A new direction… I had just been tossed a curve ball in my second attempt to fool Penn & Teller. After having spent three weeks of very long days designing, engineering, building, scripting and rehearsing what I thought would be a killer ending to my Cups and Steel Balls, the legal department of the CW […]
Building the Kicker to Cups & Steel Balls After performing my trick Unshuffled on Season 3 of Penn & Teller: Fool Us, I never expected to be back on the show in Season 4—there are so many good magicians who still haven’t had the chance. However, when I flew to Las Vegas last October to […]
FOOLED! It was almost time to see whether my new ending to UnShuffled would be successful in fooling Penn and Teller. On Sunday, April 10th, my wife Kathryn and I flew to Las Vegas for the taping of Penn & Teller Fool Us. I felt good about my routine and was hopeful that the surprise […]
The Process of Fooling Penn & Teller So… as I mentioned in my last blog post “What’s the Trick to Fooling Penn & Teller? Part One,” I was booked to appear on Penn & Teller: Fool Us on the CW Network to perform my trick Unshuffled. The problem was that Penn and Teller already knew the […]
Fooling Penn & Teller: Part One One of the hottest shows this summer has been Penn & Teller: Fool US, which is now in its third season on the CW Network. I had the pleasure of appearing on the show this season. I was assigned the task of fooling Penn & Teller…with a trick they already […]
I’ll believe it when I see it…oh really? What we can learn from a simple magic trick. Magic tricks are designed to play with your sense of reality. And one of the ways they do that is to get you to make assumptions about what you see. “The coin is in the magicians left-hand”, or […]
The year was 1978 and I was sitting in Paris with a group of magicians in the amazing home of Christian Fechner. Mr. Fechner was both a magician and very successful French movie producer… think Steven Spielberg. We were surrounded by floor to ceiling bookcases of ancient magic books and one of a kind magic […]
RIP My Friend Not Brian Gillis. Damn. We lost another one. Brian Gillis one of the world’s best close-up magicians passed away two days ago of complications from heart surgery. Brian was 71. Brian and I were friends for over 45 years. We first met in April of 1973 when we both attended our first […]
Giving Thanks… On this Thanksgiving Holiday I’m thankful that I’m a Magician… and for the people in my life that helped make it possible. I was probably ten years old when I began thinking about a life as a magician. I was reading a Disney comic book about Mickey Mouse. In the story, Mickey was […]
Do you know what your audience sees? What does your audience see when you step on stage? What do you want them to know about you? How do you want to be perceived in their mind? All of these things are under our control… to a degree. Understanding what your audience sees when you walk […]
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