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MAKE MAGIC HAPPEN
Several years ago I went to see Penn & Teller’s Vegas magic show with my parents. (They’re a magician duo, if you’re unfamiliar.) (Penn & Teller, not my parents.) After the show they do a meet & greet in the lobby where you wait your turn to take pictures. The picture-taking set-up wasn’t particularly orderly—more like a giant swarm of people that you slowly waded through to get your photograph.
I was waiting with my dad, who felt I wasn’t being aggressive enough in getting to the front of the pack and as such, nudged me insistently. And by “insistently” I mean, non-stop. I-will-cut-off-your-finger-if-you-poke-me-again non-stop. Coupled with a hundred admonitions of “Move up! Get in there! Push through!” I was red-faced with fury. It probably took about ten minutes to reach Penn and by the time I got there, I was livid. Still, I wanted this picture so I posed with Penn, smiled to let my dad take the picture, and sagged with relief. It was over. Until we got about seven steps away and my dad mumbled, “Yeah...I didn’t get it.” I was like, WHAT? For reasons only dads can understand, he’d fiddled with the settings on the camera and couldn’t figure out how to un-set them so we ended up with a super-zoomed in shot that includes my sunburned forehead and the bottom right portion of Penn’s face. I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO ANGRY IN MY LIFE.
After several years, I became less angry and started to find the story funny. I’m not a huge magic fan (though I enjoyed the show), so I was less furious about the botched photo op than the nagging it took to get there. Still, I thought about this a lot while considering Crosbie’s magic tricks for the book, and spent some time on Youtube trying to find simple tricks that would fit the story. For those who are interested, below are links to two videos that show a couple of the tricks Crosbie performs (the one with the folded $1 and $5 bills, and the one with the coins). They’re not particularly high quality, and be warned: they both show how the tricks are done, in case you don’t want spoilers.
Enjoy!
$5 and $1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8aoA...
Coin toss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xznFp...
MAKE MAGIC HAPPEN
Several years ago I went to see Penn & Teller’s Vegas magic show with my parents. (They’re a magician duo, if you’re unfamiliar.) (Penn & Teller, not my parents.) After the show they do a meet & greet in the lobby where you wait your turn to take pictures. The picture-taking set-up wasn’t particularly orderly—more like a giant swarm of people that you slowly waded through to get your photograph.
I was waiting with my dad, who felt I wasn’t being aggressive enough in getting to the front of the pack and as such, nudged me insistently. And by “insistently” I mean, non-stop. I-will-cut-off-your-finger-if-you-poke-me-again non-stop. Coupled with a hundred admonitions of “Move up! Get in there! Push through!” I was red-faced with fury. It probably took about ten minutes to reach Penn and by the time I got there, I was livid. Still, I wanted this picture so I posed with Penn, smiled to let my dad take the picture, and sagged with relief. It was over. Until we got about seven steps away and my dad mumbled, “Yeah...I didn’t get it.” I was like, WHAT? For reasons only dads can understand, he’d fiddled with the settings on the camera and couldn’t figure out how to un-set them so we ended up with a super-zoomed in shot that includes my sunburned forehead and the bottom right portion of Penn’s face. I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO ANGRY IN MY LIFE.
After several years, I became less angry and started to find the story funny. I’m not a huge magic fan (though I enjoyed the show), so I was less furious about the botched photo op than the nagging it took to get there. Still, I thought about this a lot while considering Crosbie’s magic tricks for the book, and spent some time on Youtube trying to find simple tricks that would fit the story. For those who are interested, below are links to two videos that show a couple of the tricks Crosbie performs (the one with the folded $1 and $5 bills, and the one with the coins). They’re not particularly high quality, and be warned: they both show how the tricks are done, in case you don’t want spoilers.
Enjoy!
$5 and $1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8aoA...
Coin toss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xznFp...
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