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This video was what got me back into card magic a year ago... I had been into magic as a teenager - but it died a death through my lack of patience.

I am now pretty competent in most of the things I have learnt, and also amassed a fair number of bought effects. I suddenly found the video when clearing out my hard drive, and thought that talk-magic was the place to find out who the guy was, and whether he had done anything else.... and lo and behold someone else was similarly blown away by this guy's deal!!!

Off to research Lennart Brown...

-C

Off to research Lennart Brown

youd probably be better checking for lennart GREEN... but close enough... hehe

From what I read this 'Llennart Green' changes colour, i myself thing the laser deal can look very tacky, unless you are looking at the right angle with the audience of spector(s) you can't really do this in an open space.

Mr Greene's "Laser deal", and everything that he attaches to that routine is very angle-problematic. Not a problem when you are Lennart Greene, one of the world's foremost close up technicians and you can pick and choose and design how and where you will perform what effects.

This routine that he does is phenomenal. I've seen it on TV several times, and was fortunate enough to see it live once. It is unreal.

My problem with this entire thread, however, are those of you who are trying to figure out how he does it so that you can do it yourself.

Allthough there are routines on the market, and Lennart has his video series out, I don't think that his intention was for other magicians to copy his routine.

Learn it, I did, but only to add it to your mental library. Use it as a resource for developing your own routines. Magicians like Lennart and countless other masters of our art are giants. Giants upon whose shoulders we will stand to reach new levels in magic.

Please, don't learn the Laser Deal and perform it. If you are technically proficient enough to perform the Laser Deal well, congratulations. It's a tough one, but use it as a resource.

There's no point in doing what's already been done. If was a painter, I might paint Van Gogh's "sunflowers", but not to present as my own...but to add a new dimension to how I looked at creating my own paintings.

Like painting, magic is an art---performance art, but it's absolutley an art form. Advance it. Learn from the masters, and add your own touch by creating your own signature pieces.

I agree that its a great effect I have seen many people perform including a magician use that same trick to help him win the FISM close up. I have a few ideas on how it may be done but it would require hours of practice. [Edited By Mods: 'Exchange' or requests to exchange information of this type is not allowed on the forum] or tell me where I could locate this information IE and DVD or book please contact me at s_adamson1@hotmail.com

youd probably be better checking for lennart GREEN... but close enough... hehe

Darn it - and I didn't think I was colour blind!!

Seriously though.. I agree fully with kardtrik... My reason for wanting to find out more about it, was to try and see it in more resolution than 320x100, or whatever it was when I found it..

I find watching these things and trying to work out how they could be done by far more entertaining (and less challenging!) than trying to perfect and perform them myself. It just proves to me that the Art of Magic is performance - not just technicality. More often than not the mechanism for an effect turns out to be an anticlimax!!!

If my memory serves me correct (which it doesn't do very often nowadays) he originally did it with a torch and the cards dissapearing as they passed the beam.

Oh, to be 20 again

Kardtrix said:

My problem with this entire thread, however, are those of you who are trying to figure out how he does it so that you can do it yourself.

I've heard that this one baffles many a professional and that it's one of the hardest effects to perform.