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TStone V.I.P. Stockholm, Sweden 769 Posts |
There's a lot of fringe skills that are useful to magicians, but rarely are taught in the magic books. Like, how do you make a good disc for the Hydrostatic Glass, or how to drill holes in glass. Or how to mold a prop. Or how do you do those crochet balls for Cups and Balls? How do you sew a good Devil's Hank... Some years ago, I had the idea of making a tutorial site for those kinds of fringe skills, and decided to build it on a proper LMS (Learning Management System).
The LMS was pretty complex, and it soon became clear that I wouldn't understand how to set it up, if I didn't have any actual content to experiment with. So just to have some 'placeholder' content, I assembled a course about the Elmsley and Jordan Count. Not really representative for the content I wanted to have, but it was something I could make in a hurry. As it turned out, the whole thing was way too complicated, and by now it have been left untouched for several years. It was pretty clear that I would never get it going, so I just deleted it all. But just before I did that, I copied the dummy tutorial and posted it on my own website, because who knows, someone might find it useful? It is found here: Elmsley and Jordan False Counts. |
Ray J Inner circle St. Louis, MO 1503 Posts |
Well done and an excellent tutorial with all of the salient points covered. I expected as much, considering the author.
John Mendoza was the one who had the biggest impact on my execution of the EC. He stressed rhythm and using a metronome. He pointed out (correctly) that it was the break in rhythm which was a big tip-off that "something" just happened and of course when that happens, the illusion is lost, the spell broken. Too bad Mr. Stone wasn't able to continue in this fashion. Maybe his example will stimulate someone else to pick up the baton?
It's never crowded on the extra mile....
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Stanyon Inner circle Landrum, S.C. by way of Chicago 3433 Posts |
Doesn't get much better than that.
Stanyon
aka Steve Taylor "Every move a move!" "If you've enjoyed my performance half as much as I've enjoyed performing for you, then you've enjoyed it twice as much as me!" |
spudster85 New user Northern Kentucky 84 Posts |
Beautiful work! I picked up several pointers, so thank you!
I can see how this would be such a large undertaking to have a much larger library. I am not sure that one individual could actually accomplish it. This sounds like a larger group would take something on of this magnitude. |
Wravyn Inner circle 3482 Posts |
If all of your tutorials are of such detail, the video downloads of yours at Vanishing Inc are an AMAZING bargain!
Thank you for sharing this tutorial with us. |
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