Magic
Close-up card magic: the study of creating the impossible. You’ll see effects here, never methods.
The sequences
Not yet climbed
The next step on this path.
Performer
Member of the Magic Castle’s Junior Society, its talent incubator for young magicians. I perform with the UCLA Magic & Illusion Student Team and teach a workshop every week.
- The Magic CastleJunior Society (talent incubator)
- UCLA Magic & Illusion Student TeamSince 2025
- Stage show200+ people, Nov 2025
- WorkshopsWeekly, 10+ students
Method withheld. Ask me in person.
Teaching
During COVID I filmed card tutorials for YouTube and built software for practising card magic. I taught card magic to children with ADHD and at Dignity Kitchen, a social enterprise.
- YouTube tutorials4,000+ views
- Practice softwareBuilt
- MentoredThree new magicians
- TaughtChildren with ADHD, Dignity Kitchen
Boarding school
I carried a mini deck everywhere and taught my roommate card magic.
- Always on meA mini deck
- First studentMy roommate
A deck of cards
I was a restless kid in Hong Kong, and cards were the one thing that let me focus. I once called them “oil for the gears in my mind”.
Magic
1.Of cards.—A deck of cards was the one thing that held me still. I was a restless kid in Hong Kong, and cards were oil for the gears in my mind.
2.Of teaching.—I carried a mini deck to boarding school and taught my roommate. During COVID I filmed tutorials, built software to practise with and taught children.
3.Of the stage.—Now I perform with UCLA’s Magic & Illusion Student Team, and I’m in the Magic Castle’s Junior Society, its talent incubator.
4.Of secrets.—Magic’s written archive goes back to 1584, when a London book first set out the conjurors’ methods. Mine stay unwritten.
- The 1584 book: Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft.
