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Jonathan Townsend

Genii Magazine January, 1976 The Vernon Touch! That’s their natural behavior, and they behave that way all the time which is very essential in doing magic — behave naturally. I would say that too many magicians defeat the purpose of their performances by not being natural. They imitate someone else....

Jonathan Townsend

If folks have their copies of Bobo's open to the Kort and then Judah items ...look at what Al's done for the trick. Getting the volunteer's hand into position by mirroring. The offbeat coin transfer. Removing the sleights done after the magical effect. How did Kort improve his routine after the item...

Jonathan Townsend

Bill Mullins wrote:Example appears to be "Bill in Lemon". Did Tarbell ever publish that trick? If so, I can't find it.

Lesson 14, PRODUCING A CARD FROM A WHOLE ORANGE

Jonathan Townsend

Thanks performer, that's an Uncommonly Good and apt poem.

Jonathan Townsend

The copyright status of the early volumes of Tarbell has come up in dialogue here before. https://forums.geniimagazine.com/viewtopic.php?t=31360 It's come to my attention that someone in the U. S. is making enlarged watercolor versions of some of the trick diagrams from the Tarbell Course which they...

Jonathan Townsend

Shouldn't we discuss the questions about fair use and derivative works before publicly shaming someone ?

Maybe we also need to discuss tortiuous interference?

Jonathan Townsend

If they like you
and keep coming back for more
then you can do the "deceptive" thing when it serves the occasion

Jonathan Townsend

Another round of text analysis - soon?
https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/the-federal ... clustering

Jonathan Townsend

The act, defined and copyright - may be licensed.

This guy did the copyright and has not licensed others:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/201 ... dow-trick/

Jonathan Townsend

Good to Orson... but there's so much to click on these days.

anyway who owns the rights to the Wells clip source? - If the rightsholder complains...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCij4W- ... 3W87H0l2kQ

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Jonathan Townsend

I want to ask your opinion in this topic. On stage arts like dance and theater is completly normal that a work be played by different performers, even works originally staged for a specific performer could be played later by another one.... Magic is a performing art. There are basic rights associat...

Jonathan Townsend

CC closed its shop a while ago but the media players are still active under the AGW brand.

Jonathan Townsend

Hi Bill, folks, It's a little late to say "thank you" to Lubor Fielder for the basic trick and Bob Driebeek for the kicker ending. Once the ideas of making a gift of the boxes and that feedback comment about the similarly sized color vision trick clicked... that's too good a visual to let ...

Jonathan Townsend

I can't see any problem with you exploring the idea for your own personal use. Me neither since it's just for my own use and while not commercial it is a matter of public display of an artwork. It feels like a matter of courtesy to ask the inventor or their delegate about doing something with the a...

Jonathan Townsend

in the photos appears to be a set of Gozinta Boxes, the original idea of Lubor Fiedler. Yes, those are a small set of Gozinta boxes. I'd like to explore an alternative to the "chinese" design Bob Driebeek's item used for an ending, instead using large colored circles similar to the "...

Jonathan Townsend

Who (and how) do I ask for permission to make a small Driebeek Die setup? That's for personal use. I finally thought of a patter/story for the thing. https://www.facebook.com/jon.townsend.148/posts/1993339227343446?comment_id=1997829500227752&notif_id=1530136309870000&notif_t=feedback_reacti...

Jonathan Townsend

Starts tonight on the CW

Jonathan Townsend

...So what do we do with... Nothing. As he said - let the bogons pile up and keep your goodies away from the marketplace unless you're okay with finding them on trivial pursuit cards within days of display/publication. Magic has its own great filter - an appeal to imagine others as somehow less wel...

Jonathan Townsend

... in magic, the secret lies at the heart , and if that's not beating, then the routine construction, presentation and showmanship, no matter how great, are moot So what do we do with literature and videos which fail to reliably communicate that beating heart needed to effect magic for audiences? ...

Jonathan Townsend

Mark, this discussion goes back a ways. A decade ago I asked the Wikipedia moderators to consider keeping the "method" discussion of a trick on a separate page from the "effect". I explained the why of it. I suppose I could have argued by way of the lines about boiling goats in t...

Jonathan Townsend

Without sliding into the obvious reductio ad absurdum* ... There are larger social dialogues about who or what determines access to information while others insist on a panopticon for reasons of safety. Is a technical discussion of a sleight with video supposed to be flagged as "spoiler" o...

Jonathan Townsend

A similar argument was made to the folks who moderate/edit Wikipedia - that it's not useful to describe the method behind magic tricks in the same page as the effect. Here's the discussion
and a link to some of what went on then.
Let's see how this round goes.

Jonathan Townsend

whoops, that reads as a cut/dry. Sorry. I'd like to read more about Comden and his tricks. In particular his "topic" <- was that word play with "top it"? For folks who got to see Patrick Page use the item - how did Comden's work compare?

Jonathan Townsend

Maybe the name "topit" originates with Comden. The thing itself was public knowledge by 1891 and likely predates this book by a few generations. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42628/42628-h/42628-h.htm ...Another of the poachers, nicknamed the "gentleman," was wont to attire him...

Jonathan Townsend

https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Enchantme ... 0190914394

October?

Jonathan Townsend

I don't know what's "very secret" or what they mean by "breaks the case". The all caps disclaimer at the bottom was a fun read.

Jonathan Townsend

Brad Henderson wrote:medical school events

Not for reality TV show, magic related medical incidents, or psychic surgery gone wrong

Jonathan Townsend

Writing up a some memories and formatting them as novelty cards could honor the guy.

Jonathan Townsend

Jonathan; Email me your mailing address and I'll send you a few "slicker than normal" cards to add to Bob's mix. Red or blue backed bikes - your choice. I came up with the slicking method several years ago mainly to use for card identification/location by touch alone. It's a "product...

Jonathan Townsend

A question for the hive mind: who invented the effect in which you alternatively out-jog five cards and then plunge (push) them back into the deck, thus plunging out four cards. This is repeated, plunging out three, then two, and finally a single card, which is the selection. I can see an illustrat...

Jonathan Townsend

The five/three/one item is in Close-Up Card Magic?

The plunger principle... recalling a comment about the Stevens control.

Jonathan Townsend

Did anyone happen to record Willy the Brooklyn Wizard's routine? He demonstrated what happens when you know a that well trick by doing...start at the start to find the place. Did he or his routine get published mention?

Jonathan Townsend

... there is something out there which meets the criteria you are looking for, and which is readily available and easily modified to suit your purposes. [-] Is the gaff you need a double ended Queen with windows? Any other criteria that are important? Yes, the window gaff to test a glide based tric...

Jonathan Townsend

Jack Shalom wrote:Does Doug Henning in The Magic Show ... at least a year and a half...

Something closer to three years - 1974-1977?

Jonathan Townsend

... runs the gamut from weak to strong, the perception of which, as we have seen in this thread, can be very subjective. +1 What's coming into this discussion about people in the area at the time, writers of that time and other writings of that time are good background data. I'm tempted to buy a co...

Jonathan Townsend

Richard Kaufman wrote:There are large photos of every card, in color, in the book. Every back design is shown (many of which are original with DeLand)...

How close does that get folks to being able to print up their own gaffs using the Deland artwork?

Jonathan Townsend

Richard Kaufman wrote:... a particular trick of DeLand's.

One particular trick. What's involved in doing this trick in context? An extra deck carried set to go?
Introducing special cards on the fly can be a challenge - recall the Bob Elliot story about his set of Poor Charlie cards on a hot summer day

Jonathan Townsend

This is going to be one of those "swing for the fences" type decisions for collectors and amateurs. Deland had a few card back designs that folks may have seen -pictures here: http://www.praestigiator.com/index.php?p=storia/2010/01/27/le_sorprendenti_creazioni_di_theodore_deland If the gaf...

Jonathan Townsend

I'm asking about the cards Deland printed his gaffs to match. For example what back design was his two card transposition gaff?

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However, Printing up the gaffs in "Deland Dollar Back" cards... would unify the entire product design.

Jonathan Townsend

What were Deland (back) decks? Is this the kind of item where we would wish to have blank faced cards printed up using the back design per Deland's advertising?

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