Later, when developing an interest in the art of stage magic, he was able to marry his skill at picking locks with those of a magician and to create an act while in his late teens.
As a marketing ploy, the nightclub asked participants to bring whatever they wanted to the theatre (handcuffs, locks, and straitjackets) to challenge the magician.
He has performed a variation of this "Challenge Escape Act" at New York City's famed, former club, MK in the flat-iron district.
He escaped a tightly bound straitjacket in the pouring rain hanging upside down from a tower crane 150 feet above the street in Portland, Oregon in 2006.
He has performed escapes and magic for major trade show clients, Ford Motor Company, State Farm Insurance, Procter & Gamble, Absolut Vodka, 'Winston/Salem Cigarettes, Compaq Computers, Deutsche Bank, Birdseye Frozen Foods, Black and Decker among others.
Solomon combined award-winning escapes and magic into a highly theatrical two-hour show that was reminiscent of a Broadway production.
[4] His posters, some images, his promotional decks of playing cards, DVDs and other items often contain hidden messages; some are written in cipher or code.
He has used palindromes, recursive acronyms, Morse code and other devices to conceal messages, solutions to an escape, names or important dates related to the image.