Revolver Vanish decova, 1 January 2016 One of my favorite coin vanishes. It utilizes what Al Schneider calls his ’ snap back technique’. I should mention that I strongly believed I ‘invented’ this technique completely independent from him in 1988, when I was working on my stage manipulation act. At that time, I did it only with jumbo coins. Later I discovered it could also be done with normal sized coins—very clever bloke! http://solidmagic.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/NAM_08_revolver_coin_vanish.mp4 agenda-en
The Trumpy Color Changing Silk 2 January 2017 After the elections in the USA, we have a different situation coming. I don’t want to go into the political debate, that is not my business as a German. But it is nice that this Mr. Trump is in the spotlight and so prominent now, because that opens the doors… Read More
Seven Tools For Critical Thinking 9 January 2017 Some guys wondered about the subtitle of this blog. The expression ’90% of everything is crap’ is the well-known Sturgeon’s Law (or Sturgeon’s Revelation). The reason I use it is because I find Daniel Dennett’s work quite interesting and I think in modern magic it holds true (for 90%). Sturgeon’s Law… Read More
Magic Elvis 1 January 2016 Every time I see this little clip, I just have to laugh out loud. A well done clip and a reminder that in magic we have quite a few of these kind of performers as well … Read More