"Conjuring is a delightful form of exercise for the brain, but if taken to excess it leads to insomnia."(David Devant, "Tricks For Everyone". p. 89 , 1910) CONTENTS: A free trick, tales from an 18th century magician, women doing magic,...
Of the Scarne books that I own, there is little philosophy to be found within their pages. Scarne dedicated most of his enterprise to explaining card tricks, cutting out all the slack and talk so his readers can get what...
INTRO In this week's blog post we have our first guest post from Jorge Sanders, a cardists based in New York city. In this article, Jorge shares with us what it takes to create a flourish, specifically, a packet cut,...
Background The first ever computer game that I finished was a Pokemon Trading Card Game on the Gameboy Color. I was 11. It took me close to 2 months, I believe. I still remember to this day the happiness it brought...
I have been subscribed to The Marginalian, a weekly newsletter filled with meditations, good books and magical literature - brain pickings, as Maria Popova, the writer, used to call them, for about 5 years now. In one of her posts...
It's 2015. I am in Paris at the Magical Sleight Convention (the only one that was ever held) filming the magicians and atmosphere there. As I am panning my camera from left to right, one of the persons pulls their...
There's this video on Youtube where Christiano Ronaldo attempts to drink a cup of tea at a local cafe in Barcelona. The question the video proposes is, “Sips of Tea vs Photos taken" - what will be the ration? Head...
I picked up DelGaudio’s book “Amoralman” without knowing anything about him. The Amazon book reviews were so good and the synopsis promised real stories (I’m a sucker for auto-biographies) so I bought it without much thought. When I began reading...
Back in 2017 when I met Spanish magician Mario Lopez in Barcelona, I found out that once a year Dani DaOrtiz together with a bunch of other magicians gather up at a cabin in the woods for a week, where...
