Las Vegas Card Expert
Allan Ackerman: Allan Ackerman’s new website, put together by Steve Draun. Order his DVDs, Books and Notes and watch some of the video clips sprinkled throughout the site.
Card Magic - Handled with Care
Jack’s Deck: Jack Parker’s new website, featuring his e-books Set to Stun, Ashes to Ashes and the start of his Explorations series. You can also watch video clips of some of the featured tricks, buy the manuscripts, see what Jack has had in print and sign up for his mailing list and recieve a free trick Kentucky Fried Aces.
The Buffalo Get-Together 2005
Buffalo Get-Together 2005: Pictures from the convention, featuring Bill Malone, Gordon Bruce, Gary Plants, Roger Klause, Tim Conover and a host of others.
Making Custom Card Boxes
Card Box Templates: PDF templates to allow you to make your own Card Cases. Templates for Poker and Bridge size, a template so you can make a case for any thickness of deck, and even a link to a generator program so you can make your own templates, plus full instructions on how to make the cases. Very useful if you have unusual decks, or you want say a blank case for your Mental Photography deck, or you want some other design on your case to go with a trick.
9th LA Conference on Magical History
Conference On Magic History: Photos from the recent Magic History Conference held in LA, taken by Damon Webster, and featuring our very own Eddie Dawes, and the Late Great Bob Read.
Mentalist Sanctum
Mentalist Sanctum: Steve Pellegrino’s new Mental forum, you can read about the idea behind the forum, register and join in the discussions.
Coin Snatching
Coin Snatching: Kip Pascal’s new book on coin snatching. Learn to snatch a coin from someones hand before they can react. Contains a chapter for magicians, and magician John Calvert’s, Calvert’s Claw routine.
Throwing Cards
Throwing Cards: The Museum of Throwing Cards and Related Magic Ephemera. See scans of personalised playing cards used by magicians to scale into the audience, usually to show-off their skill and dexterity and to prove that the cards were unprepared.
Tipping Mitt Magazine
Tipping Mitt: A Journal for the serious card student. This little magazine is published by my good friends Steve Reynolds and Trini Montes. I have had the pleasure of devouring the first 8 issues, now you can too, by downloading the back issues from the site. Once you have done that you can subscribe for $10 to recieve the next six issues in your mailbox.
Magic Interviews
Magic Interviews: Read and listen to interviews with noteworthy magicians. A new interview will be added each Sunday! Then post your comments. Most were originally published in the Boston Mini-Wizard, the newsletter of The John Calvert Boston Area Assembly of the Society of Young Magicians #29.
Update Complete
Its taken a while for the update to manifest itself, due to my lack of time at this busy period! The change over to the new server was very smooth thanks to the guy’s at Xcalibre I now have a sparkly new up-to-date version of PHP and GD, so you should notice that now you have to negotiate a CAPTCHA form for any comments or feedback you send me. Sorry that this has had to be done, but hopefully it will cut down the stupid amount of SPAM I was getting, I have already noticed a difference!
Downtime
Just to warn you there might be pending downtime whilst my account is migrated to a new server on my host, one running an up-to-date copy of PHP and GD so hopefully I can get a contact form and a comments form with CAPTCHA ability to stop some of the SPAM that has been coming in that way… will keep you updated.
The Session
The Session is a one day close-up magic convention in Gloucester, England focusing on the learning and sharing of superb magic in a relaxed and friendly environment. We are showcasing some of the most exciting new and established names in the world of magic. If you’re passionate about close-up magic then we look forward to welcoming you to the Session. It takes place in Newent, Gloucestershire on Jan 15th 2006, organised by my good friends Rob James and Andi Gladwin.
Cutlery Beware
Enter the Fork: Morgan Strebler’s new forum, talk about his dvd releases, general magic discussions, including specialist forums, and even one as you would expect on PK and Metal Bending.
Your sure of a big suprise!
The Magic Woods: A new magic forum, general forums, with reviews and articles available if you apply to join the special user group.
Bottling it...
Bottle Magic: Jeff Scanlan’s impossible bottles. Impossible puzzles, pieces of strange, Jeff seems to be able to stuff practically anything into a bottle, you can view the gallery of his work and purchase bottles.
Podcast: MagicTricks.co.uk
MagicTricks.co.uk Podcast: details of new products from Jay Sankey, Peter Eggink and a review of magic on TV.
The Heckler
The Heckler: Is Joshua Jay’s new short 6 minute film that features on his new DVD set, and can now be viewed on his website. See the guest appearence from Tony ‘Doomo’ Miler as the Heckler, can’t say too much more or it would spoil the plot, just go and watch!
Podcast: MagicBroadcast.com
MagicBroadcast Podcast: MagicBroadcast.com have just started a Podcast to compliment the 24/7 streaming broadcast. The episodes will contain clips from the shows, and extra material they didn’t get chance to air. The first episode features an interview from the IBM convention in Reno with Giovanni Livera.
Marlo - It's All in the Cards
David Solomon is all set to release an extremely exciting 2 disc DVD set which is a must for all lovers of card magic. Its a brand new documentary entitled “Marlo - It’s All in the Cards” and not only features the Maestro himself but many of the inner Chicago cardician group. There is previously unseen Marlo footage, a full documentary of his life in card magic plus a host of renowned Marlo students performing material.