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Sawing-in-half illusion

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Revolutionary Card Technique (from the above posts, I'm guessing multi-word names are acceptable?)

Would you say it's more important to eliminate the windows, or to eliminate the sticking-out at the sides?

I was this close to mentioning it, but figured it would just convince people that I'm on their paycheck. Book titles and book covers, that what V's really good at. Oh, and the magic isn't bad, either.

I don't know the book, but the cover looks awesome. One book I forgot to mention above is the other EATCT book cover: (Yeah, maybe I'm just a sucker for gold lettering.)

Do you mean Hidden Secrets of Magic?

I like the ideas you talk about (even though your taste in book covers isn't my favorite ;)). But I think there are some beautiful book covers in magic, and especially Vanishing Inc. is great at designing them. Examples: The Darkest Corners has a cover that perfectly matches the title, with...

Hi, welcome to the forum! Your question seems very similar to the question "When I start doing sports, should I learn football or basketball first?" The two things are completely different; there are magicians who can't do a simple fancy cut, and there are cardists who wouldn't know where to...

You're confusing apples and oranges here. We're not talking about people who believe in psychic abilities, but about those who choose to rip others off by claiming to have these psychic abilites. For an example you can listen to the podcast linked above; the (for us) relevant story begins at...

It definetly is. If you already have that, strike the Madison recommendation. Jason England's tutorial starts of a little more difficult than the Madison BD is (in my opinion), but you can learn extremely well from it. That also explains why you had difficulty matching it to your grip -- the...

You're right, I should have mentioned his golf swing. Though it's not so bad in his BD Masterclass as in some of his trailers, it isn't a habit you should get into. In his bottom deal video, Jason also starts with an easier bottom deal technique (Erdnase) and later moves on to the more...

That plays an important role as well (religious rights were cited above; people might hesitate to say anything for fear of offending), but it's not what I was aiming for. Email scams are neither legal, nor are they socially accepted, but they still exist. I imagine it would be similar with these...

Disclaimer: I realise I wrote a lot here and it may not always be as easily understandable as I would have liked it to be. Please bear with me, and if you have any question about what the heck I meant, don't hesitate to ask :) May I ask which video you got? I second this. Daniel Madison's...

As your questions seem geared towards the people who scam others with their abilities (the 10%) let's look at those. I don't know what the laws concerning these people are in our respective countries, and in the US alone I'd imagine that some states have different laws than others. But the...

I don't have them, but I've heard good things of Scarne on Card Tricks and the Card College Light series. Maybe someone who, you know, actually owns them can weigh in on this.

Though this seems to be a discussion for linguists and philosophers as much as for magicians, RealityOne, WitchDocIsIn and ChaseC6 have given some good answers worth thinking about. I'm just curious about your premise: "True art doesn't really have secrets." Why not?

I completely understand if you like difficult techniques. For more than a year after starting to practice with cards, I did almost exclusively gambling moves (bottom deal, second deal, false shuffles etc.), without any aim of someday performing (or in any other way using) any of it. Though my...

What a great story :D Though it detracts from the entertainment when they actually do see something, which is why many gambling demos are (nearly) selfworking and have little to do with actual cheating skills.