Big changes are coming. On March 1st, the DDC is becoming an invite-only club, and free content will be completely discontinued. As a courtesy to our free members, we're giving you one final opportunity to secure a Premium Access Membership for $3/month—after this, membership subscriptions will
This Friday, Premium Access Members get an exclusive post via email featuring a routine that has a taste of ACAAN, a touch of the Diary Trick, and a sprinkle of creativity needed from you—making $3/month for access to our Premium Content feel like daylight robbery (for us). If
Many people don't take the blogs over at Vanishing Inc too seriously. I mean, maybe there’s some decent stuff buried in there, but let’s be honest—there are better magic blogs out there if you’re looking to learn something new. Anyway, it's the
![Brilliant Basics 2 PART 4, aka "brilliant basics_2_4" [Timestamp Notes, Ben Earl's DMS, Winter 2020]](/content/images/size/w600/2025/01/ererrere-1.jpg)
2:00 | Direct Side Steal (Marlo) 7:45 | Side Steal to Full Palm 12:40 | Cover Action for Full Palm 13:45 | Direct Side Steal from Spread (no insertion) 23:05 | Triple Dribble (Dribble Pass) 29:15 | Pinky Break Control 32:50 | The Classic/Dribble Pass 38:00 | The Invisible
Magic Fairy Dust of the Day: Paul Gordon has reprinted a paperback version of Gold Dust, which is now available for purchase here. This is a highly elusive title, so you may want to grab a copy while it's available. Yo, yo, yo – Comin’ at ya live from
Card Sleights
Who did it better - Mallory on the cover of JAMM... Or Lil Bennie... Don't lie: Old-school Bennie got your willy wet.
Card Sleights
Some routines demand you split the deck or catch a pinky break in spots that aren’t exactly convenient...
![Which Hand or Which Cheek? Timon Krause's New Book is OTW [updated!]](/content/images/size/w600/2025/01/zaqwsx-1.jpg)
Update: You can now pre-order Timon's upcoming book, On Cold Reading: Theory and Practice, here. MindFX recently announced that Timon Krause has a new book on the way. Attendees at Blackpool will probably get first dibs, but they'll be opening their registration list for interested people
mentalism
I used to be a mentalist. I say 'used to' because I lost all interest in mentalism when it started becoming more and more popular and magicians who were average at best started branding themselves as mentalists in the hopes of corporates paying more for using this buzzword
Announcement: Our first Guest Post drops tomorrow. It's an eye opener! I don’t know what Rusty’s up to—probably making some prison warden’s life hell—but that fool’s gonna lose his damn mind when he hears I finally got my hands on Issue Two
Public Service Announcement: Copying & pasting directly from our DDC newsletters, posting it in Facebook groups, and then lying about the source? That’s next-level fuckery. A lot of our DDC members are in those same groups — we received multiple screenshots. We want you to share the info we put
Ah, brevity—a virtue often overlooked, yet here we are, delivering it with the precision of a well-practiced double lift. Less than a week ago, Austin Murphy, CEO of Murphy’s Magic, recently provided an insightful update regarding upcoming reprints. Tentatively, here's the reprint agenda for magic books: