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Secrets of Magic Forum
Secrets of Magic Forum: Are you looking for a magic site with a solid community? At SOMF, we have everything, we do everything, we talk about everything. The rules are simple, help each other! If you are stuck on a certain effect, can’t get a presentation right, or just need to ask a question, then sign up now! We have forum sections on everything ranging from Presentation and Reviews, to Coin Effects and DIY Magic.
Magic Video Blog
Magic Video Blog: The Magic Video Blog was started in 2008 by a select group of magicians who love vintage magic videos. Their intention is to provide an amazing magic clip - every 24 hours. The more they can expose you to great magic, the chances of helping you improve your own magic will increase. In turn, the art of magic advances. And ultimately, that
Amazing Magic Trick
Dynamo makes YOUR card disappear. More at Nokia Connectors http://video.unrulymedia.com/wildfire_4623319.js?vn=sCFeR-1230641229259
John G Magic Blog
John G Magic Blogspot: One of my favourite magicians John Guastaferro has just opened a magic blog, if you haven’t seen his products go to his product page do yourself a favour and order everything he has, then thank me later! You can see some clips on his Youtube Channel. John has some seriously good material that is both strong in construction as it is charming in presentation, and his DVDs are among the handful I can watch the performances from, again and again.
Magic Mornings Video Podcast
Melbourne magicians Kamal Bhushan and Dean Atkinson continue to delight audiences in their weekly Magic Mornings video podcast. The show fuses informative magic reviews, clips, comedic personality and hilarious repartee. You can watch at http://www.magicmornings.com.au/ The show also has its own online magic forum at: http://www.magicmornings.com.au/forum
Time to be Awesome
Time to be Awesome is a new internet TV show from David Corsaro the latest episode is an interview with award winning magician Marc DeSouza and a discussion about magic competitions and what it takes to succeed. Marc was also gracious enough to show them around his collection of magic posters and perform an effect. Upcoming shows include a behind-the-scenes of “Monday Night Magic”, an interview with NY Coin Magic Seminar producers Michael Rubinstein and David Roth and a discussion with Francis Menotti about theater in magic.
IBM British Ring Convention 2008 - Eastbourne 24-28 September
Just an early heads up, I will be attending the above convention, and will be live-blogging the events I attend for Magic Convention Guide I will still post short posts here (probably just the first parts of each post) with links across to each post at MCG, so you will be able to find the reports over there. Thanks to Andrew Webb for letting me do this, it looks like a great week and an excellent and packed programme I just hope I can keep up!
Howcast Magic Videos
Howcast offer how-to videos and guides, as part of their site they have produced a play-list of magic how-to guides. Dave Horowitz from Howcast says “We created some cool how to magic videos that I wanted to share with you. Much like a good act, they both entertain and are accessible on top of being informative. Please check out the full playlist.” Here is an example guide for a simple coin vanish:
New Video Website Helps Entertainers Shine
Recently launched Talentainer.com allows entertainers to post videos of their latest and greatest acts in hopes of landing new gigs. Since the site debuted, it has attracted award-winning comedians, magicians and other “event enhancers”. Talentainer.com is a new video-centric website offering live entertainers an opportunity to showcase a bit of their magic, placing it before legions of event planners who are searching for world-class entertainers to populate corporate events and gatherings, to entertain stadiums filled with fans during half-time shows, to fill cruise ships with masterful entertainment, and to fulfill other venues.
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Paul Daniels performs a nifty magic trick. http://video.unrulymedia.com/wildfire_3542373.js?vn=sCFeR-1219415494627
Dynamo Works his Magic on a Nokia
Some people are born with magic in their fingertips. The rest of us have to download it… Check out the full length film on the Nokia Connectors site, where you can also uncover the secrets behind the magic, download free tricks for your phone, and win a Nokia 6220. Amazing! http://video.unrulymedia.com/wildfire_3483329.js?vn=sCFeR-1217407908543
Magic teaches us about human cognition
Another story from BoingBoing about a paper just published in Nature Neuroscience about the way that magic tricks illuminate the inner workings of human perception — the paper is co-authored by five magicians, including Teller of Penn and Teller. You can read more in an article from The Boston Globe and the actual article can be found here.
“Psychic” Uri Geller loses YouTube battle
From boingboing gadgets professional psychic Uri Geller and his company Explorologist Ltd., filed a DCMA takedown notice against the creators of a 13 minute YouTube video debunking Geller’s supernatural powers… a video which happened to contain a ten second copyrighted clip of one of his performances. Fair use, in other words. The EFF representing Brian Sapient made Geller withdraw, and settled their legal battle and also they made him license the clip in question as non-commercial Creative Commons so as to freely aid the efforts of other skeptics.
Jack Parker Video Marathon
Tomorrow marks a year ago on the 30th June 2007 that Jack Parker passed away. To celebrate his magic Andi Gladwin is running a week long Jack Parker Video Marathon. Every day he will share a video of Jack’s magic including videos of tricks that Jack only shared with two or three magicians. Andi’s blog post tells you more and the video’s can be found here, with a great one to start the series:
Losander Needs Our Help
Straight from Dirk Losander himself: I Need Your Help. Our little baby “Ione” was born 6 days ago. Today we found out she needs a heart operation and our insurance is not going to pay for it. I am not writing you this to beg for money but if you need to buy something from my website now would be the time to help us out. Every Dollar counts and we really need all the support we can find right now!
Magic Channel Launches
Foreign BBC correspondent and magician Geoff Harrison has launched what is claimed to be the world’s first magic channel, tvmagicians.com. The site, part of Global Digital Broadcast’s IPTV network Play TV UK, will feature magicians’ showreels, effects demonstrations, industry secrets and related material. The site will host sub channels on jazz, independent films, nightclubs and other entertainment. Content will come from Harrison’s company TV World Productions and magic specialists Party PR, Club Chiva and Penguin Magic.
Friendfeed for Magicians
Anyone else here on Friendfeed? In case you don’t know, Friendfeed is a new social site made by ex-google employees, you can see an introduction and explanation on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendfeed Recently they have implemented a Rooms function: http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008/05/get-room.html I have setup a magicians room here: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/magicians If you are into any of the Web2.0 sites like Twitter, Tumblr, Youtube, Google Reader, del.icio.us or any of the other 30+ sites that Friendfeed picks up, sign up for a Friendfeed account, add those services and then you can re-share that information or post it directly using the friendfeed bookmark into the magicians room, and share the magic based content you come across on a daily basis with all the other participants who can then comment and discuss the content in the room, I think its almost like having a huge collaborative blog that anyone with a friendfeed account can post too, pulling in content from these services or starting there own discussions, so you get the best of Youtube (you can watch the clips directly on the site), the best blog posts via google reader or tumblr or del.