Las Vegas Card Expert
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Allan Ackerman: Allan Ackerman’s new website, put together by Steve Draun. Order his DVDs, Books and Notes and watch some of the video clips sprinkled throughout the site.
Magic Links
Card Magic - Handled with Care
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Jack’s Deck: Jack Parker’s new website, featuring his e-books Set to Stun, Ashes to Ashes and the start of his Explorations series. You can also watch video clips of some of the featured tricks, buy the manuscripts, see what Jack has had in print and sign up for his mailing list and recieve a free trick Kentucky Fried Aces.
The Buffalo Get-Together 2005
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Buffalo Get-Together 2005: Pictures from the convention, featuring Bill Malone, Gordon Bruce, Gary Plants, Roger Klause, Tim Conover and a host of others.
Making Custom Card Boxes
Monday, January 9, 2006
Card Box Templates: PDF templates to allow you to make your own Card Cases. Templates for Poker and Bridge size, a template so you can make a case for any thickness of deck, and even a link to a generator program so you can make your own templates, plus full instructions on how to make the cases. Very useful if you have unusual decks, or you want say a blank case for your Mental Photography deck, or you want some other design on your case to go with a trick.
9th LA Conference on Magical History
Sunday, January 8, 2006
Conference On Magic History: Photos from the recent Magic History Conference held in LA, taken by Damon Webster, and featuring our very own Eddie Dawes, and the Late Great Bob Read.
Mentalist Sanctum
Friday, January 6, 2006
Mentalist Sanctum: Steve Pellegrino’s new Mental forum, you can read about the idea behind the forum, register and join in the discussions.
Coin Snatching
Friday, January 6, 2006
Coin Snatching: Kip Pascal’s new book on coin snatching. Learn to snatch a coin from someones hand before they can react. Contains a chapter for magicians, and magician John Calvert’s, Calvert’s Claw routine.
Throwing Cards
Friday, January 6, 2006
Throwing Cards: The Museum of Throwing Cards and Related Magic Ephemera. See scans of personalised playing cards used by magicians to scale into the audience, usually to show-off their skill and dexterity and to prove that the cards were unprepared.
Tipping Mitt Magazine
Monday, December 19, 2005
Tipping Mitt: A Journal for the serious card student. This little magazine is published by my good friends Steve Reynolds and Trini Montes. I have had the pleasure of devouring the first 8 issues, now you can too, by downloading the back issues from the site. Once you have done that you can subscribe for $10 to recieve the next six issues in your mailbox.
Magic Interviews
Monday, December 19, 2005
Magic Interviews: Read and listen to interviews with noteworthy magicians. A new interview will be added each Sunday! Then post your comments. Most were originally published in the Boston Mini-Wizard, the newsletter of The John Calvert Boston Area Assembly of the Society of Young Magicians #29.
The Session
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
The Session is a one day close-up magic convention in Gloucester, England focusing on the learning and sharing of superb magic in a relaxed and friendly environment. We are showcasing some of the most exciting new and established names in the world of magic. If you’re passionate about close-up magic then we look forward to welcoming you to the Session. It takes place in Newent, Gloucestershire on Jan 15th 2006, organised by my good friends Rob James and Andi Gladwin.
Cutlery Beware
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Enter the Fork: Morgan Strebler’s new forum, talk about his dvd releases, general magic discussions, including specialist forums, and even one as you would expect on PK and Metal Bending.
Your sure of a big suprise!
Sunday, November 27, 2005
The Magic Woods: A new magic forum, general forums, with reviews and articles available if you apply to join the special user group.
Bottling it...
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Bottle Magic: Jeff Scanlan’s impossible bottles. Impossible puzzles, pieces of strange, Jeff seems to be able to stuff practically anything into a bottle, you can view the gallery of his work and purchase bottles.
Podcast: MagicTricks.co.uk
Sunday, November 6, 2005
MagicTricks.co.uk Podcast: details of new products from Jay Sankey, Peter Eggink and a review of magic on TV.
The Heckler
Sunday, October 30, 2005
The Heckler: Is Joshua Jay’s new short 6 minute film that features on his new DVD set, and can now be viewed on his website. See the guest appearence from Tony ‘Doomo’ Miler as the Heckler, can’t say too much more or it would spoil the plot, just go and watch!
Podcast: MagicBroadcast.com
Sunday, October 30, 2005
MagicBroadcast Podcast: MagicBroadcast.com have just started a Podcast to compliment the 24/7 streaming broadcast. The episodes will contain clips from the shows, and extra material they didn’t get chance to air. The first episode features an interview from the IBM convention in Reno with Giovanni Livera.
Marlo - It's All in the Cards
Thursday, September 22, 2005
David Solomon is all set to release an extremely exciting 2 disc DVD set which is a must for all lovers of card magic. Its a brand new documentary entitled “Marlo - It’s All in the Cards” and not only features the Maestro himself but many of the inner Chicago cardician group. There is previously unseen Marlo footage, a full documentary of his life in card magic plus a host of renowned Marlo students performing material.
The magician whose greatest illusion was death
Friday, September 9, 2005
The Great Lafayette: A recent article from the Scotsman on the story of The Great Lafayette, with quotes from our very own Arthur Setterington who wrote a book on his life.
Japanese Magic
Friday, September 9, 2005
Two more weird Japanese magic video clips that have been doing the rounds on the boards, thanks to the guy’s at Genii and TSD for bringing them to my attention, if you have not seen them they are well worth the download: The Lean and Chopsticks.
The Magician's Hidden Library
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Magic Words & Magic Archetypes: Two new books that you can read for free online, or purchase hard-copies. Magic Words is a one-of-a-kind resource for magicians and word lovers, exploring the most intriguing magic words and phrases from around the world. Magic Archetypes explores how magical props, as symbols, point beyond themselves to the larger mystery.
You'll Like This...
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Paul Daniels Diary: The day to day ramblings of a professional magician. Paul has started writing his own journal/blog. Its an interesting read, with some possibly controversial thoughts.
Feenx
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Gregg Webb E-books: download Gregg’s Feen-x, The Book that Doesn’t Exist and Society of Sleight of Hand Artists, as $15.95 e-books, you can view a table of contents for each volume in PDF format. You may also be interested in his The Book that Casts No Reflection available from The Magic Depot.
Podcast: Go Magic Go
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Go Magic Go: The independent Podcast for Magicians, with hosts Andrew Payne and Keith Barber. Four shows up so far talking about things as diverse as Derren Brown, Andre Kole, Criss Angel, and various product and show reviews.
Podcast: S.A.M. 2006 Convention
Sunday, August 21, 2005
S.A.M. Convention: Regular audio updates on the 2006 S.A.M. convention to be held in Louisville, KY. Also if you have the ability to listen to a podcast, they are syndicating this through audioblog.
Karl Norman- Life, Magic and The Forks Hotel
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Karl Norman- Life, Magic and The Forks Hotel: An audio mp3 download, for $10. Karl Norman talks about bar magic, the Forks Hotel, Eddie Fechter and the FFFF convention.
Teach in Theater
Saturday, August 6, 2005
Teach in Theater: Glenn Bishop’s Teach In Theater, lots of free teach-in videos, includes Advanced Ace Assembly, Triumph Poker Stack, Coins to Glass and Christ Aces amongst others, well worth the time to download.
More Radio Magic
Saturday, August 6, 2005
Radio Magic: Jay Fortune’s new Radio Show broadcast on Magic Broadcast and Kool AM, live on Magic Broadcast every Monday evening at 8pm UK Time, and then repeated on Kool AM throughout the week.
Bouncing Money
Saturday, August 6, 2005
Bouncing Money: [WMV] short 2 minute video file, not magic but very cool! Some guys filmed themselves bouncing coins into various receptacles, this has to be watched!
Txt 2 Wn
Saturday, August 6, 2005
Win Magic Tricks: Send a Text Message to 60999 with the text WIN MAGIC costs are £1.00+usual text fee, brought to you by the owners of World Magic Shop, the competition will run on a month to month basis, and you can enter as many times as you want, they have some cool prizes on offer. Caveat, only open to over 16s and doesn’t seem to be available for T-Mobile which is what I am on Update: Just been informed by Costas one of the guy’s behind the site that it does work with T-Mobile, will have to give it a whirl!