by Benji | Nov 25, 2020 | Effects, Inner Circle
Howdy, Inner Circle! Here’s a fun concept I’ve played with a lot but never really took time to write out. I first had the idea while reading ‘Bound to Please’ by Simon Aronson. In this groundbreaking book, he introduced a very clever concept; an entirely new way of...
by Benji | Nov 18, 2020 | Audio Training, Inner Circle
Howdy! When I sat down with Danny Goldsmith a couple of weeks ago, we decided to record a ‘bonus’ segment just for our Inner Circle members (that’s you.) In this unaired interview, we start by asking Danny the best way for a beginner to get into coin magic. Then Danny...
by Benji | Nov 11, 2020 | Effects, Inner Circle
“We need to go deeper…” Last time we looked at a method for performing a ‘Weighing the Cards’ routine using a (half) shuffled deck. But what if we want to go deeper? Here’s an idea that lets you let the audience genuinely shuffle all of the cards in the deck. It...
by Benji | Nov 4, 2020 | Effects, Inner Circle
“Yo Doc, this is heavy…” I’ve always found ‘weighing the cards’ to be among the most boring effects you can do with a deck of cards. When they’ve seen us make cards appear at freely chosen numbers, inside sealed envelopes, and after spelling THEIR names…do...
by Benji | Nov 1, 2020 | Inner Circle, Thinking Differently
Here’s an email I sent out last week: Yesterday, I finished reading a book called ‘Zero to One’, and boy did it have a powerful lesson for magicians woven into its pages… A little context: This book was written by a man named Peter Thield. You may not have heard of...
