There’s a little story I wanted to add into the last post which I didn’t mention for the sake of brevity (basically it was getting too long).
When I met Eugene Burger (A very big deal in magic and sadly no longer with us) at a special one day workshop he showed us a trick using a prop called a Glorpy. The standard Glorpy is quite brightly coloured so Euegene had modified his to make it black, and realised that since he was lecturing the trick, he would like to sell black Glorpies for his students.
He reached out to Bill Madden and Bernie Trueblood, the people behind the original Glorpy to ask if he could sell his black version. It’s worth noting that since it’s creation in 1963, the Glorpy has been re-released by various magic publishers and there have even been a number of published sources describing how to make your own. In response to the request however, Eugene was told “You’re the first person to ask.”
So as an aside, when I decided I wanted to use Nedroid’s “I Made This” comic in that post I reached out over twitter to ask if I could include it, knowing full well that half the bloggers on the internet had already posted it on their own spaces with various levels of accreditation and I so desperately wanted him to say I was the first to ask, but alas, he just said yes.