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- February 5th, 2015, 5:34 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Half Half Man ... Your Thoughts?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 26382
Re: Half Half Man ... Your Thoughts?
I wonder if people will notice the 'non transferable rights' and realise that they cannot sell the book to anyone else (theoretically). It would be a sting to pay 120 dollars for the book, read it and realise that the routine would not suit your performance, and then be unable to sell it second han...
- February 5th, 2015, 4:09 pm
- Forum: Link Watch
- Topic: Kickstarted magic movie
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1657
Re: Kickstarted magic movie
Did you see the updates posted on the site https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ma ... tary/posts
- February 5th, 2015, 2:06 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Half Half Man ... Your Thoughts?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 26382
Re: Half Half Man ... Your Thoughts?
It took me a while to find it, but here is The Performance Rights Agreement . I missed this on my first reading of it, but it appears you need to pay additional money if you want to perform it on TV: "All the rights to record or broadcast Crescendo belong exclusively to the author and can be p...
- February 5th, 2015, 12:54 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Half Half Man ... Your Thoughts?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 26382
Re: Half Half Man ... Your Thoughts?
And there are plenty of customers for Helder's limited edition very expensive book, which will likely sell out because so few are being printed. It looks like to me the price includes "performance rights" (which you must agree to when purchasing): * The author guarantees that rights to pe...
- January 31st, 2015, 4:46 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: MagicPedia hits 8,000 articles!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 950
MagicPedia hits 8,000 articles!
Thanks to all the recent contributors, the free encyclopedia dedicated to preserving the history of magic, MagicPedia , has reached 8,000 pages of content! This includes over 3,200 short biographical sketches of people related to magic. There are still lots of topics and biographies missing, so join...
- January 21st, 2015, 1:16 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cannibal Cards bibliography: request for help
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12699
Re: Cannibal Cards bibliography: request for help
A lot of work has been done on http://geniimagazine.com/magicpedia/Cannibal_Cards
As anyone can edit, feel free to add any updates you have.
As anyone can edit, feel free to add any updates you have.
- January 6th, 2015, 5:56 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Biography of Ron Edwards?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1584
- December 28th, 2014, 10:10 am
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Who invented the water in newspaper trick?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2412
Re: Who invented the water in newspaper trick?
Advertisements for "Absorbing News" by Max Andrews (A glassful of any liquid is poured into folded newspaper. Paper opened and shown both sides—liquid has vanished without a trace) can be seen in the early 1940s in The Magic Wand.
- December 27th, 2014, 11:35 am
- Forum: Collector's Marketplace
- Topic: Valda The Great Magician Statue Question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1148
Re: Valda The Great Magician Statue Question
I see references that Rhett Bryson may have published something about it in one of his "wee books".
- December 17th, 2014, 1:02 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cannibal Cards bibliography: request for help
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12699
- November 21st, 2014, 9:34 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Magic set for kids...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8462
Re: Magic set for kids...
My 10 year daughter really liked the schoolastic magic sets a few years ago: http://magic.about.com/od/magicconventi ... agic-Sets/
Not sure if they are sold anymore, but I thought they were nice too.
Not sure if they are sold anymore, but I thought they were nice too.
- November 21st, 2014, 8:24 am
- Forum: Magicana
- Topic: The Genii compilations
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9587
Re: The Genii compilations
Would be easy to collaborate and compile these lists using MagicPedia. Like was done for http://geniimagazine.com/magicpedia/Phi ... n_in_Genii
- November 19th, 2014, 11:50 am
- Forum: iGenii
- Topic: Token authentication error on iPad
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11561
Re: Token authentication error on iPad
"Token Authentication" error reminds me of an error message from the old genii app.
Make sure it's not the old "Blue Toad" Genii app you are installing?
Make sure it's not the old "Blue Toad" Genii app you are installing?
- November 10th, 2014, 7:20 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Bobby Bernard R.I.P.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6283
Re: Bobby Bernard R.I.P.
Dustin Stinett wrote:That's Joe Pecore. He must have just added it, as there was no date of death yet.
Oh Joe ...!
typo fixed, thanks to Philippe Billot
- November 7th, 2014, 2:24 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New book: The Vernon Companion
- Replies: 96
- Views: 28339
Re: New book: The Vernon Companion
Oh, I do hope "Into Thin Air" reappears somehow ... I think I would be in paradise if that was somehow resurrected! Sadly, I think it never will be. It would have been more than 50 years ago. Perhaps some persistent researcher with TV connections could dig it up from the archives. I think...
- November 4th, 2014, 4:25 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New book: The Vernon Companion
- Replies: 96
- Views: 28339
Re: New book: The Vernon Companion
This thread has me thinking about the possibilities of a magic family tree where teachers and students are identified showing how they influence and were influenced. This could take the form of a poster alone, or possibly combined with a digital version that would allow viewers to choose a name for...
- October 31st, 2014, 2:19 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Final Houdini Seance of 1936
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2050
Re: Final Houdini Seance of 1936
Looks like he left off the last letter "l": http://www.wildabouthoudini.com/2014/10 ... eance.html
- October 23rd, 2014, 9:22 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New Android App for iGenii Coming Soon
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2707
Re: New Android App for iGenii Coming Soon
Had a short time with the new app during my lunch hour. I strongly recommend completely uninstalling the previous version, then installing the new one fresh. Intially allowing Android to do the update seemed to give me some login issues. A clean install fixed that. Responsiveness is much improved, ...
- October 18th, 2014, 7:58 am
- Forum: iGenii
- Topic: App for android tablets
- Replies: 82
- Views: 45368
Re: App for android tablets
Richard Kaufman wrote:All back issues should now be up for the Android App. Good news 1.
I confirmed on my Android App that I can see those older back issues now.
- October 1st, 2014, 5:28 am
- Forum: Convention Reports
- Topic: Question about 1989 M.A.E.S Convention...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2383
Re: Question about 1989 M.A.E.S Convention...
I was not there, but I found this report in the January 1990 Linking Ring. Does not answer your question, but hope it may help: NO. 179, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Meets 3rd Wed. each month JIM SCHUYLER, President 2218 Gaylawn Drive. Baltimore, MD 21227 JIM CONNER, Secretary-Treasurer 1315 Pleasant Valley ...
- August 21st, 2014, 3:10 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Wizard Wars on March 4 on SyFy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2374
Re: Wizard Wars on March 4 on SyFy
But who in the hell is Christen Gerhart? She is billed as a famous magic critic. I’ve been an obsessive student of magic for 41 years and I’ve never heard of her. Zero hits for "Christen Gerhart" in AskAlexander. I've seen her as a host on the Theory 11 video series Expose: http://media.t...
- August 2nd, 2014, 8:56 am
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Henry "Box" Brown
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3619
Re: Henry "Box" Brown
Ricky Jay has a page on him in his book Extraordinary Exhibitions ( http://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Exh ... 1593720122 ) which includes a picture of a playbill of a show he was in.
- August 1st, 2014, 7:15 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New from Kaufman and Company: The Skinner Tapes
- Replies: 61
- Views: 24936
Re: New from Kaufman and Company: The Skinner Tapes
Tracks from CD 5 through CD 10 are done and uploaded
So now the entire set of 10 CDs should be ready for downloading.
If anyone has problems, let me know.
So now the entire set of 10 CDs should be ready for downloading.
If anyone has problems, let me know.
- August 1st, 2014, 8:00 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New from Kaufman and Company: The Skinner Tapes
- Replies: 61
- Views: 24936
Re: New from Kaufman and Company: The Skinner Tapes
Tracks for CD 3 and 4 have been uploaded to Gracenote.
- July 28th, 2014, 9:09 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New from Kaufman and Company: The Skinner Tapes
- Replies: 61
- Views: 24936
Re: New from Kaufman and Company: The Skinner Tapes
As I slowly go through downloading them to my own iTunes, I'll try to remember to commit them back up. The listing of topics don't quite line up to the tracks. Some tracks have multiple topics, some topics cross into multiple tracks and sometimes you have to back up to the previous track to find ou...
- July 28th, 2014, 5:38 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New from Kaufman and Company: The Skinner Tapes
- Replies: 61
- Views: 24936
Re: New from Kaufman and Company: The Skinner Tapes
Worked perfectly when I loaded mine to iTunes. Thanks Joe!! Awesome. As I slowly go through downloading them to my own iTunes, I'll try to remember to commit them back up. The listing of topics don't quite line up to the tracks. Some tracks have multiple topics, some topics cross into multiple trac...
- July 27th, 2014, 12:17 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New from Kaufman and Company: The Skinner Tapes
- Replies: 61
- Views: 24936
Re: New from Kaufman and Company: The Skinner Tapes
PickaCard wrote:Thank you Joe, but I was referring to the Vernon audio CD lectures that were included in the re-release of Vernon Revelations DVDs.
Ah. Well if anyone else can try it with the Skinner tapes, let me know if it works and I'll try to do the rest of them.
- July 26th, 2014, 3:08 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New from Kaufman and Company: The Skinner Tapes
- Replies: 61
- Views: 24936
Re: New from Kaufman and Company: The Skinner Tapes
Thank you for checking. When imported into iTunes there were several tracks (like 40) but no album name. As such I could not find a practical way to add them to my iPod without renaming each track. It was not worth the hassle. I just submitted the tracks for CD 1 to GraceNote. See if you can add it...
- July 16th, 2014, 6:14 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: David Acer - question - 'More Power To You'
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1644
Re: David Acer - question - 'More Power To You'
I'm fairly sure they should be the same size, and that most coffee shops only have one size for all.
- June 21st, 2014, 8:02 am
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: ThomasMoore Wrapped Illusion INFOS
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4882
Re: ThomasMoore Wrapped Illusion INFOS
He probably stumbled on this page http://www.thomasmoorecreative.com/index.php?aid=33 (which I did searching for it).
- June 16th, 2014, 4:45 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
- Replies: 114
- Views: 26475
Re: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
Chris Aguilar wrote:I do miss the ability (from the previous web app) to flip pages with the arrow keys. Requiring continual mouse clicks gets a little tedious.
PageUp/PageDown keys seem to work for me (if you click on the page first)
- June 15th, 2014, 1:21 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
- Replies: 114
- Views: 26475
Re: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
Bug Report: I tried the search function on Chrome. Like IE, it gives the search results, but when I click on the search results, I move to the top of the search results, but the result itself does not open. All security, popup blockers, etc. are turned off. Me too. I'm seeing javascript errors when...
- June 15th, 2014, 10:56 am
- Forum: Platform & Stage Magic
- Topic: are there some real stage illusions secrets? (old or not)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3740
- June 15th, 2014, 7:19 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
- Replies: 114
- Views: 26475
Re: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
Keeps asking me to subscribe. Says my online account is active, but will not let me in. I'm sure it will be fixed soon. Bursky This mostly likely means your email address in the old system is different then the one Genii currently has on file for you. Not the email you use for this forum, but the o...
- June 15th, 2014, 2:04 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
- Replies: 114
- Views: 26475
Re: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
Reset my password and the system still insists that I don't have a subscription. Did you try logging in with a different email address? I bet Genii has a different one then one registered with CARC. Yep, tried multiple addresses to absolutely no effect. At this point, I'm ready to give up on workar...
- June 15th, 2014, 1:46 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
- Replies: 114
- Views: 26475
Re: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
Chris Aguilar wrote:Reset my password and the system still insists that I don't have a subscription.
Did you try logging in with a different email address?
I bet Genii has a different one then one registered with CARC.
- June 14th, 2014, 11:02 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
- Replies: 114
- Views: 26475
Re: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
Just did a test. If you are able to login and cannot see the issues try this. Login with your email address, NOT username. If error comes back that there is no user with that email, try another email address that it could be until you get an error that the password is wrong. Now select Lost Password...
- June 14th, 2014, 10:40 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
- Replies: 114
- Views: 26475
Re: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
I would assume they are now using genii to get your subscription information, which is tied to the email they have on file, not what may have been transferred over from CARC (and could have been updated after initial setup). I would still suggest users try the lost password with an alternate email a...
- June 14th, 2014, 8:46 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
- Replies: 114
- Views: 26475
Re: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
I'm guessing the email address for AskAlexander is different then the email address that Genii has on file.
You could try the "Lost my password" with other email addresses and see if you get back anything.
You could try the "Lost my password" with other email addresses and see if you get back anything.
- June 14th, 2014, 8:32 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
- Replies: 114
- Views: 26475
Re: New Genii Website Up and New Digital July Edition Live
Chris, Are you signing in with your username or email address? Try using your email address, that worked for me. And if that does not work, you might want to see if the email address for AskAlexander is the same one registered with Genii. And if not, then I would try using the "Lost my password...