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- February 22nd, 2022, 6:17 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Winged Silver by Koudai
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4282
Re: Winged Silver by Koudai
I have observed your work. I don't value your opinion. My primary point here is that I do not fit with you people and should not be conversing with you as you are not aware. For the most part you are confused about what magic is. You would attempt to build a house without knowing what a house is. I ...
- February 21st, 2022, 3:58 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Winged Silver by Koudai
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4282
Re: Winged Silver by Koudai
Thank you Richard! You inspire me to offer some wisdom from my lofty perch at the top of a mountain. A mountain of corn stalks. “The audience is the final judge.” But they are polite. Well, most are. But, to grow, the performer must observe the reaction of the audience to the magic presented. But yo...
- February 21st, 2022, 4:28 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Winged Silver by Koudai
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4282
Re: Winged Silver by Koudai
I’m no legend. I’m just an old fart that lives in a corn field in Wisconsin. I don’t even think my magic is that great. In any of my work I can quickly point out faults and errors. I am just a nobody like you that can express my negative opinions as you just did.
- February 21st, 2022, 12:51 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Winged Silver by Koudai
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4282
Re: Winged Silver by Koudai
We open with a flourish of showing the hands MT. Two coins are shown to be normal with a bit of fanfare. Two coins on the table do not receive the same treatment. Ergo, there is something wrong with them. During the routine I had no clue where the shell coins were. Then, with all the finger flutter,...
- February 20th, 2022, 2:54 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Winged Silver by Koudai
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4282
Re: Winged Silver by Koudai
A real wizard would not bother to show his hand MT. He/she would not bother to show something normal. Then you (general you) don't have a clue what I am talking about.
- February 18th, 2022, 11:15 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: The Word Magic
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4395
- February 18th, 2022, 9:43 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Winged Silver by Koudai
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4282
Re: Winged Silver by Koudai
Apparently you wish to entertain magicians. Curiously, the first thing you did was to show us you were using shell coins.
- February 16th, 2022, 4:33 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: The Word Magic
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4395
Re: The Word Magic
Communication depends on common understanding. If there is no agreement on a subject at hand, the communication between terminals is, at best, garbled. My initial question was to determine who might have something in common with my understanding of what magic is. As has been pointed out, there is no...
- February 16th, 2022, 7:47 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: The Word Magic
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4395
Re: The Word Magic
Magic is a class of events of which there is no possible explanation.
- February 13th, 2022, 2:19 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Close Up Magic Born in Hollywood?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3066
Re: Close Up Magic Born in Hollywood?
In 1830 in Boston 35% of people lived in boarding houses. Most had sitting rooms. I have read that some individuals went from house to house doing tricks. The top change, pass, and palm ruled in the very low light conditions of the day. I suspect this was true of most cities that grew at that time. ...
- February 10th, 2022, 6:45 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Cross Cut Force Science
- Replies: 102
- Views: 9333
- February 10th, 2022, 4:47 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Cross Cut Force Science
- Replies: 102
- Views: 9333
Re: Cross Cut Force Science
Magic is a class of events of which there is no possible explanation. 62 years ago I did a trick in Gusipes pizzeria. It was after a high school football game. At the time I was doing Bert Allerton’s aspirin box routine. I used the cross cut to have a card selected. Roy, one of my little audience, s...
- February 8th, 2022, 6:03 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Fiedler's Flier
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1520
Re: Fiedler's Flier
This gimmick strikes me as being brilliant. I thought of a routine with it. This is probably old and trite and I am displaying my ignorance of magic history. Open a Himber wallet and show it MT. Have someone shuffle a deck to their hearts content. Use this gimmick to have a card selected. Open the w...
- February 6th, 2022, 9:52 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: The Word Magic
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4395
- February 5th, 2022, 3:38 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Insane ACAN method
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7946
Re: Insane ACAN method
First, I don't understand your rant against chances of 1 in 52. This is in essence the effect of the Invisible Deck which is a known powerful trick. It is very powerful. Second, I kind of agree with you on ACAN routines in which there is a hunt for a card even though it may be concealed in some kind...
- February 4th, 2022, 8:44 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Insane ACAN method
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7946
Re: Insane ACAN method
I am wondering if someone can help me. The video below was on an L&L DVD I helped them produce. My problem is that I am not expert on mental stuff. Most of the material on the DVD was coins and cards. No mental stuff. This trick was a shot in the dark. It was not audience tested. My only awarene...
- January 31st, 2022, 11:50 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: The Elfin Purse by Koudai
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2280
Re: The Elfin Purse by Koudai
Your magic is very smooth. Also your videography is professional, likewise with your title sequence. And your website is very professional. Do you do all this yourself? I suspect you have a team of pros working as a group. Is that true? You have inspired me to play with the purse frame. Here is some...
- January 23rd, 2022, 12:46 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Script Ocean
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2124
Re: Script Ocean
I think I have not communicated my theory well. It goes way beyond magic. Everything in life is a script. The point is that it is so pervasive, we don't see it. Like a fish in water, "Water, what's water?" Then, if we as magicians know this, we can capitalize on it.
- January 15th, 2022, 10:45 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Script Ocean
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2124
- January 15th, 2022, 6:17 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Script Ocean
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2124
Re: Script Ocean
Dave, very well done. It also means the ability to apply or do that which is groked. It also means that it is part of your existence. But if you speak Martian it means even more. To bestow grokness on an individual means to assign the highest level of intelligence to the grokee. This word was once p...
- January 15th, 2022, 2:43 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Script Ocean
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2124
Re: Script Ocean
I will not do the bunnies. I will not be an old fart grabbing someone’s wrist, hand, and fingers forcing something unseen into their hand and holding onto it so they won’t peek inside prematurely. I find that disgusting and so do a lot of women. I was once sitting beside Bill Larson’s daughter at a ...
- January 15th, 2022, 12:30 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Script Ocean
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2124
Re: Script Ocean
And this brings up another point. In general, we don't know the triggers. They are discovered through trial and error. And if you don't believe in the concept, you will never see them.
- January 15th, 2022, 12:21 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Script Ocean
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2124
Re: Script Ocean
Reminds me of Karrel Fox talking about a gig he did for some bankers. He says he drew a bill in a slip of paper and folded it in a set of Buddha papers. When he opened it, the paper was a thousand dollar bill. Then he said, "Oops, I put the decimal point in the wrong place." You don't thin...
- January 14th, 2022, 10:24 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: World Magic Center
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2620
Re: World Magic Center
Thanks guys, you make my day. My next task is a portable hole. My goal is to back up my theories with real material instead of just flapping my lips. I am trying to make a site that can't be viewed in one sitting.
- January 14th, 2022, 9:25 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Script Ocean
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2124
Re: Script Ocean
Are you like the fish that doesn't know what water is? You wouldn't know would you he that can't grok PDF's.
- January 14th, 2022, 3:49 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Script Ocean
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2124
Script Ocean
SCRIPT OCEAN This is a repeat of ideas I have expressed before. The basic point is that we have scripts in our head (subconscious? whatever) that we use to function in life. The issue in this post is to indicate that this mechanism is massive. Essentially, we are what our scripts are. This is so per...
- January 13th, 2022, 7:20 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: World Magic Center
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2620
Re: World Magic Center
I added some new videos to the site:
3D MATRIX
AL'S WILD COINS
DIAMOND AND COINS (a redo)
SUPER NOVA
You might want to hit refresh as everything was changed.
3D MATRIX
AL'S WILD COINS
DIAMOND AND COINS (a redo)
SUPER NOVA
You might want to hit refresh as everything was changed.
- December 31st, 2021, 12:48 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Cross Cut Force Science
- Replies: 102
- Views: 9333
Re: Cross Cut Force Science
I am repeating my old song. I maintain that humans have a huge library of "video clips" in their head. Real world events trigger these video clips so what a spectator "sees" is not what actually happens. The actions in the cross cut force are so common in our everyday activity th...
- November 7th, 2021, 2:49 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Magifest
- Replies: 1
- Views: 842
Magifest
The Magifest has a unique place in my heart. I had traveled many times in my earlier years from Detroit to Columbus Ohio. Later, after college and while working in Saint Paul for Univac, I wrangled a free trip with the company to Detroit so I could go to a Magifest. Vickers, a parent company in Detr...
- November 6th, 2021, 1:54 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Head drop magic/prank
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2308
Re: Head drop magic/prank
Paco I appreciate your demonstration of the setup for this effect. Really well done. Some time ago I had an idea with it. Use it in conjunction with the fake hand. I don't know what the device with a cloth or drape held up with each hand is called. Anyway, hold the cloth in front of you when your he...
- November 4th, 2021, 7:13 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: World Magic Center
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2620
Re: World Magic Center
Interesting. A friend, Paul Misel, did a show including this using a cone in instead of a diamond. A lady approached him after the show and challenged him. She claimed he was testing witchcraft or some super power on the audience. She claimed his other tricks were just manipulation. But the coin tri...
- November 4th, 2021, 1:29 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: World Magic Center
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2620
- November 4th, 2021, 1:27 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: World Magic Center
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2620
- November 3rd, 2021, 4:42 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: World Magic Center
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2620
World Magic Center
I changed my web site. Now I am just offering clips to watch. I am trying to make it work on regular PC's and mobile. Maybe somebody can tell me if links are broken or the videos don't display well. I don't know how to use mobile yet. Just using HTML. I want to avoid JavaScript. http://www.worldmagi...
- November 2nd, 2021, 10:06 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Do we see reality?
- Replies: 82
- Views: 7328
- November 2nd, 2021, 9:59 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Do we see reality?
- Replies: 82
- Views: 7328
Re: Do we see reality?
The purpose was to show all of us (including me) that we shut down when we think we know something. This thread presented the Paris thing. We all know what it is. That was immediately followed by text that had 12 duplicate words. No one caught it until attention was brought to it. It further demonst...
- November 2nd, 2021, 8:45 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Do we see reality?
- Replies: 82
- Views: 7328
Re: Do we see reality?
You totally, totally do not understand the purpose of this thread.
- November 1st, 2021, 11:07 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Do we see reality?
- Replies: 82
- Views: 7328
- October 29th, 2021, 5:25 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Do we see reality?
- Replies: 82
- Views: 7328
- October 21st, 2021, 6:55 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Coins Across Routine by Al
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3461
Coins Across Routine by Al
Part of my character is to admit I am wrong.
I believe that intelligence is directly proportional to willingness to admit self wrong.
Whatever has been said, I am wrong.
Thank you Kent Gunn for being so blunt about this.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I believe that intelligence is directly proportional to willingness to admit self wrong.
Whatever has been said, I am wrong.
Thank you Kent Gunn for being so blunt about this.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.