Clarke found it effective

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Clarke found it effective

Postby Jonathan Townsend » January 3rd, 2013, 11:49 am

Any thoughts on making a version that can easily be loaded with a folded card or key or ring?

http://harpers.org/blog/2008/03/clarkes ... e-machine/

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Re: Clarke found it effective

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Re: Clarke found it effective

Postby Jonathan Townsend » January 3rd, 2013, 12:41 pm

How does eight switches on a larger box help load an item to be produced?
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Re: Clarke found it effective

Postby Pete McCabe » January 4th, 2013, 4:05 am

It doesn't.

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Re: Clarke found it effective

Postby Curtis Kam » January 4th, 2013, 6:16 am

Take a concept like that and turn it into a card trick? I suppose that's the one thing you could do to make the Useless Machine even more useless.

Maybe you could talk about the machine that exists just to turn itself off, and then say, "and in keeping with that thought, I'd like you to take a card from this deck, and then put it back."

Okay, I suppose you could show a working model of the machine, then illustrate the premise by showing them a card that keeps returning to the top of the deck (instead of actually doing a trick) and at the end, the card could be in the box.

Sigh.

$300 bucks for the box and a DVD. God help us all....

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Re: Clarke found it effective

Postby Jonathan Townsend » January 4th, 2013, 8:24 am

I imagined it as a "press the button" instead of waving the wand type running gag where only after a few times does anything animated happen with the box.
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Re: Clarke found it effective

Postby Michael Kamen » January 4th, 2013, 10:42 am

Pete McCabe wrote:Try this one:

Useless Machine -- Advanced Version


That is too funny!
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