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What I think was the real shame of the "Impromptu" project was that in 2013, a sample pdf was produced which showed what the project could have been. Things were typeset and the new stuff was integrated with the old. It's really too bad that this fell through as it could have been really g...

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Hi, nice review. Many thanks. Could you describe the basic effect(s) in the routine? Thanks for the kind words, Jack. Sure, I'd be happy to describe the effects! In the advanced routine, Daryl shows a white rope and a red rope. He ties the "Amazing Acrobatic Knot" in the white rope. He tw...

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(I do not wish to mutate into an annoying amateur reviewer of magic items, but I owe Daryl a lot, and I just couldn't pass up a chance to make a comment on this posthumous rerelease of a classic routine.) I have performed Daryl's great routine for Pavel's "Fantastic Knot", "The Jumpin...

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Watching this was blowing me away already, but when I saw the notation about "freehand" I just about died!

Thanks for sharing this!

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I've been a happy customer of H & R magic books for more years than I can remember. Honest, knowledgeable and helpful, they have always come through for me and were the first place I'd look for books that I needed---first, with Richard and Charlie and later with Marshall. Sadly, I received an em...

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Here's Andi Gladwin's tribute: https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/blog/anthony-owen/

Mr. Gladwin says that the profits from the sales of Mr. Owen's outstanding book, Secrets, are going towards a youth magic scholarship.

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Are there any big stars in Vegas that are not 4-walling?

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Oh, man! I was a big fan of his work. This happened way too soon... So sad.

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For you comics fans, on Season 6, Episode 15 of Comic Book Men (available on Amazon Prime), the old Kreskin ESP game makes an appearance (6:09). I mention it only because Ming and Walt do a mind reading "experiment" which is more entertaining than a lot of mentalism I've seen. (In addition...

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Bob-- if you're going to go that far, you gotta apologize for the Biebs too!

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Hi, Tom: I think tinypic http://tinypic.com/ is a very easy, free image hosting site. You just upload your picture and it gives you the link you need to post a picture on a forum. Just copy the link that the tiny pic site gives you after uploading and then paste it into your Genii forum post and voi...

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Here's a related Conjuring Credits article on the topic that confirms Mr. Billot's post:

https://www.conjuringcredits.com/doku.p ... hort_cards

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You're 100% right, RK. I'm embarrassed to say I skipped right over that without reading it thinking it was one of those embedded click bait ads that I avoid like the plague. The fact the author put that ridiculous image in the article is deplorable.

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Thanks! Enjoyed the article (except for the gratuitous shot at flyover country ;) ). Sounds like a case of only the strong survive in a cutthroat business. To be honest, I stopped going to Vegas years ago. As Nevada's economy tanked, some of the tourist areas just seemed to be getting more and more ...

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Sounds exciting!

On a non-related topic, I checked out the link at the bottom of the post "Magic of Japan", but ended up on a page with lots of random text. It did not seem like a malware link, but not sure what it is.

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The new Food Network series, Buddy vs. Duff, features Penn & Teller this coming Sunday (April 7, 2019, Food Network, 9 pm/8 central) https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/buddy-vs-duff/episodes/donuts-and-magic https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/buddy-vs-duff/photos/meet-the-judges--buddy-vs--duff (T...

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Thanks for the reference! I can see how that technique could account for some of what we're seeing, but at 00:15--- that's different than what's in Apocalypse, right?

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Leonard Hevia wrote:Did the tall lady with the beehive hairdo really exist? Was she the one sitting near the stage who distracted the tiger? Did the animal catch a whiff of her hairspray?

The USDA report says there was no evidence that any of those things happened.

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There's an old thing I've used for Color Monte. Not sure who it belongs to, maybe J.K. Hartman. Basically, you display each card before slipping it to the bottom. Single, double, single. I'm one of the weird ones that never minded the alignment move though. Layman don't care. Hi, Ryan: I tried to f...

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Another weird thing about Color Monte. In the sets I had as a kid, they were printed in shiny colored foil printing. I had several spectators speculate after the trick that somehow the foil printing changed color depending on how the card was held in the light. Obviously, a provably false theory, bu...

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Interested students might also wish to check out Mr. Maven's article, "Slide Variations" in the February 1983 issue of The New Tops.

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They did the same thing when the IBM came to Kansas City. I took a hard pass.

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And here is a more comprehensive list from Denis Behr's Conjuring Archive: https://www.conjuringarchive.com/list/category/706 (Thanks to Mr. Behr for pointing these out!)

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I (like many of you) performed Color Monte in my youth scores of times. For some reason the alignment move never really bothered me as a kid. (I was apparently an outlier then, although I have come to see the light in later years!) Thanks to the generosity of many of you out there, here is a very us...

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Tom:
Have you tried a heat gun? I suspect that will soften the glue enough to get it off, but cardboard may still be discolored after glue removal.

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Wow--that was fun! (My favorite part of the act was the very beginning with the recalcitrant ace.)

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This story was referenced in USAToday this morning:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/featu ... =hvper.com

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Brad Jeffers wrote:Is it mostly coin stuff, or is Mr. Henderson also a cardman?

He does both: Triumph, copper/silver, cards (diary trick), gadabout coins, bunnies, chop cup, rope (not explained)--classic plots, but personalized and full of very clever touches.

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I've been enthusiastic about the recent works by Caveney, Thompson, Close, and Tamariz because I feel they teach performance pearls sprung from decades of experience that I can actually use no matter what specific tricks I want to work up for my own use. Accordingly, when this project came across my...

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Joe Lyons wrote:
Brad Henderson wrote:What did paul Harris add to the effect?

He must be referring to Harris’s “Free Flight”.

Don’t let the trolls get you down, Al. You are the man.

Can't accurately read the mind of a troll, but I actually think he's referring to "The Giant Killer Coin"

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And in other news, apparently this sitcom is in pre-production: https://deadline.com/2019/02/like-magic ... 202560174/

I hope she does card tricks...

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Ed Marlo: "A Miracle with Cards", Ibidem n. 8, p 11. The trick has been then elaborated/re-invented by others: Simon Aronson in "Kabbala", Steve Ehlers in "Las Vegas Kardma" (p. 173), John Cornelius, Armand Porcell ("Les Cartes ESP"), etc. I published my vers...

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Marked, memorized deck?

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Thanks, Dodd! These interviews are great!

Dodd conducted another interview where Mr. Thompson appeared (along with his friends Bob White and Harry Riser) in a discussion about his mentor Charlie Miller:

http://www.linkingpage.com/magicnewsfee ... iller.html

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A few days ago, Mike Powers posted that he had a couple of shrink-wrapped copies for sale at 20% off retail.

(I did not post the link here since it's from another forum, and he did not include his personal information in the ad. However, Mr. Powers is very easy to track down)

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Wow! That's great!

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...but apparently not so hard that you can't make a goofy commercial about it.

https://www.vudu.com/content/in_home_di ... gital.html

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That should have been: "Haven't they ever heard of Fight Club?"

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https://view.yahoo.com/show/today/clip/ ... lub-of-top

Haven't you folks ever heard of "Fight Club"?

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I'm sure I'm far from alone in having learned Bruce Elliot's Dr. Sack's routine from Classic Secrets of Magic. That was long ago and I'm sure I haven't done it in forty years or more. However, a few years back I had the pleasure of Bob Sheets showing me how it should be done, including a unique tur...

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