Magic Tricks

Larry Hass delivered a lecture within his lecture. You will find many card tricks and some tricks with cards. There's also a 'gift magic' trick leaving the person you're performing for with a souvenir.
But he expands his explanations with lots of credits and references. He explains the why of the script and handling. He explains how to bury the method more deeply and shows it. He talks about the structure of an act.
He frames all of this in a very useful way: by doing effects for particular performing situations.

In fact he starts his lecture by saying that we mostly think of types of performances in three ways: close-up, parlor, stage. But....being a much working professional myself, this is not the reality of things. Formal close-up is different from going from table to table at a party. Which is different from doing table magic at a gala dinner. Which is different from a seemingly casual after dinner performance. I've performed at the Castle a bunch of times and I know how the Parlour of Prestidigitation is a different beast than most venus I do stand-up, parlor type of magic in.
So framing the whole lecture like this and including all the aforementioned relevant topics for a performer, makes much sense to me.
He demonstrates tricks for different types of circumstances which helped me to re-think the type of effects I do in each situation. That re-thinking process happend form me on all of the levels I mentioned (structure, delivery, deep method as he calls it, etc.). So I wasn't just consuming new tricks, but I got much more out of it.
A refined, clear and engaging lecture!