For years I snapped my fingers as the 'magical moment' in every effect. Then I learned that the snap is exactly where drama should live -- and my performances were hollow because I was skipping the only part that mattered.
Read MoreThe first time a spectator told me I was 'very clever,' I took it as a compliment. It was not a compliment. It was the sound of wonder dying.
Read MoreI spent years obsessing over the moment the card changed. Then I read a single sentence that made me realize the moment before the change is where the magic actually lives.
Read MoreEvery effect I designed for the first two years started with a method. Then I discovered a creative process that starts somewhere entirely different -- with a feeling, an image, a metaphor that refuses to leave you alone.
Read MoreA torn corner proves the card is the same card. A rose petal proves nothing -- and yet it creates a moment the audience remembers forever. That contradiction taught me something fundamental about what magic is for.
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