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magicfish

I have just acquired a first edition Professional Card Magic by Cliff Green in excellent condition and from the library of Col. Dr. Harlan Taylor.

magicfish

Excellent! I will do this tonight at dinner.

magicfish

One of my favourite switches comes from this excellent book.
https://youtu.be/5q-ghsK5Jw0

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Great news. More profanity laden, irreverent, uninformed, vitriol.
No thanks.

magicfish

Something different from Andy today. Some interesting thoughts analyzing the concept of "misdirection". http://www.thejerx.com/blog/2017/12/5/redirecting-misdirection Andy takes issue with Tommy Wonder's discussion of this topic. No he doesn't. What he does is to completely misrepresent T...

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Woops, sorry Alfred, I re- read your post carefully and the beer mat trick is slightly different. So my 180 same hand thing doesn't apply.
I can now visualize what you are doing with the deck. I like It!
Sorry for jumping the gun sir.
Merry Christmas.

magicfish

That is an old beer mat trick. It words with a card box as well, like you said. It looks best if the mat or box flips only 180 degrees and is caught in the same hand that does the initial strike. I will post a video if I get chance. Will a beer mat placed on a table on its narrow edge (a tiny fract...

magicfish

That is an old beer mat trick.
It words with a card box as well, like you said.
It looks best if the mat or box flips only 180 degrees and is caught in the same hand that does the initial strike.
I will post a video if I get chance.

magicfish

Richard Kaufman wrote:They only make DVDs of TV shows that people will buy.

I would be first in line if these ever came out and I'd be willing to pay a high price for them.

magicfish

Nothing fancy about it.
You can instantly know how many letters (cards) are required to spell the glimpsed card.
But trances are fun too.
To each his own.
'54 was a good year, but '53 was better. We won the FA Cup in '53.

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I am quite pleased with the title of this thread which I just made up 10 seconds ago! The reason for it is that it is a follow up to Gray's Spelling Trick. You don't have to alter that trick in any way . Just do it the way you have always done it. I think it might be better to start a separate thre...

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A New Method of Discovering a Chosen Card - Ellis Stanyon.

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Invisible Flight - Clayton Rawson

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I would've loved to have seen him at Bigs.
I too drove from Toronto to see him in Rochester in '97. I was lucky to have been able to spend considerable time with him there on one particular evening at the bar. Very magical experience.

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There are two Charles Bertram techniques offered by Neil in this wonderful text. The first is a two handed "classic" style pass while the second is a one handed pass akin to the Charlier. According to Neil, Bertram learned the shift from Charlier himself. EDIT: There are two Charles Bertr...

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There are two Charles Bertram techniques offered by Neil in this wonderful text.
The first is a two handed "classic" style pass while the second is a one handed pass akin to the Charlier. According to Neil, Bertram learned the shift from Charlier himself.

magicfish

It is a delightful book. I only do one item from it but it is one of my favourite impromptu card effects.

magicfish

But back to the pass, Howie Schwarzman's is the best I've (not) seen in person apart from Dingle. But when I saw Dingle I never new weather he was "passing" or not. So maybe his was the best Ive never seen.

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Not a whole lot to be honest. Sometimes I would just practice until passersby got curious and stopped to watch. Other times I would just sit there with a pack of cards in front of me. It wouldnt take long before a couple would stop to see what it was about.

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I have received more information about the matter. It seems he does not do any hat lines. Just the bowl with the money in it is enough. They pay when and if they feel like it without prompting. And it also seems there is no set show. He just keeps going until he gets fed up or the audience do. You ...

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That is an excellent Turnover Pass.

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Oddly enough I have just been watching videos of a street magician doing close up magic at a table in the street. He seems to be doing the Pass time after time after time and having no trouble getting away with it. No misdirection-nothing. A magician would notice the slight giveaway with the hand m...

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I think i first saw this done my Michael Ammar in the late 80's. He does it very well. He makes it sound so real. There is a real knack to making sound right.

magicfish

Wow Lybrary, that sounds great. I would definitely be interested in the "thickness" pad.

magicfish

Hi guys, my old friend Reg Holden used to sell these great little note pads for mentalism. Each sheet was slightly thicker than the previous one and the cycle repeated itself every four sheets throughout the pad. I used to use them for closeup living and dead tests. When the folded pieces were retri...

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Hi Mark. You can start here if you're interested in what's known about the original game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot_card_games Apparently there's a lot of textual evidence in the historical record. I'd be happy to lend you a DVD of my documentary on the Tarot if we can figure out where an...

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Richard Kaufman wrote:You do not shuffle after doing a Pass.

Riffling the deck is an action like snapping the fingers, or a gesture.

Agreed. If you're going to shuffle, there is no sense doing a pass in the first place.

magicfish

Very much looking forward to this article Richard.

magicfish

Crowley is always good subject matter.
I often point out the masonic symbolism in the Rider Waite Smith deck without actually saying so. Waite was a member of more than one esoteric fraternity as was Crowley.

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Several years ago, when looking for the Esoterico Tarot deck, I located some in an occult shop in Toronto in one of the seedier neighborhoods. So I popped over there and went in to find a dark, smokey cave, populated by what appeared to be Rastafarians, all looking hooded, gloomy and dangerous. The...

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There are certainly bridge size tarot decks. I actually own one. Alas, although I handle Tarot Cards probably more than anyone else here the idea of doing tricks with them horrifies me no end. It seems sacrilegious to me and I fear I might be struck down by lightning if I did so. However, I wish yo...

magicfish

Anyone here remember the Mike Rogers Crystal Ball?

magicfish

I got very lucky. Mine is in very good contition.

magicfish

Today Im giving a pristine hardcover copy to
A young man I know who wants to learn cardmagic.
It is from my personal library so I will have to seek out a new/old copy.
It was tough to part with, but Im glad to be able to help a newcomer.

magicfish

I still cherish my Coles edition. I found it in a bargain bin for $2.00 in a used book store.

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Not quite sure what you mean by "motives" Or "stirring up". It is quite a good book and I hope Mr. Lorayne takes it on. Always have, always will. Regardless of who else attempts it. Good luck to them. Im sure they/he/she/you will do fine. My hope was/is always that Harry would do...

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Many of us are still hoping Mr. Lorayne takes this on. Perhaps after his next book.

magicfish

In fact, now that Im an amateur again (and have been for many years now), I think about how much my magic has changed.
There is good and bad on both sides and only the individual can know which is better for him/her.

magicfish

Deluded amateurs also borrow money too, you know. And they continue to delude themselves that technical skill equals being a good magician. It most certainly doesn't and in fact tends (although not always) to indicate the opposite. I am delighted that at least I have never had to borrow money. I ei...

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The main difference is mental attitude. A different approach to things entirely. There is a very interesting sociology book dealing exclusively with magicians which does compare the amateur outlook to to the professional's. Here it is: https://www.amazon.com/magician-culture-psychology-Canadian-exp...

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