Stars of Magic

August 19, 2015

#starsofmagic backstage from Magicana on Vimeo.

Backstage at MAGIC Live 2015 for the Live Documentary for the Stars of Magic, David Ben has some fun showing Johnny Thompson, Jared Kopf and Paul Vigil some of his "etudes" for card table artifice. Would you ante up in this game?! #erdnase #cardtableartifice #etudes

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