10/31/2008
First, Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies -- in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic.
--from TED Talks
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TED Talks--Keith Barry: Brain magic
--from TED Talks
TED Talks-- Lennart Green: Close-up card magic
"Like your uncle at a family party, the rumpled Swedish doctor Lennart Green says, "Pick a card, any card." But what he does with those cards is pure magic -- flabbergasting, lightning-fast, how-does-he-do-it? magic."
--from TED Talks
Jeff McBride II
1/20/2008
Click here if you can't see the above video.
This is another interview with Jeff McBride by Richard Wiseman--from richardwiseman.com. Wiseman has done some interesting work on the psychology of magic. I'm looking forward to reading his new book, Quirkology.
You can read the other interview with Jeff McBride here.
J.J Abrams Talks about Mystery and Potential
1/16/2008
If you can't see the video, click here.
From the TED Talks page,
"J.J. Abrams traces his love of the unseen mystery -- the heart of Alias, Lost, and the upcoming Cloverfield -- back to its own magical beginnings, which may or may not include an early obsession with magic, the love of a supportive grandfather, or his own unopened Mystery Box."
Howard Thurston Video!
12/08/2006
Howard Thurston
"Howard Thurston's performance at the Palace Theatre, in Cleveland Ohio - October 26, 1932. To find out more about Howard Thurston please check out www.ThurstonMasterMagician.com!"
John Calvert on Howard Thurston:
"...I saw the great Howard Thurston and I never forgot it, his music, the presentation and so-forth. When I was a kid we didn't quite t have magic clubs like you have now as a matter of fact I hadn't read a book on magic before I was doing a complete magic show. I had to create a lot of things that I had never even seen another magician do. And I remember Thurston did the Iash where the girl is drawn to the top of the theatre and fires a shot and she vanishes. Twenty-one years later I built one by memory. Now I often wondered whether it was as a little boy that figured how it was done or it was over a period of time as I became an adult that I figured out how it was done. And of course I think it was the latter."
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Cardini on youtube.com
9/05/2006
There is plenty of junk on youtube, but some great stuff too. Here: what appears to be Cardini's complete act, uncut.
ladies and gentlemen, Cardini!
Sylvester the Jester
6/16/2006
This week's interview is with Sylvester the Jester. You can visit Sylvester's website here.
This video is posted with permission by current.tv. The video is by Robert R.
and now for something completely different...
4/03/2006
Here are a few videos that have to do with magic and life. Enjoy!
Steve Martin as the Great Flydini
Get this video and more at MySpace.com
how does he do it?
Alan Watts Meets South Park
check this out... http://www.neticons.net/music_life/
Andre Kole with promo video
1/29/2006
Andre Kole is one of today's top magical innovators and performers. He has created many illusions such as the Spike Through Balloon, Squeeze Box, Table of Death, Head Mover, Vanishing Feet and many others. When I emailed about creativity, this is how he responded…
Andre Kole:
Different means of inspiration work for different people. My inspiration often comes from what I have created in the past.
Jim Steinmeyer is the most creative magician I know and he told me that his creative ideas come as a result of studying the history of magic and the creators of magic's past. So if this works for you there is certainly nothing wrong with it.
Andre Kole
Andre Kole w/ video
12/10/2005
Andre Kole is one of today's top magical innovators and performers. He has created many illusions such as the Spike Through Balloon, Squeeze Box, Table of Death, Head Mover, Vanishing Feet and many others. When I emailed about creativity, this is how he responded…
Andre Kole:
Different means of inspiration work for different people. My inspiration
often comes from what I have created in the past.
Jim Steinmeyer is the most creative magician I know and he told me that his
creative ideas come as a result of studying the history of magic and the creators of magic's past. So if this works for you there is certainly nothing wrong with it.
Andre Kole
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