Ye Olde Magick Blogge

Phew! It’s all done.
As you can imagine, there are plenty of other videos besides the ones that got featured on their own days this month. I don’t know if everybody will agree with my choices… and if not, well, hopefully this will assuage some criticism.
Here’s Al Schneider performing a relatively abbreviated version of the Cups [...]

Sorry that these haven’t been coming out exactly at the end of their respective weeks. This has proven to be a bit more difficult to keep up-to-date on than I had expected.
When Bill Palmer heard that I had a Benson Bowl routine that was going to be featured soon, he got in touch with me [...]

Sorry, this one is a couple of days late.
Kent Gunn was so excited about this particular video that he was practically talking in jive. Verbatim, from Kent…
I dig it ’cause . . . Freakin’ Hatch is the schnizzle. German-translatin’ Card College bringin’ to us mac-daddy ‘o magic.
Hatch is the dude. He may be one of [...]

As I mentioned before, I’m opening up the blog this month to include submissions from people so long as they’re cups and balls related somehow. Here’s stuff that’s been sent in so far…
Bri, known as “mindyourmagic” on the Magic Cafe, runs a website called cupsandballsmagic.com, and it’s got articles, news, videos and reviews related to [...]

This is neat. Jon Racherbaumer did a small feature on Jay Ose, and included this video showing Jay Ose doing a gambling demonstration for Joan Blondell in a promotional film for “The Cinncinati Kid”, where he was a performer and consultant. Perhaps most interesting is the fact that, for that film, he actually was a [...]

Here’s an interview with Penn Jillette. A while ago, I used to love Penn and Teller. Then, when I became interested in performing magic and was confronted with the problems of exposure, I hated them. Then, after that, when I got over my own failings and just learned to construct better magic, I grew to [...]

It’s a thankless job saying what needs to be said.
In university, I was affiliated with the student-run paper, and early on I somehow got roped into doing editorial cartoons. I was never very good at the art side of it, although I could fake it well enough (as can be seen in the old Ye [...]

  Having magic on a daytime TV talk show isn't new, but it appears that Ellen DeGeneres has shown more interest than most in getting magicians who aren't ...

Here's a sobering quote from John Carney's Carneycopia. It's in the middle of some commentary aimed at the current magic scene. There also exist collectors of secrets who hoard ...

Some guys in my local circle of magician buddies have been getting the damp jeans over Paul Vigil's trick Diplopia. I don't want to refer to them directly ...