Just for fun: a card trick for Picasso

...or, at least, I like to think Picasso would've approved.

Most magicians have "hobby tricks"--tricks they work on, sometimes for years, without ever planning on showing them to an audience. Sometimes it's because we just enjoy the sleight of hand maneuvers involved, sometimes it's because the secret is more entertaining to us than the actual performance would be to an audience.

I have this fascination for these kinds of tricks with a single card, where topology and geometry kind of take a holiday. And now, with YouTube, I can have my cake and eat it, too--just toss out these little conjuring experiments out, come what may.

I hope it's a little fun for you all, too.