AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

A great magician left us this week.

Jerry Andrus was an incredible inventor: of card sleights, toys, and optical illusions. His performances were marked by two eccentricities:

1) He would never use a move or sleight that he had not invented.
2) He would never tell a lie. Not even on stage. He wouldn't say "The coin disappears" he would instead say "The coin appears to vanish", or "The coin is no longer in my hand."

Jerry was deeply committed to honestly, and had a rabid hatred of charlatans and fake-psychics. I remember he used to carry around an ad that he had clipped from a supermarket tabloid that had been placed by the Amazing Kreskin. Kreskin was offering to use his "abilities" to help the desperate for a price. When the subject of magical ethics came up, Jerry would pull the ad out of his wallet and fulminate.