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REVIEW – Artful Deceptions by Allan Kronzek

By Liam Montier on Monday, January 8, 2018

I received this as a Christmas gift, and was quite intrigued.  I hadn’t actually heard the name Allan Kronzek before, but that might be down more to my general hermit lifestyle than a lack of profile on Allan’s part 🙂  It was nice to head into a book with literally no preconceptions aside from those supplied from the subtitle – …

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Repurposing!

By Liam Montier on Thursday, January 4, 2018

I’ve never been really into fooling magicians – it actually amazes me that there is a whole sub-genre of card guys that concentrate on fooling each other, and that it’s a thing.  But it’s a thing. When I fool a magician, it’s usually by accident.  One time, when I first started my secondary school, one of the teachers overheard me …

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The Numbers Game

By Liam Montier on Tuesday, January 2, 2018

[wpedon id=”88″]One of the things I actually enjoy about magic is using presentations that rely on things that I completely don’t believe in, and to present them as a skeptic.  It can open up some interesting dynamics – are you performing it tongue in cheek?  are you implying that maybe there is something behind it you can’t explain?  Are you …

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Poker Guide

By Liam Montier on Tuesday, December 26, 2017

I found a STACK of Bicycle League Back for sale, and they are wonderful cards – but when I opened them (I’m not sure how old they are as I bought them from another magician) there was a Brucie Bonus™ that reminded me of an old trick I used to do – a Poker Guide card! Effect Your spectator shuffles …

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The season to be Buddha.

By Liam Montier on Sunday, December 17, 2017

One of my guilty pleasures (aside from not sharing anything that is share size) is the Buddha Papers.  Yes, OK, simmer down back there.  I have AWESOME tricks with it, OK?! With the festive season closing in, it occurred to me that the usual brightly coloured paper could be replaced with festive brightly coloured paper.  CREATIVE OVERLOAD! Using wrapping paper …

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Be happy with the mind you’ve got!

By Liam Montier on Sunday, December 17, 2017

Doing any routine that is a prediction has several problems to overcome (when I perform them, that is).  There’s the issue of the fact that being able to see into the future is a bit too unbelievable, and if it were something you could actually do, using it to foresee a selected playing card would probably be pretty far down …

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Movin’ On Up…

By Liam Montier on Friday, December 15, 2017

Whatever happened to M-People, anyway? So here’s a little idea I had some time back for the Rising Card Deck.  Originally, I had a Devano one, but they are mechanical, and pretty unreliable (in my experience), so I put this aside – you only need to be standing there gesticulating wildly over a deck where the adhesive didn’t take and …

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‘The One After’ fiasco.

By Liam Montier on Friday, December 15, 2017

This is one of my pet hates, and something that really needs addressing.  Yes, it ‘works’, it ‘flies by’ and all those other terms that magicians use to justify not changing something that is pants because of the effort involved, but I’m calling a day on this one – and if I’m not going to do it anymore, you can …

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I think I do old man magic… and here’s a ACAAN.

By Liam Montier on Friday, December 15, 2017

It’s funny – I’ve never really thought of myself as an ‘old fashioned’ magician, but it’s definitely becoming more and more obvious. I worked out a trick based on Roy Johnson’s Card In Gum, and sent it to a friend (who also happens to own a successful magic shop).  The effect was simple – a torn card is sealed in …

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Reading (and how to do more of it)

By Liam Montier on Friday, December 15, 2017

Magic books seem to be experiencing a bit of a comeback – and about time! I’m not sure how people new to magic are supposed to learn much about the art from when the marketplace dictates that you buy the tricks one at a time for £25. Why does it have to be quality over quantity. GIVE ME BOTH! Anyway, …

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