 2020, 1:15 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Help with Credit
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9075
Re: Help with Credit
Yes, that's it. Who should it be credited to? I'm thinking LePaul but not sure.
- January 30th, 2020, 12:56 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Help with Credit
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9075
Help with Credit
I'm trying to find the source for the card revelation on fan where you fan half the deck in the right hand and the top card of the left hand packet is propelled by the first finger onto the fan in the right hand so it does a 180 to land face up on the right hand fan. Who is this credited to? Many th...
- April 10th, 2019, 3:49 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: 1st TV magic
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3714
Re: 1st TV magic
Len O. Gunn was the first magician to perform magic on TV. Len was a friend of the Houdini's and was one of two honor guards at the last Houdini seance. I have done a lot of research on Len when I found out by accident last year that he was my grand uncle (my great-grandfather's brother). Also a goo...
- December 7th, 2018, 12:46 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: In memory of President Bush, magic enthusiast
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2520
Re: In memory of President Bush, magic enthusiast
He also owned one of Ben Stone's [Delben] ink blotters [https://www.vikingmagic.com/product/delben-blotter-delben-blotter/]. I remember Ben showing me a picture of President Bush performing it.
- October 2nd, 2018, 4:09 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Skinner Ultimate 3 Card Monte
- Replies: 26
- Views: 22403
Re: Skinner Ultimate 3 Card Monte
Skinner never looked more dashing and charismatic than in this photo performing those two handed cuts. It's worth buying this trick just for the cover picture. http://magicref.tripod.com/images/books/maxwellskinnermonte_tn.jpg Michael used to joke and say "that's my son". A friend of mine...
- February 13th, 2018, 11:54 am
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: Lawyers specializing in the public domain?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7393
Re: Lawyers specializing in the public domain?
Send me an email at wevans@cecb.com and I will point you in the right direction.
- April 27th, 2015, 2:05 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Inventing The Ten Card Poker Deal
- Replies: 466
- Views: 191865
Re: Inventing The Ten Card Poker Deal
I thought maybe I made Farmer mad by stealing Rush as a client, but I guess he forgave me because the book finally arrived in Springfield, MO today. Yea right...like anyone could do the job for this group like Bob. The book looks fantastic! Can't wait to dive in. Wonder if it has the one with the Jo...
- July 5th, 2014, 1:56 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: IBM SAM Day 4
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4376
Re: IBM SAM Day 4
Hi Bill Thanks for the feedback ... but if you concur with my thinking then I need to ask - why be forced to wear it ? Who requires it ? And why comply ? What possible benefit does it serve ? I've had the same discussions with Shawn ... and he also references "because it's required" Then ...
- June 13th, 2014, 4:21 pm
- Forum: iGenii
- Topic: More Genii Speaks - June 2014
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6361
More Genii Speaks - June 2014
Lubor Fiedler sent me a gift.....That was one of the funniest things I have ever seen anyone do. Late night? Thanks for leaving that in for us to enjoy!
- January 16th, 2014, 1:18 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Rest In Peace Steve Evans
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1811
Re: Rest In Peace Steve Evans
So sorry to hear about this. I got to meet Steve this year in Buxton when I was a guest of the British Ring Convention and found him to be engaging, charming and very funny. He was an excellent MC on the shows and he really did his homework. I'm glad I had the chance to spend a little time with him....
- October 4th, 2013, 1:09 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Who invented What's Next?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 19566
Re: Who invented What's Next?
Ben Stone [Delben] made the Delben Domino which was [and is] a great prop I have used in many CLE presentations over the years because of the "loophole" finish. If you have one, you know what I mean. If you don't, one of the dots becomes a hole in the domino at the end. There is always a &...
- October 8th, 2012, 2:13 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: We're Back From the Genii Bash!
- Replies: 106
- Views: 27797
Re: We're Back From the Genii Bash!
Aside from the obvious highlights of Tamariz's and Giobbi's workshops and the great close up shows, a personal favorite for me was not even on the schedule...that is, getting to get inside Bob Farmer's brain for a little while...oh what a scary and brilliant landscape that is. Aside from finding out...
- August 16th, 2012, 3:43 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Ricky Jay on Youtube
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1439
Re: Ricky Jay on Youtube
It's rumored that, for some reason, he would only play the game with people named Jonah.
- July 25th, 2012, 11:46 am
- Forum: Other Magic Publications
- Topic: Encylopedia of Card Magic? Book
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6877
Re: Encylopedia of Card Magic? Book
Are you sure you are not thinking of The Complete Illustrated Book of Card Magic (1969) by Walter Gibson? It's a big book with photos.
- April 10th, 2012, 3:41 pm
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: Motion Induced Blindness
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1082
- March 18th, 2012, 12:09 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Gary Plants : Daub
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1101
Re: Gary Plants : Daub
I meant thanks for releasing the silver daub. It's a fantastic product!
- March 17th, 2012, 12:39 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Gary Plants : Daub
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1101
- December 15th, 2011, 8:10 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Eric Jones impromptu moment August 2011 You Tube
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11226
Re: Eric Jones impromptu moment August 2011 You Tube
No problem Steve...I actually see your point...it's just that the magicians whom I most respect that have seen fit to try to help me understand what the real secret of magic is, have always stressed that, even if you purchase an effect or book, you shouldn't just be a monkey and spit out whatever yo...
- December 15th, 2011, 4:42 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Eric Jones impromptu moment August 2011 You Tube
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11226
Re: Eric Jones impromptu moment August 2011 You Tube
Thanks to a desire by some to "be like Eric," I am reading suggestions that weaken the original. It makes me sad that it was published. Steve, I respectfully disagree with your conclusion if you are referring to me. I have no desire to be like Eric, nor do I have any desire to be like Woo...