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  1. Mat La Vore

    The world's hardest and longest card cut

    The world's hardest and longest what??
  2. Mat La Vore

    Lit?

    Thirteen. (For both questions.)
  3. Mat La Vore

    Hilarious Deck Spoof

    I understand people enjoy custom decks, or just like collecting them or whatever, and I get it's just not my thing, but personally I've come to hate them all--the melodramatic trailers with soap opera music, the cheesy artwork, the overhyped adamantium paper made from the tears of genies the...
  4. Mat La Vore

    Mnemonic

    I learned the Joyal stack too (in shocked order also), and have gotten a ton of use out of it and loved it ever since. It's a great looking stack, quick to learn, and always easy to recall. Great book for learning a stack.
  5. Mat La Vore

    Dollar to Pen?

    Richard Sander's effect "Cramped" (from his book Close-Up Assassin) is brilliant. Bill vanishes and ends up in the Sharpie cap of the Sharpie they used to sign the bill that's been sitting on the table the whole time.
  6. Mat La Vore

    Stage Hypnotism questions

    I honestly don't even know what that means unless you're just used to discussing things with stupid people and are bothered by those that don't fit into a category you are comfortable with. I don't see how. I did not offer any opinions of my own or claim to be any type of authority. And I still...
  7. Mat La Vore

    Stage Hypnotism questions

    Exactly. I never said anything against either of those books. They are both excellent. First, you are not the author of the material you are referencing. So throwing out book titles and mixing the authors' credibility with your opinions on the subject is not a fair or accurate way to represent...
  8. Mat La Vore

    Stage Hypnotism questions

    All I'm going to say is based on the quality of the responses in this thread I would definitely recommend you post this question in a hypnosis forum instead of here so you can get some actual educated advice. You have not been given qualified advice here. At all. The hypnosis forum on the Magic...
  9. Mat La Vore

    Doing A Trick That Doesn't Fit Your Style

    I appreciate your optimism but must disagree. You're not going to see David Blaine doing the Mindreading Goose any time soon, same as you won't catch Derren Brown performing sponge bunnies. The material you choose does need to be congruent with your character. The material you select to perform...
  10. Mat La Vore

    Hugo

    If you think you're on the same path Steve Jobs was, more power to you. That's quite a comparison you just made between yourself and Steve Jobs though. A higher education is not necessary--depending on what you want to do. There's no way around it if you want to be a lawyer or a veterinarian...
  11. Mat La Vore

    Hugo

    Please look up the word "infer" and the novel "David Copperfield" written by Charles Dickens. Thinking back now to all those posts where young magicians are saying all they do in class is screw around with cardistry... I feel a little sick.
  12. Mat La Vore

    What do you magic supplies do you carry?

    Magic stuff: Deck of cards Exact Change Quantum Bender with Sharpie Stuff that has "magic properties" but that I need to carry anyhow: Lighter: Branded gimmick attached Keys: Ring Flight Revolution Real Man's (Card to) Wallet: Fraud bills, Loops, Lottery Prediction ticket, business cards for...
  13. Mat La Vore

    Getting Mismade Bills?

    While I'm sure it gets a laugh and no one is going to question your reasoning, I'm sure they're getting what you're really saying: "This is a trick I bought and I don't want to give it away." The reasoning is a bit tongue-in-cheek, and in my opinion, inadvertently communicates what is really...
  14. Mat La Vore

    College Majors

    That's great you're so passionate about magic, but do your "future self" a favor and consider tokyoUW's advice. Consider why you really feel "school isn't for you." School isn't for most of the people that graduate either, but they do it because they know how to work hard and get what they want...
  15. Mat La Vore

    Insider or Expose?

    Time to turn off the computer and go outside, man.
  16. Mat La Vore

    Lit and Smoke

    I've performed them together quite a few times. Smoke is a perfect lead-in to Lit. It gets the matchbook in play, it's organic, and it creates interest for spectators in seeing more "performance-style" magic (as opposed to the off-beat organic style of Smoke). Also, Smoke is quick and visual and...
  17. Mat La Vore

    Control 2.0 by Wayne Houchin

    1. Yes Yes. 2. No. Yes. 3. False. Not unless your arms are so short they are considered a deformity. Like T-Rex arms.
  18. Mat La Vore

    Why Do We Sign Things?

    It depends on the effect. Having a spoon signed is nonsensical because there isn't a common suspicion of the method for the spoon bending being attributed to a switch. With certain effects a switch or duplicate is the suspected method. So you want to cancel that. This seems to me a common sense...
  19. Mat La Vore

    Stage opener

    Introduce yourself. Make it entertaining. Do magic.
  20. Mat La Vore

    Surgical Card Thru Window

    You have to consider: the suspected method (the only possible way the effect could be accomplished) vs. the actual method are the same. However, if you first establish some credibility, and you perform it at the right time and the right place, with a good presentation, the effect will accomplish...
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