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Paco Nagata

I may enjoy and I enjoyed that post, Jack.
Thank you very much!
An alternative to the faro shuffle is always a good tool, specially with a deck of cards in bad conditions.
Thanks a lot for sharing this great idea.

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Beautiful, Kent! Great jobs like this one makes me feel specially happy for being keen on card magic! Kent, that's outstanding! Very creative and entertaining. Also struck a sentimental chord with me, as I was fortunate to live and perform in the City by the Bay for many years. Really?! Alfred, my w...

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Me too, I love this kind of shows in which the magician is un trouble, but finally overcomes the situation against all odds. Actually that was one of the things that made me to keep my interest in the art of magic. I noticed that the magician sometimes could be seen as a HERO; a true hero that overc...

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As magicians we love methods. To the extent that we sometimes overlook solid effects because the method is "beneath us". Very good reflection, Jack. In this video the response is outstanding. I believe the audience will always remember their reaction even if they later become aware of the...

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Thank you very much for the Post, Jim Sisti.
Very emotional tribute telling about his life.
I read it carefully.
Rest in Peace, Mr. Falanga.

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You're welcome, Jack!

It's very interesting to see what a wonderful magical effect can be achieve with a simple balloon and a sheet!
(And, of course, a good shomanship).

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Please, try now...
I did "something" in the "Menu" of Google Drive.
Really, I'm not very good at computer handling

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Jackpot wrote:Paco's link requires permission to view so I couldn't see it.

I'm sorry about that! I didn't even know that it was protected!

There are things I still don't understand about Google Driver. I'll try to fix it...

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Have a look to this...
It was sent to me by a friend of mine around a week ago

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZwmH_D ... p=drivesdk

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Leo Garet wrote:Don't Hide When Nobody's Looking.

That's another good one not to forget, Leo!
^_^ Thank you.

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Paco, I admire your graciousness and open-mindedness, two valuable traits for a magician. Yes, the admonition, "Don't make unimportant things important" is -- well -- important. Thank you, Alfred. I'm learning so much reading your valuable posts (as well as others', of course). And with l...

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"Don't run when they're not chasing you," and "The proof is in the pudding." I back up this thoughts, Alfred. It is similar to the Professor's "Don't make unimportant things important." I should have used other words; instead of "... to justify the procedure...&qu...

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One of my favorite card tricks has long been "A Poker Player's Picnic." ...I always got very good to excellent reactions with it. But I did not get super phenomenal reactions until the last few years, when I re-oriented the presentation and patter around establishing conditions that cance...

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I would propose a corollary to the "Too Perfect" theory, the "Too Imperfect" theory. In that case, there are too many ways the trick could have been done, and even though the spec guesses the wrong one, it doesn't matter, because in the spec's mind s/he's solved it. For example,...

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Edward, thanks for the references! This has been a thought-provoking thread for me. (No pun intended). As I think about the various posts and the issue of what my relationship to the spectator will be in mental effects, the distinction between exerting influence and/or control over a spectator's min...

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I've never heard about Derren Brown, but that's perfectly normal taking into account that I've never been very keen on mentalism magic.
I'm glad to get to know about him and his style, so thanks a lot to both of you, Alfred and Tom!

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Jonathan Townsend wrote:Have a look at iPhone shortcuts and two person mentalist codes. Hey Siri, did you see what card he picked/which one he chose/....?

Thank you for the reference!
It is also interesting to explore well the "instant stooge" idea.

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If someone says, "Tell me what I'm thinking right now," here are a few of the lines I have used with success: 1. "I KNEW you were going to ask me that question." 2. (Place hand to forehead, close eyes, and pretending to concentrate) "Woah! I think we'd better keep that our ...

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So, as I have thought about your question, it is not so much whether the mind reading or the telepathy or even the prediction effect will impress more, but it is all about how strong the method and presentation is, and how it will impact them psychologically. Let's say for example, I started the ro...

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Jonathan Townsend wrote:Prediction: you will soon read about some card magic by Hofzinser.

How the hell did you know that?!

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Here is an example of what I am talking about: The Invisible Deck. Rather than setting up the effect as showcasing my amazing powers of prediction or premonition, I like to present it, as noted above, as a test of their abilities. So I tell them I am act going to send the image of a playing card to...

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It's well known that the general concept of Mentalism in Magic is to guess or just to get to know what a spectator is thinking or have thought. Well, I was wondering if a different concept of Mentalism would be beneficial or detrimental for the general concept of Mentalism in Magic. The concept I'm ...

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Here in the Old World, specifically in the Flamenco's world where I'm living, it is said among Tamariz fans that the book "Flamenco" was going to be the third part or volume three of "Bewitched Music" to complete a trilogy with musical connotations: "Sonata," "Simp...

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Ted M wrote:Next time somebody asks what to do with old decks...

This guy needs more than old decks...

He needs a "factory" of old decks!

Maybe old "Trivial Pursuit" games would be a good supply

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It's a funny thing, but if you act like you have nothing to hide, and act like you don't care if they examine, they don't feel inclined to do so. Human psychology is endlessly fascinating, and continually revealed through magic. I have a perfect clean-up for my Pen Through Anything/Pen Through Doll...

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"socks off" I didn't know this phrasal verb :lol: I looked it up in the dictionary... I'm not only improving my magic knowledge thanks to you Alfred, but also my English ;) I remember that one of the very generous regulars I performed for at a bar I worked at once said to me: "Sometim...

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I dislike the technique as for some reason, it has never looked very natural to me even as a kid. (If you want to display that many cards, why don't you just fan them out?) With all my respect and humble opinion, I reckon that you ask yourself that question because you see it as a magician, so then...

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As Alfred said, if you say "Let me show you a trick", people would think about you as "someone that has leart a trick" or "someone that knows a trick", but never as a Magician. Philosophising about magic I came up once with the premise that "showing magic" is ...

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MagicbyAlfred wrote:Whenever I performed a trick on the radio, I always knew it was a huge success. Thousands of people would call in to the radio station saying they "just couldn't see how it was done."

Alfred, this could lead to a new interesting topic:
Magic and Radio

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Definitely his best magic trick was to made the entire Earth been invaded by aliens!
^_^

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I have seen ALL Buster Keaton's movies that were released in Spain, but this...
If Richard said he had never seen it before, it must be a real seldom gem to watch.
Thank you so much for sharing, Jack!

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I love a Doc Eason interesting routine by linking the colour changing deck effect with the effect of "Chicago Opener." That is, after showing that all the cards have changed from blue back to red back, we have a blue back card to perform the effect of "Chicago Opener" right then....

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Tom Gilbert wrote:I rarely have paper money on me anymore, well before the virus.

Dear me! Tom, have you been splitting and restoring credit cards?! Awesome! (^_^)
(Just joking)

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Our Fellow Jason Ladanye illustrates us how does it "work":
https://www.facebook.com/jladanye/video ... 712257321/
Seriously, I think that this device wasn't created for performing, but more like for helping to memorise the stack anytime and wherever you are/go.

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Alfred, you will not believe it,
but I "googled" "Tang Acapao" as I'm a truly dead loss for anagrams!
I'm much better at numbers than at words.
Thanks for letting me notice it!!

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Paco: Using the Optical Revolve really kicks up the ending. Using the Three Musketeers patter, with four Jacks, the deck becomes the Bastille. The three cards placed on a Jack are Cardinal Richelieu's guards, who capture each Musketeer and drag him to the dungeon in the bottom of the Bastille. d'Ar...

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Hocus1031 wrote:Flourishes have been a part of magic throughout history

The thing is to try to relate or connect as less as possible juggling, flourishes and adornments with the magic effects, so that people don't think easily that all that are the responsible fact of the magical illusions.

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I perform card magic since I'm a boy up to the point of getting some of my family members angry by saying: - Hey, little boy, a deck of cards were created for games, games like poker or whatever, but not for magic! Well, with this discovery I can rub it in that a deck of cards were created indeed fo...

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Well, certainly a bell rang in my mind...
It looks like the stage gag in which the magician shows the selected card to the entire audience behind the "victim" so that everybody know it.
The magician ask the "victim" to transmit the identity of the card to everybody with his mind...

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Jonathan Townsend wrote:
El Mystico wrote:McDonald had two routines with the Aces.
Was the other one a "cut to the aces" routine?

Maybe the Aces disappear again in each pile, and appear again face up inside de deck?

Or, maybe there was a fourth...

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