Everything revolves around my upcom­ing MZvD lec­ture tour, where I’ll be present­ing my new lec­ture “60/​60 – Best of ARCANE CRUMBS.” Right now, the phones are ringing non-stop, and there’s a lot of nego­ti­at­ing over dates. A list of tour stops will fol­low as soon as possible!

From the Blog

Dive into my pub­lished articles.

• Con­férences en Espagne
  Les pré­par­at­ifs et voy­ages pour la tournée de con­férences en Espagne ont occupé tout mon temps libre, de sorte que le blog a été en quelque sorte nég­ligé. Mal­gré tout — en ce moment je suis en tournée en Espagne, je montre ici …
• The Gui­tar
  Our magic industry is gov­erned by the magic deal­ers. Ima­gine a (magic) world without our deal­ers. It would be drear­ily and bor­ing. Only half the fun. But also, with the deal­ers came the trade-spe­­cific copy. They developed it almost into an art form …
• The Insideout Fur
  Being bom­barded by new things and the mar­ket­ing strategies of the internet(eers) more and more, a ques­tion arrises. Speak­ing about magic, of course. Per­fectly made video clips, all in a cer­tain level of pro­duc­tion is the stand­ard these days. We all got used …
• La Piel del Revés
  Siendo cada vez más y más bom­bardeado por las nuevas cosas y las estrategias de mar­ket­ing de inter­net (y los inter­nautas) me surge una pre­gunta. Hab­lando acerca de magia, por supuesto. Los video clips per­fecta­mente real­iz­a­dos, todo a un cierto nivel de pro­duc­ción es …
• Crack­ing Magic (7) — Selec­tions
  This and the fol­low­ing art­icles should be of some help in mak­ing proper selec­tions. Of course, it must be under­stood that the tricks and books I will sug­gest are purely my per­sonal opin­ion and your taste may vary. Don’t for­get, this …
• Crack­ing magic (6) — Bull­shit List
  After hav­ing pre­pared everything from the hard­ware side, it is time to tackle the mater­ial itself. The first thing in my opin­ion is to be able to prop­erly select mater­ial, or some­times to de-select mater­ial. There­fore, I changed the former article …
• Crack­ing Magic (5) — Tools
  The hard­ware is being expan­ded by some very import­ant tools … Hav­ing men­tioned in the last art­icle already that the com­puter is not my most import­ant tool for the archive, here is one of the most import­ant tools (besides the brain, of course): …
• Crack­ing Magic (4) — Tools
  Now that we have the little note­book or whatever ready for use, it is time to get some struc­ture onto it. Here is the sys­tem I have been using for years and it proved to func­tion per­fectly. The whole thing is to …
• Sem­in­are sind Pop­corn für die Seele!
  Gedanken von Robert Stacher Sem­in­are, Work­shops, Super Prac­tice Ses­sions – sie sind das Zauber­salz in unserer Suppe. Wo sonst würden wir alte Bekan­nte und Fre­unde tref­fen und über unser eigenes Rep­er­toire plaud­ern können? Wofür würden wir sonst unser Geld aus­geben, wenn nicht …
• Crack­ing Magic (3) — Tools
  Now we are going to dis­cuss a couple of tools that are use­ful in build­ing our archive. These are not many and may dif­fer from what you have been using already. Again, very few and simple cat­egor­ies: com­puter note tak­ing stor­age Com­puter In …
• Crack­ing Magic (2) — Struc­ture
  Let’s take a look at that mon­ster called archive. We have to build one from scratch. Much bet­ter than wast­ing time in try­ing to get some over­view of the mess we have already. This will be our new archive, that also …
• Crack­ing Magic (1) — Intro
  There are tons of books and courses out there, even blogs ded­ic­ated to the topic of self-organ­­iz­a­­tion. But for the magi­cians, there isn’t too much on this. In the past years, help­ing other magi­cians cre­ate their acts and shows, one …
• La Piratería en la Magia
  Este proyecto nació desde el enfado y la deses­per­a­ción sobre lo que está ocur­riendo en el mer­cado de la magia. ¡Ayuda a parar esto! Echa un vistazo a lo que Tim Ellis ya está haciendo de hecho. Creo que no somos los únicos …
• Pir­acy in Magic
  This pro­ject was born out of anger and des­pair about the things going on on the magic mar­ket­place. Help to stop that! See what Tim Ellis is right­fully doing already. I think we are not the only ones think­ing that way. We feel that …
• Cyl­in­der and Coins
  If there ever was a magical “DIY hack”, then it is this one here. John Ram­say’s “Cyl­in­der and Coins” trick is a clas­sic and a very strong effect. I always wanted to do it, but then there were two obstacles: The expens­ive and hard …
• Too Good To Be True
  A card pre­dic­tion using only two small blank file cards. Any­time, any­where, in the pocket/​wallet and almost impromptu. One of the res­ults of my never-end­ing search for “nat­ural index sys­tems”. It was born in an emer­gency, when I did­n’t have the …
• Turn­ing the Him­ber Wal­let
  The Him­ber Wal­let is a very use­ful tool. But some­times, it is easy to get con­fused as to which side to open. I know that a seasoned pro has no prob­lem with that, but this hint is dir­ec­ted at the ama­teur and casual …
• Pocket Par­agon
  Recently my friend Jon Allen informed me that he had a new ver­sion of his best selling trick “Par­agon” in the pipeline. He sent me a little private video clip and I was fas­cin­ated! You do the same Par­agon effect, but then you …
• Gra­cias a Aronson
  Simon Aron­son es un genio de la car­to­ma­gia. Me encanta su tra­bajo. Hay un juego que siempre me ha fas­cinado, es su “Ad-jacent”. ¡Qué gran juego! A pesar de ten­erlo, no lo podría hacer, porque soy zurdo, y todos las manio­bras están fuera …
• Thanks to Aron­son
  Simon Aron­son is a card magic genius. I love his work. There is one trick that has fas­cin­ated me thor­oughly, and that is his “Ad-Jacent”. What a great trick! Des­pite hav­ing it, I would­n’t per­form it, because I am a lefty, and all the reg­u­lar peek work …
• The Per­fect Room
  The magic scene has become some­how insane. A con­ven­tion here, some event there, a couple of videos, DVDs, new tricks, books to be read, club meet­ing, gigs, new down­loads, new new new … bang! The head explodes. With all that input, how can …
• Help me!
  Last year, same time. Ring ring! (phone) Q: Hi Alex! XXX here (name garbled). A. Hi! What’s on? Q: Alex, you have to help me! I have a show in two weeks, and I need a 25 minute stand-up pro­gram, some new tricks and things. You know, it is an important …
• CTW Sans Palm
  I love this little “hack”! I do this often, not because I can’t palm cards, but because it is so much fun to do it right under their noses. Have one of the well known gag cards with 52 prin­ted on the (with a matching …
• 10.000 Hours Myth Debunked
  I pub­lished this notion already on the Ger­man part of my blog, but then would want to repeat it here for the Eng­lish read­ers. After see­ing again and again on the Face­book, at con­ven­tions and in clubs the desire and attempts …

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