Larry Jennings

I wanted to make another post today to talk about how awesome Larry Jennings is. I never really learned his material directly until recently, and boy, I'm glad I did. This is challenging but solid material with incredible effect structure. The sleights are beautifully placed, without extraneous movements. The tricks themselves are simple and astounding (they can all pass the Vernon treatment - can you summarize this trick in one sentence?). This surely will bring any magician up a level in skill.

The downside, of course, is that you need to practice these a lot if you want to be able to 1) patter without sounding like an idiot and 2) do everything smoothly but without suspicion (again, the structure of the tricks help with that - see the part in Designing Miracles about timing of occurrences).

I think the next few things I'm gonna get are the Eugene Burger stuff.