Race through Ellusionist’s digital aisles: Details of 2009 Holiday Contest announced |
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November 12, 2009
The latest holiday contest has been announced, and it’s a good one. Because, like last year, there’s two.
As usual, you can buy your way into the special bracketed gifts, which include the elusive 1st edition Black Ghost decks. But if your order is chosen out of a drawing, you could win so much more, including uncut sheets, a year’s supply of Arcanes or a videoconference session with Brad Christian.
The grand prize: One lucky person will get to fill their shopping cart with whatever they can cram in five minutes. Get ready to mash play on that mouse button. The limit is $1,500 worth, but we don’t think you can get it all.
All the details are here. Enjoy, and happy holidays!
Hand Out a hand up for money magic |
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November 10, 2009
Steve Haynes has another great bill effect for your money magic. Sure, you can change five bills from one denomination to another, but this time you can hand all the bills out openly without worrying about anything.
Hand Out 500 uses a slick gimmick that lets you visibly change bills and hand them out afterward. The gimmick is so solid that it lets you do the snap, sudden change either covered or out in the open (be sure to tell your spectators to refrain from blinking). The effect has so few vulnerable angles that it’s almost spectator proof.
The best part: Hayes presents an alternate use of the gimmick to present an unbelievable card to wallet effect. When we saw this, our brain cells lit up like wildfire with all the applications.
Hand Out 500 is the latest from the Paul Harris Presents line, and is available now from Ellusionist. Check out the trailer and details.
De’vo to be featured in live iTricks clinic |
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November 10, 2009
Look who is coming out from under the cloak.
De’vo vom Schattenreich, he of the incredibly fast fingers, has been named as a guest on the next episode of the iTricks Clinic. The co-creator of Xtreme Card Manipulation (along with Jerry Cestkowski) will review videos sent in by you and give you pointers on how to improve. And it will be LIVE.
De’vo said in a post on the Handlordz forums that the live chat is a new venture: “This will be the very first time I’ll be doing something like this and not sure if I’ll ever do it again, so you probably don’t want to miss out on this one,” he wrote.
Those of you who perform XCM should get your videos ready and send them to iTricks at iTricksClinic@gmail.com. De’vo’s clinic will be next Monday (time to be announced). If you’ve never seen an iTricks Clinic, Justin Robert Young rocks. His live chats are so. Epic. That. Normal. Punctuation. Rules. Don’t. Apply. Past clinicians include Card Star Lee Asher and CelebraCadabra coaches Asi Wind and Simon Lovell, and each session was incredible.
Daniels: No respect for David Blaine |
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November 9, 2009
For those wondering what Paul Daniels has been doing: He has been searching for the best sausage in Britain, as part of British Sausage Week (Sorry, Brits, we just can’t bring ourselves to call them “bangers” for very immature reasons). In an interview with Andrew Trendell of the Nottingham Evening Post, he spoke about a number of things, including today’s crop of magicians including Derren Brown, David Blaine and Criss Angel.
Blaine and Angel drew Daniels’ ire, because of their use of technology:
“I can’t respect David Blaine, Chris (sic) Angel and particular others coming from America. There was a rule for us magicians when we were on television, and that was that if you can’t do it live then you don’t use technology to change the appearance. You have to be able to do it live, that’s the job of being a magician.”
Daniels also wasn’t impressed with how Blaine has moved into stunts, and his wife, Debbie McGee, said that it’s the same thing as the vaudevillian endurance acts of the Great Depression, only that TV companies are paying, not customers.
Monsters of Magic unite for dance jam |
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November 6, 2009
Yeah, yeah, it’s a week after Halloween. With all the Arcane craziness last week, the below video features the results of a top secret project that Brad Christian, Jason Brumbalow (I think), David Mitchell, Aaron Fisher and Lee Asher have been working on. It’s going to be a MONSTER. Check it out:
Seriously, whoever took the time to do this is all kinds of awesome. Was it you, Lee?
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