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Daniels receives award for services to magic..

Daniels receives award for services to magic..

PAUL DANIELS has received an international award for services to magic. 

The 76-year-old, of Willow Lane, Wargrave, received the Golden Grolla at a ceremony in Saint-Vincent, about 50 miles north of Turin. 

He was nominated by the Masters of Magic Congress. 

Daniels said: “The congress, organised by Walter Rolfo, were kind enough to decide that I should receive the award. 

“I’ve had quite a lot of awards so when I heard about this one and a trip to Italy I thought it seemed very nice. When I looked it up I realised it’s quite a big award. It’s actually quite valuable and I’ve had to get it insured….  (from the Henley Standard)

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The art of magic gets its turn in the theatre

The art of magic gets its turn in the theatre

Kate Taylor for the Globe and Mail..

Sitting at a table covered with a red felt cloth in his Toronto studio, magic producer David Ben demonstrates how a magician shuffles cards.

To the spectator sitting across from him, it looks innocuous enough, but lean up beside him and he’ll show you that he can see the face of every card as he fans through the pack with his fingers. Oh, there’s a queen. He stops and cuts the deck, placing the queen on the bottom.

On he goes, dexterously repeating the process again and again, demonstrating how he can locate high value cards, mark their position in the pack and then produce them on demand in the midst of a seemingly innocent shuffle and cut.

Magicians aren’t supposed to share their secrets with the public, and Ben figures that this taboo is a problem…

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A New Magic Roadshow and a Milestone..

A New Magic Roadshow and a Milestone..

We’re happy to announce the publication of a new Magic Roadshow. This is our anniversary issue, as we published the first Roadshow Ten Years ago yesterday. I am providing a link for anyone, subscriber or not, to read this issue and/or download it as a PDF.. readable in your Kindle. Go ahead and visit the homepage and sign up to receive a notification, or sign up with the link in the nav bar of this page, and you will be notified via email as soon as a new issue publishes online. We never spam you or share your email.. guaranteed.

In this issue:

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TABLE OF CONTENT
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  • FOUR WAY COINCIDENCE – An Impromptu Miracle
  • The Prediction of a Random Number – tutorial
  • Build Your Magic Show – Serious Training
  • David Regal, Marlo, Lorayne.. and more. – Article and Effects
  • TED Talks About Magic – videos
  • Time to Be Awesome – interviews
  • 89 Podcast with Comedians.. Listen or Download to iphone or mp3 players..
  • Practical Mental Magic – Theodore Annemann – PDF
  • Annemann’s Miracles of Card Magic – PDF
  • Free magic – Coin vanish and production – Coinish – video tutorial
  • Blanks – Aces to Blanks – video tutorial
  • Slip Force Cut – video tutorial
  • Jay Sankey’s Link’d – video tutorial
  • How Many Cards Are In A Random Stack? Now You Know – Tutorial
  • How To Advertise on Facebook for Magicians and Entertainers.. – podcast
  • Google Adwords Made Easy For Magicians with Josh London – tutorial
  • How to Approach a Restaurant to Get Work – video tutorials
  • How to Improve Your Backroom Sales with Michael Finney – video tutorial
  • VANISH – International Magic Magazine presents EDITION 14
  • 10 Really Big Mis-calculations – resource
  • @HumorHive – for Twitter Users
  • Free Ebooks for Subscribers

http://MagicRoadshow.com/155.php

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TED Talks About Magic – videos

TED Talks About Magic – videos

 TED has earned a spot both in our culture and in our craft. I ran across a page recently that provided links to 14 TED videos.. all related to magic in one form or another. You may have seen the majority of these, but if you’ve missed one or two it’ll be worth your time to visit… Included are:

– And for my next trick, a robot
– The magic of Fibonacci numbers
– A cyber-magic card trick like no other
– The levitating superconductor
– The journey across the high wire
– A magical tale (with augmented reality)
– Augmented reality, techno-magic
– The magic of truth and lies (and iPods)
– Homeopathy, quackery and fraud
– The magic of the placebo
– How I held my breath for 17 minutes
– Close-up card magic with a twist
– Brain magic
– A performance of “Mathemagic”

Plus, look for a short inclusion by David Blaine where he lists his seven favorite TED videos.. most which are not related to magic. I haven’t had time to watch any of David’s selections, but I trust there’s something interesting about each to have been picked as his favorites.

http://www.ted.com/watch/topics/magic