We published some work on the Bart Harding stack in the Nine of Diamonds book. As I recall, Neil got the green light from Alan Shaxon to detail the stack in the book; he seemed very happy to do so.
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- March 18th, 2024, 5:15 am
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Reaching a creator to ask for permission.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 778
- March 13th, 2024, 7:44 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Looking for other info on 'puzzle' effect
- Replies: 15
- Views: 595
Re: Looking for other info on 'puzzle' effect
I found the Pallbearer's entry; it's called Triangulation by L Vosburgh Lyons (who surely wins some kind of prize for Best Name).
- March 13th, 2024, 1:02 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Looking for other info on 'puzzle' effect
- Replies: 15
- Views: 595
Re: Looking for other info on 'puzzle' effect
I would suggest that Warp 9, while a fun thing to do, does not fall into the same world as the vanishing space puzzles.
There's also a version in Pallbearer's, but the exact reference escapes me at the mo.
There's also a version in Pallbearer's, but the exact reference escapes me at the mo.
- February 25th, 2024, 4:21 am
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Hark, I Hear The Cannons Roar
- Replies: 8
- Views: 836
Re: Hark, I Hear The Cannons Roar
There's another version where the actor is agonising on >how< to deliver the line; he spends the day going over the line again and again, trying difference emphasis each time... HARK, I hear the cannon's roar Hark, I HEAR the cannon's roar Hark, I hear the CANNON'S roar Hark, I hear the cannon's ROA...
- December 27th, 2023, 9:21 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Mickey MacDougall 1951 News Clip
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1798
Re: Mickey MacDougall 1951 News Clip
I heard a story about a street performer who was doing the cups somewhere, and noticed an old man watching him. After the show, the man came up and introduced himself as Michael MacDougall, and the magician immediately said 'Micky MacDougall the Card Detective?' Apparently MacDougall was made up tha...
- December 11th, 2023, 1:19 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Bill Goldman
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1828
Re: Bill Goldman
Bill's magazine was called the Magic Bar and Grill, and had some gold buried in it.
- November 27th, 2023, 7:35 am
- Forum: Kaufman & Company
- Topic: Mr Jennings... title suggestions!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4599
Re: Mr Jennings... title suggestions!
Mr Jennings waits patiently in the queue behind Greater Magic...
- November 1st, 2023, 4:42 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Video of Roth's Standup Copper/Silver Classic?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8910
Re: Video of Roth's Standup Copper/Silver Classic?
"There is no reason to do the Palm Change quickly."
Exactly, but sometimes people coming to coin magic, particularly from cards, often try to make things faster than they need to be, usually through fear of getting caught mid move.
Exactly, but sometimes people coming to coin magic, particularly from cards, often try to make things faster than they need to be, usually through fear of getting caught mid move.
- November 1st, 2023, 4:40 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Video of Roth's Standup Copper/Silver Classic?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8910
Re: Video of Roth's Standup Copper/Silver Classic?
I have a lesson on the move in Basic Coin Magic 2.0
- October 31st, 2023, 2:28 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Video of Roth's Standup Copper/Silver Classic?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8910
Re: Video of Roth's Standup Copper/Silver Classic?
One wee snippet of advice on the palm to palm transfer; you have to drop the palmed coin >before< you start moving the coin at fingertips. If you try to speed up the move by doing the two moves at the same time, you'll talk every time. This is one of those moves where 'slow is smooth, smooth is fast...
- October 6th, 2023, 4:37 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Marlo Outjogged Oil & Water
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17336
Re: Marlo Outjogged Oil & Water
If it helps, Josh used this phase in his routine that was included in the Talk about Tricks DVD set from L&L. Setting the video vs text discussion aside for a moment, the move is explained well there. It's not massively hard to grasp, but I acknowledge that the description in the magazine is eas...
- September 28th, 2023, 4:45 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Copyright
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2953
- September 7th, 2023, 1:14 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Help Back the Juan Tamariz Documentary
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2878
Re: Help Back the Juan Tamariz Documentary
Kickstarter doesn't allow backers to 'buy into' a project in that way.
You can be open to higher level investors outside KS, but it can't be part of a reward.
You can be open to higher level investors outside KS, but it can't be part of a reward.
- September 7th, 2023, 11:44 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Help Back the Juan Tamariz Documentary
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2878
Re: Help Back the Juan Tamariz Documentary
The clips in the film go back to the 70s and 80s, when Juan was pretty much the only magician on Spain's two TV channels. They are quite astonishing to see, even now.
Endless convention shows wouldn't address his legacy nearly as well, and since that's largely the point of the film...
Endless convention shows wouldn't address his legacy nearly as well, and since that's largely the point of the film...
- September 7th, 2023, 3:12 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Help Back the Juan Tamariz Documentary
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2878
Re: Help Back the Juan Tamariz Documentary
I can see not finding this Kickstarter a particularly beguiling Kickstarter to support ... as this is clearly identified on the Kickstarter page as one of those projects that actually buys you nothing at all not a single reward - not even a DVD. These "no reward" Kickstarter gigs are very...
- August 26th, 2023, 2:29 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Egg Bag
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21695
Re: Egg Bag
The essential part of a routine with an Egg Bag is proving that the bag is empty. This requires all sorts of twisting, slapping, and various gyrations. None of that occurs in a Chop Cup routine, in which simply lifting the cup to show nothing underneath it proves that it's empty. I've a feeling you...
- August 26th, 2023, 12:15 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Egg Bag
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21695
Re: Egg Bag
If you look at the egg bag as a sort of floppy chop cup that doesn't need a table, you are halfway there...
- August 25th, 2023, 5:46 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Egg Bag
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21695
Re: Egg Bag
Alfred;
Might want to remove that link - says explicitly 'don't share or post'...
Might want to remove that link - says explicitly 'don't share or post'...
- July 2nd, 2023, 3:15 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Zarrow Shuffle
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10170
- May 30th, 2023, 6:09 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Impossible Kirigami Cards
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1084
Re: Impossible Kirigami Cards
I remember sitting with Ian Rowland at Blackpool at some inordinately unsuitable hour of the night, and asking him to show my the cards. He dutifully took a wodge of cards from his wallet, and it was lovely. At one point a couple of years later he challenged me to replicate one of them, and was perh...
- May 5th, 2023, 12:18 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Pitchman at work!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1834
Re: Pitchman at work!
My guess is that Mark's facebook page is set to defaults, which may be limiting access to Friends. Anyone not directly connected to him is going to get a bounce.
ALT TEXT: It's a photo of Mark on the AGT stage.
ALT TEXT: It's a photo of Mark on the AGT stage.
- March 27th, 2023, 3:55 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: A salvaged tutorial
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2603
Re: A salvaged tutorial
In recent times. I think Roberto Giobbi went into some detail in one of the Card College books, but from my point of view, the first column I wrote for Basic Training in 2009 broke the move down into its constituent parts, and then reassembled them into the Ghost, and later the Jordan counts. Much a...
- March 27th, 2023, 8:54 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: A salvaged tutorial
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2603
Re: A salvaged tutorial
For a long, long time the count was not taught in an efficient manner.
- March 16th, 2023, 5:48 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Baritone magicians
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4593
Re: Baritone magicians
Everyone should go through voice training if they are a performer. Even if they use a microphone instead of projecting, it's still important to know how to use a mic properly. It's shocking how many don't...
Having a deep voice with a soft Scottish accent is also a bit of a plus...
Having a deep voice with a soft Scottish accent is also a bit of a plus...
- February 22nd, 2023, 6:39 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Understanding the Bermuda Triangle
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13481
Re: Understanding the Bermuda Triangle
For those keeping score, there were two or three versions in Real Secrets from a few years ago.
- February 7th, 2023, 4:45 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Blackpool 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2733
Re: Blackpool 2023
I'm heading down for two days. There are a few people I want to see, and many more to catch up.
Mark seems to have forgotten that Blackpool convention is not exactly in the height of summer...
Mark seems to have forgotten that Blackpool convention is not exactly in the height of summer...
- February 7th, 2023, 12:42 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: When things don't go according to plan :D
- Replies: 1
- Views: 767
- January 26th, 2023, 9:03 am
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: WTB Crosstown please
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1056
Re: WTB Crosstown please
The shop is there, but all but three things are listed as 'out of stock'...
- January 15th, 2023, 8:31 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: The Retreat: Alaska
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1347
Re: The Retreat: Alaska
Repro was frustratingly hard to get to in 86; two busses and miles from a tube.
Geoff was always kind, though. Finally got my first set of lock picks there.
Geoff was always kind, though. Finally got my first set of lock picks there.
- January 10th, 2023, 12:28 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Ricky Jay Auction ...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3551
Re: Ricky Jay Auction ...
In much the same way that Bruce Cervon didn't share his notebooks
- January 10th, 2023, 8:23 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Ricky Jay Auction ...
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3551
Re: Ricky Jay Auction ...
It's interesting to see an original copy of Artanis' Bottom Deal record. I've just been transcribing a bunch of Marlo letters from 1958, and he talks about it there. Marlo was not a fan, but it's still a curious lesson (if only for the medium). It's been on the Lybrary for years if anyone is piqued :)
- January 7th, 2023, 8:15 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Vanishing Inc buys Houdini's Magic Shop
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3684
Re: Vanishing Inc buys Houdini's Magic Shop
Did any of you actually read the VInc email? Cos all these concerns are addressed there...
- December 18th, 2022, 5:47 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Odds of an Adjacent Pair
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1970
Re: Odds of an Adjacent Pair
52! is an obscenely large number; one that is virtually impossible to visualise. Umpteen years ago on the EG I mentioned something that I used to use in the late 80s. It's a sort of a prop bet; you tell the mark that they can name any two values, and you bet even money that there will be those two v...
- December 14th, 2022, 11:26 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Comfort Books?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2634
- December 10th, 2022, 1:20 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: The magician who went to work on a motor bike!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2149
Re: The magician who went to work on a motor bike!
The military based in North Scotland are are great - 45 Commando in Arbroath and REME up in Elgin were both wonderful hosts, and good audiences.
There was a fight between a few wives in the REME junior NCOs Christmas dinner a few years ago, which was something to behold...
There was a fight between a few wives in the REME junior NCOs Christmas dinner a few years ago, which was something to behold...
- December 3rd, 2022, 2:03 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: BEWARE of Scammers Selling Here
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2536
Re: BEWARE of Scammers Selling Here
It can be a small problem; last year someone in Canada contacted me, asking if I had a book to sell. I did, and we came to an agreement. I sent the book over, and I got an email one morning complaining that the spine was slightly sun faded. This was a book where the contents were the important stuff...
- December 2nd, 2022, 5:16 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Bruce Cervon Video Notes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6019
- November 20th, 2022, 4:51 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Glimpsing A Card The Spectator Hands You
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2986
- November 20th, 2022, 4:41 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Is Coin Magic Obsolete?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6908
Re: Is Coin Magic Obsolete?
Coin magic will be here for many years to come. It's daft to assume otherwise.
- November 20th, 2022, 4:06 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Glimpsing A Card The Spectator Hands You
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2986
Re: Glimpsing A Card The Spectator Hands You
When I had a long tube trip home in 1986, I was sitting rolling an old 10p piece over my fingers while staring into space. I noticed a small boy, maybe eight or nine, ask his father for a 10p and started trying to roll it; in his hands it was as if I were rolling a small plate. I called him over, an...