Cascade Control
After working on it for a few months, I think it’s ready for show. Here’s the cascade control:
Cascade Control from Eric Hu on Vimeo.
With Only Some Sponge Balls or Napkins
I have rethought my position sponge balls and it is as follows: (4:15)
If it’s good enough for Armando Lucero, it’s good enough for me.
Having said that, I was looking through Joshua Jay’s “Magic: The Complete Course” and found a sponge-ball-esque trick with napkins.
I’ll be honest, I like it.
Something Else with ACAAN
After seeing a demo for Chris Mayhew’s CAANDY from Vanishing Inc., I decided that I also need a self-working ACAAN. So, I went and thought of one. Here, the spectators do all the work. The idea is this: two spectators will each think of either a number or a card; not for themselves, but for each other. So, therefore, they must communicate this information to the other person, giving a perfect reason to use a deck of cards. The first spectator is told to think of a number for the other person and deal the corresponding number of cards to the table quietly as I am turned away so the other person can know which number to think. After they are done, the cards are collected together and given to the other person who goes through and finds a card, takes it out shows it to the first spectator and returns it into the deck. the cards are placed back into the box and put away. A second deck of cards (which can be introduced before the selection) is taken out of its case by a spectator, and counted by them, and the correct card is found at the correct position.
Having said that, I have never been a big fan of ACAAN with two decks of cards simply because there is no good reason to have the cards chosen instead of thought of. Also, I just hate carrying around two decks of cards. But here, I’d make an exception because the reason of having a card and a number selected for someone else gives a pretty good reason to utilize a deck of cards. Even though two decks of cards are seemingly in play, there is only one used. So, I would only need to carry around one.
This does spark something interesting, which is trying to come up with a different way to have a card and a number selected using something that can be in turn used to later to get the card to that position. I’m not sure if that made any sense, but it makes sense to me right now.
In the interest of ACAAN, here’s another version I came up with that I happened to have on video.
Post-It ACAAN from Eric Hu on Vimeo.
Working on Some Ideas for the Matrix
Here’s another idea for the matrix- using the hand as a platform, substituting or in addition to the table. So, basically covering the hand with a card and having coin(s) appear under there. Utilizing the back thumb palm.
Also, I took some time to finally do some video documenting of, yet, another version of the second phase of the matrix routine as well as the interlude between phase two and phase three. The quality is much better this time.
As the previous post on this subject, both passwords are the inside joke name to the person who inspired this work. No spaces, all lowercase.
A Quick Matrix v2.1
A Quick Matrix v2.1 from Eric Hu on Vimeo.
A Quick Matrix Interlude
A Quick Matrix Interlude from Eric Hu on Vimeo.