 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Magicianary Position from Aaron Jones. What is it? Basically it's a lecture that Aaron Jones gave. Within it he covers at least five really cool card tricks. There's a business card trick, there's a rendition of the anniversary waltz, there's a really cool coin vanish, and a really neat card to pocket. And if you want to see the trailer for it, this is it. Alright, so that was Aaron Jones and so just a couple of questions we always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is what is in the box. What's in the box? You're getting a cardboard sleeve and a DVD. Like I said at the beginning this is a live lecture and so there's really nothing to include. All the effects that Aaron's going to teach you all revolve around things that you could find around the house, they're all things that you already own. And so that means other questions like how are the angles, can it be inspected, is it well made, how much practice does it require, how much setup and reset is there. All of those questions vary from trick to trick but for the most part I think what you're going to find is just a solid grouping of really good tricks for the working professional. Alright, so what kind of tricks are you getting on the DVD? First of all you're getting a trick called torn. It's a torn and restored business card trick and so it kind of goes without saying that to do the effect you have to have business cards which is why I said this is kind of a DVD that's more targeted at the working professional. This will be somebody that is a magician for a living and you have business cards and you get them printed for your business and you're at events where you'll be giving them away to potential clients. He also has another trick on there called anniversary salsa. It's his take on anniversary waltz where you have two spectators and they each sign an indifferent card and you move both signatures to the same card. Aaron's rendition is really cool and it's pretty impromptu and my favorite effect on the DVD is called oxo. It's a mentalism routine that Aaron does with a tic-tac-toe board and a dollar bill. He's combines two different magic principles together and what you end up with is just a beautiful piece of mentalism. Aaron's also going to teach you something called the antelope principle. It's just his way of getting a signed coin out of a sealed envelope. There's no real trick or pattern to go along with it. Aaron's just teaching you his principle and it's pretty ingenious. Aaron's also going to teach you his method for card to pocket. It's a card to breast pocket on the chest and again not really a routine or pattern put along with it. Aaron's just going to be showing you his technique for giving that across. All right so let's do overall quality and production value of the DVD. It is shot live at a lecture. Okay so that's kind of you know an understanding you have to go into this with. The main camera looks like a stationary camera on a tripod in the center aisle and so you're getting a wide shot of the entire stage plus the two or so rows of people that are on your left and your right and so that camera doesn't move, doesn't change perspective and you are kind of getting the echoeyness of the microphones from the auditorium. Your second camera is an on-stage camera that's being held by the assistant. That one's nicer because it gives you some close-ups but again it's a live setting and you kind of still get that echoeyness from the microphones. Aaron speaks with an accent and so there's a little bit of just his accent mixed with the microphones that kind of just makes the production value kind of drop down to more of a moderate or good level. Positives, one of the positives to this DVD. Like I said you're getting some really strong effects, you're getting some really strong principles, you're getting Aaron's just take on his approach to professional magic. One of the things that I thought was exceptional was Aaron's take on entertainment. You know he talks about you as a magician being an entertainer and when you're hired, you're not hired as a magician, you're hired as an entertainer and so your first primary job is to entertain whether that's through comedy, through magic, through your presentation, through the stories you tell and so he does make a strong case for that and it was one of the parts that I thought was the best part of the DVD. Also like I said Oxo is an awesome trick. I thought for the money, I mean it's $30 for the DVD for the money that trick was worth the entire DVD for me and I'm not a working professional but I could easily take that trick out into the arena that I perform in. Negatives, alright so like we always say around here there's negatives to everything, these are just the negatives that I saw, they don't have to be the negatives that you see. Like I just said the production value, the echoiness of the microphones, just the only the two camera angles that you're getting kind of lowered the enjoyment of watching the DVD. It didn't feel like one of those DVDs I would go back to again and again just because of this production value but I don't think that deters you in any way away from the quality of the magic. Is it worth your money? Like I said at the beginning it's $30 so it's 30 bucks for a live lecture. It's kind of a little bit on the high end for me. It is something like four or five tricks you're not really getting anything extra there's no gas or anything like that with it it's just the straight DVD. So I don't know if you're a working professional I think if you do the magic for a living I think this is definitely in the wheelhouse for you and so you should consider that aspect when purchasing this DVD. Who would like this again? I'll say it again working professionals people that are in the industry people that make their living from magic I think are really going to get the most. All right so that is my review from Aaron Jones and World Magics Shop. I got this DVD from Murphy's Magic and I would like to thank Murphy's Magic for providing this DVD so that I could review it for you and if you'd like to purchase your own you can find it at your favorite Murphy's Magic dealer. Thanks, bye!