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Blind NYC magician might be a wizard..

Blind NYC magician might be a wizard..

Justin Sight is a unique magician currently residing in New York City. Since the later half of 2013 he has done events for companies and organizations like Tumblr, Gawker, The Blue School and The United Nations to name a few.

Justin was diagnosed legally blind without corrective treatment at age 10. Around the same time he developed a fascination with the art of magic and performing. His unique brand of presentation often focuses on the notion of a “malleable reality” in which anything can happen. As part of notion Justin demonstrates the unique “advantages” of his visual impairment; implementing innovative ways to see what others cant. He draws from a continuing involvement with the worlds mystical traditions as well as modern scientific discoveries that point to the mystery of What Is.  read more and watch videos.

http://nyc.suntimes.com/nyc-entertainment/7/86/316400/blind-nyc-magician-might-wizard

Joshua Jay and Anna Kloots: A Magician Marries His Assistant

Joshua Jay and Anna Kloots: A Magician Marries His Assistant

The groom? The magician Joshua Jay. The bride? Anna Kloots, his magician’s assistant. When Mr. Jay, 33, appears in a straitjacket, Ms. Kloots, 26, pulls in people from the audience to check the integrity of his bonds and his blindfold.

That’s before “the two minutes or so it takes me to escape,” said Mr. Jay, who began performing magic at 8, and who now is an athletic 6-foot-3 and the embodiment of the handsome prestidigitator. (Some have mistaken him for Bradley Cooper.)

Afterward, Ms. Kloots, who quit her high-end sales job two years ago to tour the world with her globe-trotting conjurer, then helps him with performing other mystifying tricks. Read more…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/fashion/weddings/joshua-jay-and-anna-kloots-a-magician-marries-his-assistant.html?_r=0

No hard feelings after split with wife, Vegas magician says..

No hard feelings after split with wife, Vegas magician says..

By Norm Clarke –  Las Vegas Review-Journal

The magic went missing in a flash from the marriage of magician Murray Sawchuck and his British wife and stage assistant Chloe Crawford.

“For me, it came out of the blue,” Sawchuck said Tuesday. “It happened overnight. It was like an avalanche.”

The split, after a three-year-plus marriage, came last week when they jointly filed for divorce in Las Vegas. Crawford is 27, Sawchuck 42.

Crawford, who has appeared in his Tropicana show and as a topless dancer in “Fantasy” at the Luxor, flew to New Jersey this week, he said.

“I know she definitely wanted to push her career forward,” he added.

She got a huge career break in June when she became the first female magician to reach the semifinals of “Britain’s Got Talent.”

“I hope this is the start of me being a magician in my own right,” she told the London Mirror. “I love the dancing, but there’s only so long I can carry that on for.”

Her disappearing motorcycle act was a hit, and her appearance generated a lot of headlines in her homeland.

“The taste of fame can be a bit like a drug,” Sawchuck said. read more…

http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/columns-blogs/norm-clarke/no-hard-feelings-after-split-wife-vegas-magician-says