On my recent lec­ture tour, I spent a won­der­ful evening after the lec­ture din­ing with my friends. Sud­den­ly a small dis­cus­sion about Denis Behr’s new full evening pro­gram came up. Some guys had seen it already, and the talk was about Denis’ open­ing effect, which seemed to be quite strong…

The Gozintha Box invent­ed by Lubor Fiedler is actu­al­ly a bril­liant inven­tion. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, it has not been giv­en as much atten­tion and love as it deserves. In real­i­ty, this feat is not that easy to per­form, and the han­dling needs to be prac­tised very care­ful­ly. It is notice­able that most…

If you’re aim­ing to infuse a sense of gen­uine antiq­ui­ty into your pre­sen­ta­tion mate­ri­als – whether it be an old-style let­ter con­tain­ing cards, akin to those used in the Gip­sy Curse, or per­haps a cal­en­dar resem­bling an ancient leather-bound tome – here’s my proven method for excep­tion­al results. Begin with…

As a magi­cian, I’m usu­al­ly reluc­tant to reveal the secrets of my craft to fel­low con­jur­ers, pre­fer­ring to keep these mys­ter­ies close to my chest. How­ev­er, giv­en my promise to you, I’ll make an excep­tion this time. While I have a gen­er­al fond­ness and respect for wiz­ards, I must admit,…

Sub­tleties are fine in mag­ic rou­tines, but they will not always work as intend­ed. Much depends on the audience’s lev­el of atten­tion and intel­li­gence, and their inter­est and focus on the per­for­mance. So you can’t always be sure that the sub­tleties in a rou­tine will work. Some­times they will, some­times…

  The new year has waved its mag­ic wand and cat­a­pult­ed us all into the next round. I hope you all had a mag­i­cal end to the hol­i­days and are ready for what’s to come. Well, my own end of the year was rather … let’s call it “adven­tur­ous”. Just…