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Hope Dresses Well

I wrote earlier that Jay Sankey has selected Penguin Magic as his exclusive distributor and that I was pretty encouraged by the news.

Since that time, I had two members of a religious organization come
to my door to tell me how I can be assured of eternal salvation as well
as dress better. (I was writing in my shorts and wearing my University
of Idaho Vandals Booster t-shirt).

They got me thinking. Maybe I should check things out for myself. I
went to Penguin Magic and looked at the video they have of Jay Sankey
demonstrating his “No Card Tricks”
DVD. He does perform a full effect in the video that you can see for
free and just watching that video has inspired me to take my thinking
further.

Watch the video and then tell me if you can’t think of
about 100 tricks you can do with the same technique demonstrated. If
you don’t know the secret, don’t feel badly — buy the DVD.
If you can figure the secret, tell me honestly if you weren’t inspired
to use the same technique (and gimmick) on different types of items.

That’s
one of my favorite things about Mr. Sankey, he is inspiring. His
lecture was great not just because it taught me some pretty neat
routines, two of which I use constantly, but because it also inspired
me to use his approach to magic — “what the audience sees, not what
the magician does” — on other effects.

Check it out and
tell me. Maybe I’m just preconditioned for inspiration today. The
religious members left soon after talking to me and announced to my
neighbors that I had “no hope” and I “dressed like a bum.” I think they
said it that way, or maybe it was reversed: I have no bum and I dress
like Hope. Either way, it doesn’t seem right.

Hope Dresses Well

I wrote earlier that Jay Sankey has selected Penguin Magic as his exclusive distributor and that I was pretty encouraged by the news.

Since that time, I had two members of a religious organization come
to my door to tell me how I can be assured of eternal salvation as well
as dress better. (I was writing in my shorts and wearing my University
of Idaho Vandals Booster t-shirt).

They got me thinking. Maybe I should check things out for myself. I
went to Penguin Magic and looked at the video they have of Jay Sankey
demonstrating his “No Card Tricks”
DVD. He does perform a full effect in the video that you can see for
free and just watching that video has inspired me to take my thinking
further.

Watch the video and then tell me if you can’t think of
about 100 tricks you can do with the same technique demonstrated. If
you don’t know the secret, don’t feel badly — buy the DVD.
If you can figure the secret, tell me honestly if you weren’t inspired
to use the same technique (and gimmick) on different types of items.

That’s
one of my favorite things about Mr. Sankey, he is inspiring. His
lecture was great not just because it taught me some pretty neat
routines, two of which I use constantly, but because it also inspired
me to use his approach to magic — “what the audience sees, not what
the magician does” — on other effects.

Check it out and
tell me. Maybe I’m just preconditioned for inspiration today. The
religious members left soon after talking to me and announced to my
neighbors that I had “no hope” and I “dressed like a bum.” I think they
said it that way, or maybe it was reversed: I have no bum and I dress
like Hope. Either way, it doesn’t seem right.

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