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First I want to wish you all the best for 2010!
May your dreams come true and that you will have success in magic!
After 6 months online, I’m very pleased and a bit proud on how well this blog was so well receipted by my readers.
Here are some statistics that may be interesting for you:

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“Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Miser’s Dream, But Were Afraid to Ask” would have been the subtitle that I had chosen for the DVD if someone had asked me. Levent stays a bit more serious in stating “Everything you ever wanted to know about this classic effect!” And exactly that’s what you get when buying this three volume DVD set….

Dear Readers,
As you can imagine, it takes a lot of time and energy to blog in the way I do. Most bloggers try to get a bit of compensation by placing ads on there pages. From start on, I decided to keep this blog free of any advertisements to ensure my independence from any [...]

After it took really long to get me hooked on ropes, I know love them and especially my own cut and restored rope routine. In this post I want to share my experiences and ideas on how to prepare / gimmick a rope.
First, what type of rope to use. I recommend a soft cotton rope [...]

OK, after some discussions I know settled on: “Outlook Show Manager” simple and it says what it is.
I hope you like it.
Tom

Not really, don’t  you think? I’m short before launching the first Beta of “The Outlook Show Manager”. Now I’m pondering if it’s really a good name for such a application. As I’m not a native speaker I need your Help!
So PLEASE do some brainstorming and help me with your ideas for a god name that [...]

Last week I faced the challenge to create a scissor that looks like designed by Ferrari. So I got a real nice designer scissor and decided to paint parts of it in Ferrari red.
I never used an airbrush set before and so I was surprised to hear that I don’t need an expensive compressor and [...]

When I got his new eBook from Tom Stone, my first thought was: “Tom must have gone insane to write almost a full eBook about the multiplying bottles trick.”

To me this trick never appealed in any way and so I began to read rather sceptical but also curious as I know Tom is a great [...]

It has been a while since my last post, I was just too busy with other projects, but I promise you I will continue posting. I have a lot of ideas and topics and even great new stuff to review (e.g. Levents Miser’s Dream DVD set) but limited time (and sometimes also limited energy).
If you [...]

I’m really thankful that Todd Karr with his Miracle Factory releases this series of historic magic videos as I’m much too young to have had the chance to watch these masters of the past live and there is so much to learn from them.
When I got the newsletter from Miracle Factory that announced a DVD [...]