The lecture was subtitled “The Highly Visual, Low Process Lecture”. Ed likes to work with visual card tricks, and ones that can play to a parlour situation, no doubt born out of working The Magic Castle alot. Ed started with an Ace production using his Fast Ed production technique and then used the aces in various four of a kind productions, each one becoming more visual than the last.

Ed then showed us his Materialise Colour Change a very visual change that looks like trick photography.
He then went through his handlings and thoughts on the Classic Force. Some nice touches on Arthur Setterington’s Get Away move (or Crazy Man’s Handcuffs as we now know it) utilising a borrowed ring and rubberband. A ring and rubber band were looped over the deck and vanished into it, only to be shown trapped around a previously signed selection. Finally Ed showed us a simple Ambitious Card sequence that he hoped we could go away and use.