Thanks for posting.
Jane

Word on the street is this was supposed to be a new Ellusionist release; In your FACE coin Attack!!!1!!11, but it was leaked early. The person in the video, obviously, is Daniel Garcia, and this was shot in HD- but one of the camera men’s moms was there, and she filmed it with her video phone.

Instead Daniel will be coming out with Slip, Slink, Slap, a sequel to his latest release (which has a name SO ridiculous it can’t be made fun of).

Dicktated but not read.
Ben

But, I haven’t seen other people’s justification for WHY it’s important that the card rises to the top (why should they care?) rather then the bottom, or seventh from the face (which was Vernon’s original idea before the version he published in SoM… I can’t prove that though).

Tony: Don’t worry, I wasnt offended at all, I was just explaining that you can indeed (and that I do) meld together a ACR with something else. Personally (although I may be repeating myself here) I cant stand the standard ACR. To me there’s something un-inspiring about ending the routine just because it got the most visual or impossible as possible. For me, there has to be a reason to end the trick there, otherwise I feel that the end of the first trick should be routined into the next one which will eventually lead to a conclusion.

When I perform, I basically have a bunch of mini-routines; a bunch of tricks that all flow into each other making a small routine of a few tricks. The reason this is done this way is from table hopping. I had to be able to end my session whenever it was called for, and still leave my audience with the closure of an ending. If you just do an ACR and walk away, while impressive, to me, there’s something missing there, you know?

Granted, you’re talking about a straight ACR and how to make that better. For me, the only logical way to end it IS to change it into something else. End it with a deck vanish, or SOMETHING. Otherwise there’s no closure, and in my opinion, there’s no way to get that closure without routining it into the next trick. Personal opinion here of course.

Glad you like reading my ramblings haha

That it mind-
1. card shown in center- shift it second from the top. Double to show on top.
2. Double turned over, placed in center. Show it’s returned.
3. Place face-up into middle using tilt. Use “The Ripple” plus a one hand top palm to show on top.

Fazoom!

You get the fast rise for first phase (presented like dingle’s opening- how far down is it? 24? Lets try this a little slower…), second slow and open, third kick-in-the-face visual.

If that won’t get you laid then you’re doing some wrong- which doesn’t surprise me.

Oh, here’s three phases with the double setting up the end:
1. Card signed, use Ricky’s Cherry Control (shout out!), show on top.
2. Second deal, place in center. Turn over double to show its on top… and it’s changed to an indifferent card (ha ha!- so damn clever!). Color change. Back on top.
3. Vernon’s pop up move. Or, if you wanna be a little different… Check out the rising sequence in New Era. Good enough it could be a theory 11 download.

Ben
p.s.
Don’t want the color change? Just do tilt instead of the second, or a bluff insertion to second from the top, then continue except minus the change.