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Simon Lovell - Carrying In With Mike

Columnist: Simon Lovell CARRYING IN WITH MIKE By Simon Lovell Mike Rogers new column is particularly fascinating to me as this is fundamental to the performance of good magic in my opinion. There are a number of effects I do that play well to magicians but not to lay people and visa-versa. As Mike points out it is the ‘hook’ that makes all the difference to lay people. By asking yourself why you are doing the effect...
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Simon Lovell - Control Or No Control?

Columnist: Simon Lovell By Simon Lovell with additional ideas from Ned the Lemming At a magic lecture recently somebody asked my favorite way to control a card to the top of the deck. This started quite a long answer that carried on at a local tavern afterwards. I guess they were kinda surprised at my answer. I’m pretty sure they expected a chat about the Pass (something I do use) or riffle shuffle techniqu...
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Columnist, Simon Lovell

Columnist: Simon Lovell NED 1996! Ah well, it had to happen I guess! There I was on New Year’s Eve enjoying a large glass of Moet to wash down a fine sushi dinner when the spirit (both alcoholic and spiritual) took over. Before an astonished group of non-magical friends Ned auto-channeled his way through the misty swamps of the astral planes to appear before them. As my best pal John ‘the dartmeister’ Jenkins said, ‘...
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Simon Lovell - From The Cliff Edge

Columnist: Simon Lovell FROM THE CLIFF EDGE – Number 1 By Simon Lovell and Ned The Lemming Joe, with an obvious loss of sobriety, asked me to sit, chained and roped, to my computer and crank out some columns for his Gemini board. I felt like asking, “What’s the board done to deserve that,? but by then, having double checked the locks and knots, he’d left me, armed only with three slices of bread and a case of whiskey...
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Simon Lovell - Interview

Columnist: Simon Lovell INTERVIEW: SIMON LOVELL Exclusively for: GeMiNi: The Greater Magic Network By: Mark Stevens 07/04/96 I found the character of Simon Lovell to have much in common with the date I interviewed him – July 4th. Although Simon is a Brit, he shares similarities with the Fourth of July festivities, most notably as a firecracker. Like a cherry bomb Simon can be loud, abrasive, shocking, demanding of yo...
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