Welcome to the Gallery. You'll find trailers and other assorted clips in the section on Videos. Check out the Podcasts to hear all kinds of stories about learning magic and meeting the masters. Finally, make sure to check out the Articles section. No matter your skill level or experience, there's plenty of information here to help you improve your card magic!
This may be the strongest single effect I've ever developed. You can use Panic in virtually any situation: close-up surrounded, on the street, or in formal close-up. Or in front of a room full of people. Not only that — you can do it topless! Use this miracle to close the show or open it! Watch this trick now and find out what it takes to make your audiences panic!
Even if you live to perform hardcore sleight of hand with cards, when you go out into the world to preform professionally, you'll need to know how to break things up. The Secret Weapon starts with a classic joke designed to help you do just that, and then turns into a surprising, impossible, and totally examinable wonder.
Search & Destroy featuring The Nowhere Pass is the first high quality, full length DVD, teaching the material from my book The Paper Engine. Thanks to incredible direction and music by my friends Wayne Houchin and Dana Hocking, it came off even better than I imagined. Watch the trailer — you'll see what I mean.
The Paper Engine was first released in 2002. Now it's finally in paperback. If you're not familiar with the material in this book, the trailer will give you a glimpse. You'll see my Gravity Half Pass, The One Hand Popover, and Helter Skelter, my color changing deck. Inside you book, you find much, much more.
Here's a Demo of The Gravity Half Pass from The Paper Engine.
The front view of The Gravity Half Pass. The first item in The Paper Engine.
Join me and my good friends, Steve Johnson and Alexander Slemmer in a series of podcasts designed to help you grasp some of sleight of hand's more elusive secrets. Be sure to check my blog regularly for more episodes.
New! Thoughts on the Student Teacher Relationship: Want to become a great magician? This podcast will tell you exactly how to do it.
Search and Destroy Part 2: Answers to your most commonly asked questions about the Search & Destroy DVD.
Search and Destroy Part 1: Want to get the most out of Search & Destroy? Listen to this.
Find out what five films influenced Aaron's magic the most … and why.
Thoughts on Practice: The Aggressive Approach
Thoughts on Practice: Take It Nice and Slow
Thoughts on Practice: The Long Haul
Thoughts on Practice: The Importance of Research
Thoughts on Practice: In it to Win it
The Most Important Technique in Card Magic
On Holding a Beautiful Break: Constant Vigilance
On Holding a Beautiful Break: What's Next?
On the Origins of Performance Terror: Why We Shake