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Richard Hatch

Wow, Helder's show extension tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. PST today and were sold out in less than 30 minutes (26 to be precise, I'm told!). That must be some kind of record. If you do the math (25 tickets per show x $85 per ticket times the number of shows), they're doing OK. I assume the overhe...

Richard Hatch

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/theater/magic-shows-online-helder-guimares-coronavirus.html

Richard Hatch

A question for Dick Kornwinder: Fred wrote his notes in your copy of "Million Dollar Card Secrets" in English. Was that just because the book was in English, or were they perhaps intended to be seen by a non-Dutch speaking audience at some point?

Richard Hatch

If you're looking for a reasonably priced copy of the Gardner-Smith correspondence, I spotted one here today: https://www.magicabra.com/product/the-gardner-smith-correspondence/ The email that led me to it indicated 20% off first orders using the coupon code WELCOME. I believe the site is run by Dan...

Richard Hatch

I just spoke with Jim Kleefeld, who collects book tests, and he suggested it might be one of the three volumes for Dennis Loomis' DYNAMITE book test. Here's a review of it on the Genii Forum by Bill Palmer:
https://forums.geniimagazine.com/viewtopic.php?t=20594

Richard Hatch

Nice profile of Conway and his work in the NY Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/technology/john-horton-conway-dead-coronavirus.html

Richard Hatch

Here's a link to the 15 second teaser video:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/videoplay/ABC-to-Premiere-DAVID-BLAINE-THE-MAGIC-WAY-on-April-1-20200324

Richard Hatch

Nothing about this (yet) on the ABC site or Blaine's own site, so I wonder if this is an April Fool prank press release?

Richard Hatch

According to several news outlets, "David Blaine: The Magic Way" will air on ABC on Wednesday, April 1 at 10 p.m. EDT. I can't find any confirmation on the ABC site yet, but here's one of the press reports: https://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2020/03/23/abc-air-one-hour-special-david-blai...

Richard Hatch

Greg Moreland has had to cancel his much anticipated Portland Magic Jam due to the Coronavirus, so has lined up a short, free virtual version with the four headliners (Max Maven, Shawn Farquhar, Steven Bargatze and John Shryock) offering short lectures at 1 p.m. Portland time this Saturday: https://...

Richard Hatch

No idea if this price is reasonable, but this bookseller in France has both volumes in good condition for about $600 postpaid from France to the US: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30353316022 Limited to 1000 copies, which would seem to be a rather large print run for a French magi...

Richard Hatch

Tom Stone and some colleagues (Leif Olberius, John-Henry and and Martin Hansson) can be seen in some very innovative performance pieces that have recently been posted on YouTube. Here's one, which will likely lead you to the others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-mtvox0oyo Some great stuff here!

Richard Hatch

Further, an alternate story has been published in another place and I continue to feel that laying out the actual facts is the best policy. Where was this alternate story published? David Ben's biography of Vernon describes an arrest of Vernon with two "small-time gamblers" in Chicago, fo...

Richard Hatch

Use Chrome as your browser--it will auto translate. Sign in using the same information as your regular amazon account. Just enter Tenyo in the search area. Should work. That worked for me. I ordered 3 of the 2020 Tenyo items from the Amazon.co.jp site and they arrived via DHL in about week. Very im...

Richard Hatch

This popped up after I watched Keating. Jack Gwynne What an awful human being - the way he treats his animals he literally swings the rabbit by its ears and throws it across the stage. (2:40 - night club act) The Horace Goldin clip Bill Mullins posted above from this same source has no less than fi...

Richard Hatch

Wow, thanks for posting the link! Anyone know what film this is from (assuming it is from a longer feature length film)? Keating was a student of Nate Leipzig and demonstrates some of those skills at the end of this.

Richard Hatch

If you're looking for a copy of the Gardner-Smith Correspondence, here's one on eBay that is currently a bargain, with just a day or so left. Seller has a good rating:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1999-The-Gardner-Smith-Correspondence-ERDNASE-Expert-at-the-Card-Table-CHEATING/254407605758

Richard Hatch

Here's the official clip of his audition on Spain's Got Talent's Youtube feed, which was just posted yesterday. He got 4 "Si"s from the judges, so got passed to the next level of the competition, but some are pointing out the plagiarism in the commentary, which I assume the producers will ...

Richard Hatch

This TED talk by the remarkable Werner Reich was just posted. Worth 11 minutes of your time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pc7U9Zwodc

Richard Hatch

This is fascinating stuff, thanks for posting it. Any chance we'll be seeing the other parts? I see only this one (Part 2) and Part 6 (about the Rainbow Grill/Room). Hoping for more!

Richard Hatch

Jack Shalom wrote:Raymond Crowe was brilliant.

Agreed! He is a very great artist, and received a well deserved and unforced standing ovation, the perfect ending for a strong show, despite some technical glitches (sound and lighting miscues).

Richard Hatch

Don't know if I misread the original goal as $15,000 or if they have revised it, but it now listed as just $12,000, making it even more likely to reach that goal...

Richard Hatch

I just ran across this kickstarter campaign to reprint some of the early Drake hardback variants: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1511417074/expert-at-the-card-table-by-s-w-erdnase-drake-reprints While I've only seen the photos online, which are presumably prototypes, they look great to me! And...

Richard Hatch

Wow, that Hofzinser painting is spectacular! Thanks for posting the report and image on your blog.

Richard Hatch

Anyone recognize the performer doing card manipulations in the background of this opera aria in Vienna earlier this year?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9eTROY6EsU

Richard Hatch

It appears the quotation is by Vernon, talking about Slydini in an audiotape to Lewis Ganson, as quoted in The Dai Vernon Book of Magic (1957), p. 31: "Did you notice how Tony performed under his own conditions? Quietly and naturally he arranged for everyone to be seated where he wanted them to...

Richard Hatch

A kickstarter campaign for Jerry's Nugget cards seems likely to set a record for magic related crowdfunding campaigns. With a goal of $15,000, it is already more than 16 times past that goal and likely to pass the quarter million $ mark on its first day: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/epcc/jer...

Richard Hatch

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bob-dorian-actor-and-magician-who-introduced-classic-films-on-amc-dies-at-85/2019/06/24/ef88ed3a-9688-11e9-8d0a-5edd7e2025b1_story.html?outputType=amp

Richard Hatch

I believe Dylan references Harry Lorayne in his autobiography (in the context of studying his memory systems). Dylan's son Jesse produced and directed a talk show series called "CONversations with Ricky Jay" that was never broadcast, though I believe episodes were shown at the Ricky Jay &q...

Richard Hatch

The new Netflix documentary on Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder revue apparently opens with a film of Georges Melies performing the vanishing woman at the Theatre Robert-Houdin. You can see it briefly at the end of the teaser clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS4gsWDSn68 Here's the full Melies perfor...

Richard Hatch

Has anyone seen the paperback reprint of the Busby/Whaley/Gardner The Man who was Erdnase, advertised on page 101 of the current issued (June 2019) of Genii? $29.95 postpaid in the US from http://www.houdini.com. I can't find it on the website...

Richard Hatch

This Smithsonian article about Maskelyn's film also credits him with being the first technology hacker, for a prank he played on Marconi in 1903: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oldest-film-solar-eclipse-restored-and-online-180972325/

Richard Hatch

Hmmm... when I click on that second link, it clearly states dust jacket included. Let me know what the bookseller tells you.

Richard Hatch

Joe Lyons wrote:Thanks Richard!
That’s a great price for the paperback for anyone who doesn’t have it.
I’m inquiring about the hardback now.

Joe, check out my second link for the hardback with dust jacket for just $19.50 postpaid.

Richard Hatch

Great book! A used paperback reprint is available at my old company for just $1.75 currently: https://www.magicbookshop.com/p/used-books/how-to-do-tricks-with-cards Here's a hardback copy with dust jacket for a very reasonable $19.50 postpaid: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=300779...

Richard Hatch

Thanks! Has it been reprinted somewhere since then? I know the article itself has. I don't have it handy, but I'm pretty sure the same headshot of Smith circa 1902 was first reproduced in Gardner's article "The Mystery of Erdnase" in the 1947 SAM Convention program (I think it is in blue ...

Richard Hatch

Charlie Randall and I will be attending and will have a dealer table. Looking forward to it!

Richard Hatch

According to an email just received from Wittus Witt of Germany, Swiss magician and FISM winner Piet Forton (Pieter de Beaufort) passed away a few days ago. He often attended FFFF and was always fun to visit with and watch perform. Another legend passes...

Richard Hatch

At least one lesson involves Johnny Thompson with Penn & Teller coaching a student to do a chop cup routine.

Richard Hatch

Everything still in stock is now at 50% off, less than cost in most cases!
http://www.magicbookshop.com/

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