1-Nobody asked me to examine the wallet for normal deep clear effect.
2-the x gimmick card is
not perfectly match (design)with your bicycle deck
3-stage by stage by John graham has better
ideas about more letters and switch
4-some moves are unnatural in my opinion for x
5-the
method on x website easily could reveal.
6-using technology for this effect is kind of force to
me.(it’s better peek in this case sending the spectators on the application for peek)
9 of 9 magicians found this helpful.
1-Nobody asked me to examine the wallet for normal deep clear effect.
2-the x gimmick card is
not perfectly match (design)with your bicycle deck
3-stage by stage by John graham has better
ideas about more letters and switch
4-some moves are unnatural in my opinion for x
5-the
method on x website easily could reveal.
6-using technology for this effect is kind of force to
me.(it’s better peek in this case sending the spectators on the application for peek)
3 of 4 magicians found this helpful.
Let's just get this out of the way: Paul Harris is a genius. He's the Thomas Edison/Albert Einstein
of magic. Deep Astonishment(s) 1 and 2 are two of the greatest tricks in magic. They're royalty. And
Paul, who's prolific, should have stopped there. Deep X simply doesn't need to exist. It's as if
Leonardo Da Vinci kept tweaking the Mona Lisa until it looked like Bart Simpson.
Notice
the one thing in the trailer they neither show nor mention vocally -- the website. It gets a rather
cursory message in text at the end. And there's a reason they bury it. It ruins the magic of
(possibly) the most magical effect ever created. The website indicates some funny business is
happening. It's simply not natural to ask someone to enter a secret word on a website. And when the
website does its dirty work, it LOOKS like something funny is happening. It FEELS like something
fishy is happening. It's apparent the app is engaged in some calculation. Tragically, the app LINKS
the idea of the lucky word and the lucky cards in the spec's mind. Not good.
But this is
where Deep X's true fatal flaw comes into stark relief: When the app spits out the spec's lucky
cards, they call them out to you while you fish through the deck, find them, and deal them face up
on the table. And then you almost immediately PUT THEM RIGHT BACK IN THE DECK (after a completely
meaningless excuse for some business.) Why take them out in the first place? I have no idea, and
this is the death knell of the trick. Every step reeks of process.
Look, people will
disagree with me, and that's fine. I wanted to love this effect. I just didn't. In the end, the
whole shebang feels forced and unnatural. Bummer.
1 of 1 magicians found this helpful.
Careless construction of the wallet as the adhesive used for plastic insert inside of wallet grabs
the cards making them difficult to remove.
As well, the sewn seam at the top leaves just
enough unsewn edge of leather where it interferes with the extraction of the cards
I have
had to attempt to scrape out the adhesive and now considering shortening the width of the cards to
stop this extreme sticking card irritation. Corn starch might help. The point is I should not have
to do any of this had the prop been checked before packaged. So have not been able to perform as of
yet.
The wallet might be helped by making it 2 mm wider and by careful placement of
adhesive obviously.
The effect looks great and I hope I can perform it soon.
A
little QC please.
Hopefully lesson learned.
1 of 1 magicians found this helpful.
I'm not sure why the other reviews give this less than 5 stars. I absolutely love this! Made a small
adjustment to the presentation but overall I was very pleased with this trick. Got the WOW factor
from everyone I performed this for...
GET IT YOU WON'T REGRET IT!
Careless construction of the wallet as the adhesive used for plastic insert inside of wallet grabs
the cards making them difficult to remove.
As well, the sewn seam at the top leaves just
enough unsewn edge of leather where it interferes with the extraction of the cards
I have
had to attempt to scrape out the adhesive and now considering shortening the width of the cards to
stop this extreme sticking card irritation. Corn starch might help. The point is I should not have
to do any of this had the prop been checked before packaged. So have not been able to perform as of
yet.
The wallet might be helped by making it 2 mm wider and by careful placement of
adhesive obviously.
The effect looks great and I hope I can perform it soon.
A
little QC please.
Hopefully lesson learned.