hey
anyone here know any magic tricks or good magic sites? im an advanced beginer :P
also if you have any cool illusions or something tell them to me please. or if you have anything cool you want to share with me too :P
thanks!

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Student01, your image is not visible as you have linked to an image in your own computer, you might be able to see it but no one else can. Go to Computers and Technology and look at the avatar thread which is near the top and it will explain what you should be doing in order to use an image.

yes magic cool

I know some card tricks and sleight of hand

check out www.magicsmith.com
they are a mail order catalog for all your magical needs

thanks lord

I'll try to find how to put the image on sue... thanks for letting me know

can you see my image now?

Yes I can.

I know how to make myself disappear when there's jobs to be done.

There's one trick I used to have in a conjuring set I was given as a child that, to this day, I still think was clever. Nobody ever twigged how it was being done anyway.

It consisted of three cardboard coins, one of which had a white spot of paint in the middle of it. There were also three small squares of cardboard to cover the coins up.

The trick was to turn your back while someone moved the coins around and then covered them with the cardboard squares. When you turned around you had to point to the square that had the coin with white spot underneath it.

This was easy because only you knew that the coin with the white spot also had a human hair stuck to it (and now all other FunTrivia members know it too). This protruded outside of the cardboard square, so indicating the position of the coin. Every time a winner!

In high school I was the assistant for my cousin, a part-time magician (who was also in high school). Though my hands are too small for most sleight-of-hand tricks, I did on occasion produce large spherical foil bouquets out of thin air, turn balloons into doves, turn doves into rabbits, and produce Santa hats from empty boxes, among other things. These were stage illusions, of course, so there was also a lot of work behind the scenes, and of course there wasn't a very big budget at all! (We played mostly nursing homes.) It may not make a good stage illusion, but it is a trick being a roadie in four-inch heels.

I was also a member of the Society of American Magicians, which has an excellent youth outreach program. If you can manage to get involved, perhaps attend a convention or two (there are regional ones as well as an annual national one, and there are separate contests for young up-and-comers -- I don't know how old you are, but it sounds like you're just starting out), you may find it worth your while.

Good luck!

p.s. I can't tell you how any of our illusions were done, unfortunately ... part of joining a magical organization is signing an oath to keep your lips sealed. I imagine that extends to my typing fingers too.

actually, small hands are not an impediment to card sleight of hand.
at least, they shouldn't be
if you have good technique, small hands should never be a problem

Go here and look at the card trick index and start with the begginer tricks. cards

This site will help out alot and has good beginner stuff to play around with.

Also remember when you are doing card tricks learn a few jokes and how to keep the viewrs of your trick occupied with things other than your hands.

This is a very good way to meet women cause its a good conversation starter. If your not involved in women and are to young for that, I don't know your age, it's a good thing to impress your friends with as well.

Hope you stick with it and the site helps.....

thanks
ill go and i bet ill master them in a week (yeah right...)

A good mind reading trick. Needs an accomplice. Get all to write a number on a slip of paper, fold and put into a container. Say you are going to read the folded paper through your forehead. You already know your accomplice's number. Pick out the first paper, NOT your accomplice's, put it unopened to your forehead and "read" your pal's number. He will say "yes, that's mine". You look at the number, saying you are just going to check you are right and you then have the next number. And so on. It works until someone twigs your friend's number always seems to be the first one drawn.

Time to join the Academy of Magical Arts.

the magic castle...found at www.magiccastle.com

very fun place!

misdirection is all well and good

but the key is to be able to perform tricks surrounded
with the attention full on you.

when you are that smooth...welcome to the club.

The best advice I can give you is to find the local magic club. As a paid hobbiest I suggest you find a group of magicians and DON'T ASK THEM HOW TO DO A TRICK!!!! Show them what you are doing and they will (more often than not) give you advice on how to do it better. When they see that you are really interested ad willing to invest some time, they will give you some of the real tips.

The funny thing about magicians is that you have to show them what you can do before they will help you.

Find the local club and go from there.

cheers
Maynooth