It's good to Geek

Had a fun afternoon of magic geekery. Darren popped by and we talked briefly of our up coming show before a little day trip to a DIY store for some styling inspiration. Ultimately we settled down and went through Dave Forests 2wofaced DVD. We were keen to hone our close up acts whilst the lessons from the last gig were in our mind. I've wanted new material for a while and so has Darren, and whilst we're mainly in the market for "impromptu" card magic the 2wo faced DVD has been a source of great material in the past. Darren found a few effects he wants to work on before he hit on an amazing idea for my set. 2wo Faced has an effect called "Super Fly". IT's where a  fly drawn onto a card locates selected card. A crudely drawn character finding a card, sounds familiar? Whilst the method used is  entirely different to Wee Wee Mentalist it is in the same theme, hence why I have discarded it in the past. However I'm now working on a set of  other effects the wee wee mentalist can help me with, and as Darren pointed out I could just as easily draw the mentalist as a fly (after an initial experiment I think the mentalist is easier to draw).
 I have also sourced some impromptu effects. So my challenge is to learn "super Fly" by Friday for Electr[o]cracy and one impromptu effect.. This really does show though the benefit of just geeking out with friends as you never know  where the next  good idea will come form.

As for ideas coming from different places. Flourishes!. Initially I wanted to avoid them. I was going to be mainly a mentalist when I set out in magic, and hence not wanting to appear that any effects were down to slight of hand. However I'm mainly becoming a 'Card Guy' and According to research by Richard Wiseman a few flourishes can increase the impact and sense of magic in a participant. Reluctantly I started researching some simple flourishes. Mark Willsons opus "Complete Course in Magic" makes a compelling point. BY practising flourishes you will increase your handling ability of cards, hence making slights easier to pull off and giving a more polished performance. All this even if you never perform the flourishes. So time to practise.