couchtripper

This is a video I made today of the card tricks I've been learning since I got hold of a Derren Brown pro instructional video. I'm not very good, but I hope you like this...

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the trick just about 30 seconds before the end was brilliant...

if you ever need a glamourous assistant, let me know - haha

Rather sweet...

I have been working cards for a rather long time & you have me very very impressed

Keep things 'FLUID'
Maybe the speed of the video to match the music made it look a tad rushed.

6ULDV8 wrote:I have been working cards for a rather long time & you have me very very impressed

Thank you! Maybe you can give me some tips? I've basically been learning from Derren Brown's "Devil's Picturebook" so far, plus a few other sources for sleights and flourishes.

I assume you will know, but if you don't know how any of the effects in the vid are done I'll gladly let you in on it

I'm totally getting into card magic!

That was pretty neat, Nekokate. The only trick where I noticed something fishy happening was the last one. Otherwise, very well done.

major.tom wrote:That was pretty neat, Nekokate. The only trick where I noticed something fishy happening was the last one. Otherwise, very well done.

Hehe, I know. I couldn't be arsed re-filming it though, since the disclaimer at the beginning said not to expect perfection. But even with the fishy goings on, I bet there's not many people who can drop a card on top of the deck and have it upside down in the middle in under a second, lol!

nekokate wrote:

6ULDV8 wrote:I have been working cards for a rather long time & you have me very very impressed

Thank you! Maybe you can give me some tips? I've basically been learning from Derren Brown's "Devil's Picturebook" so far, plus a few other sources for sleights and flourishes.

I assume you will know, but if you don't know how any of the effects in the vid are done I'll gladly let you in on it

I'm totally getting into card magic!

I might set up my webcam & capture some card / coin stuff for you

Every card worker reads two books by Jean Huggard ('Royal road to card magic' being one of them), these are the 'bibles' of card workers...
They may seem basic by todays standards, however, learning 'handling techniques' & understanding them fully are essential.

From there people go onto the likes of Cardini & Ed Marlow or other greats, depending on the style you like.

Myself, I am a lazy magician, but love to use their deck of cards...
It's great when you find somebody with a brand new deck... but learning to use well worn decks, decks of differing sizes are also key.


Will write more shortly, have to get the wife to work.

Very impressive to the uninitiated amongst us! Well done...!

Thanks!

That's very cool, I love that sort of stuff, so be intrigued to have a look at the video,but knowing me, i'll forget all about it by the time I get home *l*

Here's a new video I made today. I'm still a bit crap but I've been working hard. See what you think...

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The captions are obscured by the youtube logo, so go to the actual vid to see it in its full glory...

you're certainly improving neko, i like the trick where you flick the card during the hot-shot cut

some excellent tricks there - nice one. I had a pal who did stuff like this and he was paid to appear in certain nightclubs just to go round and impress people with the tricks.

faceless wrote:some excellent tricks there - nice one. I had a pal who did stuff like this and he was paid to appear in certain nightclubs just to go round and impress people with the tricks.

We had a card trick guy at one of my company functions. It was quite entertaining stuff. That is some very nice coordination Kate, good luck with it, it must take some practice to get to that point.

Thanks for all the positive support, guys and gals!!

Here are 2 more (I'll just keep my magic vids to this 1 thread so as not to annoy people who don't want to see them)

First is a signed card repeatedly jumping to the top of the deck, in an "Olde Fashioned" style for no reason other than my inate mentalness:

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Next is my Poppy Day tribute, which includes a coin, a sealed bottle of water, and a loony girl's tummy:

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