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- March 22nd, 2011, 8:27 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Hand Maintenance
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6532
Re: Hand Maintenance
Just for sh*ts & giggles, I checked out the MSDS for dimethyl sulfoxide. If interested, here's the link I used. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/d7120.htm">http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/d7120.htm</a><!-- m --> Jon, you have a unique sense of h...
- March 22nd, 2011, 8:00 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Hand Maintenance
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6532
Re: Hand Maintenance
any successful explorations using DMSO to bring something useful into the skin? Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) has the unique quality of giving one intense garlic breath moments after application. If that isn't much of a deterrent, then remember that DMSO can penetrate the skin, and carry all sorts of s...
- March 22nd, 2011, 7:34 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Bicycle poker card box
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1497
Re: Bicycle poker card box
I agree. Difficult to use the case as a "holdout," but I have gotten away with it. You do have to pay attention and keep the half moon side down or toward you.
- September 28th, 2010, 4:19 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: What Magic Book or DVD are you Reading/Watching Now?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 8522
Re: What Magic Book or DVD are you Reading/Watching Now?
Books:
Jack Parker, 52 Memories
Zarrow
Kort
DVDs:
John Carney: The Master Sessions
Jack Parker, 52 Memories
Zarrow
Kort
DVDs:
John Carney: The Master Sessions
- December 11th, 2009, 4:59 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Cascade Control
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5263
Re: Cascade Control
Card Finesse' II has a very good description of the mechanics of the move.
- November 22nd, 2009, 5:55 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Location of a Del Ray Performance
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2505
Re: Location of a Del Ray Performance
The heavy set gentleman in the frame looks like Mike Ricadeli and the blue back drop looks like the one they used at Carl Bajor's one day convention (Magic Fun Day) in NJ.
- October 16th, 2009, 11:03 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Bruce Cervon Castle Notebooks Volume 5 !
- Replies: 53
- Views: 14329
Re: Bruce Cervon Castle Notebooks Volume 5 !
Irrespective of what anyone has done in the past, to know something is wrong and continuing the practice, just because someone else did it before, is no excuse to do something wrong again. If you did something without understanding the full implications, and learned later you had wronged someone, sh...
- September 21st, 2009, 7:31 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: October Issue of Genii Arriving Soon!
- Replies: 67
- Views: 10421
Re: October Issue of Genii Arriving Soon!
Herbie Mann At The Village Gate is the seminal work on Comin' Home Baby.
- September 3rd, 2009, 6:33 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Best cups
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2389
- August 26th, 2009, 2:08 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: September Issue of Genii Now in the Mail.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6012
Re: September Issue of Genii Now in the Mail.
Arrived in Woodbridge NJ moments ago. 07095
- August 20th, 2009, 7:38 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Phyllis Zarrow Passes
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3231
- August 12th, 2009, 8:27 am
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: FS Fitch/Kohler holdout
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7481
Re: ERDNASE
Eye of a needle, head of a pin... the sentiment is clear in either case... (};o) Is is possible that that Smith did the pencil roughs and handed them to an assistant to ink or "finish?" That could explain why he didn't have a clear memory of the illustrations, but he recognized his letteri...
- July 11th, 2009, 7:22 am
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8757
Re: Juan Tamariz - cardtoon with a twist
Oh Yeah... Sr. Tamariz is the best example of a man who does not stop thinking too soon, and settling. Damn... That was effin' brilliant.
- June 20th, 2009, 6:07 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Card To Wallet
- Replies: 126
- Views: 39286
Re: Card To Wallet
Francis Carlyle's "Homing Card," from Stars of Magic is a stunning effect, and doesn't require a wallet, or envelope. Bill Malone produces a selected card from an imaginary pocket. Hmmmm. It would appear that the key factors do not include a wallet per se, but rather the belief that the lo...
- June 3rd, 2009, 7:29 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: card to pocket
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3627
Re: card to pocket
Thanks for sharing that, John. It went right into the notebook. That is so cool.
- June 2nd, 2009, 6:05 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Riffle Shuffle Work Using The Triumph Shuffle
- Replies: 352
- Views: 101969
- June 2nd, 2009, 4:27 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Eric DeCamps - PURE MAGIC 2009 Edition
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7758
Re: Eric DeCamps - PURE MAGIC 2009 Edition
I left my quiet home in suburban N. J. and ventured into Manhattan for the first time in quite a while. My purpose was to see PURE MAGIC. I was not disappointed. The show ROCKED. I don't want to go into too much detail, but some of the stuff Eric did just blew me away. His opening effect is quite fl...
- May 21st, 2009, 11:45 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: June Genii
- Replies: 38
- Views: 7896
Re: June Genii
I can't wait for mine to get here. I think our postal person is holding out on me. Bastids
- May 21st, 2009, 9:28 am
- Forum: Feature Articles
- Topic: One Trick DVD Article by Richard Kaufman
- Replies: 109
- Views: 42356
Re: Genii Speaks (July, 08)
It really breaks my heart that magicians would rather spend $29.95 for one lousy trick on DVD than $40.00 on a book that will teach them 25 or 30 effects. I would venture to say that most of the people putting out videos today learned their craft from books.
- May 14th, 2009, 7:13 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Broken Wand: Earl Presto Johnson
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6319
Re: Broken Wand: Earl Presto Johnson
Everett Earl "Presto" Johnson was not only one of the best you never heard of, he was a kind and generous man who took great joy in his work. The one day convention that featured Presto was the first Magic On Manhattan. Presto taught me a version of The Rising Card that was so easy, but th...
- April 28th, 2009, 2:21 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: He is a Class Act - I wish I met him sooner.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2614
Re: He is a Class Act - I wish I met him sooner.
Hello Fran....
Yes... I'm DV Harris from Facebook.
Yes... I'm DV Harris from Facebook.
- April 28th, 2009, 2:20 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: He is a Class Act - I wish I met him sooner.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2614
Re: He is a Class Act - I wish I met him sooner.
Thanks, Matt... We did have some fun, didn't we. Things are good. How's the UK treating you? You are missed.
- April 28th, 2009, 8:55 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: He is a Class Act - I wish I met him sooner.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2614
- April 27th, 2009, 8:08 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: He is a Class Act - I wish I met him sooner.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2614
Re: He is a Class Act - I wish I met him sooner.
Eric... You are way too kind. Thank you so much for the considerate words. It was a good afternoon, and I learned a thing or two as well.
Richard ... High praise, indeed, coming from you. (}:o)
Richard ... High praise, indeed, coming from you. (}:o)
- April 12th, 2009, 8:56 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Close-up case?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11808
Re: Close-up case?
That's fine, if you don't want to do cups & balls, for example. The props really ruin the line of your clothes, when you put everything into your pockets.
- April 12th, 2009, 4:13 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Close-up case?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11808
Re: Close-up case?
I use a small doctor's bag, or a large doctor's bag, depending on the circumstances. Both have foam inserts that were cut out by me to hold the props. If you are looking for something more causal, and/or less expensive, You can visit your local Home Depot, Lowe's, etc., and check out their various t...
- March 28th, 2009, 3:01 pm
- Forum: Kaufman & Company
- Topic: Ron Wilson
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7404
- March 22nd, 2009, 1:18 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Palming: Lepaul Right Hand Top-Palm (Group)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 927
- March 16th, 2009, 11:36 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Triumph
- Replies: 308
- Views: 82361
- March 4th, 2009, 3:23 pm
- Forum: Columns
- Topic: Geoffrey Latta
- Replies: 47
- Views: 18487
Re: Geoffrey Latta
All I can say is that, in my opinion, Mr Swiss did not exaggerate Geoff Latta's abilities. Now, I don't know how Geoff comes across on video, but I can tell you that if you stood there and watched him perform, once you got your chin up from the table, and rolled your socks back up, you would smile, ...
- February 23rd, 2009, 5:28 am
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: Best Think of a Card Plot
- Replies: 47
- Views: 19066
- February 22nd, 2009, 12:57 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: What Magician's Assistant Pamela Anderson REALLY Looks Like
- Replies: 64
- Views: 14550
Re: What Magician's Assistant Pamela Anderson REALLY Looks Like
Obviously a personal problem.
- February 3rd, 2009, 3:39 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cups and Balls
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6261
Re: Cups and Balls
There's no real answer to your question. It all goes to personal taste, style, and disposable income. I have tried a number of sets, including Sisti, and Johnson. I used the copper cups Magic Inc. issued, the ones that look like Ross Bertrams cups, for years. But ... I finally settled on the cups ma...
- January 29th, 2009, 10:40 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Carney's Wonders in LA
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2647
- December 22nd, 2008, 8:22 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Favourite Pass/card control
- Replies: 82
- Views: 16147
- December 8th, 2008, 8:41 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Favourite Pass/card control
- Replies: 82
- Views: 16147
- December 3rd, 2008, 9:39 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Lefthanded
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4206
Re: Lefthanded
These Bicycle Pro Poker Peek Red or Blue Cards may not be the answer, but they might be worth considering. Indices (Indexes?) on all four corners. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.gamblingincorporated.com/product.php?productid=16234">http://www.gamblingincorporated.com/pro ... ctid=162...
- December 3rd, 2008, 1:38 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Lefthanded
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4206
Re: Lefthanded
In most cases the dominant hand does the dealing, so a right handed magician holds the deck in his left hand.
- November 23rd, 2008, 12:28 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Lefthanded
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4206
Re: Lefthanded
I, too, am a right-brained performer, however, I perform card magic in as a right-handed person would. Since my left hand is dominant, and most sleights are initiated with the left hand, my theory was why retrain my right hand? I figured the learning curve would be shorter. I don't know if it's true...