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A place to discuss magic, mentalism, and related arts. Get support and share or find information about improving one's knowledge, ability, and industry experience. We are partnered with a few different magicians/YouTube channel's, but we're still independent, open, and friendly. Join the Discord Server here: https://discord.gg/NfZc9zU

Gimmicked (2 DVD Set) by it was requested the other day, I’ve now had a chance to go through and comment on what I found. This is a two-disk set, with a mix of instruction on how to make…

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2020-12-15

Reviews

Review: Stand Up Chinese Hole by Mario Lopez

Stand Up Chinese Hole by Mario López - cover

Stand Up Chinese Hole by Mario is a fun little Ambitious Coin Routine from the always fantastic Mario Lopez. It’s also really easy to do, there is only one move that although not really hard, is more difficult than…

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2020-12-15

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Review: Bang On by Marc Oberon

OK, I may as well do this one too, I’ve done Card to Pocket by the Other Brothers, and Pocket Nightmare by Max Maven, so here’s Bang On to complete the set. It doesn’t have the card vanishing from the…

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2020-12-14

Reviews

Review: Pocket Nightmare by Max Maven

Pocket Nightmare by Max is more a comparison between Pocket Nightmare and Card to Pocket by The Other Brothers than a straight review of Pocket Nightmare. Anybody who knows me will probably be well aware of the fact I’m…

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2020-12-14

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Review: Card To Pocket by The Other Brothers

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Card To Pocket by The Other Brothershttps://ellusionist.com/products/other-brothers-card-to-pocketI’m not a big fan of this one, I think it would play quite well to most lay audiences, but not magicians. I’m actually quite taken aback at the wild, far from the mark…

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2020-12-14

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Review: Magic Is Dead book by Ian Frisch

Really not a good book. This book is contrived, meandering, disjointed, and very poorly researched. The author keeps mentioning that as a journalist he is a storyteller, but sadly he’s terrible at this, his stories all basically boil down to…

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2020-12-14

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Review: Card on Ceiling by Jamy Ian Swiss

It’s something that most magicians do, have done, or will do at least once, but did you know the card on ceiling plot is by no means a recent development? In fact, it’s over three hundred years old (it’s mentioned…

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2020-11-09

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Review: Stack Watch by Pete Turner & Ellusionist

NOTE: I posted The original Stack Watch review in the #Reviews channel of The Peoples Palace of Prestidigitation on the eighth of June 2020, with a later addendum on the 12th of August, and another addendum on the third of…

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2020-10-14

General

Hello there!

As this is the first blog post here, I suppose I should cover some history. Although The Peoples Palace of Prestidigitation is currently the largest discord server dedicated to magic, we started off as a discord presence for Eduard Todor.…

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2020-10-07