Well we got here, after leaving home this morning around 8:00am and its now 7:00pm Swedish time, we took a plane from Humberside, to Schipol, then from Schipol to Stockholm, a short train ride and we are in our Hotel, the SAS Radisson Viking, which has free WiFi internet, and we have a laptop, so hopefully you can expect regular postings with photos etc.! We register tomorrow and hopefully take a guided tour of Stockholm by boat, then the conference starts on Monday.
As you may have noticed I have been absent from posting for a couple of months, again life is getting in the way and other priorities take over, I have been saving up the magic links I have come across however and basically posted them all today in one fell swoop, so at least that should clear my backlog. Obviously the next big thing is FISM which starts on the 6th anniversary of this blog (and also my 29th birthday… I feel old!
LSP: is a french magic site that features some great video-clips including some clips from Arnaud Chevrier who goes by the handle Twins who’s work has also been featured on the MagicVideoDepot. Also if you can speak French check out the rest of the site for reviews, interviews and a forum.
Decknique: a Magic and XCM card video site, featuring video clips, products and forums.
Rai.It Media: is an Italian site with some interesting magical video clips, including Robert Giobbi, Max Maven, Mago Anton, Paul Wilson and Stevie Starr.
Gregory Lee: check out Gregory’s video’s he has a couple of clips of Copperfield, and some of himself showing various effects, colour-changes, sleights and moves.
Tom Wolf’s Blinkshift: Tom’s new tabled shift saw print in the March issue of Genii, go to his site to watch him do the move, along with some other very nice video’s of Tom doing various moves and routines.
Sleight Club Show: a new podcast from Chris Wilcox interviewing a number of top magicians, his list so far includes Lee Asher, Yigal Mesika, Kenton Knepper, Richard Osterlind, Michael Close and Harry Riser. I had a bit of trouble getting episodes 5&6 to play in Winamp or on my MP3 player, now it could just be me, but in-case you have the same trouble, rename them to .WMV and play them through Windows Media Player or download a WMV to MP3 converter which seemed to do the trick for me!
Jay Sankey’s Free Lecture Notes are available until Midnight on July 31st. Download for free and enjoy a dozen tricks varying from close-up, stage, childrens and mentalism, a great read and a wonderful gift from a very funny magician.
Tom Bullivant’s Unicycle Page: his spot on the internet devoted to the mystical art of unicycling. Here you will find information, photos, videos, links and much more about unicycling.
Ricky Jay stars in ESP Billy: MSN have put out some short Messenger Movies featuring Ricky Jay as a psychic who works through MSN Messenger! Subscribe and view the movies through Messenger.
Ron Allesi’s International Magic Auction: a new magic auction site featuring new, used, rare, vintage and antique props and books.
Royal Flush: a new trick entitled Royal Flush from Chamber Magic. Maybe not quite suitable for your next Kids show but would probably go down a storm down the Pub!
Tom Frank’s new weblog after his move from Seattle to LA, Tom’s blog is always a good read as he writes about his magic, his life in general and posts photos and movie clips of his magic.
MAGIC LIVE!…Magic On The Beach: An American magician, Adam Steinfeld travels the world. Read about his travels and watch video clips of his show.
Magic of Paul Harris: a new Paul Harris fan-site with references to all his publications and tricks, a short bio and pictures.
Ford Magic Sweepstakes: Penn & Teller play golf with Johnny Miller in the Ford Magic Sweepstakes, watch the videos and then enter the sweepstake to take a look behind the scenes.
Dominatricks is Tyler Wilson’s new book published by Andi Gladwin. I will hopefully try and do a full review later, but for now, two words: BUY IT! Ok you might be saying but who is this Tyler Wilson? I first became aware of him through TSD and his submissions to the forum and to Genii and MAGIC magazine. I hadn’t met him till Andi brought him over for The Session convention, and I was blown away.
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.
Rumours of our death have been slightly exaggerated, but thanks to Tim for the prompt to post at least a holding message. Once again life has taken over and posting hasn’t happened for a while, I refer the gentle reader to the about page and plead guilty to neglecting my duties. So whats been happening and whats coming up, without boring you too much, I am now a CIW Associate which meant quite a bit of studying culminating in a week long study session down in Wolverhampton, followed by an online exam… so my brain is a bit fried… I now continue on to hopefully become a Master CIW Designer :-/ Then I had to finish up publishing the next issue of The Oracle including extra tribute material to Arthur.