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 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 | Oct 31, 2020 | Effects, Inner Circle
Mismate routine gets ‘suped-up’ with a Pit Hartling idea… Today’s effect is a variation on one that I sent you earlier this week. If you haven’t read that one, go do that here. Done? You’re the best. Let’s get into it… Here’s the idea: It occurred to me...
by Benji | Oct 29, 2020 | Effects, Inner Circle
Simon Aronson was a genius, here’s an idea he inspired… Alright, here’s an interesting idea I had based on an effect from the legendary Simon Aronson. The effect is called ‘Mismate’ and is described in detail in the book Bound to Please (which I’m gonna assume...
by Benji | Oct 21, 2020 | Effects, Inner Circle
I did it again (Groundhog Day)… Alright, here’s a doozy of a routine that started as a ‘cute’ idea I wanted to explore and quickly turned into a meaty project not dissimilar from the final effect in Module 7 of the Skyscraper Method. Hence why I decided to call...
