Magic Tricks

First, I deduct from the rating because of Penguin's lack of a volume control when playing the downloaded lecture. Second, I take away from the rating, because there is no table of contents, or even a list of the subjects covered. Penguin needs to fix these ASAP.

CONTENT: Very good silk magic and updated versions of Tarbell tricks that you will not have seen before. I especially loved the UFO themed magic trick using paper or plastic plates as a flying saucer. UFOs are popular now, with Ancient Aliens, Hangar 1, and other shows on the History channel, and Dan's presents an edgy alien abduction themed effect (with an added but optional equivoque when compared to the Tarbell original that inspired Dan's version).

Dan presents a variation of 20th Century silks that uses socks, which is very strong. Another effect included is a variation of existing silk magic to which Dan adds a story with a nice inclusiveness message that works perfectly for the silk trick.

The only thing that did not excite me was the last, and probably longest effect in the whole lecture, which was a more complicated and/or difficult version of another similar silk effect taught earlier in the lecture. The earlier one was very good, and the one I would do first rather than the longer/more involved one taught at the end, which was also very good, but just more work for a similar effect.

Overall the content is one of the stronger in the series, which is a pretty good series to begin with.