by Benji | Dec 9, 2020 | Effects, Inner Circle
This week, I want to show you an idea I had based on Juan Tamariz’ excellent ‘Neither Blind nor Stupid.’ The official dealer copy of the effect is as follows… “Neither Blind Nor Stupid is easy to do and a real fooler for magicians and laypeople alike! From...
by Benji | Dec 2, 2020 | Effects, Inner Circle
The Juan Tamariz/Paul Curry Frankenstein strikes… This week in the Inner Circle, I’ll show you what might happen if Paul Curry’s ‘Out of This World’ married Juan Tamariz’ ‘Total Coincidence…’ I started thinking about this after spending so long discussing...
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...
