Card Flourishes.com: A new card site where you can watch, learn and discuss card sleights and flourishes.
Magic Links
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.
Saturday, September 14, 2002 →
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 e-book is a huge breakthrough for magical publication, the amalgamation of hypertext, with its links and search features, coupled with the visual nature of the video clips is like combining hard-copy books with a video, yet bundled into one handy CD format!
I’m sure there will still be a lot of people that prefer hard-copy books, and to some extent I still do, but you cannot ignore this very important growing medium.
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
Sunday, August 18, 2002
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 cards can be found in the recently published Puzzlers Tribute and there is a website to do the 4 card version online. Lastly I blogged a couple of links a while back, one to the 5 Card version and a detailed expose of the method.
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!
Thursday, August 15, 2002
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.
Be a Genius
Tuesday, July 30, 2002
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 memory tricks, tips and links.
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 his ‘Memories are Made of This’ lecture notes.