Too late for Bob, but for this thread: Cervon covers the trick in his Castle Notebooks, Volume 1 p.121.
Here he includes a patter line presumably from Vernon, 'Red affects you in every way' - so not a specific prediction, but an introduction which makes sense at the climax.
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- December 26th, 2020, 6:05 am
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: Dai Vernon’s “Mental Die”
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2742
- December 16th, 2020, 11:50 am
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Framing your effect ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1106
Re: Framing your effect ?
Framing can make a huge difference in all walks of life. And it certainly can in magic. But there is no one way to frame. It depends on your effect and on your setting and your audience and on your personality. To make the point in a sledgehammer way - if you make balloon doggies you shouldn't say '...
- November 18th, 2020, 5:27 am
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: Dai Vernon’s “Mental Die”
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2742
Re: Dai Vernon’s “Mental Die”
Also see The Red Prediction in Martin Gardner Presents, Chapter Nine.
- October 29th, 2020, 11:57 am
- Forum: Kaufman & Company
- Topic: Charlie Miller Book
- Replies: 62
- Views: 11336
Re: Charlie Miller Book
My blue sack has arrived - I've had a fun few hours looking through it. Thank you, Liz!
Out of interest, why did you not include the later Magicanas? Was it quality deterioration, or are you planning Magicana 2? ('Just when you thought it was safe it get out your cards again')
Out of interest, why did you not include the later Magicanas? Was it quality deterioration, or are you planning Magicana 2? ('Just when you thought it was safe it get out your cards again')
- October 27th, 2020, 1:01 pm
- Forum: Kaufman & Company
- Topic: Charlie Miller Book
- Replies: 62
- Views: 11336
Re: Charlie Miller Book
Post has been seriously slow this year. I've had to re-learn patience.
- October 26th, 2020, 11:50 am
- Forum: Kaufman & Company
- Topic: Charlie Miller Book
- Replies: 62
- Views: 11336
- September 16th, 2020, 11:44 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: The Magic Researcher - History on The More Things Change by Jerry Sadowitz
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2274
Re: The Magic Researcher - History on The More Things Change by Jerry Sadowitz
Hi Interesting article, although I agree with Richard about the benefits of one site. I don't really understand what you mean about Conjuring Credits not being designed for your level of detail....some of the items there are pretty long. But maybe Denis didn't want it there? - That would be differen...
- September 8th, 2020, 1:21 pm
- Forum: Magicana
- Topic: Dingle's Pegasus Card
- Replies: 2
- Views: 704
- September 8th, 2020, 12:19 pm
- Forum: Magicana
- Topic: Dingle's Pegasus Card
- Replies: 2
- Views: 704
Dingle's Pegasus Card
Hi
I'm told Derek Dingle had a magazine trick - it sounds like a version of Pegasus Card - in Genii, around 1987/88. I can't find the thing. Does it ring any bells with anyone? Thank you!!!
I'm told Derek Dingle had a magazine trick - it sounds like a version of Pegasus Card - in Genii, around 1987/88. I can't find the thing. Does it ring any bells with anyone? Thank you!!!
- August 25th, 2020, 12:25 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: The Return of Jonathan Creek
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1830
Re: The Return of Jonathan Creek
Leo, I agree the later series weren't as good. For a variety of reasons. But I'd still rather re-watch one of them than 90% of what is on TV now!
I just re-watched House of Monkeys from series 1. Wonderful. With a 'locked room' solution I think originally conceived by Karl Fulves?
I just re-watched House of Monkeys from series 1. Wonderful. With a 'locked room' solution I think originally conceived by Karl Fulves?
- August 23rd, 2020, 10:53 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: A question to Richard Kaufman about Larry Jennings
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1680
Re: A question to Richard Kaufman about Larry Jennings
I hadn't realised Larry was in a wheelchair for the Paris video. It's a pity there seems to be so little available of him in his prime, but I'm very glad the Paris videos exist.
- August 22nd, 2020, 5:41 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: The Return of Jonathan Creek
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1830
- August 17th, 2020, 11:28 am
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: out of this world handling
- Replies: 10
- Views: 984
Re: out of this world handling
It is close to Rainer Mees' handling in Nostalgia. And reminds me of an unpublished Derren Brown handling. I agree with Erdnasephile about the need to justify the handling at the end - but it can be done well. On the benefits or otherwise of switching half way through, Curry wrote an entertaining ar...
Re: ERDNASE
I suspect Richard is suggesting Todd's book has as much to do with the real author of Expert at the Card Table as CardMagic has to Shakespeare.
- August 2nd, 2020, 11:30 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Vernon St. Louis Lecture July 1987
- Replies: 4
- Views: 642
Re: Vernon St. Louis Lecture July 1987
This is wonderful! Thank you; one of the few posts I'll be printing off.
'A child should be able to describe the effect' is priceless.
'A child should be able to describe the effect' is priceless.
- July 25th, 2020, 3:27 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Thoughts on the Vanish of a Coin
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1727
Re: Thoughts on the Vanish of a Coin
The suggestion was made earlier that the Spider Vanish was challenge magic. I understand that perspective. But - many years ago I saw Michael Vincent for the first time (then Michael Louis). It was in the annual Magic Circle Close Up competition. In retrospect, I think he used the Spider Vanish. But...
- July 18th, 2020, 5:26 am
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Origins of the Through the Fist Flourish?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1651
Re: Origins of the Through the Fist Flourish?
Just stumbled upon this old thread. A small addition; in The Vernon Chronicles 3 (1989) is Will-O'-The Wisp, which was Vernon's ending for his Cards Up The Sleeve routine. The first part of this has the Through the Fist Flourish, linking it to the anonymous routine in Art of Magic. Minch writes that...
- May 17th, 2020, 4:43 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Best McDonald's Aces Routine
- Replies: 165
- Views: 10471
- May 17th, 2020, 2:54 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Best McDonald's Aces Routine
- Replies: 165
- Views: 10471
- May 16th, 2020, 6:03 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Is Revizzit still working?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4969
- May 13th, 2020, 4:09 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Frank Garcia Books
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3014
- May 13th, 2020, 10:38 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Frank Garcia Books
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3014
Re: Frank Garcia Books
The earliest reference I've seen to the Quadruple Coincidence trick is in Daley's Notebooks; entry 384 Sid Radner’s Do As I Do. This is in Volume 4, so probably dates to 1944. (Crediting it to Radner is no guarantee it was Radner's creation; just that he learned it from Radner). Radner worked for th...
- April 14th, 2020, 4:10 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Here’s The Church Here’s The Steeple 2.0
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1294
Re: Here’s The Church Here’s The Steeple 2.0
When he was very young, my nephew, who some of you will know, did this, but accidentally intertwined his fingers above his hands, rather than underneath. So when he 'opened the doors' it was 'WHERE are the people?' He closed up his hands, 'Oh, they're all on the roof.'
- April 7th, 2020, 9:53 am
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: Magic Age Cards
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1349
- April 6th, 2020, 3:55 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: ShareMagic: Live event on April 5th
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1253
- April 6th, 2020, 7:37 am
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: Magic Age Cards
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1349
Magic Age Cards
I’m guessing everyone here is familiar with the old Magic Age Cards. I’m looking for examples of where this has been stretched in different directions. eg Gardner says Royal V Heath extended it to “Think of a drink”; and I think Eddie Joseph’s Starology is something in this area. Any other examples ...
- March 23rd, 2020, 6:36 am
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Untouched
- Replies: 48
- Views: 9711
Re: Untouched
For those interested in the history, here are some related items. Bill Simon in his Sleightly Sensational (1954) has The Mathemagician, which uses the dealing principle to get two spectators to produce the four Aces. Scarne on Card Tricks (1950) has My Lucky Card, attributed to Simon, where the suit...
Re: ERDNASE
Ok, here is a superficial idea. Has anyone considered John Zimmer? I think it is generally accepted now that Erdnase was not a professional gambler. Probably a magician with interest in gambling techniques. The Legerdermain section makes it clear he was familiar with magicians and magicians’ literat...
- February 26th, 2020, 10:15 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Dr Daley spin
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2235
Re: Dr Daley spin
Thanks everyone. The Corin flourish is similar but the handling is a little different.
I’ve still not found the reference on Revelations, but in The Man Who Fooled Houdini, Vernon claims to have been using the idea around 1920.
I’ve still not found the reference on Revelations, but in The Man Who Fooled Houdini, Vernon claims to have been using the idea around 1920.
- February 24th, 2020, 12:52 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Dr Daley spin
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2235
Dr Daley spin
This will sound like laziness but I’ve spent hours on this... There is a flourish where you stick a card half way into the end of a deck and, with your left middle finger touching the face of the card, you rotate the card. Daley uses it in his itinerant Pasteboards. But somewhere Vernon talks about ...
Re: ERDNASE
I can't answer your question, but to me the biggest problem with Hoffmann as a possibility is his published annotations of Erdnase (available in the old Gamblers Book Club edition). I gave away my copy years ago, so can't quote you any examples, but his notes made it clear that he really didn't unde...
- February 10th, 2020, 12:48 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Munsen and Coleman
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1819
Munsen and Coleman
Can anyone shed any light on two magicians called Munsen and Coleman, probably from the Chicago area, working in the 1940s? Thank you!
- January 23rd, 2020, 11:36 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Prompted to Do an Impromptu (Card Trick)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 5224
Re: Prompted to Do an Impromptu (Card Trick)
I always start with a set of colour changes. Immediate impact, straightaway they know you're not Uncle Bob. Then the top change trick from Royal Road. The Tipsy Trick. Carlyle's Homing card. The Ambitious Card (Terry Guyatt's presentation). All without a table. If I have a table I'll do my Spectator...
- January 20th, 2020, 6:12 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Vernon's Marvelous Transposition
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1944
Vernon's Marvelous Transposition
In Genii March 1941 there is an ad for Vernon's Marvelous Transposition; 'A pet effect of this clever artist. Using a borrowed pack, two cards are caused to change places in a way that is extremely puzzling. No difficult sleights. Fine close-up.' Anyone know what this is? A contender is Novel Card T...
- January 18th, 2020, 5:33 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Too Perfect Theory
- Replies: 171
- Views: 15202
Re: The Too Perfect Theory
The Too Perfect Theory is fifty years old this year. It's amazing how it is still going strong. I wrote a blog about it here https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/blog/ ... ous-theory
- November 26th, 2019, 12:32 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Vernon Farewell Lecture Tour
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3390
Re: Vernon Farewell Lecture Tour
Terry Guyatt told me that when Dai lectured in the UK, he did his main lecture, covered in the still-available notes, but there was a separate session, at a price, I think in his room, where he went into more detailed sleight of hand material. This included Lightening the Load from the Lost Inner Se...
- August 15th, 2019, 1:52 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks Volume 1
- Replies: 311
- Views: 78411
Re: Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks Volume 1
I suspect Joe is, in part, trying to stir things up. And answers along the lines of 'if you think that then you are a jackass' are unproductive. For me - most current magical creators are not standing on the backs of giants, which I think is the heart of Joe's argument - they are ignorant of the gia...
- August 10th, 2019, 1:15 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks Volume 1
- Replies: 311
- Views: 78411
Re: Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks Volume 1
I'd say, yes, there is great material.
But to make sense of it, you need to know a lot about close up magic; Vernon, Daley, Baker etc.
It is not a short-cut to the 'inner secrets'.
But to make sense of it, you need to know a lot about close up magic; Vernon, Daley, Baker etc.
It is not a short-cut to the 'inner secrets'.
- August 10th, 2019, 12:44 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks Volume 1
- Replies: 311
- Views: 78411
Re: Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks Volume 1
It will be. And it contains many gems. Linda wants it to be the best possible tribute to Bruce. That takes time.
- August 10th, 2019, 9:04 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Dai Vernon on the "mem deck"?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5743
Re: Dai Vernon on the "mem deck"?
Entry 9 in the Daley Notebooks, Vernon's Mental Trick, uses the Nicola set up, but only for 13 cards.