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.
Magic Links
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.
Wednesday, February 26, 2003 →
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.
Wednesday, February 12, 2003 →
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
Friday, January 17, 2003
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 Rabbit. (Links courtesy of Web-Goddess).
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.