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Somebody hands you two normal playing cards and asks you to perform some magic.
What do you perform? Personally, I'd probably tear out the centers of both cards and dive into a "linking cards" routine I've been practicing. |
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VcosNJ Inner circle 1179 Posts
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Do card warp? Some kind of torn and restored trick? Use it as dupes for your card deck.
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JSBLOOM Inner circle 2024 Posts
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3 card monte with one invisible card.
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On 2010-02-04 09:54, JSBLOOM wrote: That's an AWESOME idea! DEFINITELY try the DL using that invisible card-works like a charm : - ) I'm extremely surprised that more people haven't responded. I originally posted this question with hopes of learning some 2 card effects that I've possibly overlooked. I also thought that it would open up some "creativity" ideas which would let some of the Café members kick some ideas around. Since very few people have responded I will say that I THOROUGHLY enjoy performing "linking cards" with 2 playing cards. I start off using Harry Lorayne's Linking Cards (the easy one) and then I perform a little something that I created. Doesn't Paul Harris have an effect (possibly in AoA) that only uses 2 playing cards? All the Best, Andrew |
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Paul Inner circle A good lecturer at your service! 4409 Posts
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Could the lack of response be because no-one has walked up to most magicians, handed them two cards and said, "Show me something with those?"
If they ever did they might just as likely add, "But don't damage them....." 
But one not mentioned yet that comes to mind is an old Garton Bloom effect where two cards are balanced together, then one stands up on its own. It appeared in a few places but one source is John Mendoza's "The Mendoza Poerfolio No. 1" Paul. |
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Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts
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I like the effect with one card that stands up and you balance a shot glass of whiskey on top of it. Of course you have to do a card switch to make it impromptu with a borrowed card, and perform it backside out (hoping they give you a card that matches the back).Details, details!
Professor Spellbinder
Professor Emeritus at the Turkey Buzzard Academy of Magik, Witchcraft and Wizardry http://www.magicnook.com Publisher of The Wizards' Journals |
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AsL Special user 680 Posts
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On 2010-02-04 17:29, Paul wrote: Quite possibly. Maybe I should've changed "do" to "would" in my original post. As a magician, I enjoy challenges and thinking outside the box when it comes to magic. Boredom can easily consume me if I don't think in this manner. In many cases, I'd also be willing to bet that the lack of responses would coincide with a lack of creativity. A growing trend in the younger magic community seems to have a "if it's not marketed-it's not thought about" mindset (this isn't ALWAYS the case but it's something I've noticed over the years-im still quite young myself). I appreciate your response though. The effect you mention is something that I'm not familiar with. Something else worth thinking about is this. How many people don't use the 2 advertisement cards and the 2 jokers when they open a new pack of playing cards? That's when I usually perform my linking cards routine. I almost never use the jokers (or the advertisement cards) so I don't mind ruining both of them. Not only do I get the opportunity to perform but I also get to save the new deck order for an effect that would be performed later (for different spectators). Any more thoughts? |
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msmaster Special user 522 Posts
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If a switch is possible, two card monte with a gaffed card.
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Harry Lorayne 1926 - 2023 New York City 8558 Posts
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If you're handed only one card - somewhere (APOCALYPSE, I believe) I wrote up a Karrell Fox idea - balancing a card on short edge on the back of your hand. Then you can use the same card for my linking-card routine. Can also be done with most business cards. Interesting idea. HL.
[email]harrylorayne@earthlink.net[/email]
http://www.harrylorayne.com http://www.harryloraynemagic.com |
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magicfish Inner circle 7016 Posts
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On 2010-02-05 10:01, magicianguy4life wrote: You must be one of those "younger generation" guys you speak of in your post if you are unfamiliar with the Immaculate Connection and that it is not "from" AoA. I don't mean this to be offensive. I just found it amusing. Respectfully, Magicfish |
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Zebaztian Special user The Netherlands 655 Posts
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Say: 'Magically I can transform these cards into a beer.' Fan the 2 cards, let the spec draw 1. Look at the one you have and read his mind. 'I feel that you have the ... [fill in the name of the card]. Am I right? You buy me a beer now.'
My mind reading routines: http://www.basjongenelen.nl/goocheltrucs/. Scroll a bit down to the English routines.
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On 2010-02-06 17:13, magicfish wrote: I'm actually one of the "semi-younger" generation guys who prefers to invent my own material and THEN research other performers variations on an effect. I actually own the complete AoA set and I've yet looked through any of it. My own material interests me much more. Are you one of the older generation guys who feels as if the younger generation should be familiar with ALL major marketed effects? Just curious... |
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MagicbyCarlo Inner circle has squandered his time making 1062 Posts
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Hand one back and do the Hummer Card...
I'd scale the cards of into the distance and tell them to "go check it out, they've changed!" Then I'd disappear.
Carlo DeBlasio
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magicfish Inner circle 7016 Posts
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On 2010-02-11 01:08, magicianguy4life wrote: I'm one of those guys who knows the perils of being more interested in your own stuff than the stuff of the giants on whose shoulders we stand. If you like card magic, you just might wanna at least thumb through a Paul Harris book, right? I mean what harm could it do? He only spent his life destroying lay audiences with close up magic. Heck he might even be able to teach us something! Sarcastically, fish |
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Ross W Inner circle UK 1779 Posts
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On 2010-02-04 18:38, Spellbinder wrote: thus providing perfect misdirection for the card switch... |
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AsL Special user 680 Posts
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On 2010-02-22 23:45, magicfish wrote: I suppose you're right : - P I don't respect the great magicians of our time at all. Never have, never will. When I was ten years old I just woke up to a room FULL of magic memorabile. Santa must've dropped everything down the wrong chimney or something and then sent all of his little elves to display the books, posters, and other miscellanous magician related items around my house. I wonder if Santa has anything to do with me accidentally reading all of the "magician" autobiographies that I constantly read? Heck, I keep getting lost every year also and it just so happens that when I figure out where I'm at, I have a deck of cards in hand sessioning and learning from these greats who've helped build some of the foundation of card magic today. Man, so many coincidences. I better tell Santa he must have the wrong address every year. I'll buy a GPS also so I can stop getting lost.... Sarcastically, Andrew |
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magicfish Inner circle 7016 Posts
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You said yourself , "my own material interests me much more"- which is fine, to each his own. Its just not my approach to sleight of hand magic and not one that I would condone to a newcomer or a student. But hey , life would be boring if we were all the same, right?
Fraternally, Rodney |
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Vlad_77 Inner circle The Netherlands 5829 Posts
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Andrew,
Nothing wrong certainly with being into your "own stuff." Slydini (my hero) was self-taught as were The Beatles in music. Many magicians (and musicians are). But, what of this scenario: you spend TONS of time "inventing" only to find out that Harry Lorayne or Ben Harris or Scott Guinn already did it, and maybe even better? Could be that YOUR approach is better. But, I still believe that having a firm grounding in theory is very important. Have you studied not only the HOW of your own effects, but WHY they work? You should at LEAST study THEORY in addition to inventing effects. Read Ramsay, Vernon, Slydini, Ortiz, Carney, Close, etc., etc. If you are ALSO a performer, as you invent, you should study stagecraft as well. Poor blocking runs rampant in the magic community as it is. Knowing the difference between pointing and a proscenium can be rather helpful Actually, even if you are NOT a performer, it STILL is essential to understand stagecraft at least from the technical side of things. Jim Steinmeyer doesn't just knock together breathtaking illusions without knowing something (actually a LOT) about staging.
Anyhow - and I am NOT being sarcastic here - I wish you the best! Who knows but your effects may just take us all to a new level. Ahimsa, Vlad |
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courtmagician New user Rhode Island 19 Posts
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What Vlad said - couldn't have said it better myself, so won't even try
I also think that's essentially what magicfish was trying to say/ask. ~CM |
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Scott F. Guinn Inner circle "Great Scott!" aka "Palms of Putty" & "Poof Daddy G" 6586 Posts
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Effects I might do with two cards (or less)
Card Warp T&R Linking cards A transposition Any prediction effect--use the card to write on With an ITR, balancing one on the other's edge, maybe a Hummer Card (although I would rarely do that since it has been so overexposed) Produce a few coins from between them and do a matrix routine Jerry Andrus' Miser's Miracle etc...
"Love God, laugh more, spend more time with the ones you love, play with children, do good to those in need, and eat more ice cream. There is more to life than magic tricks." - Scott F. Guinn
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