Nice little reference piece that credits Ron Ferris with the roll over move:
http://www.geniimagazine.com/magicpedia/Roll-Over_Aces
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- February 17th, 2015, 1:10 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Alaskan Poker by Ricky Jay
- Replies: 154
- Views: 39013
- February 6th, 2015, 12:48 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Half Half Man ... Your Thoughts?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 26339
Re: Half Half Man ... Your Thoughts?
I hope Tom starts talking about Pippi Longstocking again. That's always fun.
- February 6th, 2015, 12:39 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Half Half Man ... Your Thoughts?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 26339
Re: Half Half Man ... Your Thoughts?
Richard Kaufman wrote:That's old news. It happened while the show was in New York.
Was it reported in Genii?
- February 6th, 2015, 12:18 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Half Half Man ... Your Thoughts?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 26339
Re: Half Half Man ... Your Thoughts?
This is exciting: https://halfhalfman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-team-illustration-01-v3-1200w.png Some real heavy hitters here. It's almost like this is magic's Avengers vs. Justice League (Theory 11) (I'm surprised that Derek D isn't part of the team.) Word is that Helder and Derek have h...
- December 21st, 2014, 6:04 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Tommy Wonder on Tom Stone
- Replies: 63
- Views: 26343
Re: Tommy Wonder on Tom Stone
I continue to marvel at Joe's ability to plunge Tom Stone and Brad Henderson into existential crisis mode.
Spectacular, Joe!
And I'm with you with regard to Tommy Wonder's presentations - they are childish at best.
Spectacular, Joe!
And I'm with you with regard to Tommy Wonder's presentations - they are childish at best.
- December 6th, 2014, 6:25 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Vintage Ricky Jay
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3684
Re: Vintage Ricky Jay
Here's a version of the plate trick with a gimmick:
http://books.google.com/books?id=fxbRAg ... te&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=fxbRAg ... te&f=false
- November 14th, 2014, 6:43 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New Pepper's Ghost art toy
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8232
Re: New Pepper's Ghost art toy
Bill Mullins wrote:GlennWest -- the viewer is for: making sure your eye is in the right place relative to the mirror, original, and copied drawing; and for (possibly) correcting the left-right (or up-down) flip that a mirror gives.
I was considering the mirror to be part of the viewer, but I gotcha. Thanks.
- November 14th, 2014, 4:28 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New Pepper's Ghost art toy
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8232
Re: New Pepper's Ghost art toy
Despite the ad copy, the image isn't projected. If it were projected, you wouldn't need the viewer.
- November 9th, 2014, 2:40 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Live magic is on the rise ... the Supernaturalists
- Replies: 48
- Views: 17175
Re: Live magic is on the rise ... the Supernaturalists
I think the poster makes it pretty clear this is a parody of a magic show. We've got: 1) An upside down guy, for no good reason. 2) The two guys on the left holding hands. 3) The whole right side is a tribute to Zoolander 4) A hot chick with an Adam's Apple At least I hope it's a parody. http://i586...
- November 6th, 2014, 12:35 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Identity of this "Camp/Gay" magician please
- Replies: 141
- Views: 40243
Re: Identity of this "Camp/Gay" magician please
It's hilarious that Banachek jumped in to defend Hobson.
Reminds me of Joran van der Sloot's impassioned defense of OJ.
Reminds me of Joran van der Sloot's impassioned defense of OJ.
- November 4th, 2014, 1:30 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: DelGaudio Sez
- Replies: 166
- Views: 32265
Re: DelGaudio Sez
lol @ Jackson Pollock et al All of modern art was an unwitting stooge for the CIA during the Cold War. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html I guess you don't have to be magician to get away with tricking people. Ha! Poor Brad. He tries so hard.
- November 3rd, 2014, 7:09 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: DelGaudio Sez
- Replies: 166
- Views: 32265
Re: DelGaudio Sez
Tom Stone wrote:It was neither "art" nor magic until some random performer showed it to someone else?
Right.
Potential magic, but not magic.
Magic takes place in the mind of the observer and requires an observer who is not the doer.
No external observer, no magic.
- November 3rd, 2014, 5:19 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: DelGaudio Sez
- Replies: 166
- Views: 32265
Re: DelGaudio Sez
You are pushing into areas which I have often wondered about. Is it possible to have art without an audience to experience it? Is the process enough - even if it goes forever unseen? Art doesn't require an audience. Magic does. If magic doesn't fool, then it isn't magic. No audience, no one to fool...
- November 3rd, 2014, 3:54 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: DelGaudio Sez
- Replies: 166
- Views: 32265
- November 3rd, 2014, 2:58 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: DelGaudio Sez
- Replies: 166
- Views: 32265
Re: DelGaudio Sez
@Richard: Agreed.
I'm trying to understand if the intention of the 'performer' (craftsman, artist, etc.) is important.
A chef can be a chef without ever intending to fool anyone.
Can a magician be a magician without ever intending to fool anyone?
I'm trying to understand if the intention of the 'performer' (craftsman, artist, etc.) is important.
A chef can be a chef without ever intending to fool anyone.
Can a magician be a magician without ever intending to fool anyone?
- November 3rd, 2014, 2:33 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: DelGaudio Sez
- Replies: 166
- Views: 32265
Re: DelGaudio Sez
Typically the chef and the musician aren't trying to fool you.
Is it possible to be a magician if you don't intentionally fool at least one person?
Is it possible to be a magician if you don't intentionally fool at least one person?
- October 17th, 2014, 11:45 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Identity of this "Camp/Gay" magician please
- Replies: 141
- Views: 40243
Re: Identity of this "Camp/Gay" magician please
mrgoat wrote:
It's like asking how chris rock is less offensive than al johnson.
Yeah!
http://earlyaviators.com/ealjohns.htm
- October 16th, 2014, 5:36 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Identity of this "Camp/Gay" magician please
- Replies: 141
- Views: 40243
- September 24th, 2014, 7:36 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: hank lee out of jail
- Replies: 78
- Views: 28921
- September 23rd, 2014, 6:11 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: hank lee out of jail
- Replies: 78
- Views: 28921
Re: hank lee out of jail
billmccloskey is to this thread, as Chris Aguilar is to the Hollingworth thread.
- September 19th, 2014, 12:54 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: AGT Winner!!! A MAGICIAN Mea Culpa
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3811
Re: AGT Winner!!! A MAGICIAN Mea Culpa
This is great. Among other good qualities, he has a huge amount of poise. I haven't seen this mentioned, but in the Ambitious Card sequence when he's working for Heidi, he accidentally loses the selected, signed card. The sequence starts at around 2:15. He ends up with the Ace of Spades in his mouth...
- September 16th, 2014, 1:54 pm
- Forum: Light From the Lamp
- Topic: One Man's View of The Hollingworth Collection
- Replies: 198
- Views: 1220577
Re: One Man's View of The Hollingworth Collection
billmccloskey wrote:I think anyone dropping that kind of dough has earned $150 worth of right to whing all he wants.
Has the whinger in question dropped the dough?
- September 16th, 2014, 12:57 pm
- Forum: Light From the Lamp
- Topic: One Man's View of The Hollingworth Collection
- Replies: 198
- Views: 1220577
Re: One Man's View of The Hollingworth Collection
Max Maven wrote:So, Damian, as you Brits so quaintly put it, stop whinging.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whinge
Re: $550 book
Sadly, and this is almost always true, if anyone wants to know how the trick is done all they have to do is read the comments on YouTube. And while $550 might be a lot for a single book, the total amount of profit that Mr Philpott can realize, even if he sells them all, is fairly small - only $20,00...
- September 12th, 2014, 1:16 pm
- Forum: Light from the Lamp ONLINE.
- Topic: The Cramp Vol. 1, #1 by Dale A. Hildebrandt
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11918
Re: The Cramp Vol. 1, #1 by Dale A. Hildebrandt
I'm not clear why this stuff is for sale on Lybrary.com
- September 12th, 2014, 12:51 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Steve Mayhew DVD
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12735
Re: Steve Mayhew DVD
Curtis Kam wrote:I think I get why you like it. That reads like a Siamese cat reviewing a Rubik's Cube.
Ha!
- September 8th, 2014, 4:15 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: The green room...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3336
Re: The green room...
If you're a card guy, there's a pretty good Jazz Aces thread going on over there right now: http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=563466&forum=2&start=0 Seems like the Genii Forum used to have some threads like that one, but I think there are too few people to sustain them h...
- September 5th, 2014, 4:53 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Xeroxed Marlo Magazine: What would you do?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13913
Re: Xeroxed Marlo Magazine: What would you do?
The originals I've seen were all numbered (as in "10 of 500"). If the page indicating the number was intentionally left out, that would indicate the copier knew what he was doing was unauthorized. Also - it seems that if the copy were recent, the copied cover would be in full color. Why co...
- September 5th, 2014, 12:34 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Three Handlings--Twisting the aces
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6656
Re: Three Handlings--Twisting the aces
Good point E - Daryl's routine is great.
Also from that era is another classic twisting routine, Harris' Bizarre Twist.
Also from that era is another classic twisting routine, Harris' Bizarre Twist.
- September 4th, 2014, 1:19 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Three Handlings--Twisting the aces
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6656
Re: Three Handlings--Twisting the aces
Hi Swamy,
In case you haven't seen this, Stephen Hobbs has some interesting work on twisting the aces in his Technical Toolbox:
http://www.stephenhobbstechnicaltoolbox.com/
Weeks 19 and 20.
In case you haven't seen this, Stephen Hobbs has some interesting work on twisting the aces in his Technical Toolbox:
http://www.stephenhobbstechnicaltoolbox.com/
Weeks 19 and 20.
- September 1st, 2014, 8:30 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Charlotte Pendragon's World of Illusion
- Replies: 81
- Views: 25017
- September 1st, 2014, 8:08 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Inventing The Ten Card Poker Deal
- Replies: 466
- Views: 191932
Re: Inventing The Ten Card Poker Deal
Coming soon from the wilds of Canada Are you planning a book launch for such a major project? In general, where are you in Canada? Although it's not a subject of great interest to me, I can't help but feel some national pride. Good luck. You're kidding, right? http://www.geniimagazine.com/magicpedi...
- September 1st, 2014, 7:49 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Charlotte Pendragon's World of Illusion
- Replies: 81
- Views: 25017
Re: Charlotte Pendragon's World of Illusion
I'd like to request that Brad Henderson jump in with his comments on the video. He's usually pretty good about keeping us all on topic.
- September 1st, 2014, 7:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Inventing The Ten Card Poker Deal
- Replies: 466
- Views: 191932
Re: Inventing The Ten Card Poker Deal
Michael Close wrote:Bob Farmer is to book publishing as Zeno is to foot races.
That's damned funny.
- September 1st, 2014, 7:26 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Charlotte Pendragon's World of Illusion
- Replies: 81
- Views: 25017
Re: Charlotte Pendragon's World of Illusion
Rick Ruhl wrote:Until anything is proved in a court of law, the correct word is 'alleged' act. Any other word can be potentially libelous to the poster.
There are two sides to every story, and what lies in the middle is the real truth.
I believe, this is the case here.
Well said.
- September 1st, 2014, 6:48 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Charlotte Pendragon's World of Illusion
- Replies: 81
- Views: 25017
Re: Charlotte Pendragon's World of Illusion
Firstly, you need to see a doctor and check your ears . Secondly, I am not making an accusation, I am stating facts. We get it. You can't prove that what you are saying is true. And we understand that you are embarrassed to be called out on it, so you respond with an emotional attack. Perfectly pre...
- September 1st, 2014, 6:32 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Charlotte Pendragon's World of Illusion
- Replies: 81
- Views: 25017
Re: Charlotte Pendragon's World of Illusion
...and then the followup of beginning to market his innovations under her name, without credits or permissions. Again...can you prove this? I asked if you had any doubt on the honesty of those who got scammed. Reply to that first. You remember they made a DVD set before all ruckus? They described t...
- September 1st, 2014, 5:55 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Charlotte Pendragon's World of Illusion
- Replies: 81
- Views: 25017
Re: Charlotte Pendragon's World of Illusion
Tom Stone wrote:...and then the followup of beginning to market his innovations under her name, without credits or permissions.
Again...can you prove this?
- September 1st, 2014, 5:54 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Charlotte Pendragon's World of Illusion
- Replies: 81
- Views: 25017
Re: Charlotte Pendragon's World of Illusion
Dustin Stinett wrote: We decided that his comments about Char (but not necessarily those about him) were such that we thought it would be best to delete the thread.
I'm hoping you'll do the same thing here.
- September 1st, 2014, 5:51 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Charlotte Pendragon's World of Illusion
- Replies: 81
- Views: 25017
Re: Charlotte Pendragon's World of Illusion
That doesn't make Charlotte a villain any more or less than Jonathan. No, it is the scamming and theft that makes her a villain. Speaking of that, I saw a guy who says he originated the Tony Sagittarius character at a comedy club recently. He's touring the Canada/US comedy circuit for the next few ...