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- March 12th, 2024, 10:27 am
- Forum: Feature Articles
- Topic: Please retire the term, "cardman."
- Replies: 290
- Views: 233475
- March 8th, 2024, 12:47 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Horace Goldin's Mysterious Tricks
- Replies: 5
- Views: 409
Re: Horace Goldin's Mysterious Tricks
here's a link so we don't have to add paypal etc into the duck:
https://ia800404.us.archive.org/13/item ... Tricks.pdf
https://ia800404.us.archive.org/13/item ... Tricks.pdf
- February 26th, 2024, 8:48 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Ancient Automata
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1319
Re: Ancient Automata
Great to see these wonders of craftsmanship preserved and explored. :) Leonardo did some of that, including an automated car and an armor covered figure of a knight which moved. There are stories from China about animated figures. This theme of contrasting animated with the mechanical is echoed in p...
- February 26th, 2024, 5:07 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Ancient Automata
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1319
Re: Ancient Automata
Pretty much inspired a few lines in a Douglas Adams story. The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus sav...
- February 24th, 2024, 9:38 pm
- Forum: Feature Articles
- Topic: Please retire the term, "cardman."
- Replies: 290
- Views: 233475
Re: Please retire the term, "cardman."
Next up: "Coins = Colonialism" (TBH, for some years I thought it might be a bad idea to mix US, Mexican, and "Chinese" coins in a presentation -- even if the intention only involved the different colors and the convenient sizes.) There are folks from all over the planet, includi...
- February 22nd, 2024, 12:38 pm
- Forum: Feature Articles
- Topic: Please retire the term, "cardman."
- Replies: 290
- Views: 233475
Re: Please retire the term, "cardman."
https://snicket.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dismal_Dedications
pumped from the same vein as Gorey's Gashly Crumbtinies
https://www.themarginalian.org/2011/01/ ... mb-tinies/
B is for balls in their bold crochet sweaters
C is for coins which no longer ring true
pumped from the same vein as Gorey's Gashly Crumbtinies
https://www.themarginalian.org/2011/01/ ... mb-tinies/
B is for balls in their bold crochet sweaters
C is for coins which no longer ring true
- February 22nd, 2024, 12:17 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Who is the best coin magician you have seen?
- Replies: 82
- Views: 16211
Re: Who is the best coin magician you have seen?
Sawa has some astonishing routines using coins.
- February 7th, 2024, 1:02 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Close up Pad Material?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1320
Re: Bad Magic
? How much have you explored adding Glorpy to your "cover with a hank" routines? Folks who successfully animate a prop or two tend to get very good reactions. :) Serious students can easily obtain and read (or reread) "Our Magic". On the topic of rehearsing an item - the book in ...
Re: Bad Magic
Is magic advancing or still almost a century behind? Can you please clarify, a century behind what ? And which century are we behind ? Tea in chests? 18th century. Using a magic wand and adopted 'orientalism' in stories and decor ... 17th century cultural appropriation. Pinky out handling of items ...
Re: Bad Magic
From a useful reference (Our Magic, 1911) on the matter: Some may possibly think we have been too severe upon Mr. Copyist. It must be remembered, however, that no useful purpose can be served by mincing matters, when endeavoring to uphold any just cause. If magic is to be raised to its proper level ...
- December 28th, 2023, 1:06 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Engblom Triumph
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1481
Re: Engblom Triumph
Richard Kaufman wrote:I'm divided on the method, so I have to swap one of my ideas for another.
And if the routine seems too perfect, it's only because there are edits.
Or, as with watching Fred Kaps do the Gypsy Curse for Hamman, something sneaky goes by un-observed.
Bravo and congrats!
- December 20th, 2023, 3:02 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Guillotine Card
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1623
- November 21st, 2023, 5:55 pm
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: AI Generated Magicians From The Past
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4384
Re: AI Generated Magicians From The Past
That's great! Floating eggs. Cups and cups.
Did you specifically prompt it NOT to use playing cards?
Did you specifically prompt it NOT to use playing cards?
- October 28th, 2023, 4:26 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Method as Accoutrement - A Minor Rant
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4920
Re: Method as Accoutrement - A Minor Rant
What's wrong with a utilitarian perspective on magic methods as regards packing, setup, script, outs, disposition of props, and reset?
- October 6th, 2023, 1:02 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Michael Close Essay - Hidden Assumptions
- Replies: 24
- Views: 23654
Re: Michael Close Essay - Hidden Assumptions
... hidden assumptions that the spectator makes when witnessing a magic trick
How, specifically, does one know what the spectator is assuming?
How, specifically, does one know what the spectator is assuming?
Re: ERDNASE
Getting back on track to this month's article - the "S" finding is a good one. Kudos! Any reports on whether the guy did any card tricks with similar "palaver" to the book text, had soft hands (greased?), or used the card/packet exchange sleight? How about using the Houdini card ...
Re: ERDNASE
Was anyone else as laugh out loud amused as I was with Episode 5 of “Good Omens” on Prime? The Erdnase reference happens around the 4 minute mark. Written by Neil Gaiman, who attended one of the LA History Conferences, and has a copy of "The Magic of Johnny Thompson" in his office . https...
- September 6th, 2023, 9:31 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Help Back the Juan Tamariz Documentary
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2878
Re: Help Back the Juan Tamariz Documentary
? there are several rewards listed on the page for contributors.
- August 24th, 2023, 1:06 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Best McDonald's Aces Routine
- Replies: 175
- Views: 422024
Re: Best McDonald's Aces Routine
Perhaps you could convince him to let you put that in Genii?Richard Kaufman wrote:Pat Cook in New York used to ring in the double-faced Aces during a Collectors routine.
- August 16th, 2023, 6:13 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: AI applications in magic?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 604
Re: AI applications in magic?
Interesting thread there and linked PDF. Below is a slightly edited snip-it from a book "Tell us about home," Rorschach said. "We don't all of us have parents or cousins. Some never did. Some come from vats." "I see. That's sad. Vats sounds so dehumanizing." "Tell ...
- August 16th, 2023, 10:18 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: AI applications in magic?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 604
Re: AI applications in magic?
Imagine what could come from something trained on Bob Farmer's ad copy
Or the options from "on-demand" printing using a GPT to construct special books for book tests.
Or the options from "on-demand" printing using a GPT to construct special books for book tests.
- August 8th, 2023, 6:02 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Zig-Zag Card
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2903
Re: Zig-Zag Card
That's one heck of a method to pass a dime through a playing card - using a slim paper sleeve to hide the middle while leaving the ends in view. You might get a stronger effect if the sliding part went the other way, through the unbroken vertical on the left, the way Harbin designed his trick. A sli...
Re: ERDNASE
We have mysteries to ponder, from gravity to how we follow the shells rather than the pea. @all - how was the book received by card players and magicians at the time? I.e., how much of the story related to real-world practice. Less surprised Neil Gaiman has read some of our literature than how few i...
Re: ERDNASE
@Stephen - annotated no less @all, this is about season 2 of Good Omens, episode 5. Quite the monthly street traders meeting.
Back to the book - any other references to riding the tiger and pretty money etc from around that time?
Back to the book - any other references to riding the tiger and pretty money etc from around that time?
Re: ERDNASE
Fairly good evidence for typesetters at the printer. Not much to go on when the artist did not recognize his art. A puzzling puzzle.Richard Evans wrote:...Firstly, it’s self-evident that someone wrote the book and whoever that was, they have a backstory.
Great - I hope there's a season 3.
Re: ERDNASE
I'll go with that if you add an apostrophe between the r and s to get: "Gardner's"
- May 23rd, 2023, 1:20 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Floating Ball
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5005
Re: Floating Ball
At Tannen's it was called Tony Spina's Astrosphere. That goes back to 74 or so.
Re: ERDNASE
Some may have seen the miniseries on PBS last year.
How common a word was palaver?
* I’m looking for an editor more than an author based on the artist’s report.
How common a word was palaver?
* I’m looking for an editor more than an author based on the artist’s report.
- May 12th, 2023, 11:43 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Credit for this Rising Card Gag?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4564
Re: Credit for this Rising Card Gag?
Was this developed about the same time as the long card gag?
- May 12th, 2023, 10:44 pm
- Forum: Tenyo
- Topic: Top 5 Tenyo Tricks.
- Replies: 120
- Views: 471029
Re: Top 5 Tenyo Tricks.
@Joe, Leo, yes thanks. I remember Tony Spina demonstrating the vanish from the cylinder using two brass caps.
The Tenyo dynamic coins item greatly expands the routine using those gaffs.
The Tenyo dynamic coins item greatly expands the routine using those gaffs.
- May 11th, 2023, 3:19 pm
- Forum: Tenyo
- Topic: Top 5 Tenyo Tricks.
- Replies: 120
- Views: 471029
Re: Top 5 Tenyo Tricks.
Richard, folks, do you remember an item Eddie Gibson used to make where a pile of coins vanished from between two brass caps? I believe it was originally a Fred Lowe item. ??
Re: ERDNASE
The preface to the Robert-Houdin book has some similarities to the introduction of Artifice... https://archive.org/details/cu31924026470801/page/n9/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/cu31924026470801/page/n11/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/cu31924026470801/page/n291/mode/2up ( <-- from the e...
- April 12th, 2023, 5:58 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Umm ... Okay, Well That's Interesting
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1310
- March 21st, 2023, 12:35 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: The Marlo-Masonic connection
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5284
Re: The Marlo-Masonic connection
A quest for the best methods for tricks. Nothing to do with that other book on MagiK without tears by that other magician. Please stop. Cultural appropriation is uncool.ksevile wrote:... Marlo without Tears that the book was a “chapter in the Marlovian quest for the Real Work.”...
- March 12th, 2023, 11:05 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Amac's Find The Lady
- Replies: 56
- Views: 15918
Re: Amac's Find The Lady
@Richard, that's great news. Congrats!
? Was Allen Tipton's information (he sent diagrams etc back in 2006) correct?
his email was: allen@tipton.ec*
? Was Allen Tipton's information (he sent diagrams etc back in 2006) correct?
his email was: allen@tipton.ec*
- February 8th, 2023, 12:35 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Joint Magic
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1483
- February 6th, 2023, 1:42 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: ChatOpenAI's Best Tricks for Laymen... and more!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2610
Re: ChatOpenAI's Best Tricks for Laymen... and more!
https://iep.utm.edu/liar-paradox/
This is one of those monkey's paw or sorcerer's apprentice topics - give GPT the data and you get something ... but to interpret that something as other than text is... unwise?
This is one of those monkey's paw or sorcerer's apprentice topics - give GPT the data and you get something ... but to interpret that something as other than text is... unwise?
- February 3rd, 2023, 1:33 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: ChatOpenAI's Best Tricks for Laymen... and more!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2610
Re: ChatOpenAI's Best Tricks for Laymen... and more!
From The Guardian:
next up: LawGPT and JudgeGPT
A judge in Colombia has caused a stir by admitting he used the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT when deciding whether an autistic child’s insurance should cover all of the costs of his medical treatment.
next up: LawGPT and JudgeGPT
- February 2nd, 2023, 7:00 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: ChatOpenAI's Best Tricks for Laymen... and more!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2610
Re: ChatOpenAI's Best Tricks for Laymen... and more!
It's not supposed to be "know all" but rather something to spew text. The training data may well include puzzles and media trivia so don't be surprised if it quotes Star Trek and Labyrinth back at you ;) It's more fun if you ask for silly text such as "Describe some of the best cake r...