LIGHTHOUSE [ˈlaɪt.haʊs]
A tall building near the coast or shore with a flashing light at the top to warn ships of rocks and other dangers. (—Cambridge Dictionary)
Useful to navigate through the Tsunami of information overload and not lose orientation.

  • Make Do
    Magic makes us face with challenging conditions. Some of these can only be met with creativity.  Many people believe that ...
  • The Problem of Using Heuristics
    As a magician, you are often faced with the challenge of having to create something new. To achieve this, many ...
  • The Bandwagon Effect
    Magicians, like all humans, suffer from multiple cognitive distortions. Perhaps one of the worst (in terms of preventing originality, diversity ...
  • A Creative Experiment For The New Year
    A creative exercise/challenge at the beginning of the new year. Take five techniques in, let’s say, card technique (or coin technique, ...
  • He’s A Genius
    One thing that is annoying about social media is the fashion for calling people geniuses. No matter what the person ...
  • Javi Benitez
    There is light on the horizon again! Javi Benitez has set up his own studio in Spain and is planning ...
  • A Sad Email
    This email reached me, and it makes me feel sad, angry and hopeless. Another brilliant creator gone, hopefully not forever. ...
  • How to Write A Script
    With this, I am going a little into the technical details of scriptwriting. I will outline the way I do ...
  • Exposure on Social Media
    Yes, it is real; it is there, and it is a shame—or a challenge. Most of these “revealers” are younger men, ...
  • A John Archer Article
    Recently John Archer published a wonderful thing on Facebook which is too good to be forgotten in the Facebook ocean. ...
  • The Journal (3)
    We are now going to set up our journal. Here I use techniques from the classic bullet journal, i.e. an ...
  • The Journal (2)
    The first (and very important) task for using my system is to develop a kind of shorthand. Short symbols save ...
  • The Journal (1)
    The following articles are about how to create a journal (or log book). A few magic friends have asked me, ...
  • Dogma in Magical Literature
    A big problem in magic literature—at least from my point of view—is that the majority of publications are dogmatic in ...
  • A Riddle and Challenge
    I tried an experiment on Facebook. I stated a riddle/challenge: And this is the bag I was talking about: I gave a ...
  • Three Ball Routine
    I value Curtis Kam’s magic and his thinking. My newest aquisition is his take on the infamous three-ball-trick. Take a look ...
  • Dan Fleshman Again!
    This man continues to amaze me. Again, he gave me something truly useful for my work! After presenting his “Red ...
  • Writing Better Ad Copy
    Magic needs better ad copy! But writing ad copy is an art for itself, and insider knowledge of the hints ...
  • Memorable Magic
    Recently, I finished reading that book on how and why ideas stick with people (or not). It was an interesting ...
  • Two Tips For Card Handlers
    In card magic, there are a lot of “unspoken” things, minor details rarely discussed. Often, magicians do not speak about ...
  • A Celebration!
    Sometimes, I thought to myself: “Why did they never ask or book me? Anything wrong with my material? Maybe my ...
  • Solutions Against Bad Habits
    Here the promised suggestions, tips and ideas to conquer the points I wrote up in the 10 Bad Habits article. ...
  • 10 Bad Habits
    Of course, I understand that proper practice requires some energy and willpower. Keeping it up regularly over a longer time ...
  • Lost Knowledge