

He opens wallet, removes four cards with a numeral on each: a one, a two, a three, a four. Performer shows a small plastic wallet, saying he is going to do a trick with four cards. Sure Paul, but I will copy the description from the instruction sheet: I don't recall the effect of The Four Card trick, can you describe it please?Īrt Emerson was kind enough to write the introduction to my second book on packet tricks called "Still Small, Still Deadly". In the following posts I will be showing you these packet tricks.Īnd here is the add for the effect, found on Magicpedia: I see this as a way to be close to my magical hero, by owning some of his magic. A few years ago he told me that he was selling some of his magic and I immediately took the chance and bought a few of his packet tricks. I was never able to meet him in person (he died a few years ago) and the next best thing was to meet and know his son. I started in MAGIC watching a magician on Mexican TV, Mishell Mishell, and I wanted to do all the things he did. On the picture you can see his signature, which I am very proud to have.

Emerson in 97 at the TAOM Convention in Fort Worth and I bought 2 sets of this effect and asked him to autograph one of them. As I already told you in another topic, I met Mr.

To start this topic, I have my favorite, Jim temple's COLOR MONTE. (I created a new topic to show the Emerson & West packet tricks that I own) Color usage is a bit more complicated than plopping five nice colors into a design.View Member Profile Send Email Find Member's Topics Find Member's Posts Send Instant Message luigimar It’s not a refined design that gets out of the way and would be nice to use every day. You might like that, but you’d be in the minority. This is a perfectly lovely color palette:īut if you just pick those colors and plop them onto a design, you could end up with something like this: Steve Schoger makes a point of this, rather hilariously in a blog post.
#CALL TO COLORS MAGIC TRICK HOW TO#
…they don’t exactly tell you how to use them. But the thing about just being handed colors is… See the Pen Generate Pleasing Colors by Chris Coyier ( on CodePen. It doesn’t claim to make multiple colors part of a cohesive theme aside from passing in a base hue or luminosity. This makes randomColor particularly useful for data visualizations and generative art. More specifically, randomColor produces bright colors with a reasonably high saturation. Generates attractive colors by default. You provide it a base color and other options (like what type of color scheme) and it spits out colors for you. PleaseJS can help build color schemes that work together. Generating random colors won’t guarantee pleasing palettes, especially if a bunch of random colors are paired together. See the Pen Generate New Random Hex Color with JavaScript by Chris Coyier ( on CodePen. There is no native JavaScript API for it, but it’s still basically a one-liner: There are even native apps like Sip, ColorSnapper, and Frank DeLoupe that help you select colors and sometimes keep your palettes right within them. Oh! And a site that helps with text color while keeping accessibility in mind. Then there are tools that focus on gradients, like UI Gradients, Web Gradients, and Shapy. There’s a billion more, and they vary in approach and features, of course. It spits out five colors at ya and you’re off to the races. Here’s one I just saw called Color Koala:

Let’s look at some, then talk about this idea some more. It adds a level of polish to a design that can really set it apart. I totally get it! It’s hard! When colors are done well, it’s like magic. There are so many tools out there to help you pick colors.
