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 Links
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 question for them to answer on air, and also participate in the message forums.
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 some reviews of tricks and videos currently on the market.
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 creator Anders Moden, I first read this on the EG where it was posted as Shareware Magic, its a genius effect that has been taking the Magic world by storm when Tim showed it at FFFF and in his lectures. Buy the original and support the creators of Magic.
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, the first issue is expected in July.