On 2009-02-03 10:13, Yellowjacket wrote:
Thomas,

Bad form here. Even if this is what he uses . . most here have no real idea how it is done and many do not even perform. Now you have just given the arm chair mentalists more knowledge to bash a performer that shows he is working for live audiences with a full show. Which is much, much, much more than most of the pompous people here in these forum can say.

It surprises me that so many of the 'mentalists' here can easily and quickly bash any real performance that shows up on You Tube, yet they never seem to have a performance that we can look at. Not to mention most of them don't even have a website . . . but they will be the first to tell you how amazing they are.

Oh . . and how many E-books they have to sell.

On 2008-09-25 02:31, Anthony Owen wrote:
Hello Magic Café,

I have followed this discussion as a lurker with some interest and - given that I suspect the level of interest in this effect is about to increase - I thought I would take the plunge and share some information about this effect.

As others have already noted, the effect is that of my Natural Lottery trick, which I devised in 2000 and first published in my 2003 book Some Tricks (recently reprinted by TVMagic.co.uk). I also performed and explained it in my lectures last year at MAGIC Live! and the International Magic Convention. (By the way you may be interested to know that the latter lecture will shortly be released on DVD.)

For the record, at the same time that I created Natural Lottery I also devised several handlings which would enable the spectator to be handed the printed lottery ticket as a souvenir. These handlings I have shared with a small number of my friends in the years since. Also at MAGIC Live Bill Herz shared with me an excellent idea which enables a very practical self contained improvement upon my Natural Lottery handling. At some point in the future I may release these ideas, possibly in the book of my published and unpublished material which I’m currently writing and compiling with Stephen Minch’s Hermetic Press.

I’ll be off now. Bye bye Magic Café.

Anthony Owen

On 2008-01-30 01:56, ThomasBerger wrote:
To me there are 2 issues here-

performance
method

I would say the performance was not good.
This is a beginner, or a young performer.
There is not a lot of performance experience or
theory in this. No idea on building suspense or drama.

The effect is great.
But man, look at the hardware on the belt,
It doesn't take Einstein to see what is going on.

Think how you would do it, then
google in the word "portable."

My 2 cents.
Cheers.
Tom

On 2009-07-11 08:30, Anthony Owen wrote:
I thought that folk here might be interested to know that there's a trailer for my new lecture DVD including footage from my performances of Natural Lottery, Number at Card, Holey **** and Ultimate Oil and Water which you can view here:

http://tvmagic.co.uk/tvmagicshop/product......a1a4f1ca