Learn from a Magician In Progress

Inspired by Robert Harbin, this close-up production box packs flat as a pancake.

Before you buy that new magic trick, take a breath, and read this article. Let's look at what your next purchase really means for your growth as a magician.

In this course Ryan digs into a collection of sleight-of-hand card techniques suited for a casual, relaxed performance. Everything you need to level-up your card magic skills.

Lessons learned from teaching magic. Some good tricks to start with. Keep it simple to keep it fun!

Musing on the relative unimportance of the actual trick you choose to do in your performance, and what does matter.

An eye-popping visual routine using only two standard dice, from The Phoenix magazine in 1948.

Jerry Andrus was a magician of relentless originality and uncompromising honesty.

Until I understand the premise of a magic routine I struggle to make it work for an audience. Once I figure it out, the path becomes clear.

A brain-bending topological illusion where nothing seems to stay the same size.

Learn the techniques to creating inspired moments of comedy, and engaging your audience with the spark of spontaneity. Including four stand-up magic routines, forged in the fires of improvisation, to turn a passive crowd into active participants.

Ryan's 2023 lecture notes with eleven tricks, from close-up to stage tricks, and short essays to encourage you to turn your presentations up to eleven!

A series of lessons with both classic and original ideas for making magic with a piece of rope. Nearly three hours of video instruction, split into multiple topic-focused tutorials.