A different side of magic

Making fun of YouTube magicians.

Making fun of YouTube magicians.

Feb 12, 2012

While I wouldn’t say the person performing bad magic tricks is “stupid” per say, I think they really feel that anything they do because its sleight of hand will never get noticed by the laymen.  How wrong they are. Case in example. The masked magician. You would think he is some kind of amazing magician that has gone “rogue” to destroy the very...

Using outs with risky magic

Using outs with risky magic

Feb 4, 2012

So, last night at a bar I started doing magic for friends of friends.  As we all do when we have too much to drink, but something interesting happened in the set. I started doing more mind reading and risky magic.  If you guys haven’t seen my lecture on TMC, you should check it out.  I always end up doing this mind reading effect that is super easy but...

It’s too hard! I don’t wanna do it!

It’s too hard! I don’t wanna do it!

Jan 27, 2012

There is a perception that hard sleights are just hard for no reason. You always hear from magicians, “That’s too hard. I’ll just do a double undercut.” or “That’s too hard, I am not a man so therefore I will do only girl stuff.” Okay, maybe not the first quote. While this kind of thinking is wrong in many ways, I do understand where they are...