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Mike Powers

Could Rose Rings have put it together from some existing artwork?

Mike Powers

Check out "Code 5" in Power Plays. It allows two people to do basically what the computer does. One person leaves the room as a spectator selects 5 random cards from the other magician. This magician then leaves the room without any communication with the first person who returns. The spec...

Mike Powers

Fixed.

I downloaded iGenii again. All is good! The new interface looks great too. Looking forward to delving into the deep past. Thanks for giving us access to so much great material, Richard.

Mike

Mike Powers

When I launch iGenii on my iPad, it begins "Maximizing Available Space" but stops and locks up at 72%. There is plenty of space available on the pad. Any thoughts on how to solve this problem?

Mike

Mike Powers

Thanks for the quick reply Richard. I found my iGenii name and password. Sorry for the false alarm. I love reading on my iPad and I very much appreciate that my subscription to Genii gives me free access to the back issues. Kudos to you for that!

Mike

Mike Powers

I deleted and reloaded iGenii and I now see all the mags. I try to sign in using the same name and password that I use for this forum, but I am not recognized. Is there a different name and password needed for the app?

Mike

Mike Powers

Didn't Mike Ammar have an item where an ace of diamonds becomes a 3 of diamonds with visual moving pips?? There's also the floating diamond effect which resembles Cosmosis. The center pip of the ace of diamonds floats up above the card and then back down. Also, I believe it was Rocco who had an item...

Mike Powers

I've been busy catching up on convention pictures. There are about 60 pictures from this year's Michigan Magic Day featurine Allan Ackerman, Jerry Andrus, Gene Anderson, Garrett Thomas, Steve Bargatze, Chuck King and Todd Charles.

See them at: www.mallofmagic.com under Convention Pix.

Mike

Mike Powers

I finally posted a number of pictures from this year's 52 Convention featuring Ernest Earick, Chuck Smith and John Rogers. You can view them at: www.mallofmagic.com in the Convention Pix section.

Mike Powers

Hi,

Keith Walker will once again put on the CEMK (Close Encounters of the Magic Kind). This year the dates are Nov. 11, 12 and 13. I believe it is again at the the Jade Palace Restaurant in Webster NY.

Mike

Mike Powers

I finally posted the photos from this years FFFF (Fechters Finger Flicking Frolic) Convention. This was one of the finest FFFFs ever. There were many fantastic first timers. I sorted through over 1000 photos from Dale Farris, Maria Schwieter and myself. They are organized by show and include sets of...

Mike Powers

I finally finished up the pictures from The World Magic Seminar (Jan. 2004) and from Abbotts Close Up Convention (March 2004). To check out the pictures go to: www.mallofmagic.com and click on Convention Pix. There are also tons of pictures from past conventions including many years of Fechters Fing...

Mike Powers

Hi Chris,

It was actually $153 for two decks. But $75 for one deck is wild. I've got a few of these decks and I'd rather have the $$ to buy books and dvds than the decks. The bidding on my decks is at $36 (for both) with a day and half to go. We'll see if there's any bidding wars at the end.

Mike

Mike Powers

Recently two new decks, one red and one blue, of Jerry's Nuggets cards went for over $150 on ebay. I've got two decks listed now with the high bid of only $35 for both. Get 'em while they're hot if you want two decks of these very hard to find cards.

Mike

Mike Powers

I finally finished posting the photos from this year's Motor City Close Up Conference (Nov. 2003). The lectureres were: Daryl, Dan Fleshman, Danny Tong and Garrett Thomas.

You can view the photos at: www.mallofmagic.com under "Convention Coverage."

Mike

Mike Powers

Heads up book lovers! Both Book of John and John: Verse 2 are listed on ebay. Also, both the Bannon books viz. IMPOSSIBILIA and Smoke and Mirrors are also listed.

All four are in perfect shape. The Bannon books still have the advertising cards from L&L and Kaufman in them.

Mike

Mike Powers

The 52 Convention (all close-up) in Buffalo was excellent this year. Lecturers were: Steve Dobson, Mike Powers, Bill Goodwin, Alphonso and Gazzo. I posted about 100 pictures at: http://www.mallofmagic.com/52_03/52_03_1.htm Or you can go to www.mallofmagic.com and click on the "Convention Covera...

Mike Powers

Too bad everyone knows they're about to watch a palm. It would have been interesting to have the palming sequence be part of a larger series of actions, which was then followed by a series of questions to magicians about what had happened. I'll bet that no one would have detected the palm.

Mike

Mike Powers

Don't forget the dealers' point of view. There's only so much money to be spread around. I've been a dealer at conventions where they've allowed too many dealers. It may have been fun for the attendees but the dealers came up short. There's a balance, and that's what the organizers should shoot for....

Mike Powers

I've had an item called "Schrdinger's Dream" in Top Secret Stuff. It has been updated in my new lecture notes. It's a card through table routine. The connection with Schrdinger is that quantum mechanics allows for barrier penetration...

Mike

Mike Powers

Damn, now we're going to need 35 million billion billion galaxies worth of mass.

Mike

Mike Powers

Hi Randy,

Flicker lighters are a rare commodity these days. However I think you could buy all that I have in stock (which is pretty much all that were made) for a 6 pack of good beer.

P.S. somebody wake Biro, I think he's sleeping again..

Mike

Mike Powers

Hi WarlockDrummer, I got 1.446 x 10^43 dollars for $1 at 5% compounded quarterly for 2000 years. The formula is FV = P(1+r)^n. Here P is 1 (dollar), r = .05/4 = .0125 (the quarterly rate) and n is 8000 since there would be 8000 quarters in 2000 years. My calculator gives me the number above from 1.0...

Mike Powers

Once it turned out that more than the entire mass of our universe is required to construct the decks, I gave up on trying to increase the number of decks required! Remember, it takes a million billion entire universes worth of atoms to make these decks. That's more than enough decks for me. Mike Hey...

Mike Powers

Lets get this right. As stated above, there are 52 factorial (52!) possible ways to arrange a deck. This is because there are 52 possible cards for the 1st position; 51 possible for the 2nd position etc. This comes out to 52x51x50x49x.x3x2x1 possible arrangements. That comes out to be 8.0658 x 10^67...

Mike Powers

How does the invisibility of the thread compare with the thread used in the Mesinka (sp?) loops. I bought a spool of supposedly invisible elastic thread for $10. It was elastic but far from invisible. I believe you get 1000 feet of thread and a gizmo for tying knots for $100. Any opinions on the thr...

Mike Powers

If the download is the exact wording of the original, the pirate could have trouble. However, if it is his/her "expression" of the idea, it's legal as far as I know. I don't think anyone can get in trouble as long as the effect is re-written in the "pirate's" words. I wonder if t...

Mike Powers

When I check the Penguin site, I see downloads for old standards like Do As I Do, Jazz Aces, Matrix etc. The prices are generally around $5 or $6. I'm not sure what authorizes dealers to create videos of tricks that are found in books and then charge $$ for a pdf file or internet video clip which ex...

Mike Powers

Hank Lee (www.magicfact.com) sells these. They are called FA-KO sheets and cost $10. You get quite a variety of pips to transfer, including some meant for giant cards.

Mike

Mike Powers

Just as a mathematical aside - The reason that 9 is cool is that we have a base 10 system. If we had a base 16 system, like computers folks use, the magic number would be 15. It's always 1 less than base of the number system. Ultimately the reason for these properties is that 10 MOD 9 = 1 and thus 1...

Mike Powers

I finally finished the pictures from this year's Fechter's Finger Flicking Frolic (FFFF). If you'd like to check them out, go to: www.mallofmagic.com and click on "Convention Coverage." There were quite a few "heavy weights" there this year including John Carney, Dave Williamson,...

Mike Powers

Let's not forget Rose Rings whose fine illustrations grace the pages of Channel One Magazine. Rose also illustrated the manuscript for Diminishing Returns as well as Paul Wilson's recent lecture notes. She also did the illustrations for Sean Bogunia's Notepad Surprise and other items too. She's exce...

Mike Powers

Harkey's item is called "Clear Cut." It is, as he states, loosely based on Cyprian's "Swindle Cut Aces." In the Harkey version, however, the spectator cuts the aces into four piles. You then show that each pile has an ace on top. As Doug Conn mentioned, Harkey's item begins with ...

Mike Powers

It does look like Fearson's. The auction has ended with ZERO sales...

Mike

Mike Powers

Ken Krenzel has an excellent approach using a gaffed card case.

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Mike Powers

Allan Ackerman has an excellent solution to the "clutch" problem. I don't see it in Las Vegas Kardma. It may be on the videos.

Mike

Mike Powers

I would be worried about using a metal pick since it might damage the quarter. Perhaps a toothpick will get the job done.

I wonder if putting some sort of lubrication on the new band would prevent it from adhering to the quarter when you replace it later??

Mike

Mike Powers

As far as I know, Allan Ackerman invented the methodology used by Wakeman and Malone. His effect appears in his Magic Mafia Effects book. I think it's from the early 70's. In Ackerman's routine, the magician cuts first as a demo and the spectator actually only cuts 3 aces. Harry Riser had the idea t...

Mike Powers

Having been a physics prof. I used to demo this in class. It looks like REAL magic. I've got a copper tube about 5 feet long with a diameter of nearly two inches. You have to stand on a stool to watch it fall the distance. The object which is dropped in is huge too. It takes a lot more time to reach...

Mike Powers

I believe that nitrocellulose results when nitric acid reacts with cellulose which is in abundance in paper and cotton. The type of paper used in making flash paper must have very little clay content or else a visible ash will result.

Mike

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