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Marco Pusterla

I should say I enjoyed Armageddon, which Max shared with me a while back, and I find it has a space in some special occasions, like formal close-up, or for a special "encore" performance at the booker's table. About Aronson's performance of "Shuffle Bored", it is obvious Mr. Aron...

Marco Pusterla

Bob, many thanks but are you sure the material is still available? The website was last updated in 2006 (but as Hades hasn't published books in ages, that is understandable) and if the books are still available, this is great news, as there are some gems...

Marco Pusterla

Yes, you lose access to all the issues you paid for when your subscription runs out.

Marco Pusterla

Congratulations Mark! A brilliant performance by a past master of the art! The colonies still have something to learn!

Marco Pusterla

The illlusion, performed by Granville Taylor, was shown last year at The Magic Circle History Day, in a lecture by Noel Britten. Granville had the performance recorded mostly for his own records and for a later cancelled project: there is no official DVD for it. The illusion requires a younger, more...

Marco Pusterla

Re. Matt Field's lecture at The Magic Circle. Matt Field presented his lecture on "The Most Prolific Author in Magic" at The Magic History Gathering @ The Magic Circle, the annual event organized by Edwin Dawes and Peter Lane for many years. The talks are recorded for The Magic Circle Arch...

Marco Pusterla

Jack Pyle's son published a few years ago a book on his father, Master of Deception, which is currently distributed by Murphy's and available at a few magic dealers worldwide. I had published an abridged chapter in Vol. 6 #4 of Ye Olde Magic Mag. The book doesn't reveal any of his card magic, but is...

Marco Pusterla

I don't understand this computer stuff. How can he take parts of someone else's video and plonk it on his own video? Does he have to ask permission to do it or can he just go ahead and help himself? And how does he embed the thing? I haven't taken a lot of the viral videos about me so I am wonderin...

Marco Pusterla

This guy is very popular in Italy with pre- and teenage kids interested in magic, has a huge followers base and explains tricks in video courses. The thing he says about "billions" is that he had Mark's video sent to him by "8 billions" followers, which is a figure of speech, mea...

Marco Pusterla

This is the second sale: I tried to get on the first, but for some reason I was unable to... either the times were wrong, or something with Facebook did not work for me... Thanks for the video.

Marco Pusterla

Wittus Witt still maintains the website he made for the 2013 edition: https://www.european-magic-history.com/Welcome.html (in English). On the site, you can find photos and the list of activities of all previous editions. If you read German, or can use a web translator, Zauber-Pedia has a page dedic...

Marco Pusterla

Paul Kieve got in touch with Lynn Curlee a few years ago and she didn't know who the magician in the photo was. Paul talks about his chat to the artist in the talk...

Marco Pusterla

Any reports on whether the guy did any card tricks with similar "palaver" to the book text, had soft hands (greased?), or used the card/packet exchange sleight? How about using the Houdini card change? Family memory indicate he did perform magic tricks, but the level of skill required for...

Marco Pusterla

When Richard Evans first brought E. C. Andrews to my attention, I worked with him with facial recognition software to try to confirm the possibility that Andrews was one of the people sitting at the magiicians' dinner and also to confirm that the photos of a young Andrews and of the older one were o...

Marco Pusterla

I have corresponded with Mike about Erdnase, and his research and opinions on Johnny Sprong have definitely influenced my own thinking about Sprong. This would make for a nice Soufflé in Ye Olde Magic Mag. Thank you, Edward. :) I think that the research on Erdnase shows the inventiveness of histori...

Marco Pusterla

it seems the books are already sold out? 15 minutes in?

Marco Pusterla

Andrew, please check your email

Marco Pusterla

Richard, many thanks. The magazine has been put for general sale now: you are a subscriber and as such received an advance copy. This issue explores Emery Cobb Andrews, the candidate supported by Richard Evans. The man shares many aspects with what researchers think Erdnase may have been, and answer...

Marco Pusterla

I'm waiting vol. 3 - on the slow boat from the US... :) - but vol. 2 has: - Decrypting: quite an intellectual effect, where letters freely associated to the numbers from 1 to 10 and eight chosen cards will spell out a spectator's name and her date of birth. This is a performance piece, for formal sh...

Marco Pusterla

The Dalye notebook is not dated as such, but Frank Csuri, who transcribed it, says in his introduction: "...Mrs Elliie Romas was kind enough to retype the notes and complete the project in June 1971."

Marco Pusterla

On Friday, March 3rd 2023, Dr. Prof. Edwin A. Dawes , probably the greatest magic historian ever, passed away peacefully at Hull Royal Infirmary in Hull, England. He leaves two sons, their families, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. His passing is quite unexpected and sudden: he had only been i...

Marco Pusterla

Tom, It may be worth designing the card with the text - in the font you require - in a program like Photoshop, save the design as a .jpg or .png image and upload that, if the company allows you to upload custom images. Depending on the font license, you may not be allowed to distribute the font itse...

Marco Pusterla

This is an obvious technique, with no pratical use unless you have a distract/blind audience: throw the card under the deck and off you go. Ollie has better ideas. this is just not one of them. Any control where the magician takes the card and puts it back in the deck defies the idea that the card i...

Marco Pusterla

It looks pretty obvious... the card disappears from the spread, so it could go anywhere... Not really an advancement of the art...

Marco Pusterla

The magic bookplates book is available here: https://magicbookplates.wordpress.com/

Marco Pusterla

According to the press:

It was not clear if the allegedly exposed genitals were a prop.

Source

Marco Pusterla

Today one could have music coming out of a phone, so technology has caught up with Slydini for an impromptu performance and there is no reason not to do the routine without music. I agree that having a text doesn't worsen the routine, and it should be a personal preference. While Slydini performed t...

Marco Pusterla

Many thanks Mark for the video! The idea of using a paper bag takes the trick in the realm of organic magic and allows you to be one step ahead. Using three balls is more artistic, in construction, than Slydini's four. While you use three white napkins, the effect could be easily done with three nap...

Marco Pusterla

I would be interested, as I find your technical ideas worth to be recorded and generally very practical.

Marco Pusterla

Actually, the first broadcasting of "Into Thin Air" was on 13 April 1959 at 10:15, according to Abracadabra. It was repeated on 15th September 1960 as Mark correctly says. The programme was indeed recorded and it seems it was edited for the 1960 re-screening, but it seems to have been &quo...

Marco Pusterla

The "earlier trick" is described in the latest (Winter 2022) issue of Gibecière, and it is from an Italian book from 1666. The trick used corks and hats, quite a way away from the coins, cards and handkerchief (this is the great innovation) of Yank Hoe. The assembly of four objects moving ...

Marco Pusterla

Most - if not all - the movie/television participations of Jay Ose are listed in Vol. 8 #1 of Ye Olde Magic Mag, in the cover story by Mike Perovich. Mike also provided me with copies of most segments of Ose's performances on screen, but I would not be happy to share them

Marco Pusterla

John, Your article is very interesting and provides some hitherto unknown information: I've passed it to Peter (who had submitted a further article on the ML which I'll publish in the March 2022 issue) and he is grateful for the information you have shared. What I wanted to record was that the first...

Marco Pusterla

Please, note that the Mysterious Lady had been disclosed back in 2019 in a two-part article by Peter Brunning published in Ye Olde Magic Mag, vol. 5, issues 3 and 4. https://yeoldemagicmag.com/downloads/ye-olde-magic-mag-vol-5-issue-3-mysterious-lady https://yeoldemagicmag.com/downloads/vol-5-issue-...

Marco Pusterla

Richard, I think that the price for Ricky Jay's copy of Erdnase is justified, giving the association of Ricky with this title and with the promotion of "The Elusive Coterie", from the Erdnase, probably one of Rickly's best-known effects. This trick alone increased the interest in the Erdna...

Marco Pusterla

The book was published in Dutch a couple of years ago, and now it has been translated into English. Some comments I heard were that it did not contain Kaps' magic and that some facts were misquoted or wrong...

Marco Pusterla

A description, in English, of Indian performers doing the cups and balls is in an unrecorded broadside from 1814, describing the feats, both of juggling and magic, of the first troupe of Indian conjurers outside of India. I have discussed the arrival and early records of the "Campbell" tro...

Marco Pusterla

Unfortunately, B&N doesn't ship to the UK at the moment (for "Covid reasons"). Not only that, but I've also just received an email from Amazon saying that my pre-ordered copy will not be available until November 30...

Marco Pusterla

There is no catalog. The lots will be available to be seen online at the page linked above a few weeks before the sale. This is what Sotheby's said: We have recently made the decision to reduce our carbon footprint and move many of our auction catalogues online. The digital catalogue for the Ricky J...

Marco Pusterla

Noel Britten announced his resignation on Saturday April 10th shortly before midnight.

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