He also authored an influential annotation of S. Ortiz's major work for the lay public on gaming protection is Gambling Scams 1984. The book posits and analyzes various theories regarding the perception and cognition of lay audiences and provides practical examples and advice on the construction of effects, aimed at maximizing their impact and deceptiveness to a lay audience. Ortiz's latest book, Designing Miracles is an exposition on the design of powerful magical effects, and is subtitled Creating the Illusion of Impossibility. Ownership of the copyright has recently returned to the author (along with two other books Darwin Ortiz At The Card Table and Cardshark) and the books are once again being made available to the trade. Demand for the book has been high, despite the initial inability of the original publisher to reprint the text.
#ANNOTATED ERDNASE DARWIN ORTIZ PROFESSIONAL#
The book has been broadly embraced by the professional and amateur magic community but initially met with negative reviews from the two major US trade publications MAGIC and Genii. His book Strong Magic focuses on practical presentational techniques for close-up magicians. The most recent book on his original routines was Scams and Fantasies With Playing Cards. Ortiz is the author of books on gambling and magic. Ortiz later became a consultant to a number of casinos in the United States, Europe, Africa, UK and Australasia, and was a regular featured presenter for a succession of years at the World Gaming Congress in Nevada. Ortiz is a contemporary and close friend of the influential US coin magician, David Roth, and was initially mentored by the seminal British/US close-up performer, Derek Dingle. During that time, he initially supported himself playing blackjack (using card counting techniques) and as an instructor at Harry Lorayne's memory school in New York City. In 1974, he dropped out of NYU Law School and pursued card magic full-time. Ortiz was born and raised in New York City, where he had a keen interest in card tricks since childhood. Regardless of your level of expertise or specific area of interest, The Annotated Erdnase is a valuable companion to the greatest book ever written on sleight of hand with cards.Īpproximately: 270 pages - Hardbound with dust jacket.Darwin Ortiz (born 1948) is a magician, who is an authority on gambling and card manipulation. The final chapter of The Annotated Erdnase is an article called he Mystery of Erdnase written by the late Martin Gardner wherein Gardner recounts his search for the man behind the book. Erdnase actually Milton Franklin Andrews, a gambler and murderer who took his own life? The evidence is truly fascinating and reads like a Hollywood script. There has been a lot of speculation about the true identity of the man who wrote The Expert at the Card Table. Whether you're a skilled professional looking to increase your already considerable knowledge, or just a beginner hoping to learn the basics of card magic, The Annotated Erdnase will provide you with years of pleasure.
The outside columns contain Darwin's annotations, which more than double the size of the original book. The number of each annotation appears in bold type. The inside column of each page (nearest the spine and surrounded by a rectangular box) is the original text from The Expert at the Card Table. We have reproduced a few pages from The Annotated Erdnase to illustrate how the book has been laid out. Darwin's 273 annotations shed new light on the history of the various moves and effects, provide technical insight into their proper execution, give cross references for further reading and include hundreds of obscure bits of information.įor The Annotated Erdnase we completely re-typeset The Expert at the Card Table resulting in the most readable copy ever offered.
The copious notes he kept while meticulously dissecting each move and every sentence of The Expert form the basis for The Annotated Erdnase. One person who spent a lifetime studying every detail of this landmark book is Darwin Ortiz. Erdnase have been studied, practiced and written about by countless card experts. Even more important are the profound lessons in the real secrets of magic: naturalness, attention to detail, uniformity of action and the psychology of deception. It contains some of the most perfectly constructed sleights in all of card magic. After one hundred years, it is still considered the foundation upon which modern card magic is based. One thing they all agree on is that no other book in the history of card manipulation deserves careful study more than The Expert at the Card Table.
The top card men in the world disagree on many things.
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