Updated at 8:40am to add:
- Look for Matt on AGT next week!
Listen to Steve Spade and David Peace interview Matt Johnson on episode 33 of The Deceive Reality Podcast uploaded to YouTube on May 20th:
Updated at 8:40am to add:
Listen to Steve Spade and David Peace interview Matt Johnson on episode 33 of The Deceive Reality Podcast uploaded to YouTube on May 20th:
Watch the video on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLyLDGPL6a4
From the May 18th Instagram post by the Toronto Magic Company:
Last month we posted that Chris Ramsay and the Big Trick Energy gang were looking to set a Guinness World Record. We're excited to announce that they were successful!
Congratulations to Chris, Eric Leclerc, Wes Barker, and Alex Boyer for securing a Guinness World Record for "the largest online video chain of people performing a magic trick" on behalf of Big Trick Energy / truTV.
From the May 20th Instagram post by truTV:
History has been made. truTV and Big Trick Energy now hold the Guinness World Record title for the largest online video chain of people doing a magic trick! Thanks to everyone who participated in the #BigTrickTokChallenge.
Which puts the total of Canadian World Record holding magicians to thirteen!
From the May 14th Facebook post by Carisa Hendrix:
Miss us?? We're back!!!! Saturday, May 29 6PM PST
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-special-evening-with-lucy-darling-tickets-154744485923
The following is a guest post from an author who wishes to be known as The Magic Demon.
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"I CHALLENGE YOU!"
AN OPEN LETTER
TO ALL MEMBERS OF CANADIAN IBM RINGS
& TO MEMBERS OF CAM
& TO CANADIAN MEMBERS OF SAM:
from The Magic Demon
Exclusive to Canada's Magic
I've always considered you among the elite of magic enthusiasts, hobbyists, amateurs and professionals.
You love the art of magic enough to have joined an organization dedicated to preserving its history, encouraging its present and striving for an even more illustrious future.
I bet most of you have had a positive experience visiting a brick & mortar magic shop once upon a time when you were young. That awesome visit - the first of many, no doubt - cemented what has become a lifelong joy and passion.
And many of you are waiting for the end of our current pandemic before you take a short subway trip - or a long long car ride - or short airplane ride - to your nearest brick and mortar magic shop to once again bask in its unique joys and pleasures.
Doubtless some of you will want to take along your friends or family members and double or triple your fun by sharing the magical experience with them.
But what happens if there are no more brick & mortar magic shops left to visit after the pandemic?
Oh sure, you'll always be able to order from some really great online outlets. But it's never going to be the same experience as standing in person drooling over a display case full of the latest effects, or sharing tips and stories with fellow visiting magic enthusiasts, or enjoying the truly memorable fun created by the proprietors of a real dedicated brick & mortar magic shop.
As you have read on this site, we in Canada are now down to just two dedicated brick & mortar shops. Two to serve a country of almost 38 million! Toronto alone until recently used to have two - and had even more in its distant past.
Unless we act now to safeguard our remaining precious brick & mortar shops there is every chance they may not survive to serve us again when better and more normal days return.
And so, therefore, I CHALLENGE YOU, to show your love and support for the art of magic and its well-being in this country - as personified in its remaining brick & mortar shops, by making a purchase right now - and later again this year - from either the Browser's Den of Magic in Toronto and/or Clownin' Around on Granville Island in Vancouver BC, whichever is your closest brick & mortar shop.
Are you magician-enough to magic-up and accept this challenge?
Thank you The Magic Demon for championing brick and mortar magic shops and for guest posting at Canada's Magic!