Secret Agenda – January 29 – Bridge Control

Secret Agenda – March 22 – Fechter’s Slide Control For some reason it took a while to make sense of this description, and I place no blame on Roberto.  For the longest time I just couldn’t get it.  Finally, I made it work.  There’s a saying in Spanish, “No me llamó la atención.”  It just […]

Secret Agenda – March 19 – A Not So Mathematical Control I like Roberto’s thinking, especially as an example of the discipline required to spruce up boring (or rather, not too exciting) magic procedures. As for this effect, I’d only perform it on somebody’s birthday.  And even then, I’d be hard pressed to not perform […]

Secret Agenda – March 18 – A Mathematical Control I’m interested to see what Roberto comes up with tomorrow.  As it stands, I’d never do this.  But I’ve seen other people perform it (as a simple location) to mild response.

Secret Agenda – March 15 – The Goldin Pass What isn’t made clear in the description of this interesting pass is the direction that the packets are turned over. For example, in one variation, I can turn each packet over right-to-left (like a book).  Specifically, the first packet (top half) is turned over right-to-left (like […]