The magician whose greatest illusion was death
The Great Lafayette: A recent article from the Scotsman on the story of The Great Lafayette, with quotes from our very own Arthur Setterington who wrote a book on his life.
Japanese Magic
Two more weird Japanese magic video clips that have been doing the rounds on the boards, thanks to the guy’s at Genii and TSD for bringing them to my attention, if you have not seen them they are well worth the download: The Lean and Chopsticks.
The Magician's Hidden Library
Magic Words & Magic Archetypes: Two new books that you can read for free online, or purchase hard-copies. Magic Words is a one-of-a-kind resource for magicians and word lovers, exploring the most intriguing magic words and phrases from around the world. Magic Archetypes explores how magical props, as symbols, point beyond themselves to the larger mystery.
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Paul Daniels Diary: The day to day ramblings of a professional magician. Paul has started writing his own journal/blog. Its an interesting read, with some possibly controversial thoughts.
Feenx
Gregg Webb E-books: download Gregg’s Feen-x, The Book that Doesn’t Exist and Society of Sleight of Hand Artists, as $15.95 e-books, you can view a table of contents for each volume in PDF format. You may also be interested in his The Book that Casts No Reflection available from The Magic Depot.
Podcasting and Magic
So what is Podcasting? If you read the Wikipedia link this pretty much covers it, basically it is the combination of a created Audio file (usually an MP3 file) and the ability to publish this file within a RSS/ATOM syndication feed, so users can keep track of seperate feeds and if using podcatching software, download the audio automatically, and in some cases transfer it to their personal audio players. Usually the audio files consist of talking and/or music, usually on a specific subject.
Podcast: Go Magic Go
Go Magic Go: The independent Podcast for Magicians, with hosts Andrew Payne and Keith Barber. Four shows up so far talking about things as diverse as Derren Brown, Andre Kole, Criss Angel, and various product and show reviews.
Podcast: S.A.M. 2006 Convention
S.A.M. Convention: Regular audio updates on the 2006 S.A.M. convention to be held in Louisville, KY. Also if you have the ability to listen to a podcast, they are syndicating this through audioblog.
Karl Norman- Life, Magic and The Forks Hotel
Karl Norman- Life, Magic and The Forks Hotel: An audio mp3 download, for $10. Karl Norman talks about bar magic, the Forks Hotel, Eddie Fechter and the FFFF convention.
Teach in Theater
Teach in Theater: Glenn Bishop’s Teach In Theater, lots of free teach-in videos, includes Advanced Ace Assembly, Triumph Poker Stack, Coins to Glass and Christ Aces amongst others, well worth the time to download.
More Radio Magic
Radio Magic: Jay Fortune’s new Radio Show broadcast on Magic Broadcast and Kool AM, live on Magic Broadcast every Monday evening at 8pm UK Time, and then repeated on Kool AM throughout the week.
Bouncing Money
Bouncing Money: [WMV] short 2 minute video file, not magic but very cool! Some guys filmed themselves bouncing coins into various receptacles, this has to be watched!
Txt 2 Wn
Win Magic Tricks: Send a Text Message to 60999 with the text WIN MAGIC costs are £1.00+usual text fee, brought to you by the owners of World Magic Shop, the competition will run on a month to month basis, and you can enter as many times as you want, they have some cool prizes on offer. Caveat, only open to over 16s and doesn’t seem to be available for T-Mobile which is what I am on Update: Just been informed by Costas one of the guy’s behind the site that it does work with T-Mobile, will have to give it a whirl!
You won't feel the benefit!
Men in Coats: [WMV File] hilarious video clip of the Men in Coats, these guys do hilarious silent comedy/magic dressed in parka jackets, you have to see it to understand, very cool!
Oneclick Magic
Oneclick Magic: Oneclick Experimental Radio for the BBC hosts a magic show set in a pub with a real live audience. The show is only available till tommorrow (26/07) so listen to it while you can, it features Sav, Dynamo, Chris Cox and Ali Cook, some interesting audience reactions and some obvious magic themed music!
Video Killed the Radio Star
Express Radio: a new Magic Radio show, promising contests, guest hosts, an archive for missed shows, and a forum to allow listeners to feedback.
Very Fast Food!
Hamburger Trick: [4mb WMV File] link to a video clip of what looks like a foreign candid-camera type show, where a person proceeds to pull a hamburger from a sign on the wall! Almost like the Paul Zenon idea of pulling the tax disc through the car windscreen, looks very cool!
A Hundred Years of Magic
A Hundred Years of Magic: An article from The Sun newspaper, featuring Marc Paul talking about The Magic Circle Centenary, along with a 7 minute video clip of Marc performing some mind reading and magic.
Circus Museum
Circus Museum: A dutch Circus site featuring Posters and Photographs of Circus, Magicians, Freaks, Jugglers, Clowns and Acrobats. A rough translation of some text from the front page: an image bank with posters and photographs from the collection of the best, and the largest collections of the Netherlands. Now online almost 8000 circusposters, from 1880 up to present, from the Netherlands to America, from A2 up to some square meters. Features an excellent flash navigation system allowing you to select the posters and to zoom in to see more detail.
Smell the Woodchip...
Building Magic: forum for people interested in building magic props.