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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.

  • Magic Elvis
    Every time I see this little clip, I just have to laugh out loud. A well done clip and a reminder that in magic we have quite a few of these kind of per­formers as well … 
  • About this blog
    Finally, after long and ser­i­ous con­sid­er­a­tions (and my nerves being almost blank), I decided to cut off that encum­brance of pub­lish­ing in two lan­guages: Ger­man and (or) Eng­lish. Dur­ing the past years, this has been a never end­ing struggle. Now I finally decided to …
  • New DVD-Release
    Soon there will be a very inter­est­ing DVD by Germany’s Flo­rian Zim­mer, deal­ing with manip­u­la­tive moves with cards for the stage magi­cians. I already saw some of the moves, and they are strik­ing, to say at least. Watch out for this, when …
  • Top 10 Card Effects
    From time to time I try to find out what the real good­ies in magic are. And I ask my friends. Here is what John Carey sug­ges­ted con­cern­ing com­mer­cial card effects: 1. Chicago opener/​Red hot Mama. A beau­ti­ful 2 phase routine asso­ci­ated with the bar …
  • John Carey’s Begin­nings
    What a nice, humble and (above all) solid way John Carey got star­ted in magic (taken from his run­ning week at the Magic Cafe Forum). Worth a read and con­sid­er­a­tion: It all began for me as a kid of 9 stuck in a hos­pital bed. Mum …
  • Route 333
    Here is an inter­est­ing concept that struck me after read­ing this. It is ori­gin­ally not meant for magi­cians, but for cloth­ing. The idea is to keep 33 pieces of cloth­ing for 3 months (you can read the whole thing here: system …
  • One big idea
    The bril­liant Seth Godin wrote in his news­let­ter: “Most break­through organ­iz­a­tions aren’t built on a bundle of won­der­ment, nov­elty and new ideas. In fact, they usu­ally involve just one big idea. The rest is exe­cu­tion, patience, tac­tics and people. The abil­ity to see what’s hap­pen­ing and …
  • Cre­at­ing an act
    Right at the moment a magi­cian friend needs some help put­ting together a new show for next year. The trouble is to get the whole thing star­ted. Some­times it is good to have at least a tiny struc­ture in the begin­ning. Here is …