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.
Magic Links
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 Steve’s latest addition to DownloadMagic, EasyFloat, a freely selected card floats above the deck.
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 giving up card magic and taking up knitting. I just hope I can inspire to be half as good as Harvey anywhere in the next few decades… (Thanks to Joe Pecore for the link).
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 photos. Personally I can’t wait to see him again in Blackpool next year, this guy is just a one of a kind creative genius!
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.