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- May 1st, 2020, 1:19 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Erdnase photographer ?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 33061
Re: Erdnase photographer ?
How this thread started is that Chris Wasshuber posted somewhere that Richard and I both thought the Expert illustrations had been light-boxed. I vaguely remember him asking me this a long time ago. Anyway, Chris made a recent post saying that IF that were true, then he'd be interested in some kind ...
- April 30th, 2020, 12:07 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Erdnase photographer ?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 33061
Re: Erdnase photographer ?
Mr. Ben mentions in this thread a different topic, that of not thinking it was Sanders who wrote The Expert... From an oldish Genii article on Sanders, which I thought was compelling that it was Sanders...do we now think that article was wrong. Anyway, I'd like to add that they are making camera luc...
- April 26th, 2020, 6:17 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Erdnase photographer ?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 33061
Re: Erdnase photographer ?
I've worked professionally drawing hands from my imagination, by tracing from photos, by drawing freehand from looking at photos, and from people posing for me to draw "from life". I think it is more like having an educated guess that a non-magician or "cardman" (Smith), or someo...
- April 26th, 2020, 5:48 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Erdnase photographer ?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 33061
Re: Erdnase photographer ?
One of the things that makes me think they were traced from photographs is the regularity of size. No offense to anyone who thinks otherwise (that they were really "drawn from life") but I don't know anyone that would sit as long, posing, as it would take to get the fine points of the slei...
- April 24th, 2020, 9:33 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Erdnase photographer ?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 33061
Erdnase photographer ?
Or: The Third Man Theory. Chris Wasshuber posted that it would be interesting to know what camera took the reference photos for The Expert... I got thinking about it and realized there must have been a photographer. A third guy. Erdnase was busy posing, and we don't think Smith ever said anything ab...
- April 15th, 2020, 11:28 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: For chapped hands.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4443
Re: For chapped hands.
I kept meaning to get coconut oil, but each time in the store I forgot to get it. Too many distractions in my local Stop and Shop. But, I came up with something to add. Dr. Oz was showing how to wash your hands correctly. When he was showing "don't forget your thumbs" I was reminded of the...
Re: ERDNASE
For some reason I'm thinking about Tony Giorgio, and wondering what he thought of Erdnase. Also, does anyone know how good Micky MacDougall was ?
- April 5th, 2020, 6:35 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Discuss Steve Forte's Book "Gambling Sleight of Hand" HERE
- Replies: 49
- Views: 21554
Re: Discuss Steve Forte's Book "Gambling Sleight of Hand" HERE
Does the book cover other props, such as dice (Steve does some great dice moves) or is it just cards. If this has been covered, I missed it.
- April 3rd, 2020, 8:09 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: For chapped hands.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4443
- April 3rd, 2020, 8:07 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Nonsense in Mentalisim
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14596
Re: Nonsense in Mentalisim
Most people believe in the supernatural. I saw a figure in Newsweek magazine that said 86% percent of some poll claimed to have seen an angel in their lifetime. I hope that figure is high. Oscar Weigle, who invented Annemann's favorite trick Alias Divination, which claimed that you were a super expe...
- March 24th, 2020, 2:55 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: For chapped hands.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4443
Re: For chapped hands.
There's a run on Coconut Oil in Aisle 5 ! Thanks, Chet. True about the Corn Husker's Lotion - didn't work for me. Not exactly on the topic but with this Corona Virus thing, I've been wearing Latex Gloves a lot and have found that I can handle cards pretty well. I'm doing backpalming with blank backe...
- March 24th, 2020, 10:59 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: For chapped hands.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4443
Re: For chapped hands.
But where would one get rosewater and glycerin too for that matter?
- March 23rd, 2020, 5:00 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Chanin/Stanyon
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6087
Chanin/Stanyon
Justin M asked me to elaborate on Jack Chanin's appreciation for Ellis Stanyon's work. I don't remember if I ever knew if he meant the book or the magazine. (I always thought the book was a compilation of the magazines, but that was just my assumption.) Anyway, when a concept or move came up that he...
- March 23rd, 2020, 4:46 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Your Views on Cups & Balls and One Cup Routines
- Replies: 218
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Re: Your Views on Cups & Balls and One Cup Routines
I think there should be other ways to get into the ending phase. Oh, there is ! See my routine in Genii way back when...1999 ? My routine was inspired by a Max Maven statement that I agreed with that too many routines followed the Vernon.
- March 23rd, 2020, 4:41 pm
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: Effects for those who believe in spiritism
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13141
Re: Effects for those who believe in spiritism
Yes, Richard pays me a great deal to revive old threads. Seriously, I just sometimes do time-travel. Really, I get so engrossed with reading something that I forget to look at the date on the posts.
- March 23rd, 2020, 4:37 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Psychology of a Standing Ovation and Little Tricks on it
- Replies: 34
- Views: 44390
Re: Psychology of a Standing Ovation and Little Tricks on it
I knew Bobby Baxter very well over a long period of years. I seem to distinctly remember Timmy. Maybe I'm getting pre-Alzheimer's, but Max can look into my brain and let us know.
Re: ERDNASE
Back in Wilbur Edgerton Sanders's day, I'm thinking the world of gamblers and the world of magicians did not overlap much at all. Back when Vernon was searching for Kennedy seems to be the beginning of any overlap. Lately Ricky Jay did a lot to promote ideas about the world of gamblers but so did Mi...
- March 23rd, 2020, 2:51 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: For chapped hands.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4443
Re: For chapped hands.
Not to answer my own question, but to throw into the mix the fact that I've heard two sources mention that Vernon swore by RoseWater (again, where would one get rosewater?) to ward off the dry hand syndrome (I seem to remember this being in the context of Billiard Ball manipulation). My friend had t...
- March 23rd, 2020, 2:35 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: reading vs video
- Replies: 74
- Views: 134212
Re: reading vs video
I admire the relationship you have with your son, but have often worried that another kind of relationship with some "magicians" and their sons would allow for their sons and friends of their sons to watch the videos when Dad isn't around. In other words, I write about magic to this day in...
- March 23rd, 2020, 1:16 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: reading vs video
- Replies: 74
- Views: 134212
Re: reading vs video
I think the struggle of reading activates more brain cells than the more passive watching process. But, I do remember making a special little mark next to the title of a trick I DIDN'T like, so the next time through the book, I'd not waste time on a trick I had already decided was not for me.
- March 23rd, 2020, 1:08 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Who invented this control?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13099
- March 23rd, 2020, 1:04 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Who made John Ramsay's props such as those for the cylinder and coin?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13779
Re: Who made John Ramsay's props such as those for the cylinder and coin?
Thank you Andy. That was a very interesting post.
- March 23rd, 2020, 12:57 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: For chapped hands.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4443
- March 22nd, 2020, 12:45 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: For chapped hands.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4443
For chapped hands.
Boy are my hands chapped from all the hand washing we have to do now. The best product for this is O'Keeffe's Working Hands, comes in a green round container. I like that there is no odor and also that it works amazingly quickly. You know, for your riffle stacking practice and coin tricks etc.
- March 22nd, 2020, 12:35 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Best Illusion ever!!
- Replies: 52
- Views: 34138
Re: Best Illusion ever!!
The Mascot Moth is right at the end of the commercial for Merlin. It goes by fast but well worth many views.
- March 5th, 2020, 1:46 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Best Illusion ever!!
- Replies: 52
- Views: 34138
Re: Best Illusion ever!!
Charles Reynolds recreated the Mascot Moth for Doug Henning's Merlin show and you can see the illusion ( originally by David Devant ) if you google Doug Henning's Merlin and find the ad for it or else try Youtube. It is definitely available and is pure magic.
- March 5th, 2020, 11:21 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Magical Gestures and Flourishes
- Replies: 115
- Views: 25064
Re: Magical Gestures and Flourishes
Even when one only or mainly does cards, there are places, like the twisting action in Twisting the Aces, for something that makes the magic happen. Some have switched to a small shake of the packet to get away from the Twisting gesture, but there should be something. Some packet tricks have so much...
- March 5th, 2020, 9:32 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Cardistry: Please Go Away
- Replies: 93
- Views: 13750
Re: Cardistry: Please Go Away
In one style you claim to have great skill, and in the other you claim it is magic causing stuff to happen. There are guys who won't flourish so as the spectators don't think "skill". Also card sharps. Most of Ricky Jay's persona was about swindlers and pickpockets and cons, yet at other t...
- March 3rd, 2020, 2:02 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Magical Gestures and Flourishes
- Replies: 115
- Views: 25064
Re: Magical Gestures and Flourishes
If I pass my shadow over this card it will turn into...whatever you want. David Roth used to say "If I touch my thumbs together..." for Coin Across, and in lectures he'd always say, "You have to do something or else it is just a puzzle." Hey, I'd like to see when Mike Skinner was...
- March 3rd, 2020, 1:37 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Who Are Your Major Magical influences?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4789
Re: Who Are Your Major Magical influences?
My uncle, an amateur magician, showed me the back palm with one card and the very same night on TV I saw Channing Pollock. Game, set, match.
- March 3rd, 2020, 1:33 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Discuss Steve Forte's Book "Gambling Sleight of Hand" HERE
- Replies: 49
- Views: 21554
Re: ERDNASE
Wilbur Edgerton Sanders, rearranged becomes Sanders, Wilbur Edgerton, our SWE that we see so often in THE book. And this backwards is Srednas Rubliw Notregde ! Plus the (!) symbol in some of his other writings (who else did that ?) not to mention being a miner and Erdnase being German for dirt-nose....
- February 27th, 2020, 4:00 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: I Need Tip Over Trunk plans - Assuming Osborne?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12482
Re: I Need Tip Over Trunk plans - Assuming Osborne?
The Tip-Over-Trunk is not very angle-proof. There is a trick with large cardboard boxes, ...one fits into the other and they can for flat. I saw this in the Mark Wilson Course. Maybe take a peek.
- February 27th, 2020, 3:47 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Best Illusion ever!!
- Replies: 52
- Views: 34138
Re: Discuss Steve Forte's Book "Gambling Sleight of Hand" HERE
And what is Bob Farmer an anagram of ? Anyway, on to the topic at hand...I was lucky to have been privy to many tapes of Steve Forte's work and was amazed of course...and always thought since then that he must be the best...and he said he was only scratching the surface of what he could show. So, I'...
- February 27th, 2020, 1:21 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Multiplying Balls - Vernet VS Fakini
- Replies: 29
- Views: 49295
Re: Multiplying Balls - Vernet VS Fakini
I always used the wooden ones for years then switched to Fakir's, but the dark horse is the old Ireland Golfballs with the metal shell (see Ade Duval's routine on tape) but I think Royal is making this type again, and with colors, although the white show up the best, or the yellow.
- February 27th, 2020, 1:16 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Handing the spectator a knife question
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6426
Re: Handing the spectator a knife question
Same with the scissors for a cut and restored rope trick. I once had a young lady with mental conditions up to help and I said "just stand here over the trapdoor (an old line)" and she started swinging the scissors around yelling "Trapdoor? Trapdoor?". Indeed.
- February 27th, 2020, 1:12 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Razor Blade illusions
- Replies: 53
- Views: 19257
Re: Razor Blade illusions
I saw a method to conceal the extra set in a hollowed out section of a big real carrot in the Phoenix. Never tried it but always thought it was a neat way to go. Oh, I forgot that the reason for the carrot was to show how sharp the blade(s) were by slicing off bits of the tip of the carrot.
- February 27th, 2020, 1:08 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Best Illusion ever!!
- Replies: 52
- Views: 34138
Re: Best Illusion ever!!
I saw Richiardi do the DeKolta Chair after having seen the plans and drawings for years in books and it was still amazing. The Clear Sawing done by the Pendragons I think. I'm still fooled and many people have offered to tip it to me but I've always refused. I still am thinking about how ?
- February 27th, 2020, 11:22 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Telling lies as a magician.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6431
Re: Telling lies as a magician.
Vernon called it creating something that isn't so. Aren't we lying all the time as magicians ? Maybe we shouldn't steal or pick pockets, but I think lying is alright. Or do I ?
Re: ERDNASE
A move that is very useful for mentalists and mental-magic practitioners is the Charlier Shuffle. Many magicians don't know the move and think I'm talking about the Charlier Cut. Also, Erdnase himself says it is NOT a good move and every schoolboy knows it, but I think it has gone full circle and no...