How I picture Triumph to look

Perfect Trumph

This is based off an idea of Tony Chang's, and is my baby. I just want to know if it actually looks good, or am I just building this up?

For lack of a handy dandy notebook

three cards selected, collected by queens, vanish and reappear in pack. Queens then collect again, but then they vanish and reappear in the pack. Selections are found in pocket of magician. another card is selected, magician finds it's mates and then loses them, they jump to four pockets. He then places the four queens in his four pockets, and makes the fives change into them one by one. 3 fives are found in the pockets, the queen packet morphing into the final five, with the queens jumping to the four pockets for a finale.

Visiting Travellers.

Idea for color changing deck

Based on Apt pupil.. spectator selects  blue card which will be the little boy, and the magician pulls out a red king  which is the fucked up nazi doctor. Turns the little boy cray by turning him red backed, which then prompts him to shoot the highway, bloodying the rest of the blue backed deck. Just a thought.

Why is it

That everyone does Aaron Fisher's Popover Move better than Aaron Fisher?

A move I can't stand!

Is the mechanical reverse. Unless you and the spectator's are standing, the deck has to be tilted at almost an extreme angle to cover it properly, and for that reason I really can't stand the move itself. I also don't really care for the half pass either, gravity or no gravity. It's just not a move that lends itself to good angles. they are both beautiful moves when done well, but neither are very natural to me. Just a thought, really.

pass work

The Riffle Pass

Why is it that there is next to no one who perform a decent riffle pass? There are a few things that I have read and seen that will help this pass tremendously.

The first tip is that there should NEVER be a "get-ready" of the riffle pass. I have seen so many people that go to perform this, and they do three things:

1. They station their hands. It's almost as if your are shouting I AM DOING SOMETHING NOW. WATCH ME DO SOMETHING COOL.

2. They riffle the cards a few times. This preemptive action is not necessary, and just adds tension to the sleight. It adds to the "LOOK SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE."

3. They pass. This is the only decent part I see of the move. And even then, it can be butchered.

If you are going to to the pass, the hands should only be together for the INSTANT the pass happens. The hands should then be apart.

If you are having trouble with the "flashing" of the top packet, you should do two things:

Use less cards for the upper packet.

Use more downward pressure in the left hands fingers. The opening and closing motion of the fingers should be instantaneous, and almost forcefully strong.

If you are going to square the cards, please have a reason for doing so. I don't care if it's from picking the cards up, just have a reason for squaring them. Don't square a squared deck. It's just another one of those things that screams "FUNNY SHIT HAPPENS NOW."

If you are going to do the pass as a color change, I wouldn't do it a thousand times. This should seem obvious, but you know.

Above all, no matter how invisible your riffle pass is, this is one of the worst passes your can do to direct attention away from your hands. That riffle will direct attention to your hands no matter what you do, so the riffle should be done AFTER you pass, not at any point right before.

It's a beautiful sleight when done well, so please, make it that way.

When I see just about any forum post

The real DM story

So, I was dicking about with my friends one night, playing a game of cards for small change, you know, nickels, dimes. And we had a rather large pot on the table. I'm talking 50, 60 cents. So, I decided, "Hey, why not try and take the SECOND card instead of the top card. Who knows?" And I did it. Nothing happened. I won.

Why do most magician's come of as condescending little pricks?

Honest question. I mean, do we think we are better than anyone else simply because we can fiddle with arbitrary objects in ways that we deem interesting? What the fuck, most of these people don't even perform magic, they just jack each other off while they practice their shitty pass.

Tony Chang, Steve Freeman, and Lennart Green

Are my heroes in magic. Well, maybe not Steve Freeman.


Oh fuck it, Dai can come too. But not Marlo. He reminds me too much of season 1 of the Walking Dead.


Fine, Marlo can come, too.

Has Dai Vernon ever created a Sandwich routine?

And do you know why? What the fuck kind of spectator would actually see a sandwich routine and think: "What a fucking Wizard."


On a much darker note, I do three sandwich routines, all of which while crying myself to sleep in front of my camcorder.

What is this green monster everyone speaks of?

I always thought Lennart was pretty good. Too bad Marlo and Lorayne collectively published all of his material independently from the dates of February 3rd, 1952, to February 3rd, 1952. What can I say? They work fast.

I figured out what a Troll looks like IRL

The irony is that there is no irony.

The Worst Part about Revelations

Was Gary Ouellet.


But the saddest part is that people still use Ammar's patter.