The other day, it was later in the evening and decided that I was going to perform myself film a card effect. I filmed it, got 3/4 of the way to the end and had to stop because I had messed up the effect. The trick is basically a "demonstration" where I show people how to cheat at cards. It’s actually an amazing display of sleight-of-hand because of the way I control the cards and arrange a randomly shuffled deck of cards into their order, along with controlling the 4 aces along the way. It really is impressive, or so I thought.
I took a look at the footage and was impressed with my sleight-of-hand. Sometimes, I realize that my moves are so smooth that I actually fool myself (seriously). But I realized one thing – the trick was actually kind of boring to watch.
When I noticed that I decided that I couldn’t put it online. Yes, taking a shuffled deck of cards and pulling the 4 aces out of the middle is cool… and doing it over and over again dealing myself the 4 aces under impossible conditions is entertaining… but just showing it to the camera isn’t interesting to watch. I decided to cut the trick, painful as the decision was.
I’ll have to come up with something else.
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