Harlan's Awakening.wmv

[@ebhock101]

I love this. So simple. His version is fantastic, and I highly recommend purchasing it from his website. You can NOT even make this for cheaper than the price. It is great.

[@rstocks1]

Got this at a lecture here in NC yesterday. I have never cared much for rope magic but this is excellent. Very visual, funny and simple to do with a little practice. Buy this if you get a chance! Money well spent.

[@makeupguy]

friggin' brilliant!

[@tjfauteux]

Glad to have met you at Morrissey Magic in Toronto just last week. Your performance amazes me! You are a great performer and innovator of magic. Keep inspiring us!

[@tjfauteux]

Awesome performance!! Very very simple and great impact.

[@gunaonline4725]

incredible all the Time from the master magician

[@seasideshowman]

Dan, Thanks for this great effect. Pleasure meeting you at WCM this past weekend and thanks for taking time to show me some of your tips on this. Strong, visual magic. And those of you who are concerned about exposing the method for another effect remember this is Dan performing for magicians at a magic lecture. Please take the tool that Dan has provided and make this trick your own.

[@randallharter]

Professors Nightmare is a classic. Dan's version is on a whole other level though.

[@chrisschell7110]

Love that version along with the 'dream' version is ideal

[@BK-hq7tn]

What’s the dream version idea?

[@edwardochan9297]

Very nice effect

[@bRadicalmagic1]

Last nights Magician Lecture in Eugene was AWESOME, thanks Dan. "The Professors nightmare" (for magicians), is what you should have called it.

[@MartinWaring]

Awesome - my order is in.

[@miamimagicians]

@makeupguy Its the best trick Dan's created in YEARS!

[@gentrymagician]

Genius.

[@kgphoto]

I love the trick, but I hate the exposure of the original Professors Nightmare. I hope this style of presentation is only at a magician meeting, but since finding a few on You-Tube, including this one, I guess not.

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

Yes. I was just thinking that you can only really do it for other magicians. At least, that's the only way I would do it.

[@frenchbullfrog]

saw him do this last night, totally Baffling!

[@icannotmakeapassword]

any ideas where i can buy this?

[@Openyoureyesify]

You should add a picture of yourself (one that makes us recognize that it's you immediately, easiest to see if your distinct features - like your hairstyle - stand out) as your "KZbin"+"Google Plus"-account profile-pictures. To get you more exposure. As it would draw more attention to your comments on videos like the "Penn and Teller Fool Us" ones by increasing the chance that we (my generation, who finds new and old stuff we like through youtube mostly) see that the guy we just saw entertain us has his own youtube channel. More would click on your name to see more of your videos. Trust me, almost every magician on "Fool Us" either has their comment as the top comment, standing out on someone else's video, while yours took almost a week to get high up in the comment section and isn't number 1 yet. Another tip, which the other magicians seems to do without getting into trouble, is to have downloaded and uploaded the video clip of themselves and their act from the show unto their own channesl and have gotten alot more - free - publicity and exposure through this. You are not only a magician, but an inventor of new tricks, so I thought you deserved more exposure to our generation. Maybe you don't need it, but it was no trouble writing this up so I just went ahead and did it anyway and copied this text to put on your latest video and "discussions"-page on your youtube channel, in case you miss it here (since this video is 6 years old) and you might want or need the tip. :) Have a good day!

[@tomzombori8708]

Nicely done but it's not Dan who created it but good old Tony Slydini.

[@MagicDanHarlan]

Tom, I'm not sure what you're commenting on. This video is my original effect, "The Awakening," which is a version of Professor's Nightmare... a classic rope trick created in the 1950's by Bob Carver, inspired by Hen Fetsch's "Quadroplets." Nothing here has anything to do with Tony Slydini, the late, great master of close-up sleight-of-hand and misdirection.

[@tomzombori8708]

Dan, sorry if I was easy to be misunderstood. Your effect is brilliant and very nicely done indeed. Certainly I meant the original trick by Carver, though I thought it was Slydini's. Even the way Tony commented his rope trick sounded similar "i don' know how it's done". Of course he made a different effect to the trick.