Monday, July 25, 2005
Oneclick Magic: Oneclick Experimental Radio for the BBC hosts a magic show set in a pub with a real live audience. The show is only available till tommorrow (26/07) so listen to it while you can, it features Sav, Dynamo, Chris Cox and Ali Cook, some interesting audience reactions and some obvious magic themed music!
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Express Radio: a new Magic Radio show, promising contests, guest hosts, an archive for missed shows, and a forum to allow listeners to feedback.
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Hamburger Trick: [4mb WMV File] link to a video clip of what looks like a foreign candid-camera type show, where a person proceeds to pull a hamburger from a sign on the wall! Almost like the Paul Zenon idea of pulling the tax disc through the car windscreen, looks very cool!
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
A Hundred Years of Magic: An article from The Sun newspaper, featuring Marc Paul talking about The Magic Circle Centenary, along with a 7 minute video clip of Marc performing some mind reading and magic.
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Circus Museum: A dutch Circus site featuring Posters and Photographs of Circus, Magicians, Freaks, Jugglers, Clowns and Acrobats. A rough translation of some text from the front page: an image bank with posters and photographs from the collection of the best, and the largest collections of the Netherlands. Now online almost 8000 circusposters, from 1880 up to present, from the Netherlands to America, from A2 up to some square meters. Features an excellent flash navigation system allowing you to select the posters and to zoom in to see more detail.
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Building Magic: forum for people interested in building magic props.
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Larry Jennings: New site from Bill Goodwin and Lee Asher, to advertise the re-print of Larry’s Up in Smoke booklet which has added bonus material and photographs. The site also contains some really great information, a full and comprehensive bibliography, some great photos and a short bio of the great card man, some unseen video footage, and a free trick. Join the mailing list as well to hear Mike Skinner talk about Larry, and to read some great comments from other well known magicians.
Saturday, June 11, 2005
Yoda Origami model: [200k PDF file] instructions for folding an origami Yoda figure. Other recently discovered origami/papercraft links include Spacecraft pdf’s for building papercraft space models, and Origami folding instructions which has quite a number of links collected from all over the net.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
John Bannon Magic: It’s finally here, I predict that this will be (for me at least) the release of the year, and its only May! Safe to say I have pre-ordered my copy. After seeing some of the material when I saw John lecture at TSD I can tell you sight-unseen, just buy it! The Bullet Train Assembly will fast become the ultimate ace assembly, and I have already been doing Last Man Standing for a few years now, which is an outstanding triumph routine… and John’s take on Shuffle-Bored again for me is the last word on the subject… and Dave’s Game which is Dave Solomon’s take on John’s version of a Jack Carpenter trick, with a Dean Dill idea thrown in (phew!
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Crazy Unicycling: a windows media video clip of some extreme unicycling. Another thing on my to-do list is to learn to Unicycle which I have mentioned before on the blog but just never got round to purchasing one, maybe this summer…
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Apparently Edward Victor of EYE and Rope trick fame was also a master at Hand Shadows, whilst not totally related to magic, like all allied arts I find it fascinating. I remember seeing Raymond Crowe at FISM get a standing ovation for his shadow act. Check out some of these links: Bill Douglas Hand Shadows, Hand Shadow Illusions, Ashley’s Shadows, Performing with Hand Shadows.
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Self Publishing: Tom Stone has a new shareware e-book on Self Publishing magic effects. Download it for free over at Lybrary, then if you like it enough send him $5… Tom creates some of the best looking e-books I have ever seen, and he shows you a little bit about how you might do the same, well worth the download. I think this shows you can get comparable quality in an e-book, yes it involves a heck of a lot more time and effort than just chucking something together in word and sticking it up for download, but if your material is worth it shouldn’t you make the effort?
Sunday, April 10, 2005
One Behind: digital musings on digital magic, is a new weblog from Taylor Raphael on a subject close to my heart, the convergence of technology with magic. Taylor has written his thesis on this subject and it sound like he has some really novel effects to release over time. First on his list is Agogle which is an advancement of Jim Bumgardner’s Bondoogle effect. Taylor has solved some of the little niggles I had with Jim’s effect and added in some really great extra’s, well worth a look!
Monday, March 28, 2005
Coin Manipulation: A site showing coin flourishes, largely based on Poker Chip flourishes, some demo videos, a forum, and text based instructions.
Friday, March 11, 2005
Star Wars Origami with paper money, from this Japanese site that has lots of paper money origami.
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Whispering Imps on Magic Posters: Rhett Bryson’s collection of magicians posters that somehow include a whispering imp character, probably the first to do this was Kellar, the collection shows images of 125 posters.
Escamoteurettes: John W. LeBlanc’s new weblog, some very thoughtful posts on the world of magic and mentalism.
Download Magic Blog: Steve Fearson has a new blog with some very funny content, and excellent taste in links 
Magic Broadcast: If you’ve not heard yet Ryan Pilling is starting a 24/7 Magic Radio broadcast over the Internet, tune in, or consider hosting your own show. You can listen to the sneak preview as they continue lining up presenters.
Fitzkee Trilogy: a link thats been floating around for a while to HTML versions of Fitzkee’s work, Showmanship for Magicians, Trick Brain and Magic by Misdirection.
Sam Loyd puzzle thread on Metafilter: always reminds me of reading Martin Gardner who published a lot of Sam’s puzzles. The thread on MeFi points to the famous Trick Mule puzzle, the idea being to get the jockeys to both properly sit atop a mule. You can also try it out in Shockwave. And if your really stuck check the solution. There are also links to the other fairly well know Loyd puzzle entitled Get off the Earth where one of the chinamen seemingly vanishes, you can also see this as a flash movie.
Marked Cards: Nu-Concept marked cards, using shade technology. Or check out Card Sorcerer for some classic marked decks.
Maskelyne Magic: A web site that attempts to unravel the truth behind the wartime career of Jasper Maskelyne. Originally the twenty one articles here were written for the Australian magic magazine, Geniis Magic Journal to try and correct, and I quote ‘David Fisher’s error-ridden fanciful concoction “The War Magician”(1983) and Jasper Maskelyne’s tainted ghost-written memoirs, Magic - Top Secret (1949)’.
Andy’s Playing Cards: These pages discuss in depth most topics concerning playing cards, with a particular interest for their history, and the many patterns used in different countries, the obsolete ones as well as the varieties still used. The picture galleries, organized by type and by geographical distribution, present several examples of the varieties extant, providing at the same time an extensive description, yet easily understandable also for first-timers.
H Interviews: Magic Interview site from Jonas Haglund. Read interviews from Jay Sankey, David Acer, Paul Daniels, Michael Ammar, Tom Stone, Lee Asher and many more.
Rebuilding a Mystery: Gordon Meyer’s digital grimoire, a magical blog established in December of 2003.
SVG Cards: Scalable Vector Graphic Playing Cards, based on a french pack. Download the image files that you can scale to any size as they conform to the W3C Scalable Vector Graphics Format, use the French or the English version.
Magician Express: new magic forums, get advice, and discuss card, coin, street and stage magic.
B3TA: If Magic Was Real: The new B3TA challenge, use photoshop to come up with a picture of what it would be like if Magic was real! Some very bizzare, weird, and sometimes adult interpretations, you have been warned
The Magic Revolution: new forum, discuss Magic Philosophy, Close-up, Stage, Mentalism, Comedy and read Trick, Book and DVD reviews.
