Major Arcana Magazine 4 Part Article on Card Tricks and Cheating:
(link courtesy of Peter Duffie).
Peter Duffie’s Alternative Magic: Peter has just posted his May update, the site is set to be updated more than once a month, so keep your eyes on it. This update includes a new trick a new section and updates to his Select Secrets section. A really great site!
Free PDF: Great piece of software and tutorial on how to create PDF files for FREE! You don’t have to have the Acrobat Writer which costs $$$ Just follow this tutorial, and download the three pieces of software, and you can write your own PDF files. Its a bit fiddly to setup, but once it is, its as easy as sending your document to print and voila a PDF file!
Two links courtesy of usr/bin/girl: The Stick Figure Tarot: Tarot deck based on the rider-waite deck, but drawn as stick figures!
Yamaha Papercraft: Some seriously tough looking origami of rare animals and motorbikes.
Deadpan Humor from Steven Wright: Very funny Steven Wright Observations.
Magic tricks, learn street card tricks - free Ellusionist video: On the back of David Blaine’s success this company are selling a Street Magic Video, learn to become just like Blaine. I can tell you for free, just forget all your presentational and entertainment skills and next time you do a card effect all you have to say is “Watch!” in next to no time you too will have your own TV Special that contains no magic and has shots of you trapped in a giant icecube… good eh!
Puns: Word plays; Other Nonsense and Foolishness; Humor; Jokes; Good Clean Fun - Volume 1a.
Baltimore City Paper: Pranks for the Memories (April 18 - April 24, 2001): Top Ten Prank Calls. Also check out Tom Mabe and his revenge on those blooming TeleMarketers.
Blank King Magic!: Another lame exposure site, why do little kids with a copy of Frontpage think they can expose magic to all and sundry, and then moan on established bulletin boards that there site is not getting the hits it deserves! (link via Kevin James Webboard).
Wonder Stuff: A new magical dealer from Australia, selling professional magic by professionals. I saw Sean Taylor dem their new items, very effective stuff, will be interesting to see what else they have in the works.
Northern Magic Circle: I’m off to the Easter Parade, to compete in the Closeup Competition, wish me luck! Expect a report when I get back and I also have big plans ahead hopefully for this blog, expect some more news next week.
foreword.com - dotcomments: Testing out the new comments system, we didn’t have any old comments apart from tests so I changed over to this ‘dotcomments’ system, a bit better than the old one, and it’s still in development, so hopefully we should see some good improvements, so please use this comments feature!
Paul Zenon: UK Magician Paul Zenon’s new site. Very well designed I like it a lot!
J.B.T.V.: JokeBox Magic T.V., various videoclips of magic sold by JokeBox Magic.
Dick Barry’s “Magic Catalog of Magic Tricks”: Some very creative and original tricks for sale.
Welcome to Dover Publications: Dovers new website, order the magic reprints that they publish.
BOOFOO’S TOP MAGIC SITES: 50 of the Top Magic Sites, I assume these are ranked by visitors to the sites. Never the less some good links and some not so good!
Raven Magic: Raven Magic have just updated their site with some new original magic effects.
Andi Gladwin’s Trick & Treat: This is the new site to go along side Andi’s monthly newsletter Trick&Treat, it includes a free trick and news on Andi and magic in general, a very good read, and all for FREE! Sign up now on the website as the next issue is out April 1st.
gadly magazine: is here, subscribe now for the May issue.