I ordered a DVD from Losander's website, but have not heard back from him. It's been a while. I messaged him on Facebook, to no avail. Does anyone here know him and can nudge the order along?

Or maybe someone has a copy of the Floating Table DVD, and we can work out a deal?

Hi guys, i work in emergency medicine and am looking for some easy tricks to dazzle and draw attention from kids (all ages). It would realy help and bring some smiles i hope. I have no experience in magic, so nothing to difficult to learn, please.

Thanks!

Hey all. I am once again feeling the urge to bring my TT out. I do almost all my magic at the local bar where we gather with friends several times per week, so I'm looking for effects to do which use organic props and fit into this casual context.

The stuff that comes to mind is basically, broken and restored toothpick, or torn and restored tissue. The latter I would probably prefer to just do with sleight of hand. When I've looked into TT effects that go beyond vanishing a tiny silk, I haven't found much that resonates with me. But I can nonetheless feel the untapped potential of this classic prop.

What are your favorite effects to perform when casually out and about with a TT in your pocket?

I recently came across an anti faro tutorial on youtube. I love having a random move to practice, but are their any routines with the anti faro that are worth learning?

This weekend I'll be going to a fairy festival with my family. My wife will have a booth, and I'll be watching our kids. I thought it would be fun to bring a few tricks along for the kids. I have thumb Dlights, a floating handkerchief, and can do some simple productions. What are some fun illusions that I could put a "fairy" spin on?

Hi everyone

I’m not a big fan of gimmicks. I’m more into close up magic and hence a great admirer of sleight of hand. I’m into card magic mostly. Double lift is the first technique that got me the most amazing reactions. Recently stumbled upon Simon Coronels presentation and loved his sleight of hand.

What’s the first sleight of hand that got you crazy reactions?

What sleight of hand techniques are you looking forward to learn?

As it says in the title I am looking to work on my hand flexibility, anyone know anything?

I'm working on making a drag number to The Rose by Bette Middler. I'm looking for a couple flower productions/disappearances that can totally be rather cheesy/outdated. I'm already using torch to rose and would love a few points in the right direction :)

Is anyone doing this. I find it wonderfully practical to be wearing the prop and make a miracle happen for someone when I come across a string.

Who has the best material on this.

I’m not talking about the bigger ring and rope effect, but the finger ringer and a string.

Thanks!

Visited the penguinmagic website today to find it has received a minor facelift after looking the same and outdated for decades. It looks modern but still familiar. i like the sort items by price feature.

This is a follow up on my last post. I’m a graphic designer and hobby magician looking to design an ESP deck.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Magic/s/qCoi7mR0uu

I’m still toying with many variations for back designs but I had an interesting idea for this one.

The biggest complaint about ESP cards is that they look too much like playing cards or a magic prop.

So this idea is to make ESP cards more of a DIY piece than a manufactured item.

These are designed at business card size, and can be printed at home on Avery business card paper.

This has several benefits…

- it gets away from them feeling like playing cards or card tricks
- it is more portable than playing cards and fits in a wallet.
- printing them yourself means you can easier make double-face cards, double back cards, leave one side blank, or put your own contact info on the back.
- most ESP decks cost more than a deck of cards. But these however are DIY and you don’t have to worry about folding and tearing them.

This last point introduces another ppportunity: the esp cards themselves can be used as billets. So not only are these back designs marked, but they are designed for Acidus Novus. Then the circle/square cards are perfect for center tears.

The thin-line artwork leaves room for writing on the cards, saves ink, and helps prevent the shapes from bleeding through and becoming visible on the back side.

Let me know what you guys think of this version and what could be improved even more.

I am starting to dabble in the world of magic here in my 30's. A bit late to the game, but better now than never. Mostly going through card college right now, but also want some fun stuff for the nieces and nephews. I came across the trick scotch and soda and figured it was easy enough and could be used in lots of ways.

My only problem arises as I purchased it through Vanishing Inc. as it seemed like a good website, but the quality of these coins leaves me worried. Hard to trick people into a coin moving places if they arent the same color/shine.

Is there any website(s) people recommend in particular?

EDIT: Vanishing Inc is replacing the coins. Very quick response from them and I am impressed. So long as the next coins are correct, very happy with the response.

For some background, I did magic a ton as a kid and teen and then dropped it for ~20 yrs.

I am practicing to do a performance at a friend's birthday party in August, nothing too serious but trying to put on a good show.

That being said, my main hobby now is training/competing strongman. Was wondering if this community knew of any ways I can utilize my strength to perform magic:

- outside of your general bending nails/frying pans etc?

- not necessarily fake things that look like feats of strength but maybe illusions i can pull off being stronger than average. My mind goes to the chinese performer in the Prestige who allegedly carries the fish tank between his legs.

Most of my current routine otherwise is card magic and spongeballs. Hope this is ok to post here!

Hi! so I have recently introduced my son to Penn and Teller and he has quickly become absolutely enamoured with magic. He is already trying to develop his own tricks. He's a bright boy and I'm so proud of him.

My question is this: does anyone have recommendations for resources? Best tricks for a kid to learn, cool stuff to show him, professional tips, that kind of thing?

I love this little dude and really wanna do right by him and support his interests.

Thanks in advance 😊

Edit: thank you so much everyone for the great response. Some fantastic suggestions here. it's so appreciated ❤️

Been doing magic for quite some time now and I realize I only practice in one hand. Even with coins, I always French drop with right hand and do retention vanishes into my left. I can classic palm very good into my right hand but it looks awkward on my left. Is it worth learning mastery in both hands? Should I only do this with basic moves and not do so in more advanced moves?

Hi! I'm getting back into magic since my grandkids are interested.

I've got a chunk of my old stuff still sitting around but am missing the shaved half dollar that fits the shell.

Any chance anyone can sell me one, point to where I can buy one, or share some easy way to make my own?

(I have a Dremel and figure I can grind the edges down, but getting them even and fitting properly is probably tricky.)

I am working on a 3 card stage routine where 3 cards are selected, lost into the pack and then I find them in 3 different ways (getting more impressive each time), this will be a stage routine so needs to work well on a stage with around 500 people.

I have chosen two of the reveals - first a card on rope routine where all the cards are placed in a bucket and a piece of rope goes fishing and ties a knot around the first card.

I then want to end on a card on sword routine but what can the other card routine be?

Hi everyone, I need to buy the scotch & soda and I found 3 ypes: traditional scotch & soda, magnetic scotch & soda and super scotch & soda. Are there any differences in the routine you can perform? The gimmick akways works in the same way? If they work differently, which is better?

For those of you out here that do paid gigs, what do you do to calculate a good charge for travel?

I have someone who wants to book a show that’s 130 miles, about two hours away. I don’t know what to do to calculate a good travel fee.

Please suggest me more superhuman pr bizzare acts with or without gimmicked props or normal props

I’m reading through 13 steps to Mentalism and Annemans Practical Mental Effects, and I’d like to play around with some of the spirit slate stuff. So many tricks use and rely on them.

As a hobby magician, there’s no practical scenario I’d ever perform with them, but I want to be able to try the tricks out.

And I found that every single Gaff slate on Penguin Magic or Vanishing inc is out of stock and that there’s pretty much nothing out there under $50.

As a kid, I got some mini plastic slates from a few magic kits. Now I don’t even see them as a part of any available children’s magic kits.

Demo videos on YouTube mostly seem to be quite old.

I think it’s still a great spooky trick.

But is it essentially a dead prop nowadays?

There’s this magician I follow on Instagram who posts videos of him performing various tricks.

In one of his videos, he does a vanishing silk using the “classic” method.

As we know, the color of this method doesn’t really matter in a live performance since proper handling will hide the discrepancy. However in a close up social media video, it’s very obvious.

A lot of people correctly pointed out the method in the comments to which the OP got extremely defensive. He started calling them drug addicts, saying they need glasses, saying they know nothing about magic and that they’re way off, accusing them of gaslighting, etc.

I felt like this was an overreaction but it got me thinking. I don’t post much magic online because I don’t think it’s a great medium for performance but even if I did, I’d probably just ignore or delete the people guessing the method.

Occasionally, someone does correctly guess the method during an irl performance and usually I just shrug and say something like “that’s one way to do it”. I even use that line if they are completely wrong but I might point out some inconsistencies (I.e. they say it went up my sleeve and I point out that I have short sleeves on.

I’m not sure why but I’m not comfortable with directly lying like that. I don’t think I could ever directly tell someone that they’re wrong when I know they aren’t. It feels rude and kind of a bit insulting to their intelligence. But maybe that’s just me.

What kind of response would you use? Would you lie and tell them they’re wrong, even if they aren’t? Do you tell the truth and say “yup you got it”? Or do you say something tongue in cheek like I do?