Hey Craig, first off I want to say thanks for all that you do for your magic tv family here on UA-cam, and for all you do for the rest of the magic community. The interview with Marc Paul was absolutely wonderful, I truly enjoyed it. The section on trade shows really got me interested in working them. I was wondering if you could elaborate on ways to find out which companies are going to be involved in the trade shows? So I can contact them to see if they would be interested in my services. The trade shows sites don’t really show what companies are going to be there. How did you go about contacting companies for trade show work? Thanks again Craig!
Craig actually created a superb stand up piece, that with his kind permission, I use and it never fails to deliver. This has elevated my performances to a level I never could of imagined. Thank you my friend.
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No question this time, just wanted to say thank you for all the videos this year. I've learnt so much! Have an awesome 2025!
Hi Craig thanks for answering my question ! You give so much back to the Magic community ! I truly appreciate you. Couple of questions I was wondering when you send out the cupcakes, How often do you send them out ? What if that same client books you more than once do you send it to them every time ? Thanks again Craig !
Hi Craig. Happy new year to you and the family and thanks to you and the gang for all the hard work you put into Magic TV, it’s very much appreciated. A while back you were talking about Jeff Prace at Plainsight Magic and I think you mentioned you were hoping to pick up a Passenger Wallet? I’ve just picked one up myself, and love what it allows me to do. I tend to stick to the main routine taught on the tutorial but I’m wondering what else could be done with the wallet if I had even a tiny bit of your creativity and outside-the box-thinking!
thank you so much for this channel. I love watching your content and it's so refreshing to get your honest and unfiltered take on all things magic. And your work ethic is inspiring and motivating
Hi Craig! Hope the holidays went well. My question is this: have you ever felt you’ve delivered subpar magic to your audience, and how did you improve it? Second question: go-to trick/routines when asked to perform socially? Thank you for all you do!!
Third comment for Fool Us! A lot of stuff I see you do is 'classic' moves which I'm sure they'd see through, but you have such a vast knowledge and you're so creative I know you'd have something you can put together to test them. Even if you don't win the trophy, a lot of your fans would love to see you on the show. Hope you have a successful 2025 and thanks for all you do for your subscribers and the industry as a whole
Hi Craig, Hope you enjoyed your holidays and all is well I’ve been wanting to perform for a while and never had the guts to actually do it but after watching your channel and being an avid fan and student for so long I couldn’t not do it and I already had 3 performances a couple more bookings only because of you craig yeah I know you’re gonna say that I’m the one that went out and performed but it’s only because of you thank you thank you thank you P.S. Ive been trying to reach you by email I know it’s a busy time but if you can please go back and look for happy pancakes greatly appreciate it thank you for all that you do and have a great 2025
Hello Craig question number 2 here. I’m doing research on the different principles used in mind reading. I’m finding that learning principles rather than tricks are far more interesting and useful. Can you name off as many principles for mind reading as you can think of if I’ve missed any? And any good resources where I can look up different principles. Thanks again Craig! 1) equivocation 2) dual reality 3) forces 4) matrix principle 5) binary principle 6) P.A.T.E.O method 7) magicians choice 8) switches 9) billets & business card peeks 10) envelope switches & peeks
Hi Craig, firstly happy new year , I have recently got John Bannon’s Chop shop which looks superb, but I’m struggling with the 7 card Elmsley count, where is the best resource to learn this for the seven cards, and how simple is it to learn. Secondly I can’t get past the mental block that how does the spectator not see that it’s seven cards , to me as the performer it looks so obvious, and I struggle with this block on lots of tricks which makes me more nervous to perform as I don’t want to ruin the effect, I only perform for family and colleagues as an hobby so flight time isn’t something I get lots of, thanks again for all you do.
Hi Craig, I have been in magic for a very long time but not as a professionnal magician. In the next 2 to 3 years I will retirer from my current job which is not in magic. I have experience in doing magic shows (mostly in parlor situations) and I also have an abondant quantities of tricks that I can choose from. My question is related to the fact that I will be about 63 years old when I retirer from my current job and start my new magic business. I am not looking to build something huge but rather to have a part-time pro entertainent business doing shows. What do you think about starting a magician show-business at the age of 63 ? Am I to old to do so as per today's 'standards' ? Thanks, Ben
Hey craig ..great video and thank you for the video line up for the last week of 2024 ..I've got few questions 1. The fusion mosaic Phenomenon by phill smith is just one trick or the deck can be used for multiple effects as the deck is marked for the photos on the face.. ? If yes can we have Sone ideas to use the deck in ways other then the photo reveal .. 2. Your royal rumble 2025 winner prediction ..? 3. Why magictv dsnt do mindhaus product reviews ..? Thnx . N happy new year .. 😊
What do you do or say to introduce your self to birthday people or wedding couples when you have been booked as a surprise hence they don’t know your coming ? Next week I have been booked for a 40th birthday as a surprise and I’m not sure how to go by introducing myself to the birthday man, should I just say your wife has booked me as a surprise for you
Hello happy new year. Craig IAM a member of Netrix but I could not loog on, requested to set a new pass word, but have not received any response after many days, also I do not see how to communicate with staff or Netrix manager, I do not use social media.. I hated it, need help to log back
Hey there. I’m so sorry. My staff have been on a break since just before Christmas so your Neil might have been missed. Give me until tomorrow and I’ll check personally for you. Also send me a personal email at craig@magictv.org and I can look into it that way as well We will get this sorted for you asap. Cheers
I have 2 years experience of real gigs now but they have all been “teen or adult gigs “ I’m now looking into getting into kids magic in the new year, so im researching dvds on how to learn to be a kids magician entertainer, do you reccomed any good resources. Also do you find that in most kids parties, the adults are also there ? This is because perhaps i can do close up magic after for the adults. Also because i have an idea to dem very basic tricks at during the kids show like small things from a kids magic set and then teaching them and selling them to the children, but of course this would mean the parents would need to be there. Finally from what ive seen so far ive seen most kid entertainers make teh children scream an awful lot during the show, does this not hurt the childrens voice, have you ever had a complaint from a parent that the childs got a sore throught after or am i overthinking that.
Hi Craig, I’m a big fan and I have two questions? My first is if you’ve ever thought of doing a stripper deck project? I loved all your other gaff deck projects and stripper decks are my favorite gaff deck. My other is if you’ve ever thought of going on Fool Us? Someone as creative as you would do amazing.
Hey Craig Compliment to you and family I have done Stage magic my whole life but really love close up Where i live there is no market for it how can i get around this Thanks Stephen Roux South Africa
I’m doing a a parlour show soon and this is my set list but I’m not sure of the best order to do it in. This is the set list in a random order - cardiograph - venom cube + solution Toxic plus - cups and balls - interlace plus timeless I’m pretty sure to open with cardigraphic and end with either toxic plus or venom cube but not sure which one
Hi Craig, Hope you had a great Christmas and New Year. 2024 was such a great year, you released the best magic and the best content on MagicTV and The Netrix and I can't wait to see what 2025 brings. My question - A lot of the time people talk about interesting methods in tricks. But I think it's more important that we look at the effect on the audience, not the method because the method doesn't matter to the audience. It would be better to learn something with a great effect and uninteresting method than the other way round. However, I still see lots of magicians thinking that's a cool method so I'll do that. Do you think it's important to think about the effect on the audience before the method? Thanks as always! 😀 🪄
Hey Craig, first off I want to say thanks for all that you do for your magic tv family here on UA-cam, and for all you do for the rest of the magic community. The interview with Marc Paul was absolutely wonderful, I truly enjoyed it. The section on trade shows really got me interested in working them. I was wondering if you could elaborate on ways to find out which companies are going to be involved in the trade shows? So I can contact them to see if they would be interested in my services. The trade shows sites don’t really show what companies are going to be there. How did you go about contacting companies for trade show work? Thanks again Craig!
Craig actually created a superb stand up piece, that with his kind permission, I use and it never fails to deliver. This has elevated my performances to a level I never could of imagined. Thank you my friend.
No question this time, just wanted to say thank you for all the videos this year. I've learnt so much! Have an awesome 2025!
Greetings of the season to you and yours.
Hi Craig thanks for answering my question ! You give so much back to the Magic community ! I truly appreciate you. Couple of questions I was wondering when you send out the cupcakes, How often do you send them out ? What if that same client books you more than once do you send it to them every time ? Thanks again Craig !
Thanks for all your great works Graig
Thankyou for answering my question 😀❤
Hi Craig. Happy new year to you and the family and thanks to you and the gang for all the hard work you put into Magic TV, it’s very much appreciated. A while back you were talking about Jeff Prace at Plainsight Magic and I think you mentioned you were hoping to pick up a Passenger Wallet? I’ve just picked one up myself, and love what it allows me to do. I tend to stick to the main routine taught on the tutorial but I’m wondering what else could be done with the wallet if I had even a tiny bit of your creativity and outside-the box-thinking!
thank you so much for this channel. I love watching your content and it's so refreshing to get your honest and unfiltered take on all things magic. And your work ethic is inspiring and motivating
Hi Craig! Hope the holidays went well.
My question is this: have you ever felt you’ve delivered subpar magic to your audience, and how did you improve it?
Second question: go-to trick/routines when asked to perform socially?
Thank you for all you do!!
Third comment for Fool Us! A lot of stuff I see you do is 'classic' moves which I'm sure they'd see through, but you have such a vast knowledge and you're so creative I know you'd have something you can put together to test them. Even if you don't win the trophy, a lot of your fans would love to see you on the show. Hope you have a successful 2025 and thanks for all you do for your subscribers and the industry as a whole
Hi Craig,
Hope you enjoyed your holidays and all is well
I’ve been wanting to perform for a while and never had the guts to actually do it but after watching your channel and being an avid fan and student for so long I couldn’t not do it and I already had 3 performances a couple more bookings only because of you craig yeah I know you’re gonna say that I’m the one that went out and performed but it’s only because of you thank you thank you thank you
P.S. Ive been trying to reach you by email I know it’s a busy time but if you can please go back and look for happy pancakes greatly appreciate it thank you for all that you do and have a great 2025
Hello Craig question number 2 here. I’m doing research on the different principles used in mind reading. I’m finding that learning principles rather than tricks are far more interesting and useful. Can you name off as many principles for mind reading as you can think of if I’ve missed any? And any good resources where I can look up different principles. Thanks again Craig!
1) equivocation
2) dual reality
3) forces
4) matrix principle
5) binary principle
6) P.A.T.E.O method
7) magicians choice
8) switches
9) billets & business card peeks
10) envelope switches & peeks
Hi Craig, firstly happy new year , I have recently got John Bannon’s Chop shop which looks superb, but I’m struggling with the 7 card Elmsley count, where is the best resource to learn this for the seven cards, and how simple is it to learn. Secondly I can’t get past the mental block that how does the spectator not see that it’s seven cards , to me as the performer it looks so obvious, and I struggle with this block on lots of tricks which makes me more nervous to perform as I don’t want to ruin the effect, I only perform for family and colleagues as an hobby so flight time isn’t something I get lots of, thanks again for all you do.
Nice tan craig
Hi Craig, I have been in magic for a very long time but not as a professionnal magician. In the next 2 to 3 years I will retirer from my current job which is not in magic. I have experience in doing magic shows (mostly in parlor situations) and I also have an abondant quantities of tricks that I can choose from. My question is related to the fact that I will be about 63 years old when I retirer from my current job and start my new magic business. I am not looking to build something huge but rather to have a part-time pro entertainent business doing shows. What do you think about starting a magician show-business at the age of 63 ? Am I to old to do so as per today's 'standards' ? Thanks, Ben
Hey craig ..great video and thank you for the video line up for the last week of 2024 ..I've got few questions
1. The fusion mosaic Phenomenon by phill smith is just one trick or the deck can be used for multiple effects as the deck is marked for the photos on the face.. ? If yes can we have Sone ideas to use the deck in ways other then the photo reveal ..
2. Your royal rumble 2025 winner prediction ..?
3. Why magictv dsnt do mindhaus product reviews ..?
Thnx . N happy new year .. 😊
What do you do or say to introduce your self to birthday people or wedding couples when you have been booked as a surprise hence they don’t know your coming ? Next week I have been booked for a 40th birthday as a surprise and I’m not sure how to go by introducing myself to the birthday man, should I just say your wife has booked me as a surprise for you
Hello happy new year. Craig IAM a member of Netrix but I could not loog on, requested to set a new pass word, but have not received any response after many days, also I do not see how to communicate with staff or Netrix manager, I do not use social media.. I hated it, need help to log back
Hey there. I’m so sorry. My staff have been on a break since just before Christmas so your Neil might have been missed. Give me until tomorrow and I’ll check personally for you.
Also send me a personal email at craig@magictv.org and I can look into it that way as well
We will get this sorted for you asap.
Cheers
I have 2 years experience of real gigs now but they have all been “teen or adult gigs “ I’m now looking into getting into kids magic in the new year, so im researching dvds on how to learn to be a kids magician entertainer, do you reccomed any good resources. Also do you find that in most kids parties, the adults are also there ? This is because perhaps i can do close up magic after for the adults. Also because i have an idea to dem very basic tricks at during the kids show like small things from a kids magic set and then teaching them and selling them to the children, but of course this would mean the parents would need to be there.
Finally from what ive seen so far ive seen most kid entertainers make teh children scream an awful lot during the show, does this not hurt the childrens voice, have you ever had a complaint from a parent that the childs got a sore throught after or am i overthinking that.
Hi Craig, I’m a big fan and I have two questions?
My first is if you’ve ever thought of doing a stripper deck project? I loved all your other gaff deck projects and stripper decks are my favorite gaff deck.
My other is if you’ve ever thought of going on Fool Us? Someone as creative as you would do amazing.
Hey Craig
Compliment to you and family
I have done Stage magic my whole life but really love close up
Where i live there is no market for it how can i get around this
Thanks
Stephen Roux
South Africa
I’m doing a a parlour show soon and this is my set list but I’m not sure of the best order to do it in.
This is the set list in a random order
- cardiograph
- venom cube + solution
Toxic plus
- cups and balls
- interlace plus timeless
I’m pretty sure to open with cardigraphic and end with either toxic plus or venom cube but not sure which one
h n y gl bw
Hi Craig,
Hope you had a great Christmas and New Year. 2024 was such a great year, you released the best magic and the best content on MagicTV and The Netrix and I can't wait to see what 2025 brings.
My question - A lot of the time people talk about interesting methods in tricks. But I think it's more important that we look at the effect on the audience, not the method because the method doesn't matter to the audience. It would be better to learn something with a great effect and uninteresting method than the other way round. However, I still see lots of magicians thinking that's a cool method so I'll do that. Do you think it's important to think about the effect on the audience before the method?
Thanks as always! 😀 🪄