Entertainment meets killer coin magic. My coin work sets are a mixture of cerebral to silly.

Where else would you hear
Beethoven's Ode to Joy played on a harmonica with his nose.

Harmonicas make great wands and direction.

Harris
& his nose - As seen on The Ellen Show

Mickey adds entertainment to the magic through his personality. Al lets the magic do the entertainment alone. They both do these things well. Both are valid approaches and both work in their given context. It just goes back to what you like better.

So in a 1 coin routine we put attention on the fact that a coin is transfered and it is good while it is bad to do it in a multiple coins routine.
What a curious thing ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6HwRAfJBWA specially the 1 coin rotine from 6:30

I know, I know, this is about coins, who's better, what's different, who knows it all and who don't know squat...A quick respite here...Just had to share this, but look at the progress, thinking, creativity and advanced ability forged from such initial ideas... Don't get lost because there are no coins and or the cards aren't faced down. Thank God for the BIG, small, and all of us...Mostly the "all."



Just take a quick look and then back to our show...Enjoy!

Hi AL you asked me the difference between the two demos.

first if I was a spectator a lay person I would be amazed by both videos

as a magician in your demo you are using a prop and different coins and the are changing places, and you are telling exactly what is going to happen .as the magic happens,, How ever you are also using dupe coins and there is the absence of the performer,only hands are in play

mickeys video he tells the audience about slight of hand and proceeds with the coins across effect . however you also see mickey with his facial expressions, his acting and he is telling a story with his body language for me his video is more entering than yours.Mickey is only using six coins and for me this is more amazing, speaking like a magician..

finally both effects achive the same results both are good.
vinny

Whenever I look at threads filled with beautifully constructed routines and amazing ROV technique -like this one, I am pulled back 45 years ago when I was first performing magic in rural southwestern Pa.

There was no internet. No video. If you wanted to learn a move, you first had to see someone perform on television by chance to suspect it even existed, or stumble upon it in Hay, Bobo, Tarbell, Hugard, Hilliard or the pages of Genii.

I had very occasional contact with exactly two magicians.

Today, we live in a tiny world where brother and sister magi can share at will, on a real time basis. We can instantly film and watch ourselves....something unimaginable then.

With all that incredible technology at our fingertips, we need to be wiser than ever about how we treat one another.

a few harsh words, and we can hurt our fellows who love magic just as much as we do as easily as demonstrate or teach.

Everyone in the fraternity of magic tends to be the sort who loves the limelight. Think about it.

What other profession basks single performers so individually in the glow of stardom? Actors work in groups playing off one another. Musicians typically share their art in an orchestra or band. Both rely on whole technical corps of folks to produce them.

Painters and writers hide behind their art- it is their product that gets the applause, not they.

Of all the arts, sleight of hand workers are among the few who combine charismatic real time performing with technical study behind the scenes that requires years of study towards proficiency. Often coin workers construct their own routines, and often they create new effects, fresh ways of working making them inventors along with everything else.

I think this tendency towards being all things-creator, technician and lone performer has the tendency to make sleight of hand performers rather unique among artists.

Part of these qualities are a perfectly natural tendency to be proud of their accomplishments, and it goes without saying that a sleight of hand magician needs to be supremely confident in what they do in front of an audience to succeed.

I think a "contest" to see who is "greatest" at one thing or another in hand magic is about the poorest idea ever-

- it's akin to the beautiful but vain queen forever asking her magic mirror unwise questions. Bound to go bad in so many ways. Especially when there are many equally vain, beautiful royals about also touting enchanted looking glasses!

This is great advice to keep in mind for so many things in life. Thanks for the reminder.