Over the years we all hear of moves which are performed so well by certain magicians that their name becomes synonymous with the sleight or routine: Albert Goshman – Spellbound Don Alan – Chop Cup Ken Krenzel – Classic Pass Chris Capehart – 3 Ring Routine Slydini – Lapping Steve Brooks – His Jabba the [...]
Nothing to do with magic. Just a joke I liked: A husband takes his wife to play her first game of golf. Of course, the wife promptly hacked her first shot right through the window of the biggest house adjacent to the course. The husband cringed, “I warned you to be careful! Now we’ll have [...]
Recently, I’ve been inundated by actors turned magicians and their clone lectures. Basically, they all have the same premise: you can take the lamest piece of shit imaginable and through good staging and a well developed character you can have a great performance piece. Well, if you do this you know what you’ve got? A [...]
Parlour (or parlor), from the Fr. parler (“to speak”), denotes an “audience chamber,” but that is not the import of the Hebrew word so rendered. It corresponds to what the Turks call a kiosk, as in Judg. 3:20 (the “summer parlour”), or as in the margin of the Revised Version (“the upper chamber of cooling”), [...]
I see L & L is announcing 2 new video sets: Richard Osterlind’s Mind Mysteries Too Mind Mysteries Too continues on from the high-water mark set by the first Mind Mysteries series, one of the best-selling video sets in magic history. Transcending the [...]
It’s pretty easy to project ones own feelings on the rest of the world. Is it just me, or is the country in a deep, deep funk? Between that stupid war that G2 gave us, the hurricanes and the reaming we’re getting from the oil companies, there doesn’t seem much to get up for. It [...]
I’m sure most of us really love magic. Sometimes, actually frequently, we get diverted from the performance and study of a fascinating hobby / avocation / vocation and get bogged down in crap like I cover on this blog. Few people think they want to see magic. This is unfortunate, as most people genuinely enjoy [...]
If you’ve got a few minutes read this thread: http://geniimagazine.com/forum/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=001794;p=1 I haven’t dug too deeply into it, but basically it’s all about Rings and Things 2. They have their defenders and their detractors. Maybe somebody is right. I don’t know. Anyway, the thread gets going pretty good and Marcella Zimmerman, the main guru at RNT2 [...]