So, you want to create your own card tricks? You've been learning your Dai Vernons, reading through your Marlos and practicing your Bannon packet tricks - but, you want the satisfaction of creating something that you can call your own. ...
In this post you can find all 15 episodes that were released in our newsletter series "Big Blind Friday". If you want to receive them in your mailbox each week, make sure to subscribe to our newsletter, as we give...
Today I invited my girlfriend to sit next to me, pulled out some invisible popcorn, made ourselves comfy and began watching "Sleight of Hand". Sometimes, when I find a movie that I like (and it has some sort of connection...
Hey guys. Biz here. How ya'll doing? This week we have something a bit different than our usual post. My girlfriend has been working on her final essays for this term (she's doing a Masters in Teaching English as a...
"Conjuring is a delightful form of exercise for the brain, but if taken to excess it leads to insomnia."(David Devant, "Tricks For Everyone". p. 89 , 1910) CONTENTS: A free trick, tales from an 18th century magician, women doing magic,...
Of the Scarne books that I own, there is little philosophy to be found within their pages. Scarne dedicated most of his enterprise to explaining card tricks, cutting out all the slack and talk so his readers can get what...
INTRO In this week's blog post we have our first guest post from Jorge Sanders, a cardists based in New York city. In this article, Jorge shares with us what it takes to create a flourish, specifically, a packet cut,...
Background The first ever computer game that I finished was a Pokemon Trading Card Game on the Gameboy Color. I was 11. It took me close to 2 months, I believe. I still remember to this day the happiness it brought...
I have been subscribed to The Marginalian, a weekly newsletter filled with meditations, good books and magical literature - brain pickings, as Maria Popova, the writer, used to call them, for about 5 years now. In one of her posts...
