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- February 25th, 2024, 5:20 am
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: WTB: Carney Uncovered
- Replies: 6
- Views: 833
Re: WTB: Carney Uncovered
Papa Bear https://www.ebay.com/itm/275903951338?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=275903951338&targetid=1530439031891&device=m&mktype=pla&googleloc=9030952&poi=&campaignid=19851828444&mkgroupid=145880009014...
- February 19th, 2024, 11:30 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Tacky Hands
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10150
Re: Tacky Hands
The rosin stuff is quite strong and long lasting on the hands even after several washings with soap and water. It might be a good thing to do if it’s a bit too much to lessen the strength. I felt the tacky sensation all throughout the day. Incidentally, my hands tended to sweat even more perhaps to ...
- February 17th, 2024, 5:50 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Tacky Hands
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10150
Re: Tacky Hands
Rosin Spray (100% Rosin, Alcohol) https://www.hammergripstore.com/products/gecko-mist-rosin-spray-50-ml I read about rosin powder in the Malini book by Cohen for the Leipzig cane grips. I had some additional notes on the cane moves by Perovich, so I inquired more into this and found a liquid spray v...
- January 13th, 2024, 2:22 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Magic in Hawaii?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1020
Re: Magic in Hawaii?
Shoot Ogawa @ Hilton Waikiki Beach Hotel
https://hotel-magic.com/oahu-tickets/magical-show/
https://hotel-magic.com/oahu-tickets/magical-show/
- December 25th, 2023, 8:44 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Did Tenyo screw up this optical illusion?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9470
Re: Did Tenyo screw up this optical illusion?
Stocking Stuffer Surprise I was playing around with this for over an hour. There are some ways around the small discrepancies in the manuscript x translation if you just do them in the hands wedged edgewise between the thumb and middle finger in a slight overlapping spread. This can be done with two...
- December 23rd, 2023, 12:43 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Did Tenyo screw up this optical illusion?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9470
Re: Did Tenyo screw up this optical illusion?
Back in Stock @ SEO (TenyoxWeber)
I’ve always wanted this Tenyo version for it’s flatness factor. If you have Webber’s manuscript it should make for nice transfers with the use of the third ruler.
https://www.seomagic-usa.com/product_info.php/products_id/2800
I’ve always wanted this Tenyo version for it’s flatness factor. If you have Webber’s manuscript it should make for nice transfers with the use of the third ruler.
https://www.seomagic-usa.com/product_info.php/products_id/2800
- December 18th, 2023, 10:00 am
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Ricky Jay Archives
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3139
Re: Ricky Jay Archives
Looking for more info on this…
https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/2020/04/23/ricky-jays-magic-magic-book/
I stumbled on this…
https://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/ricky-jay
And this.
An Unfinished Ricky Jay Memoir?
https://acrossthemargin.com/ricky-and-i/
https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/2020/04/23/ricky-jays-magic-magic-book/
I stumbled on this…
https://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/ricky-jay
And this.
An Unfinished Ricky Jay Memoir?
https://acrossthemargin.com/ricky-and-i/
- December 12th, 2023, 5:03 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Ricky Jay Archives
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3139
Re: Ricky Jay Archives
Local Indiana magicians should consider themselves to be very lucky. Correspondence between Bamberg and Charlie Miller , 1964-1965 Correspondence between Bertram and Jay , 1982-1987 Correspondence between Jay and Endfield , 1981-1995 SUBSERIES: Linking Rings box 13 folder 17 SUBSERIES: Long Tak Sam ...
- December 4th, 2023, 11:10 am
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: Beetlejuice The Musical
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6117
Re: Beetlejuice The Musical
nice focus piece on the magic in the musical
https://www.denvercenter.org/news-center/beetlejuice-illusionist-michael-weber-puts-the-super-in-supernatural/
https://www.denvercenter.org/news-center/beetlejuice-illusionist-michael-weber-puts-the-super-in-supernatural/
- November 24th, 2023, 7:17 am
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: AI Generated Magicians From The Past
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4341
Re: AI Generated Magicians From The Past
https://fansinaflashbulb.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/01_karger_george_144_9-9.gif George Karger, [ Harry Blackstone Sr. ], Circa 1950 This isn’t an ai generated image but I think the end idea is imbedded here, that is, eventually to make these old masters come back to life in a Harry Potter newspap...
- November 23rd, 2023, 11:42 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Holiday Giveaway, Random edition
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1886
Re: Holiday Giveaway, Random edition
I’ve found this free app to be very useful in learning memory pegs and practicing the conversion of numerical values into phonetically equivalent words. Random Number Generator App. by Erbil Ozen Four User Friendly Modes 1-10 1-100 1-1000 1-10000 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/random-number-generator...
- November 22nd, 2023, 2:26 pm
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: AI Generated Magicians From The Past
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4341
Re: AI Generated Magicians From The Past
I’m pretty sure there is a picture of Christ in the book by Graham & Diaconis in the “Stars of Magic” section.
- November 22nd, 2023, 9:51 am
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: AI Generated Magicians From The Past
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4341
Re: AI Generated Magicians From The Past
Relax (be at ease) and have an effervescent drink on me.
- November 22nd, 2023, 9:32 am
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: AI Generated Magicians From The Past
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4341
Re: AI Generated Magicians From The Past
It’s amazing how some of these pictures stick in the brain cells with such detail even the morning after, especially the Ricky Jay one and the levitating lady. So much so that I have now adopted the “J” peg with the ai generated image as part of Roth’s ABC kindergarten code. Hay little bee the wide ...
- November 21st, 2023, 4:30 pm
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: AI Generated Magicians From The Past
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4341
Re: AI Generated Magicians From The Past
The eyes and faces on these ai generated images are a bit creepy and ghostless machine-like. It’s a bit like Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa where the ai slowly gradually become conscious that they indeed are ai and the horror that entails. Facial recognition was correct the first look through with Jay ...
- November 20th, 2023, 3:31 am
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Holiday Book Sale
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1408
- November 20th, 2023, 2:40 am
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Holiday Book Sale
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1408
- November 17th, 2023, 1:43 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Not the Bob Read Book...Kurt Volkmann's Geschichte der Zauberkunst
- Replies: 48
- Views: 23290
Re: Kurt Volkmann's Seminal A History of the Art of Conjuring
Also this on the cups & balls (Henry Hay translation)
https://www.lybrary.com/the-oldest-deception-cups-and-balls-in-the-art-of-the-15th-and-16th-centuries-p-81064.html
https://www.lybrary.com/the-oldest-deception-cups-and-balls-in-the-art-of-the-15th-and-16th-centuries-p-81064.html
- November 15th, 2023, 3:44 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Magic Live
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2476
Re: Magic Live
Bill Mullins wrote:One welcome bit of news is that Eric Mead will be sending the manuscripts of his much-anticipated Tim Conover books to the printer before the year is out.
[ fingers crossed ]
From Vanishing Inc. Black Friday Spread
A new three-volume book set from a legend
Unlocked Wednesday, November 29, 2023
- November 13th, 2023, 2:01 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Sponge ball supply issue?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3841
Re: Sponge ball supply issue?
Current Classic [from the sea] a la Sawa con Carney
https://jadeandpearl.com/sea-pearls-reusable-sea-sponges/
https://jadeandpearl.com/sea-pearls-reusable-sea-sponges/
- November 11th, 2023, 11:07 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Sponge ball supply issue?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3841
Re: Sponge ball supply issue?
Looks legit but maybe double check if you haven’t already done so. If so maybe bulk buy and qualify for free shipping in addition to out of state non-tax purchase.
https://tricksupply.com/product/2-4-super-soft-sponge-balls-orange/
https://tricksupply.com/product/2-4-super-soft-sponge-balls-orange/
- October 26th, 2023, 7:00 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Not the Bob Read Book...Kurt Volkmann's Geschichte der Zauberkunst
- Replies: 48
- Views: 23290
Re: Bob Read Book?
Perhaps an Expanded Illustrated Verson of This
https://store.conjuringarts.org/product/pdf-quicker-than-the-eye-the-magic-and-magicians-of-the-world-by-john-mulholland/
https://store.conjuringarts.org/product/pdf-quicker-than-the-eye-the-magic-and-magicians-of-the-world-by-john-mulholland/
Re: Kuda Bux
What I meant to say was “It’s the only game in town.” Apparently so the story goes, the game was rigged, but one ended-up playing anyway because it was “the only game in town.” Incidentally, Vernon or Anderson (Harry) talked about playing cards with the old timers in the old Castle library and how t...
- October 23rd, 2023, 11:11 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Not the Bob Read Book...Kurt Volkmann's Geschichte der Zauberkunst
- Replies: 48
- Views: 23290
- October 18th, 2023, 9:46 am
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: WTB: Genii Magazine Nov. 2008 w/ DVD Insert
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1902
- October 18th, 2023, 8:44 am
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: WTB: Genii Magazine Nov. 2008 w/ DVD Insert
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1902
WTB: Genii Magazine Nov. 2008 w/ DVD Insert
Hi, I’m looking for this particular hard copy issue with the enclosed DVD of John Ramsay. If any of you non-coin Genii subscribers out there have this and are willing to part with just the DVD or both, let me know with a PM or an email. Thanks
sprongshift (at) gmail (dot) (com)
sprongshift (at) gmail (dot) (com)
- October 17th, 2023, 8:00 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Trying to find info on a buried alive escape with a steel plate from a 1990's magic TV special
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3700
- October 11th, 2023, 11:52 am
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Walter Gibson
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14368
- October 2nd, 2023, 11:38 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Max's Birds of Prey Series
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17260
Re: Max's Birds of Prey Series
@RK: Will Greater Magic also include Maven’s work on the Gilbreath Principle?
- August 27th, 2023, 7:55 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Egg Bag
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21449
- August 27th, 2023, 7:25 am
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Egg Bag
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21449
Re: Egg Bag
@Bill: That’s an altogether different type of humor, one that slowly cracks at one’s ego. It’s basically an egg that will eventually loose it’s sense of purpose and meaning and like the dodo bird completely vanish altogether the old riddle of which came first. It doesn’t matter, it’s already sunny s...
- August 26th, 2023, 8:05 am
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: Egg Bag
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21449
Re: Egg Bag
My recommendation is start with Bob White and ignore everything else until you have done so. From there go in any direction you want. I’ll second this. Bill you come off as a straight man, meaning I’ve seen clips of your talk on YouTube at the G4G conference. A lot of the other references are a bit...
- August 18th, 2023, 12:25 pm
- Forum: Light From the Lamp
- Topic: Martin Gardner Bibliography
- Replies: 10
- Views: 30352
Re: Martin Gardner Bibliography
Looks like Stanford has a bunch of his stuff
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4822392
Martin Gardner Papers Table of Contents
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6s20356s/
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4822392
Martin Gardner Papers Table of Contents
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6s20356s/
- August 16th, 2023, 12:36 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: AI applications in magic?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 585
Re: AI applications in magic?
This sort of thing was beta-tested on another forum
https://www.themagiciansforum.com/post/is-it-possible-for-ai-to-have-a-conversation-with-us-about-magic-12689276
https://www.themagiciansforum.com/post/is-it-possible-for-ai-to-have-a-conversation-with-us-about-magic-12689276
- August 15th, 2023, 10:35 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Ricky Jay Death
- Replies: 82
- Views: 28779
Re: Ricky Jay Death
Yet another Mamet contribution: http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/mamet_su19.html Nice gag at the end. This issue of Threepenny Review that Steve linked to contains transcripts from several folks who spoke at Ricky's memorial in Los Angeles -- Sally Lapiduss, Dan Chariton, Michael Weber, Eddi...
- August 12th, 2023, 11:51 pm
- Forum: Feature Articles
- Topic: Vernon's silhouettes
- Replies: 102
- Views: 78669
Re: Vernon's silhouettes
This is the one I always remember. I think Vernon talks about this encounter in the Revelation Tapes. Seeing the others on here, there is definitely a unique look to Vernon’s silhouettes. I wonder how many copies of this particular cutting there are? Seems like something that could potentially easil...
- August 9th, 2023, 2:15 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Tannen's Publishing Tarbell 9?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2218
Re: Tannen's Publishing Tarbell 9?
Anyone going to checkout Cirque du Soleil’s Mad Apple?
Seems like a triple home run tie-in to Magic Live.
Looks like an interesting show.
Seems like a triple home run tie-in to Magic Live.
Looks like an interesting show.
- August 9th, 2023, 2:12 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Zig-Zag Card
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2858
- August 8th, 2023, 9:27 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Understanding the Bermuda Triangle
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13265
Re: Understanding the Bermuda Triangle
TED Talk Supplementary Materials https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_number VS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number You’re asking the brain to switch back and forth b/w two basic modes of grouping and counting. Plus the novelty of what you are doing. But I think most of it comes down ...
- August 7th, 2023, 11:37 am
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Pinetti's Petit-Turc Savant (meanwhile in Italy...)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1658
Re: Pinetti's Petit-Turc Savant (meanwhile in Italy...)
H.R. Evans Overview Article on Pinetti https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1668&context=ocj A lot of Pinetti’s effects reads like the sort of spectacle you would expect from a Vegas magic show today. So it’s not surprising that the premises holds rather well today for modern...