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Hey guys! I just released my first magic video. I performed the Mcdonald's Aces with some music on... I would love to know your opinion/critics. I think like all of you we must have to learn with the critics (good or bad!). I want to do some more performance videos and street reactions, but...

Hi, I'm going to perform close up magic for a decent-sized audience in a couple of days and I am going shopping for some cards today, What cards should I buy... (not exclusively theory11).

So I was doing a show the other night, and I had a spectator blatantly lie to me in the act. I know this because she said I got her card wrong. Funny. I thought I was using a FORCE DECK. It was very embarrassing, and her boyfriend even supported her on it, but the rest of the crowd knew she was...

Say thank you and walk away?

Hey! So I'd really like to perform magic for my school's talent show. The only downside is I'm primarily a close-up magician, therefore I do close-up tricks. I was hoping to figure out a way to have a friend live stream myself to my school's auditorium projector, giving a close-up view. I know...

Okay so this could and does bring up a few questions: 1. What is a persona? 2. Is it something you like to put on during performances? 3. Or is it just your personality? 4. Does this enhance your audience's experience in a good way? 5. If you have a different persona to your personality, then...

I come up with many card tricks in my head. I put some performances on Youtube and sending some to Theory 11's Market. But, sadly my tricks are denied. How can you tell if your tricks are original or similar to another trick?

Decoy is a fantastic gimmick. I recently bought it and am practicing. But during performance, it's hard to ditch the gimmick elsewhere. So should I end the performance with decoy, ending it with a bang, or begin with decoy and start out amazing at the beginning.

So I perform Mentalism from the analytic view point of all my routines are psychological phenomena and the likes currently my opening and closing routines are invisible touch to open and 'spike' to end however the feeling of the show leave something to desire. So my question is how do I decide...

As magicians it is our job to show people the impossible and improbable. However, it remains a little unclear as to whether or not it is our job to make people believe the impossible and improbable. At discourseinmagic.com we recently did an interview with Artist Ben Train on the ethics of...