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Robert77

Michael Close wrote:DVD means Digital Versatile Disc.

You're welcome.

Thanks, I needed that

Robert77

It goes on to tell how Vernon is bailed out by Harlan England, an acquaintance who Vernon had meet a couple of weeks earlier. England gives Vernon $3000 which Vernon is reluctant to accept. Vernon spends $20, returns the rest, and then broke, hitchhikes back to New York. That would be one heck of a...

Robert77

That was nice Brad! I liked your presentation style. Professional, no jokes about "Oh I see you're wearing that great French clothiers line, J.C. Pennay", etc.

Robert77

Bill Mullins wrote:The Social Security Administration publishes the "Social Security Death Index", which lists this information for everyone who has a SSN after they die.

So I can, for example, look up a dead relative if I have their SSN?

Robert77

Copy that. (After losing access to bunch of purchases when an on-line service went out of business, I'm excessively paranoid about virtual materials these days) What/how many are the virtual materials, and can they be downloaded for storage onto a more permanent media? Or do they require they be pl...

Robert77

BTW, The Jerx made a blog post on the 15th about this kickstarter. I found it amusing.

Robert77

When I was very young and saw the ad for "Nickels to Dimes" on the back of a comic book, I assumed it was real, not a trick. Recently, I've been told it is a trick and there's no real profit to be made. I assume there are people who will read the Kickstarter ad and assume it is for real m...

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Leonard Hevia wrote:To answer Robert's question, Taylor paid BJ something like $75,000 for Vernon's cups. It was detailed in a past Genii article a number of years ago.

Leonard, thanks! That's fascinating.

Robert77

I grew up with these cups on my mind. Had my set of Morissey "Vernon style mini cups". Missed out on Danny Dew cups initially and only later got a set from Pete Biro, along with some other interesting sets (from other places). I have a slight cup fetish. So I have to ask: what order of mag...

Robert77

"In the non-magic world, I saw the Cirque "MJ" show which was horrible. The first Cirque show I saw was "O," which was possibly the greatest show I have ever seen. However the MJ show appeared to simply appropriate the brand. The stage felt more like a high-school theatre t...

Robert77

It's unclear; must the vanished coin be marked, if so, how?

Robert77

One of those examples of whether you wonder if the poster is insane, or just being a jerk. Sincerely, it's really hard to tell.

Robert77

If they are copper, just using them, or letting them sit (unstacked) will eventually cause a patina, which is another word for oxidation, aka. "rust". It will take months or years though. I would not apply any chemicals in an effort to speed it up. If you do let them sit though, keep them ...

Robert77

Thank god. I was weakening

Robert77

Well, the Roger Pierre book has always seemed to me to be a sort of amateur (authors) experiment. For one thing, it's hand written. I don't have a copy but I'd bet money that the printing in it is not a printed font, but (to be generous), calligraphy. As such it's oversize, which means the book woul...

Robert77

Brad, despite my post about formatting of your messages, I like your post about Shins performances and your thoughts on how social media magic (abbreviated here as SSM) could be considered another 'type' of magic. And I'm one of those who would not have a particularly high opinion of SMM, not that s...

Robert77

You know how to make a small fortune in the video game business right?

Start with a large one.

Robert77

Nostalgia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiSIQzwIPzQ

Robert77

Not sure how to reconcile that ^ ... with this : The venue for what he does is Instagram. ^ THAT’S an insult. What you see here relates to my comment above: using #*)*@)@&()! social media software on phone and tablets encourages people to write in sound bites. THEY know what they meant, but bec...

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Kent, my phone capitalizes what it chooses to capitalize. If you’re going to focus on the typography and not the content of the message then our priorties are clearly different and I’m not sure we will have much to discuss. . I was just surfing the thread until I hit this quote. Then a follow up po...

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Now down another $1k to $6,000. Maybe he has some Xmas bills to pay.

Robert77

I am amazed on a weekly basis at some of the prices people ask for items. A prime example was a guy on ebay who was asking $1600 for the Juan Tamariz book Mnemonica. I got in contact with him and said that the book new normally sells for about $60. He replied and said i was wrong and there was 2 co...

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There's a fellow on eBay who's been trying to sell a collection of admittedly rare Bizarre Magic books by Tony Andruzzi for some years now. For $13,000. That's for the Scroll, the Negromicon, and Daemon's Diary. I corresponded with him, suggesting his price is a bit high, but he was confident. It ha...

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Richard Kaufman wrote:Johnny died weeks ago. A great pity.

Dec. 17, so, 1 week ago when I posted it. It takes that long for the news to publish such things.

Robert77

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Johnny-Fox-sword-swallower-and-magician-dies-at-12453226.php

Robert77

Robert77 Wrote: "Well for one thing there's not an objective way to rate/grade/understand magic. Unless you're a magician." But could not the same thing be said about music - that there's not an objective way to rate/grade/understand music unless you're a musician? But that fact would not...

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, how can magic not be considered an art? Well for one thing there's not an objective way to rate/grade/understand magic. Unless you're a magician. I have an inexpensive print of Jerome's hanging on my hallway wall. https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/sothebys/04/106204/H0046-L00502526.jpg Now...

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In the December issue there's a note that says: For the next three issues we will continue to remember Eugene Burger by running three videos he prepared for columns he was unable to complete before his death. I've looked around the Table of Contents of the December issue and have missed finding this...

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And let's not forget: There are two kinds of people; those who separate people into groups, and those who don't.

Robert77

This is true for all of the "arts." Most practitioners are not artists--that designation applies only to a select few. Using the example of Albert Goshman, given above, I can make a good argument that he was an artist (as a magician). Slydini was an artist. Rene Lavand was an artist. Juan...

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I'm curious as to what makes magic a craft, and say, painting, an art?

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The Maître d’ was presented as a silent, creepy East German man. He took several women from the audience and danced uncomfortably with them, leaning far into them, pretending he was trying to get a kiss. This reminds me of an open air performance seen in Palo Alto, CA about 15-20 years ago. City hi...

Robert77

Bill Mullins wrote:
Richard Kaufman wrote:The Japanese products are heavy.
This is what you want: https://fakefoodjapan.com/collections/all

I want my final load to be a Boiled Egg in Soy Sauce Ear Pick.
"This is a great looking boiled egg for the ear pick enthusiast in your family."

Two words: Paddle move

Robert77

There is an entire neighborhood in Tokyo devoted to making realistic food of all kinds out of plastic. It's used in the window of almost every restaurant in the country. I suggest searching online for one of those Japanese companies. Everyone that I've ever seen selling fake fruit or food is buying...

Robert77

Counts, Cuts, Moves, and Subtlety, a book of basic card techniques, by Jerry Mentzer.

73 pages, softcover, inexpensive, and worth it.

Robert77

After watching the video and seeing them 'load the item' my first thought was, for that much money why is there only a pitiful manual load chamber, the use of which completely defeats the purpose of the table?

Is the material itself ultra expensive?

Robert77

Sent you a PM.

Robert77

Received mine on Saturday and am into the 2nd disc. Had forgotten many of the episodes. You beat me to it Terry :) Last night I watched the pilot and the first episode. The transfer is very very good. I've seen transfers from filmed (not video'd) TV series in the 80's that weren't this crisp, parti...

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Years ago Eugene presented a lecture at The Mansions Hotel in San Francisco. One of the topics covered in the lecture was Equivoque. Eugene first demonstrated it using an attendee as the spectator. Then he explained it in some detail. Then he showed it again now that we supposedly knew how it worked...

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Richard Kaufman wrote:It's always a problem when there's blood ...

...thus was Bizarre Magic born

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