Viewpoints

Be a Magic Detective

Leaving clues for your future self in the tried, test, and true form: the notebook. As Krystyn Lambert says: "For 16-year-old me, keeping notebooks was easy. I was constantly scribbling down ideas, whether it was documenting a move I was working on or the premise of a joke."

Learning Another Kind of Magic Trick

I figured that Bob had some special new illusion to sell me, or perhaps he knew of some show that was for sale that would make me a star in Las Vegas. He asked for a lot  of money, so I really wondered what he had up his sleeve.

The Frame Defines What the Audience Sees

If we want to perform a new effect, we don’t need to find a new trick. We can simply frame it differently. A few magicians (including myself) have written about framing before, but I’m going back to basics.