Using the Aronson Stack

Discuss your favorite close-up tricks and methods.
Bruce Siegel
Posts: 8
Joined: April 22nd, 2008, 6:52 pm

Using the Aronson Stack

Postby Bruce Siegel » June 17th, 2015, 9:57 pm

Now that I've memorized the Aronson Stack, I'm trying to find ways to make the best use of it. Have any tricks/applications using the stack been published?

Joe Gallant
Posts: 40
Joined: January 17th, 2008, 12:00 pm
Location: Boston

Re: Using the Aronson Stack

Postby Joe Gallant » June 17th, 2015, 10:16 pm

All of Simon's books are available at:
http://simonaronson.com/books.html

Also, Mnemonica by Juan Tamariz has many stack-independent effects.

Michael Close's books and DVDs include many memorized deck effects:
http://www.michaelclose.com

User avatar
erdnasephile
Posts: 4770
Joined: January 17th, 2008, 12:00 pm

Re: Using the Aronson Stack

Postby erdnasephile » June 18th, 2015, 3:11 pm

Mr. Siegel:

Please see: "The Wishing Trick" (from Workers 5) which Mr. Close designed to help him get comfortable with memdeck work. I highly recommend buying "The Complete Workers" ebook, but "Workers 5" is also available separately.

http://www.michaelclose.com/collections ... hael-close

Mr. Close is running a 10% off everything sale until the end of July.

(Oddly enough, the hardest part of memdeck work for me is the math involved, which is why I really like Mr. Close's "The Birthday Book" as well)

Bill Mullins
Posts: 5913
Joined: January 17th, 2008, 12:00 pm
Location: Huntsville, AL
Contact:

Re: Using the Aronson Stack

Postby Bill Mullins » June 18th, 2015, 5:38 pm

Eric Mead's Tangled Web isn't the first text a student of the memorized deck should get, but once you make it a tool in your working arsenal, there's some really good information in it.

User avatar
chetday
Posts: 207
Joined: March 13th, 2008, 1:45 pm
Favorite Magician: Jon Racherbaumer
Contact:

Re: Using the Aronson Stack

Postby chetday » June 19th, 2015, 3:20 pm

Visit [url]stackview.com[/url] for an excellent software tool that helps magicians who are into memorized decks.

Also, although it hasn't been updated for a long time, I still consider the "Musings" blog at the above site interesting and quite useful for memorized deck material and ideas. You can get the password via an autoresponder for the blog by clicking the "Musings" link on the above home page.

User avatar
erdnasephile
Posts: 4770
Joined: January 17th, 2008, 12:00 pm

Re: Using the Aronson Stack

Postby erdnasephile » June 19th, 2015, 6:08 pm

The late Dennis Loomis used to have a lot of really practical, interesting material on the memdeck. Sadly, the site is no more. (I tried that Wayback machine thing for http://www.loomismagic.com but I couldn't get it to work)

Fortunately, some of Mr. Loomis' articles appear here: http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/view ... &forum=205
Last edited by erdnasephile on June 19th, 2015, 11:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Bill Mullins
Posts: 5913
Joined: January 17th, 2008, 12:00 pm
Location: Huntsville, AL
Contact:

Re: Using the Aronson Stack

Postby Bill Mullins » June 19th, 2015, 8:04 pm

erdnasephile wrote:The late Dennis Loomis used to have a lot of really practical, interesting material on the memdeck. Sadly, the site is no more. (I tried that Wayback machine thing for http://www.loomismagic.com but I couldn't get it to work)

Fortunately, some of Mr. Lommis' articles appear here: http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/view ... &forum=205


Wayback Machine link

Mark Collier
Posts: 430
Joined: January 18th, 2008, 12:00 pm
Location: Santa Barbara, Ca
Contact:

Re: Using the Aronson Stack

Postby Mark Collier » June 19th, 2015, 8:21 pm

Thank you for that.
Bill, you make some very valuable contributions to this forum and I for one, appreciate it.

Leonard Hevia
Posts: 1951
Joined: January 17th, 2008, 12:00 pm
Favorite Magician: Dai Vernon, Frank Garcia, Slydini, Houdini,
Location: Gaithersburg, Md.

Re: Using the Aronson Stack

Postby Leonard Hevia » June 19th, 2015, 9:49 pm

erdnasephile wrote:The late Dennis Loomis used to have a lot of really practical, interesting material on the memdeck. Sadly, the site is no more. (I tried that Wayback machine thing for http://www.loomismagic.com but I couldn't get it to work)

Fortunately, some of Mr. Lommis' articles appear here: http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/view ... &forum=205


Yes, Erdnasephile! Page after page of great stuff in the Loomis memdeck website. When I first discovered it about 10 years ago, I printed out a large number of the effects he posted. Many of them were Aronson Stack memdeck improvements of classic effects such as Milt Kort's All Outs. What a brilliant and kind man he was!

User avatar
erdnasephile
Posts: 4770
Joined: January 17th, 2008, 12:00 pm

Re: Using the Aronson Stack

Postby erdnasephile » June 19th, 2015, 11:08 pm

Bill Mullins wrote:
erdnasephile wrote:The late Dennis Loomis used to have a lot of really practical, interesting material on the memdeck. Sadly, the site is no more. (I tried that Wayback machine thing for http://www.loomismagic.com but I couldn't get it to work)

Fortunately, some of Mr. Lommis' articles appear here: http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/view ... &forum=205


Wayback Machine link


Bill, your Kung Fu is better than mine!

Thanks very much!

Leonard Hevia
Posts: 1951
Joined: January 17th, 2008, 12:00 pm
Favorite Magician: Dai Vernon, Frank Garcia, Slydini, Houdini,
Location: Gaithersburg, Md.

Re: Using the Aronson Stack

Postby Leonard Hevia » June 19th, 2015, 11:31 pm

Thanks Bill! Time to reprint these articles again.

paulsunday
Posts: 16
Joined: March 13th, 2008, 1:55 am

Re: Using the Aronson Stack

Postby paulsunday » September 9th, 2015, 11:04 pm

Never met Dennis except via email, the Magic Cafe and orders from his magic store. The Shuffled not Stirred forum misses his knowledge, contributions and good humor immensely.


Return to “Close-Up Magic”