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T.House Loyal user 279 Posts |
Hi,
I used to perform 'Flying Cards and Envelopes' from Tarbell Volume 4 under Card Transpositions, but no longer have my Tarbell volumes and cannot remember the procedure. Could anyone help me? Thank you, Bruce Hetzler |
ymumagic Regular user 131 Posts |
Anything specific that you are looking for? I have the volume.
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Ray J Inner circle St. Louis, MO 1503 Posts |
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On Mar 13, 2021, T.House wrote: I believe there are now free downloads of Tarbell online. I believe they are legitimate to possess. Someone please correct me if this is wrong.
It's never crowded on the extra mile....
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countrymaven Inner circle 1426 Posts |
I would suggest, when someone asks for you to help them "remember the procedure" etc.,,, of a trick from a source,
they are really asking you to give them a copy of that source. How else will they really figure it out. We are magicians. Not babysitters. IF you no longer have a copy, then get it. If you can't afford it, save, and buy one. Or look for it online if it is out of copyright. We are supposed to help magicians. But not babysit people asking for essentially free materials or magic babysitting. Magic comes at a cost of discipline and at some expense as well. IF people don't want to accept this, they should do something else that is free. I apologize if this sounds insensitive. To me, magic is worth a lot. I must save or purchase or get materials I no longer have. Why? Yesterday I performed, at a gas station, a visual coin penetration and later reappearance behind someone. It effectively shut down the workers there for a while. They had seen witchcraft, or so they thought. Our lives were touched by something very unusual and freaky. So it is worth it for me to realize magic comes at a cost. This means being willing to save and to be responsible. It is one thing to ask for help. Another thing to basically expect someone to babysit you for free and give you free materials. Magic is worth much more than that. IMHO. |
Rupert Pupkin Inner circle 1452 Posts |
Chill out, man. It's just a card trick.
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countrymaven Inner circle 1426 Posts |
Yes I agree, I will leave it to you and others to provide videos and free materials to those who are too lazy to be responsible enough to buy or search for the materials. cheers. totally chilling out.
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DelMagic Special user 719 Posts |
I appreciate your point of view countrymaven.
I began learning magic as a teenager back in the mid-70's. It started with a magic set that my brother and I used when one of us received it for Christmas. Then it was mail order magic from Marshall Brodien. Some years later, an actual magic shop opened near me and I began to have interaction with other magicians. There was certainly no common open exposure of magic in the shop. One of my purchases was the book Panorama of Magic and some fanning powder. The owner of the shop then stated that I had to be serious about magic to be interested in those items. Only at that point did he reveal to me that there was a local magic club in the area and he let me know about it. The man wouldn't even bother revealing the presence of a magic club until he thought the person in front of him was suitable. My first visit to the club was a lecture by the great Jerry Andrus. Now it was generally out of my range, but I saw amazing miracles right in front of my eyes. Although no large collection of individuals will ever think homogeneously, open sharing of commercial magic was not common at all back then. I am truly dismayed by the number of people who should be gatekeepers to the world of magic, but who instead trivialize it by freely revealing so much online. I am certain this actually ends up ruining the field of magic for many even though the number of magicians may have increased. I have always loved being fooled and even more so when I grew so much in my knowledge that being fooled was much rarer. There was some sort of underground magic movement way back when I was young that was apparently populated by professionals, the well-respected semi-professionals and highly skilled hobbyists. They helped each other move top level magic forward when the average magician was just slowly growing. With all the exposure and outright thievery of performance and written material, I expect there needs to be a renaissance of the underground world of magic and a revival of the idea of protecting the secrets of magic. I don't mean that these are ideas that ought to control other fields of information and ideas. Magic is quite unique due to the very nature of magical performances. Suspension of unbelief (or disbelief?) is much harder to achieve in magic compared to other types of theater. When the secrets to the magic effects can be readily accessed at home, this can ultimately only make magic non-magical. While I think the magicians who are highly skilled and motivated can overcome these issues, there will be a great many in the art or hobby of magic that will have difficulty in this new world. Those who are willing to see that part of magic struggle and perhaps go away forget that those people have helped fund the growth of magic over the last 50 years. The fans of free online magic will not fund the growth of magic in the future and the repercussions in the art may be depressing. I hope that magicians with the old standards of magical secrets can hopefully persuade some of the younger magicians for the good of all. |
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