28 August 2012

Toronto: Browser's Den hosts self-working card seminar

From The Browser's Den:
Sunday, September 23

CHRIS MAYHEW, SHANE COBALT, BEN TRAIN, SHELDON JAFINE, STEPHEN KIRKEGAARD, JAMES FULFORD, JOHN TALBOT & MORE!!

Dear Magic Friend,

We hope that you will join us on that day to learn some truly Self- Working (Easy) but crazy good card tricks with an ordinary deck of cards.

There is no charge for this seminar.

Read more.
 
Wow! This look like something even I could manage!

26 August 2012

25 August 2012

Ellusionist interviews Shawn Farquhar at sea

Watch Shawn Farquhar answer questions asked by Ellusionist forum director Adam Wilber.  In it, Shawn answers questions about creativity, how he keeps his chops fresh and exactly what made him decide to go on "Penn & Teller: Fool Us."





[h/t: iTricks]

24 August 2012

Perfect Magic's 100th post and Bobo's Canadian connection

Congratulations Evelyn Matlin on her 100th post, over at the Perfect Magic blog.


Did you know Bobo has a Canadian connection?   I didn't.


Go read about it in her post, "What does the name J.B. Bobo mean to you?"

23 August 2012

Toronto: David Stone lecture

From Morrissey Magic:
Saturday, September 8th


David Stone is one of the brightest rising stars in magic today, having collected an impressive number of prizes and awards from top competitions. David won the 3rd prize for Micro-Magic at FISM in Stockholm, Sweden in 2006 and was voted in April 2008 the TMW Award for Best Magician. In 2010 the FFFF convention voted David to be Guest of Honor for FFFF in 2012.


Read more.

22 August 2012

Canadian card magicians

I received the following e-mail from reader Pepe F:
I'm doing a researching about card magic that involves the evolution and history of card magic in Canada. I'm looking for information about canadian magicians that were / are importants for the card magic worldwide.
The magicians that i'm looking information are: 
Roy Cottee
P. Howard Lyons
Ron Scharf
Mel Stover
Cliff Green
Sid Lorraine 
And any other canadian magicians that are influenced in evolution of card magic. I'm interested in other people, perhaps i don't know.

If you have information about Canadian card magicians you'd to share with Pepe (and us!) please leave a comment, e-mail me or e-mail Pepe directly at "josfemo at gmail dot com" (without the quotes).


Also from Pepe:
Last december, i started a social web related with magic, it's called magicsocial and is like facebook but for magicians, registrations are free, people can share magic videos, photos, or experiences. Is in spanish and english language. You can register and see.