Blanchards World of Magic: Peter Blanchards site, Peter is the magic writer for Worlds Fair, his personality parade makes for some very interesting reading along with his indepth news.

PH Marketing: Paul Hallas’s new website for PH Marketing. Contains his exclusive magic range.

St. Louis Magic - Home Page: New online magic store with some unique original products.

unicycles.org.uk: Learning to ride could be my summer project if its nice weather, I’ve read it should take between 5-9 hours to learn, guess I will need to aquire one first.

The European Unicycle Convention, Eurocycle: To be held in Plymouth at the end of July.

Edge of Reality: Aaron Sheilds new site, details his three new manuscripts.

Barbelith: Magick: Tarot in a nutshell: Article on Tarot from Barbelith Underground.

Yahoo! Groups : Sadowitz: A new Yahoo! Group setup by Cardie to discuss Magician and Comedian Jerry Sadowitz.

Show profiles master of camouflage: Article about History’s Mysteries ‘The War Illusionist’ documentary that aired on the History Channel. Got to see this last night at our committee meeting as our president was involved and stars quite a bit in the programme.

An excellent documentary about how English Magician Jasper Maskelyne helped in WW2, he setup an experimental camouflage team and using his magical knowledge ultimatley helped the allies gain victory in North Africa. I won’t spoil it all but I thought the best bit was his use of Black Art principles to help hide the Suez Canal! Get to see this if you can. Also Hollywood have plans to make a big movie from this story, and in a bizzare casting decision Tom Cruise will be playing the part of Maskelyne.

The Art of the Solo Performer: Free book download, it weighs in at a hefty 6mb, and is essentially about a guitarist but I think it contains some lessons for all performers.

David Andora’s Magic on the Edge: Magic on the Edge, get information on David’s shows, download screensavers, read his journal and await his new site which promises quicktime movies.

The Comedy and Magic of John Carney: Watch out for John’s new book ‘Secrets’.

Faust: Granville Taylor was briefly a member of HMC quite a few years ago when he did his degree at Hull Uni. We had him back to lecture for this years ‘Presidents Night’. Very interesting stuff, talked about his full evening show, and about his propmaking.

Boris Wild: Home Page of Boris Wild, look out for his B.W. Marked Deck coming soon to Camirand Magic.

Well to cheer me up I checked out Blackpool Magicians’ Club and their new website and it gives tentative details about their 50th convention to be held 22-24th Feb 2002. All I can say is if the programme holds half of what they are saying then this will be a convention you do NOT want to miss! Check out the names, Juan Tamariz, Lennart Green, Jay Sankey, David Williamson, Simo Aalto, Bob Sheets, Michael Ammar, Jeff McBride (subject to Las Vegas Contract), Peter Marvey (doing his flying!), Jim Cellini, Joe Pasquale, Juliana Chen etc. What a line up! Plus if you pre-register with a Gold Card you get a free ‘Blackpool Bafflers’ book featuring routines and a look back on the last 49 conventions. All I can say is where do I sign-up, I will be there, and this time Andi I won’t be going to bed so you have been warned

Its been a depressing few weeks for the Magic Community, first Jerry Camero, then Olde Rabbit from MagicTalk, then Mike Rogers and Ben Stone and to cap it all off with the biggest shock for me, earlier this week a member of our Hull Magicians’ Circle, Roger Strachan. I just can’t believe I was talking to him not 5 days earlier at our AGM… There must be a heck of a magic session going on up there, rest in peace you guys.

fork-you.com: Not quite the type of metal bending us magicians are used to, but some interesting sculptures all the same!

Ah-ha Entertainment!: Homepage of Eric Anderson.

Magical Tools: The website of Card Magician Wesley James, includes the products that he has for sale.

Simon Aronson Home Page: Simon’s new home page, has details of his NEW book ‘Try the Impossible’ which looks incredible, I have Simon’s other books and if they are anything to go by this will be a must!