Knuckle Busters: is a new site from Bobby Gill. It lists various card videos in different categories. Some free tricks you can obtain, references to recommended card items, and promises a forum and online store very soon.
5 Card Trick Update
A recent discussion on Metafilter of Fitch Cheney’s Five Card Trick. Other updated links of interest are a discussion on Colm Mulcahy’s site, a brief mention on Anne Schilling’s site and a very interesting but mathematically bias PDF paper. Colm also mentions that a version with 4 cards can be found in the recently published Puzzlers Tribute and there is a website to do the 4 card version online. Lastly I blogged a couple of links a while back, one to the 5 Card version and a detailed expose of the method.
Magic Video Depot: The return of the old cardflourish site, with over 150 videos online and a message forum.
Magic Community: a new magic BBS incorporating a beginners section, an advanced section and a reviews sections.
Cyber-Magicians.com: A new close-up e-zine from Shaun Steel in PDF format. The first issue features Lee Hathaway, Zenneth Kok, Peter Duffie, Shaun Steel and Andi Gladwin.
Video Clip Bonanza!
Trickery’s ShowTheatre - Magic Demonstrations: Lots of Video clips of various tricks, sorted into categories and brought to you by The Trickery.
Denis Behr’s Video Clips: Windows Media video clips of card and coin moves.
The Flourishman: A hard-back book by Jerry Cestkowski on card flourishes. Read the table of contents and the foreword, see a preview and order the book online.
Ron Bauer’s Private Studies Series: A companion site to Ron’s manuscripts, you can see details of each manuscript, download video clips of the moves involved, purchase the scripts and check on promotional offers.
2 Years On...
Wow… it has come around again, today the blog is 2 years old, and I am cough..25..cough.. As you can see the blog has a new template which I have been testing for the past couple of days, and it now runs on the Nucleus Content Management System. Please let me know if you have any problems with the template or the new system. I’ve been very happy with Blogger, but I just felt that having a PHP host and not running my own CMS was a bit of a waste, and it also gives me better control, and more flexibilty, and in a months time Nucleus will also run the HMC site.
Be a Genius
Card Memorisation: Learn to memorise playing cards, this site will teach you the Bob Farmer Playing Card Mnemonic System as published in his Flim-Flam column. You can then go on and learn a trick utilising your new found power! It is also worth checking out the rest of the site for other mental and memory tricks, tips and links.
Cap Cuts: Some RealMedia videos of Flourishy Card Cuts.
The Magic Den: Brand new card magic booklets at very cheap prices, also watch video clips and learn some new sleights and tricks.
Expert Magic: A new magic site with polls, forums, videos, chat and a newsletter. The site sometimes crashes my browser, not sure if its a problem with the quicktime movie, but just be warned, other than that its a good looking site.
Playing with Matches: A cool little bit of business with a book of matches, shows you how to light a match from a matchbook with one hand.
The Joining: is Jeff Pierce’s ring on rubberband manuscript, that you can download as a PDF for a small payment.
Aaron Fisher: is a 26 year old card magician, who is about to release his first book ‘The Paper Engine’. Find out the scoop on the book, and order it and his International Lecture video online.
Simon Aronson: has a new site address, now .net instead of .com. Find out about Side-Swiped, a marketed version of ‘This Side Up.’ Also read his Linking Ring Biography. Lastly don’t forget to visit the Magicians Only section for two new tricks with the Aronson Stack and to download his ‘Memories are Made of This’ lecture notes.
Cold Reading Strategies Word Document: This Word Document is written by Chris A. Roe from the University College Northampton and is a very well researched paper on Cold Reading, setting out all the different strategies that are used. If you don’ t have Word you can use the Google HTML copy.
Magic: New Tricks of the Trade: Short MSNBC news article on what could possibly be the magic of the future.