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    How to research a magic trick?

    First off, read as many of the classics of magic as you can. Tarbell, Erdnase, Royal Road, Expert Card Technique, Sachs' Sleight of Hand, Martin Gardner's Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic, Bobo, The Amateur Magician's Handbook, etc. As well as giving you a good broad overview of what's gone...
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    ACAAN criss angel

    Let's think about the conditions this trick was performed under. The deck is totally out of shot when the cards are being dealt, there are about a million cuts, the deck is only ever handled by the performer, the two participants are pre-selected off camera (and, let's be honest, probably...
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    Need Help With Making Videos Please :)

    I second this. I know professional video editors who basically sell their clients a mix-and-match bunch of Video Copilot processes.
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    Need Help With Making Videos Please :)

    You learn in the same way you're learning magic. Books and videos. In the same way as magic, make sure you're learning from reputable sources as anyone can put a YouTube video online and pretend to be an expert. And, of course, practice. Shoot stuff, cut it together, see what it looks like. Work...
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    Confidence?

    Good call! And if you have trouble seeing yourself as you want to be, for now, you can always imagine someone you would like to emulate (David Blaine, for example) and merge into the image of them, adopting their posture and thus imbuing yourself with the qualities you aspire to in them.
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    Confidence?

    You can take the edge off stage-fright with visualisation exercises. Close your eyes. Get a clear image in your mind of the place where you're going to be approaching people and performing. Pick out as many details as you can so you can make the image in your mind as clear and precise and big...
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    Beginner Please Help!

    I definitely get that, when you're first starting, DVDs seem like the way to go. And why shouldn't they? Reading non-fiction books about something you're not necessarily passionate about can be a very dry pastime indeed. If I was considering taking up, for example, baking, as a hobby, I'd...
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    Street Magic Tips

    Are you talking about street magic in the sense of just approaching people cold, asking them "Do you want to see something cool?" (or similar) and then performing to them? It is possible to get tips in this context, but not from everyone, hence suggestion 1: 1. Choose your target. This is a...
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    Saturday Night Contest - Steve Cohen Roundtable

    1. As a fluent Japanese speaker and former resident of Japan, presumably you've read a lot of Japanese magic books. Are there any seminal texts that we in the English-speaking world are missing out on? 2. You've drawn inspiration from Hofzinser in your work. In your opinion, what are the key...
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    Mechanic-Daniel Madison/Foundations-Jason England

    To me, the distinction is clear. If you want to learn Daniel Madison's techniques then buy Mechanic. If, however, you want to learn techniques drawn from classic sleight-of-hand literature and based on intimate knowledge of gaming then buy Foundations. If you want to learn everything there is to...
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    curly cue

    On Jeff McBride's Art of Card Manipulation Volume 3 DVD or Paul Harris's Art of Astonishment Volume 1.
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    Card in lemon

    Yes it is possible to perform without the card being signed. If you do this, the crucial thing is to give your audience a clue to another possible solution. If you just snap your fingers and it's suddenly in the lemon then the audience will just assume it's a different card, because the snap...
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    Coin in Can and other coin effects?

    If I was going to learn a coin in can routine, I'd certainly go for Sinful, but I think I'd have Breakthrough ready to go in case it felt like a good opportunity to repeat the effect.
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    is this even possible?

    I can't watch the video due to country restrictions, but I'm guessing it's the routine where he guesses the pick-up line for the three models. Am I right? If it's that one, I've just assumed he got the information from pre-show. Seems the simplest explanation to me, and that's certainly how I'd...
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    What this move is called?

    Maybe edit your post and take out the exposure BlindDeception? Anyway, the move was popularised by Jay Sankey as the Twirl Change, but it was originally (according to MagicPedia) published in The Gen in 1964 as "The Pivot Color Change" by Noel Stanton. I don't the original Gen it was in, but...
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    Weekly Magic Failure?

    I was generalising, of course, but I think it's a generalisation that stands up pretty well to scrutiny. I would contend that any form of conscious development (learning a language, having a child, buying a house, learning magic) is designed to fill a vacuum. It solves a problem that we...
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    Weekly Magic Failure?

    We're performers. The need for approval is what drives us or, at least, is what motivated us to take up a performance art in the first place. Of course self-confidence is a problem. But also, sometimes, love for our art is what motivates criticism, whether it's constructive or not. When we see...
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    Penn and Teller Revealing Magic?

    I think what Penn and Teller did with things like their transparent cups and balls, their truck trick and so on, is less exposure than redefining the effect. Take their cups and balls. The classic effect is that balls magically appear, disappear and translocate under cups, maybe with some...
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    Need help with sources

    For classic stage card, coin, and billiard ball manipulation, certainly Jeff McBride's The Art of Card Manipulation and World Class Manipulation DVDs are a must. You might also want to look into Jeff Sheridan's DVDs. For some more modern techniques, there's been a wave of great work out of Asia...
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    Weekly Magic Failure?

    I agree completely. I suppose my attitude is that, if someone's getting enjoyment out of this blog (which presumably they are), and it's not doing any harm (which I don't believe it is), then that's all good, let them have at it!
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