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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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: An audio mp3 download, for $10. Karl Norman talks about bar magic, the Forks Hotel, Eddie Fechter and the FFFF convention.
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.
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: [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!
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!
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 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!
Express Radio: a new Magic Radio show, promising contests, guest hosts, an archive for missed shows, and a forum to allow listeners to feedback.
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!