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Matt Pulsar

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Posted: Mar 2, 2020 05:02 am
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Nice, that's a great idea of how to present it for television.
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kleqy

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Posted: Jan 20, 2021 09:30 am
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Quote: On Feb 29, 2020, David Thiel wrote:
I have to say that it was one of two experiences. The first could have been presented as a mentalism effect but wasn't. It was around the early 1980's and I didn't even think about magic or mentalism in those days. They didn't mean anything more to me than origami or (shudder) juggling.
I was at a street performer festival and this ragged man in a cheesy costume did the Invisi*le Deck. He did it badly -- but I remember standing in the audience with my mouth open. HOW DID HE DO THAT??? I went back every day to watch him. (I wasn't stalking him...I was INVESTIGATING...ok?) I watched my pet theories get shot down one at a time. He didn't have 52 decks of cards. The volunteers weren't plants...etc. I was utterly baffled.
In the olden days there was no internet. So I wound up at a magic shop -- a middle aged man who ran a special events company -- asking the owner to sell me that trick. He refused because he said I wasn't worthy of that effect. He was right. And THAT encounter led to a relationship as close as possible to a magic mentor. I still perform the ID today. You could say that seeing that effect changed my life because it did.
The other effect left me quite literally gobsmacked. Richard Osterlind had invited me to attend his workshop in Vegas after one MindVention. So I went and he chose me as the volunteer for a CMR demonstration. First I hid an object. In a pocket. In a guy's jacket. In the middle of the room. Since I was the volunteer I KNOW I wasn't helping him and I wasn't a plant. But he took my hand in his and went RIGHT to that guy. That pocket. That object.
I was obsessed with that effect for months. I nagged Richard into doing a book about it. I worked on it for a long time and finally put it into my show.
But I still fondly remember the utter wonder the first time I saw it.
David
Where can I find this please?
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User101

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Posted: Jan 20, 2021 04:31 pm
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Quote: On Jan 20, 2021, kleqy wrote:
Quote: On Feb 29, 2020, David Thiel wrote:
I have to say that it was one of two experiences. The first could have been presented as a mentalism effect but wasn't. It was around the early 1980's and I didn't even think about magic or mentalism in those days. They didn't mean anything more to me than origami or (shudder) juggling.
I was at a street performer festival and this ragged man in a cheesy costume did the Invisi*le Deck. He did it badly -- but I remember standing in the audience with my mouth open. HOW DID HE DO THAT??? I went back every day to watch him. (I wasn't stalking him...I was INVESTIGATING...ok?) I watched my pet theories get shot down one at a time. He didn't have 52 decks of cards. The volunteers weren't plants...etc. I was utterly baffled.
In the olden days there was no internet. So I wound up at a magic shop -- a middle aged man who ran a special events company -- asking the owner to sell me that trick. He refused because he said I wasn't worthy of that effect. He was right. And THAT encounter led to a relationship as close as possible to a magic mentor. I still perform the ID today. You could say that seeing that effect changed my life because it did.
The other effect left me quite literally gobsmacked. Richard Osterlind had invited me to attend his workshop in Vegas after one MindVention. So I went and he chose me as the volunteer for a CMR demonstration. First I hid an object. In a pocket. In a guy's jacket. In the middle of the room. Since I was the volunteer I KNOW I wasn't helping him and I wasn't a plant. But he took my hand in his and went RIGHT to that guy. That pocket. That object.
I was obsessed with that effect for months. I nagged Richard into doing a book about it. I worked on it for a long time and finally put it into my show.
But I still fondly remember the utter wonder the first time I saw it.
David
Where can I find this please?
THis? https://osterlindmysteries.com/store/ind......ts_id=95
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weirdwizardx

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Posted: Jan 25, 2021 04:03 pm
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I don't think that this qualifies as "mentalism", but more as "comedy mentalism"?
Anyway, the first Fool Us act from Jandro is one of the greatest predictions I have ever seen.
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The great Gumbini

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Posted: Jan 31, 2021 10:29 pm
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The Revelation by Dean Dill absolutely fantastic never fails to get a huge reaction absolutely fantastic.
Good magic to all,
Eric
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funsway

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old things in new ways - new things in old ways
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Posted: Feb 1, 2021 05:50 am
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Just asking, not challenging ...
is "huge reaction" the measure of "best mentalism effect?" (or any performance?)
Is the immediate response of any kind the best measure? But, for an entertainer, what else?
I was once told the only person that had to be impressed was the booking agent.
Me, I like the response I got 40 years after the performance.
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Kassim

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Posted: Feb 22, 2021 01:36 am
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Berglas effect lol
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Tony Razzano

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South River, NJ
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Posted: Feb 25, 2021 07:27 pm
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Psi-Grafico7
Best regards,
<BR>Tony Razzano, Past President, PEA
Winner of the PEA"s Bascom Jones and Bob Haines Awards
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