Interesting Article On Magicians & Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property Among Magicians Finance Blog – Market Movers by Felix Salmon: Intellectual Property Among Magicians – Portfolio.com. Tags: Magic, Magicians, Secrets
Month: September 2007
Al Capone’s Vault – The Magic Version
For those either too old or too young to remember, Al Capone’s Vault was a TV Special aired in 1986, hosted by Geraldo Rivera. Here’s the promo: The two hour special was greatly hyped as potentially revealing great riches or bodies on live television. This included the presence of a medical examiner should …
26 reasons why men have 2 dogs and not 2 wives:
1 The later you are, the more excited your dogs are to see you. 2. Dogs will forgive you for playing with other dogs. 3. If a dog is gorgeous, other dogs don’t hate it. 4. Dogs don’t notice if you call them by another dog’s name. 5. Dogs like it if you leave a …
Quick Review – Jim Steinmeyer’s Bunko
From the web site: BUNKO Jim’s new shortchange effect is a remarkable close-up routine. The effect is tremendous, writes Richard Kaufman. Bunko is a perfect example of close up magic theater. An intriguing story draws the spectators in and then wallops them with magic. Twenty dollars in change (five singles, three fives) changes to $19, …
Confession – I’m a hobbyist magician
Cover your children’s eyes and ears. I’m coming out of the closet. I am a hobbyist and unabashedly proud of it. This week I was working on John Kennedy’s excellent Translocation. I have the lecture notes and put John Mendoza’s DVD in the player to watch his variation on it. While this DVD set is …
The Geller Legacy
It’s amazing, to me, that more than 30 years after Uri Geller made headlines that his name is still solely synonymous with Psychokinesis. This YouTube video is a good example: THE UNEXPLAINED: The bizarre case of psychokinetic Ninel Kulagina The ongoing fascination with PK should make every magician have a believable routine in his repertoire …
