http://www.magic-trick-talk.com/blog Magician Discussion Forums Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:29:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Magic-trick-talk.com Forum List: Houdini's Lounge - Talk about anything you like here, does not have t..... Harry Houdini - Card Tricks - Magic Trick 101 and Magic Trick Secrets - Let us know how you do some of your tricks....of c..... Art of Illusion - http://www.magic-trick-talk.com/blog/2006/12/magic-trick-talkcom-forums/   Effect: David Blaine did this watch trick on his second national TV special. A watch is borrowed, the magician does not carry anything! After showing the wrist watch to some spectators nearby who note the current time, you place the wrist watch face down in the spectator's hand. The spectator ... http://www.magic-trick-talk.com/blog/2008/01/time-travelling-watch-trick/ How often it happens that a dumbfounded audience member will ask the magician how he did that. Everyone wants to know, but don't they realize that to give away the secrets suddenly makes magic not magic at all. The trick is just a ploy that we may or may not ... http://www.magic-trick-talk.com/blog/2007/07/revealing-the-secrets-of-magic/   Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, the first modern magician. The word Magic is derived from the Magi of ancient Iran. Performances we would recognize as conjuring have probably been practiced throughout history. The same ingenuity behind ancient deceptions such as the Trojan horse would have been used for entertainment, or at least for ... http://www.magic-trick-talk.com/blog/2007/06/history-of-magic/ The choosen card is selected and is put back in the deck, then the card is completely vanished from the deck (the person should be able to look at the whole deck and not find the card). The magician can use any method to make the chosen card reappear by ... http://www.magic-trick-talk.com/blog/2007/06/vanishing-card-trick/ This one had me rolling in laughter, it was just so silly and simple. The success of the trick really is based on it's delivery, much like a comedic monologue. The magician will have a member of their audience pick one card and memorize it. Then they return the card ... http://www.magic-trick-talk.com/blog/2007/05/yet-another-card-trick/ First off, it requires a lot of misdirection, The concept is that you stand with your side to the spectator, and you slip the foor farthest from the viewer. Angle the 'lifting foot' and a 90 degree angle to the body and simply stand up on the tip of your toe. ... http://www.magic-trick-talk.com/blog/2007/05/king-rising-levitation/ For all you cat owners out there, here's a fun trick. It's not necessarily a magic trick, but it's funny. hold a cat over a drop off of at least five feet. Cover the cat's eyes and lower it close to but not touching the ground. drop the cat and ... http://www.magic-trick-talk.com/blog/2007/04/silly-cat-trick/ This magic trick can be done very easily, provided that your sidekick can sprint very quickly. First you must hypnotize your audience. This works best for beginners if the audience is a rather small one. The age old cartoon method of slowly waving a pocket watch in front of their ... http://www.magic-trick-talk.com/blog/2007/02/disappearing-sidekick/ The secret behind all magic tricks is in fact a superpower of some sort. Some magicians have x-ray vision, others havethe power to move parked cars, others have a special unicorn magic. So it's not as easy as you all think. It's something you either have or you don't. Period. http://www.magic-trick-talk.com/blog/2007/01/the-magicians-secret/