Rapid Magic: A great introduction to card magic, showing basic handling and grips. Also takes you through lots of different sleights with photos and finally gives you some tricks to do with your new found knowledge. You can then discuss this in the forum or the chat room and finish off by reading some reviews of tricks and videos currently on the market.
SeeMagic: is a great place to watch performance videos of famous Magicians. From the same stable as Alakazam and TrickTV you can watch such Magicians as Peter Duffie, Etienne Pradier, Robin Robertson and Randy Wakeman.
Darro’s Den: Lennie Darro’s new magic site, contains tricks from George McBride, Jamie Badman, Peter Duffie, Val Le-Val, Gordon Bruce and Gavin Ross. Also has Photos of magicians, reviews, history and problems-posed.
Idiots on Unicycles: Lots of great photos of people unicycling over rough terrain, and in various other locations!
FFFF 2002 Mike Powers Pictures: Mike’s Pictures of FFFF 2002 organised by day, some very interesting commentary as well.
Healed and Sealed: You may have read all the controversy about dealers selling rip-off’s of this effect, see Tim Ellis’s parody page. Basically it is the Can effect that David Blaine performed on his latest special, of the can uncrushing and then re-sealing. This is the Original from the creator Anders Moden, I first read this on the EG where it was posted as Shareware Magic, its a genius effect that has been taking the Magic world by storm when Tim showed it at FFFF and in his lectures. Buy the original and support the creators of Magic.
Faro Shuffler: An online faro calculator that uses images of cards, gives you the option to do an In/Out shuffle and move various cards. Also has built-in the Aronson and Nikola stacks and New Deck Order and Reverse NDO.
The Imp: A four page online magic magazine, similar in style to the small magazines that came out from the thirties to the late eighties e.g. The Jinx, The New Phoenix, Mahatma, Swami/Mantra etc.
Zippo Tricks: Similar to the pen twirling sites I have blogged in the past, tricks to do with your zippo lighter.
FFFF 2002 Pictures: Robin Dawes has posted some photos from the 2002 FFFF convention, log in to Dotphoto using the username Robin Dawes and the password Obie.
Magic Daves Magic Site: Download Dave’s memorized deck utility to help you learn any memorized stack. This site will also be home to his Mundane Magic Monthly a magic e-zine that will have absolutely no magic tricks or theory in it. What it will have is still a mystery, even to the editors, the first issue is expected in July.
Martins Misdirections: is a funny online comic strip written by James Burk it features Martin the Magician and his rabbit Thurston. (link courtesy of OzMagic)
Sweet Cents: Andrew J. Pinard’s Sweet Cents routine that appeared in the May 2002 issue of MAGIC magazine. The online version contains more photos, and a full description of his I-Quit-ment move.
Paper Engineer’s Workshop: Keisuke Saka’s paper engineering, contains some links to free model downloads.
Magic Online: A new uk magic news page, updated every monday, includes a magic shop, magicians only section and magical downloads.
The Onion - Magic Store Employee: Very funny spoof news article from The Onion, if you are offended by The Onion don’t read, otherwise…
Magic Bunny: The Magic Bunny online discussion forum.
Online Card Sleights Database: Links to online movies of card sleights, counts, changes, switches, cuts and deals.
Gathering for Gardner: is a bi-annual puzzle/magic invitation only convention, has links to puzzles, magic, optical illusions etc.
Dream and Magic: New UK site offering e-books and free articles/tricks. The first e-book ‘Little Wonders’ contains 8 packet effects, some utilising novel cards, along with an essay on how to make your own custom cards.