KIDS STUFF with Magical Balloon-dude Dale: Balloon Twisting instructions for children, gives instructions for simple twists and models.
Magic Links
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 thought of card.
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 ‘Underground’ book this should be well worth a look.
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.
Thursday, September 27, 2001 →
The Academy of Legerdemain: Legerdemain Academy is dedicated to the promotion of the Magical Arts.
Thursday, September 27, 2001 →
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.
Saturday, September 22, 2001 →
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).
Saturday, September 22, 2001 →
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.
Saturday, September 22, 2001 →
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 to sign up.
Thursday, September 20, 2001 →
IBM 2001 Report: Report of the IBM Ring 25 2001 Convention. Let me know what you think. I really enjoyed it.
Thursday, September 20, 2001 →
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!
Wednesday, September 19, 2001 →
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.
Wednesday, September 5, 2001 →
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.
Wednesday, September 5, 2001 →
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.