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Harry Anderson Has Something up His Sleeve

Harry Anderson Has Something up His Sleeve

Here’s an interesting article from Elaine Liner and the Dallas Observer.. It’s not totally new.. about three months old in fact.. but it’s a good way to pass the time.  Hey.. I just report the news.. I can’t make it happen… 😉

 "There is no magic. There are only magicians,“ said Harry Anderson, veteran magician and former sitcom star. He was onstage in a ballroom full of amateur and professional conjurers at the 2013 convention of the Texas Association of Magicians, held Labor Day weekend at Addison’s Intercontinental Hotel.

More than 500 conventioneers, many of them men older than 50 who do magic as a hobby or for charity fundraisers, listened to keynote speaker Anderson for two hours Sunday afternoon. If they thought they were going to get a tutorial in how to perform some of Anderson’s famously baffling card tricks and illusions, they were in for a bit of bait and switch…

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Plastic Banknotes: The Implications for Security, Dealers and Magicians

Plastic Banknotes: The Implications for Security, Dealers and Magicians

image Katie Allen for the Guardian…

Oh my.. what’s a magician to do? There will be no more torn and restored bills, at least not in the style we are accustomed to performing. What does the Guardian say?…

Bank officials have been on a shopping centre roadshow testing the prototype polymer notes  among members of the public and looking for approval of money they say is cleaner, longer lasting and harder to counterfeit. A final decision due today is widely expected to be in favour of polymer. The introduction of plastic notes will have widespread implications.

The prospect of tougher, polymer banknotes has been a hot topic within the Magic Circle, says member Will Houstoun. “There are some magic tricks that won’t be possible with the new notes and vice versa there will be new opportunities and possibilities that the new notes will open up,” he says.  Read More..