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- August 25th, 2020, 5:11 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Drive-in Haunted House
- Replies: 2
- Views: 829
- August 24th, 2020, 2:10 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Watch The Magic Castle Awards Show For Free
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3268
Re: Watch The Magic Castle Awards Show For Free
It is 2:00 PM or so on Aug 24, the day after the Castle awards. The presentation is still online at magiccastle.com/awards, I think on purpose. If you missed it, or want to watch it again (I just did), take a look.
Steve
Steve
- August 17th, 2020, 4:53 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: RIP Mary Hartline
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1134
- August 13th, 2020, 10:40 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: BPP Magic in a Box
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1106
BPP Magic in a Box
Bloomington Playwrights Project is pioneering a new virtual theater experience, an “In the Box” show. Four plays will be performed in which you receive a mystery box full of stuff with which to interact with the show. First play up is Virtual Reality/Magic in a Box starring mentalist Max Major. The ...
- August 13th, 2020, 9:50 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New David Blaine Event
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6131
- August 12th, 2020, 11:06 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Little Egypt Magic at 25
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1312
Little Egypt Magic at 25
I posted the August 2020 issue of Little Egypt Magic this week, marking year 25. I don't normally like to mention it, but I added a link this week to a magnetized cane performance (Michael Perovich) that is pretty cool. Pure Leipzig/no threads/real gasps. -- Steve http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic.h...
- June 1st, 2020, 10:08 am
- Forum: Light from the Lamp ONLINE.
- Topic: Little Egypt Card Tricks: Steve Bryant
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8604
Re: Little Egypt Card Tricks: Steve Bryant
Sorry, I exhausted my supply a few years back.
I suggest you would be better served by The Little Egypt Book of Numbers, if you don't have it.
I suggest you would be better served by The Little Egypt Book of Numbers, if you don't have it.
- May 29th, 2020, 4:51 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Big Announcement from The Jerx
- Replies: 55
- Views: 9256
Re: Big Announcement from The Jerx
Derren Brown was not Andy. The real Andy's confession is now on line. Check it out.
- May 15th, 2020, 1:23 pm
- Forum: Light From the Lamp
- Topic: Voodoo Needle review
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5430
Re: Voodoo Needle review
Richard, I suspect he is referring t o this new download from Peter Eggink and Aeon Sun.
Check my review here:
http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic_february2020.html
Check my review here:
http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic_february2020.html
- May 6th, 2020, 2:03 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Cute blonde does cig. manipulations on YouTube
- Replies: 51
- Views: 20016
Re: Cute blonde does cig. manipulations on YouTube
Has anyone tried to apply facial recognition software to the candidates? Might prove interesting.
- May 5th, 2020, 5:42 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Jay Marshall
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3404
- April 29th, 2020, 3:40 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Carisa Hendrix is on the Cover of Genii's May Issue
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2899
Re: Carisa Hendrix is on the Cover of Genii's May Issue
The print copy arrived in Indiana today (4/29/20).
BPPFLIX
Several times on Little Egypt Magic, I have reviewed performances I enjoyed at the BPP, or Bloomington Playwrights Project, whose magic-friendly director Chad Rabinovitz showcases original and contemporary plays only. Like most facilities that require live audiences, BPP is currently dark. To mainta...
- April 5th, 2020, 6:34 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Aloha Joan Lawton
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1330
Re: Aloha Joan Lawton
So sorry to hear this. I just spent part of the weekend enjoying interviews with and by Joan Lawton, part of the Magic Castle Heritage Committee videos. Michael Perovich and Sara Ballantine interviewed her, and she interviewed Leo Behnke. Something I learned: I always knew Larry Jennings was a plumb...
- April 3rd, 2020, 10:36 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New David Blaine Special?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4584
Re: New David Blaine Special?
I loved David's latest special and was intrigued by the stab trick. I had published a practical method back in Little Egypt Card Tricks and later in The Little Egypt Book of Ghosts. My starting point had been "Once in a Knife Time" by Carl Sten in Al Sharpe's Expert Card Chicanery (created...
- April 2nd, 2020, 12:16 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New David Blaine Special?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4584
Re: New David Blaine Special?
I enjoyed it immensely. What fun to get to do card tricks for favorite basketball players. Or to showcase one's daughter.
- March 26th, 2020, 10:30 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Cooped up? Watch full Castle Set
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2583
Re: Cooped up? Watch full Castle Set
Thanks, Nathan.
Loved it all, especially the writing.
Loved it all, especially the writing.
- March 25th, 2020, 12:14 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New Nightly Magic Chat Show
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1701
- March 24th, 2020, 11:45 am
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Lots of Free Magic Stuff for Your Corona Quarantine
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7686
Re: Lots of Free Magic Stuff for Your Corona Quarantine
David Kaye has created a great little ebook for the situation:
https://www.sillymagic.com/product/coronavirus-ebook/
http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic.html
https://www.sillymagic.com/product/coronavirus-ebook/
http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic.html
- March 19th, 2020, 2:39 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Read My Book CardWorks for Free!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3508
Re: Read My Book CardWorks for Free!
Thanks! Though I am still gobsmacked by the sheer quantity of information in the Forte books.
- March 16th, 2020, 4:42 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Indulgence with Lucy Darling
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4941
Re: Indulgence with Lucy Darling
That was great fun. Nice to be diverted for an hour.
Is the pandemic over yet?
Is the pandemic over yet?
- February 13th, 2020, 4:00 pm
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: split manipulation tecnique who created?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12418
Re: split manipulation tecnique who created?
In the David Ben bio of Vernon, David recounts the story of Vernon's first meeting with Cardini, at a silhouette and magic shop in NYC. In the story, both Vernon and Larry Gray show Cardini split fans, squaring with Vernon's assertion that he knew about split fans before ever meeting Cardini. Minor ...
- February 4th, 2020, 6:45 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Roy Walton has passed away
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3839
Re: Roy Walton has passed away
Bill Goodwin is currently performing a series of Walton tricks on his From the Library segment on the Magic Castle/AMA newsletter.
- January 31st, 2020, 10:39 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Announcement regarding new Steve Forte book
- Replies: 158
- Views: 35253
Re: Announcement regarding new Steve Forte book
Steve’s background section hints at a third volume down the road.
- January 11th, 2020, 6:16 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Houdini escaped?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 956
Houdini escaped?
The new book "The life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini" by Joe Posnanski ALMOST got reviewed in the Jan 13 issue of The New Yorker. Thanks to a weird apparent screwup in this normally perfect magazine, it didn't. My online edition of that issue lists under Books/Briefly Noted: "Zed,&qu...
- January 2nd, 2020, 2:51 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: 2019 In Review
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4753
Re: 2019 In Review
Great job, Dustin.
I too was surprised to learn about Pepka. It was always a joy to see him.
I too was surprised to learn about Pepka. It was always a joy to see him.
- December 17th, 2019, 8:07 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Simon Aronson
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10873
Re: Simon Aronson
It's really hard to keep losing our idols.
I finally posted a few words at Little Egypt Magic.
http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic.html
I finally posted a few words at Little Egypt Magic.
http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic.html
Taxi!
Just curious. Does anyone know the general price of an Uber or Lyft ride from LAX to the Magic Castle? Or from Burbank?
- November 24th, 2019, 5:50 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Who is THE Expert on Self-Working Magic?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 5956
- November 18th, 2019, 2:38 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Eugene Burger: From Beyond in stock now
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2332
Re: Eugene Burger: From Beyond in stock now
I was simply joking. Books themselves seem to outlast technology, hence my mention of the now quaint phonograph record that was included with RK's first edition of Spirit Theater. That record was a brilliant idea, by the way. For some of us it was the first time to hear Eugene Burger's voice.
- November 18th, 2019, 11:59 am
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Eugene Burger: From Beyond in stock now
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2332
Re: Eugene Burger: From Beyond in stock now
It's a great read. If you want to spend some quality time with Eugene, get this book.
Further thoughts at
http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic.html
Further thoughts at
http://littleegyptmagic.com/magic.html
- November 7th, 2019, 2:16 pm
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Eugene Burger: From Beyond in stock now
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2332
Re: Eugene Burger: From Beyond in stock now
The book arrived today ... and it is gorgeous. Somewhere Eugene is smiling.
Back to reading ...
Back to reading ...
- October 1st, 2019, 9:30 pm
- Forum: Convention Reports
- Topic: Genii 2019 Convention
- Replies: 27
- Views: 14839
Re: Genii 2019 Convention
Hugely disappointing to see that Zabrecky is no longer on the schedule. He was the draw for me.
Is he ok?
Is he ok?
- October 1st, 2019, 9:50 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Derren Brown in The New Yorker
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2236
Derren Brown in The New Yorker
Derren Brown is the subject of a huge article in the Oct 7 New Yorker, "Belief System" by Adam Green.
- September 30th, 2019, 9:25 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New David Regal Book Coming in September
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15111
- September 27th, 2019, 1:37 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: A new book on Annemann - The Miracle Factory
- Replies: 35
- Views: 12273
Re: A new book on Annemann - The Miracle Factory
For complete details, I just published my review on Little Egypt Magic. The bulk of the book is a classy repackaging of all Annemann's writings before and after The Jinx. (The Jinx itself is provided on CD as a searchable pdf.) As to new ... There are two interesting forewords from Max Maven and Ste...
- September 18th, 2019, 12:10 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Ricky Jay Death
- Replies: 82
- Views: 29047
Re: Ricky Jay Death
Yet another Mamet contribution:
http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/mamet_su19.html
Nice gag at the end.
http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/mamet_su19.html
Nice gag at the end.
- September 3rd, 2019, 2:54 pm
- Forum: Reference Room
- Topic: Vernon fools Houdini
- Replies: 82
- Views: 74018
Re: Vernon fools Houdini
Vernon describes the Houdini incident in his own words in The Vernon Touch, pp 187-189. He dates it to Chicago, 1919, though David Ben's research may be more accurate than Vernon's memory.
In both accounts, Ben's and Vernon's, the card is placed second from the top, not in the middle.
In both accounts, Ben's and Vernon's, the card is placed second from the top, not in the middle.
- September 2nd, 2019, 5:12 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Two great performances on "Fool Us"
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5139
Re: Two great performances on "Fool Us"
I don't think Tom fooled Teller if Teller had read the routine in Genii. "Quantum Logic" May 2014. Otherwise, i think he fooled the boys badly. The devil is in the details, and I don't think even Teller could have doped out the minute construction of the drawer boxes ( a new invention) or ...