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Randy DiMarco

BTW - I might have a bias because an Automatic Deck was the first magic trick I ever got way back when at the Houdini Museum in Niagara Falls.

Randy DiMarco

I say include the vintage backs. There are so many different back designs a person could be using even if you just take into account the more standard brands. Bicycle, Tally-ho, Studs, Bees and on and on. Not to mention if you prefer red backs or blue backs. Personally, if I want to actually use a g...

Randy DiMarco

I learned that years ago from Howie Schwarzman. I'm pretty sure it is his idea.

Randy DiMarco

Is it possible that Don Tanner and Don O'Neal are actually the same person?

Randy DiMarco

After a quick search I found Fred Kaps' Hamman Count Overhand Shuffle in 52 Lovers. I feel like I saw it somewhere else before 52 Lovers was published.

Randy DiMarco

I know I have seen the Hamman count done in an overhand shuffle style action but I don't remember where.

Randy DiMarco

I noticed last night that at least some of the Magic Magazine issues are now showing up in the IPad app. Don't see them on the web page yet.

Randy DiMarco

I also always pronounced his name like "toast". I never actually said his last name to him and even if I did he would have probably been too nice to correct me. Also, when talking to other people who knew him he was always just referred to as Nick so I can't remember ever hearing his name ...

Randy DiMarco

Is that the sample edition with the blank pages?

Randy DiMarco

In Volume 1 Number 5 of Talisman is Roger Rittner's "The New Wind-Up Deck". In the description he states that he can't remember who originally showed it to him but has found few people who had heard about it. That issue is dated April 3, 1970.

Randy DiMarco

I just read about how this was originally done with a watchwinder gimmick and this person had made it easier by using the riffle.

Now I just need to remember where I read it. Will find it when I get home and post an update.

Randy DiMarco

I just sent $10 for 2

Gazzo showed some work on a smaller but similar punch when he lectured for us at the Buffalo Get-Together a few years ago.

Randy DiMarco

I noticed they have a new edition of the Magic history on the website for $69.99 https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/popculture/all/44810/facts.magic_1400s1950s.htm It does list at about 100 fewer pages than the original. I couldn't find any mention of what the difference in content was.

Randy DiMarco

The first I can find it mentioned is 1985. I know I bought it around that time when it was a new release.

Randy DiMarco

I am now able to sign in to the iPad app and access issues.

Thank you

Randy DiMarco

This sounds similar in concept to a coin routine Tim Glancey had. He said the coin was invisible on one side. It was a spellbound type routine but he switched the coin for nothing while pretending to turn the coin over and mimed holding the invisible coin.

Randy DiMarco

I generally access Genii through the iPad app. This morning it asked me to login

My login (email address / password) does not work. I get the error that username or password is incorrect.

I am able to access through the website using my email address and password.

Randy DiMarco

The "version" in the Kenner book is Michael Weber's. If you read the introduction to the trick you will get the gist of what went on. Michael performed this, but did not explain it, at an 8 hour lecture he gave in Niagara on the Lake in the early 80's. It was not in print at that time but ...

Randy DiMarco

John Carney put out at least 7 books that I can think of off the top of my head.

Randy DiMarco

I don't see how the statement that if you move a file it still exists on your hard drive, while technically true, has anything to do with this. For all practical purposes the file is unavailable to you after you get rid of the moved copy. You would need to go to extraordinary means to retrieve a cop...

Randy DiMarco

You will get the gimmick that activates the bird with your purchase.

The winding key for the clockwork mechanism

Randy DiMarco

I remember Duc doing this at FFFF several years ago (maybe 8-10 years, I don't remember for sure). It was one of the "have you seen that" things of the convention that year.

Randy DiMarco

3 characters in magic I was lucky enough to meet and spend some time with were Mike O'Dowd (the one from Toronto) - He always had some topological thing to show and he had this vent figure he had made where the face had a skin over it and the mouth moved like an actual human mouth Willis Kenney - Al...

Randy DiMarco

My copy of The Esoterist is hardcover. Brownish color with gold stamped lettering.

Randy DiMarco

The initial Queen laydown sequence in Lou Gallo's "Only the Lonely" always fools me, even when I am performing the trick.

Randy DiMarco

Around here we call these out buildings "sheds". Garages are for cars.

Randy DiMarco

This is what I think is going on with this (as if it mattered what I think) Criss (or someone involved with Criss) saw how many people flocked to magic shops to buy "biting coins" after David Blaine did that trick on one of his specials. This is their attempt to cash in on the same type of...

Randy DiMarco

Also, never go to one of these sites by clicking a link in an email. Open your browser and type in the main page address of whatever website manually.

Randy DiMarco

I like Fred Lowe's "Chinese Bit". The gaff set is a little different than the normal C/S/B and there are a couple of really magical moments in that routine.

Randy DiMarco

The publisher has to submit the books used in Google Print through the Google publishers program. <a class="postlink" href="http://print.google.com/googleprint/publisher.html">http://print.google.com/googleprint/publisher.html</a> I don't think copyright will be a problem for this.

Randy DiMarco

I also got email to renew but never anything about the site closing down. I also never got any emails concerning purchasing an archive cd. Regarding the archive CD. I seem to remember reading that an archive CD was going to be sent out as part of the subscription. I may be remembering wrong but I ca...

Randy DiMarco

Is this the verion with "up" and "dn" instead of the arrows? If so, this was published in the first issue of Steve's The Trapdoor magazine. He also used to sell the prop as a seperate item. I am not sure if these are still available.

Randy DiMarco

Jerry's website is http://www.magicmethodsonline.com/ .

He has all the Card Cavalcade books available there.

Randy DiMarco

The "Too Perfect" theory is incorrectly named and that is the reason for the big debate. If a trick were truly perfect all explainations, including the correct one, would be impossible in the audiences mind. Rick Johnsson's theory should be called the "Not Quite Perfect" theory.

Randy DiMarco

I think Richard is refering to episodes such as when Patrick Page was expelled from the Magic Circle for writing a magic book that they considered gave away too much good material.

Randy DiMarco

I arrange my library by the Dewey Decimal System. However, since all magic books share the number 793.8 they are just thrown everywhere in my library.

Randy DiMarco

The original Koornwinder Kar is available at www.hocus-pocus.com

Randy DiMarco

This is very interesting news.
I have to go now. My refrigerator is running and I have to catch it.

Randy DiMarco

I think the handling of the "sucker" aspects at the beginning are the most important part of this. You need to get the spectators reacting but if you play it too broadly they will know you are putting them on from the start. I have a video from the early 80's of Derek Dingle performing thi...

Randy DiMarco

If describing the effect will give it away what are the chances that performing it will fool an audience.

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