Instinctive Fakeouts https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr22_Post.mp4 One of the “tricks” that athletes use is to get the other play to “commit.” Even animals have this built into them. A gazelle is running away from a lion, the gazelle suddenly turns sharply to the left, the lion changes course, and then the gazelle goes the other way. […]
Banking Origin Story
False Projections The biggest con in human history. Happened just after the battle of Waterloo. The Rothschild family. In addition to being bankers. Had their own courier service. And knew the outcome. Of Waterloo. Before anybody else. Since the English had gone into considerable debt. In […]
Disgusting Cup Cakes
Look That Way There is a shoplifting gang that relies mainly on misdirection. They create a commotion over here, and then steal something over here. They only steal things they can later sell, either online or in a garage sale somewhere nearby. There’s this really rich guy who has an entirely fake […]
Park Magician
Air Conditioning Repair The other day my air-conditioning broken side of my apartment. I had to call some guy to come fix it. He showed up about 10:30 and he told me that it would take about an hour to figure out what the problem was and that it would take another hour to fix […]
Real Magic
Summer School I have a friend who volunteers at a local community center. She asked me if I would help her teach some kids summer school. Some magic tricks during summer school. It took me about 10 minutes of research to realize that if I tried to teach these kids any kind of sleight-of-hand […]
Mind Illusions
Young Magician I have a neighbor and her son is in fifth grade. Lately he’s been practicing these card tricks, these magic tricks, and he’s getting pretty good. He’s got a very good little magician’s pattern going on. So far most of the tricks he’s been doing are called self-working card tricks. These are […]