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- June 17th, 2020, 1:52 pm
- Forum: Marketing & Magic Business
- Topic: Why is editing so bad in magic publications?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 4767
Re: Why is editing so bad in magic publications?
Ian Kendall wrote: I fear that most of these people wouldn't know who to ask to proof read their work, In the sentence above, 'who' is the subject of the verb 'to proof read', so that's the correct usage. /grammar geek. Disagree. The core of the sentence is "people wouldn't know who". Sub...
- May 26th, 2020, 2:52 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Opinions on initial Wild Card display
- Replies: 89
- Views: 5056
Re: Opinions on initial Wild Card display
Duraty's initial display is a bit like Shigeo Takagi's from his Wild Card manuscript (also in "Amazing Miracles of Shigeo Takagi"), except that Duraty holds all the pairs in a fan instead of tabling them one by one. Like with a Flushtration count you get a strong impression of having seen ...
- April 18th, 2020, 9:47 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Two-Card Reverse
- Replies: 7
- Views: 993
Re: Two-Card Reverse
Thanks Philippe. The version in The Jinx seems to be about the same as the one in "Professional Magic for Amateurs", and it does sound like Gibson was describing an idea which as far as he knew was new. It's also interesting with some of these older tricks that magicians didn't mind puttin...
- April 16th, 2020, 11:07 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Two-Card Reverse
- Replies: 7
- Views: 993
Re: Two-Card Reverse
Thanks for bringing attention to this. I read the Lou Gallo book a long time ago and had forgotten about this. It's a nice version of Paul Rosini's Double Reverse from "Rosini's Magic Gems". Eugene Burger has a great handling and presentation in "The Performance of Close Up Magic"...
- April 7th, 2020, 11:41 am
- Forum: Mentalism & Mental Magic
- Topic: Magic Age Cards
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1456
Re: Magic Age Cards
I don't have it, but Galasso's "A devotione del signore" seems to be based on the Magic Age Cards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S8XZHzlHaE https://store.conjuringarts.org/product/a-devotione-del-signore-horatio-galasso/ Martin Gardner discusses a couple of versions in Chapter 6 of &quo...
- February 28th, 2020, 3:37 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Dr Daley spin
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2279
Re: Dr Daley spin
But somewhere Vernon talks about using it in the magic shop as a pretend secret move.. I think on the Revelations DVDs Where does he talk about this? This has been bugging me because I don't have the DVD set but I have read the story somewhere, and it doesn't seem to be in The Vernon Touch, the Ver...
- February 27th, 2020, 8:35 am
- Forum: Book of The Month Club
- Topic: Does anyone here speak French?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5577
Re: Does anyone here speak French?
To save everyone the trouble, here's what Kent's link gives you: "And still about the radio game, there is a booklet entitled: The Long and the Short of It , the Best Svengali Routine in Existence, by Mark Lewis, edited by Lisa Moore (2001). I found it in London in the shop of Ron MacMillan and...
- February 3rd, 2020, 2:45 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Credit help
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3972
Re: Credit help
Mr. Koenig's Tapestry by Richard Vollmer in Apocalypse Vol. 14 No. 3 Martin Gardner described his Paradox Papers in Pallbearers' Review (1971) but the principle goes back to an old Henry Dudeney postage stamp folding puzzle. There are quite a few variations around: https://www.conjuringarchive.com/l...
- January 30th, 2020, 3:36 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trying to find Childhood Optical Illusion Book. Any Idea?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2275
Re: Trying to find Childhood Optical Illusion Book. Any Idea?
There must be lots of them so this is just a shot in the dark, but I have one from around that time called "Take a Closer Look" by UK magician Keith Kay. I think it was privately published, though it seems to be still around with a different cover ( https://www.bookdepository.com/Take-Clos...
- January 24th, 2020, 6:45 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Sad News from Davenport's Magic in London
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3309
Re: Sad News from Davenport's Magic in London
Later we had Alan Alan's Magic Spot ("go look in the window") and Repro 71 may already have been operating (not sure when they started) I seem to remember reading or being told that the "71" was because they started in 1971 - and also that "Repro" was because at first ...
- September 11th, 2019, 11:20 am
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Vernon fools Houdini
- Replies: 82
- Views: 16522
Re: Vernon fools Houdini
Thank you Denis and Marco, that's very interesting. I had to stop getting Gibecière a while back (money and space problems), but maybe I can renew my subscription to Ask Alexander and read the whole article. But weren't playing card backs a more recent invention? I thought they used to be plain whit...
- June 28th, 2019, 2:15 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Graham Adams Card Magic & Erdnase
- Replies: 48
- Views: 7639
Re: Graham Adams Card Magic & Erdnase
I also understood that there were really only a handful of copies of the actual lecture notes, so good luck with finding one. But Martin Breese published "The Best of Pentagram Card Magic" which has a chapter on the work of Graham Adams. It seems to be still available from various dealers.
Re: ERDNASE
There's even a French mnemonic for the same order: Huit (8) rois (rois) très (3) discrets (10), de (2) cette (7) neuvième (9) sainte (5) dame (dame) Katryn (4), assistent (as - 6) le valet (valet) I don't know who came up with it or whether it came before the English version - I found it on a blog b...
- May 29th, 2018, 3:23 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: A Plunger Question
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5189
Re: A Plunger Question
Just to clarify. The effect I was looking for is not the Rising Cards using the plunger principle. It's a completely different effect whose creator was unknown to Hilliard. Thanks to all for chiming in. Not as old as Robert-Houdin, but another reference: I remember this from one of my very first ma...
- February 27th, 2018, 2:26 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Most Issues of MAGIC Magazine are Now Live in the Genii Archive
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4541
Re: Most Issues of MAGIC Magazine are Now Live in the Genii Archive
Thanks Richard, and glad it wasn't just me. It'll definitely be worth the wait.
- February 26th, 2018, 11:02 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Most Issues of MAGIC Magazine are Now Live in the Genii Archive
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4541
Re: Most Issues of MAGIC Magazine are Now Live in the Genii Archive
Is anyone else still having trouble viewing the MAGIC issues? I now find I usually get the covers, but when I try to go into an issue it won't load at all. Or else it does load, and all the pages appear as thumbnails, but when I try to get the full view most of the pages are blank. I've tried from b...
- February 14th, 2018, 11:42 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Roy Walton
- Replies: 44
- Views: 16984
Re: Roy Walton
No problem. And please, call me Edwin!
Striker: “Surely you can’t be serious”
Rumack: “I am serious — and don’t call me Shirley.”
(from the film Airplane!, 1980)
Striker: “Surely you can’t be serious”
Rumack: “I am serious — and don’t call me Shirley.”
(from the film Airplane!, 1980)
- February 14th, 2018, 9:53 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Roy Walton
- Replies: 44
- Views: 16984
Re: Roy Walton
Someday, I would love to read an in-depth profile of Mr. Walton in Genii or listen to/see an interview with him online, but it doesn't seem like that's in the cards at this time. If I should ever be lucky enough to get to Scotland, I know exactly where I'll be going straightaway. There was a nice a...
- February 8th, 2018, 3:12 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Most Issues of MAGIC Magazine are Now Live in the Genii Archive
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4541
Re: Most Issues of MAGIC Magazine are Now Live in the Genii Archive
I find if I click on "Issues" in the vertical menu bar on the right it usually shows just the Genii issue thumbnails. Sometimes there's also a tab for MAGIC; other times there isn't, but then if I click on "Issues" in the toolbar thing at the top left (Issues, Help, Contact, Sett...
- January 16th, 2018, 4:52 am
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Cy Endfield
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8067
Re: Cy Enfield
Cy Endfield was friends with Gershon Legman and Robert Harbin and through them played a small but important part in the history of origami in the West: http://www.britishorigami.info/academic/lister/legman.php http://www.britishorigami.info/academic/lister/papermoney.php http://www.britishorigami.in...
- September 14th, 2017, 9:53 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: At the table dinner table - displaying the cards.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1676
Re: At the table dinner table - displaying the cards.
Guy Hollingworth has a stand-up version of Waving the Aces in "Drawing Room Deceptions" with a discussion about performing "vertically" in stand-up situations.
- July 27th, 2017, 2:50 am
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Dutch Looper / English Monte / English Three Card Trick
- Replies: 77
- Views: 29485
Re: Dutch Looper / English Monte / English Three Card Trick
I don't have it, but there seem to be some gaffed versions in Ganson's Teach-In on the Three Card Monte:
http://archive.denisbehr.de/show.php?book=979
There's also this, which mentions Jerry Mentzer's English Monte:
http://magicref.tripod.com/magref/magmonte.htm
http://archive.denisbehr.de/show.php?book=979
There's also this, which mentions Jerry Mentzer's English Monte:
http://magicref.tripod.com/magref/magmonte.htm
- May 30th, 2017, 10:06 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: How to pronounce _____ ?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 9210
Re: How to pronounce _____ ?
"Bernard Bill-EES" with the "s" pronounced and the stress on the last syllable in French, though we'd probably put it on the first syllable in English, as in "Paris". But "Paris" in French is "Par-EE" with a silent "s", and "Bernard&qu...
- December 30th, 2016, 11:11 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Looking for Bob Neale trick
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2090
Re: Looking for Bob Neale trick
Just remembered it's actually called "Flash Printer", so you can find it online. Here it is as an ESP prediction effect: http://www.kingmagic.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1120 Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kj3o5kt-y8 The one I have was sold as a printer. I ...
- December 30th, 2016, 6:48 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Looking for Bob Neale trick
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2090
Re: Looking for Bob Neale trick
I also have a flat plastic wallet-type Magic Printer thing (Japanese, I think) that uses the same principle as the Pat Page/Karl Fulves tricks to apparently print a blank card.
- December 29th, 2016, 6:51 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Looking for Bob Neale trick
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2090
Re: Looking for Bob Neale trick
"Framed" is in "More Than Lecture Notes No. 2" (1991). I haven't had time to look closely but it seems to be quite similar to the effect in Minotaur. Robert Neale says his trick is based on one by Paul Hallas in "Mental Mix" and also on "Correcting Fluid" in F...
- August 31st, 2016, 3:11 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Impressive tricks in Impossible, but haven't we seen lots of them before?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2967
Re: Impressive tricks in Impossible, but haven't we seen lots of them before?
It seems the dispute about the alleged theft of the laser act has been resolved:
https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2016/magicians-act-theft-dispute-settled-with-impossible-producer/
https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2016/magicians-act-theft-dispute-settled-with-impossible-producer/
- August 26th, 2016, 4:14 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Impressive tricks in Impossible, but haven't we seen lots of them before?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2967
Re: Impressive tricks in Impossible, but haven't we seen lots of them before?
Thank you Quentin for the detailed review. I was in London a week or so ago with my wife and younger daughter (11), who likes magic, and though it wasn’t originally planned we ended up getting last-minute tickets. I wasn’t aware of any of the controversy till now, but have to say that as a show we f...
- August 11th, 2016, 8:12 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Gaëtan Bloom's 3 Card Monte
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1838
Re: Gaëtan Bloom's 3 Card Monte
Knowing Gaetan Bloom's reputation I'm sure the 2-book set is packed with great material, but if you're really only after Visible Monte and don't want to spend $150 here's a secondhand one for about $12:
http://www.trollerisaker.se/en/kort-mag ... ?showall=1
http://www.trollerisaker.se/en/kort-mag ... ?showall=1
- April 8th, 2016, 3:12 am
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Dutch Looper / English Monte / English Three Card Trick
- Replies: 77
- Views: 29485
Re: Dutch Looper / English Monte / English Three Card Trick
I got to know Arthur through origami, but he was incredible with his paper cutting and so immaculately neat in everything he did. Yes, he did do a bit of silhouette work too. He was also a great fan (and I believe a friend) of Tom Mullica. The other day I came across a photo of him in "Pabular&...
- March 15th, 2016, 7:25 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: 100+ year old magic shop photos/illustrations?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3126
Re: 100+ year old magic shop photos/illustrations?
Bland's Magical Palace, established in 1855: https://smallmagicollector.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/the-magic-table-victorian-magic-table-by-bland-from-prof-hoffmann-book/ https://books.google.ch/books?id=ohyLewLefocC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=blands+magical+palace&source=bl&ots=PS3AZnaki...
- March 15th, 2016, 3:22 am
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Interesting Marketed Tricks From The Past
- Replies: 65
- Views: 22385
Re: Interesting Marketed Tricks From The Past
The Tenyo self-contained Hydrostatic Glass is called Water Suspension. I always thought this was a great idea and very well made.
http://tenyo-magic.blogspot.ch/2010/05/t-035.html
- March 14th, 2016, 6:19 pm
- Forum: Magicana
- Topic: Lost Stars of Magic Tricks
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9494
Re: Lost Stars of Magic Tricks
Great to see these and to learn about the background to the Stars of Magic series. The tricks looked strangely familiar though, and after a bit of searching I found out why - all of them (plus a few more) appear in the book "Close Up Magic of the Masters" published by Jackie Flosso. https:...
- February 26th, 2016, 7:40 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Looking for interesting early magic books
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5656
Re: Looking for interesting early magic books
Good topic. Sorry to be coming to it a bit late. If you're like me you'll want original copies, but here are a couple of those already mentioned: Magic without Apparatus https://books.google.fr/books?id=nO59CgAAQBAJ&pg=PP2&lpg=PP2&dq=magic+without+apparatus+by+camille+gaultier&source...
- January 14th, 2016, 11:56 am
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Histed pompom built into a Hoodie
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4971
Re: Histed pompom built into a Hoodie
If you mean provenance before Histed, I guess it would be this: http://www.conjuringcredits.com/doku.php?id=misc:pom-pom_prayer_stick Geoffrey Buckingham's Four-Ended Rope is in "It's Easier Than You Think Vol. 3" and also here: http://magicref.tripod.com/booksjr/klammrigropes.htm More rec...
- January 14th, 2016, 2:47 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Derren Brown - Pushed to the Edge?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 10600
Re: Derren Brown - Pushed to the Edge?
I hadn't planned to watch as the idea sounded even more disturbing than some of the other recent Derren Brown specials, but I happened to catch the last part and was intrigued - as well as disturbed. Despite the participants saying they were glad they took part (and according to the Radio Times arti...
- January 6th, 2016, 4:07 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Just curious...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2298
Re: Just curious...
I had to pay an extra €37, which was annoying since the postage to Europe was already quite expensive and I was tempted to ask what the additional €37 was for. It happened before on a heavy parcel of books, and someone suggested to me that where possible it might be worth splitting large orders into...
- December 24th, 2015, 9:29 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: If You've Received Tenyoism Please Post Here!
- Replies: 104
- Views: 22983
Re: If You've Received Tenyoism Please Post Here!
Received yesterday, just in time for Christmas. Will open tomorrow. Having seen it briefly at the copy at the Genii convention I know it's going to be fantastic and can't wait to have a proper look.
- July 12th, 2015, 7:38 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Genii subscription renewal offer
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3522
Re: Genii subscription renewal offer
Thanks for the reply, and sorry for not responding sooner. I'll e-mail Margret as you suggest.
- July 9th, 2015, 4:43 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Genii subscription renewal offer
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3522
Re: Genii subscription renewal offer
"The Berglas Effect" is listed again on the website in connection with the Genii renewal offers. I renewed for 3 years in April, without any add-ons. Is it too late to add "The Berglas Effect" now?