May 2014 – Page 4 – Magic Roadshow

Penn and Teller: ‘We compare death threats with Richard Dawkins’..

May 22, 2014 Rick Carruth

By Craig McLean in the Telegraph..

What kind of trickery is this? First of all, Teller struggles to unscrew the cap on the bottle of fizzy water plonked on the hotel boardroom table. Having a couple of decades on the diminutive 66-year-old magician, I give it a go. Failing miserably, I hand it to his hulking partner, Penn Jillette, 59, who is twice the man of each of us. Or, he’s the two of us combined. He can’t open it either.

Penn and Teller quietly harrumph. The temperature in the over-air-conditioned conference space drops another notch.

The magicians have travelled from Las Vegas to a hotel in central London. Also on their schedule: a trip to the BBC’s Manchester studios to visit Blue Peter. They’ve been trying to think of a kiddie-friendly trick. They think “maybe the muffin trick. But adults are very good at underestimating children’s ability to make choices,” says Teller with a hint of reproach, “so they often try to make us do things that seem absolutely innocuous.”..

The Magic Roadshow Journal of Magic…

May 20, 2014 Rick Carruth

The Magic Roadshow, the unabashed #1 newsletter in all of magic, has published a new issue online. At 28 pages, this might be our largest issue ever. Although over 7000 subscribers have signed up to receive the Roadshow, I generally publish the link here and in another location or so, to allow those who are NOT subscribers the opportunity to read it, print it, or save it as a pdf and see what you think of it. Hopefully, you’ll want to add your name to our list and receive advance notification each month when a new issue goes live. The Table of Content for this issue is:

– A Useful Number Trick Revisited – Card Effect
– Speaking of Short Cards – Another Effect
– Super Easy Mentalism Effect That’s Actually a Mathematical Principle
– A Very Special Request..
– Easy & Not So Easy Card Tricks – video tutorials
– Card Magic Minute 17 – The Invisible Pass
– Free 90 Minute Video..
– Machine Color Changing Deck: Instant Reset
– How to Conceal Cards – Five Counts – Disguising Cards
– Bottom Deal by Xavier Perret – Tutorial
– Magic Proposal Card Trick – Video Tutorial
– The Easiest Card Trick Ever – Video Tutorial
– In The Hands Riffle Card Shuffle Tutorial – Video Tutorial
– Coin Trick Zone – Coin Magic Tutorials
– James Randi – Secrets of the Psychics Documentary (Full)
– James Randi: Scientists Fooled by a Match Box Trick
– Kris Sheppard’s PerformerCast – Interviews
– Triple Impact – Three New Effects in One Ebook
– Google Helpouts.. A Great Tool for Magicians ??
– Creative Method to Limit Cell Phone Use During Performance..
– Thousands Have Shot Good Looking Video With a Smart Phone – Why Not You?
– The Business of Magic To Market – Podcast
– One Task and Three Questions for Smart Magicians..
– Another Kind of Magic – Mna Na Heireann (video)
– Jab Jab Jab Right Hook – A free Chapter
– Free eBooks For Subscribers….

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Hey Presto: Sydney magic shop goes up in puff of smoke..

May 20, 2014 Rick Carruth

A magic shop went up in a puff of smoke in Sydney’s CBD overnight, but firefighters must have been dismayed to find that this was no illusion.

Fire crews were called to the Hey Presto Magic Studio, which bills itself as the largest magic shop in the southern hemisphere, on Pitt Street in the CBD at 3.25am on Monday to find the ground-floor building completely smoke logged.

Superintendent Tom Cooper, from Fire and Rescue NSW, said the source of the blaze was believed to be packets of flash paper, commonly used in magicians’ tricks.

Flash paper ignites with a brilliant flame, and can create the illusion that flames are coming from a person’s fingertips.

May 19, 2014 Rick Carruth

‘Resonant Chamber’ – Animusic. If you aren’t familiar with Animusic and their computer generated animated videos, consider yourself introduced. You can go to Youtube and search ‘animusic’ to see several other equally interesting videos. One of the interesting aspects is that the computer generation allows the video to display the precise notes, the exact notes, that correspond with the sound. The ‘fingers’ are not simply playing any notes in-sync with the music.. they are playing the correct notes in sync with the music. .

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)