Posts Tagged ‘pass’

Revenge Against The Pass, Feb 28 Update

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

I have been practicing the pass in front of a video camera.  This camera is mounted on my wife’s very nice tripod.  Tonight, I decided to push myself one further and connect the camera to my video capture device.

The camera is teaching me more about angles than a mirror ever could.   I can also revisit my attempts to look for what works and what does not work.  Plus I have all the tools to zoom in, slow down, or otherwise scrutinize my efforts.

They need scrutiny.  Much scrutiny.

Yet, my revenge against this move is well underway.  (more…)

Revenge Against the Pass

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

Why I want to learn the classic pass.

Let’s cut to the chase.  The cheap plastic kiddie tricks never held my attention for long.  Toward the end of high school, in the mid 1990s, I had finally stumbled onto The Amateur Magician’s Handbook by Henry Hay.  While this is an excellent book, it is definitely of the old mindset in its teaching of card magic.  It was also the only source I had to learn any form of magic from.

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