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- April 12th, 2021, 2:30 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Magic in Theater Plays
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4291
- November 14th, 2020, 1:10 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: IN & OF ITSELF Streaming Now
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3454
Re: IN & OF ITSELF Streaming Now
Bill Duncan wrote:Hulu is free?
But they do have a free trial period.
- May 25th, 2020, 1:32 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Big Announcement from The Jerx
- Replies: 55
- Views: 9310
Re: Big Announcement from The Jerx
Won't make sense if you're not a fan of Top Gear and F1, but it reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifrtlC4NTys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifrtlC4NTys
- April 2nd, 2019, 5:35 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: THR Story Re: Roy's Accident
- Replies: 68
- Views: 15653
Re: THR Story Re: Roy's Accident
I knew a cat trainer. Mike Clark from McKinney, TX. He rescued mostly trouble cats from roadside zoos and people who had them as pets and were attacked - then he trained them and put together an act. He told me that a lion - if you get it young, and it's friendly and lets you pet it and play with it...
- April 4th, 2018, 3:01 am
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Silk to flower on Lapel
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9290
Re: Silk to flower on Lapel
Thanks, everyone. I found what I was looking for. The friend with a copy of Rice didn't find the effect Spellbinder mentioned, but did find a thread elsewhere that pointed me to the lecture notes of Peter Gloviczki which is what I was remembering. It is a triangle cut silk and shows how the thread g...
- April 2nd, 2018, 8:37 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Silk to flower on Lapel
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9290
- March 26th, 2018, 12:44 am
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Silk to flower on Lapel
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9290
Silk to flower on Lapel
Hi, all- This involves a reel attached under the lapel. The thread goes through the lapel and then threaded through the silk (half a silk, cut diagonally?) in a way that when the reel pulls the silk, it jumps to the lapel forming into a flower on the way. Trying to find how to thread the silk. I hav...
- January 27th, 2018, 3:22 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Your opinions wanted: what do new magicians need to know about the history of magic?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9330
Re: Your opinions wanted: what do new magicians need to know about the history of magic?
I think new magicians "need" to know that magic HAS a history. That effects were created by someone, varied by someone else, and that it's easier to consciously build on what's come before than it is to start from scratch. And they need to know where to start looking to discover that histo...
- February 27th, 2017, 8:39 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Intellectual Property Question
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10232
Re: Intellectual Property Question
Thanks for the additional thoughts.
For whatever reason, the person cast to fill the role did neither of the bits the first performer was claiming rights to, so it was not an issue.
For whatever reason, the person cast to fill the role did neither of the bits the first performer was claiming rights to, so it was not an issue.
- December 5th, 2016, 11:30 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Bill to Impossible Location
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1479
Bill to Impossible Location
I've seen a version where one tears out almost a quarter of the bill (including the serial number) as the "receipt" given to the spectator. The corner, of course, then matches the found bill. I'm trying to ID the title of that effect or method of tearing the bill. Does the description ring...
- February 9th, 2016, 2:17 am
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: Submitted for your Consideration
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14276
Re: Submitted for your Consideration
David Oliver had a great idea in GENII recently... It was a trick he did for Robin Williams. He was friends with Robin Williams and would perform at his birthday party each year. Well - one year - he couldn't attend - so he devised a trick he could do without having to be present . . . Rather than ...
- September 4th, 2015, 7:40 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: How to unstick a shell? (billiard ball)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2658
Re: How to unstick a shell? (billiard ball)
A wide rubber band on both the shell and ball may give enough extra grip to separate them
- August 23rd, 2015, 11:37 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Penn & Teller: Fool Us - Season 2
- Replies: 145
- Views: 49062
Re: Penn & Teller: Fool Us - Season 2
performer wrote:I don't give a stuff about anyone else.
The man knows where of he speaks.
- August 14th, 2015, 5:57 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Intellectual Property Question
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10232
Re: Intellectual Property Question
I'm really not asking for my friend but in a more general way. I saw my friends email, and later someone offered the opinion that the rights might actually not be his, but belong to the show. Knowing how excited the board can get when discussing intellectual property, I thought I'd put the question ...
- August 13th, 2015, 11:43 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Intellectual Property Question
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10232
Intellectual Property Question
This is not directly magic related, but am hoping for some insight. A friend performed as part of a long running show for the last 11 years. After a dispute with the producer/director, he quit. In the last of a string of emails that went public, he says "and don't even think about doing X or an...
Re: Rome
There's Tra Palco e Realtá
http://www.trapalcoerealta.net/
Stopped in about 3 years ago and was very welcomed.
And if he's going REAL soon, there's show on Friday.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1431108127202224/
http://www.trapalcoerealta.net/
Stopped in about 3 years ago and was very welcomed.
And if he's going REAL soon, there's show on Friday.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1431108127202224/
- April 13th, 2015, 11:40 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Source for this 'force'
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4458
Re: Source for this 'force'
The effect is called The Voodoo card. It can be found in Guy Hollingworth's book, Drawing Room Deceptions page 14 ..the prologue. Also, see The art of Astonishment by Paul Harris, vol. 3, page 303. The effect is based on a Steranko routine. Hope this helps. Russ Polizzi Thanks Russ, that's the one ...
- April 13th, 2015, 6:51 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Source for this 'force'
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4458
Source for this 'force'
I have a vague recollection of an effect where a card is selected (forced?) and marked 'in some way'-by being burned. Having the spectator choose that the card be burned is a psychological force. The card is then found in an impossible place in it's altered condition. I'm trying to find the write up...
- February 16th, 2015, 9:42 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Alaskan Poker by Ricky Jay
- Replies: 154
- Views: 39235
Re: Alaskan Poker by Ricky Jay
And thus the debate roars. "Artistic license" even has some crossover. In 1976 did a h[img]appy dance when I first saw the cover artwork by Lynn Curlee for Blue Oyster Cult's album, "Agents of Fortune": [/img] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U5fKG1oAeB0/TnCRIY0MCiI/AAAAAAAADZ0/ZZGbqAh...
- November 3rd, 2014, 8:50 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: DelGaudio Sez
- Replies: 166
- Views: 32437
Re: DelGaudio Sez
So - basically - in defending the view that magic is art. You are saying anything can be art? Well - why not just remove this word from the dictionary since it obviously doesn't mean anything. (snip) A lot of magicians wonder if magic is an art? Yet nobody in the fields of painting, poetry, film or...
- October 27th, 2014, 8:07 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Psychics Buster
- Replies: 77
- Views: 17152
- June 24th, 2014, 4:12 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: A Little Old Fashioned Racist Magic ... for Kids!
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8923
Re: A Little Old Fashioned Racist Magic ... for Kids!
And then there's the name of a favorite prop-
To a large part of the world, Lota does not mean what magicians think it means.
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/10/secrets_of_the_muslim_bathroom/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
To a large part of the world, Lota does not mean what magicians think it means.
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/10/secrets_of_the_muslim_bathroom/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
- June 12th, 2014, 6:49 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: wooden wands?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2921
Re: wooden wands?
mrgoat wrote:harry [censored] potter makes it hard to search for wands...
As does your day job, I would imagine.
- April 17th, 2014, 12:29 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: I Join Those Banned from The Magic Cafe
- Replies: 178
- Views: 52244
Re: I Join Those Banned from The Magic Cafe
Silly in the extreme, but so is most all of the banning that goes on there.
And what happens to the Genii section of the Cafe if the Head Genii is banned?
And what happens to the Genii section of the Cafe if the Head Genii is banned?
- March 7th, 2014, 5:04 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Wonderball
- Replies: 125
- Views: 31942
Re: Wonderball
my trumpet teacher gave excellent advice. If you can hear the difference between you and severinson, some day - with practice - you have the chance to sound like that. Thanks for re posting that, Brad. I'd been trying to remember where I heard it. My dad put himself though law school playing trumpe...
- November 2nd, 2013, 12:25 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Whose Illusion is This? I think We All Know
- Replies: 74
- Views: 25937
Re: Whose Illusion is This? I think We All Know
Richard Kaufman wrote:Yes, I wrote "some guy." Now castrate me if you wish!
I thought your "Balls" were already on eBay.
- October 28th, 2013, 1:16 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Magic Shops in London, Paris, and Rome
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5476
Re: Magic Shops in London, Paris, and Rome
Rome has a very unique little shop called Eclectica that has antique toys, figurines, and a small magic collection, including some books. Thanks for the name of this place. I'm pretty sure it's a shop I saw on one visit, but they weren't where I remembered on my last visit. I figured they closed, b...
- September 24th, 2013, 8:35 pm
- Forum: Magician's Local Hangouts
- Topic: Magic Castle Audition Advice
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2903
Re: Magic Castle Audition Advice
My advice is don't try to learn something new in an effort to impress them. Do something you do well and with which you are very comfortable.
- September 18th, 2013, 3:16 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: October 2013 Issue with Eugene Burger
- Replies: 31
- Views: 9787
Re: October 2013 Issue with Eugene Burger
Arrived today in the San Francisco East Bay. No idea what the post office does that consistently gets it here two days after it arrives in the city.
- June 25th, 2013, 6:51 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Genii digital content
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7216
Re: Genii digital content
There is no perfect way. Magic magazine annoys me because I have to dig out the physical issue. It's not always easily available--if I'm even home. The Genii archive can be accessed anywhere. Both ways make sense to their respective publishers. But I still subscribe to both and have no intention of ...
- June 17th, 2013, 7:24 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: The July Issue of Genii is on Its Way to You!
- Replies: 43
- Views: 13912
Re: The July Issue of Genii is on Its Way to You!
Arrived in the San Francisco East Bay today. Looking forward to digging into it!
- March 16th, 2013, 6:36 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: The Incredibly Stinky Burt Wonderstone?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 11419
Re: The Incredibly Stinky Burt Wonderstone?
Tom Moore wrote:Jonathan - Equivoke; i'm sure the diner table force is on a Maven DVD somewhere
Really? I figured he just read the script.
- February 5th, 2013, 5:07 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Looking for a Method
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1588
Re: Looking for a Method
I am still looking for methods and ideas. The message system on the board doesn't work properly.
Please email me: jeffkorst at comcast dot net
Please email me: jeffkorst at comcast dot net
- February 4th, 2013, 10:42 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Trimming Your Cards for Shifty Purposes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 839
Re: Trimming Your Cards for Shifty Purposes
It does look cool. Kent liked it, too:
http://www.geniimagazine.com/forums/ubb ... Post279241
http://www.geniimagazine.com/forums/ubb ... Post279241
Richard Kaufman wrote:This looks really cool:
http://www.theperfectshuffle.com/
A bit of getting used to, I think, but seems to work very quickly once you get it set up.
- January 19th, 2013, 11:40 pm
- Forum: Magician's Local Hangouts
- Topic: Native and Foreigner Magicians in Japan?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 67042
Re: Native and Foreigner Magicians in Japan?
There were certainly some weddings, but it seemed like much of the visitors in town were salary men. They'd get on the shinkansen, arrive in Atami and change into yukata for the duration of the stay. Put the suit back on and back on the train. Lots of company banquet business. The yukata was so such...
- January 19th, 2013, 1:34 pm
- Forum: Magician's Local Hangouts
- Topic: Native and Foreigner Magicians in Japan?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 67042
Re: Native and Foreigner Magicians in Japan?
Wow, my 6 months performing in Atami would have been so different if the internet had existed. Kamakura was such an easy train ride away (and Fuji wasn't so far either) but I had no way to search for local magicians in 1988. 6 months in Atami??? You must have slighted someone reeeel bad. Actually, ...
- January 18th, 2013, 2:36 am
- Forum: Magician's Local Hangouts
- Topic: Native and Foreigner Magicians in Japan?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 67042
Re: Native and Foreigner Magicians in Japan?
Wow, my 6 months performing in Atami would have been so different if the internet had existed. Kamakura was such an easy train ride away (and Fuji wasn't so far either) but I had no way to search for local magicians in 1988.
- January 12th, 2013, 5:34 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Why Red?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3401
Re: Why Red?
In my case, the color preference dates back to the early 80's when close up magic was done on a close up pad. A black pad was out--I was doing Roth's portable hole. Red was just too bright and garish for my taste which left blue. A blue deck on a blue pad had no contrast, so red backed cards it was-...
- December 11th, 2012, 2:02 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Yann Frisch
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5286
Re: Yann Frisch
MManchester- Don't exile yourself and don't put off performing magic. You aspire to perform magic, not just demonstrate tricks but no one (and I strongly suspect Mr. Berglas would be included) performs magic right out of the gate. Characters and routines that flow seamlessly do not appear out of thi...
- November 20th, 2012, 6:01 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: The BIG DOUBLE 75th Anniversary Issue of Genii is On its Way to YOU
- Replies: 55
- Views: 10833
Re: The BIG DOUBLE 75th Anniversary Issue of Genii is On its Way to YOU
And it hit the San Francisco East Bay today