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Edwin Corrie

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 ...

Edwin Corrie

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...

Edwin Corrie

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.

Edwin Corrie

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...

Edwin Corrie

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...

Edwin Corrie

Thanks Richard, and glad it wasn't just me. It'll definitely be worth the wait.

Edwin Corrie

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...

Edwin Corrie

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)

Edwin Corrie

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...

Edwin Corrie

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...

Edwin Corrie

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...

Edwin Corrie

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.

Edwin Corrie

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

Edwin Corrie

"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...

Edwin Corrie

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 ...

Edwin Corrie

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.

Edwin Corrie

"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...

Edwin Corrie

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/

Edwin Corrie

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...

Edwin Corrie

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

Edwin Corrie

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&...

Edwin Corrie

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...

Edwin Corrie

Joe Mckay wrote:Is this the trick?

http://tenyo-magic.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/t-076.html

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

Edwin Corrie

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:...

Edwin Corrie

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...

Edwin Corrie

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...

Edwin Corrie

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...

Edwin Corrie

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...

Edwin Corrie

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.

Edwin Corrie

Thanks for the reply, and sorry for not responding sooner. I'll e-mail Margret as you suggest.

Edwin Corrie

"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?

Edwin Corrie

I use the Oxford Comma because it clarifies writing, and that's the only reason. Anyone else read the book "Eats, Shoots and Leaves"? What I care about most is clarity and simplicity. Richard, you need not feel that you are abandoning your preference for the American idiom in this regard....

Edwin Corrie

I can't stand "s/he" either. Visually it drives me nuts. I take into account--a great deal--what the visual appearance of the text is on the page and how that is perceived by, and pleasing to, the reader. Thus my insistence on the Oxford Comma, among many other things. My favourite (can't...

Edwin Corrie

So the website has the latest offers? I suppose that makes sense.

Edwin Corrie

I'm about to renew my Genii subscription but am confused about the books that are available. According to the March issue it's possible to order The Berglas Effects for $25 plus postage, but on the website (and also according to the renewal notice that came with the magazine) the only books availabl...

Edwin Corrie

Yes, it's Seneca, in a letter to Lucilius, but he's actually referring to sophistry and the techniques of rhetoric, and comparing them to sleight of hand. Seneca said: Then, too, the man who is asked whether he has horns on his head[1] is not such a fool as to feel for them on his forehead, nor agai...

Edwin Corrie

There's another article here: http://www.academia.edu/2135810/Entzauberk%C3%A4sten._Zur_Fr%C3%BChgeschichte_eines_paradoxen_Spiel_zeug_s Also a summary in plain text (with most of the information about Goethe) that you can copy and paste into Google Translate to get a general idea of what it says: h...

Edwin Corrie

It's a well known book but worth buying for its historical value. Many of the material is still usable, though a lot will be familiar from other places or will seem too old fashioned by modern standards. You can get a better idea (or buy the PDF) here: http://shop.conjuringarts.org/store/pc/The-Secr...

Edwin Corrie

I don't have anything to sell personally, but there's an Italian book that came out last year (does Richard know about this?) to mark the 100th anniversary of DeLand's Automatic Deck: http://www.funtasticshop.com/item_5260/Delands-automatic-playing-cards-seconda-edizione An extract can be seen here:...

Edwin Corrie

Thanks Philippe. Another one for the collection. Correction to my last post: Actually the Hocus Pocus book was not a translation of the English one, but a completely separate collection of card tricks which I think was later put together with the German version of Hocus Pocus Junior. The text is rep...

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