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Randy DiMarco

I don't know that Andy's real identity is as big of a mystery as people seem to think. I think if you really want to find out you could. I have heard that he is actually pretty well known by the younger guys in New York City. I have been told his name but I don't remember it. I think his real first ...

Randy DiMarco

All this is really of no consequence because YouTube is a private company and they can decide to take down any video that they choose. They choose to be extra carful that they don't violate copyright so they take down anything that is reported. It is probably what their lawyers recommend to avoid fi...

Randy DiMarco

Thank you for the tip. I preordered these way back when but had to cancel the preorder due to unforeseen circumstances. I have always regretted not getting these. Ordered!!!

Randy DiMarco

When I was younger I had the opportunity to spend quite a bit of time with many older magicians. I didn't appreciate them because they weren't doing the cool flibity-jibity stuff that I was into at the time. All these years later I can now see the influence they had on me despite myself. A short lis...

Randy DiMarco

That is Matt Corin's Spin Flourish

Randy DiMarco

That was the general conversation but I remembered it as being his ex-wife. It was 20 years ago.

Randy DiMarco

I talked to Denny about this when I was buying all the Scotty York stuff years ago. What I remember was that the rights were actually owned by Scotty's ex-wife. I don't remember if it was part of a divorce settlement or whatever. I do remember that Denny told me that he could only sell what he had a...

Randy DiMarco

Check out the Memory Arts book at Vanishing Inc

https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/magic ... arts-book/

Randy DiMarco

Gamble Amble was the first packet trick I ever bought way back in the middle 70's. I know I still have the cards and I am sure the instructions are around here somewhere. If I come across them I will let you know.

Randy DiMarco

Richard Kaufman wrote:I don't like most of the cards made by this group. The decks are way too thick, and the cards way too stiff. Not great for my style of sleight of hand.

I believe the cards will be printed by USPCC and will handle the same as the high quality cards that come from them.

Randy DiMarco

I have 15 regular issues and 2 special issues.

The special issues are:

Special Edition #1 - David Neighbors: My Hidden Secrets on Coin Magic
Special TSD Convention Issue - New Orleans, LA - March 2002

Randy DiMarco

Jeff Altman and Deane Stern will be lecturing in Buffalo on Sunday February 10 You all know Jeff Altman as a stand up comedian and TV and movie actor. You also probably saw at least one of his forty or so appearances on the David Letterman show. He is also an excellent card man with ties to the card...

Randy DiMarco

At one time Howie sold a special gaffed box that came with an instructional video tape. Maybe some of the Frank Thompson stuff is on that tape. Of course you will need to find the tape.

Randy DiMarco

I don't remember the name of the Hen Fetch trick. I do know that Tom Frank also had a trick with this wallet called "Tricky Wallet". I don't know if he still sells it.

Randy DiMarco

Matthew Field wrote:It's called a "magic wallet," but no magician will be interested in it.

Hen Fetch would disagree

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.

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