Martin, you are a person after my own heart. I too like the darker sort of presentation with the occult and that version I like better. Thanks for leaving the comment and being here. Cheers!
I am glad this was helpful. I feel like the industry has really moved towards a lot of this web based or app based magic and I am wondering if it will begin to be too much and move away from the technology piece. Anyway just some of my thinking lately and then your comment pops up and confirms some of my thinking. Take care.
@@fiddlinjonny Certainly app/tech based magic can get good reactions, but I live in an area with lots of STEM workers. Many of them, upon seeing tech based magic, could think of a tech based way to do the effect, even if they don't think of the actual method. There is no reason for me to ever do tech based magic as a result, unless the tech is used so subtly that even a STEM spec wouldn't think of it. Meanwhile sleight of hand can absolutely destroy them, so what's the point? I know someone with a Master's degree who still talks about "how that magician got another sponge ball into my hand" 20 years later.
@@mathmusicstructure This is such a great point. I honestly suspect that in the near future most people will recognize that tech can do the magic or that the tech was involved and will cancel out the effect. As you say it must be very subtle and not appear to have any tech involved. Thanks for watching and adding to the discussion.
What a great review. I'm really looking forward to you doing a demo of this effect. This trick sounds absolutely incredible. I bet your specs are blown away. I love tricks where nothing is written down
Hey Rob, I must admit this is the sort of effect where spectators just walk away scratching their heads. I am trying to find an evening where I can go out and get a good demo of it filmed. When done I will post it. Thanks so much and hope you are doing well.
I bought this and during Craig Petty’s introduction he was still trying to sell it to me. I yelled “just show me a full performance!” Next came the set up… Finally the “move” was shown and I smiled at how well it was motivated. I’ve gotten great reactions with this one Spot on revue Johnny!
Hey Jeff your comment regarding Craig still selling in the intro is so spot on. I had made notes to myself to mention this in the review and skipped over it. Usually when I do a review I spend more time in the field testing it and on this one I did not do as much of it but I know from performing Deep Clear (the same effect) that is is solid. Thanks for watching and leaving the comment.
Full comprehensive review Jonny ,you are getting good at this reviewing game 😊😊 Deep Clear somehow passed me by .Might be an age thing but I just don't like tricks where you use a phone or the Internet, but thank you for taking the time and effort to help all magician's with your entertaining accurate reviews I always look forward to the next review
I somehow missed Deep Clear, which sounds like an updated version of Deep Astonishment, so Deep X is the grandchild of Deep Astonishment? I'll stick with Deep Astonishment and/or wait for Deep Deepest to be released in 2030 or so...
Thanks so much John for your kind words. I hope you know how much I enjoy knowing you are here. I don't think you are alone when it comes to having to introduce a phone into a performance. I occasionally use a phone but it really has to be a strong effect for me to want to use it. If the phone seems like it is part of the effect then I don't usually want to use it. Take care my friend.
Hello Ahsv64. Your comment made me laugh and you probably put it together better than I did in the review as first there was Deep Astonishment, Then Deep Clear and now finally Deep X. All basically an evolution of the last version. I look forward Deep Clear Astonishment Z. 🤣😉 Thanks so much for watching and being a subscriber. I hope you know I appreciate it.
Hi Jonny, hope you're well mate. Great review. Great effect. But as echoed by others of a similar vintage (old) i would prefer to avoid any trick that utilizes phones/internet. I'm not quite a technophobe but for some reason the Neanderthal in me still resents the mobile phone world. I do use it for a couple of tricks but it doesn't satisfy me ... And I'm selfish enough that it matters. Keep On Rocking In The Free (from mobile phones) World. All the best. Gary
Yo Gary, I am so sorry it took so long to respond. It has been one of the hectic weeks for me. Anyway I share some of your issues with the phone. I find myself liking the ideas and concepts but often do not actually use the phone in performance. I have one exception. I do use my phone for 21st Century Canasta By Mark Elsdon. It is a prediction effect that I love and I do the reveal on my phone. That is one I think I will never stop performing but other than that I can not say that I perform any trick with regularity that uses a phone. Ok I am rambling on. Hope you are doing well. Take care my friend.
Hi Jonah, this is such a great question. Ok I have a number of effects by Paul Harris that I really like. To be honest I really like the earlier version of Deep X that is called Deep Clear. I like that version much better, I find it easy to perform and always gets a good reaction. Unfortunately I lost the wallet for that version in the last couple of years so I haven't performed it since. I really need to buy it again and start performing it again. The one I like the most is probably Steam 2.0. It is one that I used to perform a lot. It is not always 100% guaranteed that you get the peek but I like the concept and when it works it is really awesome. Also I think there is a lot of creativity you can do with Steam 2.0. Those are the ones I like best. But at the end of the day his books the Art of Astonishment sticks in my mind a lot. Mostly it his thinking that I like and find myself trying to integrate into the other effects that I perform. I hear Paul Harris's voice a lot in my head when putting a routine together and trying to create that moment of astonishment and understanding why. Okay I could drone on and on but I do love his thinking and respect what he has brought to magic. Thanks for asking the question. Do you have any favorites?
Deep clear is an improvement on Deep Astonishment. The first batch Paul released included a fully marked deck but the marker bled through. That had to cost a pretty penny to replace. The original could have a 4-5 letter word and used a checkbook style wallet. The cue card was included in the deck. I don't like this version. I don't like using the web when not necessary. It doesn't matter it's a regular page, they can't be sure of it. Just a lazy way to avoid using a cue card.
Hi Chad, I did not have all that history and is good to know. I too must admit that I actually prefer the the last version of this compared to this Deep X release. Thanks for leaving the comment and the history.
I’m not sure that I understand this one…. Isn’t the website just a sort of “Answer Key” for letting you know which letters will be on which card, at the end? So, I enter 9H, 4S, 2D, & JC. Each and everyone who owns this trick will have the same letters on the same cards? Or not…? (Just so you wouldn’t have to do any memorization, maybe?) Then, the website says - #7, #22, #34, & #19. Those four numbers correspond to those cards, as well as “secretly” eventually the letters, that are the same letters that you have entered into the website….? Does that make sense….? Perhaps I missed something else? The wallet is supposed to do something, oh yeah…. hmmm…. Maybe a demo promo video would be a success for you, on yr channel, Johnny!?
Hello The Bobby Electric. You are sooooo close on the method. What the spectator will do is put in to the web page their "secret lucky word" and then the web page generates four lucky cards for the spectator. So for instance if your secret word is LOVE it will generate four random "lucky" cards for them. However everytime someone puts the word LOVE into the web page it will always generate the same lucky cards. I hope that makes sense. Once the lucky cards have been picked by the web site you then reveal that the four cards in your wallet match those same lucky cards. The spectator may think the effect is over at this point but then you turn your four lucky cards that were in your wallet to reveal that each of them has a letter on the back of them and put together they spell their lucky work "LOVE". I hope that makes sense. The spectator can pick any four letter word without repeating words and it will generate four lucky cards for them and each time your wallet will contain those four lucky cards and their lucky word on the backs of those cards. It can really be a different word each time. I am working on posting a possible demo so stay tuned. Just depends on finding the time to pull it together. Thanks for watching.
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I've got Deep Astonishment II The Gypsy and I LOVE IT. I feel the storyline and the "occult" feel of the cards tells a really compelling tale.
Martin, you are a person after my own heart. I too like the darker sort of presentation with the occult and that version I like better. Thanks for leaving the comment and being here. Cheers!
As soon as I'm sending a spec to a website, I'm all the way out. Thanks for the review!
I am glad this was helpful. I feel like the industry has really moved towards a lot of this web based or app based magic and I am wondering if it will begin to be too much and move away from the technology piece. Anyway just some of my thinking lately and then your comment pops up and confirms some of my thinking. Take care.
@@fiddlinjonny Certainly app/tech based magic can get good reactions, but I live in an area with lots of STEM workers. Many of them, upon seeing tech based magic, could think of a tech based way to do the effect, even if they don't think of the actual method. There is no reason for me to ever do tech based magic as a result, unless the tech is used so subtly that even a STEM spec wouldn't think of it.
Meanwhile sleight of hand can absolutely destroy them, so what's the point? I know someone with a Master's degree who still talks about "how that magician got another sponge ball into my hand" 20 years later.
@@mathmusicstructure This is such a great point. I honestly suspect that in the near future most people will recognize that tech can do the magic or that the tech was involved and will cancel out the effect. As you say it must be very subtle and not appear to have any tech involved. Thanks for watching and adding to the discussion.
What a great review. I'm really looking forward to you doing a demo of this effect. This trick sounds absolutely incredible. I bet your specs are blown away. I love tricks where nothing is written down
Hey Rob, I must admit this is the sort of effect where spectators just walk away scratching their heads. I am trying to find an evening where I can go out and get a good demo of it filmed. When done I will post it. Thanks so much and hope you are doing well.
Very nice review 👍😊👍😊
Hey Robert, I hope you are doing well. Thank You!
@@fiddlinjonny Thank you. 😊👍🙏😊
I bought this and during Craig Petty’s introduction he was still trying to sell it to me. I yelled “just show me a full performance!”
Next came the set up…
Finally the “move” was shown and I smiled at how well it was motivated. I’ve gotten great reactions with this one Spot on revue Johnny!
Hey Jeff your comment regarding Craig still selling in the intro is so spot on. I had made notes to myself to mention this in the review and skipped over it.
Usually when I do a review I spend more time in the field testing it and on this one I did not do as much of it but I know from performing Deep Clear (the same effect) that is is solid. Thanks for watching and leaving the comment.
Full comprehensive review Jonny ,you are getting good at this reviewing game 😊😊 Deep Clear somehow passed me by .Might be an age thing but I just don't like tricks where you use a phone or the Internet, but thank you for taking the time and effort to help all magician's with your entertaining accurate reviews I always look forward to the next review
I somehow missed Deep Clear, which sounds like an updated version of Deep Astonishment, so Deep X is the grandchild of Deep Astonishment?
I'll stick with Deep Astonishment and/or wait for Deep Deepest to be released in 2030 or so...
Thanks so much John for your kind words. I hope you know how much I enjoy knowing you are here. I don't think you are alone when it comes to having to introduce a phone into a performance. I occasionally use a phone but it really has to be a strong effect for me to want to use it. If the phone seems like it is part of the effect then I don't usually want to use it.
Take care my friend.
Hello Ahsv64. Your comment made me laugh and you probably put it together better than I did in the review as first there was Deep Astonishment, Then Deep Clear and now finally Deep X. All basically an evolution of the last version. I look forward Deep Clear Astonishment Z. 🤣😉
Thanks so much for watching and being a subscriber. I hope you know I appreciate it.
Hi Jonny, hope you're well mate. Great review. Great effect. But as echoed by others of a similar vintage (old) i would prefer to avoid any trick that utilizes phones/internet. I'm not quite a technophobe but for some reason the Neanderthal in me still resents the mobile phone world. I do use it for a couple of tricks but it doesn't satisfy me ... And I'm selfish enough that it matters.
Keep On Rocking In The Free (from mobile phones) World.
All the best.
Gary
Yo Gary, I am so sorry it took so long to respond. It has been one of the hectic weeks for me. Anyway I share some of your issues with the phone. I find myself liking the ideas and concepts but often do not actually use the phone in performance. I have one exception. I do use my phone for 21st Century Canasta By Mark Elsdon. It is a prediction effect that I love and I do the reveal on my phone. That is one I think I will never stop performing but other than that I can not say that I perform any trick with regularity that uses a phone. Ok I am rambling on. Hope you are doing well. Take care my friend.
What are your favourite Paul Harris presents products ?
Hi Jonah, this is such a great question. Ok I have a number of effects by Paul Harris that I really like. To be honest I really like the earlier version of Deep X that is called Deep Clear. I like that version much better, I find it easy to perform and always gets a good reaction. Unfortunately I lost the wallet for that version in the last couple of years so I haven't performed it since. I really need to buy it again and start performing it again. The one I like the most is probably Steam 2.0. It is one that I used to perform a lot. It is not always 100% guaranteed that you get the peek but I like the concept and when it works it is really awesome. Also I think there is a lot of creativity you can do with Steam 2.0. Those are the ones I like best. But at the end of the day his books the Art of Astonishment sticks in my mind a lot. Mostly it his thinking that I like and find myself trying to integrate into the other effects that I perform. I hear Paul Harris's voice a lot in my head when putting a routine together and trying to create that moment of astonishment and understanding why. Okay I could drone on and on but I do love his thinking and respect what he has brought to magic. Thanks for asking the question. Do you have any favorites?
Deep clear is an improvement on Deep Astonishment. The first batch Paul released included a fully marked deck but the marker bled through. That had to cost a pretty penny to replace. The original could have a 4-5 letter word and used a checkbook style wallet. The cue card was included in the deck.
I don't like this version. I don't like using the web when not necessary. It doesn't matter it's a regular page, they can't be sure of it. Just a lazy way to avoid using a cue card.
Hi Chad, I did not have all that history and is good to know. I too must admit that I actually prefer the the last version of this compared to this Deep X release. Thanks for leaving the comment and the history.
JONNY ! What ...How ?
Yo David, Yes! How what?
I’m not sure that I understand this one….
Isn’t the website just a sort of “Answer Key” for letting you know which letters will be on which card, at the end?
So, I enter 9H, 4S, 2D, & JC.
Each and everyone who owns this trick will have the same letters on the same cards? Or not…? (Just so you wouldn’t have to do any memorization, maybe?)
Then, the website says - #7, #22, #34, & #19.
Those four numbers correspond to those cards, as well as “secretly” eventually the letters, that are the same letters that you have entered into the website….?
Does that make sense….?
Perhaps I missed something else?
The wallet is supposed to do something, oh yeah…. hmmm….
Maybe a demo promo video would be a success for you, on yr channel, Johnny!?
Hello The Bobby Electric. You are sooooo close on the method. What the spectator will do is put in to the web page their "secret lucky word" and then the web page generates four lucky cards for the spectator. So for instance if your secret word is LOVE it will generate four random "lucky" cards for them. However everytime someone puts the word LOVE into the web page it will always generate the same lucky cards. I hope that makes sense. Once the lucky cards have been picked by the web site you then reveal that the four cards in your wallet match those same lucky cards. The spectator may think the effect is over at this point but then you turn your four lucky cards that were in your wallet to reveal that each of them has a letter on the back of them and put together they spell their lucky work "LOVE". I hope that makes sense. The spectator can pick any four letter word without repeating words and it will generate four lucky cards for them and each time your wallet will contain those four lucky cards and their lucky word on the backs of those cards. It can really be a different word each time.
I am working on posting a possible demo so stay tuned. Just depends on finding the time to pull it together.
Thanks for watching.
You lost me go to a website…
Yep, I totaly understand. That is why I like the original versions overall better. Take care and thanks for leaving the comment.