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by Richard Kaufman
November 1st, 2023, 1:24 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Fire at Stevens Magic Emporium
Replies: 4
Views: 1375

Re: Fire at Stevens Magic Emporium

They are still completely non-functional except for the www.stevensmagic.global website.
If you want to support Stevens Magic, then order from that website. They have a long way to go to recover.
by Richard Kaufman
October 31st, 2023, 4:31 pm
Forum: Close-Up Magic
Topic: Video of Roth's Standup Copper/Silver Classic?
Replies: 31
Views: 8886

Re: Video of Roth's Standup Copper/Silver Classic?

There is no reason to do the Palm Change quickly. I should make a video.
by Richard Kaufman
October 31st, 2023, 12:04 pm
Forum: Close-Up Magic
Topic: Video of Roth's Standup Copper/Silver Classic?
Replies: 31
Views: 8886

Re: Video of Roth's Standup Copper/Silver Classic?

Correct: you do the stand up version for standing spectators, and the seated version for seated spectators.
I was able to read a copy of the Fred Kaps technique for the Palm Change and it is, indeed, what I reinvented and what is published in CoinMagic.
by Richard Kaufman
October 30th, 2023, 12:43 pm
Forum: Close-Up Magic
Topic: Method as Accoutrement - A Minor Rant
Replies: 25
Views: 4916

Re: Method as Accoutrement - A Minor Rant

"Method" is never irrelevant for the simple reason that each of us is different. Method A might work better for Magician A than Magician B. This is often confused with the argument that "method is irrelevant" because the only thing that matters is the effect. These are two entire...
by Richard Kaufman
October 30th, 2023, 12:40 pm
Forum: Close-Up Magic
Topic: Video of Roth's Standup Copper/Silver Classic?
Replies: 31
Views: 8886

Re: Video of Roth's Standup Copper/Silver Classic?

I have not read the Kaps Purse book, but depending upon the author the description might not be accurate. I only know that I was told that the technique I developed (because the Roth technique was impossible for me) was essentially the same as what Kaps did.
by Richard Kaufman
October 30th, 2023, 12:08 pm
Forum: Close-Up Magic
Topic: Video of Roth's Standup Copper/Silver Classic?
Replies: 31
Views: 8886

Re: Video of Roth's Standup Copper/Silver Classic?

The Palm Change was originally done with dice. It's an old gambler's switch. The first to do it with coins was Earl Presto Johnson. Roth's technique is far more difficult and requires a long second finger. There's no reason to do it that way. If you look in CoinMagic (my book) you'll see the techniq...
by Richard Kaufman
October 30th, 2023, 12:03 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Nate Bargatze hosting SNL on October 28
Replies: 16
Views: 3548

Re: Nate Bargatze hosting SNL on October 28

The normal guy does both Trump and Biden, and that presents a problem considering the situation of the potential candidates in the general election--you can't have one guy playing both roles. So they are going to be trying out various folks to do Biden and eventually settle on one. This guy was not ...
by Richard Kaufman
October 29th, 2023, 6:42 pm
Forum: Close-Up Magic
Topic: Method as Accoutrement - A Minor Rant
Replies: 25
Views: 4916

Re: Method as Accoutrement - A Minor Rant

Before Vernon, Daley, and Horowitz, methodology was more brute force: Multiple Top Changes, Passes, Palms. There was a huge difference before and after those three guys in New York (and Arthur Finley).
by Richard Kaufman
October 29th, 2023, 3:25 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Nate Bargatze hosting SNL on October 28
Replies: 16
Views: 3548

Re: Nate Bargatze hosting SNL on October 28

And Christopher Walken! The guy can do no wrong.
by Richard Kaufman
October 28th, 2023, 8:45 am
Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
Topic: Magic as sci-fi in old movie
Replies: 3
Views: 3740

Re: Magic as sci-fi in old movie

This is well-known. There's history on who supplied and or built the illusions.
by Richard Kaufman
October 28th, 2023, 8:44 am
Forum: Feature Articles
Topic: Michael Vincent article in Genii; Nov 2023
Replies: 18
Views: 8522

Re: Michael Vincent article in Genii; Nov 2023

The photo of me and Farmer is a pose with the Busby voodoo doll. :)
by Richard Kaufman
October 27th, 2023, 8:55 pm
Forum: Feature Articles
Topic: Michael Vincent article in Genii; Nov 2023
Replies: 18
Views: 8522

Re: Michael Vincent article in Genii; Nov 2023

I never thought I'd read the second sentence of the first paragraph on page 21 in a magic magazine. He's entitled to his opinion, but of course it's nonsense. Derek Dingle thought it was one of the greatest tricks invented, and did it regularly. Now there's an opinion I'll accept. The construction ...
by Richard Kaufman
October 27th, 2023, 8:51 pm
Forum: Feature Articles
Topic: Michael Vincent article in Genii; Nov 2023
Replies: 18
Views: 8522

Re: Michael Vincent article in Genii; Nov 2023

I used to go to a bar in NY in the early 1980s with a friend of mine who was blond and looked like Daryl Hall. Quite a few people glanced at us wondering if we were Hall and Oates.
by Richard Kaufman
October 27th, 2023, 8:48 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Nate Bargatze hosting SNL on October 28
Replies: 16
Views: 3548

Re: Nate Bargatze hosting SNL on October 28

I've always thought Stephen Bargatze was screamingly funny.
by Richard Kaufman
October 27th, 2023, 12:11 pm
Forum: Close-Up Magic
Topic: Ramsay Cylinder & Coins
Replies: 7
Views: 4655

Re: Ramsay Cylinder & Coins

You can buy Andy Galloway's sterling DVDs from International Magic in the UK.
by Richard Kaufman
October 27th, 2023, 12:10 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Kuda Bux
Replies: 12
Views: 3648

Re: Kuda Bux

Oh for f*ck's sake. I don't pay attention for a few days and this is what happens? Keep it clean and polite or go elsewhere. Plain and simple.
by Richard Kaufman
October 21st, 2023, 7:16 pm
Forum: Close-Up Magic
Topic: Ramsay Cylinder & Coins
Replies: 7
Views: 4655

Re: Ramsay Cylinder & Coins

The top of the frame of the film has been cut off on Facebook.
by Richard Kaufman
October 21st, 2023, 7:15 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Card Craft, Collected Almanac, Totally Out of Control All Reprinted!
Replies: 23
Views: 6296

Re: Card Craft, Collected Almanac, Totally Out of Control All Reprinted!

Some ordering issues with Totally Out of Control have now been fixed!
by Richard Kaufman
October 20th, 2023, 9:07 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Card Craft, Collected Almanac, Totally Out of Control All Reprinted!
Replies: 23
Views: 6296

Re: Card Craft, Collected Almanac, Totally Out of Control All Reprinted!

My wife, who created the website, tells me that she fixed the problem with Totally Out of Control and it can now be ordered.
by Richard Kaufman
October 20th, 2023, 9:03 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Card Craft, Collected Almanac, Totally Out of Control All Reprinted!
Replies: 23
Views: 6296

Re: Card Craft, Collected Almanac, Totally Out of Control All Reprinted!

None of the reprints are sold out. I will double check the website.
by Richard Kaufman
October 18th, 2023, 3:43 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Card Craft, Collected Almanac, Totally Out of Control All Reprinted!
Replies: 23
Views: 6296

Card Craft, Collected Almanac, Totally Out of Control All Reprinted!

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by Richard Kaufman
October 16th, 2023, 10:46 pm
Forum: Close-Up Magic
Topic: Precedents for Ring/Coin Move
Replies: 10
Views: 4098

Re: Precedents for Ring/Coin Move

Sankey uses the Himber Vanish.
by Richard Kaufman
October 13th, 2023, 2:56 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Not the Bob Read Book...Kurt Volkmann's Geschichte der Zauberkunst
Replies: 48
Views: 23578

Re: Bob Read Book?

ALERT: The item being teased is NOT the Bob Read book. Confirmed with the publisher. Not sure what this is.
by Richard Kaufman
October 13th, 2023, 2:41 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Not the Bob Read Book...Kurt Volkmann's Geschichte der Zauberkunst
Replies: 48
Views: 23578

Re: Bob Read Book?

It has to.
by Richard Kaufman
October 12th, 2023, 10:10 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Not the Bob Read Book...Kurt Volkmann's Geschichte der Zauberkunst
Replies: 48
Views: 23578

Re: Bob Read Book?

The new book will be the book that was supposed to have been published in the first place. I rescued it from the hard drive on Bob Read's computer right after he died. After the fiasco with Volker Huber, I guided it to Bill Kalush at Conjuring Arts in the hope that it would eventually be published a...
by Richard Kaufman
October 10th, 2023, 8:29 pm
Forum: Collector's Marketplace
Topic: Nightmare Alley-First and second editions
Replies: 5
Views: 2460

Re: Nightmare Alley-First and second editions

Why don't you post a link to the auctions?
by Richard Kaufman
October 4th, 2023, 11:35 am
Forum: General
Topic: Max's Birds of Prey Series
Replies: 13
Views: 17281

Re: Max's Birds of Prey Series

Max definitely wanted to take secrets with him.
by Richard Kaufman
October 2nd, 2023, 3:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Max's Birds of Prey Series
Replies: 13
Views: 17281

Re: Max's Birds of Prey Series

I had the opposite impression: that Max was saving the best of the Bird of Prey series for himself to use in the future in order to continue fooling magicians with them.
by Richard Kaufman
October 2nd, 2023, 3:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Max's Birds of Prey Series
Replies: 13
Views: 17281

Re: Max's Birds of Prey Series

Yes
by Richard Kaufman
September 30th, 2023, 11:18 am
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Not the Bob Read Book...Kurt Volkmann's Geschichte der Zauberkunst
Replies: 48
Views: 23578

Re: Bob Read Book?

There is a new version of Bob Read's Cup and Ball book being prepared by Conjuring Arts Research Center. This will be the REAL book, with the 200,000 words that Bob wrote which were not included in the earlier version published by Volker Huber.
There are no other Bob Read books in preparation.
by Richard Kaufman
September 29th, 2023, 9:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Max's Birds of Prey Series
Replies: 13
Views: 17281

Re: Max's Birds of Prey Series

Max did not plan any posthumous releases. He worked on some final projects during the last year and a half of his life, but they were mostly short. The one thing that did reach completion was the chapter on Mentalism he wrote for the new edition of Greater Magic. After his first brain surgery, he ha...
by Richard Kaufman
September 29th, 2023, 4:27 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Max's Birds of Prey Series
Replies: 13
Views: 17281

Re: Max's Birds of Prey Series

If it's not already been published in a book or described on a video, it's likely not going to come out.
by Richard Kaufman
September 28th, 2023, 4:54 pm
Forum: Reference Room
Topic: Copyright
Replies: 5
Views: 2950

Re: Copyright

I think, assuming the work is not "a work for hire," that copyright ends 75 or 95 years after the death of the author. However, in this case, most of the books published by Max Holden's never had their copyright renewed after 26 years (as used to be the law). Thus anything published by Hol...
by Richard Kaufman
September 28th, 2023, 11:32 am
Forum: Link Watch
Topic: Youtube channel recommendation
Replies: 3
Views: 14949

Re: Youtube channel recommendation

Maybe, but he doesn't do the Hofzinser Cull very well. You can see a corner projecting at the outer end under the spread and moving to the right.
by Richard Kaufman
September 27th, 2023, 12:20 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Derren Brown's Unbelievable - a review
Replies: 58
Views: 14734

Re: Derren Brown's Unbelievable - a review

"Critical Flop" is not the phrase I would use when a show is getting three our of four (or five) stars. "Critical flop" is one or two stars. None of the reviews you cite have given the show that low of a rating. "Fair to middling" is the expression I would use, and a mo...
by Richard Kaufman
September 26th, 2023, 2:18 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Is The Magic Warehouse out of business?
Replies: 16
Views: 4442

Re: Is The Magic Warehouse out of business?

Best of luck to you, Howard! I know all of us wish you well.
by Richard Kaufman
September 25th, 2023, 5:31 pm
Forum: Buzz
Topic: Tony Hassini speaks ...
Replies: 41
Views: 7114

Re: Tony Hassini speaks ...

Tony Hassini and his Merlin "awards" are best ignored.
by Richard Kaufman
September 24th, 2023, 10:05 pm
Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
Topic: Dai Vernon Tour Info
Replies: 23
Views: 4250

Re: Dai Vernon Tour Info

And there are two more.
by Richard Kaufman
September 24th, 2023, 12:29 pm
Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
Topic: Dai Vernon Tour Info
Replies: 23
Views: 4250

Re: Dai Vernon Tour Info

There are videos of Vernon's lecture on the 1976 tour.

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