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- December 3rd, 2018, 11:43 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Royal road to card magic
- Replies: 212
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Re: Royal road to card magic
I haven't purchased a magic book in years, Mark, but I will buy this one. The mere re-issue of a classic would be of very little interest, but your annotations add enormously to the value.
- November 5th, 2018, 4:37 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: The Pass
- Replies: 229
- Views: 54134
Re: The Pass
BK: Can you do a Pass that is not seen by the audience without any wild or unnatural gyration to cover it? If it'll help make the argument, let me see what I can do about getting video of it. I don't know where Richard is going with this, but all that is required to make an undetectable Pass is to ...
- November 5th, 2018, 4:06 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: The Pass
- Replies: 229
- Views: 54134
Re: The Pass
Regarding The Burning Question of whether to shuffle or not....
I find it is usually best to let the spectators decide. What better way to dispel the notion of CONTRIVANCE than to allow the audience to direct the action?
I find it is usually best to let the spectators decide. What better way to dispel the notion of CONTRIVANCE than to allow the audience to direct the action?
- November 5th, 2018, 12:57 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: The Pass
- Replies: 229
- Views: 54134
Re: The Pass
Magician Logic in using pass to control a selected card : "Well, if i just do a smooth, deceptive pass, it will look like I did nothing and the spectator will believe the card is lost somewhere in the the pack." Reality : The spectator knows the magician can control a card by sleight of h...
Re: ERDNASE
This subject could get more complex than anyone really wants, but here's my thinking. The concept of "demand" is not as clearly defined as that of "supply" or "condition". For there are many degrees or levels of intensity when it comes to "collectibility". We ...
Re: ERDNASE
The amount something sells for on eBay contributes nothing to the determination of value or potential sales price. The purchaser could very easily be the seller using their sock puppet account , indeed many sellers attempt to boost the perceived value of an eBay item by doing just this. Jason bases...
Re: ERDNASE
FYI Jason England https://www.ebay.com/itm/312223045807 $465.00 dollars for EATCT Fireside edition SOLD I believe your valuations of the early books is off abit. LOL Magicians have no idea of value. no - the person who paid that much doesn’t. Brad--If you wish to bring the price of this book down t...
Re: ERDNASE
Since I posted the earlier picture, Scott has asked for some assistance with posting some more detailed views. Here they are. (SNIP) Scott has a very vivid imagination :) Houdini was Erdnase? Are we expected to believe that it was Houdini who demonstrated the tricks for Smith and then posed for the...
- September 15th, 2018, 9:10 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: A Question About the TV Series, The Avengers
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3940
Re: ERDNASE
Oh, I am sure it was just a bit of a joke. It is exactly the sort of thing that I would have said. However, at this stage I do not wish to confirm or deny that I wrote Expert at the Card Table. The reason why we can never presume what Erdnase meant by "need the money" is that EVEN IF WE C...
Re: ERDNASE
When you need money, usually that means you need it now--not months from now. There are faster ways to generate needed cash than publishing a book. The author wrote it to show off his skills acquired in the "cold school of experience." As for the author's frugality, the fact that he worke...
Re: ERDNASE
I see no fault in Chris's method of Facial Recognition (although I do concur with Bill when he suggests that the hair on the head ought not to be aligned with the bald pate of another subject). The authors of the article that Chris refers to would be amongst the first to say that their techniques mu...
Re: ERDNASE
Since Bill's pseudo-science knowledge is so dishonest I suggest for anybody who is genuinely interested in this subject to read for example this article http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~vmp93/Conference_pub/WACV2016_CFP.pdf What you will learn is that recognizing profile images from frontal images is a ...
Re: ERDNASE
Apparently, Brad thanks that I am allied with Chris, and he is trying to "divide and conquer" the anti-Sanders forces.
That's not the way to win, Brad. You need to be smarter than the opposition, not more devious.
Good luck with that.
That's not the way to win, Brad. You need to be smarter than the opposition, not more devious.
Good luck with that.
Re: ERDNASE
Brad: I did not say that everyone wanted to be a magician in the early 1900s. I simply pointed out that it was amongst the most common aspirations for a young boy. Others being soldiers, sailors, firemen, train conductors, "big game" hunters, etc.
Re: ERDNASE
Joe Crist writes "perception distortion". Don't know if that is what you meant. If you did, then going from "perception distortion" to "perspective shifts" is quite an accomplishment, you knew exactly what i meant. but you keep focusing on the fly [censored] since you ...
Re: ERDNASE
Now, here is the trouble with Bill's logic: he needs to question the credibility of other statements by Erdnase in order to "pound the square peg into a round hole". You can consider the "no confidences" statement relative to a single other statement ("sum of our present kn...
Re: ERDNASE
The matter of "reading comprehension" has been touched upon (often with a rude finger) a number of times in this discourse; yet never helpfully addressed. I would like to give a brief lesson for the benefit of those in need of remedial advice. Bill has told me that he doesn't think the fol...
Re: ERDNASE
Bill, Erdnase is not stating that there are "confidences" to betray. He is stating that there are not. If he is not aware of the other methods, the "confidences", then it makes no sense to refer to them. Likewise, where he previously says "as certain artifices are first dis...
Re: ERDNASE
Bill Mullins wrote: "And I interpret "we betray no confidences" to mean that some have confided certain secrets to him that he does not disclose. If he did not know them, they wouldn't be confidences." Bill, Erdnase is not stating that there are "confidences" to betray....
Re: ERDNASE
Erdnase doesn't explicitly say that he is "keeping some secrets which are not his to disclose". Here is the passage: "We do not claim to know it all. Many professionals have attained their success by improving old methods, or inventing new ones; and as certain artifices are first dis...
Re: ERDNASE
In the opening pages of EATCT, we find this interesting remark--"...the sum total of our present knowledge is proffered in this volume...". . . . If we take the above quote literally, it can only mean that the author had far more experience in legerdemain than in advantage playing. Just t...
Re: ERDNASE
did keyes just claim there was no content regarding. comportment at the card table? hey keyes - try reading the book before commenting on it. there is a reason magicians started pursuing gamblers as models to emulate - they understand things like consistency of action and character far greater than...
Re: ERDNASE
......Given the relative dearth of advice on how to comport oneself during a card game in the gambling section (nothing on wagering, or bluffing, or "reading" one's fellows' expressions)...... In EATCT, Erdnase makes note of Whist, Hearts, Cribbage, Euchre, Coon Can, Penuckle, All Fours, ...
Re: ERDNASE
Describing the method, the technique, the "move" is only a matter of accurately explaining how to manipulate the deck. I'm not saying that some folks might find that a challenge. But it is not the masterful process of making things out of whole cloth. Moving the goal posts here. We're not...
Re: ERDNASE
Pointless and utterly uninformed drivel? Then why has nobody taken up my challenge, to select a passage from the gambling section of EATCT that we can all agree took more time and more effort to write than a passage from the magic section? That, I firmly believe, is quite pointed and well informed....
Re: ERDNASE
I said above that, regardless of the experimentation and practice that preceded the writing of the gambling portion of EATCT, the actual setting down of the words was as simple as the chord changes in an instruction book on "How To Play The Guitar". It is only a matter of describing hand ...
Re: ERDNASE
from a writer's point of view, that the magic routines required more time and effort to compose, simply because they were fancier. This is nonsense. It's very difficult to write precise technical instructions involving sleight of hand well. Among modern writers, Richard does it well, Stephen Minch ...
Re: ERDNASE
Here is the problem, Bob--that, regardless of how "silly" you think the patter is, and despite how long it took Erdnase to develop his gambling sleights, the writing in the legerdemain section was more elaborate. It is not mere opinion, it is the voice of experience, from a writer's point...
Re: ERDNASE
It is not mere opinion, it is the voice of experience, from a writer's point of view, that the magic routines required more time and effort to compose, simply because they were fancier. ha. again the ignorance of the novice reveals itself. anyone can throw filigree and ornamentation on a basic stru...
Re: ERDNASE
That is your interpretation, Bob. But I have serious doubts about it. First--there is the irony of a gambler supposedly performing (whether professionally or socially) not just magic tricks, but card tricks, using the very same skills that a cheater would surely hide. Second--the fact that the lege...
Re: ERDNASE
I must be missing something somewhere. Erdnase wrote an encyclopedia of card sleights, etc., added some card tricks, and demonstrated the contents to Marshall D. Smith so that he could illustrate the book. Where is the evidence that Sanders was capable of all that? What's the problem? The purchase ...
Re: ERDNASE
I think I could make a good case for Gallaway, based on the anagram idea. Now, "S.W. Erdnase" works out to be "Reads news"--yes? And Gallaway had been a proof reader. Not only that, but according to Chris, he had some sort of connection with a German-language newspaper. Well? Yo...
Re: ERDNASE
I think I could make a good case for Gallaway, based on the anagram idea. Now, "S.W. Erdnase" works out to be "Reads news"--yes? And Gallaway had been a proof reader. Not only that, but according to Chris, he had some sort of connection with a German-language newspaper. Well? You...
Re: ERDNASE
What Erdnase provided us in the first half of the EATCT is the work of an inveterate gambler and card cheat, who then spent years (perhaps a decade) developing his personal knowledge of cheating at a gaming table into new and effective methods to manipulate cards to an advantage . . . Note also tha...
Re: ERDNASE
Not sure where your reading comprehension is, but Sanders has more in his corner than any other candidate. Beyond buying cards and writing about a card effect, there is more. These are facts, not diagrams, conjectures. If you are going to discount cards and effects as not being worth mention, what ...
Re: ERDNASE
After reading Bob's updated analyses of the writing similarities between Sanders and Erdnase, I can't possibly accept that he was not the author of The Expert. There is such a vast array of similarities in the writing that to adamantly believe Sanders is not a viable candidate is to be in denial. W...
Re: ERDNASE
I would point out that most of the places in which you find these trade customs, they are in fact attributed to the various trade organizations that standardized them. So your statement "meant to be copied without attribution " is wrong. But again, as I've said before, and as you continua...
Re: ERDNASE
I recently ran across something pretty remarkable that I haven't seen mentioned before. It's from an 1996 letter, among several available online that Bill Mullins pointed me at. Sanders, at the time, was at the Montana Historical Society. We already know that Sanders’ early diaries and notebooks co...
Re: ERDNASE
I don't blame Chris for writing things like, "...and yes, Gallaway also wrote EATCT". Because I know that this is his opinion, his conclusion. Within the context of his eBook (or even this thread), it is clear that he is presenting a theory. He is not claiming to have positively proved it....