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"If You Aren’t Remembered After Your Show, You Don’t Deserve To Have One" implies much more different things to what you're saying, Will. This is where the confusion started. If it was made clear originally that the concept was applicable only for professional magicians who rely on the success...

My signature contains one of my favourite quotes from one of my favourite magicians.

This topic is about your blog post. In your blog post you said: then in this thread you said: This implies that you don't mind wasting a whole 15 minutes or half an hour, despite the fact that in your blog, you adamantly state that the performance not being memorable equates to being bad...

It depends on what you're doing magic for. If one is doing magic to be remembered, as a performer in the Castle might be, then one should strive to be memorable, so that when people think of the Castle, they remember the magician in question, and remember how much fun they had. If, however...

Organic doesn't necessarily mean better. It's all what you get your spectators to perceive. That being said, it's very hard to appear spontaneous with playing cards, if that's what you're aiming for. Not many people carry playing cards around on them. Everyone carries coins around on them.

It's really fun hearing history like that. Crazy stuff. Looking forward to your appearance at EMC this year, JB.

Guy Hollingworth's Triumph (Drawing Room Deceptions) involves an in the hands riffle shuffle of face up and face down cards in which you can cascade them together. Kostya Kimlat's Triumph (Roadrunner Cull) involves having the spectator themselves mix the cards face up and face down.

I agree with your blog post, and found it easy to follow. You're apparently making more sense than you think you are. Though, it looks like you should make an entry on your views of "perfection", because people seem to enjoy that as well. I know I do. I personally think you're just using the...

then probably ~90% of people who claim to be magicians would have to find another medium in which to express their magic.

Strauss uses magic as a DHV, a Demonstration of Higher Value. He's uses it as a method to create a higher impression of himself in people's minds. That, along with a whole heap of other things; he doesn't soley use magic.

I'm sure there's some magicians who do have a logical, justifiable reason to use the other two cards to find a selection, but I don't. The sandwich effects that I like are not necessarily about the sandwich. Aaron Fisher's "Search and Destroy" is about the "images" it creates, John Bannon's...

The Stuart Gordon double is always one I love to do. Also lately, the Dai Vernon multiple top palm.

The "plot"? I don't think it's about difficulty or impossibility in the first place. I just think that not enough sandwich effects have a logical premise. "Please, take a card. Thank you, we'll now lose your card into the middle of the deck. And now (for apparently no reason whatsoever), I'm...

Why not just do a cards across if you want to use regular sized playing cards on stage? Similar-ish idea.

Just carrying around decks of cards in general is extremely weird. I've never met any layman who decides to bring a deck of cards with them when going out for the day.

I second erdnase.

Less is more, true, but the script is still an extremely vital part to close up magic. What kind of magic do you do? For what audience sizes? What venues do you perform in, and how long do your sets go for? Unless we have some idea about these parameters and variables, we can only give...

How large is your repetoire for magic? Surely after 2 years you'd have learnt enough sleights for all your routines? Unless you're a move monkey, albeit a move monkey that hates practicing?

Any card magician, regardless of knowing a stack or not, should learn estimation/count work/culling/eye counting.

If you're talking about the one that appears around the 10 second mark in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgfZYX5J_Bc , then that would be Frank Garcia's "Spinning Double". Found in "million dollar card secrets", according to Denis Behr...