 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Brethrenoxy. My name is David and this is a Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Die Vernon seminar from Roberto Gaiobi. All right, so this, what this is, is this is a recording of a lecture that Roberto gave on Die Vernon. This lecture was done January 9th back in 2015 and it was a three hour seminar and it cost $94 American to participate. You want to learn more about the convention that it was held at, you can visit SessionConvention.com. This DVD, it's a two set DVD, two DVDs, three hours long. It's brought to you by Vanishing Incorporated and you can pick it up from one of your favorite Murphy's Magic retailers for about $45. Now, all right, so if you don't know who Die Vernon is, Die Vernon is the professor. He is the magician's magician. Rarely worked as a professional magician himself, spent a good part of his later years at the Magic Castle just entertaining people and teaching. He was a teacher and this is why he's called the professor. Die Vernon's expert slide of hand technique and extensive knowledge has given him the respect amongst fellow magicians. Die Vernon was born in 1894. He died in 2002 and he was 98 years old. He died in California. Die Vernon, again, massively important to magic, massively influential. He changed the way most magicians look at magic. Some of his best tricks that you would know, the trick that can't be explained, brain wave, he's responsible for that, slow motion ace assembly, the triumph effect. He is also credited as the man who fooled Houdini and he did that with the ambitious card. There's lots of different versions of the ambitious card out there right now. I would recommend Die Vernon's routine that is actually in his book, Stars of Magic. It's magnificent and even if you never perform it in itself the way it's written, you're going to learn a lot of techniques and concepts that you're going to be able to apply to your favorite parts of the ambitious card routine. Card college two and the chapter on the double lift part two, you're going to learn some excellent things that Roberto passes on from Die Vernon for the ambitious card trick. Vernon was able to pass on a lot of his knowledge, a lot of his teaching to some of the greatest teachers and greatest magicians that are alive today and he continues to pass on his knowledge through his books. You have Inner Card Secrets, you have the Vernon Chronicles and Revelation, which was a study on Erdnase and the expert at the card table. If you don't know who Roberto J.O.B is, he is the author behind the card college books. If you're into card magic and especially if you're just starting out or you kind of want to take your magic to the next level, I would highly recommend the card college series. It's going to give you way more information than just some of the DVDs that have come out lately. If you're really serious about card magic, wanting to take your card magic up a notch, I would highly recommend card college. Roberto, why did Roberto do a seminar on Die Vernon? Well, Roberto has studied Die Vernon's material and he is given this highly acclaimed lecture. It's only been done just a couple of times. Roberto speaks about Vernon's life, he talks about the Vernon touch, how Vernon thought through a lot of his best ideas and really honed his craft. Roberto performed some of these tricks, some of them rarely seen, some of them straight from his books and Roberto even breaks down some of Vernon's lectures. Some of the things that you're going to see, things like cups and balls routines, things like leaking rings, some of these just timeless classics and it's really neat to see a person who studied Die Vernon's life give a lecture surrounding how Vernon put all of this material together. Alright, so what are you going to see on the video? You're going to see Roberto give his three-hour lecture. It's broken in half, like an hour and a half and then a break and then another hour and a half. You're going to see pictures and photographs of a lot of his lecture notes and books. You're going to see live material of Die Vernon. There's very few video clips out there of the professor performing but you're going to see him do a lot of these tricks that Roberto teaches. You're also going to see some of the people that Die Vernon influenced perform tricks live or not live but in a video format. For the most part Roberto performs most of the effects. He explains them rather quickly. He's expecting you to go back and find the books and learn them yourself or he's expecting you to have a working knowledge of magic that you could watch the trick. He could quickly tell you the reveal and you'll figure it out. You'll piece it back together. The great thing about having the DVD is it's better than being there live. You can actually rewind, go over, watch it again and again and you know when you think about the lecture itself cost over $90. You can get the DVD for 45. That's half and plus on top of that, on top of that you take the first DVD out of your DVD player, put it in your computer and you're going to find an 80 page PDF of Vernon's life and all the tricks discussed in the lecture. So that is really cool too. You're going to get an in-depth look at the cups and balls routine. You're going to see the mental card miracle, the variations on coin and glass. You're going to see a really cool funny banana trick. It's going to make you want to run out and buy two rubber bananas. A lot of this is magic theory. More involved than just learning how the tricks are done. More involved than just going through the process. Roberto is giving you the theory behind why Vernon was a master, how he was able to put these tricks together. Theory is the working principle about which magic is based. So magic theory is just as important as learning how to do tricks and I would argue that a lot of DVDs today don't explain theory, don't explain process. So this is something very valuable, I think, and especially to learn it from Diverne and Emberto Giovi is priceless. So again, it's more than just how to, it's a lot of why. Yeah, two DVDs, three hours worth of material. You're going to get the 80 page PDF to $45 from Vanishing Incorporated. If you'd like to pick this up, you can find it on one of your favorite Murphy's Magic suppliers. Thanks.