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A nice 5 card revelation. Friction Five. Frive.

I always use this production for ‘The Queens’ by Dan and Dave Buck. It’s on the first disc of the Trilogy.

-Barry

UPDATED: A trick of mine. I took out most of the special effects and changed a few things here and there. It is a bit leghty but I think it’s worth watching anyways. Inspired by Ricky Jay, Shoot Ogawa and Juan Tamariz.

-Ineski

EDUCATE YOURSELF.

Just a small peek into the past

Those are some smooth looking hands!

Want to learn more about Ed Marlo? Visit Ed Marlo’s wikipage.

This is a guy worth knowing about!

Submitted by Lee Asher using the new SUBMIT A POST feature.

The First Place Winner for The Trilogy Contest put on by decknique.net & dananddave.com in 2007.

“After watching the midnight showing of ‘Grindhouse’, I just had to create this piece of pulp advertising.”

These playing cards were supposedly printed in the 70’s for the gaming tables, but never saw any ‘real action’. They were immediately sold in the gift store thereafter. The classic Jerry’s Nugget playing cards were made from top of the line US Playing Card Company card stock, that is not available today, which makes the cards much thicker. The U.S.P.C. also used a chemical finish then, which is also not available today - due to environmental reasons.

Jerry’s Nugget playing cards were printed in Cincinnati, Ohio, and then were driven to the North Las Vegascasino via trucks where they sat in storage for many years. The highly prized playing card eventually sold out in the summer of 1999. Jerry’s Nugget Casino does not have any plans to reprint them either.

Dai Vernon, Larry Jennings, Ed Marlo, Lee Asher, Frank Simon, Chris Kenner, Earl Nelson, and many other notable magicians have been seen playing with Jerry’s Nugget playing cards. The playing cards are stiff, hold their form, and are easily manipulated. Flourishers have taken a liking to these pasteboards as well. [...]

You can read more or edit the content in the wiki page here: Jerry’s Nugget Cards at Wikipedia.
Here are some ebay auctions ending within two days:

DARK LUMINESCENCE: when dark-adapted bodies emit light.

I know some of you might not like this video because most of the moves in it are basic level and the editting is just bizarre but that’s what makes this video special.

Even being a 5 minutes long what-did-you-smoke-dude video it deserves a spot in the blog for just one reason, you’ve done what nobody else did, and you somehow made me not want to pause and close.

I just wanted to keep watching it. It was hypnotizing.

-Alejandro

1st Place

Variety by Hyo

2nd Place

NaffStyle by Brendan Conner

3rd Place

Volatile by Damien Lee

Here are the prizes again:

Winner:

* 12 of David Blaine’s Split Spades ‘Lions‘ of your colour choice (Or mixed)
* 1 DVD Copy of ‘Control‘ by Wayne Houchin
* 6 Brown Wynn Decks
* 1 Wayne Houchin & Daniel Garcia Ultragaff Deck

2nd Prize:

* CoinTwo by Homer Liwag (DVD)

3rd Prize:

* Believe by Joel Paschall (DVD)

Congratulations to all participants from Matt, Tom and Alejandro.

A great seven minutes tutorial of a move that resembles Kevin Ho’s Sick and Twisted Wings of the Mockingbird. The double four of a kind production bonus at the end is pretty cool too. A must learn no doubt.

Keep it up Bao.