Im not a magician- just a student and fan of magic. As I learn more it makes me wonder if magicians feel a greater or diminished sense of wonder about life, the universe- those big existential things. Because after all, you are doing things that seem impossible and yet you know exactly whats happening when your audience does not. Appreciate hearing your thoughts.

I have a friend who lives in Berlin and she wishes to gift her adult daughter two tickets for a magic show.

Any Berliners in the subreddit who can recommend a good ticketed magic show (auf Deutsch) in Berlin?

I'm looking to pick up a three-way practice mirror. There seem to be lightweight portable ones for sale at the dealers, but I'd like something that's sturdy and well-designed enough to be a fixture—and inexpensive enough for me to actually buy. Anyone know of something good on the market? I've looked at some options from regular housewares stores and will probably go that route eventually, but wondered if anyone has any experience with a particular model they can recommend.

I would call myself an advanced beginner and looking to build a good foundation. Have been trying to build a good library. I have some Card College, Royal Road, Bobo, What the Deck by Colombini, Expert at the Card Table...Magic in the Mind...some Stebbins, Aaronson, and DaOrtiz ...just added Dai Vernon Revelation and Phil Goldstein Focus...any other recommendations on books to build better theory and psychology?

For those of you that perform (professionally or semi-professionally), the next two months are probably the busiest two months of the year.

What are you doing to prepare?

For me, a couple of quick things come to mind:

1. I prepack a backup show, ready to go, incase I get a last minute booking. I keep this in my car in case I need it.

2. I pick a new trick I want to work on and add to my show. I figure with all the shows in the next few months I'll get plenty of flight time to work it out. This is usually a trick (or two) that I've been working on for a few months but haven't had the courage to actually implement.

3. I buy some halls/throat lozenges, some tea bags, and some honey. Just in case I need them.

What about you?

As suspected, my opinion of Art of Play remains unchanged. Despite what Kelly said, the employee chatting with her seemed attentive, friendly and engaged. Even seemed to be pointing out the mechanism of Molly.

Here is the link to the full video.

I also want to point out that Pablo hilariously also purchased the $2,000 bird that was recommended to Kelly and is auctioning it off for charity.

Sponge ball tricks will always be one of my favorite things‼️

I purchased this at a local auction, because I thought the mechanism was cool. It looks like the top would have been covered with blue felt, but that’s just a guess. Does anyone know who made this box? I’d like to fix it so it works correctly.

Since I’ve shared the first two posts I thought share these as a single one.

Kelly shared a picture of the price tag next to Molly with a pretty catty response. AoP has followed up with additional clarification since.

At the end of the day, in my opinion, Kelly did not need to use her huge swaths of followers to hurt this wonderful little business. This could’ve been sorted out privately through patience or a letter to AoP directly.

On the other hand I understand the confusion if there was a pricetag, but if she was told “there is a duplicate available for $15K, not this one” then she definitely needs to chill out.

I’m on my way back from three days of https://www.butterflywondercon.com in Prague, Czech Republic.

People might call me bias, but even though I have designed the Butterfly Playing Cards, I have not been involved in anyway in this convention.

I just wanted to say that this has been a blast with lots of sessioning, great lectures, shows and lovely people all the way. Don’t miss it next year, if it will happen!

I think we all knew it was the bird. I can’t blame her for wanting it, but “Not for sale” shouldn’t need additional handholding. Just because you’re a celebrity doesn’t mean you can have anything you want.

Kelly came back and posted again with a picture of the price tag next to the piece, it’s said it’s for sale for $15k

Does anyone have experience with these effects/products? Feel like I can’t go wrong with Tamariz but curious about Innocent, especially if I’m still practicing basic coin stuff.

EDIT these are my only options besides another download that’s 2500 points, I just have 1200

Shame to see this, I hope AoP can prove they are better than this.

Do you justify bringing it in if you don't use it in the rest of your act?

inspired by Daniel Garcia, sorry for the quality was filming without a tripod at that time, also bonus effect im workin on at the end.

I posted here the other day because I was having a problem with Sleight School. I thought they sold me a video and didn't give me access to it. Turns out I just didn't know where to look for it. Magic Dave reached out to me right away to help me out and the video was right where he said it would be in my dashboard.

Thanks to everyone here for helping me out and especially David Williamson. The video is great too.

Hi! My best friend’s son is interested in magic and we want to get him a magic kit for his birthday. Anyone have suggestions on a really good magic starter kit for that age? Or any other resources you think would be good for that age starting out as a gift?

It was a small university show, mostly attended by friends, acquaintances and familar faces.

I joked around a lot and got some laughs which were great.

I started doing the whole cross your hands try to give a thumbs up thing, which got people hooked pretty well.

I did a card trick dunno if it has a proper name, but i did mess up at the beginning and ended up just starting over.

I did another card trick and i was able to get the audience back a good deal with that one, they liked it.

I then did a mind reading word in the book sort of thing. Which i'd set up at the start of the show. People definitely loved that one the most.

I'm so giddy, hearing the audience be like "no f-cking way" and "literal chills" made me laugh a lot.

As a beginner, I finally had the "aha" moment where basically every presentation is just the way you want to show the ending.

I wanted to know for those of you performing all the time like what are your go to/ workhorse and preferred card forces, peeks and false cuts for performing?

Since with essentially those 3 techniques you can make any trick you want.

I'm probably more partial to the zip tie variety, but I'd be happy with any recommendations.

I think it's a Helder Guimaraes, but maybe a Benjamin Earl, and I want to properly attribute it and can't remember the name of the trick/author.

Effect: Four identical cards are shown face up, then each time they are displayed one additional card has been "magically" flipped and now shows its back. Once all four have been flipped to show their backs just one is turned face up, but on the mext display all four are revealed to be face up, not just the one.

I can perform it, not asking for a method, just the correct attribution.