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- March 14th, 2024, 5:58 am
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Looking for other info on 'puzzle' effect
- Replies: 15
- Views: 595
- March 13th, 2024, 1:02 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Looking for other info on 'puzzle' effect
- Replies: 15
- Views: 595
Re: Looking for other info on 'puzzle' effect
In Gardner's Mathematics Magic and Mystery there is a chapter - The Checkerboard Paradox - on this effect.
See https://www.conjuringarchive.com/list/category/2120
There was a particularly fine version in Magic Magazine... but can't easily find a reference. It is worth searching for.
See https://www.conjuringarchive.com/list/category/2120
There was a particularly fine version in Magic Magazine... but can't easily find a reference. It is worth searching for.
- March 7th, 2024, 11:51 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Performing for Elders?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1128
Re: Performing for Elders?
I've found the Lorayne advice helpful - get them to show the card to a few other people. Plus stick to visual effects. Avoid Mutus Nomen.
- March 4th, 2024, 3:54 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Daley Dilemma!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3826
- March 3rd, 2024, 12:10 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Daley Dilemma!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3826
Re: Daley Dilemma!
As wrote Racherbaumer in Daley Bred (2018) Adrian Smith and Jacob Daley may have been inspired by Ottokar Fischer with the trick explained page 118 of Illustrated Magic published in 1931 which is the translation of DAS WUNDERBUCH DER ZAUBERKUNST published in 1929. Thank you, Philippe! A precursor t...
- March 3rd, 2024, 11:17 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Daley Dilemma!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3826
Re: Daley Dilemma!
Richard Kaufman wrote:Daley could have easily created his trick before Smith.
Very unlikely. Daley records the Smith trick in Volume 2 pP3 397 of his Notebooks. If Daley had already created the trick, why did he make a detailed and credited note of the Smith trick?
- March 2nd, 2024, 11:18 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Daley Dilemma!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3826
Re: Daley Dilemma!
For interest, on the presentation, and the use of all four Aces: Daley's Last Trick is heavily based on H. Adrian Smith’s ‘A “Four” Ace Trick’; The Sphinx April 1937. In that, the patter is: "One of the things which help a magician most is coincidence. For example, if we use merely the four ace...
- February 13th, 2024, 12:16 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: The "Clue Cards" Plot
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1096
Re: The "Clue Cards" Plot
Paul Harris' Micky Mouse Maths in Close Up Fantasies is a close relative...
- January 30th, 2024, 11:28 am
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Slydini's material
- Replies: 38
- Views: 23164
Re: Slydini's material
My personal experience - timing is vital in the best Slydini effects. And you can only get the timing right with constant practice. A moment's hesitation, and you've lost. Timing is important in all magic. But with things like his One Coin Routine, it is essential.
- January 3rd, 2024, 11:04 am
- Forum: Marketing & Magic Business
- Topic: The Aretalogy of Vanni Bossi
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2420
Re: The Aretalogy of Vanni Bossi
Chris makes a good point. I remember discussing with Gordon Bruce years ago about the extent to which the title of Stanley Collin's 'A Conjuring Melange' hindered sales of that book!
- December 18th, 2023, 11:08 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Topping the Deck
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3943
Re: Topping the Deck
Hi Brad! Intelligent question! If you are then going on to square the deck as your cover, then, yes, of course the deck should be unsquared. Vernon offers at least two alternatives; a) if you take the deck with the right hand and place it on the table. b) If, after the palm, you move to a Hindu shuf...
- December 17th, 2023, 12:20 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Topping the Deck
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3943
Re: Topping the Deck
Interesting discussion. I love Royal Road. It was THE magic book that saw me through my teenage years. Yes, it was poor on crediting, but books for the public generally were. But - is the palm in Select Secrets the same as in Royal Road? No. I'll give you two significant differences. Hugard has the ...
- December 14th, 2023, 12:52 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Topping the Deck
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3943
Re: Topping the Deck
Hi Philippe; I'd argue that while Vernon's handling owes a lot to Robert-Houdin's, it goes a lot further in subtlety. Vernon identified the best way to get the card into position. The angle is smaller. And he adds the overt action of raising the deck to the fingertips, which helps cover the move bri...
- December 13th, 2023, 5:46 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Topping the Deck
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3943
Re: Topping the Deck
Joe - thank you! That's the one!
Philippe - thank you as always. Select Secrets is a wonderful booklet!
Philippe - thank you as always. Select Secrets is a wonderful booklet!
- December 13th, 2023, 1:23 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Topping the Deck
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3943
Topping the Deck
I have a memory that Vernon said that part of his inspiration for Topping the Deck was the top palm in Robert-Houdin's palm in Secrets of Conjuring and Magic.
Looking at the illustration,. I can see why.
But - I've been searching for where Vernon said it. Can anyone help?
Thanks!
Looking at the illustration,. I can see why.
But - I've been searching for where Vernon said it. Can anyone help?
Thanks!
- December 2nd, 2023, 10:45 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Are Children more Imaginative than Adults?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1600
Re: Are Children more Imaginative than Adults?
Interesting. I'd argue we are all highly creative - we all dream, don't we? It's more about what we do with that creativity - do we encourage or supress it?
- November 14th, 2023, 10:22 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Ibidem #20
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2346
Re: Ibidem #20
Very odd! I have issue 20 in my bound volume, which is marked 'First Edition.'
- November 6th, 2023, 12:33 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Method as Accoutrement - A Minor Rant
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4924
Re: Method as Accoutrement - A Minor Rant
What a great discussion! My tiny view: I agree with Richard when he says the New York Circle from the 30s and 40s revolutionised close-up magic (I paraphrase!). But - one of my parlour shows is on the history of magic. I take great delight in getting gasps from material from Hocus Pocus Junior and D...
Re: Kuda Bux
There is also footage of Bux on The Miracle Factory's DVD 'You Asked for It'. I know the principles, but still - it is impressive! As for the other comments on this thread, I'm reminded - I once knew a classical music agent. She was very sniffy about the pianist Lang Lang. 'Such a skin-flint. He has...
- October 21st, 2023, 9:59 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Ramsay Cylinder & Coins
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4660
- October 9th, 2023, 11:18 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Marlo Outjogged Oil & Water
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17336
Re: Marlo Outjogged Oil & Water
I can't remember who first said it, but Dave is right - the presentation is different from the effect. I don't like the 'oil and water' presentation. Particularly now - who knows that oil and water don't mix? But the effect is a good one. Passes Carlyle's 'one sentence' rule. Lovell's idea is great....
- October 8th, 2023, 10:23 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Marlo Outjogged Oil & Water
- Replies: 17
- Views: 17336
Re: Marlo Outjogged Oil & Water
I think it's a cute move and it caught me the first time I saw it. what may be tripping you up is that in photo 2 it looks like the black card is going on top of the red Ace... it actually goes underneath, as is (almost) clear in the third photo. You are not reversing the cards, 'just' spreading the...
- September 5th, 2023, 11:32 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Derren Brown's Unbelievable - a review
- Replies: 58
- Views: 14781
Re: ERDNASE
I've just had a chance to read the article. I thought it was fascinating. What I now long for is an article by an expert at the Erdnase table, highlighting the weaknesses of the case. But, meanwhile all I can offer is some weak additional support for the case. The author mixed with magicians. e.g. p...
- August 30th, 2023, 12:16 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Derren Brown's Unbelievable - a review
- Replies: 58
- Views: 14781
Re: Derren Brown's Unbelievable - a review
Judging from his previous reviews, I have a much higher opinion of Derren's shows that Craig does. That's OK. His comments in his post on budgets - which surely are pure speculation - suggests his bias. That he quotes ONE tweet and says it represents 'some audience members' confirms that bias. It is...
Re: ERDNASE
Sad news for the wider Erdnase and magic history community. According to an email from Dr. Solka, Oleg Anatolyevich Stepanov, the translator of Erdnase into Russian and the foremost Russian historian of magic, passed away in St. Petersburg, Russia on December 4, 2022 at age 62. I exchanged a few em...
- June 23rd, 2023, 1:35 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Hofzinser's Palm to Palm Transfer
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2572
Re: Hofzinser's Palm to Palm Transfer
I should had added a couple more references: L&Ls DVD of Vernon's Magic Castle Lecture, April 1st 1977, contains Vernon demonstrating something closer to Hofzinser's handling of the Palm to Palm Change. 'The Lost Dai Vernon Lecture' - a treat from the 75th anniversary of Genii - contains a lovel...
- June 23rd, 2023, 12:51 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Hofzinser's Palm to Palm Transfer
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2572
Hofzinser's Palm to Palm Transfer
In this month's Genii, Richard understandably rues not having asked Vernon to explain his handling of the Hofzinser Palm-To-Palm transfer, and a bottom change from ECT. 'If you could have seen them!' he adds. Vernon does perform the palm to palm transfer on the Revelations DVDs, and briefly explains...
- May 8th, 2023, 10:50 am
- Forum: Columns
- Topic: Giobbi's Essay on the Daley Notebooks
- Replies: 17
- Views: 45253
- May 6th, 2023, 10:38 am
- Forum: Columns
- Topic: Giobbi's Essay on the Daley Notebooks
- Replies: 17
- Views: 45253
Re: Giobbi's Essay on the Daley Notebooks
I'm wondering about the date of when Fulves issued the Daley Notebooks. The usually reliable Giobbi gives 1971. The usually reliable Conjuring Archive gives 1972. The usually reliable Magicpedia gives 1974. I see the December 1971 Pallbearers Review says that the Notebooks are ready. Does someone ha...
- March 29th, 2023, 4:48 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Jim Patton
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2500
- March 28th, 2023, 9:19 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Jim Patton
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2500
Jim Patton
Does anyone know if there are plans for a book on Jim Patton's material? Thanks.
- March 7th, 2023, 10:52 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Edwin A. Dawes, 1925-2023
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2290
Re: Edwin A. Dawes, 1925-2023
Years ago I wrote to him asking him a couple of questions about Malini and Leipzig. He wrote back, with a few photocopied pages from old magazines. I replied thanking him, and sending some money to cover the cost of the photocopies. He replied thanking me, saying few people thought of the cost of ph...
- February 18th, 2023, 11:22 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: 1958 Harry Stanley 16mm Film of Dai Vernon, Slydini and Ken Brooke
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3742
Re: 1958 Harry Stanley 16mm Film of Dai Vernon, Slydini and Ken Brooke
Thanks for sharing!
There is a better quality video of the Vernon section on the Lybrary site https://www.lybrary.com/dai-vernon-in-b ... 22176.html
There is a better quality video of the Vernon section on the Lybrary site https://www.lybrary.com/dai-vernon-in-b ... 22176.html
- December 9th, 2022, 10:25 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: What are these cards for?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1405
Re: What are these cards for?
I thought Side Swiped was great. Lovely, surprising effect, simple method.
I also think Philippe is great!
I also think Philippe is great!
- December 5th, 2022, 8:36 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Bruce Cervon Video Notes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6019
- December 3rd, 2022, 6:45 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Bruce Cervon Video Notes
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6019
Re: Bruce Cervon Video Notes
Yes, the project is still going strong, although slightly later than expected! The writing is finished, the first major edit was recently completed. The next step is illustrations from photos. And yes there are plans to make some video footage available.
- October 27th, 2022, 11:57 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Cups and Balls
- Replies: 139
- Views: 12628
Re: Cups and Balls
Paul Daniels live, at his peak, gave a wonderful show. Great material which he knew inside out. I recommended it to anyone. My memory nis that he opened with the chop cup - which (if I remember right), shows how well it played for him. The later TV series in particular suffered from the problem that...
- October 21st, 2022, 11:20 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Cups and Balls
- Replies: 139
- Views: 12628
Re: Cups and Balls
I remember first seeing Johnny Paul on UK television around 1979? A superb, engaging performer, that did the basics so brilliantly. His Close-up Cards Across in particular, stood out for me. I too remember that! Paul Daniels' Show. His Cards Across was fantastic! I spent so long thinking about that...
- October 21st, 2022, 11:09 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Cups and Balls
- Replies: 139
- Views: 12628
Re: Cups and Balls
Thank you everyone! Dave; pity you can't remember who the close-up performer was! As to length...did Vernon say that the great thing about cups and balls was that you could use it to demonstrate all the main effects in magic? He didn't say you had to... But I do think that many C&B routines coul...