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magicfish

Sweet! I am assuming that is your daughter, magicfish? (doing my favorite flourish, and one that is a real crowd pleaser - the flourish and undoubtedly, the little girl!) Yes, my daughter. I taught her the One Way Back principle and the Key Card. This is her first flourish. And that's a poker sized...

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I'm so proud:
https://youtu.be/HQAu2jAEkN8

magicfish

Very nice topic under the circumstances. I hope all of you are happy and healthy. https://youtu.be/htQI69Ucb1s Sorry gents, I should specify that I always loved Stabbed in the Pack from Deck-Sterityand while Harry's description of the toss is wonderful, I always had trouble landing the card at midp...

magicfish

Very nice topic under the circumstances. I hope all of you are happy and healthy.

https://youtu.be/htQI69Ucb1s

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Thanks Alfred, I will revisit that item.

magicfish

Which DL(s) is/are your favorite? Lately I started doing the Dribble Double taught by Earl Nelson. You dribble the deck down into the other hand and with slight pressure near the end you can end up with just two cards. It's a bit knacky but if you've been handling a deck for 40 years, it's not hard...

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My pleasure, Edwin.
And thankyou for those thoughts and references. I do like Burgers treatment of it a lot.
If you ever read Here's My Card, take s look at Ackerman's handling.

magicfish

Hey fellas, hope you're all healthy and happy. I'm in isolation like the rest of us. The wife is in bed and I'm having a whiskey and studying sleight of hand. I'm wondering if any of you enjoy Lou Gallo's Two Card Reverse from Underground Man. I love this book and this particular effect has always b...

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Buddy Farnan changed my life with the miracles he performed on an early VHS with Billy Bishop. I mastered his thimble sequence at a young age. He was a real magician. Bob McAllister inspired and enlightened me to the idea that a magician was a magician wherever he went. Everyday objects could be use...

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JawDroppers- Lorayne

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Sounds interesting. But an old acquaintance who was kind to me as a youth at the Toronto Round Table told me not to buy anything published after 1954.

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"I always believe in simplifying the means of performing any illusion. Thus, I have always taught amateurs to eliminate the pass in card tricks. is usual to receive back a chosen card on the lower half of the pack. Then put the two halves together. Then make the pass. and then false shuffle the...

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Perhaps J.K. Hartman's Knuckle Jog could be applied here.

magicfish

"Not easy otherwise to find much coverage of that issue in one place."
Don't equate accuracy, quality, or legitimacy to something because it may be the only game in town.
Anyway, back on topic.

magicfish

I've said it before but, does this guy really think his ideas are original? Does he think he is telling us something we don't know.
Gratuitous profanity aside., just getting through a paragraph is excruciating.

magicfish

Jack Shalom wrote:I strongly recommend The Jerx's series on exactly this issue. It begins here:

http://www.thejerx.com/blog/2019/6/23/c ... tonishment

Just read it.
Drivel.

magicfish

"Even though she was still fooled by the trick, that remark ought to scare the daylights out of any thinking magician. It did me. It also made me reconsider the conventional bromide that you should strive to do magic in the spectators' hands. Tain't necessarily so..." John Bannon, DM...

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performer wrote:I really wish I could find that lukewarm evaluation of the theory that tricks done in the hand are better. I swear it was Eugene Burger who wrote it. I am going to keep looking.

John Bannon I believe.
I'll try to find the reference when I'm home.

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I’ve heard it is a very good book.
@Bob, Interesting. I’ll dig out my
Pabulars.
I’ve been dreaming about how this looked in Cervon’s hands for decades. I may have to look into the dvds.

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Gents, I have always loved the Elevator Card plot. Martin Nash's Ups and Downs has been a favourite impromptu effect for many years. I have always been intrigued by Cervon's Floating Aces. I have played with it off and on for decades. I'm wondering if anyone here performs it, or has performed it, or...

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The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne.

Hands down.

magicfish

My copy has just arrived!
What a beautiful Hardcover this is.
A high quality publication!
Now to dive in....
Ohhhh baby.

magicfish

Nah bro, you guys go ahead, Imastick around and smash the Charlie Miller Pinata for the Bloggers to ponder and comment on. They'll think I know the real work. Ahem, C-ck B-lls...We're Streaking! How's my shock value? Have I won at least Townsend yet. ? The others are low hanging fruit. Love you Jona...

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I'll make it so nouveau even Swiss and Ben will be scared to give me a poor review.
Off to Chuck E Cheese for more scientific data on the Kennedy Center fellas, Its on me tonight!

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If you can do one thing for me, just please, for the love of Odin please, don't ever mention Jay Marshall in the same breath as an anonymous gutter-snipe who profits from the misappropriation of one of the greatest publications in the history of our art by Theo Annemann and fills it with filth. Ouc...

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"Some people like a sharp mustard." - Equating the use of verbal, physical abuse and objectification of women to present magic, as an acquired taste , like a sharp mustard, is in equally poor taste. Ah, man? Now you're going to make me lose sleep tonight. Fiddlesticks. It's possible to en...

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Andrew wrote: "Regarding the r-rated stuff" - my kids watch R-rated stuff, this stuff is beyond x-rated. "Some people like a sharp mustard." - Equating the use of verbal, physical abuse and objectification of women to present magic, as an acquired taste , like a sharp mustard, is...

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I don't perform the Cups & Balls, but I still have a recommendation. You see - I am a big fan of Peter Kane. And as part of my study of his work I discovered a very clever cups & balls sequence he put together. The construction is sneaky. Tommy Wonder was a big fan of it as well and he teac...

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I never understood a word of it (as it was in French) but I watched it all the way through and loved every second of it.
Thanks for reminding us of it Joe.

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David Williamson won the Gold Cups for his 2 Cup routine.
Paul Daniel's had a legendary Chop Cup
Palmer had the chicks.
Carney is sublime.
The Professor is the man.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a routine I could start with? Something to ease me in?
I love Al Schneiders.

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I loved that show and I loved watching Bernard Bilis work the table.

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Cheers, magicfish. Your passion for magic comes through in everything you post. And I respect that. Hopefully we can have more productive conversations elsewhere on the forum. Agreeing to disagree is a sensible way to draw a line under all this. Have a great weekend! I look forward to it Joe. Have ...

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My pleasure, Mark. Keep an eye out for it. I think you'll like it.
You're a lucky man, I never got to meet Mr. Gardner. I heard a lot about him from time spent with Tom Ransom many years ago and I enjoy his books today.

magicfish

See above. Thanks Roger. Agreed, however I didn't think I needed an invite to post here. I am a member in good standing.
I will leave this thread now.

magicfish

Andy doesn't hate women. You have to separate out humour from reality. People saying stuff to be funny is not the same as them setting out their ethical code or worldview. It doesn't matter. It's a shame you recognize racism as unacceptable but mysogeny is ok with you. Maybe andy gets away with thi...

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magicfish? If you email Andy he will happily post any criticisms you have on his site. Although he will probably comment on what you wrote and point out anything silly you say. He has done this before with other critics who have contacted him in order to vent. He is pretty relaxed about having peop...

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I don’t have the time to read all the stuff I want to read. It follows that I don’t have any time to read the stuff I don’t want to read. Magicfish - you must have all the time in the world. Andrew Not all the time in the world, but a lot, yes. I don't have television. I just read. When I'm not wor...

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........... I read it. I've read them all. You're read all of "Andy's" posts? To what end? Re-reading your posts in this thread, it seems you had been a regular visitor to "The Magic Circle Jerk" as well, and read all of those posts. Normally when I find myself reading something...

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People are free to read or not read. There's certainly a lot worse on the internet. I agree Richard. In fact I think the more people read it , the more I feel it will be exposed as the smut that it is. Right now his niche following of overlookers who think they are on to something exclusive and spe...

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So The Jerx writing is spiced with r-rated imagery. Consistently. It's his brand. Okay it's more Goofus than Gallant but that's his brand of Highlights. Now let's look at the framing and content. Using that ambitious card example with some text bolded. ... And, as I've said before, in my experience...

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