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Thank you sir!

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Hi guys, I was wondering if it'd be possible to get the contact information for Magicana and/or Jonathan Friedman? I had a Magicana submission that was accepted in 2018 but I think was lost sometime in the transition between Magicana editors. I totally understand, that's cool, not salty, but there's...

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Richard, thanks for the prompt response.

When you say a firm price, does that mean a price listing plus "or best offer" would be inappropriate here?

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Don't want to step on any toes, so I'm not going to actually list the domain name itself until I've got verification from the mods here at Genii that it's ok to do so. Anyways, it took long enough, but I'm in the final stages of getting off the internet (insofar as magic is concerned -- I'm keeping ...

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Hi guys, it's Andrew. I'll keep this brief, since I'm basically getting off the internet. Anybody who needs to know what happened can go here: http://weeklymagicfailure.blogspot.kr/2012/09/farewell.html There's some discussion further down the page about who might be behind it all. No comment. The w...

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Bill Mullins wrote:The only solution is for Acer to get medieval on him with a pair of pliers. (which is a metaphor for "write him a strongly-worded email")

Funsway is fringe. Acer should give him as much thought as he would used kleenex.

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"What is your point? I am going through my library and have yet to find a poker or protection resource that even mentions Norman Beck." I don't know that's necessarily the best metric for figuring out who's an expert and who's not in this particular instance. It might work for something w...

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Oh snap.

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Richard Kaufman wrote:Jonathan, sometimes I just have no idea what you're writing about.

Only sometimes? You got me beat.

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There was a huge discussion about this over at Magic Video Depot, and through the debate, about six different reasons for using a feint came up. 1) To manipulate tension and relaxation, which can create good timing for a sleight. Tension is raised at the moment of the sleight, things are shown innoc...

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Incidentally, I'm sorry that neither you nor John seem to like the feints in the routine. I think the proper understanding of, and intelligent use of feints is as useful now as it was in Robert-Houdin's time. They are not just to fool magicians. I think Michael Vincent's work, as one example, shows...

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Didn't Tamariz himself refer to Ascanio as Spain's answer to Vernon?

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For card to pocket? Yes. For card to wallet? No. For card to wallet - Yes! ...snippity... Just my opinion. Glenn, you missed my point. I'm not saying that one cannot go searching through the pockets and pull out the wallet amongst a whole other bunch of stuff, and to reveal the card from the wallet...

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I wonder, do you get that the point of this idea of pulling several items out of the pocket before you get to the wallet is to demonstrate that the wallet was hard to reach and therefore to highlight the impossibility of the card appearing in the wallet? For card to pocket? Yes. For card to wallet?...

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For what it's worth, there's nothing preventing one from producing the wallet first in that bit of comedy business. Huh? That's the way I do it, and it still plays just as strong. The really good opportunities for the comedy come from the nature of the things you produce from your pocket anyways. I...

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Actually, Bill's analysis feels right to me. And yeah, I do perform this for a living for real people. To me, the major selling point is the speed of the load versus the time it takes to reveal the card afterwards. It's all about the unclasping and the unzippering, and if the question they ask is &q...

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Longitudinally split double-face/double-backed cards would allow for the fans and spreads, but if Kent says he ain't usin' no gimmicked cards, we gots to believe him. Looks great. A method presented itself pretty quickly based on what's in the video. So, there's at least one way of doing this ungim...

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I'm willing to bet everybody's just waiting for the Smiling Mule to speak up.

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Alas?

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Awesome. Thanks very much. Hope you get another interview with him soon.

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Ted, You know, I just checked, and a lot of genii's old threads are available on archive.org. This is venturing off-topic, but if you point out which threads you want to have updated, it might be possible to do something about it. And yes, I know, this observation almost totally invalidates what I w...

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On the contrary, I find the idea that you can be edited after publication a wonderful asset of interwebs publishing. If we're talking about cosmetic/style changes, then I agree. If we're talking about the substance of the content, though, I really very much disagree. It's just too easy to rewrite o...

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One of the real downsides of this is the lack of a proper historical record. I've noticed that journalism standards online have gotten pretty shoddy, with some news websites (CNN included) putting up whatever they like, and then altering it later on. It's a real hit to accountability.

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Aw man.

I know about 20 words in Spanish, and three of the most interesting ones will get me banned from polite discussion...

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Darren Lawbuary wrote:Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks, George Carlin...............

And then there were none...................

R.I.P

Yup. Doug Stanhope has a lot of pressure on him...

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Embedded videos have the same data relationship that hotlinked images do, meaning that the bandwidth comes straight from Youtube rather than being used up through Genii. I've got a Youtube video on my webpage and I've noticed that it doesn't use up any of my site's bandwidth in the stats. The only i...

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Richard Kaufman wrote:No, it's not Tony Giorgio.

Ha. I hate to cast you as a go-between, but is there any chance that particular anonymous poster could give a recommendation of source material to study?

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In that case, I blame Rounders and Ricky Jay's patter.

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"But there is not a single card feat in the whole calendar that will give as good returns for the amount of practice required, or that will mystify as greatly, or cause as much amusement, or bear so much repetition, as this little game; and for these reasons we believe it worthy of unstinted ef...

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I agree with Cugel on the application thing, although it feels weird using the word agree when we're talking about something factual rather than opinion-based. It seems pretty straightforward. If I say that the side steal can be used in an ACR phase, that's stating an application. It's not sexy and ...

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John Carney has a great routine involving wooden cigars. Great routine, none of the problems associated with actual smoking. It's not the sort of routine that you can blindly substitute cigarettes for the cigars, but that general presentational ploy seems fine to me.

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A couple of recent books have done this. Tyler Wilson's Dominatricks and John Born's Matrix God's Way. I think it's the best solution, since it forces the downloader to read. Given the choice between books with demo videos and full-fledged teaching DVDs, I think the majority will opt for the DVDs.

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So we've got one complaint that a book from 2006 is included, and we've got another complaint that two books from 2006 aren't included?

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Andrew has not bothered to clarify his position on what sort of business he wants to do so we can further refine our advice to him... Sorry for neglecting to respond to that. My answer is simply that, for this thread, I'm not looking for advice. Even when it comes to the question of these books, I'...

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In fairness to Cugel, he's no mere amateur. He's performed professionally and he's published. I don't know if he'll state who he is for the record, but from my encounters with him elsewhere I believe that he's a big fan of dealing with arguments on their own merit. I think his observation about Glen...

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I would point out that Seriously Silly isn't a book of theory. It's a book of practical application gleaned from countless shows. I'm not sure I totally agree. He discusses principles that can be applied to many different sorts of routines other than the ones described -- for instance, his breakdow...

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And David, one other thing... while I understand that it might be stirring controversy, I really wish you would qualify your comment about magic theory being written too often by amateurs. A generalized statement like that taints the entirety of theory out there, and I believe it would be responsibl...

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If there is any question about who I am because I'm posting under a pseudonym, I might as well fix that. My name is Andrew Musgrave, I'm currently an amateur getting ready to go pro full-time, although I do have some professional experience under my belt, in the form of more than about 250 shows in ...

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I must have misunderstood. Your posts thus far have been fairly critical of magic theory texts, and your development plan didn't include any of them, and in turn was critical of those whom you believe don't follow your plan. Since the discussion is about theory texts, and since you were responding t...

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David, I'm not quite sure what you're getting at in the rest of the post, so I'm going to focus in on this bit. Unfortunately, too few want to take the time or effort, so we end up with the mass of crap you see on YouTube. Here's the funny thing. I don't believe that the junk we see on Youtube is a ...

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