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Re: T.I.T.S.
T.I.T.S. is also the acronym for Trix In The Stix, an annual convention for children's entertainers in the U.K. Highlights from a few years ago and its ethos hasn't changed. More fun than most conventions :shock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wZRd_RG7GI Great link and I LOVE the British and thei...
- March 12th, 2024, 2:44 pm
- Forum: Feature Articles
- Topic: Please retire the term, "cardman."
- Replies: 294
- Views: 280101
Re: Please retire the term, "cardman."
Jonathan Townsend wrote:Engage participants.
And spectators.
- March 11th, 2024, 1:23 pm
- Forum: Feature Articles
- Topic: Please retire the term, "cardman."
- Replies: 294
- Views: 280101
Re: Please retire the term, "cardman."
Coin worker. Card worker. Lay people Lay person Lay folks. Generally. I see nothing wrong with any of these. For me they’re technical terms comfortably at home in a Magic book for Magicians. They’ve stood the test of time. If they grate for some people, well, that’s not surprising. Outside Magic co...
- March 10th, 2024, 1:24 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Magic Hands
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10498
Re: The Magic Hands
I'm far too young to remember the series Mister Lewis refers to. This is the one I do recall. Mister Harbin quite visible. I also remember the book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Y7jjJGgQY https://www.amazon.co.uk/Origami-Art-Paper-Folding-No/dp/0340109025 https://cfcorigami.com/creator/robertha...
- March 4th, 2024, 12:02 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Unknown Life of Karl Fulves
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4689
Re: The Unknown Life of Karl Fulves
I don't know any Copyright Experts, but I do know that the world is full of copyright lawyers who are eternally disagreeing. And being well paid for it.
- February 23rd, 2024, 12:32 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Magician paid to create fake political robo calls
- Replies: 4
- Views: 873
- February 20th, 2024, 12:13 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Blackpool 2024 Day Two
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1363
Re: Blackpool 2024 Day Two
RICHARD ESSIEN MAGICAL BONES When there's balance, it can be entertaining to read reviews that revel in the negative parts of an event. But not when it begin to border to being meanspirited. Whatever you thought of Magical Bones's choice of assistant, it could have been phrased better. Anything cou...
- February 18th, 2024, 12:36 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Blackpool 2024 Day Two
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1363
- February 18th, 2024, 12:27 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Blackpool 2024 Day One
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1844
- February 18th, 2024, 12:24 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Blackpool 2024 Day One
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1844
Re: Blackpool 2024 Day One
The registration process has always been a shambles. “Thankfully it’s an easy fix for next year”. It’s always been an easy fix, but it remains unfixed, year in and year out. I’ve not been for a while so I don’t know what goes on at the “night before,” or even if there is a night before nowadays. The...
- February 6th, 2024, 12:40 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Unknown Life of Karl Fulves
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4689
Re: The Unknown Life of Karl Fulves
“Talon” did indeed run to seven issues. Dave Britland did make an attempt to revive it, but there weren’t many issues, if any. The first two issues were a sort-of a hybrid size: smaller than A4 and larger than the US A4 “equivalent”. Issue [3] was the first of the booklet style/size issues. Later re...
- February 6th, 2024, 12:00 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Unknown Life of Karl Fulves
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4689
Re: The Unknown Life of Karl Fulves
katterfelt0 wrote:Leo Garet wrote:Trivia: 1979: we were all so much younger than; we’re older than that now.
Nice reverse on the My Back Pages lyric.
Well spotted. No prizes though.
- February 5th, 2024, 1:36 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: The Unknown Life of Karl Fulves
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4689
Re: The Unknown Life of Karl Fulves
Trivia: 1979: we were all so much younger than; we’re older than that now. I received a letter from Karl Fulves enquiring about bit of fol-de-rol I’d contributed to Dave Britland’s brand new magazine, “Talon”. He asked if he could use it, adapt it and publish it. All very polite and proper. I had no...
- February 5th, 2024, 12:16 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: RIP Shiv Duggal
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1515
Re: RIP Shiv Duggal
Joe Lyons wrote:The Hamilton book was finally put out by International Magic here: https://www.internationalmagic.com/p/ge ... n-hamilton
Thanks for that. I don't know how it managed to pass me by.
- February 4th, 2024, 2:03 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: RIP Shiv Duggal
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1515
Re: RIP Shiv Duggal
I knew Shiv back in the Long Ago: the 80s and early 90s. Great guy. Outgoing and amiable. He was a regular contributor to “Pabular”. At one point in about 1984, the editor, Stephen Tucker (now out of Magic) reported that Shiv was preparing a book on his material. If it ever materialised, I never saw...
Re: Bad Magic
Whimsy Alert! Tea Chests? Or Tea Caddies? Tea Chests were very much in evidence when I were a lad. Before I could nearly afford a bass guitar, I "played" one in a local Skiffle Group. A broom handle and some string. It might not have been Music, although we thought it was. But it was Magic...
Re: Bad Magic
It’s not the Magic. Is it? A coin vanishing is strong and solid Magic. Direct and to the point. The coin’s reappearance is equally strong. It's a classic trick and its status as such is assured. A performer takes this and uses it. Or abuses it. In a good performer’s hands, everybody wins. In a "...
- January 10th, 2024, 1:33 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Brooklyn Magic Shop
- Replies: 4
- Views: 845
Re: Brooklyn Magic Shop
Tarotist wrote:They need a better window display.
My thoughts exactly. It resembles an apothecary shop from ancient times. In particular it reminds me of Gorrill's Chemist, from my home village way back when.
Although, that could be the plan.
- December 18th, 2023, 10:53 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Dynamo review - 2 stars Telegraph
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1639
Re: Dynamo review - 2 stars Telegraph
"I suspect just like Prince he will spend the rest of his career being introduced as “Steven, formally known as Dynamo” I suspect you're right, but a more cunning plan might be to change his stage name to Dymano . He wouldn't be trying to pass himself off as Dynamo --- he is Dynamo. That would ...
- October 30th, 2023, 2:54 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Method as Accoutrement - A Minor Rant
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4975
Re: Method as Accoutrement - A Minor Rant
For me, "Better" and "Best" are methods that I'm comfortable with and that allow me to present an effect that spectators seem to enjoy. i say "seem," because who knows for certain. I always think of it in terms a a joke.....yes I Know. However it's true. Tell a joke to ...
- October 27th, 2023, 12:40 pm
- Forum: Feature Articles
- Topic: Michael Vincent article in Genii; Nov 2023
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8584
Re: Michael Vincent article in Genii; Nov 2023
The only thing I know about Cy Endfield is that many decades ago I went into an agent's office telling him I did a card act. He informed me that he knew Cy Endfield and had offered him shows on multiple occasions which he had always turned down. I actually saw him perform though on a wonderful TV s...
- October 26th, 2023, 12:07 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Howard Thurston in USAToday 10-25-23
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1982
Re: Howard Thurston in USAToday 10-25-23
I'm sure it's still available, but whether it is or not, the Jim Steinmeyer book is a good read. A snappy title, too.
"The Last Greatest Magician in the World: Howard Thurston versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards".
"The Last Greatest Magician in the World: Howard Thurston versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards".
- October 7th, 2023, 12:24 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Michael Close Essay - Hidden Assumptions
- Replies: 24
- Views: 23728
Re: Michael Close Essay - Hidden Assumptions
... hidden assumptions that the spectator makes when witnessing a magic trick How, specifically, does one know what the spectator is assuming? Excellent point. And for me the answer is simply: one doesn't. Much like the effect. What do spectators witness or experience We know what it should be, or ...
- October 3rd, 2023, 12:36 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Vic Perry Pickpocket
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11667
Re: Vic Perry Pickpocket
I recall seeing him on TV several times in the late 50s. I'm inclined to say at least one of the shows was "Sunday Night At The London Palladium". But whatever it was, it was on a theatre stage. I thought he was terrific. I couldn't find any Palladium bits, but during my search I stumbled ...
- September 26th, 2023, 12:38 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: My favourite trick!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3896
Re: My favourite trick!
I love this version of the Paddle Trick. I have several pairs somewhere. They were in every Magic Set I had as a schoolboy----and I had a few. Like me, my classmates loved it.
- September 26th, 2023, 12:36 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Tony Hassini speaks ...
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7179
Re: Tony Hassini speaks ...
The following sentence somehow fell off the end of my previous post. On page 23 of the Hawkins Bazaar booklet is the same stuff----black face soap----priced at 9d (nine pence) plus 4d (4 pence) post. By the time the catalogues started coming my way, the price had gone up to the more familiar 1/6. I ...
- September 25th, 2023, 1:55 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Tony Hassini speaks ...
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7179
Re: Tony Hassini speaks ...
After a bit of a search I’ve managed to locate a small booklet published by Hawkin’s Bazaar, Norwich. According to the cover the booklet contains “extracts from the catalogues of 1938 and 1956.” The catalogues in question are those of Ellisdon & Son, 256, High Holborn, London WC1. On page 11 is ...
- September 3rd, 2023, 11:54 am
- Forum: Alternative Media
- Topic: History of Ventriloquism in the US
- Replies: 9
- Views: 26280
Re: History of Ventriloquism in the US
I remember seeing Denis Spicer on TV several times. I have the vaguest of memories that he did a short routine with a flip-top cigarette packet, possibly Embassy. He operated the packet with his index finger. I could be thinking of somebody else, but in the eye of memory it was Denis Spicer. Anyway,...
- August 30th, 2023, 1:44 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Derren Brown's Unbelievable - a review
- Replies: 58
- Views: 14981
Re: Derren Brown's Unbelievable - a review
"...........But I'd like the views of others than Craig before even beginning to form a conclusion. Me too, I think. Because, of course, the only way to form a conclusion is to go and see the show. Then like Craig and everybody else who's seen it, we can form our own opinions and draw our own ...
- August 27th, 2023, 11:17 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Join Our New Facebook Group Devoted to Greater Magic
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2879
Re: Join Our New Facebook Group Devoted to Greater Magic
Mister Kaufman's decision is his choice. Fine by me and good luck with the project. It's his affair and nothing to do with me. That said and for what it's worth, I'm not a member of any online social media group---if that's the right term---and I have no desire to be. I don't feel deprived. I know m...
- August 15th, 2023, 12:15 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: Have you already heard of The World Championships of Performing Arts ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1369
Re: Have you already heard of The World Championships of Performing Arts ?
It's very much a scam charging participants thousands of dollars to 'compete' ... promising the dream of fame and fortune. They also have 'licensed' agents in various countries to scout participants who then get a cut of the entrance fees. It's big business praying on parents and kids who believe t...
- July 15th, 2023, 1:11 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: NYT: The End of the Magic World’s 50-Year Grudge
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3664
Re: NYT: The End of the Magic World’s 50-Year Grudge
The second occasion was more interesting. I was one of a quartet of close-uppers booked to perform strolling stuff. Geller was booked to do his “cabaret show”. Yep, that’s exactly how it was described. However, he threw a spanner in the works early on telling the bookers that under no circumstances ...
- July 15th, 2023, 1:07 pm
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: NYT: The End of the Magic World’s 50-Year Grudge
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3664
Re: NYT: The End of the Magic World’s 50-Year Grudge
I’ve met Geller, twice. The first time was in 1988 at the IBM British Ring Convention in Brighton, which must be the event Tarotist mentions. The second time was in the mid 90s at the Piccadilly Hotel in Manchester. The precise date escapes me, but it was bleak midwinter and I vividly recall negotia...
Re: ERDNASE
Well, I'd certainly like to know who Erdnase was and in general I find that a little bit of the subject is interesting. It's a great mystery. But I long ago became weary of the "search". This is not a criticism of those who love it and have devoted much time and effort. I wish them well an...
- July 6th, 2023, 12:23 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Zarrow Shuffle
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10304
Re: Zarrow Shuffle
In the UK, Elliot’s title “Magic: 100 New Tricks” came first, then “The Best In Magic”, which I believe was the US title. Same books. I found “Magic: 100 New Tricks” in the local library and from that deduced it was a book for the public. This amazed me because of the quality of the material, which ...
- July 6th, 2023, 12:20 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Zarrow Shuffle
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10304
Re: Zarrow Shuffle
If I remember rightly Al Koran did it with coins rather than cards. Harry Stanley marketed it as "Jackpot Coins" I believe. Yep, Koran did perform “Jackpot Coins” and Harry Stanley did market it. Price ten shillings. Koran also performed “Note Under Cup,” his adaptation of Bob Hummer’s Mo...
- July 5th, 2023, 1:54 pm
- Forum: Close-Up Magic
- Topic: Zarrow Shuffle
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10304
Re: Zarrow Shuffle
Before i knew about "Miraskill," i saw Al Koran perform it on TV. He did it close-up on one of his "Invitation To Mystery" shows. I thought it was absolutely staggering. He used a large art pad and the camera focused on him writing out the predictions. I was even more staggered t...
- July 1st, 2023, 1:47 pm
- Forum: Magic History and Anecdotes
- Topic: Tyrone Power?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 16577
Re: Tyrone Power?
in the long ago I recall seeing a David Niven film on TV. A coin roll cropped up in this. I think the suggestion was that Niven was the roller. But that's al I could remember. Anyway, after searching for "David Niven Magician" film, here it is: "Eternally Yours". https://en.wikip...
- June 25th, 2023, 1:50 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Eddy Taytelbaum
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5347
Re: Eddy Taytelbaum
He featured on the cover of Harry Stanley's magazine "The Gen" in the early/mid sixties. A brief pencil sketch of the man and his magic. But it may be of interest. If memory serves, which it frequently doesn't, he had a card move/flourish published somewhere in "The Gen", possibl...
- June 11th, 2023, 11:59 am
- Forum: Buzz
- Topic: LA Times article about Magic Castle
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3603
Re: LA Times article about Magic Castle
erdnasephile wrote:Since the subheadline mentioned it--what is the bracelet of shame?
The article actually gives a good idea. It's to do with dress code.