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- February 17th, 2021, 2:41 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Impuzzibilities
- Replies: 7
- Views: 678
Re: Impuzzibilities
We do seem to be in a country that is determined to prevent anyone trading with any other country at the moment.... There are options - if the total TRANSACTIONAL value (the items plus the shipping cost) is less than £135 then it is exempt from VAT (although could still be liable for import duties c...
- February 1st, 2021, 4:04 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: The Ultimate Gaffed Card Printing System
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1081
Re: The Ultimate Gaffed Card Printing System
I'm not sure that the cards, as printed, would really be comparable to Bikes. The printer is toner-based, instead of liquid ink. There was no coating applied. It's not obvious that registration (alignment from the front surface to the back surface) is any better than you can do with a home printer ...
- January 11th, 2021, 1:30 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Siegfried is ill
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1081
Siegfried is ill
Reports in European press that Siegfried is seriously ill with tumour that has so far not responded to treatment. https://www.blick.ch/people-tv/internat ... 87515.html
- December 19th, 2020, 10:22 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Good video camera to use online
- Replies: 10
- Views: 915
Re: Good video camera to use online
Nowadays the camera in a $30 disposable cellphone is of a better quality / resolution than network tv broadcast camera were 10 years ago so it’s not really the camera that matters. Lighting, good quality sound and making sure sequences are staged for camera will have much more impact on the “quality...
- December 17th, 2020, 10:37 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Houdini Musical inches closer
- Replies: 4
- Views: 612
Re: Houdini Musical inches closer
It's a project that has been doing the circles for years so no, no definitive answers. That said movies don't use magic consultants in the same way live shows do (it's MUCH cheaper to CGI stuff) so you're more likely to see someone like the original author (Bill Kalush) having a general tonal consul...
- December 16th, 2020, 5:44 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Houdini Musical inches closer
- Replies: 4
- Views: 612
Re: Houdini Musical inches closer
Unlikely this will hit the stage - there's a lot of key jobs still with no creatives attached; I'll bet it's a complete coincidence that a producer is suddenly having development readings (which are a device for getting investors to fund further development of a show / employ producers) at the same ...
- December 7th, 2020, 5:05 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Fantasio candles
- Replies: 5
- Views: 493
- December 7th, 2020, 3:10 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Fantasio candles
- Replies: 5
- Views: 493
Fantasio candles
Putting together a routine for a show that is crying out for a candle sequence and discovered (after researcher spending an afternoon googling) that fantasio candles don’t seem to be a thing any more. Is there a generic version that’s taken over or do we not have any decent vanishing / appearing can...
- December 2nd, 2020, 4:22 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Shipping To the United States
- Replies: 4
- Views: 734
Re: Shipping To the United States
Recent developments mean that postage costs to the United States have increased dramatically, certainly for posting from the U.K. I've been selling a lot on eBay recently and the increase has become very obvious. Posting costs in the UK depend on the weight, size and thickness of the item. A book t...
- December 1st, 2020, 3:53 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Card size survey
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2322
Re: Card size survey
I would, however, take issue with your statement that people _should_ be using them. I'd argue that this is the same sort of "should" as you should also make sure you're stood so that you can be seen, should be being polite and respectful to your spectators and should be making sure you d...
- November 30th, 2020, 4:21 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Card size survey
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2322
Re: Card size survey
This has really morphed into an interesting and thought-provoking discussion. I've learned some useful things about cards, and particularly in regard to making sure they are clearly seen and perceived by the audience. The Card Duck is a great trick, especially for kids and mixed kids and adults. I ...
- November 30th, 2020, 10:09 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Card size survey
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2322
Re: Card size survey
Oddly I don't have a full set of Magic Magazine's sitting on my shelf and since I think Max has probably appeared in Magic Mag many times i don't think your citation would help me find the particular article you think i should read very easily? Surely though what you're saying is effect not cause. F...
- November 30th, 2020, 6:22 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Card size survey
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2322
Re: Card size survey
Ian Kendall wrote:if you’re performing for any more than one single person you should be using large index cards
Unless you are on stage, when they become a hindrance. [cf Maven, MAGIC magazine]
Ok I'll bite.... why are large index cards a hinderance on stage?
- November 27th, 2020, 1:03 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Card size survey
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2322
Re: Card size survey
The argument that poker size card are more “visible” is nonsense- if you’re performing for any more than one single person you should be using large index cards (which come in both sizes) as that does so much more to improve visibility than making the card 1/4 inch wider.
- November 25th, 2020, 2:25 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Matt Field Has Died
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1493
- November 25th, 2020, 12:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Why are a lot of magicians boring when performing?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2230
Re: Why are a lot of magicians boring when performing?
I want to explore racism, Hitler (none of us would be alive today if Hitler had never being born), nuclear war, taboos, Holocaust denialism, drawing the prophet Muhammad, why I don't care about climate change, why Antifa are fascists, nihilism and anti-natalism in my magic. This is not because I am...
- November 18th, 2020, 5:26 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Penn & Teller: Fool Us renewed for Season 8
- Replies: 3
- Views: 685
- November 9th, 2020, 10:03 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Garrett Thomas on Fool Us
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5663
Re: Garrett Thomas on Fool Us
Straight from the Horse's Mouth - Garret & Mike Close on why it was a fooler https://www.patreon.com/posts/abracabab ... =postshare
- October 22nd, 2020, 1:17 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Garrett Thomas on Fool Us
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5663
Re: Garrett Thomas on Fool Us
Mike Close (and JT before him) knew exactly what methods are used in every phase of the trick before it goes in to the show and has created their own “rules” of what does and does not constitute a fool. There have been several taping a where contestant has denied an explanation or tried to argue aga...
- October 16th, 2020, 4:11 am
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: Spooky Lady Prediction
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1159
Re: Spooky Lady Prediction
Sounds like Sacred Riana, Bob, you might try searching on YouTube for her. Or Elizabeth on BGT. Since we are going for completeness... Neither of them originated the character nor most of the key plot points / effects / stories they use. De Nieuw Uri Geller was a moderately successful mentalist tal...
- September 12th, 2020, 4:54 pm
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: More on Bob Cassidy
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10078
Re: More on Bob Cassidy
MagicbyAlfred wrote:Well, I think this is as good a time and place as any to announce that I am to be honored with the "Psychic Entertainer of the Year" award...
...for the year 2029.
I knew you would say that
Re: Fool US
Is there some history on the effect of a costume flying off the rack into a quick change? Of a faux costume flying off a faux rack into a performer- not specifically no. Of the broader concept of a flying fabric thing moving towards the performer and them changing costume in some way In response; i...
Re: Fool US
I'm not making any specific claims about the "foolness" of the routine - but simply from their responses and reactions (in particular the comments they've both made in interviews after taping about how amazing and new the quick change was) it's clear this is a genre of quick-change they'd ...
Re: Fool US
She certainly did some innovative things, and there was a bunch of magic mixed in. She's obviously inspired by the Chinese, and it seems P&T have never seen a Chinese quick change act. That curtained "room" behind her is a hallmark of Chinese acts. She's a great performer who presente...
- August 22nd, 2020, 3:45 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Survey on magic principles
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2214
Re: Survey on magic principles
“Have you already performed this force” is a very different question to “how many times have you performed this force?” According to the question actually asked my submission to that survey i apparently produce data of the same quality as Derren Brown as we have both been in the business for the sam...
- August 22nd, 2020, 4:34 am
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Survey on magic principles
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2214
Re: Survey on magic principles
I don't see how that prevent them/us from having a general estimation (accurate or delusional) about it. So card manip acts, box pointing illusionists, rope magicians all have opinions on these two forces completely as valid as people who’ve spent thousands of hours considering or using them? They’...
- August 21st, 2020, 4:40 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Survey on magic principles
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2214
Re: Survey on magic principles
As I said - all data points have some validity but to not include questions that enable you to correct for the difference between those with only a vague experience and those with thousands of hours experience is, by definition, a badly designed survey.
- August 21st, 2020, 2:04 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Survey on magic principles
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2214
Re: Survey on magic principles
Tom (Stone), with all due respect, the average magician does equivoque poorly. I don't see how that prevent them/us from having a general estimation (accurate or delusional) about it. So card manip acts, box pointing illusionists, rope magicians all have opinions on these two forces completely as v...
- August 21st, 2020, 9:36 am
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Survey on magic principles
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2214
Re: Survey on magic principles
This is a really really badly designed survey that has at it's heart a fundamentally wrong assumption. I found no faults with the design. Really? I have used these forces a few times in my life yet there's absolutely no control question to differentiate my experiences with the force from someone wh...
- August 21st, 2020, 9:32 am
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Survey on magic principles
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2214
Re: Survey on magic principles
Firstly - you're asking "magicians" about the application of a force that only a subset of magicians have any real experience with using and not introducing any questions to ascertain whether the person commenting has real world experience or just a vague opinion on the matter. Secondly yo...
- August 21st, 2020, 6:05 am
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Survey on magic principles
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2214
Re: Survey on magic principles
This is a really really badly designed survey that has at it's heart a fundamentally wrong assumption. Unless your survey is a bluff and you're trying to secretly ascertain what percentage of magicians of all genres think card trick performing magicians delude themselves about their audiences percep...
- August 17th, 2020, 9:06 am
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Multum im Parvo
- Replies: 45
- Views: 5861
Re: Multum im Parvo
This is where we are at with our prototype - we are still trying to find a better shape for the third glass plus the pitcher definitely will have to be engraved as it turns out water isn't actually as transparent as you think/hope it is. https://www.dropbox.com/s/kfpe3ik9f0lwsde/infinity_prototype.p...
- August 13th, 2020, 1:20 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Someone didn’t get the memo - performing animals
- Replies: 8
- Views: 844
Re: Someone didn’t get the memo - performing animals
Even now in historically low attendance times Vegas is getting 30,000 visitors per day. There’s no other shows running (and none making any serious moves to re open before Christmas) so he will have a complete monopoly and since the venue is only 300 seats even if 99% of visitors decide the show isn...
- August 12th, 2020, 6:09 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Disney's Magic Camp
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1745
Re: Disney's Magic Camp
I do wish that one day more magic-themed productions would ditch the awkward magician stereotypes.
Have you ever hung around with a group of magicians and seen how they behave?
- August 8th, 2020, 2:24 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: RIP Ger Copper
- Replies: 9
- Views: 819
Re: RIP Ger Copper
He was a wonderful generous man who’s less well known outside of Central Europe - to magicians in the Netherlands / Belgium / Germany he’s probably best described as their Jonny Thompson; there’s no stage act out of those countries in the last 20 years that he didn’t have a major hand in. I was luck...
- August 5th, 2020, 2:07 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Multum im Parvo
- Replies: 45
- Views: 5861
Re: Multum im Parvo
Watch this space.... we will be making a very relevant announcement in about a weeks time!
Re: Fool US
Well if magician’s have a problem with the French drop exposure then you’re gonna really hate their other show “try this at home” .... And no Alfred I don’t think my views are superior and I’m mildly offended you decided to put such words in my mouth. My original post highlites the well known existi...
Re: Fool US
I find it very interesting that dozens of performers presenting brilliant, original, creative, entertaining COMMERCIAL performances produced a dozen or so comments on this board, but the idea that P&T might have vaguely exposed the 101 of magic secrets has produced dozens of outraged posts very ...
- July 7th, 2020, 1:46 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Derren Brown: Desert Island Discs
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1955
Re: Derren Brown: Desert Island Discs
That’s exactly the point - what people perceive him to be is /not/ a magician but actually some sort of psychology expert. Thus it’s folly to judge him within the criteria of how a magician should behave.
Uri Geller doesn’t do magic tricks for his friends either.
Uri Geller doesn’t do magic tricks for his friends either.
- July 7th, 2020, 12:24 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Derren Brown: Desert Island Discs
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1955
Re: Derren Brown: Desert Island Discs
Derren's entire persona, the style of the material he presents and 20 years of PR and marketing have been focused on the idea that he is a master manipulator, someone who can make anyone do anything, bend people to his will, make people do things (like kill someone or just risk their own safety) th...