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Watch: Magician Paul Daniels reveals why he and wife Debbie couldn’t appear on Celebrity Big Brother

August 28, 2014 Rick Carruth

Much-loved magician Paul Daniels has revealed that he and wife Debbie McGee were considered for Celebrity Big Brother but had to decline the invite.

The decision to not go on the Channel 5 show was due to family reasons says Paul on his YouTube channel explaining that both the couple’s nephew and Debbie’s father are ill.

The South Bank-raised magic man said: “After much misinformation I’m setting the record straight.

“The Big Brother team are very nice people.

“They came around and discussed the possibility of Debbie and I being the first couple to go into the Big Brother house.”

Paul, 76, says that the main motivator for the couple to go onto the show would have been cash.

He said: “A job is a job is a job.

“To be fair, Big Brother offered a lot of money.”

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/watch-magician-paul-daniels-reveals-7677526

How An Industrial Designer Is Using Magic To Invent Amazing Objects

As a kid, Adrian Westaway loved two things: magic and making inventions. Now, as co-founder of a London-based design and invention studio called Special Projects, he has combined both of those hobbies into one fascinating career.

At Special Projects, Westaway has worked on all kinds of endeavours, from designing an interactive user manual for a smartphone to creating a physical calendar than can transform into a digital one when photographed. As a magician in the elite magical society the Magic Circle, he is able to bring his expertise into the field of design.

“Magicians are the real experts at designing experiences and hiding their technology, and that’s exactly what we have to do as designers,” Westaway said in an interview with Business Insider. “People don’t really talk about how much memory is in their iPhone — they talk about what they just did with it. That’s the important thing.”

August 19, 2014 Rick Carruth

TV magician Dynamo intends to “reinvent the live magic show”.

The 31-year-old has announced that the fourth series of Dynamo: Magician Impossible will be the last, with the Bradford-born trickster set to make the move into the live arena.

He explained: “I think there are so many opportunities in the live arena for what I do, so it will be a great chance to kind of reinvent the live magic show.

"I can think back to David Copperfield and Paul Daniels, but I think in this day and age, there aren’t that many magic shows in theatres so I think it will be interesting to take a look at that.”

Dynamo also revealed that one of his ambitions is to perform magic in front of hip-hop star Eminem…

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/dynamo-plans-reinvent-live-magic-4068046#ixzz3AnTxNqwB

Manjul Bhargava and the magic of mathematics..

August 16, 2014 Rick Carruth

For a few years, I was the resident magician at my son’s birthday parties. That stopped when the kids realized I was repeating the same three tricks. (Funny how you can’t pull wool over the average four year-old’s eyes). Still, I always thought one of those three was a pretty good trick. You ask someone to memorize a card out of a pack, then without ever looking at the faces of the cards, you deal them into three piles, thrice. After the third time, still without looking, you pick out the memorized card. Except with jaded four year olds, it always sets off delighted gasps. What makes it work? No sleight of hand, but just simple mathematics. And that’s why I’m thrilled to find that one of the winners of the 2014 Fields Medal—the big prize in mathematics—teaches a variant of this trick in an entry-level mathematics course. In fact, it’s apparently a whole semester worth of magic: the course is called the Mathematics of Magic Tricks and Games. What a route to learning and loving mathematics.

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