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Brad Henderson

ok. that’s not completely clear in the way the information is requested. It made it sound like i have to get a number from the AMA of some type.

thanks for the information

Brad Henderson

sometimes it’s better to ask than assume.

Brad Henderson

is that sarcasm? i’ve never been the type to wear pins or carry cards. never been much of a ‘joiner’

Brad Henderson

do i need a card? i just need the ama number to confirm member rate for the conference.

Brad Henderson

Hey. i registered for fism and they need a fism club member number. As a member of the AMA i presume this would be the number they need. They don’t need my AMA member number, but a number that designates the AMA as their member society. Does anyone know what it is? it’s an 8 digit number.

thanks.

Brad Henderson

copy has been located. thanks.

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email sent

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Looking for a true first edition of Eric Mason’s Stuff. Specifically i am looking for the full essay on theory which was cut from the later editions - it was described to me as a ‘socialist tract’.

If someone can point me to a source for that essay i would be appreciative.

Brad Henderson

Bill, i believe there was also a my favorite martian magic set.

Brad Henderson

i was at that show. Went to dinner with him and my friend Richard Garriott after. Great memory

Brad Henderson

peter is hardly anonymous. He is known to many of us. He and i hung out at the castle just last month. He was brought in for their halloween member perk.

Brad Henderson

last night on my flight into columbus the flight attendant (formerly known as stewardess) addressed those of us in the exit row as ‘you guys’. The woman sitting next to me shrugged and said ‘hello?!?’. She was not a guy. and while i’m sure the flight attendant (formerly known as stewardess) meant no...

Brad Henderson

unless she specifically said she wanted to grow up to be a ‘space MAN’ i think you may have missed the point.

Brad Henderson

i think part of the issue revolves around if the use describes or excludes/erases. calling me a card man is accurate because i am a man who does card tricks. Referring to cardmen as a group excludes (linguistically) any person who isn’t a man. (though it is still accurate depending on the era and re...

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Vigil not Virgil - relevant only for people who might specifically be searching for the item!!! don’t want to miss potential customers

Brad Henderson

thanks. that’s what i tnought but wanted to confirm.

Brad Henderson

tamariz - magic should be both _______ and fascinating.

what was the specific word he used in the blank?

Brad

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fewer and fewer. lots of reasons for this - obviously - but no small part has been the failure of recent TAOM’s to obtain name booking in time to advertise prior to the increase in rates. TAOM has become a convention where the people who show up are the ones who show up regardless of who is performi...

Brad Henderson

‘Big Red’ - a variation of the flap three card monte. i have a set here somewhere with instructions. Will keep my eye out for it.

Brad Henderson

finally, a taom convention which has a line up to announce prior to registration rate increases. I hope this bodes well for the convention and we will see greater attendance.

Brad Henderson

Paul Stone offered the 5 Star Wallet which doesn’t use a snap but a flap that tucks to close it and mark the location for the spec to open.

Brad Henderson

it seems bigger than most

(that’s what she said!)

Brad Henderson

i should add, if we want the audience to believe the card is lost, then using a pass seems like a a case of hauling gravel in a Lexus. Sure you can do it, but why? A simple over hand shuffle control works just as well, or the shuffle based control Mullica used to use all the time. the pass is the pe...

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it seems to me that the question shouldn’t be what moves should follow other moves, but what condition we want the audience to believe exists in regard to the order of the cards. If we want the audience to believe the card is lost in the pack, then a shuffle following the control makes sense. If we ...

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magicians are afraid of power and so they comment on their tricks instead of being in the moment and making them happen. i want you to i’d like you to in a moment you will all of these things distance you from the present. make statements. please shuffle the deck. take the cards and deal them into a...

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Magic Castle performance fellowship award winner Ray Anderson performs each weekend as part of the long running Esther’s Follies on 6th street in downtown Austin. i perform sleight of hand magic at brunch each sunday (when i’m in town) sr Chez zee - a famous, uniquely Austin eatery. There is also Jo...

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i recall a magic auction a few years ago when posters were selling for three and four times their established value. They sold for exorbitant prices that day. but what of the next day, or the day after? just as a low sale of a single item doesn’t suggest the item is worth less, a single sale at a hi...

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you claim you couldn’t flip a coin 20 times in a row and it land heads each time. it could. you say you ‘don’t know what’s happening’ which is likely what the audience thinks, not because they are deceived, but because you neither do nor say anything to indicate how this ‘effect’ is occurring. As th...

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rrath1 wrote:FYI Jason England
https://www.ebay.com/itm/312223045807
$465.00 dollars for EATCT Fireside edition SOLD
I believe your valuations of the early books is off abit. LOL
Magicians have no idea of value.

no - the person who paid that much doesn’t.

Brad Henderson

Lived in austin for decades and never heard of or ran into him. oddly, also grew up in the louisville ring and never heard of him there either. shame. sounds like the kind of guy you’d want to know

Brad Henderson

Hen had a marketed routine using this style of wallet. Pretty elaborate. Was a surprise find at an auction years ago.

Brad Henderson

i’m the one calling names? those are your words pointed back at you. I have seen the effect (and programmed the effect) enough times to know how the responses are the same. I have seen enough performers present both to know how the responses are the same. Sure there are minor differences in the resp...

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ian just because you’ve done things many times, doesn’t mean you are correct. I know people who have done their act many times and still have no idea what they are doing. Some never realize how condescending they sound. The idea that the blockhead effect is a penetration is nonsense. Something that ...

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ian, i have worked with several side show performers and have included them in performances i have produced. The response is the same, or at least similar enough to be considered the same effect. and whether or something is hard or soft doesn’t change the EFFECT. vanishing a ball of string and vanis...

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ian, i am always willing to change my mind, all i require is a compelling argument. Your argument relies on acknowledgement of method, not an analysis of the phenomenon. you also seem to suggest, and i may be misunderstanding you, that the blockhead is a mystery to people. I don’t know anyone who pr...

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why are they different? blockhead: object goes into face string/balloon: object goes into face and removed out mouth. changing the object doesn’t change the effect ball goes into hand and shown to be gone coin goes into hand and shown to be gone. same effect. producing the ball at the end doesn’t ch...

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the audience sees the spike go in their nose, which is exactly what they see when someone shoves a balloon or string or condom in their nose. it’s the same effect. Having actually trained people to perform and written for this act, having sold this act to the public, i can assure you the audience se...

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magician shoves something he shouldn’t in his nose

only differences are the object and whether it came out the way it went in or not.

same effect

I think most people (non magicians) seeing two acts each doing one of those stunts would walk away thinking they did the same thing.

Brad Henderson

how is the chain through nose (and out the mouth) substantially different from block head? they both are cases of objects traveling through the sinus cavities. many blockhead performers also do the balloon/condom through mouth and nose. I would put them both in the same category. That Deland explain...

Brad Henderson

oddly, one summer we were exploring the block head act and enlisted the help of someone who worked in the infirmary. While he had never performed it, he said that many of the sailors he sailed with in the Navy used to run the chain from their dog tags through their nose and out their mouth. So appar...

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