It’s funny how the cards fall.

I had two multi-year projects in the works…a book called Session and a DVD series called Talk About Tricks. Though completely unrelated and unintentional, they’re both released in the same week. I’m not crazy about the timing, but it was out of my control. That, as they say, is how the cards fall.

Let’s Talk About Tricks. Over the last five years I have published lots of tricks in MAGIC magazine. They’re great tricks by some of magic’s greatest thinkers. I am always surprised at which effects “catch on,” and which effects don’t. I have found that a trick’s popularity (among magicians) has almost no relation to its impact on an audience. A panel helped me select some of the best routines from the last five years of my column…WITHOUT much regard for popularity. I think that’s a good thing.

When I lecture to magicians, I am bombarded with requests from my column. “THAT was in the column?” is the general response. “I must have missed it,” usually followed by, “Do you remember the issue?”

You’ll finally get to see all the effects you’ve been reading about, and I hope you’ll be pleasantly surprised by how great these items look at performance speed.

To a degree, all magic looks better than it reads, and this is the thrust behind this unique set of DVDs. You rarely see a CAST of magicians on the same DVD, and ours are some of the most innovative thinkers in magic. The group is a mix of established magic celebrities and names you may be less familiar with. But I can assure you, each person brings a different style and a different sort of magic.

I’ve seen the series already and I’m so pleased with the results. The cast—my friends—all helped make this a very special collection of magic. I’m happy with variety of material and I made sure that there are plenty of items for all skill levels.

I hope you enjoy the set!

Buy this brand new set directly from www.joshuajay.com and we’ll pay the shipping…everywhere in the world.

~ by joshuajay on June 29, 2007.