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jfquackenbush Special user Out here on the desert 607 Posts |
I love the cross cut force. It's a move that works entirely on misdirection and is so simple that it's completely unsuspicious. There's a subtlety on it that David Penn pointed out in I think the Roughed download that I've been using, and I love it. As for the flushtration count, in my opinion it's a convincer, not anything else. It's a subtle way of showing something that appears to already be the case and that no one should notice, but that should make reconstructing something later more magical. It's a delayed impact after the fact illusion, and that makes it very useful in some situations.
Mr. Quackenbush believes that there is no such thing as a good magic trick.
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Ray Chelt Special user Changing the world with my 988 Posts |
Done casually and not as some kind of overt prover the flushtration count is pretty darn good.
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gaffed Inner circle So far I've managed to gimmick 1817 Posts |
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On 2011-09-23 11:44, Merc Man wrote: Just how much straight forward can it get? Also, it might very well have a "gambling" premise, but it loses that aspect quite quickly and becomes nothing more than a very magical moment in the spectator's mind. Stop thinking as a magician, which I'll freely admit that I, and many of us fail to do at times. Bad thing to get into, and much too restrictive when you actually take the time to sit down and analyze it.
"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
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Merc Man Inner circle NUNEATON, Warwickshire 2537 Posts |
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On 2011-09-27 19:55, gaffed wrote: Well, well, well - there's a surprise......'gaffed' disagreeing with (yet another) one of my posts. [Quote] 'How straight forward can it get?' By that very statement, it's clearly evident that you have never worked professionally in some british establishments whereby noise and visibility are your biggest problems - not the spectators. As for [Quote] 'thinking as a magician'. By the very nature of my comments, I thought it would have been clearly evident (to most people) that my concerns about the potential problems with this trick are FROM the spectator's perspective, and with their subsequent entertainment in mind. A magician's perspective would surely look at the effect and the method rather than thinking of it's value in the real world. To quote Ken Brooke: "You will sell a magician's trick to a magician And you will sell a performers trick to a performer BUT you will never sell a performers trick to a magician And You will never sell a magicians trick to a performer"
Barry Allen
Over 14 years have passed - and still missing Abra Magazine arriving every Saturday morning. |
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equivoque Special user 861 Posts |
For those interested, he is a good price on Sanitized:
http://www.penguinmagic.com/p/S12205 |
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Merc Man Inner circle NUNEATON, Warwickshire 2537 Posts |
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On 2011-09-30 14:52, equivoque wrote: Don't you just love some of the advertising blurb/claims that some magic dealers make! [Quote] 'For the first time, a multi-phase mentalism routine that fits in your pocket'. Really? For the 'first time'? I can actually think of quite a number of other multi-phase mentalism routines that fit into your pocket; and even one that fits under your thumb nail. I'd suggest someone at Penguin Magic reads Corinda and Annemann (to name just two sources) before making such an idiotic statement. [Quote] 'Fits in your pocket'. Really? Well you'd need very big pockets - unless, of course, you were going to try and convince people that you were still awaiting an operation on that painful hernia. [Quote] 'Close up, stand up, stage. No problem'! Really? Unless you had a video link/big screen, how the bloody hell would an audience read the label if you were on a cabaret floor, or worse, on a 'stage'?! Maybe you could just get them all to form a queue and come up one at a time to read it. When you read complete and utter dross like this on some dealers websites, it really does put the pitfalls of purchasing magic via the internet into some sort of perspective.
Barry Allen
Over 14 years have passed - and still missing Abra Magazine arriving every Saturday morning. |
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equivoque Special user 861 Posts |
I agree with you on the grandiose claims, but since it was reviewed and I saw that it was on sale...
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Xcath1 Inner circle 3052 Posts |
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Merc Man Inner circle NUNEATON, Warwickshire 2537 Posts |
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On 2011-10-02 14:38, equivoque wrote: I wasn't knocking you in any way, shape or form fella - the legend of this excellent forum is 'magicians helping magicians' - and you were doing just that mate. My post was aimed at Penguin Magic - and any other magic dealer/website who basically talk out of their a*se in order to make a few quid.
Barry Allen
Over 14 years have passed - and still missing Abra Magazine arriving every Saturday morning. |
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rob1973 New user 22 Posts |
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On 2011-10-02 16:04, Xcath1 wrote: Totally agree. I m not really into card magic ( Its the fact I don't like carrying a deck around in jeans pocket) but I bought this a few weeks ago. Its got one of the best reactions I ve ever had and it can be done again and again relatively quickly. Took me quite a while to learn the sequence (as opposed to the moves which are basic) but wow what an effect |
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Acar Elite user 471 Posts |
Sorry Merc and Equivoque, you're absolutely right. That phrasing is pretty silly. Unfortunately it was automatically added to our site by Will Tsai and slipped by our editors. Not to pick on Will, but the written English on his products is not written by a native speaker. I'll edit it out now.
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Kaliix Inner circle Connecticut 1984 Posts |
Man, maybe it's just me, but I am not a really big fan of Stand Up Monte. The same discrepant move over and over and over and over again only to be broken up by another discrepant move. Yeah, I'm a magician, but to have that same exact move repeated over and over again is just asking for trouble and to me anyways there are better 3CM routines. I like the original Color Monte and Sheets take on the Killer Kitson Miracle.
IMHO, your mileage will certainly vary...
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.
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MagicallyMe Veteran user Manhattan Beach, CA 356 Posts |
Stand up Monte looks visually strking so I am going to give it a go. In contrast, Skinner's 3 card monte as performed by Bill Malone has all of the cards out in the open and slowly trnasforming. Somehow that seems to pack a bigger wallop, but I'll see after I get a few performances in.
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