Monday, January 22, 2024
Kaleb first came to my attention through his debut release via Bazz at Black Cat Magic, an unknown name, releasing a book-test. Of course being somewhat of a book-test devotee I was curious to see what Kaleb brought to the party. The book was based on The Alchemist novel, and it would go on to cement Kaleb’s place in the mentalism community, and make him one of very few people I will buy products from, sight unseen!
Friday, June 12, 2020
Jamie has released a system of performing mind reading over Zoom/Skype that is based on his The Tracker booklet. I'm not sure why this wasn't mentioned in the Penguin advert, but to me that would be a strength to highlight this as I really liked his Tracker principle when I bought the booklet a while back. What Jamie brings to this download is a way of doing Tracker in virtual environments.
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Ben was kind enough to provide me with a free review copy of his latest download. In the present days of magic publishing - one-trick-downloads and unfinished ideas being published as highly priced e-books - it is really nice to see that Ben has published an over two-hour video download containing 5 solid pieces of magic, with additional thoughts and routines. The underlying theme, as the title suggests, is a set of 5 effects that use simple gimmicks.
Saturday, March 5, 2016
Ryan has managed to invoke a sense of nostalgia in me with this publication. In the days of one trick downloads, and ebooks, that you can purchase instantly, with nothing more than your Paypal password, it feels good to hold a physical product in your hand. Something that you know will contain good solid commercial magic, and not a heavily edited trailer in sight. In releasing this publication I believe Ryan hoped to capture the spirit of the magazines and trick journals of days past along with the anticipation of waiting to receive them in the mail.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Nicholas Einhorn bought the rights to Antonio Romero’s Bill to Marker and he is now releasing this through Vanishing Inc. I got to take part in filming the trailer which you can see on the Vanishing Inc. site linked above along with my cameo appearance! This came about from attending The Session Convention back in January and the filming of the trailer happened on the last night after all proceedings had finished.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Noted by Gary Jones Costas was very kind to send me a review copy of Gary’s new release Noted. You can see the demo in the link above. This was originally published in Gary’s lecture notes as Starter for 10. The original used a simple basic gimmick, but Magic Tao have taken the idea and greatly improved it. The basic idea behind the trick is that you walk up to a table holding a note-pad and ask if you can take their order, you then change the note-pad into a deck of cards and you can start your magic.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Charles Thorton Jordan was born on October 1, 1888 in Berkley California, in 1919 he put out a small manuscript entitled Thirty Card Mysteries. In 1920 he went on to publish another 5 booklets with over 50 effects, and he continued to publish until 1923 when he lost his interest in magic. Jordan never performed in public and was only known to magicians mostly through his publications. In 1935 he was contacted by Theodore Annemann who wanted to publish a collection of his work.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Haven’t had chance to mention this DVD which was released I believe at Blackpool. I haven’t seen a copy, but I can relate to you how it was to take part in the filming. This is probably the first and only magic DVD I may appear in, but that shouldn’t stop you buying it Basically it was filmed at Colin Rose’s on 11th December last year when he hosted a Workshop/Lecture with Alex Elmsley.
Saturday, February 5, 2005
Jack Parker is not a name known to many, we lucky few over at TSD have had the chance to see his creative output in the tricks and video’s he has posted there. Also you might recall a number of things he has had published in MAGIC magazine. Now its time for this UK card man to release his first e-book. This was released earlier this week, the reason it has taken me this long to post about it is that I wanted to really play around with the material and get a feel for the routines, rather than just dashing something off.