I've been trying to learn mnemonica off and on for a decade, and at any given time I feel like I have about half to three fourths of the stack memorized (although my recall isn't super quick). This has mainly been done through brute force rote memorization. I just can't seem to get the whole thing down.

I saw Rick Lax sells a system for memorization, but before I buy it, I'm really curious if it just just his personal mnemonic system for visualizing each individual card. If so, I feel like that might do more harm than good for me since my brain will be going in two different directions each time I try to think of a card.

Does that make sense?

Anyway, just looking for a bit more info before I purchase.

Im not a magician- just a student and fan of magic. As I learn more it makes me wonder if magicians feel a greater or diminished sense of wonder about life, the universe- those big existential things. Because after all, you are doing things that seem impossible and yet you know exactly whats happening when your audience does not. Appreciate hearing your thoughts.

Just made one of these anybody have any recommended tricks or resources?

I have a friend who lives in Berlin and she wishes to gift her adult daughter two tickets for a magic show.

Any Berliners in the subreddit who can recommend a good ticketed magic show (auf Deutsch) in Berlin?

I'm looking to pick up a three-way practice mirror. There seem to be lightweight portable ones for sale at the dealers, but I'd like something that's sturdy and well-designed enough to be a fixture—and inexpensive enough for me to actually buy. Anyone know of something good on the market? I've looked at some options from regular housewares stores and will probably go that route eventually, but wondered if anyone has any experience with a particular model they can recommend.

I would call myself an advanced beginner and looking to build a good foundation. Have been trying to build a good library. I have some Card College, Royal Road, Bobo, What the Deck by Colombini, Expert at the Card Table...Magic in the Mind...some Stebbins, Aaronson, and DaOrtiz ...just added Dai Vernon Revelation and Phil Goldstein Focus...any other recommendations on books to build better theory and psychology?

As suspected, my opinion of Art of Play remains unchanged. Despite what Kelly said, the employee chatting with her seemed attentive, friendly and engaged. Even seemed to be pointing out the mechanism of Molly.

Here is the link to the full video.

I also want to point out that Pablo hilariously also purchased the $2,000 bird that was recommended to Kelly and is auctioning it off for charity.

For those of you that perform (professionally or semi-professionally), the next two months are probably the busiest two months of the year.

What are you doing to prepare?

For me, a couple of quick things come to mind:

1. I prepack a backup show, ready to go, incase I get a last minute booking. I keep this in my car in case I need it.

2. I pick a new trick I want to work on and add to my show. I figure with all the shows in the next few months I'll get plenty of flight time to work it out. This is usually a trick (or two) that I've been working on for a few months but haven't had the courage to actually implement.

3. I buy some halls/throat lozenges, some tea bags, and some honey. Just in case I need them.

What about you?

Since I’ve shared the first two posts I thought share these as a single one.

Kelly shared a picture of the price tag next to Molly with a pretty catty response. AoP has followed up with additional clarification since.

At the end of the day, in my opinion, Kelly did not need to use her huge swaths of followers to hurt this wonderful little business. This could’ve been sorted out privately through patience or a letter to AoP directly.

On the other hand I understand the confusion if there was a pricetag, but if she was told “there is a duplicate available for $15K, not this one” then she definitely needs to chill out.

Sponge ball tricks will always be one of my favorite things‼️

I purchased this at a local auction, because I thought the mechanism was cool. It looks like the top would have been covered with blue felt, but that’s just a guess. Does anyone know who made this box? I’d like to fix it so it works correctly.

I think we all knew it was the bird. I can’t blame her for wanting it, but “Not for sale” shouldn’t need additional handholding. Just because you’re a celebrity doesn’t mean you can have anything you want.

Kelly came back and posted again with a picture of the price tag next to the piece, it’s said it’s for sale for $15k

I’m on my way back from three days of https://www.butterflywondercon.com in Prague, Czech Republic.

People might call me bias, but even though I have designed the Butterfly Playing Cards, I have not been involved in anyway in this convention.

I just wanted to say that this has been a blast with lots of sessioning, great lectures, shows and lovely people all the way. Don’t miss it next year, if it will happen!

Shame to see this, I hope AoP can prove they are better than this.

Does anyone have experience with these effects/products? Feel like I can’t go wrong with Tamariz but curious about Innocent, especially if I’m still practicing basic coin stuff.

EDIT these are my only options besides another download that’s 2500 points, I just have 1200

inspired by Daniel Garcia, sorry for the quality was filming without a tripod at that time, also bonus effect im workin on at the end.

Do you justify bringing it in if you don't use it in the rest of your act?

I posted here the other day because I was having a problem with Sleight School. I thought they sold me a video and didn't give me access to it. Turns out I just didn't know where to look for it. Magic Dave reached out to me right away to help me out and the video was right where he said it would be in my dashboard.

Thanks to everyone here for helping me out and especially David Williamson. The video is great too.

It was a small university show, mostly attended by friends, acquaintances and familar faces.

I joked around a lot and got some laughs which were great.

I started doing the whole cross your hands try to give a thumbs up thing, which got people hooked pretty well.

I did a card trick dunno if it has a proper name, but i did mess up at the beginning and ended up just starting over.

I did another card trick and i was able to get the audience back a good deal with that one, they liked it.

I then did a mind reading word in the book sort of thing. Which i'd set up at the start of the show. People definitely loved that one the most.

I'm so giddy, hearing the audience be like "no f-cking way" and "literal chills" made me laugh a lot.