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Review - Treasure Island by Kaleb Wade: Kaleb first came to my attention through his debut release via Bazz at Black Cat Magic, an unknown name, releasing a book-test. Of course being somewhat of a book-test devotee I was curious to see what Kaleb brought to the party. The book was based on The Alchemist novel, and it would go on to …

20 Year Anniversary: Today is my Birthday and also the 20 year Anniversary of this blog which was started on 31st July 2000. I believe I was possibly one of the first magic blogs on the internet, given that the term 'weblog' was coined in 1997 and the term blog in 1999. It is fun to look back over 20 years of archives …

Jamie Daws - Virtual Mind Reading System - Review: Jamie has released a system of performing mind reading over Zoom/Skype that is based on his The Tracker booklet. I'm not sure why this wasn't mentioned in the Penguin advert, but to me that would be a strength to highlight this as I really liked his Tracker principle when I bought the booklet a …

The Art of an Illusionist - Guest Post: The Art of An Illusionist Have you ever wondered about the meaning of an illusionist? The word is used to describe a person who performs stage magic to entertain audiences. Many of us have witnessed them perform by making an object levitate, make things disappear and reappear, cut someone in half, …

Gimmick It Yourself by Ben Williams: Ben was kind enough to provide me with a free review copy of his latest download. In the present days of magic publishing - one-trick-downloads and unfinished ideas being published as highly priced e-books - it is really nice to see that Ben has published an over two-hour video download containing 5 …

Ultramodern by Ryan Matney - Review: Ryan has managed to invoke a sense of nostalgia in me with this publication. In the days of one trick downloads, and ebooks, that you can purchase instantly, with nothing more than your Paypal password, it feels good to hold a physical product in your hand. Something that you know will contain good …

Nicholas Einhorn Bill to Marker: Nicholas Einhorn bought the rights to Antonio Romero’s Bill to Marker and he is now releasing this through Vanishing Inc. I got to take part in filming the trailer which you can see on the Vanishing Inc. site linked above along with my cameo appearance! This came about from attending The …

Trcky: Magician Rich Aviles launches his new company Trcky in January, sign up to the newsletter now to receive a free trick when it launches.

Everything Erdnase | Exploring over 100 years in print: The new Magicana online Erdnase Exhibition started by Julie Eng and Jason England. It shows the numerous printings of the book, the history behind it and a count of first editions still in existence.

Hermetic Forum: Started by Tom Stone as a present to Stephen Minch a unique place to discuss the contents of all of Hermetic Press books.

Joshua Jay: 7 Tragic Magician Deaths: Josh’s article published in the Huffington Post from his Tragic Magic lecture, on 7 Tragic Magicians Deaths.

At the Magicians Convention: Review of the recent International Convention in London. I had a fantastic time and it was a great weekend with lots of talent, and some great lectures and shows, this convention is highly recommended, if you don’t already attend add it to your calendar, next years dates are the 16-18 November …

Secrets of Card Magic - Christmas Offer: Chris Burton from Secrets of Card Magic wants to let people know about his membership site for people wanting to learn card magic, sleight of hand and flourishes, he has about 350 plus videos of performing and teaching. He has put together a Christmas offer where people interested in magic can have …

Magic Money: Avia have teamed up with magician Pete Hathaway to deliver their pension message in style. Pete Hathway hit the streets of Brighton and London performing street magic for people in their 20s working in the cities. They said “We had a great time as you’ll see from our films - but we are also …

Magical Mathematics: Watch out for a review of this coming soon, I am still working my way through this but for now take a look at the press release and place your order at Amazon. MAGICAL MATHEMATICS by Persi Diaconis & Ron Graham The Mathematical Ideas that Animate Great Magic Tricks, after 25 years in the making …

Magician Marco Tempest gives a tour of his NY studio - YouTube: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch

Magician to Magician: Luke Jermay Interview: The Luke Jermay Secrets: Remain true to your ideals. Find strength in adversity. Listen to those who have gone before. Be confident in your abilities. The next in the series of interviews from Peter Wardell, in this one he interviews mentalist Luke Jermay, well worth a listen!

iPad Horror - Simon Pierro - YouTube: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch

Blind Love by Paul Gertner - YouTube: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch

I clean and trim my nails:  We constantly remind ourselves that magic is no longer about power, now that we are adults and can make our own choices. Magic is about that very strange, human experience of knowing that what has happened did not actually happen—even though it took place here, in your living room, in your own …

Why Steve Loves Magic « Magick Words:  But more importantly, they forgot. For that eight or so minutes they forgot about the heartache, they forgot about the disappointment, and they pretty much forgot about everything. And when it comes down to it, isn’t that the point of entertainment? via Why Steve Loves Magic « Magick Words.

Is this your full time job?: Bristol Magician Rob James has started a new blog, go read his first post on getting fake enquiries, what baffles me is why people would do this in the first place, go and learn a new card trick instead of bothering professionals!

Magicians Scrapbook: Two old scrapbooks that contain magazine and newspaper clippings collected by a amateur magician from 1900 to the 1930′s. Covering all aspects of magic from the beginning of last century, from small close up tricks to the greatest Magicians of the time revealing their secrets. These articles have …

One of D.C.’s most successful lawyers is also a master magician - The Washington Post: Great article about Rich Bloch and his Dickens Parlour Theatre and his career as an arbitrator.

Sleights of hand, sleights of mind: Magicians take advantage of this to manipulate their spectators attentional spotlight. They know, for example, that the eyes give off important social cues, and that people have a natural impulse to pay attention to the objects that others are attending to. They exploit this joint attention by using …

Review: Noted by Gary Jones: Noted by Gary Jones Costas was very kind to send me a review copy of Gary’s new release Noted. You can see the demo in the link above. This was originally published in Gary’s lecture notes as Starter for 10. The original used a simple basic gimmick, but Magic Tao have taken the idea and …

Magical Sleight interview with Bebel: Magic is becoming a business by magicians for magicians, it's as if musicians were doing music for musicians, I think its not healthy for the art. Lots of people are creating extraordinary things but not targeted to a lay audience. Magical Sleight are going to be releasing some downloads from Bebel, …

101 Steps to becoming a famous Magician: London Magician Noel Qualter has written a step-by-step guide to becoming a famous magician, go and read it, some very wise advice for anyone just starting out.

Full 52 TV Episode 6: Dave Forrest of Full 52 is ramping up his Youtube Channel into something he calls Full 52 TV. Go and subscribe to the channel if you don’t already. He runs regular competitions with some amazing give-aways as well as teaching free tricks. It was a real pleasure to spend some time with Dave and …

The Gimmicks Lab: On the 30th October Jay Sankey will be releasing The Gimmicks Lab project. I am a sucker for a new Sankey release, and can’t wait to see what Jay has planned. You can read a little of his philosophy and thinking behind this on his blog post. But the real reason to link to this was to get you …

Magic Agora: Magic Agora's essential objective is the education of magicians as artists and professionals in the Art of Magic; it carries out a work of investigation and development of the training technology most appropriate for magicians, it puts them together in a common methodology and, as a result, …

Swedish Magicians: The Swedish version of The Magicians, thanks to Noel Qualter for the link. You might not be able to understand it, but at least you don’t have to put up with Lenny Henry!

The Magic Pub: The Magic Pub is a new magic forum, where performers help performers. Seems a bit less flooded than The Green Place, and more focused on performance of magic, might be a nice quiet alternative to the existing forums.

Lee Asher Interview on TheMagicBroadcast: Lee Asher is Interviewed on The Magic Broadcast, find out how to tune into the Live Stream.

Six Hour Memorized Deck: If you are into Memdeck work as I am, you might be interested to know you can get the out-of-print Martin Joyal book as an ebook from Hermetic Press for $20. If you haven’t learnt a stack you might consider this, as you can learn the rules, and it should take you, as the name suggests, around …

A Blog in English: Woody Aragon has just published his new book, A Book in English, this is the accompanying blog, to showcase some videos and anecdotes. I have the book and haven’t yet made it past the tools/sleights section, that isn’t the books fault, it’s just that I can’t stop playing with …

Five Ways to Improve Your Magic: It’s very common to have customers ask how they can make there magic better. While there is no carved in stone formula, there are some practical steps you can take to improve your magic. Five ways to improve your magic from Paul Richards of Elmwood Magic, courtesy of our friends over at The Magic …

The Journal of Secrets: Helder Guimarães and Derek DelGaudio launch the Journal of Secrets with a manifesto that is well worth reading, and then reading again, then printing out and sticking in your magic den! Inspired by Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth it should be required reading for any magician, …

Who Reviews the Reviewers: It’s about thinking carefully, seeing past the tricks and seeing what the performer is trying to achieve, magic is and always will be more than just tricks. The tricks are the bones of it, but it’s everything else which makes it watchable. We are not here as magicians to make you believe we are …

Writers Talk featuring Joshua Jay: Ohio State University Centre for the Study and Teaching of Writing interviews magician and author Joshua Jay. Fascinating, particularly the part where Josh shares some thoughts on the development of his own show, and giving the spectators a peek behind the curtain into the process of magic, a …

Augmented reality magic in Davos by Marco Tempest:  via youtube.com

Ace of Hearts - Meaning: A magic trick without meaning is a puzzle. The same is true for most things in life, which is fine if you’re looking for a puzzle but most of us want amazing not confusing. At the heart of everything you do there should be meaning. via magicstateofmind.com Pete Wardell has started a side-project …

International Magic Convention Reports: Having got out of the blogging habit I forgot to post a link to my Internation Magic Convention reviews that I wrote for Magic Convention Guide, it was a fantastic convention, in a great location. The Flicking Fingers were amazing, and to spend an hour in the company of Juan Tamariz is always good! …

A Magic Augmented Reality Christmas Tale: via youtube.com Featuring Simon Pierro via @denisbehr

November 28, 2010 8:16 PM: via youtube.com Akira Fujii as filmed by Eric Jones mildly NSFW due to some swearing, but I think if I'd have seen that live, I would have said the same! Very Magical.

JoKeR-5:  via youtube.com

Delicious Live Magic:  via youtube.com

Cup and Balls / Gemini Twins Live:  via youtube.com

Illusions Bar Manchester: See the full gallery on Posterous Had a great night tonight with my first visit to Illusions Bar in Manchester with Vicky, Jo and Kate. I first saw the portable bar at the Session convention last year but it was great to see the concept in it's natural home along side a working bar that any member …

Ali Cook: Water Tank Escape 2010:  via youtube.com

Tomohiro Maeda on Japan TV Show:  via youtube.com

Japan TV Show visits the Magic Castle with Max Maven Part 2:  via youtube.com

Tomohiro Maeda Part 2 on Japan Magic TV Show:  via youtube.com

Japan TV Show visits the Magic Castle with Max Maven Part 1:  via youtube.com

Armando Lucero on Japan Magic TV Show:  via youtube.com

Rick Merrill with Max Maven on Japan Magic TV Show:  via youtube.com

Magic Boy Finds... Michael McIntyre:  via youtube.com

Untitled: JazzMagic Demo.m4v (via paulgertnermagic)

Untitled: Enigma Change.wmv (via ericdaredd2002)

Untitled: Pre-discovery 2 (via kammagic)

Untitled: Joshua Jay Taxi (via Vanishingincmagic)

Untitled: Pre-Discovery Live (via kammagic)

Untitled: Magic Boy finds… Fearne Cotton (via MagicBoyTV)

Untitled: Masuda on Japanese TV Show (via murphysmagic)

Untitled: Triunfo de Christian Engblom (blogdaortiz.com) (via magospain)

Untitled: ACID Sandwich (via MarkHilkemeijer)

Untitled: South Street Swindle (Variation of Caleb Wiles’ RE-SWINDLED) (via Snappyhands57)

Untitled: Ollie Mealing and friends - Henry Drysdale (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Sorcerer’s Safari Magic Camp 2010 (via AceOfMage)

Untitled: 5 and 1 Transpo - Lee Smith (via magicskiski)

Untitled: Magic - Rhythms Of The World 2010 (via magicskiski)

Untitled: Impromptu Quickie (via Snappyhands57)

Untitled: The Direct Control (via Snappyhands57)

Untitled: Chris Congreave - Apparition (via magicskiski)

Untitled: Fred Kaps performing 7 card gypsy monte (via gaafman)

Untitled: New Theory Aces No 2 (via Snappyhands57)

Untitled: Mayhew’s Look at me! (Featuring J.J. Ramin’s Ace Production) (via Snappyhands57)

Untitled: Mayhew’s Monte (via Snappyhands57)

Untitled: [vimeo 14340271 w=400 h=225] Andy Nyman Interview (by Peter Wardell)

Untitled: Ollie Mealing @ Green Man Festival 2010 (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: An Ha-Lim Card Manipulation (via chen7699)

Untitled: Sarria 2010 (con sonido) (via magospain)

Untitled: Topas magic Tv5. (via MavisRileyJunior)

Untitled: Variación de Flap Jacks de Paul Harris y Daryl (via GonzaloCartoMagia)

Untitled: The 3 Greatest Card Tricks In The World - David Icon (via davidiconmagic)

Untitled: Monte Lesson (via Snappyhands57)

Untitled: James Galea on ‘The Circle’ - Part 2 (via jimmyg8181)

Untitled: James Galea on ‘The Circle’ - Part 1 (via jimmyg8181)

Untitled: The Great Xar - Swallowing Razor Blades THE WORD (via baetbabyever08)

Untitled: Jeff McBride’s Wonderground 2010 (via magiciancirce)

Untitled: Jeff McBride’s Wonderground / Dancing Hank by Edward & Circe (via magiciancirce)

Untitled: cacross (via TomPintson)

Untitled:  Ollie Mealing @ Latitude Festival 2010, featuring Paul Zenon (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Message Morph (via kammagic)

Untitled: Pepe Carroll - Bolas de esponjas (via ezeel8)

Untitled: A Day in the life of :: a Magician - with Omar Renfro (via zachmonky)

Untitled: Ollie Mealing and friends - Ed Money (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Jack Parker’s “Bare Naked Ladies”, performed by Ollie Mealing (via OllieMealing )

Untitled:  DaOrtiz realizando jazzMagic (Zamora) (via magospain)

Untitled: Magician - “Strike 2” (via magicskiski)

Untitled: Ambitious Card - Live (via magicskiski)

Untitled: Magician Live - “Lee Smith” (via magicskiski)

Untitled: Card Magic - Ice Breaker (via magicskiski)

Untitled: Covent Garden Magic (via magicskiski)

Untitled: David Blaine makes a deck of cards shrink (via kevinrose)

Untitled: Ollie Mealing @ Wychwood Festival 2010 (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Live! (via Bcake)

Untitled: The London Card Expert Presents “The Zarrow Shuffle” (via michaelvincent64)

Untitled: The London Card Expert Presents “The Intuition Speller” (via michaelvincent64)

Untitled: Michael Vincent “The London Card Expert” (via michaelvincent64)

Untitled: 【2010央视春晚 1080HD】17 - 魔术表演 Magic Show 2/2 刘谦 Liu Qian (via chinesecivilization)

Untitled: Series 3, The LL Tour, Episode 6 - St Paul’s Cathedral & Tower Bridge (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Video de los 30 minutos, de Dani DaOrtiz (via magospain)

Untitled: Series 3, The LL Tour, Episode 5 - Tate Modern & The Globe Theatre (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: [DK] Rune Klan - Live @ Dronning Magrethe’s 70Års Fødselsdag [HQ] (via Wiimaguy)

Untitled: Kranzilla’s Instant Everything (via oznark)

Untitled: Behind The Magic - Obie O’Brien (Episode 4: The Final Chapter) (via timellis43)

Untitled: Behind The Magic - Obie O’Brien (Episode 3: Hollywood) (via timellis43)

Untitled: Behind The Magic - Obie O’Brien (Episode 2: FFFF) (via timellis43)

Untitled: Behind The Magic - Obie O’Brien (Episode 1: Early Years) (via timellis43)

Untitled: James Galea (Card Trick) Comedy Festival Gala 2009 (via JSKALTEN)

Untitled: Live Ambitious Card Routine 2010 (via kammagic)

Untitled: Arthur Trace Magic (via kaifas)

Untitled: Series 3, The LL Tour, Episode 4 - Trafalgar Square & BT Tower (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Series 3, The LL Tour, Episode 3 - Downing Street & Buckingham Palace (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Series 3, The LL Tour, Episode 2 - Big Ben & The Houses of Parliament (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Series 3, The LL Tour, Episode 1 - Waterloo Station & London Eye

Untitled: BLACKPOOL 2010 (via CardMagician)

Untitled: The Christ Ace Trick (via kammagic)

Untitled: Truco de magia de Dani DaOrtiz (via magospain)

Untitled: Efecto1 Dani Daortiz en Sarria 2009 (via magospain)

Untitled: Series 2, Episode 9, Plymouth University (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Series 2, Episode 8, Exeter University (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Holly Meadows Comedy Club February 6 2010 (via oznark)

Untitled: Workers review- ep1- Titans finger (via AlanRorrison )

Untitled: Theater of Dreams Saturday Night Sold Out Show (via oznark)

Untitled: Series 2, Episode 7, Bristol University (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Series 2, Episode 6, Birmingham University (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Series 2, Episode 5, Manchester University (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Nathan Kranzo performing LIVE in OSAKA, JAPAN (via oznark)

Untitled: Series 2, Episode 4, Huddersfield University (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Series 2, Episode 3, Leeds University (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Series 2, Episode 2, Sheffield University (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Series 2, Episode 1, Nottingham University (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Surprise Episode, Episode 12, Freeze Festival, Featuring Sam Pilgrim & Rowntrees Randoms (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: John Bannon discusses “Bullets After Dark” Part 2 of 2 (via murphysmagic)

Untitled: John Bannon discusses “Bullets After Dark” Part 1 of 2 (via murphysmagic)

Untitled: Episode 11, Part 2, Alchemy Festival (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Episode 11, Part 1, Alchemy Festival (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Episode 10, Part 2, Waveform Festival (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: The Innocent Smoothie Special

Untitled: Cyril interview in Singapore (pt.2)

Untitled: Cyril interview in Singapore (pt.1)

Untitled: Episode 10, Part 1, Waveform Festival (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Paul Harris Interview Part 2 (via magicgeekinc)

Untitled: Episode 9, Part 2, Off The Tracks Festival (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Episode 9, Part 1, Off The Tracks Festival (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Episode 8, Part 2, Shambala Festival (via OllieMealing)

Untitled:  Triunfo en abanico de Dani DaOrtiz (via magospain)

Untitled: Winged Silver | ウィングド・シルãƒãƒ¼ (via FrenchdropTube)

Untitled: Episode 8, Part 1, Shambala Festival (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Episode 7, Part 2, The Jerusulam Inn, Nottingham Built in 1189 (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Episode 7, Part 1, The Jerusulam Inn, Nottingham, Built in 1189! (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Episode 6, Part 2, The Big Chill Festival, Featuring Noel Fielding & Friendly Fires (via OllieMealing)

Untitled:  Christian Engblom, separación de colores para blogdaortiz.com (via magospain)

Untitled: Silver & Sorcery by Tom Stone (via warpsmith)

Untitled: Episode 6, Part 1, The Big Chill Festival, Featuring Noah and the Whale, Mr Hudson & Mr Scruff (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Extreme Twist (via ericdaredd2002)

Untitled: Episode 5, Part 1, Nozstock Festival, Featuring Scratch Perverts (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Episode 4, Part 2, Glade Festival - featuring Beardyman (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Defiance by Dave Williamson (MAGIC Live Spoof) (via dbsquared)

Untitled: Episode 4, Part 1, Glade Festival - Featuring Rusko (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: ‘OUR FISM’ by Topas (via timellis43)

Untitled: FISM 2009 Grand Prix Stage Winner - Soma (Hungary) (via Cervondini)

Untitled: FISM 2009 Micro Magic 3rd place tie - Johan Stahl (Sweden) (via Cervondini)

Untitled: FISM 2009 Card Magic 2nd place - Kristian Nivala (Finland) (via Cervondini)

Untitled: Shawn Farquhar - FISM 2009 Grand Prix winning full act (via Cervondini)

Untitled: FISM 2009 Card Magic 3rd place - Olmac (France) (via Cervondini)

Untitled: Jorge Luengo (Spain) (via d3rfliw)

Untitled: Yigal Mesika not doing tarantula (via d3rfliw)

Untitled: David Williamson on the spot (via d3rfliw)

Untitled: David Williamson (via d3rfliw)

Untitled: Contest Routine (via bobmiller48)

Untitled: Episode 3, Part 2, Larmer Tree Festival (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Magician On A Mission - Fusing cards! (via MagicianOnAMission)

Untitled:  iDECK by Noel Qualter (via AlakazamMagicUK)

Untitled: Bonus Episode, Larmer Tree Festival (via OllieMealing)

Untitled:  Street Magic (via LiamWalshMagic)

Untitled: Episode 3, Part 1, Larmer Tree Festival (via OllieMealing)

Lots of FISM Videos: http://space.tv.cctv.com/page/PAGE1248682446442211 (via ring112)

Untitled: Episode 2, Part 2, Wakestock Festival (Feat, Dainton, Zane Lowe & Norman Jay) (via OllieMealing)

StreetofCards.TV : Independent Magicians Network - Jeff Mcbride posting from FISM 09: http://streetofcards.tv/channel/27/jeff-mcbride/

Untitled: A Masterpiece of Modern Card Magic (via michaelvincent64)

Untitled: Episode 2, Part 1, Wakestock Feat Moby and Calvin Harris (via OllieMealing)

Untitled:  Episode 1, Glastonbury festival, Part 2 (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Episode 1, Glastonbury festival, Part 1 featuring magic singh (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Juan Tamariz en nada x aqui (via rafapolle)

Untitled: Dani DaOrtiz at F.F.F.F convention. (via magospain)

Untitled: Dynamotv11 (via Krakatowa9)

Untitled: Dynamo tv 10 (via Krakatowa9)

Untitled: Time Warp with Dan and Dave Buck (via dbsquared)

Untitled: David Blaine Doing a magic Trick at Chicago Street (via MrNumberonetvfanshow)

Untitled: DAVID STONE’s WiNDOW by Jean-Luc Bertrand - trailer 1 (via CloseUpMagicCom)

Untitled: Teaser Episode, Part 2 (Aestival Solstice Celebration) (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: Teaser Episode, Part 1 (Aestival Solstice Celebration) (via OllieMealing)

Untitled: BLACKPOOL 2009 (via JordanLapping )

Untitled: Twizted (via ericdaredd2002)

Untitled: QSX…XSQ (via blaboratories)

Untitled: Card Flourishes - Virtuoso Tutorial: The Spring (via thevirts)

Untitled: Two Pros Talking 6 MIDNIGHT EDITION (via oznark)

Untitled: Final HQ Charlie Caper Got Talent (via MerchantofMagic)

Jamie Daws - Podcast: http://jamiedaws.co.uk/podcast.htm

Untitled: Collectorings (via AlexanderHansford)

Untitled: Monty by Beruza (via murphysmagic)

Untitled: Card Flourishes - Virt TV #1: The Ninja Spring Grab (via thevirts)

Untitled: Dynamo TV #9 (via Krakatowa9)

Untitled: Two Pros Talking Episode 5 (via oznark)

Untitled: SOMA - Phone Act (via somagic85)

Op-Ed Contributor - Ricky Jay - Desperately Seeking Susan - NYTimes.com: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/opinion/02jay.html?_r=2&th&emc=th

Untitled: Gag counter (via magicrobjames)

Untitled: Magic Thoughts (via magicrobjames)

Untitled: Dynamo tv #8 (via Krakatowa9)

Untitled: Two Pros Talking Episode 4 (via oznark)

Secrets of Magic Forum: Secrets of Magic Forum: Are you looking for a magic site with a solid community? At SOMF, we have everything, we do everything, we talk about everything. The rules are simple, help each other! If you are stuck on a certain effect, can’t get a presentation right, or just need to ask a question, …

Magic Video Blog: Magic Video Blog: The Magic Video Blog was started in 2008 by a select group of magicians who love vintage magic videos. Their intention is to provide an amazing magic clip - every 24 hours. The more they can expose you to great magic, the chances of helping you improve your own magic will increase. …

Amazing Magic Trick: Dynamo makes YOUR card disappear. More at Nokia Connectors http://video.unrulymedia.com/wildfire_4623319.js?vn=sCFeR-1230641229259

John G Magic Blog: John G Magic Blogspot: One of my favourite magicians John Guastaferro has just opened a magic blog, if you haven’t seen his products go to his product page do yourself a favour and order everything he has, then thank me later! You can see some clips on his Youtube Channel. John has some …

Magic Mornings Video Podcast: Melbourne magicians Kamal Bhushan and Dean Atkinson continue to delight audiences in their weekly Magic Mornings video podcast. The show fuses informative magic reviews, clips, comedic personality and hilarious repartee. You can watch at http://www.magicmornings.com.au/ The show also has its own …

Time to be Awesome: Time to be Awesome is a new internet TV show from David Corsaro the latest episode is an interview with award winning magician Marc DeSouza and a discussion about magic competitions and what it takes to succeed. Marc was also gracious enough to show them around his collection of magic posters and …

IBM British Ring Convention 2008 - Eastbourne 24-28 September: Just an early heads up, I will be attending the above convention, and will be live-blogging the events I attend for Magic Convention Guide I will still post short posts here (probably just the first parts of each post) with links across to each post at MCG, so you will be able to find the reports …

Howcast Magic Videos: Howcast offer how-to videos and guides, as part of their site they have produced a play-list of magic how-to guides. Dave Horowitz from Howcast says “We created some cool how to magic videos that I wanted to share with you. Much like a good act, they both entertain and are accessible on top of being …

New Video Website Helps Entertainers Shine: Recently launched Talentainer.com allows entertainers to post videos of their latest and greatest acts in hopes of landing new gigs. Since the site debuted, it has attracted award-winning comedians, magicians and other “event enhancers”. Talentainer.com is a new video-centric website offering live …

Paul Daniels Tesco Compare Ad: Paul Daniels performs a nifty magic trick. http://video.unrulymedia.com/wildfire_3542373.js?vn=sCFeR-1219415494627

Dynamo Works his Magic on a Nokia: Some people are born with magic in their fingertips. The rest of us have to download it… Check out the full length film on the Nokia Connectors site, where you can also uncover the secrets behind the magic, download free tricks for your phone, and win a Nokia 6220. Amazing! …

Magic teaches us about human cognition: Another story from BoingBoing about a paper just published in Nature Neuroscience about the way that magic tricks illuminate the inner workings of human perception — the paper is co-authored by five magicians, including Teller of Penn and Teller. You can read more in an article from The Boston Globe …

“Psychic” Uri Geller loses YouTube battle: From boingboing gadgets professional psychic Uri Geller and his company Explorologist Ltd., filed a DCMA takedown notice against the creators of a 13 minute YouTube video debunking Geller’s supernatural powers… a video which happened to contain a ten second copyrighted clip of one of …

Jack Parker Video Marathon: Tomorrow marks a year ago on the 30th June 2007 that Jack Parker passed away. To celebrate his magic Andi Gladwin is running a week long Jack Parker Video Marathon. Every day he will share a video of Jack’s magic including videos of tricks that Jack only shared with two or three magicians. …

Losander Needs Our Help: Straight from Dirk Losander himself: I Need Your Help. Our little baby “Ione” was born 6 days ago. Today we found out she needs a heart operation and our insurance is not going to pay for it. I am not writing you this to beg for money but if you need to buy something from my website now would be the …

Magic Channel Launches: Foreign BBC correspondent and magician Geoff Harrison has launched what is claimed to be the world’s first magic channel, tvmagicians.com. The site, part of Global Digital Broadcast’s IPTV network Play TV UK, will feature magicians’ showreels, effects demonstrations, industry …

Friendfeed for Magicians: Anyone else here on Friendfeed? In case you don’t know, Friendfeed is a new social site made by ex-google employees, you can see an introduction and explanation on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendfeed Recently they have implemented a Rooms function: …

FFFF 2008 Photos: Three sets of photos from the recent FFFF convention held April 23-26 2008: Paul Gordon from his lecture and performance Robin Dawes Flickr Set Antony Gerard's comprehensive day-by-day account

Smoke and Mirrors: Christiaan Lopez-Miro has a new gallery of photos on his site called Smoke and Mirrors, click on the Images link and then Smoke and Mirrors. In his words: These photographs are suppose to be about the moments between the performance. The moments when the magician is simply alone contemplating …

MagicTricks.tv: Another Youtube index has recently emerged at MagicTricks.tv. It is owned and run in direct conjunction with the Magic Tricks Store, www.magictricks.co.uk It is aimed at anyone with an interest in magic and has been designed to put many magic videos in one place. They have designed the site so the …

AbraTube: James Munton has opened a new youtube video site, from his post on The Magic Cafe: I got frustrated trying to search YouTube for good magic videos. You have to wade through the thousands of bedroom magicians doing awful card tricks. So I put together a website that allows people to post their …

Magicology: The Study of Magic: From Ryan Swigert: Just wanted to let everyone know that I created a new site called Magicology: The Study of Magic. On it, you can learn some of my latest tricks for free, interviews with various magicians, and much more… For more information, please visit: www.magicology.com Many thanks, …

Monday Night Magic Moving: Monday Night Magic, New York City’s longest-running Off-Broadway magic show, is moving to our biggest and best location yet! Now in our 11th continuous year as New York’s home for magic, we are thrilled to announce that on June 23rd - that’s just three weeks away! - the curtain …

Blog Database Issues: You may have noticed we have been down for the past week or so (or you may not!) To cut a long story very short, my database crashed, in particular the table holding all the blog posts! This was marked as in use and I couldn’t repair it. After struggling with my host I have gone back to an old …

Magictricks.co.uk New Ownership: News just in from Keelan Leyser and Charlotte Marie. They have taken over the running of Magictricks.co.uk from Carl Fraser, from their e-mail: MagicTricks.co.uk has new owners headed by British Magical Grand Prix Champions, Keelan Leyser and Charlotte Marie. The transfer from Carl Fraser from …

Magic Convention Guide: Relaunch: A while ago we mentioned that Noel Qualter had launched The Magic Convention guide, which has lay dormant now for a little while. Now its back under the ownership of Andrew Webb, you can see the relaunch post over at his blog, support him with your comments, and if you think you can submit a review …

Enlightenment Update: For those of you not keeping track, Ben Harris has been teasing us over his new micro-levitation system over at the Cafe for the last 8 or 9 months: Well he promised that he would do something revolutionary to the magic process, and release a product specification telling you exactly what the method …

Michael Close launches new magic forum: Why another Magic Forum? Lisa and I have started a new venture - an Internet forum for magicians. There are, of course, several forums out there already. It is my dissatisfaction with these existing forums that prompted the development of this new forum. In the early 1990s, I was one of the people …

Watch Magic Tricks on video at Download Magic: This just in from Steve Fearson: I’m working on something right now that I think could spread some major smileage and it doesn’t have to be finished to do it. Click this with all your might: http://www.downloadmagic.com/video I know you already know what youtube is, but having an …

Press Release - The FISM: London, 10 March 2008 - This November and for the first time ever, the FISM

FISM European Championships of Magic - CANCELLED: I was looking forward to going to Sofia in November but looks like it has all fallen through, more time to save for China I guess! From the website: Dear All, Due to unforeseen circumstances, restricted organizational capacity and unexpected financial strains, jeopardizing the initial budget, it is …

Blackpool 2008: Sunday The Home Straight: Sunday was another early start but what a lecture. FISM Card Champion Helder Guimaraes explained three blockbuster effects. He started with a great visual transposition, similar in style to the Daley effect but with two of the aces isolated in a glass, which changed places with the aces on the …

Blackpool 2008: Saturday Marathon: Saturday started with a lecture from Martin Sanderson, pretty standard stuff but all done very neatly in a commercial way, Ambitious Card, Coin under Watch, Chop Cup, Bill in Kiwi and Martins Little Sausage which is his take on ring flight, using a stuffed dog, where the ring ends up on the collar. …

Blackpool 2008: Friday Lectures Ahoy: After a wander around the dealers it was time to start with the lectures. First up was David Sousa, maybe I had high expectations having read about his red envelope act but this was possibly not the best way to start the convention. It could have been an interesting lecture in the right setting, but …

Blackpool 2008: Arrival: Arrived at Blackpool, rained hard on the way, just checked in, staying across the road from The Ruskin and round the corner from the winter gardens. Just about to go and register and have a look round dealers before the list of lectures start, will try and get to them all (I will miss the close-up …

Home of the Review: The Magic Review: a new review site started by Matt Tarrant from Australia. He hopes to “build a complete and honest, non-biased review styled site” reviewing Effects, Cards, Local Magic Shops, Lectures and Performances. They also have a competition to launch the site, just sign-up to the site and …

I Photography Competion: The Cuso I Photography Competition: Alejandro is running a magical card related photography competion over at his blog, details from him as follows: Today the I Photography Competition begins. If you are a magician, flourisher, cardist, xcmer, poker player, sleight of hand artist, cheater, playing …

FISM European Championships of Magic 2008: FISM European Championships of Magic 2008: The 6th Balkan Magic Convention in Sofia, Bulgaria on 6-9 November 2008 will be the host of the first FISM European Championships of Magic. I am certainly hoping to go, it will be a good start to the run up to China in 2009. I believe they will use these …

Fractal Card Magic: John Bannon’s Fractal Card Magic: Spotted over at Fun Inc. John Bannon is releasing a trilogy of packet tricks entitled Fractal Card Magic, the first The Royal Scam is to be released in a couple of weeks: Prolific creator John Bannon, author of Smoke and Mirrors, will be releasing a trilogy of …

52 Memories pre-order: If you do not recieve Andi Gladwin’s newsletter (and if not why not?!) He announced over the weekend that the Jack Parker book is now available for pre-order. I am going to pick up my copy at The Session but if you are not attending (if not why not?!) you may wish to pre-order to recieve this …

Any Suggestions?: If you read this blog via the website (rather than the feed) you’ll notice I have added some widgets to the right hand column, along with the obligatory blogroll and links, I now have my flickr badge, technorati search/profile, twitter updates and the two latest my lifestream widget which uses …

Read all about it: The Magic Classifieds: Jeff Pierce has started a free Classifieds Ad site where you can post magic ads to buy, sell, trade and view your auctions.

eee bah gum: I’d been looking for a small sub-notebook for a while, something I could take away with me to magic conventions, on holiday, and generally use around the house, that would have wi-fi so I could post updates on the move, check e-mail etc. uptil just recently the price point of these …

New Blogs & Blogging: The Cull: Tim Ellis recently culled his list of referring magic blogs, and added some new ones, two I would particularly like to mention are: Fun Incorporated - the new blog of Fun Inc. and the Royal Magic line talking about new products and the latest happenings at the company. Pursuit of Magic - a …

iTricks Trick of the Year Tournament: iTricks Trick of the Year Tournament: iTricks are holding a traditional trick of the year competition, with a twist, in their own words “We have eight judges that have each independently nominated a product. In each matchup, the judges will cast a vote and the readers will cast one collective vote. …

New Blogs: Been meaning to link to these for a while, some excellent new magic blogs popping up: Andrew Mayne - as well as itricks, Andrew now has his own homepage/blog giving you the first previews to his latest releases. Nings Magic Diaries - part of the Magic Boutique shop, Miss Ning updates this magic blog …

The Wonder Show of the Universe: Sanders The Great: You will join me in the Wonder Show of the Universe for I am Sanders the Great: mentalist, magician, mindreader, wizard of the east, wonder of wonders. I will entertain you with the latest news from the World of magic, enlighten you with my words on magical literature and bedazzle …

Magic Fakers: Magic Fakers: In the world of magic, tricks and effects are very difficult to protect legally and, as a result, many unscrupulous dealers simply copy the creations of others without permission. In an effort to help those who wish to buy ethically and support the original creators while avoiding the …

FISM Reports Blog: Sue-Anne Webster’s FISM reports get a new home with their own blog, Tim has reformatted them and added additional photos and videos.

The Life and Magic of Stewart James: Stewart James Exhibition: A new online exhibit from Magicana about one of the most influential authors of magic tricks who ever lived. You can explore the rooms of this virtual museum you will be free to navigate through the magician

New Blogs & Podcast: Two new blogs and a new podcast: Raffaele De Ritis' Novelties and Wonders Furniture

MagicPedia: MagicPedia is a wiki-style online encyclopedia dedicated to the techniques and history of magic. MagicPedia is the definitive Internet repository of magical techniques for all areas of the magical arts and also a way to document the history of magic. A new magic wiki brought to you by the Genii …

Redefining the Impossible: Unexpected Wonders: A new blog by magician Jim Coles. Includes some writing from Suzanne and some other thoughtful pieces, looks like a great start to the blog, welcome Jim!

Diary of a working magician: This just in from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I’m a Magician myself and quite recently got a blog. It’s address is http://www.workingmagi.blogspot.com It’s the blog of a working magician. I post my adventures in the world of private gigs. I’d be very flattered if you published …

Hollywood Minute: This just in all the way from the bright lights of Hollywood: Hello from Hollywood! Thought you and your readers might like to know that Hollywood’s Magic Castle is being mentioned on tomorrow’s edition (Friday, August 31st) of Dave’s Hollywood Minute. There’s a quick story …

Cerca Trova: What is Theory 11? In case you have missed all the buzz on July 25th Lee Asher posted a cryptic message to several online message boards: The Magic Cafe, Dan and Dave, Decknique there are also threads over at Penguin and the Magic Woods amongst others. Since then every Monday at Midnight EST there …

Sideshow Illusions: Sideshow Illusions is the new site to accompany Jon Marshall’s new venture. Hull Magicians’ Circle members have enjoyed these marvels for the last few years as part of our Annual Dinner. Jon and his team have been working hard to take these attractions on the road and have been …

New Magic Blogs: A quick list of some new magic blogs that have started recently: Jim Sisti - author of The Magic Menu blogs on life as a professional magician. Aaron Fisher - a more immediate, unfiltered view of what it

Jack Parker: It’s always upsetting when someone in our magic community dies. It is particularly painful when that person is still young, and with a bright future ahead. Andi reported that Jack passed away this weekend, having lost his battle with bone and kidney cancer. Jack saw his Cookbook project come …

Introducing - Watching Magic: WatchingMagic: is my new baby, I registered the watchingmagic domain a while back after seeing the explosion in internet video and how that has crossed into the magic domain. After wondering what to do with it, finally a few days ago I decided to set up what has become known as a Tumblelog also …

Quirkology: Quirkology: Professor Richard Wiseman has spent twenty years exploring the backwaters of the human mind and going to places where mainstream scientists fear to tread. The result is Quirkology. A site around Richard’s new book on Quirkology which he terms as psychological research that is …

MagicZine: Andrew Mayne’s MagicZine: free magic tricks, inside tips, articles, interviews and magic reviews. From the iTricks stable comes an online e-zine, with some very nice free tricks and articles. The Nathan Kranzo idea particularly appealed to me when he sent it on his mailing list, check it out, …

Lets Twist again...: Youtube - Asher Twist videos: a page of Lee Asher’s favourite Asher Twist videos from Youtube, submit your own and get tips from the man himself!

Podcast: Reels in Motion: The Magic Lantern Podcast: Scott Sullivan’s new video production company has a new magic podcast, the latest episode is an interview with Eric DeCamps.

Virtual Magician: Virtual Magician Channel on LiveVideo: Marco Tempest’s vLog including videos on his new Japanese commerical for The Prestige and a behind the scenes look at his trips to Seoul, Shanghai and Sri Lanka.

Releases 04/06/07: Some more magic products that might be of interest: Stone Cold Magic DVD - Jeff Stone's DVD, Jeff appeared on the new Underground Jam DVD with Jay Sankey, with some very clever ideas, you can see some clips from the DVD and read Jeff's blog. Don Driver's DVDs - Don's Building a Tip and Svengali …

Magic Review Blog: Alex’s Magic Reviews: Alex Rossi’s new review blog, some good reviews of Jack Parker, Andi Gladwin, Dave Forrest, Justin Miller and Robert Moreland’s material.

Magicians Movie - Press Release: “From the hottest new British comedians Mitchell and Webb and the creators of the award-winning ‘Peep Show’ comes MAGICIANS. Subscribe now to the official podcast for all the best previews, interviews and behind the scenes exclusives. Lifelong friends Harry and Karl (David Mitchell and …

FISM Europe to Strengthen FISM Organisation: London, 09 May 2007

YouTube - Street Magic: Some of our Humberside Young Magicians’ Workshop Members performing Street Magic. Phil Smith of the Manchester Circle of Magicians used his expertise to film the youngsters and edited together this short clip, that should magically appear below: [youtube www.youtube.com/watch

New Releases 13/05/07: As I stumble across new products be they tricks, dvds, books, e-books, magazines etc. I will try and remember to mention them here, that will benefit me as I can keep track of them, and hopefully maybe point them out to you, so here are a few new releases that you may or may not be aware of: Cameron …

T&A Tour: A Double D Tour: Andi Gladwin and Tyler Wilson are currently touring the U.S. with their T&A tour, still a few dates left to catch them if you haven’t already. Check out the photos. How about a UK tour guys?

Connecting People: Network of Magic: an online magic community with a chat room, and forums offering advice, tips and reviews to magicians.

Show Me!: AOL Show Me: AOL’s new video tutorial site, has a magic section with some interesting beginners clips, worth checking out some of the other video clips as well.

Session 2007 Photos: Photo Gallery from the Session 2007, also check out the MySpace page for more photos and a trailer for the upcoming DVD.

Magic's First Live Broadcast Website: The Lecture Network: Jeff Hobson is the face of this new venture, hoping to bring live video lectures, starting this summer. You can let them know who you would like to see. Also there will be access to archive clips, live chat, interviews and podcasts, looks great!

Japanjin: Japanjin: Japanese magic blog. Somewhere between gaijin and nihonjin lies the Japanjin.

Yellow Pages: Directory of Magic is a magic and magician web directory, offer you links to websites which provide information related to magic, magician and performers, magic equipment, magic cards ,coins, illusions, effects and so on.

Street Magic Magazine: Street Magic Magazine: The ULTIMATE magic magazine is here! In the premiere issues of Street Magic Magazine, you

Magic Convention Guide: Magic Convention Guide: a new site from my friend Noel Qualter. It will be the one-stop shop guide to all Magic Conventions, with News, Reviews, Photos, Interviews, Articles, Guides and Gossip. Check out the guide to surviving Blackpool, if you are going this weekend and also the interviews from …

The Best Selling Book?: Erdnase: The Expert at the Card Table: Bill Kalush and The Conjuring Arts Research Centre have produced a pocket-sized edition of Erdnase, you can see photos of this edition and all the other editions, and purchase your copy for only $15. The site also promises Essays and a Forum soon.

Magic Wiki: Magic Sanctum is a collaborative project to create the most definitive, accurate, and accessible encyclopedia reference for everything related to the performance and performers of the magical arts.

Sneaker Magic: Sneaker Magic: See Dynamo perform his sneaker magic advertising Adidas’s new brand of trainers.

The Genii Speaks: The Genii Blog: a new blog by Richard Kaufman, extending his Genii Speaks column into the online blog world. No RSS feed yet but hopefully should be forthcoming. Some interesting magic and film and disney posts.

Magic Times with MagicTimes: MagicTimes: Meir Yedid’s popular magic news site is back. After a short break from the strain of daily-updates, Meir now has an automated system up that scrapes Yahoo!, Google etc. looking for Magic related news. As such you do get the odd story not related to Magic as an art, but still very …

Open Letter from Steve Johnson: Edit: Seems like there maybe two sides to this story, check out Inside Magic for the scoop. While browsing the web recently I discovered something troubling. I saw an e-book being sold that contained several routines for an invisible thread reel. The names of the tricks were identical to the names …

Roundabout Magic: Giacomo Bertini: Watch some excellent coin magic from Giacomo Bertini of Florence, Italy, and purchase his DVD. He wants to introduce you to new techniques and a new way of doing coin magic. He has some great quotes from Steve Draun, David Roth and Michael Rubinstein. You can watch his version of …

Magic, News, Information & Culture: iTricks: Andrew Mayne brings you itricks.com Magic News, Information & Culture. The goal of itricks.com is to bring to you the latest news and information from the world of magic.

Poetic, Beautiful and Magical: Jerome Murat: a clip of an act I was fortunate to see twice live this year, once at Blackpool and again at FISM, its an awesome act very beautiful and just simply magical, if you get to see the whole thing live its even better than this short clip, but this gives you some idea.

DailyMotion: Mogwai08: Card Videos: some very nice card videos from a french user of video-sharing site DailyMotion.

Psychological Manipulation: Playing Mind Games: an article on the BBC site about how magic can be used in different contexts, from explotation, for both virtuous and criminal purposes. Also the article mentions David Copperfields Project Magic and more immediate uses for the art.

Secret Center: A Safe Haven For Your Magick Secrets: New forum that includes password-protected forums for products such as Think Pink, Electric Touch, Believe and Tony Millers Wallets.

Appalachian mountain step dancing: The Clog: Andi Gladwin, Tyler Wilson and Luke Dancy have started a collaborative blog (or Clog). Welcome to the fold fellow-bloggers and I couldn’t think of three better minds in magic to join together in such a venture. They have already put up some thought provoking posts, which are …

Indecent Proposal: Here we are on the eve before the launch of yet another well-hyped trick, yet somehow this one seems to have come full circle even before the official release date. For those that aren’t aware yet (you mean you haven’t been listening to the Podcasts?) Wayne Houchin of Sinful and Stigmata …

FISM 2006 TV: Daily Motion: More clips from FISM 2006 on Daily Motion, already on there are performances from Rick Merrill, Shawn Farquhar, David Stone and Helder Guimaraes.

The Session 2: The Session 2 takes place on January 20-21 2007 in a new venue, The Holiday Inn in Gloucester. Already booked are Allan Ackerman, Paul Cummins, Luke Dancy, Jon Armstrong and Robert Moreland. You shouldn’t need any more reasons to register than that list of names, but the organisers assure me …

PhoneCam Magic: PhoneCam Magic: Marco Tempest the Virtual Magician has started to put up some clips on YouTube of magic done using only his phone camera to video them. There are no edits or post-production. Check them out they may even fool you!

The clams are coming!: Tom Cruise Control: See Andi Gladwin’s Tom Cruise Control in this video clip by the creator. I just got my copy of Antinomy Magazine issue 7 where this appears along with lots of other goodies, like Jack Parker’s Slip Slide Force. You can still get back-issues from the site, and then do …

FISM 2006 TV: FISM 2006 Videos: User TLATV has started to post some of the edited TV footage from FISM 2006 onto YouTube, currently there is an intro clip from the awards ceremony, a clip featuring Lossander and a very cool coin through glass table.

Sleight Vodcast: Adam Brindley from Australia brings you his Sleight show which could be the world

Justin Higham: Card Magic of Justin Higham, contains a link to buy his current products, Collected Card Notes and Tricks with the Side-Faro False Shuffle and also an archive link where Justin has very kindly put an online archive of articles/manuscripts originally released as published items, here you can read his …

Magical Information Directory: Magic Info - A new directory of all things magic, listing magicians, through dealers and conventions to miscellaneous other magical places.

FISM 2006: Final Scores: FISM 2006 Contestant Scores [PDF]: link to a PDF of the final scores of the contestants, makes for some interesting comparisons!

FISM 2006: Competition Reports: Sue-Anne’s FISM 2006 Competion Reports are up on hers and Tim’s blog, go and read it from their point-of-view, plus all the stage competitors that didn’t appear here!

FISM 2006: Photos: For photos of the event, in case you missed it we now have 200 photos in our FISM 2006 Flickr Set. Vista Photo Agency have been posting the official ones. Jorgen Yng from Stockholm has posted his set. Fotograf Gomer also have their set. Andy Reay has also posted some of his photos to Flickr. …

FISM 2006: Winners: Grand Prix Stage - Pilou - France Grand Prix Close-up - Rick Merrill - USA Manipulation: 1st: Dai Binchun - China 2nd: David Soysa - Portugal 3rd: Arthur Trace - USA General Magic: 1st: Eun Gyeol Lee - Rep. of Korea 2nd: Die Zauderer - Germany 3rd: Dion - Netherlands Micro Magic: 1st: Martin Eisele …

FISM 2006: Saturday 5th: Saturday was the last offical FISM day and started for me with a lecture from Gaetan Bloom, he started with a trick using an apple combined with the paddle move. Then onto using Salami for a Biting the Coin type effect. Then he showed Quarte his trick with a slate and playing cards, where he has …

FISM 2006: Friday 4th: Friday was a bit more relaxed with no close-up competition to get to, it started for me with a lecture by Jahn Gallo. Jahn performed a simple bill production and then he showed us his Osaka Bill Production which allows you to produce 20-30 bills as single units. He then performed a three card monte …

FISM 2006: Close-up Grand Prix Finalists: Just got the grand-prix finalists for the close-up from the FISM on-site message board, as follows: Martin Eisele - Germany - Micro Magic Shawn Farquhar - Canada - Micro Magic Helder Guimaraes - Portugal - Card Magic Rick Merrill - USA - Micro Magic David Stone - France - Micro Magic Final will take …

FISM 2006: Thursday 3rd: Thursday started off slightly later at 10:00, when I went to see the full version of the Paul Wilson presentation, as I didn’t have to duck out to line up for anything. Read yesterday’s report to see what he did, he also showed a fooling Jack Deal from Royal Road, his Fan-2-C gimmick, …

FISM 2006: Wednesday 2nd: Wednesday started for me with a lecture by Tim Star, a swedish magician who has lived in America and is now back in Sweden. Started off with showing an empty hand and produced a silk handkerchief, and then split it into two. Repeat card to case followed along with demonstrations of a card mucking …

FISM 2006: Tuesday 1st: Today was a 9.30am start which after getting in very late/early from Tamariz the night before was a bit of a drag, but it soon picked up when the day started with a lecture by Cellini who explained his street act. He started off by explaining how he tailored his suit, then went on to explain his …

FISM 2006: Monday 31st: The first day of the actual convention marks the 6th Anniversary of this blog, and my 29th Birthday! And what a way to spend it… After working out a complicated system I figured I didn’t need to see Kevin James today, so I went for a wander round the dealers, picked up volume 2 of the …

FISM 2006: Sunday 30th: Sunday started with a continental breakfast in the hotel restaurant, then we embarked on a sight-seeing boat trip entitled under the bridges of stockholm which was an excellent way to see the islands and some beautiful buildings, we had an audio commentary for the 2-hour trip, and you can see from …

FISM 2006: Arrival: Well we got here, after leaving home this morning around 8:00am and its now 7:00pm Swedish time, we took a plane from Humberside, to Schipol, then from Schipol to Stockholm, a short train ride and we are in our Hotel, the SAS Radisson Viking, which has free WiFi internet, and we have a laptop, so …

FISM 2006 / Blog: As you may have noticed I have been absent from posting for a couple of months, again life is getting in the way and other priorities take over, I have been saving up the magic links I have come across however and basically posted them all today in one fell swoop, so at least that should clear my …

La Sequence du Prestidigitateur: LSP: is a french magic site that features some great video-clips including some clips from Arnaud Chevrier who goes by the handle Twins who’s work has also been featured on the MagicVideoDepot. Also if you can speak French check out the rest of the site for reviews, interviews and a forum.

Decknique: Decknique: a Magic and XCM card video site, featuring video clips, products and forums.

Media Portal: Rai.It Media: is an Italian site with some interesting magical video clips, including Robert Giobbi, Max Maven, Mago Anton, Paul Wilson and Stevie Starr.

Gregory Lee: Gregory Lee: check out Gregory’s video’s he has a couple of clips of Copperfield, and some of himself showing various effects, colour-changes, sleights and moves.

Blink and you'll miss it: Tom Wolf’s Blinkshift: Tom’s new tabled shift saw print in the March issue of Genii, go to his site to watch him do the move, along with some other very nice video’s of Tom doing various moves and routines.

Podcast: Sleight Club Show: Sleight Club Show: a new podcast from Chris Wilcox interviewing a number of top magicians, his list so far includes Lee Asher, Yigal Mesika, Kenton Knepper, Richard Osterlind, Michael Close and Harry Riser. I had a bit of trouble getting episodes 5&6 to play in Winamp or on my MP3 player, now it …

Immaculate Deceptions: Jay Sankey’s Free Lecture Notes are available until Midnight on July 31st. Download for free and enjoy a dozen tricks varying from close-up, stage, childrens and mentalism, a great read and a wonderful gift from a very funny magician.

Unicycler: Tom Bullivant’s Unicycle Page: his spot on the internet devoted to the mystical art of unicycling. Here you will find information, photos, videos, links and much more about unicycling.

ESP Billy: Ricky Jay stars in ESP Billy: MSN have put out some short Messenger Movies featuring Ricky Jay as a psychic who works through MSN Messenger! Subscribe and view the movies through Messenger.

International Magic Auction: Ron Allesi’s International Magic Auction: a new magic auction site featuring new, used, rare, vintage and antique props and books.

Royal Flush: Royal Flush: a new trick entitled Royal Flush from Chamber Magic. Maybe not quite suitable for your next Kids show but would probably go down a storm down the Pub!

Reverie: Tom Frank’s new weblog after his move from Seattle to LA, Tom’s blog is always a good read as he writes about his magic, his life in general and posts photos and movie clips of his magic.

Magic on the Beach: MAGIC LIVE!…Magic On The Beach: An American magician, Adam Steinfeld travels the world. Read about his travels and watch video clips of his show.

Art of Astonishment: Magic of Paul Harris: a new Paul Harris fan-site with references to all his publications and tricks, a short bio and pictures.

Penn & Teller Play Golf: Ford Magic Sweepstakes: Penn & Teller play golf with Johnny Miller in the Ford Magic Sweepstakes, watch the videos and then enter the sweepstake to take a look behind the scenes.

Dominatricks: Dominatricks is Tyler Wilson’s new book published by Andi Gladwin. I will hopefully try and do a full review later, but for now, two words: BUY IT! Ok you might be saying but who is this Tyler Wilson? I first became aware of him through TSD and his submissions to the forum and to Genii and …

30 Card Mysteries: Charles Thorton Jordan was born on October 1, 1888 in Berkley California, in 1919 he put out a small manuscript entitled Thirty Card Mysteries. In 1920 he went on to publish another 5 booklets with over 50 effects, and he continued to publish until 1923 when he lost his interest in magic. Jordan …

Dead? No just pining for the fjords.: Rumours of our death have been slightly exaggerated, but thanks to Tim for the prompt to post at least a holding message. Once again life has taken over and posting hasn’t happened for a while, I refer the gentle reader to the about page and plead guilty to neglecting my duties. So whats been …

Sometimes it's hard to be a Cardman...: Andi Gladwin has launched his brand-new site, and it looks excellent! You can read a bit about him, and what he has published, read some of his articles and best of all purchase his goods! Andi’s lecture notes ‘Sometimes it’s hard to be a Cardman’ are fantastic with some …

PodCast: Penn Jillette: Penn Jillette has a new PodCast on Free FM, you can subscribe or listen via the website.

PodCast: Magic and Skepticism: Max Maven has an interview on the Point of Enquiry Podcast. In this interview, Max Maven begins an exploration of the relationship between magic and skepticism, and how magicians may aid the skeptical enterprise.

Las Vegas Card Expert: Allan Ackerman: Allan Ackerman’s new website, put together by Steve Draun. Order his DVDs, Books and Notes and watch some of the video clips sprinkled throughout the site.

Card Magic - Handled with Care: Jack’s Deck: Jack Parker’s new website, featuring his e-books Set to Stun, Ashes to Ashes and the start of his Explorations series. You can also watch video clips of some of the featured tricks, buy the manuscripts, see what Jack has had in print and sign up for his mailing list and …

The Buffalo Get-Together 2005: Buffalo Get-Together 2005: Pictures from the convention, featuring Bill Malone, Gordon Bruce, Gary Plants, Roger Klause, Tim Conover and a host of others.

Making Custom Card Boxes: Card Box Templates: PDF templates to allow you to make your own Card Cases. Templates for Poker and Bridge size, a template so you can make a case for any thickness of deck, and even a link to a generator program so you can make your own templates, plus full instructions on how to make the cases. …

9th LA Conference on Magical History: Conference On Magic History: Photos from the recent Magic History Conference held in LA, taken by Damon Webster, and featuring our very own Eddie Dawes, and the Late Great Bob Read.

Mentalist Sanctum: Mentalist Sanctum: Steve Pellegrino’s new Mental forum, you can read about the idea behind the forum, register and join in the discussions.

Coin Snatching: Coin Snatching: Kip Pascal’s new book on coin snatching. Learn to snatch a coin from someones hand before they can react. Contains a chapter for magicians, and magician John Calvert’s, Calvert’s Claw routine.

Throwing Cards: Throwing Cards: The Museum of Throwing Cards and Related Magic Ephemera. See scans of personalised playing cards used by magicians to scale into the audience, usually to show-off their skill and dexterity and to prove that the cards were unprepared.

Tipping Mitt Magazine: Tipping Mitt: A Journal for the serious card student. This little magazine is published by my good friends Steve Reynolds and Trini Montes. I have had the pleasure of devouring the first 8 issues, now you can too, by downloading the back issues from the site. Once you have done that you can …

Magic Interviews: Magic Interviews: Read and listen to interviews with noteworthy magicians. A new interview will be added each Sunday! Then post your comments. Most were originally published in the Boston Mini-Wizard, the newsletter of The John Calvert Boston Area Assembly of the Society of Young Magicians #29.

Update Complete: Its taken a while for the update to manifest itself, due to my lack of time at this busy period! The change over to the new server was very smooth thanks to the guy’s at Xcalibre I now have a sparkly new up-to-date version of PHP and GD, so you should notice that now you have to negotiate a …

Downtime: Just to warn you there might be pending downtime whilst my account is migrated to a new server on my host, one running an up-to-date copy of PHP and GD so hopefully I can get a contact form and a comments form with CAPTCHA ability to stop some of the SPAM that has been coming in that way… …

The Session: The Session is a one day close-up magic convention in Gloucester, England focusing on the learning and sharing of superb magic in a relaxed and friendly environment. We are showcasing some of the most exciting new and established names in the world of magic. If you’re passionate about close-up …

Cutlery Beware: Enter the Fork: Morgan Strebler’s new forum, talk about his dvd releases, general magic discussions, including specialist forums, and even one as you would expect on PK and Metal Bending.

Your sure of a big suprise!: The Magic Woods: A new magic forum, general forums, with reviews and articles available if you apply to join the special user group.

Bottling it...: Bottle Magic: Jeff Scanlan’s impossible bottles. Impossible puzzles, pieces of strange, Jeff seems to be able to stuff practically anything into a bottle, you can view the gallery of his work and purchase bottles.

Podcast: MagicTricks.co.uk: MagicTricks.co.uk Podcast: details of new products from Jay Sankey, Peter Eggink and a review of magic on TV.

The Heckler: The Heckler: Is Joshua Jay’s new short 6 minute film that features on his new DVD set, and can now be viewed on his website. See the guest appearence from Tony ‘Doomo’ Miler as the Heckler, can’t say too much more or it would spoil the plot, just go and watch!

Podcast: MagicBroadcast.com: MagicBroadcast Podcast: MagicBroadcast.com have just started a Podcast to compliment the 24/7 streaming broadcast. The episodes will contain clips from the shows, and extra material they didn’t get chance to air. The first episode features an interview from the IBM convention in Reno with …

Marlo - It's All in the Cards: David Solomon is all set to release an extremely exciting 2 disc DVD set which is a must for all lovers of card magic. Its a brand new documentary entitled “Marlo - It’s All in the Cards” and not only features the Maestro himself but many of the inner Chicago cardician group. There is …

The magician whose greatest illusion was death: The Great Lafayette: A recent article from the Scotsman on the story of The Great Lafayette, with quotes from our very own Arthur Setterington who wrote a book on his life.

Japanese Magic: Two more weird Japanese magic video clips that have been doing the rounds on the boards, thanks to the guy’s at Genii and TSD for bringing them to my attention, if you have not seen them they are well worth the download: The Lean and Chopsticks.

The Magician's Hidden Library: Magic Words & Magic Archetypes: Two new books that you can read for free online, or purchase hard-copies. Magic Words is a one-of-a-kind resource for magicians and word lovers, exploring the most intriguing magic words and phrases from around the world. Magic Archetypes explores how magical …

You'll Like This...: Paul Daniels Diary: The day to day ramblings of a professional magician. Paul has started writing his own journal/blog. Its an interesting read, with some possibly controversial thoughts.

Feenx: Gregg Webb E-books: download Gregg’s Feen-x, The Book that Doesn’t Exist and Society of Sleight of Hand Artists, as $15.95 e-books, you can view a table of contents for each volume in PDF format. You may also be interested in his The Book that Casts No Reflection available from The Magic …

Podcasting and Magic: So what is Podcasting? If you read the Wikipedia link this pretty much covers it, basically it is the combination of a created Audio file (usually an MP3 file) and the ability to publish this file within a RSS/ATOM syndication feed, so users can keep track of seperate feeds and if using podcatching …

Podcast: Go Magic Go: Go Magic Go: The independent Podcast for Magicians, with hosts Andrew Payne and Keith Barber. Four shows up so far talking about things as diverse as Derren Brown, Andre Kole, Criss Angel, and various product and show reviews.

Podcast: S.A.M. 2006 Convention: S.A.M. Convention: Regular audio updates on the 2006 S.A.M. convention to be held in Louisville, KY. Also if you have the ability to listen to a podcast, they are syndicating this through audioblog.

Karl Norman- Life, Magic and The Forks Hotel: Karl Norman- Life, Magic and The Forks Hotel: An audio mp3 download, for $10. Karl Norman talks about bar magic, the Forks Hotel, Eddie Fechter and the FFFF convention.

Teach in Theater: Teach in Theater: Glenn Bishop’s Teach In Theater, lots of free teach-in videos, includes Advanced Ace Assembly, Triumph Poker Stack, Coins to Glass and Christ Aces amongst others, well worth the time to download.

More Radio Magic: Radio Magic: Jay Fortune’s new Radio Show broadcast on Magic Broadcast and Kool AM, live on Magic Broadcast every Monday evening at 8pm UK Time, and then repeated on Kool AM throughout the week.

Bouncing Money: Bouncing Money: [WMV] short 2 minute video file, not magic but very cool! Some guys filmed themselves bouncing coins into various receptacles, this has to be watched!

Txt 2 Wn: Win Magic Tricks: Send a Text Message to 60999 with the text WIN MAGIC costs are £1.00+usual text fee, brought to you by the owners of World Magic Shop, the competition will run on a month to month basis, and you can enter as many times as you want, they have some cool prizes on offer. Caveat, only …

You won't feel the benefit!: Men in Coats: [WMV File] hilarious video clip of the Men in Coats, these guys do hilarious silent comedy/magic dressed in parka jackets, you have to see it to understand, very cool!

Oneclick Magic: Oneclick Magic: Oneclick Experimental Radio for the BBC hosts a magic show set in a pub with a real live audience. The show is only available till tommorrow (26/07) so listen to it while you can, it features Sav, Dynamo, Chris Cox and Ali Cook, some interesting audience reactions and some obvious …

Video Killed the Radio Star: Express Radio: a new Magic Radio show, promising contests, guest hosts, an archive for missed shows, and a forum to allow listeners to feedback.

Very Fast Food!: Hamburger Trick: [4mb WMV File] link to a video clip of what looks like a foreign candid-camera type show, where a person proceeds to pull a hamburger from a sign on the wall! Almost like the Paul Zenon idea of pulling the tax disc through the car windscreen, looks very cool!

A Hundred Years of Magic: A Hundred Years of Magic: An article from The Sun newspaper, featuring Marc Paul talking about The Magic Circle Centenary, along with a 7 minute video clip of Marc performing some mind reading and magic.

Circus Museum: Circus Museum: A dutch Circus site featuring Posters and Photographs of Circus, Magicians, Freaks, Jugglers, Clowns and Acrobats. A rough translation of some text from the front page: an image bank with posters and photographs from the collection of the best, and the largest collections of the …

Smell the Woodchip...: Building Magic: forum for people interested in building magic props.

Up in Smoke: Larry Jennings: New site from Bill Goodwin and Lee Asher, to advertise the re-print of Larry’s Up in Smoke booklet which has added bonus material and photographs. The site also contains some really great information, a full and comprehensive bibliography, some great photos and a short bio of …

Hmm fold Yoda you will...: Yoda Origami model: [200k PDF file] instructions for folding an origami Yoda figure. Other recently discovered origami/papercraft links include Spacecraft pdf’s for building papercraft space models, and Origami folding instructions which has quite a number of links collected from all over the …

Flickring: I am trialling Flickr mainly for use over at the HMC site, but I thought I would add the badge to this site, as if it stays I plan to use it to add some of my general magic photos. Anyway you can check out all the latest additions over at My Flickr Page.

Success In Circuit Lies: John Bannon Magic: It’s finally here, I predict that this will be (for me at least) the release of the year, and its only May! Safe to say I have pre-ordered my copy. After seeing some of the material when I saw John lecture at TSD I can tell you sight-unseen, just buy it! The Bullet Train …

Extreme Unicycling: Crazy Unicycling: a windows media video clip of some extreme unicycling. Another thing on my to-do list is to learn to Unicycle which I have mentioned before on the blog but just never got round to purchasing one, maybe this summer…

Me and my Shadow: Apparently Edward Victor of EYE and Rope trick fame was also a master at Hand Shadows, whilst not totally related to magic, like all allied arts I find it fascinating. I remember seeing Raymond Crowe at FISM get a standing ovation for his shadow act. Check out some of these links: Bill Douglas Hand …

Self-Publish: Self Publishing: Tom Stone has a new shareware e-book on Self Publishing magic effects. Download it for free over at Lybrary, then if you like it enough send him $5… Tom creates some of the best looking e-books I have ever seen, and he shows you a little bit about how you might do the same, …

Software Update: Just updated to version 3.2 of Nucleus shouldn’t be any major worries, hoping it might let me add a few new things, looking to maybe add TrackBack and possibly Captcha for the comments to finally stop the spam once and for all… Also looking to test Flickr very shortly for the HMC site …

Agog: One Behind: digital musings on digital magic, is a new weblog from Taylor Raphael on a subject close to my heart, the convergence of technology with magic. Taylor has written his thesis on this subject and it sound like he has some really novel effects to release over time. First on his list is …

Conjuring and Commercialism: Share and Share Alike: Read John W. Leblanc’s interesting piece on Filesharing and how it applies to Magic. I agree with most of what he has to say, but I do think that we are seeing a radical turn of events in today’s market, where the consumer is wanting more power in there buying …

Money Manipulation: Coin Manipulation: A site showing coin flourishes, largely based on Poker Chip flourishes, some demo videos, a forum, and text based instructions.

Performance, Poker Face, Practice: Been busy lately, hence the slight relapse into no-post land… amongs that have been a couple of the too-rare opportunities I get to perform… One was for a local magic club, as a sort of exchange for HMC, and the other was for living breathing humans The difference was quite …

Signature Magician and a True Legend: Haven’t had chance to mention this DVD which was released I believe at Blackpool. I haven’t seen a copy, but I can relate to you how it was to take part in the filming. This is probably the first and only magic DVD I may appear in, but that shouldn’t stop you buying it Basically it …

May the Folds be with you!: Star Wars Origami with paper money, from this Japanese site that has lots of paper money origami.

Whispering Imps: Whispering Imps on Magic Posters: Rhett Bryson’s collection of magicians posters that somehow include a whispering imp character, probably the first to do this was Kellar, the collection shows images of 125 posters.

Your Chosen Vehicle: Having just recently started to listen to MagicBroadcast, I caught Robert Baxt being interviewed by Gerald Kirchner. Robert said some great things about how to make your magic meaningful to your audience, by taking even the most simple of things and giving it a personal meaning that they could …

Bad Referrer: Just to let people know that I have hopefully implemented a few of these ideas to stop some of the referrer spam I am getting, hopefully now we have stopped that and any comment spam, its a real shame when it comes down to this, but I won’t let them win damnit! So if you are legit and are …

Set to Stun-ning: Jack Parker is not a name known to many, we lucky few over at TSD have had the chance to see his creative output in the tricks and video’s he has posted there. Also you might recall a number of things he has had published in MAGIC magazine. Now its time for this UK card man to release his …

Predict Boredom: So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about selection of material, and how what I choose to do reflects my performance character, but more about that in a later post! I’ve wanted to do a version of Simon Aronson’s Shuffle Bored ever since seeing Ali Bongo’s excellent version. …

Feed Me!: Just spent a couple of hours being driven loopy trying to get my feeds to work… past the old 0.91 RSS Feed its never worked, now after digging around on the nucleus forum for ages, I find out its the fault of the plugin I use to GZip the page output! Installed the latest version of the …

Still Alive!: So we are back, after a slight hiatus… if anyone is still reading and cares! We have a new look, an updated version of nucleus and still some work to do to finish things off. If anyone noticed we suffered a slight hack, so for now the various external scripts (media, guestbook etc) are gone …

Escamoteurettes: John W. LeBlanc’s new weblog, some very thoughtful posts on the world of magic and mentalism.

Download Magic Blog: Steve Fearson has a new blog with some very funny content, and excellent taste in links

Magic Broadcast: If you’ve not heard yet Ryan Pilling is starting a 24/7 Magic Radio broadcast over the Internet, tune in, or consider hosting your own show. You can listen to the sneak preview as they continue lining up presenters.

Fitzkee Trilogy: a link thats been floating around for a while to HTML versions of Fitzkee’s work, Showmanship for Magicians, Trick Brain and Magic by Misdirection.

Sam Loyd puzzle thread on Metafilter: always reminds me of reading Martin Gardner who published a lot of Sam’s puzzles. The thread on MeFi points to the famous Trick Mule puzzle, the idea being to get the jockeys to both properly sit atop a mule. You can also try it out in Shockwave. And if …

Marked Cards: Nu-Concept marked cards, using shade technology. Or check out Card Sorcerer for some classic marked decks.

Maskelyne Magic: A web site that attempts to unravel the truth behind the wartime career of Jasper Maskelyne. Originally the twenty one articles here were written for the Australian magic magazine, Geniis Magic Journal to try and correct, and I quote ‘David Fisher’s error-ridden fanciful …

Andy’s Playing Cards: These pages discuss in depth most topics concerning playing cards, with a particular interest for their history, and the many patterns used in different countries, the obsolete ones as well as the varieties still used. The picture galleries, organized by type and by …

H Interviews: Magic Interview site from Jonas Haglund. Read interviews from Jay Sankey, David Acer, Paul Daniels, Michael Ammar, Tom Stone, Lee Asher and many more.

Rebuilding a Mystery: Gordon Meyer’s digital grimoire, a magical blog established in December of 2003.

SVG Cards: Scalable Vector Graphic Playing Cards, based on a french pack. Download the image files that you can scale to any size as they conform to the W3C Scalable Vector Graphics Format, use the French or the English version.

Magician Express: new magic forums, get advice, and discuss card, coin, street and stage magic.

B3TA: If Magic Was Real: The new B3TA challenge, use photoshop to come up with a picture of what it would be like if Magic was real! Some very bizzare, weird, and sometimes adult interpretations, you have been warned

The Magic Revolution: new forum, discuss Magic Philosophy, Close-up, Stage, Mentalism, Comedy and read Trick, Book and DVD reviews.

Abbotts Online Get Together: new message board for Abbotts Get Together discussion. Share your Abbotts memories, suggestions and favourite tricks.

Bondoogle: Jim Bumgardner’s latest Internet creation. You fail to get the spectators card, and turn to Google for help, typing into the Image search “What is the card?” brings back images of the selected card!

The Magic Menu - The Final Four: the final four issues of Jim Sisti’s Magic Menu magazine, bound together, I have the first two bound volumes, and they contain a wealth of information, tips, stories and routines, I think its safe to say this has gone onto my to-buy list!

New York Coin Magic: One day workshop - spend a day in New York doing Coin Magic with three of the best, Roth, Latta and Rubinstein.

Origami Tanteidan: Japan Origami Academic Society. Read about the 10th Annual Origami Convention, look at the Gallery of incredible models, and read about the history of Origami in Japan.

Tommy Cooper - Almost a Magician: an excellent tribute site to Tommy Cooper. Includes lots of biographical details, credits, catchphrases, jokes, photos, routines, soundbites and stories, a wonderful tribute to a very funny man.

Denis Behr’s Archive: Denis has picked 100 books at random and indexed them so you an search on sleights, creators, props etc. also you can display each books contents, with the categories each trick falls into, and some comments about each one. Lastly you can go on a ‘discovery …

I Polygraph: Jim Bumgardner’s new version of his Internet Lie Detector written in Flash, it looks good, very convincing and very well thought out. If you can learn to do it then I think you will have a fooling piece of magic you can do anytime you have access to the internet, the nice thing …

Kellar’s Nightmare: a new Magic blog with seems to have a focus on Houdini and the History of Magic.

Magic of Robert Harbin (158 of 500): Alastair Horn has e-mailed me and asked me to draw some attention to this auction. His dad is selling an original copy of The Magic of Robert Harbin to fund a trip of a lifetime to China. This is an excellent book, I have access to a copy in the HMC library and …

Napkin Rose: Michael Mode has produced some napkins that are coloured in the right way to make realistic coloured roses out of cocktail napkins! Order them from the website, and also you can find really clear instructions on how to make the roses.

Magic Insider: Magic Reviews, Links, a Forum and an interesting article on how to create ‘practice packets’.

Rings and Things II: Rings and Things is back dealing again, check out the gorgeous cups that they make.

Magic Jax: Ron Jaxon has just relaunched his site, and also released his very visual close-up take on Cardiographic called VCR or Visual Card Rise, and also his Jaxon Magic Notes which is like a live e-book in the form of a message board.

Menta-List: Blair Robertson’s weekly e-mail newsletter for mentalists. Sign up to get tips and suggestions on becoming better performers of mentalism with the focus on business, performance and entertainment.

Custom Playing Cards: get any design you want printed onto Bicycle cards for a resonable price.

Magic Books Research Tool: Jacky Kahan’s new forum that brings together content lists of books from various sites and others submitted by members, a great and fascinating resource.

Gregg Webb: has just released an e-book on CD called ‘The Book that doesn’t exist and more…’ the CD contains all the copies of his feen-x magazine, the book that doesn’t exist and SOSOHA, looks great value for money at $30.

Magic Auction: Kevin Gallagher’s new Magic Auction site has just gone live, might be a nice alternative to e-bay.

Brainpoke Blog: Ryan Pilling’s new BrainPoke weblog including a new version of the Random Idea Generator.

Sleeping Beauty Problem: a puzzle similar in logic to the Monty Hall puzzle, but this really will make your head hurt! Check out some other links to the same problem: The Sleeping Beauty Problem Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty Awakened

Steve Pellegrino: has a new blog called Magic Rants, well worth a read, Steve also does some web work for L&L and has started a new L&L blog over there.

Monty Hall Problem: this famous problem is based on the game show of the same name, basically he would give you a chance to win a good prize behind one of three doors, you would select one, and then Monty would open another door and show you what was behind it, he wouldn’t open the one with …

Playing Cards with CSS: how to create playing card images on web pages using a bit of CSS magic.

Magical Trevor: from the makers of The Badgers comes a new toon called Magical Trevor, very funny if you like the Weebl and Bob style of humour. I wonder if thats what you get to see in David Copperfield’s Thirteen illusion!

Genii Open Index: Cameron Roat has taken on the project of keeping an index of Genii Magazine started by Graham Nichol, if you have a few spare moments, and some old copies of Genii why not help out.

Lee Asher Magic Posters: download some 11x17 colour magic posters to have professionally printed to help celebrate Lee’s Birthday!

Peter McLanachan: The Cardman has a new website, with tricks from Peter Duffie, Roy Walton and Bill Goodwin.

Ryan Matney: co-editor of FooCan, read about his new card book Card Jones, which I can tell you is excellent, well worth the purchase, also watch the site for free tricks.

Liam Montier: creator of the Henry Sugar trick, read about his new Bizzare Magic project called Equinox, and his new bizzare e-book The Furtive Glance.

Don Alan: a link to a video clip of Don Alan on the That’s Incredible reunion show doing his Chop Cup routine.

Magic Notes - Quality magic literature straight to your hard drive: From the people who brought you the Underground Collective comes Magic Notes. Jamie Badman and Colin Miller launch this new online service to enable you to sell your ebooks securely. You can upload your notes and link them to …

Aaron Shields Presents: Deviant Practices: Aaron’s new card booklet featuring 8 new effects and a number of short essays, he has also re-released his Dribble Block Pass booklet which features one of the best moves I have learnt in a while!

The Wizard of Odd [PDF] article from the Smithsonian magazine on Ricky Jay who is about to appear in a new TV western called Deadwood.

Origami Paper CD Cases: more work on Paper CD Cases, also make a double CD case from a single sheet of A4.

The Cardist: new companion website to the Yahoo! Group I mentioned, The Cardist is the website of K.C. Ushijima, you can view videos of his tricks and flourishes, and purchase instructional downloads.

Lifelong debunker takes on arbiter of neutral choices: Stanford article on Persi Diaconis and his research on the randomness of flipping a coin.

Heavy Metal Madness: It’s All in the Cards: A history of playing cards from an American perspective written by Gene Gable. He bought a box of playing cards from a garage sale and decided to research the history of cards.

Little White Lies: David Walsh’s site to advertise his e-book, view some of his video clips, see Jim Swain’s Poker Interchange, Bruce Cervon’s Dirty Deal and Louis Falanga’s Squaw Valley Twist, plus some of David’s own creations.

Martinka: museum of magic and magic shop. They sell antique magic props, photos, postcards, memorabilia etc. They also run a regular auction, sign up for the next one at the site.

Impossible Bottles: by Ben Philipsen of Belgium. See lots of things stuffed into bottles that shouldn’t be able to be there!

Joyal Stack Forum: Discuss Magic in print and electronic format, also a specialised memorized deck forum.

Magi Adam Forums: General chat, access to videos and special guest forums.

The Magic Files: Cameron Roat & Ryan Dickey’s new site, includes video, images, book contents, articles, biography’s of Magicians, tricks and reviews. An excellent site, still in its infancy, so well worth keeping an eye on it.

The Magic Star Forums: discuss close-up and platform Magic, and the theory and business side as well.

Jerry Sadowitz: Talking through his hat: a recent article in the Independent on Jerry’s latest tour of Scotland.

Telegraph - Did you see the Gorilla: article featuring Richard Wiseman and Simon Singh talking about change blindness, you can see some example footage on Singh’s website. Richard Wiseman and Peter Lamont ran an interesting article in the November 2003 issue of MAGIC based on this theory, and …

Trading Places: Walking illusion costumes, e.g. a man in a cage being carried by a gorilla! Or a man in a top hat being carried by a giant rabbit See also some rider costumes, e.g. man on the back of an ostrich.

Sleight of Hand Magic Forum: discuss general magic, flourishes, close-up, illusions and mentalism.

FISM 2006 Forum: new message forum for FISM 2006 in Sweden. Discuss acts you would like to see, the competitions, dealers and places to visit in Sweden.

Paper Models of Polyhedra: Polyhedra are beautiful 3-D geometrical figures, find over eighty paper models on this site to enable you to make your own.

CubeFreak: Macky’s site for speedcubers, blindfold-cubers, and cube-addicts… see videos of this guy solving a Rubiks Cube in World Record time, blindfolded, one-handed, whilst riding a unicycle!

MathWorld - Riffle Shuffle: short article on the mathematics of a Faro Shuffle.

KIDabra Discussion Forum: stemming from the conference of Family and Kidshow performers comes this extensive message forum covering every topic to do with philosophy, venues, routining, technical and business aspects, reviews and dealers.

The Voice - Britain’s Best Black Newspaper - The Magic Touch: Great article on Michael Vincent.

World’s Longest Magic Show: Tim Ellis and Sue Ann Webster organised a group of Melbourne Magicians to set out and break the world record for the longest non-stop magic show in history. The

Lots of Papercraft links: Funky Moped Robo-t Robot Papercrafts Auto KO magazine Trouts and Seasons of the Mountain Village Life is Art child calendar Birds Winking Cat Popup Cards Papercraft Corner

Guide to Shooting Rubber Bands: Not quite a magic link, but maybe of some interest. Learn the techniques and rules for rubberband warfare, and the best ways to deliver the shots, including the pistol, sawn-off shotgun and crossbow methods. Also a guide to the physics behind the shooting, and the …

Glenn Bishop: has a new DVD out entitled Tested Card-Works For Card-Shark Magicians. See a clip of his Bishop Cuts the Aces effect, also on the site is video of him performing on TV shows, and as a special treat four rare clips, one of Charlie Miller performing card effects, Jack Pyle performing a …

Taped and Passed: see Brian Huang’s new Card Through Window effect, where the whole card plus the corner can visually penetrate the window.

Matt Field’s TSD 5 Photos: Matt wrote and photographed The Second Deal convention in Jacksonville Florida that I attended in March, it was going to be in Genii but it looks like it got bumped, so check out the photos and a write up at The Genii Forum.

NeoMagic: grab some original magic wallpaper for your computer, or watch some card videos including the Hit Pass, the Overhand Lift Shuffle and the Push in Control.

Luke Dancy: Luke’s new site, check out his new DVD Magic for the Eyes and his trick Misprint. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing some of this in person, and Luke fries both magicians and lay people, his magic is strong, visual and original.

MSN Cardmagic Group: bi-lingual group to discuss card magic.

Origami Kaiju: Plans to make origami monsters, including Rodan, Godzilla, Mothra and Baragon amongst others.

Envelope and Letter Folding: origami plans for folding letters and envelopes, learn how to fold a Butterfly Envelope, Cormetic Envelope, Frog Envelope, Fern Letterfold, DS Letterfold and Box-pleated Envelope amongst others.

The Great Foodini: this TV show on CBS grew out of the Lucky Pup show. Foodini is a puppet magician, you can see short video clips of the show, read about the history, see the cast and the licensed merchandise that was available, like Foodini magic sets.

Inside Magic: Tim Quinlan’s magic news site, with the latest news, featured essays, reviews and interviews and a whole host of links to other sites, well worth a look and there is just time to vote on the last part of the March Madness competition.

The Place of Magic: a new discussion forum, talk about general magic, flourishes, jokes, magical websites and get general support.

Out of the Hat Magic Productions: Ben Morris-Rains has his new manuscript ‘Mind Games’ volume 1 for sale, which includes a great impromptu version of Misled along with a few coin tricks and a visual version of Twisting the Aces. Also he is selling a CD of his Wipe Off colour change.

Mathieu Bich: the website of France’s Mathieu Bich. He has some fantastic and innovative ideas, his Twisting the Aces is very visual, and his idea with Stars on the back of a card has to be seen to be believed! Watch video clips and read about his products.

Magic in the Movies: Originally maintained by Jeff Isozaki and now hosted by Repro, this is a list of movies that contain magic, magical performance and cameo appearences.

MAGIC Magazine Tricks: a new feature from MAGIC that shows Joshua Jay performing selected tricks from the last three months of the magazine. Its nice to see some of these tricks performed, as you realise you missed some gems, I also had the privilege of meeting Josh at TSD this year and his Discreet …

Fred Kaps DVD: seeing is believing! Fred Kaps is the only magician to win the world title three times. This new DVD has footage from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. See his tricks, TV performances and shows along with lots of still photographs, plus interviews with today’s …

David Forrest’s CTW: A new Card Through Window effect by David Forrest, a selected card with corner removed, is vanished and appears taped to the window, you then pass a fan of cards in front of it and it jumps through the window. See the video and order the manuscript.

Quality Magic Books: aimed at helping magicians of all skill levels develop a working library for their enjoyment, reference, and enhancement of their magical skills. Shows a wide cross section of key books in all aspects of the magical arts that are most suited to performers who want to read and …

Escamoteur Magic Portal: foreign language magic portal, lists of categorised links.

Joe Porper: a welcome return from Joe Porper, check out his new products including the cups, rings and wands.

Magic.org help forum and chat: Card, Close-up and Stage chat, specialist interests including ventriloquism, fire and hypnosis. Also includes the new Brainpoke forums run by Ryan Pilling.

Magic Hiway: let the magic happen to you at this new magic forum. Close-up, Street and Stage discussion and trick reviews.

NLP and Magic - information, articles, links for magicians: learn how to use Neuro Linguistic Programming in your magic to enhance your language, rapport and performance.

Second-hand juggling equipment: new site where you can buy, sell and exchange second hand juggling equipment.

Ezy Magic Weblog: new magical weblog by John Williams of Ezy Magic.

JD’s Ramblings: another new magic weblog (come on guy’s where you been? ) this time from JD, a guy who may be familiar to readers of MagicTalk. He used to post on there with his insane ramblings on magic, now he has a permanent home, and is currently posting older ramblings, with new …

Penguin on Metafilter: Is this a problem in having open magic dealers on the web? Metafilter is a fairly high volume blog, and Penguin has just made a FPP (front page post). Now as the comments suggest anyone can download Penguin’s tutorials (of other people’s effects!) for a few …

FooCan Blog: similar in style to Magic Circle Jerk the FooCan guys now have a weblog.

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AIMS: Association of International Magical Spectators. Run by Bob Loomis, play find the rabbit, read about magic magazines exposed, see the magicians bookplates, find out the real secret behind the Fizbin Drop and use the humourous card trick generator!

Card Splitting Tutorial: Ben Harris’s simple tutorial that I never got round to blogging for some reason!

Al Kay’s: Dealoop movie clips, see Al’s reverse Havana Deal. Al also has a great guide to Card Splitting.

Beginner’s Guide to Poker: some general tips on the game.

Jim Bumgardner the creator of Orville and Internet Lie Detector has just released two more devious computer magic effects, see the Oracle of Batboy and learn how to use him to do a card effect. Also purchase his Metascope Mindreading program which can be used to bring up an image a spectator is …

Invisible Illusions: New forum, includes discussions on Card and Coin Magic, flourishes, street magic and a place to upload bizzare magic and flourish videos.

Card Stacker: Bryan Berg’s website on building card constructions. Look at the gallery and learn about his new book. Also read about him in this Wired article. (links courtesy of ConjureNation).

Looking to improve your YoYo or Juggling skills, buy some equipment: Infinite Illusions AirTraffic Extreme Spin YoYo Play Dave’s Skill Toys And learn some tricks: Yomania Ken’s World on a String Sector Y TopSpinning

Learning to Juggle causes changes in brain: apparently if you master this skill it causes an expansion of the brain, and if you stop then it decreases. I’ll have to start juggling again on a regular basis I think According to the article they want to harness this knowledge for disease …

DIY Templates for Magic and Mentalism: Thomas Henry’s CD that contains templates for producing pay envelopes, business card envelopes, index card envelopes etc. useful if you want to customise the use of your envelopes or make them up in different colours, Black Envelope anyone? Also the CD …

Mirkwood Design Templates: templates to make custom cards, envelopes and boxes.

Paper CD Case: similar to Tom Hull’s design you can use this website to generate a PDF file that you can fold into an origami CD case complete with track listings, graphics and mailing address.

Strong Magic Index: Uli Weigel has compiled an index for Darwin Ortiz’s book Strong Magic. You can see what names, book titles and tricks are referenced and what pages they appear on. A mammoth task that is very much appreciated.

Ed Marlo Database: Jimmy Molinari’s online searchable database of over 3851 of Marlo’s items that he had in print, you can search on effects, sleights, books and magazines, an awesome resource!

25OffMagic.com: read about this author’s frank comments on what he believes is the current ‘dreck’ and garbage being put out in the magic scene atm, its nice to see another side to the review process!

Balloon Molecules: build chemical molecules out of modelling balloons! The site shows basic balloon knots and techniques, and has a gallery of various molecular structures. Makes a change from a dog I suppose, just hope at my next kids show I don’t get asked for a DNA Helix

Banachek on Unscrewed: [28MB WMV] see Banachek perform metal bending and talk about magic on this TechTV show.

Tom Blue’s Old Magic Books: Tom is a specialist in old and rare magic books, see what he has for sale.

Doug Brewer: has just released a DVD called Get Bent, check this out along with his other products at his new website.

The Secret Art of Magic Website: a new magic book based on The Art of War by Sun Tzu. The book focuses on Street Magic (not the Blaine kind!) to quote the preface of the book this is a complete and applicable approach to how we manipulate human awareness, read the introduction on the website.

Punch and Judy on the web: The authentic British website linking Punch professors and enthusiasts everywhere. Read about the history behind Punch, where to buy figures, current shows and sign up for the message board. Also check out The Punch Page: Resources relating to the origins, history and …

Pentrix - Pen Spinning Revolution: the new and improved version of the old Pentix site. Still under development, but you can read some articles and view the videos. The Universal forum should be open in January of next year.

YoYoMadness: a post from metafilter talking about a Japanese YoYo Championship video, well worth the 13mb download to view. Also links in the thread to other videos and YoYo sites.

Mathematical Card Tricks: 7 maths based card effects, with input from Martin Gardner, Gordon Bean and Steve Beam.

Web Video for Magicians: Ian Kendall’s tutorial on encoding video clips for the web. Talks about Colour Depth, Encoding, Bit Rates and the differences between Real, Quicktime and Windows Media.

Tabman Tables: The Finest In Magic Tables and Professional Props. Michael Ammar used a Tabman table in his L&L videos. Tabman is currently remaking the Erdnase Train Table.

Luke Jermay: Luke’s new website, view a biography, products for sale, show details and register for his e-mail list.

The Underground Collective: Inspired magic for professional magicians. Jamie Badman and Colin Miller have relaunched their site. They are currently selling the Underground Change e-book, their new effect Heirloom and a computer program suitable for a certain mental application. Other effects to …

Towel Chicken: Thanks to my earlier request, Matt very kindly sent me this link on how to make a towel chicken… my life is complete Thanks Matt…

The Magic Circle Jerk: a weblog about magic and magicians, started after a deleted post at the MagicCafe! Some interesting views that might offend, personally I think it makes a refreshing read

H-Magic: a site made by Jonas from Sweden with some cool video clips of various sleights and moves.

Vintage Magic and Hypnotist Posters in the USA: Houdini, Kellar, Thurston, Alexander and more.

Japanese Hot Towel Origami: folding prepackaged hot towels into shapes! Finally some instructions on how to do a Towel Chicken, I’ve been searching for this for a while (don’t ask!) but if anyone knows an english link for clearer instructions I would be even happier…

Math Trek - Guessing Cards: article on the Kruskal Count a mathematical principal of probability using a deck of playing cards.

The Magic of J Wessmiller: card video clips, shuffles, shifts, deals and colour changes.

Magic-Me: new message forum, including discussion on close-up, stage, mentalism, marketing and balloons, also product reviews and classifieds.

Tenyo 2004 Quicktime Movies: see some of the new 2004 Tenyo range, and some of the older tricks, through small quicktime clips.

Inventive Magic: Brian M’s site were you can watch and purchase videos of his magic. Learn Sign Fuze, Relax I’m just Joking, Pip Off and Dollar Vanish amongs others.

Unicyclist Community Forums: A Unicycle forum, you can read rec.sport.unicycling online, product reviews, news and announcements and general Unicycle conversation.

Unicycling.com — Let’s Unicycle!: John Foss’s page on Unicycling. Includes information on Mountain Unicycling, photo albums, things not to do on a Unicycle and a big list of links.

Unicycle.com: online catalogue of Unicycle products.

52 2003: Mike Power’s photos of this years 52 convention held in Buffalo NY. Over 100 photos of the shows, lectures and sessions.

Chicago Round Table: A new site by Sandy Weygandt, as a tribute to her late father who was a good friend of Ed Marlo’s. View photos, home videos of Ed, Steve Draun, David Solomon and Jon Racherbaumer and even hear Marlo singing!

Wholemovement - The Work of Bradford Hansen-Smith: The art ad geometry of folding circles, some examples for you to try using paper plates, tape and bobby pins!

Paper Folding Project: step by step instructions to create a sculpture you can warp into different shapes.

Old and Sold - Cigarette Magic: some quick descriptions of cigarette tricks, also linked on this page, tricks with cards, checkers, paper, spirits, corks, thimbles, tumblers etc.

David Blaine Photoshopped: a Photoshop competition to come up with other stunts that David Blaine could do now he has left his box.

The Magic Of Joe Rindfleisch: Read articles from Joe, visit his excellent video vault, purchase video clips of new moves, or visit his online store.

Used Magic: a new UK site to sell used props, tricks and utility items.

Web wizards weave their magic: An article from the BBC on the parallels between Web Design and Magic.

Turner Classic Movies: Movie clip showing Magician Jay Ose as magical consultant on the movie The Cincinnati Kid. (link via the Genii Forum).

RadioLovers: Listen to old radio shows for free in MP3 format, including Blackstone the Magic Detective and Chandu the Magician.

Bone - Cheater’s Cheater: A new magic video site where members can post their clips and discuss them in the forum.

Fido Puzzle: 7Up online promotional magic trick, makes a change from the Princess Card Trick! I first saw this trick in a Supreme Magic booklet some years ago, see if you can figure it out…

Pariarts Ventriloquist lobby: Part of Pariarts Museum of Mid-20th Century Memorabilia, pictures of dummies belonging to Charlie McCarthy, Jerry Mahoney, Paul Winchell and others ranging from 1900-1960s.

Tubthumping: Bill Duncan’s new book on scripting and presenting close-up magic. View a free sample for Brother John Hamman’s Magic Cards that wasn’t included in the book.

Master Magic Journal: Online Magic Journal created by Mats G. Kjellstrom. Read articles on general magic topics, reviews of tricks and events.

Coinvention 2003: Dan Watkin’s fantastic report on this coinvention that happened after the LVMI.

Doug Conn’s Classroom: Dougs new section of his website where he will share routines, thoughts and theory. He already has three things available, Coin Spectacle is a variation on Elbow, Knee & Kneck, The Yates Divination is some thoughts on an old mathematical principle, and Ideas provides …

Midwest Magic Jubilee 2003: Photos from the MMJ by Tony and Rosie of RFA Productions.

Free Tricks: some free tricks from Emagictricks including instructions on how to make a paper napkin rose.

Playing Cards for Magicians: A site by Jason England and Nathan Becker, that shows back designs of various brands of cards along with a short history.

Frank Wilson: Frank composed two memorable tunes for FISM 2003 that we are all probably still humming now! Finally you can now go to his Special Projects page to download the MP3 files and sing away to your hearts content! There is Magic all over the world…

KidsMagic: Coming from the success at FISM of the Kids Magic workshops and discussions, is a new KidsMagic site, which contains articles, FISM Pictures and a free downloadable childrens game.

Assassinate Blaine: FLASH Game were you get to shoot at David in his Box and try to kill him, make sure you shoot him to see the funny ending.

Wake David: A dedicated forum to waking David Blaine up! Sections include ‘In the News’, ‘Keep David Blaine awake’, ‘Organize a meeting’, ‘Eyewitness reports’ and ‘Images’.

Indian Rope Trick: links and discussion on the Indian Rope Trick, via mefi.

Mid Herts School of Magic and the Performing Arts: Free resources, including lots of childrens games and party planning tips.

Vintage Magic Posters 1890-1930: View the image archive for vintage posters, look at the trade gallery and the links to other sites.

Todd Lassen: Todd’s new website for his coinwork, a very nice, clean, quick and good looking website, to go with Todd’s quality work!

Woolston Community: The Meeting Place of Magicians. A new community site looking for staff, features a Library, Forum, Chat and Reviews.

John Tudor Articles: Read articles by John Tudor, some reprinted from The Linking Ring. A Tribute to Coe Norton, Creating Original Magic, The Great Mystery School Vanishing Act, Acting & Showmanship in Magic and more.

Ultimate Taxi: TV Broadcasting From Aspen Colorado. Jon Barnes has wired up a Taxi Cab to have high speed internet, and video capabilities, amongst other things. Check out the two video clips of Aaron Fisher and Rocky Racoon, and Eric Mead doing a card trick.

Money Origami: updated link for this entry.

Why the 21 card trick works: From the BBC’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a complex mathematical analysis of why the 21 Card Trick works!

Flying Pig Gallery: Paper automata, Free models to make, I’ve seen the Surfin’ the Web and they look really cool!

Buck Twins: Dan and Dave’s new website to sell their lecture notes, Nursery Rhymes 1-3 and a new set coming soon called Five. Also see some video clips of the moves and tricks.

Magic Hassle: a new magic humour site, try the free trick and learn ’number cruncher’ if you dare!

Toss Up Game Simulator: [JAVA] Nintendo Game & Watch game simulator, help the juggler to juggle and don’t let the balls drop!

Sealed Fist Coin Vanish: check out the video to this coin vanish, and also the new effect Wallet Pencil. There is a free Magicians Section with a short entrance quiz, that gives you some nice tips and effects.

The Spoon Trick: this is mentioned in the August Genii magazine by Paul Harris in David Regals Speaking Volumes column. Paul says he got it from Martin Gardners Impromptu Encyclopedia. I was reading my daily weblogs and came across this, complete with Quicktime movie, I will be trying this

TopitMagic - FISM 2003: German e-zine TopitMagic’s report on FISM, including lots of photogalleries, you can even purchase a photo CD from them.

FISM 2003 - Tim Ellis & Sue-Anne Webster: Tim & Sue-Anne’s report contains photos and reports of the stage competition, as well the Close-Up with some interesting comments on each act.

MOU 3 Year Anniversary: Well we passed the 3 year anniversary of the blog, and to mark the occasion I managed to get my FISM report plus photos pulled together… don’t want to say too much except I plan to keep posting as regularly as possible, thanks to all my readers, regular or those that come in via search …

FISM 2003: Photos: Finally I got round to editing the photos. Monday 21st Tuesday 22nd Wednesday 23rd Thursday 24th Friday 25th Saturday 26th

FISM PDF Report: You can download the full 7500 word report as a 60k PDF file.

FISM 2003: Saturday 26th July: Sadly Saturday was the last day of the convention, but I had decided to save some of the best till last.

FISM 2003: Friday 25th July: Close-Up Competition 3 The third and last portion of the Close-Up competition started on the Friday morning. Before I list the competitors it may help to point out a new FISM rule. The Judges were equipped with red buttons, and if they thought the act wasn’t up to FISM standard then they could …

FISM 2003: Thursday 24th July: Close-Up Competition 2 The second part of the competition started early at 9.00am, necessitating me skipping breakfast as I had woken up late due to lack of sleep!

FISM 2003: Wednesday 23rd July: Close-Up Competition 1 Wednesday was the first morning of the close-up competition which would see around a total of fifty acts. I will try and give a brief description from my notes for each act, which might just consist of a list of tricks, and keep it short and to the point, also I will use the …

FISM 2003: Tuesday 22nd July: Turning Magic Into Gold My Tuesday started off with George Parker’s Mini Congress on Turning Magic into Gold. George spent three hours discussing his fascinating system of how to get more from your Magic. We saw him perform a few routines such as T&R sugar packet, Troy Hoosiers Charming …

FISM 2003: Sunday 20th - Monday 21st July: Photos On the Sunday it didn’t take us long to make the thirty minute journey to Humberside airport, and then an hour later we landed in Schiphol airport. A train and tram journey later and we ended up in Schevening, were we stayed at the aptly named BadHotel (which it wasn’t!). About an …

Pegani - FISM 2003: Pegani is a Danish dealer, see his excellent FISM photos.

FISM 2003: Return Post: Well I am back and very tired, but very happy and magically charged! The convention was awesome I saw a lot of magic every day, and sat through all the close-up competition, most of the lectures and the gala shows etc. The only things I didn’t see were the lectures on manipulation/doves and …

Playing-Cards: a great multi-part FAQ on playing cards, including a bibliography and links to playing card societies.

Playing Cards: From the Elliot Avedon Museum and Archvie of Games, comes a page of general information about playing cards, including the history of cards and the suit symbols, and also pictures of decks used in different countries.

The Magic Cafe Forums - http://www.magician.org.uk/: looks like I’ve been magiccafe’d (the equivalent to ./’d I guess!) thanks for the link Joe

MagicRoadie.com: a new site from Dan McLean which is designed to take the mystery out of the stage technology you use in your Magic Show. Read articles on Sound and Light amongs them ‘Pick a Mic any Mic!’ and ‘Stage Lighting Basics’.

Apologies for the lack of posts but its been a bit hectic around here lately, just getting ready to go to FISM 2003 which is going to be unbelievable, I have added a media section to this site, the first thing to go in it will be photos from FISM… the plan if it comes off will be for me to …

Doug Conn Close-up, Sleight of hand Magic: Doug Conn’s new site, I had the pleasure of meeting Doug in his shop in New Orleans at the TSD convention, you can watch some videos of Dougs effects, purchase his products or hire him for a show, personally I’m awaiting his e-book of Tricks of …

Astrojax: this could be a fun way to kill some time this summer, I will be picking one up for sure! Seems like these things have been out for a while, they are hailed as a cross between a Yo-Yo and Juggling. There are some sample videos and a forum. Also check out the video of Thom Stead [26mb mpa] …

Handlordz Member Videos: various members of Handlordz have submitted video clips of flourishes.

The Straitjacket Circus: are a modern Circus performing group. Watch video clips of their performance.

Magicpitch: the new products website of Gazzo and Gary Animal, selling the cups and balls, pouches, wands etc.

Alan Warner Mini Magic: a site by Digital Cheetah showing the mini-magic of craftsman Alan Warner, such things as flight of the falcon, twister, prison block, wonderland door and cover up. See photos of all his creations, read the effect and also get a chance to order them.

Fortune-Telling With Playing Cards: An article by Richard Webster on how to do a quick reading using a normal deck of playing cards, includes a link to his book Playing Card Divination for Beginners.

Free Paper Models from FreePaperToys.com: links to lots of different models, airplanes, animals, buildings, cartoon characters, puzzles, dolls, science fiction etc. The Origami link is well worth a look as it lists lots of other interesting sites.

Canon 3D Papercraft: Origami and Chiyogami (paper with a coloured pattern), make a Dog, Fish, Crane or Samurai Helmet and download coloured paper patterns to print and use as origami or wrapping paper.

Joseph Palmer’s Paper Airplanes: make models such as the PL-4 Hybrid, PL-2 Gullwing and the PL-1 Joe’s favourite. Apparently unlike the common ‘dart’ designs, these planes are designed to have lift; if you throw at a point on the ground about 10 feet away

Stackview: a new program from Nick Pudar that allows you to explore variations of various actions to a stacked deck. Allows you to do shuffles, poker deals, faros and even control selections from the deck.

Jay’s Journal: Hear Ricky Jay every week on LA Radio Station KCRW, here you can also find the archives of all shows, Ricky talks about a number of things including as you would expect weird performers and performances.

L&L: L&L Publishing have a brand new re-designed site, with a new Forum to discuss their products.

Hit or Stand: Blackjack Game and Trainer, written in Flash, you get to play Blackjack and the computer teaches you based on your moves and shows you what is right and wrong. If your interested in Blackjack then some other links are Stanford Wong’s BJ21 forum, where you can read the free forum …

Deck of Cards: Worth1000 is a photoshop competition site where people doctor and manipulate photos, they don’t take bad photos so this is high quality stuff. See how people have incorportated card suits into photos, also check out Deck of Cards 2 and Deck of Cards 3

Shuffle, Cut & Flip: the problem, to unshuffle a deck of cards, the solution a C computer program. Read all about the problem and the way that the winner solved it.

Devin Balkcom: wrote a thesis proposal [PDF 500k] on robotic origami folding, he then went ahead and built the robot, which you can see in action in this quicktime movie [QT 14MB].

Antony Gerard FFFF 2003 Pictures: Antony has posted 312 pictures from this years 4F convention, also check his Lectures page for other excellent photos of lectures and conventions.

Star Wars Origami: for the actual models look at the Gallery and there is also a great Origami Basics tutorial.

LEGO Tarot: A deck of Tarot made from lego figures. Also of interest might be Vertigo Tarot, Vampire Tarot, 80’s Tarot, Hello Kitty Tarot, Star Trek Tarot and Pomo Tarot.

Copperfield Videos: some short clips from David Copperfield TV shows from courtesy Dr Jakks, includes the infamous Torn Asunder.

MSN Closeup Magic: a new MSN group on closeup magic.

Neo Cheating: The Unbeatable Weapon for Poker, Blackjack, Bridge, and Gin. Neocheating is a new, scientific kind of cheating,an invisible, incredibly easy kind of cheating based on simplicity and low skill. Moves used include Cutting Aces, Stacking four of a kind and controlling hands. Includes …

Cool-Magic Demo Videos: featuring Bernard Sim, Alvin and Jimmy Lee. Performing Coins Across, Spellbound, Ambitious Card and Bernards Linking Rubber Bands.

Shoot Ogawa Clips: some video clips of Shoot on TV in Japan, the whole story was in MAGIC magazine about how some people considered this exposure, but Shoot was basically trying to show the skill behind the Magic and to get people to appreciate the hard work that goes into these things.

Martin Gardner Profile: Kadon Enterprises short profile of Martin highlighting two of his games that they sell, Game of Solomon and Lewis Carroll’s Chess Wordgame.

Magic Supply: have just opened a new web-board, with forums such as Most Wanted, Advice, TV Magicians and Street Performances.

FFFF 2003: Mike Powers has just posted his photos from the FFFF 2003 with Meir Yedid as special guest of honour.

Andrew Miller: see some video clips of Andrews magic, some very nice card and coin work.

R. Paul Wilson: Paul’s new website gives you access to buy his lecture notes and other routines in e-book format such as his new extended 3-Fly called Completely Crowded, as well as his other products such as Richochet and his new ‘Predator Wallet’.

Free Articles for Magicians: from Jim Snack’s Success in Magic course talking about such things as ‘Will entering a magic competition help my career’ and ‘Creating a video demo tape’.

The Magic of Kainoa Harbottle: read about Kainoa’s new book release called Coins on the Edge.

BBC Radio 4 - The Number Seven: related to this post, a BBC radio show on Percy Diaconis’s discovery of needing to shuffle 7 times to get a true random shuffle.

Origami and Math: See the relationship between Origami and Maths, learn about Origami, Geometry, and the Kawasaki Theorem and lots of cool folds and links.

Adam Grace Magic: read the adverts and buy Adam’s tricks, currently you can get ‘Death Breath’ a booklet of tricks with mints, and the Titanic Card Trick.

Linebroke Magic Videos: Matt Warren’s posted some videos of his card creations, featuring Power, Rub-a-Dub and Shaken.

Eileen’s Origami Page: Photo Gallery of origami models, includes an alphabetical list and list of reference books, also check out Fernando Gilgado’s Alien. (Link courtesy of Danelope).

Talk Magic: a new Magic forum with a popular review section.

Scott Imler Magic: A chance to see video clips and purchase three of Scott’s clever routines, Lotto Vision, Cyber Card and Melt Down.

Sleight Geek: new Magic forum that allows users to upload and share video clips.

Mad Hatter Magic: A new message forum, also has some basic card and coin video tutorials, and a little bit of history about Magic’s Greats.

Peter Eggink’s Melt Change: Peter’s new colour change that looks like one card just melts into another, watch the video clip and buy the downloadable video.

Wizard School: Andrew Mayne’s new DVD with 16 cool effects aimed at teaching the general public, based around a Harry Potter theme, he even teaches his cool broom levitation! Grab Quicktime 6 and go and watch the preview trailer.

Unicycle Crashes [1.5mb WMV Video]: A little bit of Friday Fun courtesy of Oliver Cannings, a video of people riding and crashing on Unicycles!

oneofhearts - Card Magic: some cool videos of card sleights and various links to other magic sites.

BRAINPOKE: Creativity, Presentation, Inspiration: New magazine from Ryan Pilling which will cover the complete span of the artistic side of magic.

Psycho Straw: from Phanthomas, make a plastic straw bend using only the power of your mind! Also see his excellent bill switch effect Hypno Bill.

Yahoo! Groups - I.R.I.S: Ian Rowland Internet Society Yahoo! Group, the life and work of writer, performer, mentalist and mind motivator, Mr Ian Rowland. Topics for discussion include magic, mentalism, cold reading, skeptics, psychics, beliefs and positive thinking.

Don Drake’s Black Art Secrets: Don’s website where you can read about his lectures on Black Art, and buy his products.

Kindom’s Korner: personal homepage of Michael Kindom, includes some of his thoughts on Magic, and photos and video clips.

Illusion Entertainment International: a new message forum for discussion stage and illusion magic.

Ethereal Cascade: this link has some pen spinning videos, but also some videos of Juggling tricks, Contact Juggling and Diablo.

Pen Studioz: another site about Pen Spinning with videos, tutorials, a message board. Also check out some other new Pen Spinning sites Pen Spinning 3k, Hantricks and Swifthandz.

Orville: A Magical suite of software from JBum. He provides a version for Mac and PC, the PC version acts like the old Eliza program but Jim has cleverley built in lots of little mental effects. Also try out his online Lie Detector trick which works on a similar principle. He even has a version for …

Magic Meeting Point: German Language Magic Board, with an English section.

BJ Hickman E-Newsletter: Enjoy monthly news, advice, and guest articles about performing and promoting your business.

The Eye Of Horus: A monthly e-magazine for the magic mentalist, a place to discuss the art, to talk about props & presentation.

Mills Mess: 3 ball juggling trick archive, see short clips of 20 juggling tricks using 3 balls. The FLASH version is best as you can control the Juggler.

The Maths of Juggling: Talks about the Maths behind Juggling and SiteSwap notation. Includes some links to videos of Mills Mess, 8 Ball Juggling, 5 Club Juggling and other crazy things!

Mona Santow’s Photos of TSD4: Mona has posted her photo’s from TSD4 2003, it was a pleasure to meet and spend a bit of time with Mona after seeing and admiring her work, she did say I looked like Kevin James Just wish I had his creative ability and money!

J-Sim: Flash based Juggling Simulator. This is really cool, you can select the balls to use, the speed, height etc. and then you actually control the juggler to juggle 3-5 balls.

TSD 4 Pictures: More pics from Chicago, this time a selection of Mona Santow’s pictures selected by Jason Alford.

Magicians Index: a list of links to other sites, with possibly the longest URL I have ever seen for a magic site!

Harry Lorayne: Harry’s new website advertising his Memory Power Package.

TSD 2003: Mike Powers posts the first lot of pictures from TSD4, he will also be writing a review. All I can say is I need sleep! Highlights for me, John Bannon’s lecture, Simon and Ginny’s mental act, being the first to have a bound copy of RCT in the UK, and Front Row for Copperfield …

Introduction to Full-Deck Stacks: Doug Dyment’s introduction to all types of full deck stack, including a link to an Excel Spreadsheet designed to compare certain stacks.

Handlordz: De’vo’s site of visual manipulation, view his video of Combined Cobra cuts, and learn a couple of his cuts and openers/closers. Read his thoughts and even download some of his music MP3’s to use when practicing your cuts and flourishes.

ADVANCEmagic: New Magic Forum, areas for discussion include cards, coins, stage, close-up and reviews.

4effect - illusion design: Illusion Design Book by Mark Parker, also advertises his illusion building service.

David Regal: David’s new site advertising his new trick ‘Sudden Deck’ along with his other products.

websites4magicians: Jonathan Levit’s new webdesign company for Magicians.

Cups and Ball Game: a FLASH version of the three shell and pea game using Cups and a Ball, see if you can follow where the ball ends up.

Hypnohole & Other Absurdities: Dale A. Hilderbrandt’s new Ebook. Contains weird stuff with cards, spongeballs, cigarettes etc.

Jakks Sevarg’s Card Thru Window: See a video demo of this new Card Thru Window.

Lambent Articles: Some NLP articles, of particular interest an article on ‘Dealing with performance anxiety’ and ‘Creativity’.

Mentalism Incorporated: new Mentalism book by Chuck Hickok about performing Mentalism in a corporate environment. Includes solid commerical routines straight from his act.

WalkOfMind - Magic: Humourous Magic articles including tips for impromptu performances, magic weapons & useful items for Magicians. Also contains some more serious videos and links to music for use in Magic.

SofTrick - Magic and Mentalism for PC: high-quality software that will allow you to perform mentalism on your computer. The software has great looking graphics and you can buy the software directly online.

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes: Read the story of the little girl and how she folded 1000 paper cranes. Also read about the Peace Cranes, and learn to fold a paper crane.

Pencil Carving Gallery: not Magic but a cool link to pencils carved into different shapes!

Tenyo from Japan: Here you can order some of the Tenyo items that were previously only available in Japan, made for Disney Tokyo.

Magic Pro Shop Video Demo Theater: Great place to watch some performance clips of DVD’s that you may not find elsewhere.

Directory of Canadian Magic for Amateur Canadian Magicians: Good resource for Canadian Magicians from Doug Cuff, lists lots of sites to buy Magic and where to meet other Canadian Magicians.

The Magic of Oz at WatchMagic.com: 60 videos of tricks from Oz Pearlman in conjunction with Penguin Magic.

Cardist: a Yahoo! group with some awesome video clips of card flourishes and productions.

Variations Revisited: Mike Caveney’s Magic Words has just released the new edition of Earl Nelson’s Variations, he has also reprinted Versatile Card Magic by Frank Simon. Now no more searching for these and looking at the huge prices on Ebay!

Dragon Optical Illusion: Make your own paper dragon with this print out, fold it correctly and you get a weird optical illusion designed by Jerry Andrus called ’eye-foolery'.

Visual Illusions to Demonstrate an Empirical Theory of Vison: Flash demonstrations of various optical illusions.

The Magic Parlour: new forum and chat room with a good list of video clip links to external sites.

Origami Links: Origami Box: Whilst not technically Origami as it involves glue and scissors, this is a great way to use up old greetings cards by making a neat little box. Origami Frog: Quick instructions for making a jumping frog. Origami Bunny: Similar to the instructions for the Frog, but make a jumping Bunny …

Cards and Conjuring Forum: New UK Forum to discuss General, Stage, Close-up & Mind Magic.

Artefact Magazine: Online Magic Magazine. Includes essays, by Eugene Burger & Jim Coles. Columns by Dennis Loomis, Mike Monroe and others, plus interviews of Jay Sankey & Bruce Cervon. Also has some effects by Doug Conn, Rafael Benatar and Reed McClintock.

Carter Beats the Devil: Join Carter the Great as he matches wits with the Devil in a card game! Learn more about Glen David Gold’s book.

Hide Magic: Japanese video clips, including Jumpin Jemini, Wildcard, Masquerade, Open Revelation, Bill Switch and Seven (yes 7!) clips of different versions of Reset.

Sankey Magic: Jay Sankeys brand new website has finally launched. Includes all his latest products, Jay’s Thought of the Week… and a Group Wisdom section where you can share your thoughts on Sankey products.

Mentalism Unlimited: Larry Becker & Lee Earle’s new collaboration on Mentalism and Mental Magic. Their first product is Kopy Kat a new image capturing device.

Wolf’s Magic: Designers and Creators of Collectors Workshops Whimsical Productions including ABC (Already Been Chewed).

British Origami Society Home Page: The British Origami Society is a group devoted to the art of paper-folding. They have over 600 members worldwide and publish a bi-monthly magazine.

Origami Game: The ORIGAMI GAME challenges folders to make a sequence of geometric " snowflake " shapes with a single sheet of paper as quickly as possible.

Osterlind Mysteries: Richard Osterlind’s new website in collaboration with Jim Sisti. Read about his new book ‘The Very Modern Mindreader’ and order his other booklets.

Kif Chan: All sorts of material particularly on Card Magic and Card Cheating. Of particular interest is the video room, see Kif perform Bottoms, Seconds, Greeks, Shuffles, Stacking and Revelations. Check out the Gambling and Magic corner for some explanations of various terms, and read some in-depth …

Magic Mikks Card Sleights: A number of video clips from Magic Mikk of Scotland, some great colour changes and shifts, plus a great version of Ray Kosbys King in the Box.

My Lovely Assistant: Blatant honesty in a world of deception. A new Magic Review Site, broken down into categories, and also gives dealers where you can buy the tricks.

Outta Sight Magic: Outta Sight Magic has been around for over a year now, but it was formerly under the name of The Magic Zone. This Magic site is for the gaining of Magic knowledge for Magicians, to gain access you will need to apply for a password.

British Pathe: was a company formed in 1902 in London to produce Newsreels, through a lottery grant they have been able to digitise them and make them available on the Web. There are about 80 clips of magicians and you can view free previews online.

eCardTricks - Online card tricks that will AMAZE you!: Including the Princess Card Trick, Number Fun, Mind Reader, Magic Clock and the Classic 3 Shell Game. Also has some magic tricks to download for the PC and Palm.

David Solomon: David’s new website advertises his book, and new DVD. Also get free tricks, and video clips of his magic.

Sandlot Science: Art, Optical, Distortions, After Images, Ambiguity and Typography Illusions. (Link courtesy of Andi Gladwin)

Akiyoshi’s illusion pages: This page contains some works of “anomalous motion illusion”, which might make sensitive observers dizzy or sick. Should you feel dizzy, you had better leave this page immediately.

Magiro by Siegfried von Cannon: Magic Inventions, some great looking original magic tricks such as Pierced, The Coin & Bolt Mystery and Pure(?) Telepathy.

Mind and Magic: Ted Lesley’s new Forum for Mentalists and Magicians.

The Magic Hut Forum: General Magic and The Magic Hut Magicians Lounge Forums.

Teeko - A World of Games: A game invented by Card Magician and Gambler John Scarne, read about it in this article from the Washington Post.

MagicMaster: Japanese Broadband Magic videos.

From Shuffling Cards to the Roots of Randomness: A talk given by Prof. Persi Diaconis on Nov 1. at the Harvey Mudd College. You can also see their page on his work How Many Shuffles?

Great Scott! It’s Magic!: The Magic of Scott Guinn, Scott is a regular contributor to Online Visions with some very clever tricks and routines, on his site you can purchase his notes, his new books and tricks. Also find out about his other services and lectures.

Michal Mystic: Michal’s page contains some good videos, tips and links.

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Flourish Factory: Lots of links to clips and sites where you can learn and see flourishy sleights. This site is from the guys at MadHouse Magic a site which looks under-construction, but seems promising.

Magic Review: Justin M. Monehen new Magic review site, featuring reviews of DVDs/Videos, Books and Tricks along with a message forum and a list of Magic and Magician links.

YomoGraphs: Mona Santow’s new site featuring her photographs from various magic conventions and events. Already you can see photos from this years IBM in San Diego and photos from the Mid West Magic Jubilee and the Vancouver weekend of Magic 2001, with thousands more photos promised.

Independent Magic Forum: KJellstrom’s new forum with news, closeup, stage, mental, products and history sections.

Cap Casino: Learn the ultimate sybil cut and others at Cap’s site. Some crazy flourishes along with photos, demo and tutorial videos. Also buy Cap’s new video.

Magic Chat: A new IRC based real-time magic chat, it will soon change so only Magicians can enter and also Celebrity chats will happen.

Wired 10.09: Hacking Las Vegas: A Wired article about MIT students and their card counting exploits in Vegas.

KismetMagic.com: A new message forum that is the start of Nexus, the complete communication site for Magicians. The forum at the minute has a lot of sub-forums including regional forums.

Card Flourishes.com: A new card site where you can watch, learn and discuss card sleights and flourishes.

Magic Television: Some great archive footage of TV Magicians such as Copperfield, Blaine and Siegfried and Roy. See Copperfield perform the Kenner T&R Card that started the trend!

Strictly Underground: Magic, Mentalism, Bizarre, Spooky Death and Escapology Resource.

The Virtual Magician: Marco Tempest’s new TV series that is soon to appear on Cable/Satellite.

Stunners-Plus!: Pre-Order Larry Beckers re-print of Stunners with lots of new material.

Jose Bento: A nice site with a few good video clips to watch, things like Floating Lifesaver, Pen through Bill, Linking Cards and Invisible Palm.

Speed Stacks Inc.: Home Page for the Leader in the Sport of Cup Stacking. Not Magic but would probably make a great follow up to dice stacking, or to the cups and balls! Watch the video on the site its very cool!

Mark Burger : Elegant Magic for Magicians. Mark makes great looking wallets, pouches, wands, billiard balls and some wood turned items.

Card College 1 E-Book: Chris Wasshuber’s e-book version of the first Card College book. This CD contains video clips showing Robert Giobbi performing every sleight from the book. It differs slightly from the Hermetic Press series as it is taken from the German version. I think this kind of …

TrickList: Tricklist.com is a magic directory of magic including card tricks, coin tricks, illusions, routines and more, for all standards and types of magicians to learn from and help others with.

Superhandz: Devo’s site of advanced card manipulation. Check out the Cobra Cut and the Deck Twirl videos and the foot shuffle is just madness!

Gilbreath Principle: (PDF) some brief notes on the Gilbreath principle.

Bonsai Magic: Online shop selling PDF documents via Paypal, some interesting little items at fairly cheap prices.

Knuckle Busters: is a new site from Bobby Gill. It lists various card videos in different categories. Some free tricks you can obtain, references to recommended card items, and promises a forum and online store very soon.

5 Card Trick Update: A recent discussion on Metafilter of Fitch Cheney’s Five Card Trick. Other updated links of interest are a discussion on Colm Mulcahy’s site, a brief mention on Anne Schilling’s site and a very interesting but mathematically bias PDF paper. Colm also mentions that a version with 4 …

Magic Video Depot: The return of the old cardflourish site, with over 150 videos online and a message forum.

Magic Community: a new magic BBS incorporating a beginners section, an advanced section and a reviews sections.

Cyber-Magicians.com: A new close-up e-zine from Shaun Steel in PDF format. The first issue features Lee Hathaway, Zenneth Kok, Peter Duffie, Shaun Steel and Andi Gladwin.

Video Clip Bonanza!: Trickery’s ShowTheatre - Magic Demonstrations: Lots of Video clips of various tricks, sorted into categories and brought to you by The Trickery.

Denis Behr’s Video Clips: Windows Media video clips of card and coin moves.

The Flourishman: A hard-back book by Jerry Cestkowski on card flourishes. Read the table of contents and the foreword, see a preview and order the book online.

Ron Bauer’s Private Studies Series: A companion site to Ron’s manuscripts, you can see details of each manuscript, download video clips of the moves involved, purchase the scripts and check on promotional offers.

2 Years On...: Wow… it has come around again, today the blog is 2 years old, and I am cough..25..cough.. As you can see the blog has a new template which I have been testing for the past couple of days, and it now runs on the Nucleus Content Management System. Please let me know if you have any problems …

Be a Genius: Card Memorisation: Learn to memorise playing cards, this site will teach you the Bob Farmer Playing Card Mnemonic System as published in his Flim-Flam column. You can then go on and learn a trick utilising your new found power! It is also worth checking out the rest of the site for other mental and …

Cap Cuts: Some RealMedia videos of Flourishy Card Cuts.

The Magic Den: Brand new card magic booklets at very cheap prices, also watch video clips and learn some new sleights and tricks.

Expert Magic: A new magic site with polls, forums, videos, chat and a newsletter. The site sometimes crashes my browser, not sure if its a problem with the quicktime movie, but just be warned, other than that its a good looking site.

Playing with Matches: A cool little bit of business with a book of matches, shows you how to light a match from a matchbook with one hand.

The Joining: is Jeff Pierce’s ring on rubberband manuscript, that you can download as a PDF for a small payment.

Aaron Fisher: is a 26 year old card magician, who is about to release his first book ‘The Paper Engine’. Find out the scoop on the book, and order it and his International Lecture video online.

Simon Aronson: has a new site address, now .net instead of .com. Find out about Side-Swiped, a marketed version of ‘This Side Up.’ Also read his Linking Ring Biography. Lastly don’t forget to visit the Magicians Only section for two new tricks with the Aronson Stack and to download …

Cold Reading Strategies Word Document: This Word Document is written by Chris A. Roe from the University College Northampton and is a very well researched paper on Cold Reading, setting out all the different strategies that are used. If you don’ t have Word you can use the Google HTML copy.

Magic: New Tricks of the Trade: Short MSNBC news article on what could possibly be the magic of the future.

Card Flourish of the Day: I can’t seem to find this in the archive, I should have blogged this before, but anyway an archive of AVI movies of various cuts, changes and moves which ran over a six week period.

Magic Jack: Discover some neat tricks, and hidden pages on Magic Jack’s website.

NeoMagie: A new French website started by Julien Ortin that deals with Magic and Mentalism. Great if you can read French or just use Altavista’s Babelfish translator.

Jump-O-Ring: Mats G. Kjellstrom has written a new e-book on a neat rope and ring move that is similar in effect to the classic Monkey Bar, couple that with the low cost of $4 and you have yourself a bargain!

Kurupted Kards: Some nice video clips of flourishes, passes, and tricks.

Deep Astonishment: A new Paul Harris release. It is a re-working of the Anything Deck with some improvements and the website includes handling tips and variations.

Magic Trick Search: Search the web and find a particular magic trick and who sells it. You can also search for certain categories of trick, and narrow your search by type and effect.

Card Clinic: Join Jamy Ian Swiss and Roberto Giobbi for an exclusive Card Convention in New York. This first convention is to be held September 13-15 2002 and is limited to 20 registrants.

Magic Supply Radio: This Magic radio station is online every Saturday 12:00pm-4:00pm CST.

Notion of Motion: Angelo Carbone’s Notion of Motion Rising Card effect. The cards and case can be shown on all sides, you put the pack back into the case, and you can see all your fingers and a spectator names any card and it rises from the deck.

GarrettDn Yahoo! Briefcase: A briefcase of card movies mostly focusing on deck stacking.

Magic Meetup: Meetup with local magicians to trade tips and hone your craft. This website is designed to facilitate a local gathering of a group of people brought together by a common interest. It operates in 540 cities in 22 countries and members vote on a location for their local meetup.

Hocus Pocus Round Table: A new magic forum from Hocus Pocus Magic with areas such as close-up, mentalism, stage, comedy and kids magic all based around a Knights of the Round Table theme.

RCMagic: Michael Sibbernsen’s site for magic and gags using the Micro RC Cars that are minature remote controlled cars you can purchase pretty cheaply.

FFFF 2001 Pictures: Mike Power posts some more photos, this time from FFFF 2001.

The Magic Radio Show: WOW! this is one cool site, an internet-radio station that broadcasts every Monday night at 9pm EST talking about magic! If you can’t listen to the live show you have full access to all the archived shows. The hosts are Andrew Mayne and Jeff Rutenberg, you can send in a …

Card Domain: A similar site to Rapid Magic, gives you information on card tricks and sleights, and even a few videos to download.

Rapid Magic: A great introduction to card magic, showing basic handling and grips. Also takes you through lots of different sleights with photos and finally gives you some tricks to do with your new found knowledge. You can then discuss this in the forum or the chat room and finish off by reading …

SeeMagic: is a great place to watch performance videos of famous Magicians. From the same stable as Alakazam and TrickTV you can watch such Magicians as Peter Duffie, Etienne Pradier, Robin Robertson and Randy Wakeman.

Darro’s Den: Lennie Darro’s new magic site, contains tricks from George McBride, Jamie Badman, Peter Duffie, Val Le-Val, Gordon Bruce and Gavin Ross. Also has Photos of magicians, reviews, history and problems-posed.

Idiots on Unicycles: Lots of great photos of people unicycling over rough terrain, and in various other locations!

FFFF 2002 Mike Powers Pictures: Mike’s Pictures of FFFF 2002 organised by day, some very interesting commentary as well.

Healed and Sealed: You may have read all the controversy about dealers selling rip-off’s of this effect, see Tim Ellis’s parody page. Basically it is the Can effect that David Blaine performed on his latest special, of the can uncrushing and then re-sealing. This is the Original from the …

Faro Shuffler: An online faro calculator that uses images of cards, gives you the option to do an In/Out shuffle and move various cards. Also has built-in the Aronson and Nikola stacks and New Deck Order and Reverse NDO.

The Imp: A four page online magic magazine, similar in style to the small magazines that came out from the thirties to the late eighties e.g. The Jinx, The New Phoenix, Mahatma, Swami/Mantra etc.

Zippo Tricks: Similar to the pen twirling sites I have blogged in the past, tricks to do with your zippo lighter.

FFFF 2002 Pictures: Robin Dawes has posted some photos from the 2002 FFFF convention, log in to Dotphoto using the username Robin Dawes and the password Obie.

Magic Daves Magic Site: Download Dave’s memorized deck utility to help you learn any memorized stack. This site will also be home to his Mundane Magic Monthly a magic e-zine that will have absolutely no magic tricks or theory in it. What it will have is still a mystery, even to the editors, …

Martins Misdirections: is a funny online comic strip written by James Burk it features Martin the Magician and his rabbit Thurston. (link courtesy of OzMagic)

Sweet Cents: Andrew J. Pinard’s Sweet Cents routine that appeared in the May 2002 issue of MAGIC magazine. The online version contains more photos, and a full description of his I-Quit-ment move.

Paper Engineer’s Workshop: Keisuke Saka’s paper engineering, contains some links to free model downloads.

Magic Online: A new uk magic news page, updated every monday, includes a magic shop, magicians only section and magical downloads.

The Onion - Magic Store Employee: Very funny spoof news article from The Onion, if you are offended by The Onion don’t read, otherwise…

Magic Bunny: The Magic Bunny online discussion forum.

Online Card Sleights Database: Links to online movies of card sleights, counts, changes, switches, cuts and deals.

Gathering for Gardner: is a bi-annual puzzle/magic invitation only convention, has links to puzzles, magic, optical illusions etc.

Dream and Magic: New UK site offering e-books and free articles/tricks. The first e-book ‘Little Wonders’ contains 8 packet effects, some utilising novel cards, along with an essay on how to make your own custom cards.

Little Chipmunk: is Ryan Swigert’s site, you may have read a couple of his tricks in MAGIC magazine, including his excellent ‘Kickback’.

Illusion Book: Andrew Mayne’s site, with information on his new illusion book, along with his other products, including his new ‘Pocket Sawing in Half’.

Magic Syndicate: New video clips from Jeremy Kurtz.

TSD Convention Review: Jason Alford’s review of the TSD convention, I will do my review shortly when I have a spare moment and I have my photos developed.

Uber Magic: Magic news and Trick Reviews. Running some kind of blogging software, we have found ourselves another magic weblog!

TrickTV: From the same guys at Alakazam comes TrickTV a new site showing video clips of tricks new and old. Also features another magic forum.

Countdown… TSD Con.: What can I say but OMG! We fly Thursday get back Tuesday, look out for a huge report on here when I get back, hopefully including photos! I think the most nerve racking thing will be getting to Gatwick on the Thameslink, not been round London all that much, should be easy …

Magic and Software Design: A paper on using magical theories for software and graphical interface design.

PasteBoard Pimps: Lonnie Dilan’s new card site, view some video clips of his card magic.

Magic Auction and Beyond: New Magic Auction site.

Magic Laboratory: a new company formed by Gordon Bean and Larry Horowitz, their first product is ‘Stars’ a cute packet effect, you can read the instructions online, purchase the cards and see video clips of the variations.

Performers.Net: The online community for international variety performers. The site is mainly for street performers and includes a great library of articles and an online discussion forum.

MagicAuction.biz: A new online UK based Magic Auction brought to you by James Anthony of Magic World.

Dante King: A brilliant new card site, contains high quality videos of original sleights and effects, a message forum and soon an online store.

Magic Land: A magic epicenter. Contains a good beginners section, some interviews and up-to-date news.

Magic Patter: a site containing various ideas for your patter, similar to the Mypatter site I blogged a while ago.

The Encyclopedia of Card Shooting: A photo/video guide to shooting cards with all fingers, plus tips on catching and variations along with tricks and links.

An Old card trick and a New Biblical Hoax: John Allen Paulos is a mathematician at Temple University, here he writes about a card trick and how it can generate coincidences. He then goes on to say that this could be used in a new religious hoax!

Bob Lancaster’s Unusual Gallery of Playing Cards: Not magic as such but if you are interested in Cards as much as I am, then this might give you some ideas.

Virtual Magie: if you can read french then this site is worth a look, also check out Plick Magie, Climagic and Magies.

Funny Frank: Frank Olivier is a comic juggler and magician. His homepage contains some jokes, juggling resources and a few novel online magic effects.

Illusion Entertainment Forum: A new magic bulletin board dedicated to Stage and Illusion discussion.

Penn & Teller: interviews from the Washington Post.

Cometa Magico: An Argentinian magic site that blends performance magic with fantasy and witchcraft.

The Amazing World of John Scarne: Ed Barnard’s tribute to John Scarne who used to be one of the world’s foremost authorities on gambling and sleight of hand. This site has some good background information and photographs.

Zenneth’s Card Artifice: Zenneth is a card magician from Hong Kong, on his site you can find some of his own card magic as well as tributes to current and past card magicians, including another Hong Kong magician Michael Lam who is a student of Lennart Green and holds the rights to sell …

World Magic Seminar: The 2002 Las Vegas Magic Convention has just taken place, check out six pages of stunning photographs by Pete Biro.

Miracle Play: Lots of references to card moves and sleights along with a few effects.

Shaun Magic: Another Yahoo! Briefcase of Card Movies.

allmagic.tv: From Richard Robinson comes this new site, streaming high bandwidth video from dealers and magicians.

Magic Inventors: Chuck Leach has set up a Magic Inventors page, which connects Magicians, Dealers, Inventors and Manufacturers. Site includes essays, new magic, resources, services and references.

Some very interesting (read obsessive) Derren Brown Fan Sites: Yahoo! Derren Brown Club Emily Chambers Derren Brown Page Karen’s Derren Brown Site Links are courtesy of James Rewind, if you wish to send me any links please do, you can use the contact link above, it is a hard job for one person …

Welcome to the Magic Spot: Another fairly new magic disscussion forum.

Magia Multimedia: Download magic related programs, including the Faro Calculators, a Telepathy program, a Gene Anderson E-Book in Spanish, a Copperfield Screensaver and a Dai Vernon Wallpaper.

Hades Magic: A catalog of Micky Hades Magic Books for sale.

Official Lee Asher website: Buy Lee’s notes, videos and tricks, he has some excellent offers. Also view some photos of Lee and his friends from around the world.

Impossible Objects: Not magic as such but some interesting ‘pieces of strange’ mainly objects in bottles and other impossible items.

Harrisons Magic Website: Has a nice history of magic, a beginners ‘magic manual’, a magiczine with some interesting articles and an online Buffy magic trick, so it gets my vote

Magic Jake: Not one of the best sites I have ever seen, but he does host over 150 Real Media magic video clips for you to watch, so its worth a visit for that, if you can ignore the poor design!

Magic Vortex: Nicely designed site with some simple easy tricks for you to learn.

The Magicians Living Room - The place where the best magicians congregate: A site with a few descriptions of basic card sleights and a test you can take to get to the more advanced section.

Taurus Magic Supply: Derek Lever’s new site, includes his second hand magic and pages for the new Manchester Circle of Magicians.

Jim Swain: Jim’s new homepage, whilst it isn’t about his card magic is still worth a look, it supports his two new novels about card cheating, and has some good photos and bits of cheating advice.

Majiloon: Comedy Magic Balloon Performing Artist. Has some nice photos of his balloon creations, also sells a great looking battery powered balloon pump, and the ‘Virtual Soundman’ which is a remote control for your MiniDisc.

NPR - Vanishing Act: Al Cohen is featured on the NPR Radio Station. Al is selling his Washington DC magic shop. See photos of Al and his shop, hear an interview with the radio presenter, featuring Max Maven and see a couple of video clips of Al in action.

How to make shuriken: How to make an origami ninja star! (Link courtesy of usr/bin/girl).

MyPatter.com - Enrich Your Magic with New Patters!: A site dedicated to magical patter, submit your own or read other peoples ideas.

rma and keone: Two Yahoo! Briefcases of Card Sleights, cuts and moves.

Macmillan Convention: Some photos from this years convention.

Shamrock Magic and Collectibles: Makers of coin boxes and wands.

Making the McAbee Rings: James Riser has documented and photographed the making of the McAbee Rings a close-up version of the linking rings. An interesting insight into why magic props can be costly.

The Wand Shop: Useful if you are doing any Harry Potter type shows and you want an authentic wand, or if you just want an unusual wand to use in your Cups and Balls routine!

Once Upon a Time…: Here is my initial review of Guy Hollingworth’s latest trick.

Misdirection Resource Center: Jarle Leirpoll has just opened a new section of his site, it contains links to essays and thoughts on misdirection and magic theory, an excellent read.

Pentix - The Art of Pen Spinning: A great pen spinning site with videos and a forum.

Welcome to Allison’s Backstage: The Unofficial David Copperfield Website: Has a really good FLASH David Copperfield Section.

Welcome to Dr. Mitch’s Magic: Various articles, reviews and photos.

Secretary of Balloon Doggies: From the animated series The Critic. Also visit Balloon Hat which documents two guy’s journey around the world making balloon hats and bringing joy to the masses! (links courtesy of Danelope).

Davenports Magic: The Official Website of Davenports Magic Shop is now online. Makers of Magic since 1898 Davenports are probably the most famous UK Dealer. They have a selection of their range on the site, although they have no e-commerce facility. They say that there will be a new catalogue …

Guide to “Cold Reading”: Australian Skeptics 13 point Guide to Cold Reading.

Once Upon a Time: Guy Hollingworth’s new effect Once Upon a Time has just been released, it will be available from 23/11/01. You can see photos of the effect and read a description on the site, it looks and sounds awesome, I have placed my order and will do a review when I receive it!

TeachCircus.com: This site is dedicated to helping teachers, recreation professionals, and performers give effective instruction in Circus Arts.

Monday Night Magic: John Lenahan & Anthony Owen bring you Monday Night Magic London. Check the website for the current seasons programme.

Whispering Imps on Magic Posters: Various Magic posters depicting imp’s whispering into Magicians Ears.

MoreThanMagic.com: Run by Martin Duffy this is a directory of the UK’s entertainers, free to join and enter your details.

Magic Monthly: A Magic Parody site, a few videos, reviews, articles etc.

E-Spresso: A great gag for your Palm PDA that looks like you drink from it! Comes from the guys at Hottrix who have produced some other pioneering PDA Magic.

Club Magic: Another magic related message board, hard to see how it can survive under the swamp of boards that are already established, but have a look anyway!

OzMagic: An online resource aimed at Australian Magicians, also contains tricks, essays, links and events.

Foo Can: Not just another magic magazine. The fun but serious, clever but dumb, in the box but out the box publication for magicians who like living on the edge of sanity.

Its Magic UK website: This is a website for a little magic business in York Market, if your ever in York check it out or order things from the website.

Learn Sorcery - Magic and Illusions you can do!: A child oriented magic site that teaches simple tricks, has a chat section, stories, and craft ideas, it is sponsored by Ellusionist.

The Magic area is down for a little while until I code a new login/authentication system, as it says at the magic page this won’t require any magic know-how etc. its just so I can keep a track on who views the page, registration will be free and easy! I agonised a bit thinking I should maybe …

Jeremy Kurtz: Some more magic video clips for your perusal, Jeremy’s Digital Revolve Pass is stunning!

Bruce Bernstein’s Products: Bruce has just released his Psi-Deck which is a super-charged version of the Tossed deck. Also read about his lecture notes and other products.

magician.org.uk magic: I have opened a magic section on the blog, at the moment it contains just one effect, but I will be adding to it sporadically, I am not the most creative magician when it comes to devising new tricks, I much prefer to take tricks already in print and add a creative touch to it …

Jim Steinmeyer, Theatrical Illusion Design: New site for Jim designed by Bill Elgin. Contains a catalogue of Jim’s effects and books, a profile, some information on his creations and a newsletter.

Mentalist and Master Mind Reader Bob Cassidy: Bob Cassidy’s homepage, tells you about his show and gives you some reviews and a biography.

Exclusive Mentalism Products: Greg Edmonds mentalism products. Includes the Mindset series and the RTW.

Guide to Shooting Rubber Bands: An illustrated guide to shooting rubber bands, maybe fun to do in between Crazy Mans Handcuffs!

Multi Hobbies - Balloon Sculpting: Simple balloon sculpting site with lots of photo instructions, includes simple and advanced models. Also the site includes a Juggling section.

KIDS STUFF with Magical Balloon-dude Dale: Balloon Twisting instructions for children, gives instructions for simple twists and models.

Optical Illusions: Not Magic as such but some cool optical illusions.

Essential Entertainer’s Workshop: Essential Entertainers Links, over 3500 links for Actors, Entertainers, Musicians, Variety Acts, Writers, Stage & Film Technical personnel.

Gags: Lots of gags with a bias towards Magicians.

International Ventriloquist Association: Has a comprehensive list of ventriloquist’s from around the world, also some products for sale and details of the Vegas Ventriloquist Festival 2002.

Definitive Magic: A new magic company, a partnership between Bob Solari and The Trickery. Most notable products so far are the examinable ‘Definitive Five & One Bill Trick’ and the ‘Definitive Brainwave’ where the spectator never tells the performer the name of their …

Reel magic from Steve Draun: I have one of Steve’s ‘Vanishing Sharpies’ and can attest to its brilliance, never lose a sharpie again and perform an incidental piece of magic everytime someone signs a card. Also Steve has just brought out a new CD-ROM of routines from his …

The Magician Friendly Auction: From Extreme Reality Illusions comes this new auction page.

B.U.M.: Brotherhood of Underground Magicians is a club formed by Mike Giusti.

Harvey Rosenthal’s Movie Theater: Harvey has updated his site and moved to a new domain, along with his older movies he has added 7 new clips of his material scheduled to appear in EGO magazine.

The Magic of Kristi Toguchi: Kristi is a young magician who took part in the recent Lance Burton show, check out the photos.

Deluxe Magic: visit the shop, read the reviews, send a magic e-card or post in the forums. The site isn’t quite finished yet but it looks very promising.

Magic Links: Opening in the coming month Magic Links will include links to magicians, dealers, and a detailed magic club list.

The Academy of Legerdemain: Legerdemain Academy is dedicated to the promotion of the Magical Arts.

Robert Harbin Memoirs: Download a free e-book translation of Robert Harbin’s Memoirs, a fascinating read brought to you by The Learned Pig Project.

Uri Geller’s Drawing Duplications: Steve Knight has chronicled Uri Geller’s drawing duplications with various comments, he also has an extensive Geller bibliography (link via magicweek).

Welcome to Magician Zone!: The Magicians Zone run by Bruce Hunt and Colin Markos. Access the trick of the month, read reviews, and see Colin’s Creations Also check out the forums and the Patter Exchange.

MentalistsAsylum Yahoo! Egroup: David Lang the owner of the MentalistsAsylum has asked me to give this group a mention. I am happy to do so because I am a member and can safely say what a great read this is if you are at all interested in Mentalism. You need to be resident in the UK or a UK ex-pat …

IBM 2001 Report: Report of the IBM Ring 25 2001 Convention. Let me know what you think. I really enjoyed it.

Guide to Lockpicking: How to pick locks, from the basics to advanced. Obvious disclaimer applies here, we take no responsibility for the use of this article, just thought you budding escapologists might be interested!

Connoisseur Conjuring: Re-opens its doors with a new design and lots more magic, an excellent page well worth a look.

AusMagicNews: Australian Magic News, see who is doing what in Australia, where you can learn magic and where to see it.

Sorry for the lack of posts over the last couple of days, lots of other work I’m doing, off to Scarborough tommorow for the IBM Ring 25 convention, will be gone till Sunday, expect a full report, hopefully with photos when I get back.

The Magic Cafe: A new magic bulletin board run by Steve Brooks.

Pen Spinning: Video clips of various ways to spin a pen, closely related to the Micro Juggling link I posted last month, except this has video clips.

Cody Fisher: Buy Cody’s magic products, and read for free some of his articles from MUM magazine which include some very commercial magic routines.

A Magia de Kardini 2001/Thumbs: Quite a few AVI movie clips from a magician called Kardini.

Daimyo.org - Blue Screen Of Death: Screenshots of Blue Screens in interesting places, has a couple of shots of a Lance Burton electronic billboard showing a windows error!

M-Systems-DiskOnKey: This is very cool, a small storage device that plugs directly into your usb port and needs no drivers to run, stores either 8, 16, 32 or 64mb and fits on your keyring.

On-line Magic Business Card Museum: A collection of business cards, from various magicians, clowns and variety entertainers. Could give you some ideas if you are looking to design your own card.

TRAPDOOR PRODUCTIONS: Steve Beam has a new domain name, check out his videos, and order his lecture notes and books, his semi-automatic series is a brilliant read.

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Printing on Blank Playing Cards: A great tutorial by Ray Haddad on how to print onto blank playing cards.

SchoolMagic.co.uk - The Magic Star Award Scheme: This site is aimed at anyone wishing to create or develop a magic club within their school or youth club.

Children’s Parties – The Complete Children’s Party Survival Guide: Directory of professional childrens entertainers, and a survial guide for organising childrens parties.

Magic Forum UK: An ezboard discussion forum for magic in the UK. Go along and support it, as it is lacking messages and participation atm.

Welcome To The Magic Vault: New Magic site with forum and chat, plus some useful beginners tips.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: Here you can read an extract of this magical work of fiction about a stage escape artist, that is about to be out in paperback.

Java Siteswap: 3D Java Site Swap Simulator for Juggling Patterns. See the siteswap patterns rendered in 3D.

www.cargillmagic.com: The Magic of Steve Cargill, lots of original card and coin magic for sale.

Bazooka Shirt & Pants: Fold your own origami shirt and pants from a bubble gum wrapper.

Video Vision: Steve Fearson of Download Magic is giving away his ‘Video Vision’ manuscript, make sure you have Acrobat installed to read it, also its a 200k download, basically a spectator can have a choice of any three movies and you show your prediction to be correct. Also check out …

Boomerang Band: How to flick a rubberband onto the floor and make it roll back to you. I remember seeing Ali Bongo do this on the Paul Daniels show, and it looked really cool, will have to see if it works.

Harvey Rosenthal’s Movie Theater: RealPlayer movies of Harvey Rosenthal’s closeup magic with cards, coins, and other objects. 14 Realplayer movies (more to come) of Harvey’s incredible magic. I got a sneak preview of some of these clips over at TSD and basically I almost felt like …

VOICES Interview with Teller: VOICES is an online bizzare magazine, read an interview with Teller (of Penn & Teller) and his thoughts on the state of magic and the creative process.

Magic Lineage Project: Chris Wasshuber of Lybrary.Com has started a Magic Lineage project, this allows people to send in the history of magic inventions and discoveries to be collated.

Corporate Magicians: Duncan Trillo’s Directory of UK Corporate Magicians, useful to locate a magician in your area. Includes Close-up, Cabaret, Illusionists, Mentalists and Hypnotists.

JaySankey.com: Not ‘officially’ updated till September 1st, but see it now, Jay’s new website in all its glory. Check out his new tricks, videos and lecture notes, dates for his upcoming lectures, free tricks and essays, a sample of his off the wall cartoons and some historic …

The Magic Edge Newsletter: Scott Hollingsworth’s newsletter for the freelance entertainer.

MAGIC 411: Provides what they call on-line lectures, which are more like columns from various writers. Still quite interesting though.

Micro Juggling: Learn some flourishes with pens/pencils, coins, cards, rubberbands etc.

KJ Ellstrom: Download two interactive magic programs, PRO+HECY and Wonder Dice, freeware that allows you to perform magic on your PC.

Magic by Galindo: Ramon Galindo sells a topit that you can use with your coat buttoned up, you can view some sample video footage. Also he offers a few free tricks for you to use.

Marlo.Com - Awesome Cyber Cards: Does anyone else find it ironic that marlo.com is a cyber greetings card site, maybe they did this to get any magical traffic, but I can’t see it being that much? (ok so I’m struggling for links atm!)

rewind’s videos: Some video clips of James Rewind. Give him some feedback on them.

Life Of Moyles - Sav Magic: This week Radio 1 DJ has had Sav the magician on his show, watch some low quality video of this guy and learn a couple of tricks. (link via James Rewind)

STUDYBEES.com - feature PAUL DANIELS: An interview with UK magician Paul Daniels. Link courtesy of James Rewind, thanks James! If anyone else has any magic related links that I might have missed send them in.

Mike Caveney’s Magic Words: Buy books, posters and magic items from Mike, you can purchase his unique routines such as Linking Coathangers, Powers of Darkness and Hand Juggling. Also find out about Tina Lenert and purchase her music CD.

Monday Night Magic: The American MNM team make the MSNBC news, see a video clip of them performing on the TODAY American TV show.

ukmagic.net: An idea from Paul Gordon, a Magic Portal for UK Magic Creators and Authors.

Abbotts Events: Abbott’s Magic Get-Together starts today in Colon, Michigan. You can also view some very interesting photos of past events and see some short video clips.

The Schtinx – Magical Humour: Another hilarious magical parody site much like Magic Squeak.

Magic Impact Publications: Lots of tricks to download and learn, very colorful site with photos and graphics.

Devilstick Trick Database: A database of tricks with a devilstick, this is the english section of the site, although if you can read German then look around the rest of the site!

IJDb - The Internet Juggling Database: A great online juggling resource, again lots of video clips, links, articles, faq’s and even a gateway to read rec.juggling online!

PAssed imPErfect: The homepage for a juggling club based in north london, has some good video clips on for any of us trying to learn things like mills mess!

K’s_ORIGAMI: Features an Animated Studio of models, models by other designers, a links page and a library.

Ronald Koh’s Origami Page: Features lots of models of Dinosaurs, Reptiles, Birds and Animals.

Marc Kirschenbaum’s Origami Page: Marc has published an Origami book called ‘Paper in Harmony’ which is a collection of origami instrumentalists, also on his page he has some simple, intermediate and complex models.

Origami stuff: Make a dragon out of a candy wrapper, also some pictures of other models, X-Wing Fighter Engines and a pinwheel flower.

Peter Duffie Video Clips: You can see some video clips of Peter doing various moves.

Magic Audio Archive: Listen to the masters of magic, recordings of Dunninger, Blackstone, Houdini etc.

Happy Birthday: The magician.org.uk weblog is officially one year old today, which also means its my 24th Birthday (man I feel old!)… You can go back and read 12 months worth of posts in the archives. In this time we have changed from the free server at F2S over to a paid server at Xcalibre. …

ImagE Convention: Mark Leveridge Magic will be holding a new style of magic day in January of next year, check his website for all the details.

Magical Mike: Magic with emotion. Contains some video and photos, but really of interest is Magic Mikes Radio, which is a shoutcast broadcast featuring MOR Oldies and comedy.

Interview with Mac King on Las Vegas Internet Television: I blogged Mack Kings website a few days ago, but go here and watch the streaming video interview, and then sit back and enjoy the 10 minute clip of Mac’s show… sheer comedy genius!

At Ronjo Magic Shop online! 7000 magic tricks, Illusions, card tricks and books!: Ronjo magic shop, make excellent close-up mat’s.

answers to technical interview questions: an interesting page full of logic type puzzles, link was via Joel on Software. If you want a magical reference it contains the Card Trick without the trick. I wonder if this is the solution to Pick Five Cards that I posted back in March, and also the new …

The Mac King Page!: Homepage for Mac King who is currently resident at the Harrah Hotel in Las Vegas. You can purchase his lecture notes from his page, or learn how to make your head vanish, or just look at some photos of his show.

The Secret Art Journal: An online journal of magic wisdom. Features articles by Jeff McBride, David Parr and Eugene Burger amongs others, well worth a read.

Magic Manuscript: Tannen’s Magic have started to re-print articles online, from their magazine Magic Manuscript. On a personal note I do have a couple of hard copies of the magazine, and most notably this was my first introduction to the magic of Paul Harris, I made up his ‘Time …

Genii Forum: Genii Magazine have opened a new message forum where you can discuss the magazine with the editors and readers.

Wowbound: Ben Harris has 3 new releases starting his new ‘Pocket Mysteries Series’ due out on the 1st August. Slink which uses a ‘Russian Wedding Ring’ as a linking finger ring set. Cosmosis Pro Tips which tells you how to setup an examinable card for Cosmosis in under 60 …

Cyber Magic: Lots of links and information about online Cyber Magic.

The Magic of Michael Sibbernsen: Michael is the inventor of the clever Tenyo ‘Mind Spinner’ also his lecture notes ‘Enigma’ are well worth a read. He also has some video clips on his site, and some tricks that you can access, especially good is his technicolour spongeball …

Paul Scott Magic: Paul is a dealer down in Cornwall who makes hand-made props mostly illusions and childrens magic.

Robin Robertson’s Home Page: Not sure if I have blogged this page, but can’t find it in the archives, anyway he has changed servers. Basically Robin is a mathematician, but also a very clever card magician, he has a very nice version of the Lie Detector on his page, as well as some video …

3 Card Monte: Article from Word New York about Grant Barretts observations of the game that he has made over the past seven years. (link via kottke).

The Amazing Dunninger: A website by Joseph Atmore containing details about the Mentalist Joseph Dunninger.

Getting started in the magic business: A CNN article on magician Adam Williams and how you can turn professional.

McBride Magic: Jeff McBrides homepage, from where you can scale your own virtual card to anywhere in the world!

T E X T F I L E S: A site dedicated to textfiles mostly taken from the BBS world from the 1980’s onwards, ah the nostalgia!

Chef Anton’s Online Store: The School for Scoundrels Online Store, featuring Chef Anton and Whit Haydn.

How about some origami links: Alex’s paper airplanes, Origami4You, Fascinating Folds and one I probably should of blogged but I can’t find it in the archives Origami.com.

Referer Google Search: fetishists lincolnshire: LOL I don’t know who came here searching for this, but incredibly if you do a search for fetishists lincolnshire on Google I am top of the list I have to admit that it points to this archive May 2001 Archive Page that contains a reference to …

Phil Brocoum: Describes some of the tricks he does, compares some T&R Card routines and points to some videos of him doing certain tricks.

Tom Piccard Video Page: Video clips from magician Tom Piccard.

Road Penn Archive: Some writings and photos from Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller fame. Especially worthy of note is his article on Jerry Camaro, I just read the re-print in Genii and it is a well written ulogy to Jerry. Also the page contains some photos from the P&T Street Magic documentary …

One Way Street on the Web: Gospel Magic, Puppets, Ventriloquism, Balloons.

Gospel Magic and Ballooning Supplies: Lots of Balloon Model Books and Supplies. Also quite a bit of Gospel Magic.

Juggling with balls: An excellent juggling site, featuring patterns such as Mills Mess and Rubenstein’s Revenge, and also a section on Contact Juggling. (link from usr/bin/girl).

Dream Portal: David Copperfields Dream Portal, a full screen flash experience following on from his new TV special.

Blanchards World of Magic: Peter Blanchards site, Peter is the magic writer for Worlds Fair, his personality parade makes for some very interesting reading along with his indepth news.

PH Marketing: Paul Hallas’s new website for PH Marketing. Contains his exclusive magic range.

St. Louis Magic - Home Page: New online magic store with some unique original products.

unicycles.org.uk: Learning to ride could be my summer project if its nice weather, I’ve read it should take between 5-9 hours to learn, guess I will need to aquire one first.

The European Unicycle Convention, Eurocycle: To be held in Plymouth at the end of July.

Edge of Reality: Aaron Sheilds new site, details his three new manuscripts.

Barbelith: Magick: Tarot in a nutshell: Article on Tarot from Barbelith Underground.

Yahoo! Groups : Sadowitz: A new Yahoo! Group setup by Cardie to discuss Magician and Comedian Jerry Sadowitz.

Show profiles master of camouflage: Article about History’s Mysteries ‘The War Illusionist’ documentary that aired on the History Channel. Got to see this last night at our committee meeting as our president was involved and stars quite a bit in the programme. An excellent …

The Art of the Solo Performer: Free book download, it weighs in at a hefty 6mb, and is essentially about a guitarist but I think it contains some lessons for all performers.

David Andora’s Magic on the Edge: Magic on the Edge, get information on David’s shows, download screensavers, read his journal and await his new site which promises quicktime movies.

The Comedy and Magic of John Carney: Watch out for John’s new book ‘Secrets’.

Faust: Granville Taylor was briefly a member of HMC quite a few years ago when he did his degree at Hull Uni. We had him back to lecture for this years ‘Presidents Night’. Very interesting stuff, talked about his full evening show, and about his propmaking.

Boris Wild: Home Page of Boris Wild, look out for his B.W. Marked Deck coming soon to Camirand Magic.

Well to cheer me up I checked out Blackpool Magicians’ Club and their new website and it gives tentative details about their 50th convention to be held 22-24th Feb 2002. All I can say is if the programme holds half of what they are saying then this will be a convention you do NOT want to miss! …

Its been a depressing few weeks for the Magic Community, first Jerry Camero, then Olde Rabbit from MagicTalk, then Mike Rogers and Ben Stone and to cap it all off with the biggest shock for me, earlier this week a member of our Hull Magicians’ Circle, Roger Strachan. I just can’t believe …

fork-you.com: Not quite the type of metal bending us magicians are used to, but some interesting sculptures all the same!

Ah-ha Entertainment!: Homepage of Eric Anderson.

Magical Tools: The website of Card Magician Wesley James, includes the products that he has for sale.

Simon Aronson Home Page: Simon’s new home page, has details of his NEW book ‘Try the Impossible’ which looks incredible, I have Simon’s other books and if they are anything to go by this will be a must!

Tony Giorgo: Details of Tony’s lawsuit agains the Academy of Magical Arts.

Magic Portal: Tips, Tricks and Links.

The Magic Book Guide: Reviews of books about stage magic, magicians, illusion, deception and related arts.

Referrals: Paul Zenon was on TV again last night so lots of hits from search engines today, its interesting how I have not even submitted this site to any search engines yet I still appear fairly near the top of the list for searches on common magical words. Also must mention Isabel over at Oh-Yeah …

Stacked Deck Quiz: Try this stacked deck quiz to help you learn your stack, also on the site some card and coin videos.

Magical Video Clips: The site is in portugese I think, but they have quite a lot of MPEG video clips available.

IMS:Learn Magic with a free video from The International Magicians Society.

Chaos Theory: Online E-Zine dedicated to Magic.

Reputation Makers: The new Reputation Makers website. Reputation Makers hopes to track down exclusive effects and offer them in an easy to follow form. They have a pre-release offer on Luke Dancy’s Five O’Clock Shadow Pass, check out the MPEG of this at the site. Also you can sign up for …

Mr ‘E’ Enterprises.co.uk: Eddie Burkes Products.

Cards By Martin - Neil M. Lester: Cards By Martin.

Shuffle Calculator Page: A Program to calculate Faro Shuffle outcomes.

The Wizard Demo: Download a Free demo of Steve Fearson’s new online trick, if you like it you can purchase the full version from his site.

I should check my referrer stats more often, two interesting refers over the past few days, both from Lycos. David Blaine was on TV Last Night with his Magic Man special, if you search for David Blaine Street Magic on Lycos I come up as entry 4 and 8: Lycos - David Blaine Street Magic. But even …

PHP T-Shirt: Cool a PHP T-Shirt, this will remind me to order one (that was not sarcasm btw I am that sad!)

Magic Reviews: A new site run by Steven Schneiderman who also runs the M-A-G-I-C Portal. He hopes to be able to use this site as a kind of repositry for magical reviews, instead of having them scattered on bulletin boards all over the internet. The site is not quite ready to open yet, but if you …

Steve Dacri Lecture: A report on the Steve Dacri Lecture that I attended last night, hosted by the South Lincolnshire Magic Society.

A1 Photos: John Zanders Photos of the recent A1 Convention.

Magic Minds: Ron Jaxon’s magic page, check out his products in his catalogue, and also you can read some of his original magic in the forum.

Guy Hollingworth Development Site: This is the new site for Guy that is obviously still in development, take a look, it has a sneaky peak of a new release of his, and also a bit more background on Guy.

Stedwick: some more card magic videos on iDrive.

Magicartoon: Some very funny Magical themed cartoons.

Fabzmagic.com: Indonesia - Asia Online Magic Shop and Entertainment stuff. Magic Stuff, Secret, Magic Online Course, Jokes Stuff, Free Magic Tricks, Toys, etc

Bent Reality: A site of online magic videos and performances.

MagicSpot: Some good balloon sculptures, a few links and tricks, some magical downloads and a few jokes and patter lines in broken english!

Magic2k: Tricks and Illusions, Cards, Telepathy, Wicca.

Nathan Kranzo: Nathan’s new site, advertising his new lecture notes ‘Things with Cards’ I have just received these and have to say they are excellent, well worth a read.

Pasteboard Animations: Website of Dan & Dave Buck, order their video or notes on Card flourishes and cuts.

CoinVanish.Com: A coin site with a couple of nice tutorials on, very similar site to the CoinPurse website.

SpinDoc: Content Management for Fetishists.: A PHP alternative publishing system to blogger, hopefully when this site is backup I will have a chance to evaluate this, along with phpWeblog and see if I can replace blogger.

Cryptography - Ecash: An interesting article on E-Cash from the Microsoft Research Department.

iDrive: Check out some of Paul Hart’s video clips, username: paulhart12 password: 365magic.

MagicChris.co.uk’s - Online Magic Auctions: Magic auction, buy magic, sell magic, magic tricks

Practice Not Included: Nice passworded site with some card moves and tricks.

Faro: not the shuffle, but a card came of the same name!

UK Magic Directory: List of UK Magic Links, mostly online dealers.

CooperMagic: The website to accompany the Tommy Cooper Magic & Joke shop in Blackpool.

Dominique Duvivier: Visit Dominique’s magic shop if you are in Paris!

The Close-Up Magic of John LeBlanc: Some interesting articles and quotes.

Welcome to the Houdini Museum: A virtual museum to Houdini.

Major Arcana Magazine 4 Part Article on Card Tricks and Cheating: Part 1 - Intro Part 2 - Erdnase Part 3 - Darwin Ortiz Part 4 - Dai Vernon (link courtesy of Peter Duffie).

Peter Duffie’s Alternative Magic: Peter has just posted his May update, the site is set to be updated more than once a month, so keep your eyes on it. This update includes a new trick a new section and updates to his Select Secrets section. A really great site!

Free PDF: Great piece of software and tutorial on how to create PDF files for FREE! You don’t have to have the Acrobat Writer which costs $$$ Just follow this tutorial, and download the three pieces of software, and you can write your own PDF files. Its a bit fiddly to setup, but once it is, …

Two links courtesy of usr/bin/girl: The Stick Figure Tarot: Tarot deck based on the rider-waite deck, but drawn as stick figures! Yamaha Papercraft: Some seriously tough looking origami of rare animals and motorbikes.

Deadpan Humor from Steven Wright: Very funny Steven Wright Observations.

Magic tricks, learn street card tricks - free Ellusionist video: On the back of David Blaine’s success this company are selling a Street Magic Video, learn to become just like Blaine. I can tell you for free, just forget all your presentational and entertainment skills and next time you do a …

Puns: Word plays; Other Nonsense and Foolishness; Humor; Jokes; Good Clean Fun - Volume 1a.

Baltimore City Paper: Pranks for the Memories (April 18 - April 24, 2001): Top Ten Prank Calls. Also check out Tom Mabe and his revenge on those blooming TeleMarketers.

Blank King Magic!: Another lame exposure site, why do little kids with a copy of Frontpage think they can expose magic to all and sundry, and then moan on established bulletin boards that there site is not getting the hits it deserves! (link via Kevin James Webboard).

Wonder Stuff: A new magical dealer from Australia, selling professional magic by professionals. I saw Sean Taylor dem their new items, very effective stuff, will be interesting to see what else they have in the works.

Northern Magic Circle: I’m off to the Easter Parade, to compete in the Closeup Competition, wish me luck! Expect a report when I get back and I also have big plans ahead hopefully for this blog, expect some more news next week.

foreword.com - dotcomments: Testing out the new comments system, we didn’t have any old comments apart from tests so I changed over to this ‘dotcomments’ system, a bit better than the old one, and it’s still in development, so hopefully we should see some good improvements, …

Paul Zenon: UK Magician Paul Zenon’s new site. Very well designed I like it a lot!

J.B.T.V.: JokeBox Magic T.V., various videoclips of magic sold by JokeBox Magic.

Dick Barry’s “Magic Catalog of Magic Tricks”: Some very creative and original tricks for sale.

Welcome to Dover Publications: Dovers new website, order the magic reprints that they publish.

BOOFOO’S TOP MAGIC SITES: 50 of the Top Magic Sites, I assume these are ranked by visitors to the sites. Never the less some good links and some not so good!

Raven Magic: Raven Magic have just updated their site with some new original magic effects.

Andi Gladwin’s Trick & Treat: This is the new site to go along side Andi’s monthly newsletter Trick&Treat, it includes a free trick and news on Andi and magic in general, a very good read, and all for FREE! Sign up now on the website as the next issue is out April 1st.

gadly magazine: is here, subscribe now for the May issue.

Magic Tricks, Card Tricks: News For Magicians, Magic Entertainers & Performers.: Magic Web Channel a new magic portal.

Magic History: A speciality showbusiness histor website linking magical entertainment with specialist acts.

hypergene | amazoning the news: Storytelling via the web.

Juggleart: A juggling shop in Melbourne Australia, has some good feature articles, a nice list of equipment, and some excellent circus related links. (link via This Circus Life.)

|/ this circus life|/: Adventures of a circus grrrrl!

Magic Shogun: Articles, tricks, tips and a message board, not a bad little site.

GADFLY MAGAZINE: A Journal for Card Magicians, coming in 10 days.

Hath’s….Magic Card Kingdom: The Card Kingdom is a site where you can find many easy, intermediate, and sometimes advanced card sleights. The site will be updated eventually with pictorial accompaniment to explainations, as well as links that might be of use.

It is with regret that we learned of the sudden death of JEFFERY ATKINS on the afternoon of Monday, 19th March 2001. Jeff was the Honorary Secretary of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, British Ring Number 25 ; a Past International President of the International Brotherhood of Magicians …

Pick Five Cards, Any Five Cards: An online five card trick, try to figure out how its done, I’m working on it!

Magic-Net! - Learn Free Magic Tricks, with Interactive Magic and a Magic Shop!!!

Jim Callahan: Self proclaimed Master Magician and Paranormalist. Check out his Edge Exhibit and the Blind Quest.

WebReview.com: March 16, 2001: The Myth of 800x600: Interesting article about designing websites for 800x600 screen resolutions, James Kalback puts forward the interesting and enlightening view that this is probably the wrong statistic to use. And just when I had optimised the Beverley College site …

The FreeCert Project : is still in its infancy, but is basically setup to look at the existing monopoly that Verisign have on SSL Certification and hopefully in the end provide low cost or free certificates to people.

Riders - How you can get what you need!: Discover how to get that list of show requests recognised.

efdtt.c: This little C program beats the 7 Line PERL script posted earlier for size. It allows realtime decryption of CSS DVD encryption, and apparently it will do it better than the PERL script. How the MPAA are going to supress this I don’t know. Maybe its time to admit defeat, and open up …

the 2001 5k competition: Brilliant idea, produce a website in only 5k… look at the 2000 winners, very creative!

A List Apart: Web Designer and Proud of It! An interesting article about what sets apart the 16yr old kid with a homepage, and the professional webdesigner… also spot the magic reference

Descramble That DVD in 7 Lines: A Perl script designed to break DVD protection, writen in just 7 lines, it doesn’t include the title key so hopefully this means it doesn’t violate the DMCA. Also check out David Touretzky’s Gallery of DVD descramblers.

Ian Rowland: Ian’s new site, incorporates the latest news on the long awaited re-print of his ‘Full Facts’ books. Also check out the WOW Cards, these are awesome pieces of artwork! Also he has some funny anecdotes in the Vault.

FilePile Blog: A blog where users can upload files, MP3’s, Videos and Pictures, you get a listing of the last 10 files uploaded… nice idea.

HOCUS - Australia’s Magic Monthly: Australian Magic site, includes the Aronson Stack memory aid, a tool that works like flash cards for you to learn the Aronson stack.

Blackpool 2001 Report: I finally got round to doing my report on the Blackpool Convention, see what you think and add any comments. It is the first report in the new articles section!

Woohoo! I think the design of the blog should be just about complete, which means I can concentrate on the content, check out the new features, polls, articles, links etc. I will try and get some content into them asap, look out for a Blackpool report in the articles section. Also I need your help, …

Off to Blackpool Magic Convention! Full report when I get back, and the site will be finished off, as I now am using a new javascript topmenu rather than the other PHP one so its a bit easier to integrate it with the site.

Magician Blaine To Hang Off Building: David’s next big stunt is to recreate Houdini’s Straightjacket escape, I like Blaine, despite what other people might say, his character works for him, he is the mysterious magician, he doesn’t have to use clever patter, he doesn’t get in …

OpenCola.com: Open Source Soft Drink! They have applied the GNU licence to a SoftDrink… also has a few other products on the site like OpenCola Folders, SwarmCast, ColaSDK. Interesting idea though, could the OpenSource mentality be transfered to something other than computer code?

Sleights on the server: MPEGs of Greg Lee doing various card sleights.

MagicZOOM - The ultimate global internet directory of magic links: Another magical links site, hang-on isn’t this what I’m doing here?! Ah well, you can never have to many links pages

The magic of David Stone: Has some free Coin routines, and some essays. Also a discussion forum.

Half-Baked: Signed Card to CD-ROM Drive: Ryan has come up with a new cybereffect, signed card to CD-ROM! A very cool idea… I have a germ of an idea for a cybereffect but it will probably require some PHP or ASP coding so watch this space as they say!

phenomenon : Shuffling: what’s the deal?: How many shuffles does it take to fully randomize a deck? It seems to depend on how you define random…

Off now to Cleethorpes Magic Circle to see a lecture by top card legend Peter Kane! Will write a report tommorow if I can get the articles feature working

We have moved from F2S! We are now hosted over at webhoster which should make the blog 100% more reliable, and a lot faster. Sorry for the downtime over the last few days. With the move comes a new layout, obviously still a lot to do but I hope you like the new vanilla style, will probably stay like …

tarot cards, decks: aeclectic tarot: Site mostly dedicated to the art work on Tarot Cards, more than 250 different packs.

CardMagician.Com: Featuring a discussion board, Card Magic, and the Magic Spyder search engine.

Martin Nash: Homepage for Martin’s Farewell Final Lecture tour, if only he could make it over to the UK… I guess I’ll have to make do with the videos!

Finally I have found some Juggling Links to put on the blog, this lot are courtesy of a thread on MagicTalk: http://perso.club-internet.fr/mogador/jongle/accueil.htm http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/kfloh/juggling.htm http://www.juggling.org/~scott.seltzer/ http://www.juggling.org …

MagicSqueak: A new VERY FUNNY website, giving you the latest in the world of magic with a tongue very firmly planted in someone’s cheek!

Magic Forum UK @ www.ezboard.com: A new UK Magic Forum, you have to register first to post messages, but its a painless process.

Creativity and Invention is something I struggle with, I have ‘invented’ or come up with (notice the use of quotes!) a couple of things, but I have no illusions that they are original. If you are like me, or just want to read something about the subject check out: Chuck Leach’s …

Postit Plane: Not quite Origami, but I like it Make your own Post-It Note Plane and send it in to be featured on the site. Also check out Cal’s weblog.

Tarot Card Reading: Have your Tarot Cards read online with this ASP script, I’m just in the process of learning to read Tarot Cards, or at least understand a bit about them.

The Great Goosini: Online Palm-Reading and Graphology… get your palm read and your handwriting analyzed online!

Setup your blog to use XML by following these excellent tutorials: Using XML to Syndicate your Weblog and How to manage your site with Blogger, PHP and XML if like me you are a bit of an XML newbie do some reading about RSS: RSS 1.0 and XML: An Introduction to XML and Introduction to XML.

Phone-Card-Phone: Can I just say WOW! this is cool, a mobile phone made out of Recycled Paper… it is set to cost only $10, expected release is 3qtr of 2001 in the USA then 6 months after that it will go global. It will have 60mins of time on it, and then you just throw it away or top it up …

MagicSports: A good game to play at your magic club, or during a late-night session. Can stem creativity.

The Magical Connection: This is an online magic club which started early 1999, they meet every week in a chat room, you can sign up to the members area, read magic reviews and interviews and participate in the magic message board.

Tom Hull’s Homepage: Tom is a professor of Maths and is interested in the Mathematics behind Origami. On his page you will find information regarding Mathematics and Origami, also photos of his models, and instructions on how to make things such as a flapping bat, and an Origami CD Case. (link …

Just-Coins: A new UK dealer specialising in Coin Magic, and other bits and pieces, seems fairly resonably priced for coins.

Magus Magic: Original Mental and Occult magic, based in a town not too far from where I live… very clever and unique effects.

Handbook of ESP Card Mentalism: Looks like a nice book on ESP Card Magic, from the USA but you can use PayPal to order.

Started my City & Guilds 740 Adult Teachers Certificate today. Scary stuff, you have to do 4 hours of teaching on the course, and also some Micro Teaching in-front of the group. Not sure how much of my time this will take up, but I will keep the blog posted on my progress and thoughts. I still …

SiteUpdate: You may have notices some additions down the left hand side, namely ‘Amazon Wish List’, ‘Current Status’ and ‘Current Poll’s’. The first two are fairly easy to understand, the Current Status just tells you the reader a bit more about what I am …

The Learned Pig Project : Marko has updated the members area of this excellent site. Basically they archive old magical books, programmes etc. If your not a member it is free to join and I suggest you do so immediatley!

Site Update: As you might have seen I’ve done an update to the site, cleaned it up a bit, added some more buttons at the side. Two new features are the Links section and the Articles section. Both should be fairly explanatory. You can submit your own links to the links section, and the …

This seems to be the craze at the minute, StorTroopers in case you haven’t guessed that little avatar is supposed to be me Create your own and let me know the results!

Site Update 2: Right I’ve quickly knocked up some varying size banners and buttons, the small button can be seen on the right of your screen under the MagicWeek button. The Emergency exits are located to the left… ah sorry… Also if you click the ‘Link to Us!’ link you …

Card Magic Miracles: NEW book by Paul Gordon (Published Spring/Summer 2001) As Paul could not continue (or start) publishing The Quidnunc due to ill-health he has decided to release his material in the form of a new book. You can pre-order, and take a look at the contents at this site.

Online card trick.: Instructions on how you can do an online card trick, good idea this as long as he doesn’t limit it to one go per week as he says he will. Might be some room for expansion on this, also to include the Prediction Register idea that appeared on Magictalk a while back, watch …

Tommy Wonder: Tommy’s promotional website. If you haven’t read his two Books of Wonder you should! Also get his excellent lecture video from Mark Leveridge.

The World of Playing Cards: Also the home of the English Playing Card Society. A history of English Playing Cards, they have sections on Tarot Cards and Conjuring and Magic.

Cold Reading-How Some Could Know So Much About You: A number of interesting Cold-Reading essays.

Zander Magic HomePage: John Zander’s Online Magic store, includes two of his own creations, Copy Cards and Re-Print.

Imagitivity Productions: Good looking website, owned by Keith Runion who runs a website design company for magicians, also he releases his own material. (link courtesy of the AOA E-Group).

Derren Brown Mind Control: A website to accompany Derren’s first TV special that has just aired here in the UK. I’m the first to say it was an awesome special, more of this please! This website has lots of little FLASH tests you can take, and RealAudio videos you can watch. Also check …

Magic and Miracles: Some good original card and coin moves, text descriptions accompanied by photos. Also includes some video reviews with contents of the videos.

David Kenney Magic: Some interesting original creations for sale. See a sample of his magic on the excellent Online-Visions magazine.

Merry Christmas to all readers and I hope that you and your family have a safe, wonderful and peaceful holiday season.

John Oakley: Home page of John Oakley, this guy produces some great lists of second hand magic, get on it if you aren’t already!

eGroups : ApocalypseMagazine: I have started a new eGroup to discuss the new bound Apocalypse 4-Volume set. It was set up as a ‘sister’ group to the ArtofAstonishment group that is used to discuss Paul Harris’s 3 Volume set of books. Please join if you have either of the 2 bound …

Revenge Time: Amazing Jonathan’s New site, how to get revenge and play practical jokes on people!

NetRemote Launcher: A remote-control for your browser!, supposed to speed up your internet navigation, I like the option where you can open lots of pages at once, could be useful for all those pages you check regularly. Not sure how well, if at all it would work in Netscape though…

Amazon.co.uk: Dollar Bill Animals in Origami: The title speaks for itself, new Origami book from Dover, the heads-up is courtesy of Micheal Close through his Review Column in MAGIC Magazine. He mentions that some of the creatures are hard to make and suggests using normal paper first before …

Terry’s Magic Pub: A Virtual Pub that has resident Magicians, the site is still under construction but they are promising the web’s first Magic Webcast Special, with some big names, so that should be something to watch out for.

Magic Tricks from the Magic Mall: In the sites own words: We represent some of the finest

FreeArcade.com: Good site to waste some time over Christmas Lots of free Java Games that you can play online.

Tannen’s Magic Shop Online!: New site layout, vast improvement on the old one, I’d love to visit this shop someday!

MagicPlans.com (Look out Bad Magic): Check out the Photos, they also have an Anger Board for anyone to vent their frustration, should anyone in magic have ripped you off! Lastly they have a ‘Horror Stories’ section, for tales of the show from hell. (Link Courtesy of the Kevin James …

Jonathan Matthews Exotic Leather Creations: Makes a number of good looking magical wallets. (link courtesy of Kevin James Message board).

Kevin James’ Imagination Unlimited: Kevin James is an excellent Magician with a great brain that comes up with some weird and wacky effects. Visit his site, where you can browse his catalogue and check out his excellent new message board.

Resignation as an Adult: Someone printed this and stuck it next to our photocopier at work, I like it, it pretty much sums up how people feel around here sometimes! I quite like being an adult though, much prefer it to childhood, (or what I can remember of it), but sometimes, just sometimes I could …

Welcome to Kem Plastic Playing Cards: Cellulose acetate playing cards which are 100% plastic. Which according to the site means they are long lasting, odorless and washable, resist scuffing and breaking, are clean and crisp, are fresh and flexible, are the least expensive on a per-play basis. Hmm …

Linux Journal: More Linux reading for me Need to get hold of a copy of the newest LinuxFormat magazine to try and upgrade to Mandrake 7.2… that should be fun!

Linux-Mandrake: Finally made the hopefully permanent switch to Linux, still gotta find some utils to replace my Windoze ones, but so far so good, I think its going to be a bit of a learning curve though from being led by the hand with Windies to having to learn Linux! So expect a few blogs along the …

Peter Duffie’s Alternative Magic: Peter Duffie’s New Magic Site, has lots of free card tricks, watch out for his Select Secrets page which will eventually feature tricks, ideas and partial concepts from Peter and others also manuscripts that you can download free of charge.

Big THANKS to TaraStar for helping me get my comments working on the Archive pages as well as the main page. Also can anyone reading please sign the GuestBook so that I know your out there! Its an excellent PHP guestbook by the guy over at 4CM. He also has some other good PHP scripts and tutorials …

TrickMaster Site: Blatant rip-off site, at least I suppose he password protected it! But once inside there are quite a few secrets exposed, why do people feel the need to do this, probably some little kid who has just learnt HTML and has probably only just started in Magic and trawls …

Just read the sad, sad news about Bro. John Hamman passing away, its quite strange because this lunch time I was reading Aaron Smith’s ‘Methodical’ and in particular studying his version of Bro. John’s ‘Signed Card’. Then I come back and read the news I am going …

The Magic Zone: In the Authors own words - This site was made for magician

James Randi Educational Foundation homepage: an educational resource on the paranormal, pseudoscientific and the supernatural.

Mephisto the Master: FireEating and Manipulation. Including FAQs, Links, tips and some impressive photos.

SQL Tutorial: Need to brush up on your SQL? As I’m starting the journey into learning PHP I thought I might as well…

squiggle.gen.nz - comments system: Post to test the new comments system, please try it out and let me know what you think, also go back and comment on some older posts!

Ok I’ve finally gotten round to fixing viewing the site in 800600. It should no longer scroll horizontally, which I know is a big no-no! I still prefer 1024768 though But at least now you get to see the full right side of the site… so now I can concentrate on some PHP stuff, expect to …

Bridge Basics: I guess as a card magician, I have an interest in card games as well, I want to learn to play both Poker and Bridge, so this is an online guide to learning Bridge!

Ideavirus: An interesting full e-book about a marketing idea called IdeaVirus, although the sceptical amongst us may say that the very idea of releasing the e-book free of charge, is an interesting use of the authors concept!

freedom 2 surf: I have changed servers and am now hosting this blog at F2S. Basically because they give you free PHP with no banners etc. I want to learn PHP4 and just bought a huge book from Amazon by Wrox called ‘Beginning PHP4’ so we will see how that goes! Also now I have PHP you can …

www.DavidAcer.com: David finally has his own website. What can I say about this guy, at the minute he is one of my top three favourite Magicians, just his style and comedy and timing are brilliant! I saw him at Blackpool this year along with Jay Sankey and it made the convention. You can order his …

Todd Lassen’s Coin Gaffs: Todd makes some of the best coins in magic, quite a slow loading page though with lots of pictures.

Andi Gladwin has asked me to post a short note. His excellent site Future-Of-Magic.Com has suffered a set back due to server errors, and for similar reasons he has lost his Trick&Treat subscribers database. Trick&Treat being Andi’s FREE monthly newsletter full of gossip, hot news and a …

Tom Stone - Trollkarl, Magiker, Artist och Underh

Standupcom Magazine: An online Magazine devoted to the British comedy scene with reviews, interviews and gossip. Of interest to Magicians is the really interesting interview with Jerry Sadowitz it lets you into a bit of his background etc. Check out Jerry’s new show Jerry A Tric on Channel5 on …

FREDS MAGIC BOOKS: A new site for Fred Mitchell’s Magic Books and Videos.

The Modern Wizard’s Magic Page: Has some good photo’s and Uncle Gary’s reviews! He also makes some really good looking wooden props.

Weird Gene’s Home Page: Gene Poinc’s Homepage, full of weird and bizzare Magick routines.

Aerotech projects: They manafacture Illuminated Juggling Equipment. I saw ‘Feeding the Fish’ use them on this weeks Blue Peter their club juggling was out of this world!

Card Collection: UK Dealer in all sorts of Cards, any cards imaginable including specially designed packs.

HOW TO VOTE IN PALM BEACH FLORIDA: ROFL, A beginners guide as to how to vote correctly! I won’t even mention the farce that is the American election, but I thought this was amusing! What happened to using simple boxes for ****s sake! Why do you have to punch holes at all?! I guess it makes …

Magic Tricks Page: This page contains lists of references to certain tricks, for instance if you were wanting to do a Sponge Ball routine or a Linking Rings routine, you could find pre-published routines.

Origami Underground: * WARNING * this page may offend some people, it contains Origami sculptures of an erotic nature!

A BIZARRE MAGICK BIBLIOGRAPHY: If you are interested in this area of Magic, check this extensive Bibliography by Joe Lantiere to see what you should have on your bookshelf.

World Magic Center: This is a site by Al Schneider, the guy who invented the Matrix. The purpose of this site is to provide high tech magic information to the world wide magic community. Al starts this off with an excellent paper entitled ‘The Theory of Magic’.

The Physics Instructor Who Walks on Fire: All about the ancient art of Firewalking, and some possible explanations as to how you can do this.

Easter Eggs at EggHeaven2000!: Check out the hidden easter-eggs, little hidden funny things in games, websites, movies etc. also another great Egg site is The Easter Egg Archive.

The Scooby Doo / X-Files Conspiracy Theory: I love Scooby Doo, I’m a big fan and apparently I do a fairly good impression of him as well Check this site out, it compares X-Files (another favourite of mine) to Scooby! (Link via usr/bin/girl)

Need To Know!: Subscribe to Need To Know, the weekly high-tech sarcastic update for the uk.

The Arts of Magic and Illusions: Nice site with some interesting interviews with top Magicians, just added an interview with Card Magician Martin Nash.

Christian Engblom: The Homepage of this excellent and very talented Close-up Magician, all in Finish atm, but look out for an English page.

CCMagic: Chase has just redesigned this site with a promise of some more content, you have to sign up to gain access, check out his version of Twisted Sisters.

MAGIC! - The Global Magicians Network - Messages From Beyond The Web: This used to be an old BBS, you can still read most of the messages that were posted there, that have been archived for all time I miss FIDO!

Virtual Deck: The most comprehensive card calculating program I have ever seen, does everything you can do with a normal deck, and you can analyze the results.

hmmmm: An Abridged essay by Aaron Smith on Mesmerizing an Audience. Also from this page you can get a special time-limited offer to buy his new book Methodical for only $5.

The Magic Hat!: Despite having a pretty poor site design (what is with those animated gifs?) this site actually contains some good content, particularly the articles and bits on the conferences. He also wants to take on any content from magical sites that might be closing down, or messages from …

Future Of Magic: Andi’s site has just got an update, with the start of a very promising column from Ryan Pilling, and the start of some streaming video as well. Give him your support by joining in the forums, next update promised on Nov 15th. Also if you haven’t done so already sign up …

Quarks and Quirks by Ben Harris: Ben has released some pre-publication information about the book. Looks very intriguing, I am going to get my pre-publication order in. I was discussing effects like this last night with someone at our club, the difference between Card Tricks (ie. counting, spelling) …

PayPal: WOOHOO! PayPal is now INTERNATIONAL… that means you can now use it in 25 different countries for payment by CreditCard over websites, including of course here in the UK… we love you PayPal! Also it means that anybody can accept CreditCard payments without having the expense of …

Eugene Burger: Read Eugene’s Genii column at his site, see him perform ‘Thought Sender’ and read a bit about the man behind the beard. Also if like me you enjoy reading what he has to say, you should check out his new book Mastering the Art of Magic.

Magic For All Magicians at the Connoisseur Conjuring Home Page: This is an excellent Scottish Magic Page, run by Richard James. The Magician only section has just been updated to include a new Roy Walton card trick!

Deceptions Unlimited: Home of VOICES the free online magazine dedicated to Bizzare Magick, they also have a ‘Haunted Magick Sampler’ available for $8.00 which contains some samples from the up-and-coming book of the same name.

Show-Timer.net - Assisting Magical Performance: They sell whats called a ‘Close-Up Showtimer’ which is basically a nice looking close-up case. Also they have a ‘Best Magical Performance Tip Challenge’ running atm, send in your best tip before Nov 17th.

Topica Email List Smoke&Mirrors: Join this excellent Email list, has many big name contributors from all over the world.

In this weeks edition of the Radio Times there is an article on Magical websites, probably following the fact that David Blaine is over here in the UK to promote the release of his specials on video. Basically they gave out a load of magical sites, where you could go and get tricks etc. The problem …

Sonata E-Book: Joe Pecore has written a Magic E-Book full of great ideas, including a brilliant assembly with a good storyline to match, a version of twisting the aces combined with Paul Harris’ Bizzare Twist, Cups and Balls with Playdoh, and a good Coins Across routine, and those are only the …

Magic Portal Page: Offers free articles, effects, reviews and a Secret Library which features magical screen savers and some electronic magic books!

Cardshark Magic - The website for the Educated Card Player. This website has been set up by IGOR who is the Year 2000 S.A.M. Close-up National Champion. It gives you information on lots of gambling techniques and how to protect yourself.

Money Origami: Contains a few objects to be made from money, including the now classic Ring, and more unusual ones such as a spider, a shirt and even eyeglasses! Also has some links to other origami pages.

THE CARD PLANT: Gary Plant’s Webpage, lots of clever card stuff for sale including his Impossible Rising Cards and Magnetized Cards.

The Quidnunc - Paul Gordon’s Card Magic Journal: New Card Magic Journal, starts in January 2001, support it by subscribing and/or sending contributions.

Die Fertigen Finger: The Flicking Fingers, a group of 10 German Magicians, they Published a book called ‘Don’t Forget to Point’ and this website features some excerpts from the book.

The Magical Web: Has several good articles, check out the spotlight feature.

Nokia Game 2000: I’ve just joined the Nokia Game, should be a laugh. Basically they will send you clues via SMS on your phone and you have to have access to the Internet and Radio, TV and Papers etc. I just hope I have the time in November to play, sign up now its running in 18 different …

Cool Homepages: I need some ideas for a re-design!

In-Situ WYSIWYG web editor: a nice edior that is written in javascript using IE’s Document Object Model (DOM) that actually sits in your webbrowser and allows you to edit the page in-line.

Sheep Game - A game of virtual sheep herding: Its an experiment in using Flash with PHP and SQL, all based around a cute little game, very cool! Watch out for his new game Olympigs…

1FONTS - Hundreds of free fonts, pc truetype and mac fonts. All free. Haven’t had much chance to go through them all, but hopefully I will be able to find a font to do a new header… maybe a new re-design of the site as well, and while I am at it I might even move the server so I can run …

Magician Blaine Conjures Up Icy Web Deal: Blaine has signed a deal with iCast to provide coverage of his iceblock stunt. Also his site will have video and photos and chats. Personally IMHO I really dislike his (lack of) presentation style, which consists of sidling up to people and saying “Can …

Original Sinclair ZX81 Kits: Very tempted to buy one of these just for nostalgia sake, but a bit expensive at

Grand Illusions: A site featuring optical illusions, scientific toys, visual effects, and even a little magic. Check out the yoghurt pot with a memory, and the feature articles are a brilliant read.

purely magic: the official website of aaron smith. Home of silk through card, phenomenon, mind leaper, unlikely evidence, methodical.

Remote Show Control - Shows you how to Control your show with a laptop, and cue music on demand.

Tenyo Phantom Clock Patent: this time a patent for Lubor Fielders Tenyo trick. A very clever idea typical of the Lubor way of thinking!

Patent Optical Illusion device for Concealing an object for produciton: Another patent link, just like Copperfields Flying patent. This one is for a production box.

Kingston Cons - the future of telecommunications: Obviously some people don’t agree with my view on the price change. I really think though that the other ISP’s will get clogged up and have constant engaged tones. I guess I will stay with Karoo for now and see how the other ISP’s …

Kingston Internet Ltd are my ISP and as I mentioned earlier in my blog are changing all their prices. I’ve just telephoned them to upgrade to the Karoo Anytime service, which is a whopping

Joseph Wu’s Origami Page: the first link to an origami page on this blog! I said I’d try to bring you more than just magic links… this one is via usr/bin/girl one of my favourite blogs… I should really try to make some models I picked up Robert Harbings ‘Magic of …

MCPCentral.Com - Flash & ASP Part1: Learn how to integrate the nice frontend of flash with the power of ASP, I’m in the process of teaching myself Flash4 but I guess this will be a little outdated now Flash5 has been released. The second part of the tutorial covers a little bit of Flash5.

RANTMODE: BTCellnet Had an interesting conversation with BTCellnet this dinner time, basically I had a Cellnet PAYG phone which I gave to my Sister when I swapped my phone for a Nokia 3210 on 121… She was talking to her best friend, who incidentally rang her, and suddenly she got cut off, and …

ProMagic @ www.ezboard.com: Received this link via e-mail, because they got my mailing address from a ‘Magic Forum’ and thought I might be interested! Anyway have a look at this forum its for Professional or Advanced level Magicians, not many messages there yet, and a bit of a struggle …

CardMSG Magic: A site to keep your eyes on, still a little under construction but as the site says it contains an Online Guide to Quality Magic, Magicians and Magiclinks…

Blogger Comments: A very simple but elegant implementation of a comments attachment using PHP. I may wait for the Alpha of Blep but probably play about with this in the mean time, so watch out for a comments system to appear!

Devnut.com - Blep .. making blogger better, one step at a time.. Ryan is working on an XML implementation of a comments system for blogger which sounds very tasty! I think an alpha version should be out early october.

Thoughts about a possible Blogger Comments method. An open letter to Blogger from hit-or-miss.org about a possible way of adding a ‘static’ comments system into blogger. A good idea I guess but you might see an increase in ftp traffic. I’d rather use a non-blogger system.

My Atomz search is not working, I’ll figure it later, I’ve changed the header logo and made the background stripey! Might be some more site updates tommorow.

I really love the cute Linux mascot who goes by the name of Tux so XPenguins is something I will be running on my desktop, as soon as I have cleared my e-mail from my Windows setup and switched over.

The Magic Pages: Contains some valuable lessons in various magic techniques and also a Library section which has an indepth look at various books, giving you a good description of the contents.

If your in the market for a new set of cups for the Cups and Balls then check out the Selecting a set of Cups page from James Riser, who is a performer and a Machinist. He compares all the different cups on the market and gives you a frank review with some great photos. Personally I have never done …

Started to update the site by adding a Guestbook using an excellent cgi script called Megabook please sign it after your visit by clicking the link on the right of the screen. Next on the agenda is a search box, and a bit of a cosmetic update I think.

Evening Standard Article: Mention of some British based blogging in a UK newspaper article.

GBlogs Gateway: List of UK Weblogs.

Argh I’ve just seen that I finally made it into the Blogger directory… I guess that long overdue site update is called for…

Thats it then my little Sister Jo has finally gone, she’s off to Edge Hill to study Drama and English… Good Luck Jo!

Magic Reference Page: Contains book and video references for certain tricks, for example if you are looking for a good sponge ball or linking rings or egg bag trick.

Roger Crosthwaite: Roger is a top UK card guy, and this website designed by Paul Gordon promises to give you good deals on his books, and two new videos. Keep your eyes peeled!

Secrets Revealed!!!: Whilst we are exposing things, check this site out, the Masked Magician Reveals… I think it needs to be read with tongue in cheek, in case you don’t realise

Patent for Copperfield/Gaughan Flying Illusion: I lost this link ages ago, its just been reposted on alt.magic… quite interesting to read how Copperfield achieves this illusion, and just goes to show that if you want to protect a magic illusion, you have to expose the secret so that anyone …

Card Corner: An excellent Card Trick site, with effects by Aldo Colombini, Jay Sankey, Bob King and Tom Craven to name but a few. Most of the effects have been contributed by visitors or members of the Rochester Magic Clubs.

Sodaplay is a creative Java based ‘Executive Toy’ where you can make, build and play with things made out of masses, springs and muscles. Build little creatures, and robots. Very addictive!

The DLL Archive: Is Windows missing that all important DLL? Have a look for it here in the Archive.

Multimap.com Home Page: A really good UK mapping page, gives you accurate street maps, and travel directions. Good for people like me who have no sense of direction whatsoever and get lost going out of the end of the street!

Magic and Illusion About.com Chat: This has been open a while, I don’t know why I haven’t visited sooner, meet some top name stars and chat magic, heaven!

An online place for magicians to Brainstorm: If you join up, which is Free you get access to chat, and a message board with some very good ideas.

Jamy Ian Swiss / For fans & magicians / What’s up?: Check out Jamy Ian Swiss’s site for some nice thought provoking essays… Although I don’t always agree with his reviews for Genii Magazine what he has to say makes for some interesting reading.

I signed a petition today at our Church Service for people in Nigeria as the government are trying to get everyone to adopt Sharia Law. Basically this is the law that is fundemental to Islam. The Religion is the state, so any politics or law making that goes on is all tied in with their religion, …

My ISP Karoo have decided to change their pricing plans. They have just changed over from being run by Kingston-Internet to being run by Kingston Communications. For those of you interested, I live in a City called Kingston-Upon-Hull (the only City in the UK to have the Kingston title apart from …

Oops serious lack of posting, I don’t know how people manage to blog on a daily basis, excuses… well we’ve been busy at work re-wiring our entire network to convert to CAT5 and as a consequence I haven’t had an Internet connection in my office (not that I blog from work, …

Mark’s Apology Note Generator: Need to make an apology to someone, its not quite as romantic as flowers and chocolates

Notes and video on the Bottom Deal: Learn how to do this invaluable sleight.

The Junkies: this is an online DIY Sitcom that was thought too controversial to be shown on TV, its about 3 heroin junkies. It features one of my favourite actresses Sally Phillips!

Icepick.com - A wired house: I forgot about this site, its cool, some guy has wired his house up, a bit like the current big brother craze. You can tell stuff like what was the last thing he trashed, or what was the last thing he had out of the fridge, or when the last time the doorbell rang! One …

Bicycle Playing Cards - good site giving you a look at some of the designs of this popular brand of cards. Now if only they would print them straight!

I was just going to catch up with my newsgroups using RemarQ and find that the site has vanished, and they have been taken over by Critical Path. They now want to charge $100 for a years newsgroup feed! I prefer to read ng’s online anyway, less harddrive clutter and no download times. Thank …

Send Money Order - Write a Money Order or Check Instantly. Pay for Auctions. Could come in handy to pay for those overseas Ebay orders, or to order Magic from people who don’t take CC’s…

hatsandrabbits.com hope to produce a database of every magician on the planet called ’every living magician’… sign up and add your details at the site.

Talking of Peter Duffie, you may want to check out his other site: Duffie’s Alternative Magic where you can find some excellent free card tricks.

A new Magic Ebook from Peter Duffie has just been released it has 33 contributors, with 50 effects its name is VIRTUAL MIRACLES and I have ordered a copy so I will review it when it arrives in my mailbox.

If you want to find out what is going on in NewZeland subscribe to: MagicNZ e-zine. They have some very indepth FISM reports coming up.

There has been a slight lack of posts whilst I sort out my site design, I think I have settled on this layout for now, hope its ok! I will be off on holiday for the next week to sunny Shropshire so no posts for a week unless I can find a cyber-cafe! See you when I get back! If anyone is reading …

Just got the first issue of Trick & Treat in my mailbox it looks very promising, can’t wait for future issues, I suggest that you sign up now!

Its out! Check Simon Lovell’s new book Son of Simon Says. His first book ‘Simon Says’ is still the most used, looked at and all-round favourite book in my Library, I can’t wait to sink my teeth into this one, and I have heard he has a third book in this Trilogy due out next …

So Barclays have a technical hitch in their online banking and most people seem to want to talk about the evils of using your credit card over the Internet. I know seeing other peoples bank details is a pretty major deal, but I’d rather give my credit card details to a site, who I know will …

Hopefully this will show up as the first post to the magician.org.uk weblog. It’s my 23rd Birthday today, so this is kind of a Birthday Present to me