Graduate: Great minds think alike?

[Mark]

The 1st of December 2010, Aaron Fisher released his take on the 'Elevator Card' ('Slowmotion Ambitious Card') effect which he called 'The Graduate'. Hereby the video:


The day after Frank (MeandmagiC) showed me this, the 5th of January, I made my own variation on it which I performed for many others including Lee Asher, who is a good friend of Aaron himself. Lee really liked what I did to it.

Then, the 18th of January Aaron apparently posted a variation of it, which totally includes my idea yet done in a little more suspicious kind of way:


Either Lee told him about it, or he totally thought about the same thing I did. I was quite a tad faster though.