visual madness

:(

Seems that someone’s posted a self-made tutorial of my effect Punk’d. Again. This has happened so many times it hardly fazes me any more, but seriously… if you’re gonna teach my routine, at least practice it well before you go out trying to teach it.

I award you zero points, sir, and sincerely hope that you fall into a pit of candy.

Boiling candy.

Here’s an interesting magic-in-the-real-world application – it looks like someone’s taken the ol’ Magic Coloring Book / Svengali Deck principle and applied it to an actual brochure:

I can totally imagine their clients freaking out after handling the booklet.

“HOLY CRAP HOW THE HELL DID I JUST DO THAT??”

“Just sign right here, Mr. Andrews, and I’ll tell you everything.”

Yesterday afternoon, it was brought to my attention by my friend Spencer Peterson that the venerable Jack Carpenter (not to be confused with Halloween director John Carpenter) had mentioned on The Magic Cafe that he was a fan of my material. » Read the rest of this entry «

Theory11′s About page, before my Theory17 post:

Theory11′s About page, after my Theory17 post:

Now, I’m not saying that my tongue-in-cheek article was the reason they did this, but given that these long-overdue changes have only taken place recently, it’s hard to shrug it off as “just a coincidence”.

Also, I noticed that the word “unparalleled” from the original second paragraph is now absent in the new version. Could it be that they’ve finally encountered an outside force to be reckoned with?

Guess we’ll have to wait and see.