Yellow Pages
Directory of Magic is a magic and magician web directory, offer you links to websites which provide information related to magic, magician and performers, magic equipment, magic cards ,coins, illusions, effects and so on.
Street Magic Magazine
Street Magic Magazine: The ULTIMATE magic magazine is here! In the premiere issues of Street Magic Magazine, you
Magic Convention Guide
Magic Convention Guide: a new site from my friend Noel Qualter. It will be the one-stop shop guide to all Magic Conventions, with News, Reviews, Photos, Interviews, Articles, Guides and Gossip. Check out the guide to surviving Blackpool, if you are going this weekend and also the interviews from Luke Jermay and Joshua Jay and Kevin McMahon’s First Ever visit to a Magic Convention. The site will be updated every Saturday, so make sure to keep visiting, and if you have any reports or photos from conventions, or you are organising a convention then be sure to let them know.
The Best Selling Book?
Erdnase: The Expert at the Card Table: Bill Kalush and The Conjuring Arts Research Centre have produced a pocket-sized edition of Erdnase, you can see photos of this edition and all the other editions, and purchase your copy for only $15. The site also promises Essays and a Forum soon.
Magic Wiki
Magic Sanctum is a collaborative project to create the most definitive, accurate, and accessible encyclopedia reference for everything related to the performance and performers of the magical arts.
Sneaker Magic
Sneaker Magic: See Dynamo perform his sneaker magic advertising Adidas’s new brand of trainers.
The Genii Speaks
The Genii Blog: a new blog by Richard Kaufman, extending his Genii Speaks column into the online blog world. No RSS feed yet but hopefully should be forthcoming. Some interesting magic and film and disney posts.
Magic Times with MagicTimes
MagicTimes: Meir Yedid’s popular magic news site is back. After a short break from the strain of daily-updates, Meir now has an automated system up that scrapes Yahoo!, Google etc. looking for Magic related news. As such you do get the odd story not related to Magic as an art, but still very much worth a read.
Open Letter from Steve Johnson
Edit: Seems like there maybe two sides to this story, check out Inside Magic for the scoop. While browsing the web recently I discovered something troubling. I saw an e-book being sold that contained several routines for an invisible thread reel. The names of the tricks were identical to the names of the routines that were published in my 1991 book, “Floating Freely in a Fine Fashion”. This prompted me to dig my book out of the word processor archives and review it’s contents.
Roundabout Magic
Giacomo Bertini: Watch some excellent coin magic from Giacomo Bertini of Florence, Italy, and purchase his DVD. He wants to introduce you to new techniques and a new way of doing coin magic. He has some great quotes from Steve Draun, David Roth and Michael Rubinstein. You can watch his version of Spellbound, Matrix and Portable Hole, his DVD promises new equipments, vanishes, steals, fake transfers, switches and productions!
Magic, News, Information & Culture
iTricks: Andrew Mayne brings you itricks.com Magic News, Information & Culture. The goal of itricks.com is to bring to you the latest news and information from the world of magic.
Poetic, Beautiful and Magical
Jerome Murat: a clip of an act I was fortunate to see twice live this year, once at Blackpool and again at FISM, its an awesome act very beautiful and just simply magical, if you get to see the whole thing live its even better than this short clip, but this gives you some idea.
DailyMotion: Mogwai08
Card Videos: some very nice card videos from a french user of video-sharing site DailyMotion.
Psychological Manipulation
Playing Mind Games: an article on the BBC site about how magic can be used in different contexts, from explotation, for both virtuous and criminal purposes. Also the article mentions David Copperfields Project Magic and more immediate uses for the art.
Secret Center
A Safe Haven For Your Magick Secrets: New forum that includes password-protected forums for products such as Think Pink, Electric Touch, Believe and Tony Millers Wallets.
Appalachian mountain step dancing
The Clog: Andi Gladwin, Tyler Wilson and Luke Dancy have started a collaborative blog (or Clog). Welcome to the fold fellow-bloggers and I couldn’t think of three better minds in magic to join together in such a venture. They have already put up some thought provoking posts, which are generating lots of comments, check out Tyler’s post on the double-undercut, and Andi’s posts on Magic Clubs and Crediting, and Luke’s first contribution contains some of his out-of-the-box thinking on a couple of standard plots, well worth the read and I look forward to future posts!
Indecent Proposal
Here we are on the eve before the launch of yet another well-hyped trick, yet somehow this one seems to have come full circle even before the official release date. For those that aren’t aware yet (you mean you haven’t been listening to the Podcasts?) Wayne Houchin of Sinful and Stigmata fame is releasing his Indecent trick tomorrow via DVD and Download over at Ellusionist. The trick is basically card into Ziplock bag.
FISM 2006 TV
Daily Motion: More clips from FISM 2006 on Daily Motion, already on there are performances from Rick Merrill, Shawn Farquhar, David Stone and Helder Guimaraes.
The Session 2
The Session 2 takes place on January 20-21 2007 in a new venue, The Holiday Inn in Gloucester. Already booked are Allan Ackerman, Paul Cummins, Luke Dancy, Jon Armstrong and Robert Moreland. You shouldn’t need any more reasons to register than that list of names, but the organisers assure me there are more to come. The last convention sold out so register now to avoid dissapointment.
PhoneCam Magic
PhoneCam Magic: Marco Tempest the Virtual Magician has started to put up some clips on YouTube of magic done using only his phone camera to video them. There are no edits or post-production. Check them out they may even fool you!