Matt Field’s TSD 5 Photos: Matt wrote and photographed The Second Deal convention in Jacksonville Florida that I attended in March, it was going to be in Genii but it looks like it got bumped, so check out the photos and a write up at The Genii Forum.
Magic Links
NeoMagic: grab some original magic wallpaper for your computer, or watch some card videos including the Hit Pass, the Overhand Lift Shuffle and the Push in Control.
Luke Dancy: Luke’s new site, check out his new DVD Magic for the Eyes and his trick Misprint. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing some of this in person, and Luke fries both magicians and lay people, his magic is strong, visual and original.
MSN Cardmagic Group: bi-lingual group to discuss card magic.
Origami Kaiju: Plans to make origami monsters, including Rodan, Godzilla, Mothra and Baragon amongst others.
Envelope and Letter Folding: origami plans for folding letters and envelopes, learn how to fold a Butterfly Envelope, Cormetic Envelope, Frog Envelope, Fern Letterfold, DS Letterfold and Box-pleated Envelope amongst others.
The Great Foodini: this TV show on CBS grew out of the Lucky Pup show. Foodini is a puppet magician, you can see short video clips of the show, read about the history, see the cast and the licensed merchandise that was available, like Foodini magic sets.
Inside Magic: Tim Quinlan’s magic news site, with the latest news, featured essays, reviews and interviews and a whole host of links to other sites, well worth a look and there is just time to vote on the last part of the March Madness competition.
The Place of Magic: a new discussion forum, talk about general magic, flourishes, jokes, magical websites and get general support.
Out of the Hat Magic Productions: Ben Morris-Rains has his new manuscript ‘Mind Games’ volume 1 for sale, which includes a great impromptu version of Misled along with a few coin tricks and a visual version of Twisting the Aces. Also he is selling a CD of his Wipe Off colour change.
Mathieu Bich: the website of France’s Mathieu Bich. He has some fantastic and innovative ideas, his Twisting the Aces is very visual, and his idea with Stars on the back of a card has to be seen to be believed! Watch video clips and read about his products.
Magic in the Movies: Originally maintained by Jeff Isozaki and now hosted by Repro, this is a list of movies that contain magic, magical performance and cameo appearences.
MAGIC Magazine Tricks: a new feature from MAGIC that shows Joshua Jay performing selected tricks from the last three months of the magazine. Its nice to see some of these tricks performed, as you realise you missed some gems, I also had the privilege of meeting Josh at TSD this year and his Discreet Displacement Collectors and work with his Overlap card is amazing.
Fred Kaps DVD: seeing is believing! Fred Kaps is the only magician to win the world title three times. This new DVD has footage from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. See his tricks, TV performances and shows along with lots of still photographs, plus interviews with today’s magicians.
David Forrest’s CTW: A new Card Through Window effect by David Forrest, a selected card with corner removed, is vanished and appears taped to the window, you then pass a fan of cards in front of it and it jumps through the window. See the video and order the manuscript.
Quality Magic Books: aimed at helping magicians of all skill levels develop a working library for their enjoyment, reference, and enhancement of their magical skills. Shows a wide cross section of key books in all aspects of the magical arts that are most suited to performers who want to read and learn from their books.
Escamoteur Magic Portal: foreign language magic portal, lists of categorised links.
Joe Porper: a welcome return from Joe Porper, check out his new products including the cups, rings and wands.
Magic.org help forum and chat: Card, Close-up and Stage chat, specialist interests including ventriloquism, fire and hypnosis. Also includes the new Brainpoke forums run by Ryan Pilling.
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Magic Hiway: let the magic happen to you at this new magic forum. Close-up, Street and Stage discussion and trick reviews.
NLP and Magic - information, articles, links for magicians: learn how to use Neuro Linguistic Programming in your magic to enhance your language, rapport and performance.
Second-hand juggling equipment: new site where you can buy, sell and exchange second hand juggling equipment.
Ezy Magic Weblog: new magical weblog by John Williams of Ezy Magic.
JD’s Ramblings: another new magic weblog (come on guy’s where you been? 
) this time from JD, a guy who may be familiar to readers of MagicTalk. He used to post on there with his insane ramblings on magic, now he has a permanent home, and is currently posting older ramblings, with new ones to come!
Penguin on Metafilter: Is this a problem in having open magic dealers on the web? Metafilter is a fairly high volume blog, and Penguin has just made a FPP (front page post). Now as the comments suggest anyone can download Penguin’s tutorials (of other people’s effects!) for a few dollars… also does this show the public that magic isn’t that special and anyone can learn it from buying a few DVD’s… or did they already know that? I don’t think we can ever go back to being a mysterious art where secrets were guarded and traded with care, as appose to splashed all over the Internet. On the other hand if anyone is going to put their money down, does this make them serious enough to know our secrets?
FooCan Blog: similar in style to Magic Circle Jerk the FooCan guys now have a weblog.
AIMS: Association of International Magical Spectators. Run by Bob Loomis, play find the rabbit, read about magic magazines exposed, see the magicians bookplates, find out the real secret behind the Fizbin Drop and use the humourous card trick generator!
Card Splitting Tutorial: Ben Harris’s simple tutorial that I never got round to blogging for some reason!
Al Kay’s: Dealoop movie clips, see Al’s reverse Havana Deal. Al also has a great guide to Card Splitting.