That was my thought too. But I didn't want to start that discussion.Ian Kendall wrote:Warp 9, while a fun thing to do, does not fall into the same world as the vanishing space puzzles
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- March 13th, 2024, 5:32 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Looking for other info on 'puzzle' effect
- Replies: 15
- Views: 594
Re: Looking for other info on 'puzzle' effect
- March 13th, 2024, 12:41 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Looking for other info on 'puzzle' effect
- Replies: 15
- Views: 594
Re: Looking for other info on 'puzzle' effect
It's also in Richard Kaufman's Japan Ingenious. I painstakingly coloured it, printed it, manufactured it. I should perform it more often.katterfelt0 wrote:There was a similar effect published in Genii using a playing card. It's "Warp 9" by Masao Atsukawa. It's in the May 2000 issue
- March 13th, 2024, 12:35 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Looking for other info on 'puzzle' effect
- Replies: 15
- Views: 594
Re: Looking for other info on 'puzzle' effect
I believe that they're often called vanishing-area puzzlesDavid Mitchell wrote:I'm at a loss as to figure out what search terms I should be using to find this information
- February 18th, 2024, 4:47 pm
- Forum: Feature Articles
- Topic: Please retire the term, "cardman."
- Replies: 290
- Views: 231305
Re: Please retire the term, "cardman."
Glad to learn that I'm not alone in that respect. I find the term a patronising description of a lay audience.Richard Kaufman wrote:I don't like the term "muggles." We do not live in the fantasy world of Harry Potter.
Re: ERDNASE
Generally speaking, if you're releasing films publicly, you're presenting yourself to the public as a "filmmaker", and viewers of that film have an absolute right to offer negative or positive critique the film, or the filmmaker. If someone likes it or dislikes it, then they're entitled t...
- December 26th, 2023, 5:32 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Mickey MacDougall 1951 News Clip
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1796
- December 19th, 2023, 4:17 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Dynamo review - 2 stars Telegraph
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1621
Re: Dynamo review - 2 stars Telegraph
In that case, he could call himself Alternator instead of DynamoTom Moore wrote:Uk laws about “passing off” means that trading under a name that was a misspelling of the previous name wouldn’t pass because of how blatant and deliberate it was to not be (but imply) the previous trademark
- December 16th, 2023, 4:41 am
- Forum: Marketing & Magic Business
- Topic: Marketing a character
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2001
Re: Marketing a character
A friend of mine, an excellent performer in all areas, has done many corporate walk-around gigs. However, some years one agency told him that could no longer use his services, because they'd learned that he was also a children's entertainer. His children's-entertainer persona has a different stage n...
- November 8th, 2023, 4:32 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Scriptwriting for Magicians
- Replies: 228
- Views: 694021
Re: Scriptwriting for Magicians
My ears are burningTarotist wrote:absent minded, incompetent and a bit dithery
- November 8th, 2023, 1:53 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New Fool Us Host?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2657
Re: New Fool Us Host?
He's not my favourite presenter. And especially so after his spiteful treatment of Andrew Sachs.Tarotist wrote:Jonathon Ross was a bit too mouthy Brit for my taste
- November 2nd, 2023, 4:24 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Method as Accoutrement - A Minor Rant
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4916
Re: Method as Accoutrement - A Minor Rant
That should be the "superpower" that we all want to have - to see our own performance from viewpoint of a lay audience. (Though of course different lay audiences have different opinions.)Richard Kaufman wrote:In general, magician's do not know what the layman sees nor do they seem to care
- October 17th, 2023, 4:25 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Goodwin sues AGT
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2096
Re: Goodwin sues AGT
He gave a talk at my magic club in May this year. The AGT accident wasn't the main subject, though he was willing to talk about it in some detail.
Scary. Very very scary. I think I'll stick to my close-up repertoire.
Scary. Very very scary. I think I'll stick to my close-up repertoire.
- October 16th, 2023, 3:55 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Precedents for Ring/Coin Move
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4098
Re: Precedents for Ring/Coin Move
Yes, it's a Himber Vanish
I've been struggling to master it for far too many years
I've been struggling to master it for far too many years
- October 9th, 2023, 4:58 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Marlo Outjogged Oil & Water
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17334
Re: Marlo Outjogged Oil & Water
The method of the first half of my routine is basically A Switch in Time by Roy WaltonPhilippe Billot wrote:Oil & Queens by Roy Walton
- October 9th, 2023, 3:57 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Marlo Outjogged Oil & Water
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17334
Re: Marlo Outjogged Oil & Water
I could never see the point of Oil & Water as a plot. And I'm not much of a card person, anyway. Then about 25 years ago I put together an Oil & Water routine with a presentation that I liked. And lay audiences invariably tell me how much they enjoy it. Conjurors seem to enjoy it too, but th...
- September 25th, 2023, 3:34 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Tony Hassini speaks ...
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7114
Re: Tony Hassini speaks ...
So punters were encouraged to come in by the price of 1/6, but when they came in they found that it was actually 2/6?
I remember the black-face soap too, of course
I remember the black-face soap too, of course
- September 21st, 2023, 5:04 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: My favourite trick!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3875
- September 20th, 2023, 2:21 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: My favourite trick!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3875
Re: My favourite trick!
I'm surprised to learn that. I have several sets, so no problem.
- September 20th, 2023, 4:26 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: My favourite trick!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3875
Re: My favourite trick!
You would be astonished at the reaction to this tiny little item! Quite so. It's something that I often carry with me, though I rarely perform it. But whenever I do, it generates a surprisingly good reaction. Years ago, a spectator thought that it used liquid crystals. So I added an ending where I ...
- September 8th, 2023, 4:27 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Amusement vs Amazement
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1171
Re: Amusement vs Amazement
"He is right for HIM! However, not necessarily for anyone else." I have to agree. I know some wonderful conjurors who are amazing but not necessarily amusing. Entertaining, yes, but not amusing. And I know other wonderful conjurors who are amusing but not necessarily amazing. Each to their...
- September 6th, 2023, 4:47 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Help Back the Juan Tamariz Documentary
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2878
Re: Help Back the Juan Tamariz Documentary
I think that I'm not supporting Brad in not supporting Chris ...
Too many negatives - I've managed to confuse myself
Too many negatives - I've managed to confuse myself
- August 30th, 2023, 8:08 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Jose Muniz contact info
- Replies: 1
- Views: 770
Re: Jose Muniz contact info
I received an e-mail from him in 2002 apprising me of his latest e-address.
Tried PMing you, but cannot get it to work for some reason. Maybe you could PM me?
Tried PMing you, but cannot get it to work for some reason. Maybe you could PM me?
- August 10th, 2023, 5:22 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Zig-Zag Card
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2897
- August 10th, 2023, 11:54 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Zig-Zag Card
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2897
- August 2nd, 2023, 4:48 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Tannen's Publishing Tarbell 9?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2273
Re: Tannen's Publishing Tarbell 9?
Is Taribell intended as a play on words, to be pronounced terrible? I honestly don't know.Sean Piper wrote:Read the title on the spine again, slowly
Re: ERDNASE
That's another of those faux amis. In French, it means sorry. In English, it means unbelievably sorry, to an almost unimaginable extent.Philippe Billot wrote:"désolé" in French
- July 23rd, 2023, 2:09 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8750
Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist
The usage sounds quite normal to an English-speaking ear
Perhaps it's one of those words that falls in the faux amis category?
Perhaps it's one of those words that falls in the faux amis category?
- July 18th, 2023, 2:13 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Magic Rainbow
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4296
Re: The Magic Rainbow
Published by: Kaufman and Company, 1994. Edited by: Richard Kaufman, Matthew Field, and Mark Phillips. I acquired my copy directly from RK, as a direct swap for a Tenyo item that was no longer available. I was very pleased with the outcome of that "trade", and I assume that Richard was too.
- July 18th, 2023, 3:48 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Magic Rainbow
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4296
Re: The Magic Rainbow
if a magician succeeds in figuring out ninety percent of a trick but can't figure out the other ten percent, he will feel that the trick fooled him; if a layperson succeeds in figuring out ten percent of a trick but can't figure out the other ninety percent of the trick, he will feel that it didn't...
- June 18th, 2023, 4:30 pm
- Forum: Tenyo
- Topic: Top 5 Tenyo Tricks.
- Replies: 120
- Views: 465927
Re: Top 5 Tenyo Tricks.
Non-repeatability has never been a minus in my view, as I personally avoid repeating tricks Ditto. However, were I doing walkaround close-up at some function and performing Twilight Angels, people chatting afterwards might wonder why their cards were all Two of Hearts. (Which is why I don't use the...
- June 18th, 2023, 12:09 pm
- Forum: Tenyo
- Topic: Top 5 Tenyo Tricks.
- Replies: 120
- Views: 465927
Re: Top 5 Tenyo Tricks.
hopefully, it did not come across as overbearing Not in the slightest, I assure you. Tried it out today for the first time, having lunch with my son and his girlfriend. He reasoned the method behind The Obedient Dice. While they enjoyed Flash Dice Prediction, she later reasoned the method. And from...
- June 16th, 2023, 5:26 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Harry Lorayne
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5561
- June 15th, 2023, 2:56 pm
- Forum: Tenyo
- Topic: Top 5 Tenyo Tricks.
- Replies: 120
- Views: 465927
Re: Top 5 Tenyo Tricks.
I certainly intend to try it at some stage. There are certain effects and certain plots that I don't like. Oil & Water never appealed to me, until twenty-something years ago I came up with a presentation that suited me. Audiences invariably like it, and so I perform it at times. I'm willing to b...
- June 15th, 2023, 1:08 pm
- Forum: Tenyo
- Topic: Top 5 Tenyo Tricks.
- Replies: 120
- Views: 465927
Re: Top 5 Tenyo Tricks.
Thanks Richard.Richard Kaufman wrote:There is no need to shake the box. Please look at Mr. Shimizu's method in Tenyoism.
I'd read that, I've played around with it, and I'm still deciding which handling I prefer.
- June 15th, 2023, 8:33 am
- Forum: Tenyo
- Topic: Top 5 Tenyo Tricks.
- Replies: 120
- Views: 465927
Re: Top 5 Tenyo Tricks.
Yes, I really like it. I can perform the standard move reliably. The two effects that appeal to me the most are The Obedient Dice and Dice Paradise. Especially so if one or five is chosen in Dice Paradise, because I will "therefore" shake the box one or five times. Being a mathematical per...
- June 14th, 2023, 1:56 pm
- Forum: Tenyo
- Topic: Top 5 Tenyo Tricks.
- Replies: 120
- Views: 465927
- June 14th, 2023, 5:22 am
- Forum: Tenyo
- Topic: Top 5 Tenyo Tricks.
- Replies: 120
- Views: 465927
Re: Top 5 Tenyo Tricks.
Having read so many favourable comments on Flash Dice , I purchased it a while ago. There's a move by Yuji Wada to turn over a single die mentioned in Tenyoism that I cannot do. The text says that it will require practice but it can be done consistently. Not only can I not do it consistently, I have...
- June 13th, 2023, 6:06 am
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Bendix Bombshell Wallet - Minty
- Replies: 8
- Views: 880
Re: Bendix Bombshell Wallet - Minty
You could contact Tony Miller via https://rfaproductions.com/contacts.htm
- June 6th, 2023, 9:28 am
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Which monkeys should you do magic for?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4902
Re: Which monkeys should you do magic for?
Thank you for that. Rover's thoughts had me laughing.MagicbyAlfred wrote:but thinking to himself
- June 2nd, 2023, 8:30 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: AMaLP - Asymmetric Matrix Location Principle
- Replies: 2
- Views: 524
Re: AMaLP - Asymmetric Matrix Location Principle
I should point out that my sole contribution was to misunderstand the effect. Honestly, that's all that I achieved.