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While I often don’t keep up with past interests, when I do, there’s some things I love to go back to that still fascinate me. This short little video right here is Chris Brown (no, not the musician - this guy’s a magician, and a damn good one at that) using a shift - nothing but his hands - no props, no gimmicks, for something so simple and powerful. It comes from The Expert at the Card Table by S.W. Erdnase, which primarily was a collection of moves meant for card sharps, soon enough adapted for use by magicians, and changed the community forever. Personally, I’d love to own a copy some time in the future.
Throwback Thursday Midnight(?): Even though I’ve bounced around a lot from hobby to hobby, in high school, I noticed I was bouncing back to, from, around, and in the general vicinity of older hobbies from grade school. Like magic tricks. Besides some illusions that were too high for my skill level, this one was one my first illusion when I started taking magic seriously, and it was fun to play around with. And marked the beginnings of magic nearly emptying my wallet. But however you think it’s done, if you can’t see it on camera, that’s probably not it.
Maybe I’ll record something different this summer.
