Recent content by htraos

I am not particularly fond of fancy back designs (with the exception of Bicycle Guardians, which is a work of art in itself) and yours looks too fancy for my taste. As an advice, I think you should remove the white tribal thingies from the corners because they take the focus away from the...

Hello. I am looking for a DVD that teaches second and bottom deals and also a "deep deal" in which the performer deals the tenth card from top. I remember I watched the trailer but I can't recall what this DVD is called. All I do remember is that the person teaching it wears glasses and has...

Hello. In Psychic Sniper, Kevin Parker uses a system for stacking a deck of cards. Does this system have a name? Is it mentioned somewhere else in literature or video?

Jonathan Bayme does a fancy DL in the classic color change instructional video (can be downloaded for free at the videos section). Basically, two cards are held by the corners and then they spin, landing face up on the deck. The motion kind of resembles Shapeshifter from Ellusionist. What is...

It appears that religion poses an annoying problem to a cornucopia of interesting subjects. Whatever it is -- leisure or academic research --, christianity is there to plague it backed up by a book that was written by unenlightened people during the bronze age. But then again, if more...

It's not the Invisible Deck. When I said that the cards can be opened in a fan that was pretty much a give-away, because you can't do that with the aforementioned trick. A set-up is needed, but the set-up is much more... say... cleaner than that of Invisible Deck's. And yes, it involves a...

Hello. After some brainstorming I came up with a trick that, in short words and without revealing the method, is like this: spectator names any card they choose. They say it out loud. I grab a deck of cards from my pocket and open it wide (can be a fan). It happens that the only card that is...

Hello. Is mentalism supposed to work only on "common-minded" people? Take Extraordinary Proof by Andrew Gerard (performed by Bro Gilbert, in Paul Harris' True Astonishments Vol. 5) for example. The explanation to it is very blurry, but in short words, you're supposed to force your spectator to...