Jeff Pierce Magic wrote:Richard, no one is disputing that perhaps Mr. Maze came up with his version in the early 70's but since it was never published we'll never know
Well we do know. Because RK has told us.
Jeff Pierce Magic wrote:Richard, no one is disputing that perhaps Mr. Maze came up with his version in the early 70's but since it was never published we'll never know
mrgoat wrote:Jeff Pierce Magic wrote:Richard, no one is disputing that perhaps Mr. Maze came up with his version in the early 70's but since it was never published we'll never know
Well we do know. Because RK has told us.
Richard Kaufman wrote:I missed that the Klayder thing kept the deck in the pocket. Then the two ideas are not even remotely related! And Rene Clement will back me up about Gene doing this in the early to mid 1970s.
Just to throw a little more oil on the fire, I think that the idea of doing Card Warp with a freely selected card or cards is lousy
Richard Kaufman wrote:Gene Maze's handling: upper half of the deck is normal; lower half consists of pre-torn cards. For a right-handed person, the torn edges are on the right. He used a well-worn deck for this, all backs the same.
Turns to a person and starts spreading the deck and asks for a card to be touched. The spreading is timed so a card from the upper half is touched--Maze outjogs it and continues spreading and the moment he reaches the center of the deck he asks for another card to be touched--this one will be one of those pre-torn since it's in the lower half. Again, he outjogs it, but the spread is not wide so the tear in the second outjogged card is concealed by the first outjogged card above it.
Long sides of the deck are squared without disturbing the outjogged cards. Right hand strips out the two outjogged cards, still slightly spread. Left hand places the deck aside.
That's Gene's handling. The entire lower half of the deck is pre-torn for Card Warp and the spectator chooses both cards and believes he sees the entire back of both cards.
Richard Kaufman wrote:The card case has nothing to do with it. Why would it? The whole point of the idea is having a deck that is half pre-torn so the spectator (or spectators) can choose the two cards for the trick.
Richard Kaufman wrote:Yes, that would make it the first published record, but of what? From what I can make out as described here, he's got the deck in his pocket and is simply bringing out two cards. Most people were keeping a dozen sets of cards in their pocket so they could just reach in and bring out one set. I guess Jim extended that idea by doing it with the whole deck and using the case as a holder, which is great if you're going to do strolling magic. But it has nothing to do with Maze's idea.
Jeff Pierce Magic wrote:Why would I use a blurred, hard to read font in the book?
Jeff Pierce Magic wrote:Thanks for the SEO comment, I had forgotten about that.
Jeff
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Richard Kaufman wrote:If Damian has no problems downloading or opening other pdf documents online, and he has plenty of computer and software experience, then I'd say that the problem may well be on your end, Jeff. It is in fact very difficult to make sure these sorts of things work across all platforms and types of software and browsers.