TSD Convention Review: Jason Alford’s review of the TSD convention, I will do my review shortly when I have a spare moment and I have my photos developed.
Uber Magic: Magic news and Trick Reviews. Running some kind of blogging software, we have found ourselves another magic weblog!
TrickTV: From the same guys at Alakazam comes TrickTV a new site showing video clips of tricks new and old. Also features another magic forum.
Countdown… TSD Con.: What can I say but OMG! We fly Thursday get back Tuesday, look out for a huge report on here when I get back, hopefully including photos! I think the most nerve racking thing will be getting to Gatwick on the Thameslink, not been round London all that much, should be easy enough though [fingers crossed], then I meet up with Andi and we fly to Cincinatti and then change to New Orleans… and we stay in the convention hotel its all been organised pretty quickly, but I’m really looking forward to it!
Magic and Software Design: A paper on using magical theories for software and graphical interface design.
PasteBoard Pimps: Lonnie Dilan’s new card site, view some video clips of his card magic.
Magic Auction and Beyond: New Magic Auction site.
Magic Laboratory: a new company formed by Gordon Bean and Larry Horowitz, their first product is ‘Stars’ a cute packet effect, you can read the instructions online, purchase the cards and see video clips of the variations.
Performers.Net: The online community for international variety performers. The site is mainly for street performers and includes a great library of articles and an online discussion forum.
MagicAuction.biz: A new online UK based Magic Auction brought to you by James Anthony of Magic World.
Dante King: A brilliant new card site, contains high quality videos of original sleights and effects, a message forum and soon an online store.
Magic Land: A magic epicenter. Contains a good beginners section, some interviews and up-to-date news.
Magic Patter: a site containing various ideas for your patter, similar to the Mypatter site I blogged a while ago.
The Encyclopedia of Card Shooting: A photo/video guide to shooting cards with all fingers, plus tips on catching and variations along with tricks and links.
An Old card trick and a New Biblical Hoax: John Allen Paulos is a mathematician at Temple University, here he writes about a card trick and how it can generate coincidences. He then goes on to say that this could be used in a new religious hoax!
Bob Lancaster’s Unusual Gallery of Playing Cards: Not magic as such but if you are interested in Cards as much as I am, then this might give you some ideas.
Virtual Magie: if you can read french then this site is worth a look, also check out Plick Magie, Climagic and Magies.
Funny Frank: Frank Olivier is a comic juggler and magician. His homepage contains some jokes, juggling resources and a few novel online magic effects.
Illusion Entertainment Forum: A new magic bulletin board dedicated to Stage and Illusion discussion.