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- March 17th, 2014, 11:35 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Phase 1, Phase 2, ....
- Replies: 75
- Views: 14374
Re: Phase 1, Phase 2, ....
I think Brad is right on the money. The original question relates to multi-phase routines and there tendency to bore. You can get away with very little in the way of motivation for a single phase routine (as Blaine does), but for longer routines and sets of routines more thought is required. Simply ...
- June 11th, 2012, 1:51 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Paul Wilson's amazing card dealing act.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2046
Re: Paul Wilson's amazing card dealing act.
It is a great routine, I agree. My advice if you want to perform a similar routine is to just keep studying. You shouldn't try to copy a routine like this beat for beat. When you know enough about false deals and cards in general, you'll know what's happening when you watch this.
- April 4th, 2012, 5:36 pm
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: Questions for Mentalists
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1973
Re: Questions for Mentalists
I'd be happy to help out in any way I can. Where is the questionnaire located?
- August 18th, 2011, 8:28 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Creamation
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1326
Re: Erdnase
At least, to me, the difference in the voice from the "card table artifice" and "legerdemain" sections is readily apparent. The voice in the latter section is not the type of voice usually found in the type that might be capable of the voice in the first part. I have no proof of ...
- February 6th, 2011, 8:06 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Astrology is now an official science in India...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1458
Re: Astrology is now an official science in India...
Jonathan, unfortunately all of the studies have just shown that all the predictions of astrology are completely invalid.
- February 6th, 2011, 6:37 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Astrology is now an official science in India...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1458
- February 5th, 2011, 5:55 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Called out for flashing!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2087
Re: Called out for flashing!
It should really be routined in such a fashion that you are not really holding out. There should be no period of time when you hold the load and nothing happens. The cup is picked up, the cup is set down, and the load has happened. Check out Bob White's DVD on the cups and balls if you are really in...
- February 5th, 2011, 2:13 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: WTB Unreal works
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1006
- January 31st, 2011, 4:48 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Riffle stacking
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8114
- January 29th, 2011, 2:30 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: The Stupidity of Scientists
- Replies: 91
- Views: 22467
Re: The Stupidity of Scientists
In my opinion, in a study using one hundred students and a fifty-fifty choice of computer screens the 3% is well within range for calling it random. Are you telling me that you would be amazed if you flipped a coin one hundred times and heads came up fifty-three times out of a hundred? You could the...
- January 28th, 2011, 6:28 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: The Stupidity of Scientists
- Replies: 91
- Views: 22467
Re: The Stupidity of Scientists
Brad, I absolutely believe he got the results as stated. There doesn't seem to be any reason to fake a statistically insignificant amount of the results. The real problem is that these are classified as results at all.
- January 28th, 2011, 8:19 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: The Stupidity of Scientists
- Replies: 91
- Views: 22467
Re: The Stupidity of Scientists
What JT is trying to get at is that a good hypothesis is falsifiable. There is not even the beginning of a notion of a mechanism for the transmission of "esp". This wouldn't be so bad if there were any documented case of it ever, but this seems beyond the reach of the supposed experts of t...
- January 22nd, 2011, 3:47 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: So did anyone actually see 'Triumph' at the Las Vegas Hilton?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3530
Re: So did anyone actually see 'Triumph' at the Las Vegas Hilton?
Wow, I guess it was better than I thought it would be...
- January 20th, 2011, 6:37 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Variation of Paul Wilson's C3 effect.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1550
Re: Variation of Paul Wilson's C3 effect.
So... the video is almost unwatchable and has absolutely nothing to do with Con Cam Coincidencia. I fail to see the point of posting this.
- January 20th, 2011, 1:02 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: So did anyone actually see 'Triumph' at the Las Vegas Hilton?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3530
Re: So did anyone actually see 'Triumph' at the Las Vegas Hilton?
I saw enough to know not to watch it...
- January 11th, 2011, 6:59 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Basic Moves
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3776
Re: Basic Moves
I love that sybil is listed as a basic requirement. Are we talking basic when I started or fundamental to what I do now? Basic to a beginner would be simple card controls like a double undercut, a good force, a good double lift, and maybe a false cut or two. If we are talking fundamentals then THE P...
- January 10th, 2011, 3:42 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: The Stupidity of Scientists
- Replies: 91
- Views: 22467
Re: The Stupidity of Scientists
No evidence, eh? I thought psychics were out helping the police solve crimes everyday... The real problem here is a lack of understanding on the part of the researchers of statistical variation. 3% should be well within one standard deviation, and not categorized as any sort of unexplainable anomaly...
- December 24th, 2010, 2:38 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Triumph II
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7089
Re: Triumph II
Dustin, perhaps you should reread goat's post with the implied sarcasm. He was referring to Glenn's new name for "triumph" i.e. "face up face down trick".
- December 14th, 2010, 6:20 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Triumph II
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7089
Re: Triumph II
I guess we will just take your word for it that it was the same card... I'm sure it was, you just never showed it.
- December 14th, 2010, 2:56 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Accessing the Genii Forum
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6116
- December 9th, 2010, 9:54 pm
- Forum: Light from the Lamp ONLINE.
- Topic: The Rauschenberg Effect by John Hostler
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10670
Re: The Rauschenberg Effect by John Hostler
John,
I am interested in the RE, but the link to your "riddles" doesn't seem to work any longer. How do I go about proving my worth?
I am interested in the RE, but the link to your "riddles" doesn't seem to work any longer. How do I go about proving my worth?
- December 5th, 2010, 7:03 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Belief in magic?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5187
Re: Belief in magic?
Magick is defined best by Crowley (who added the k) as any act of true will. This definition points to the fact that the will, if it does exist, violates causal determinism.
- December 3rd, 2010, 11:59 pm
- Forum: Children's Entertainment
- Topic: For Special Needs Members Only
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5631
Re: For Special Needs Members Only
I mean, who's fault is it if someone can't understand my/someone else's posts? Now for the repetitive posts, I can understand. In fact, Jack Pyle used to tell me all the time not to repeat myself. Him and my dad went way back.
Re: Erdnase
David, I know that he is not speaking in his own voice. He is taking advice from the speaker. The speaker is telling him not to waste time running up two hands, that the mark will most likely play any hand dealt to him. I don't see anyone who speaks of the "feminine portion of the smart set&quo...
Re: Erdnase
I think that there is good reason to suspect at least the influence of a second author for the magic section. Note that in the gambling section he refers to "Charlie's pass". In the magic section the name is corrected. The patter for the "Exclusive Coterie" sounds nothing like th...
Re: Erdnase
'If I may add a few more thoughts - Erdnase said in his book or the reason that he wrote the book and self published it was that He needed the money. If he could do the info that he published in 1902 why could he not find a game - and use his system to get the money!'-Glenn Bishop Remember what Erdn...
- October 28th, 2010, 5:43 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: How many books/DVDs do you own
- Replies: 105
- Views: 25096
Re: How many books/DVDs do you own
You could do a good pass when you started card magic? I couldn't. I am going to assume that your pass has improved over the years. If you want to increase the difficulty level of your ambitious card routine, there are thousands of moves to choose from. If your desire is to use more difficult sleight...
- October 28th, 2010, 12:28 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: How many books/DVDs do you own
- Replies: 105
- Views: 25096
- October 22nd, 2010, 5:10 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Show Me A Card Trick
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6764
Re: Show Me A Card Trick
Usually, I find anything that I can do with the elements at hand... I always have a deck close at hand if I need or want it, but I would rather make magic with random objects.
- October 21st, 2010, 9:16 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Show Me A Card Trick
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6764
Re: Show Me A Card Trick
Just curious, but if someone just asks you to show them something, do you immediately go to cards? If not, what do you tend to show?
- October 19th, 2010, 3:57 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: CNN: Will Physical Books be Gone in Five Years?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4096
Re: CNN: Will Physical Books be Gone in Five Years?
Jonathan, your posts are always awesome. All their base are belong to you.
- October 18th, 2010, 5:17 pm
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: Tony Corinda
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7196
Re: Tony Corinda
A short list of famous magicians who were also masons can be found here http://mill-valley.freemasonry.biz/maso ... icians.htm
- October 18th, 2010, 5:23 am
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: Tony Corinda
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7196
Re: Tony Corinda
We're not that secretive. Just ask and I bet any mason you know will talk about it, it's just not the kind of thing that you bring up yourself.
- October 17th, 2010, 4:31 am
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: Tony Corinda
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7196
Re: Tony Corinda
I am a freemason, and I don't know if Corinda was one...just thought I'd let you know that someone had read your thread.
- October 14th, 2010, 3:05 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: How many books/DVDs do you own
- Replies: 105
- Views: 25096
Re: How many books/DVDs do you own
I agree Goat. He seems very fidgity. Also, I have never understood the idea of having a spectator shuffle a deck, then the performer openly removes cards from it face up. This he does so he can remove cards openly and cull some. She shuffled for a couple of minutes too.
- October 13th, 2010, 5:49 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: How many books/DVDs do you own
- Replies: 105
- Views: 25096
Re: How many books/DVDs do you own
I am not saying that I use no introduction at all, just that mine is minimal. I think in both the Forte and Malone videos the introductions were as minimal as they could be. To me, excessive introduction is boring. You do need more of it in a more formal setting, though. I think there are definitely...
- October 11th, 2010, 2:18 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: How many books/DVDs do you own
- Replies: 105
- Views: 25096
Re: How many books/DVDs do you own
Presentation is not all about introduction. I use very little introduction if any when I perform. For me, presentation is really what the whole experience is about. No one would be impressed if I just said what sleights were going to be used and then performed them. Presentation is about making the ...
- October 11th, 2010, 1:59 am
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Magic Technique
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3903
Re: Magic Technique
I think what Brad is bringing up has little if anything to do with the camera, but rather with the overall presentation of the effect. It is a bit confusing. This has little to do with the camera and more to do with the pseudo explanation in the patter.
- September 30th, 2010, 1:01 pm
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: Self deception with TED
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1428