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Sometime soon I'll stop messing around with my camera and do some work.

I think this trick is really... nice. It's simple to follow and it has this strange enchanting quality as people watch with fascination at how fairly each piece of yarn is accounted for - in retrospect, the climax is obvious but is always met with great surprise.

It's a lovely little table piece because it can be enjoyed by children and adults, you can give away a souvenir at the end that itself is explanatory of the effect... you end clean... so many little things make this a winsome trick.

Couple of things:
1) Those who know or can work out the method will see a flash at a certain point. I hope you agree it wasn't worth a total reshoot for (as I've said before, I don't like to do that if possible) and in any situation other than before the unblinking eye of the camera, there is absolutely no attention being paid to the area in question at that stage.

2) The patter is half true, half rubbish. It is a Fernando Keops trick, but he didn't teach it to me personally, it's on a DVD of his! It's actually called "Mini 20th Century", although it's true that his accent causes him to call it "jellow jarn". As for him being a great magician, I've no idea, but it sounds good and he's obviously deemed worth enough for L&L to give him a DVD series. This is one trick which I think fits with this type of semi-storyline, "passed on from an old master" style presentation.

Fire away

Ok a few points on this one - no, it wasn't worth a reshoot.
And you know, when you lick the envelope closed, you make possibly THE most attractive face in the world
Oh and whilst I remember... I personally didn't buy what you were doing with the envelope... sorry!

Overall though, it was nice. Nice and simple - obviously some of the handling would be changed in front of audiences (you wouldn't need to lean across to get a glass for example!) but would you still wear your jacket?
Just wondering if this is your favourite ditch or whether you'd store all the bits in your jacket - personally I'd favour trouser pockets - but like I said, just a preference

Jeans would work fine, although if I was wearing either that jacket (specifically for performing magic) or my leather jacket, I'd probably use the pockets of that, simply because there's a bit more space for manoeuvring, and the very logistical reason that I don't think the match box would last as long being stuffed into my jeans pocket all the time!

So, in answer to your question, the jacket is obligatory but I prefer it.

Farlsborough wrote:So, in answer to your question, the jacket is obligatory but I prefer it.

Optional even?

Farls,

My only critisism would be your fumbling to remove the envelope from your pocket. If you remind me next Sat I'll show you how to make a very useful and versatile gadget which would eliminate that problem.

Yes Ecko, optional - I think I meant to say "isn't obligatory" actually... idiot (me).

Cheers Tenko, look forward to that - pocket management is frequently an issue for me as I try to find components of tricks knocking around, so help with that would be greatly appreciated.