The Genii Forum

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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 ...

Tom Moore

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

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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 ...

Tom Moore

If it’s the white candles I’ll take it. No questions

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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 ...

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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?

Tom Moore

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.

Tom Moore

We are all poorer for his passing

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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Tom Moore

Straight from the Horse's Mouth - Garret & Mike Close on why it was a fooler https://www.patreon.com/posts/abracabab ... =postshare

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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 ...

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

“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...

Tom Moore

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’...

Tom Moore

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.

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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?

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

Watch this space.... we will be making a very relevant announcement in about a weeks time!

Tom Moore

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...

Tom Moore

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 ...

Tom Moore

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.

Tom Moore

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...

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