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pixsmith

I have to say I think that the year this came out, it may have been the best magic book published. It's been a great read a number of times for me. I was very pleasantly surprised when I was talking to John Moehring one evening, and he said the best book of that year didn't have one trick in it. He ...

pixsmith

For what it might be worth, I've done this in the past. Take a piece of at least 1" grosgrain ribbon that will go all the way around the book with a little left over - maybe 4-6" extra total. When you put the book back into the case, put the center of the ribbon across the front of the boo...

pixsmith

So sorry to hear this It was great meeting you at AbraCornDabra last May, and I can honestly say you are one of the nicest and most generous folks I have met. In particular, your short discourse on magicians and their embracing of new media was great and thought-provoking. I thought it was one of th...

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I let Ryan know there was a problem, and he said at the moment, if you're on a mobile device, changing to landscape mode should help. He planned to have it addressed by this morning, but if there's an issue, drop him a note.

pixsmith

John was a great guy. I was very pleased to be able to feature him on the cover of Genii. Nice humble man and also a straight shooter. His piece on the farce Criss Angel perpetrated when he supposedly floated from the top of the Luxor hotel was fabulous--he described what the people who were there ...

pixsmith

Very excited that my buddy Ryan Plunkett (with Michael Feldman) has received copies of their book, A New Angle , published by Magic, Inc. with a foreword by Lance Pierce. I was fortunate enough to be around from the initial idea, and I think they've produced an elegant looking book that calls back t...

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That is interesting, in many ways. That location is in Paris Texas, which is northeast of the Dallas area. The contact phone is actually listed in a book sale here on the Genii forum, so it's a magician of sorts undertaking this quest. I've watched less interesting and more cryptic TV premises, so I...

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This ought to be a great thing for magic! Plus, he's just a really great guy. Congratulations all around.

pixsmith

For those of you coming to TAOM this week, there's a hidden gem about 15 minutes from the convention, with a heck of a lot of history attached. "Vegas before Vegas" Beulah Adams Marshall bought land here along the Bankhead Highway in the early 1920s and opened a tea room, hosting teas and ...

pixsmith

Just a note.

In Opera Mini the new mobile style looks great, and loads very quickly. Haven't tried it on the native Android Browser yet, but even switching back and forth between styles works well for me in Opera.

Nice job!

pixsmith

I am viewing the forum on Opera Mini, and it formats nicely and loads quickly. Opera Mini (and the desktop browser for that matter) is free, comes with a lot of nifty features, and Opera has been a favorite of mine since the desktop version 3 way back in Win 3 days. Might be worth a look, I have a s...

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I'll second an earlier request for smaller headlines, and the one for a one or two line preview as well. In fact, for me, the "look" of the old forum was terrific. I could read stuff efficiently and quickly, and the colors and contrast were great. On this one, the fonts seem a bit light, a...

pixsmith

I'm looking for folks who may have worked Olive Garden, and wondering if I could ask a few quick questions.

Thanks for your time -- PM me and I can email you back if that's easier.

Cheers,

Pix

pixsmith

This is truly one of my favorite clips from the Tonight Show. I will never forget seeing it the first time it aired, and how grateful I was that it made many "Best of..." shows.

Thanks for the terrific clip. Two very talented and funny people at their funniest.

pixsmith

John -

Just tried to sign up just as a sign up, and it keeps telling my my image file (of which there is none) isn't valid. Looks like it wants to require an image of some kind, and alas, I have none.

Just a note. I know it's a process...

pixsmith

And the Vampire Record is sold, many thanks! Still that Por Mor Fil Mor stuff avaialable though...

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And $75 by 6:30 will get it in the evening mail!

pixsmith

A follow-up to the last question -- the glass is marked Kar-Lac Mix Serv on the bottom. I know it's the same glass used in the original effect. And it is either Hazel Atlas or Anchor Hocking -- I have seen both credited .... guess Anchor Hocking did a successful job of brand awareness with me! In ca...

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So you have! Excellent question too -- I responded via email, but it's the exact same glass as the original -- I am pretty sure it's Anchor Hocking, but I can double check it tomorrow.\ It is the glass used in the mixer when you order a malt, and I dug around until I found a duplicate to the broken ...

pixsmith

Thought this might be the best venue for folks with an appreciation for the craftsmanship and the coolness of these two items... First up, a beautiful set of some props for Merv Taylor's liquid mystery, Por Mor Fil Mor. I have a couple for some reason, so here is one... The measure, with hallmark, a...

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It was quite interesting to read -- I really enjoyed his self challenge last year to post daily -- there were some great thoughts there.

I am sorry to see that he has discontinued it. It's worth searching to see if it was ever archived, too. As I said, some interesting thinking there.

pixsmith

It is, I think, "Mentalivity" in the Reverses section. It's a pretty good starting point for tricks of that ilk.

Pix
(who has too much free time and too many things cluttering his brain)

pixsmith

This is a terrific feature of the forum. I love reading the reviews, and thanks to Tom for 150, and to Richard for the bandwidth!

Pix

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I was lucky enough to read the blog before it was private, and it was terrific. It's amazing how much really great magical advice was written in all the early literature, and especially in Erdnase. Bob White has mentioned several times that in Erdnase is almost everything you need to know about not ...

pixsmith

fwiw, I use opera mini and the forum works and looks great just as is. I know the Android app is small and speedy, can't speak for other platforms though.

pixsmith

Morris Stein and RM Jamison took idea and instead of writing on cards, used blank cards on which to write the prediction. Stein's marketed as "Predicto". And IIR, I think this particular incarnation of the trick caused quite a stir in the magic publications of the day, proving that Karr w...

pixsmith

Fees are a touchy subject for most people. My opinion is that most performers undervalue their product; clients benefit... I think there is a tendency, as a good friend and excellent show "business" person, told me once, for performers to fail to capitalize their talent and experience. Th...

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i think that the point of this discussion is a broader one, and it does relate to Richard's comment about understanding customer psychology. I am a fan of hearing the thinking and the reasoning behind lots of things -- including magic, purchasing decisions, and even marketing choices. I'd have a tou...

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Still couldn't like the show as much as I wanted to, but it's fine. I have to weigh the "good for magicians" against the "ack -- I hate this style of 'reality' tv,' and the magic won. Thought it was tolerable, not great, but better than most anything else that was on my other 459 chan...

pixsmith

Operacion Repo meets the Sting.
there's kind of a tru tv vibe to this show

i made it through about twenty minutes at the first sitting. the narration and the camera work were a little wearying. ill try to give it more of a look later.

Anyone else watch it?

pixsmith

Curtis Kam wrote:Nobody has yet mentioned Chuck Smith's handling, so I will. It is one of the few to take an entirely different tack, and it does so in a devious way.

I had actually thought about it several times, but it's pretty good, and I got selfish...

pixsmith

Dunninger The Mentalist #42 - 7/26/44 is airing online on yesterday USA radio. Very interesting to hear him work, and amazing how entertaining this is to listen to. I think it's rebroadcasting over the week, so see if you can catch it.

pixsmith

Just finished this book while visiting family in Las Vegas. Kudos to both John and Gary, and David Ben as well, for a beautifully researched, well-written, and compelling story of a man completely driven by magic. The book is almost impossible to put down, and like all good biographies, makes me wis...

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It's possible. It is hard to tell from some of the other posts -- but I would think that they would be hard pressed to really find enough magicians to get a good sample of bad tipping. Though I know some waitresses at our regular hangouts that know all too well.... Thanks -- I meant to mention that,...

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Interesting post on one of the blogs I follow. <a class="postlink" href="http://lasvegas-taxidriver.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=95&sid=ecb6c00955bcbe4affa9b1110b426306">http://lasvegas-taxidriver.com/board/vi ... 110b426306</a> If you don't read these, and you spend any...

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I think that they may still be available from Chuck himself. Norman Beck would know if anyone does though.

pixsmith

It was in Market Square. I remember the Joske's downtown from many visits to my godparents in SA. I actually saw parts of the hotel being built, and then begged and wheedled for about a solid year to get to go to Hemisfair. It was amazing, especially to 9 year old eyes, and in retrospect, my mother ...

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Interesting hotel, that was a completely modular build, constructed in about 200 days when HemisFair (where I saw an amazing Mark Wilson magic show that might have been sponsored by SW Bell, but I forget) was in San Antonio in 1968. The rooms were build and furnished down to the carpeting, as I reca...

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Steve --

Got to come down on Brad's side here, and he is correct. He also mentioned it in in the review of the product in Magic.

It has been an interesting personal look for me, at the world of commercial magic and its purveyors.

pixsmith

I have a puppet knife throwing act, designed by Joe Owens and built by Fred Cowan, that uses a spring loaded knife that shoots out into position. For larger, real scale things, though, I would securely fasten that sucker to a rat trap spring and inset it into whatever it has to come out of. You can ...

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