Any Card Through Window (a.k.a. CTW) routine takes balls and the ability to control your spectator. Is this hard? Not necessarily, but it should be understood before investing in this DVD.

If that warning gave you pause at all, the good news is that Eric James’ Ultimate Card Through Window DVD offers some very clever ideas for taking the risk out of performing this effect. Bonus tricks like “Card to TV,” “Card to Cel Phone” and “Wall Stab” take the genre further while also suggesting directions where you can take CTW with a little creativity of your own.

If you’re interested in adding Card Through Window to your street magic routine, Eric James’ Ultimate Card Through Window DVD will give you the nuts and bolts of the effect and hopefully the encouragement to try a risky but rewarding illusion.

Complete and utter crap. The video here looks quite impressive but I could not get results anywhere near as good as these. And the idea that the trick was designed to be performed in shorts has me baffled—was it also designed to be performed in front of morons? Anyone who sees this effect in person will see how it’s done especially if it is performed in shorts.It is garbage—save your money. There are cheaper and easier ways of achieving a similar effect that is just as ineffective when wearing shorts but are much more effective than this when wearing pants.

In a recent delivery of magic tricks I had ordered, my local magic shop threw in a few freebies. One of them was this rather unimpressive looking box of cards with the equally unimpressive name “It’s Magic ‘Blank’ Deck of Cards.” The trick is actually pretty good (the kid in this video isn’t performing it as instructed). Easy to learn (basic Svengali deck). Hard to screw up and the price was certainly right.

As Kevin Parker’s magic tricks go, this one seems a bit more versatile to me than Canz; it’s still angley, but not nearly to the degree of Canz.The trick is fairly easy to get “out” of: when it’s done you aren’t left clean, but you aren’t left with too much difficulty on getting “out.” Getting “in” is a trick in itself. Parker doesn’t give any help on how to get “in” to the trick. Edge pretty much has to be the opener to your street magic routine…you’re “hey you! come watch me!” effect, because there is no subtle way to load the gimmick. And when you’re set to go, you’re useless for anything else.