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Never. A different type of control.

@Arconik you are trying too hard. At age fifteen, you don't have the life experience to be able to say anything profound. Any attempt to be emotional will probably come off as fake and any attempt to be edgy will probably backfire. Make your presentations about things you normally talk about...

I agree with the other David... don't make jokes that insult your audience unless that person will think it was funny. Kayla Drescher's performance is one of the best on Fool Us. She knew that there was no way she could fool P&T with that effect but she performed it not to fool them, but to...

The oil and water effect is credited Ed Marlo. The first publication of Marlo's Oil and Water was in M-U-M in September of 1953. Marlo's three-phase routine was published in The Cardician. Marlo named the routine and used the analogy to the separation of oil and water separation in the...

Rather than thinking about having emotional patter, think of it as trying to have meaningful presentation. Pay attention to how people have conversations. For the most part, conversations are stories about things that happened to people or stories that people saw or read. The news and sports...

Please don't resurrect old threads... let them rest in piece. For your reference, the original poster has not be on the site for 12 years.

Please don't bump old threads.

A bit of interesting history based on some quick research. The earliest reference to the move that I can find (using conjuringarchive.com) is in Professor's Hoffman's Tricks With Cards in 1889. Hoffman referred to it as "To Change a Card." There are some German publications which in 1895-6...

Magic performances should always reflect their audiences sensibilities. You don't do needle swallowing for a children's show. A late night Vegas show can be more risqué than the show for a woman's church retreat. In the past, heightened awareness of sexual abuse of minors has caused many...

I'm all for eliminating language that IS racially insensitive because of the etymology (history) of the word. However, this isn't an example of that type of language. Changing a red card to a black card or a red backed deck to a blue backed deck has nothing to do with race. The term is...

Welcome to the forums and welcome to magic. Get two books - Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic and Scarne on Card Tricks. There are a lot of effects that use a deck of cards, coins and bills in Mark Wilson's book. If you see other effects you want to perform, we can direct you to the...

It was my fellow magician's acting skill that sold it. He made it look completely unplanned ("hang on... my wallet is in the other room") and he reacted the same way you did when the serial number matched. The method, like most methods, is severely less exciting than the effect. My favorite...

For close-up, yes. For parlor or stage, it can make the effect "bigger" if it is written down on a large pad. The use of corners or serial numbers may work better with certain methods.

Invisible deck.

Most people seem to think that being asked to sign a card is a strange request. There are two things that allow this to work. First, the card selected is one in 52. The audience must believe it is a fair choice. The second is that the card disappears from the deck which I don't touch after...

Guy has a ball with three cups.

Get Volume 1. You will find that there are things you aren't doing correctly and it will get you used to Giobbi's style of writing / teaching. A lot of the later volumes refer back to things in the earlier volumes. Doing them the way described in the earlier volumes helps with sleights in...

I'd argue that hecklers are spectators that try to disrupt your performance to draw attention to themselves. If they see magic as a puzzle or a challenge, that is the performer's fault. As @WitchDocIsIn said, impossible is not necessarily magical. Things like a Pin code matter because they...