I love finding out about things at short notice! On Monday afternoon about 4pm I received a phone call from one of the local magicians asking me was I going to the Lecture in Limerick that night. It turns out that this was the first I heard about it but I decided to head up anyway. Nick Einhorn was the lecturer for the night, the creator of that nice haunted deck variation ‘Spooked’. I was especially delighted to see him because his book “The Art of Magic and Sleight of …

Keith is doing a new tour in December this year details below. Tickets available from
http://www.aikenpromotions.com
http://www.ticketmaster.ie
KEITH BARRY
“Extraordinary”
Brand New Show and Live Tour
December ‘07
Available Now
‘Keith Barry Extraordinary’ will be completely different from his last two tours. This show involves more audience participation than ever with the whole audience being involved in some effects. Keith will take the audience on a tour of the imagination which will display the ‘extraordinary’ power of the mind.
Imagine Keith predicting the future with astonishing accuracy, Imagine someone on stage hearing voices inside …

In this, my first post here after Ian graciously let me loose as a contributer, I would like to take a moment to introduce myself, and also share my first ‘article’ on how keeping your gob shut when dealing with mouthy spectators is a good idea.
OK, firstly…
I’m Chris Jones, aka seige, and I run a magic shop called NothingUpMySleeve.
It’s not my ‘real’ job… by day, I am a web/graphic designer, and a bit of an entrepreneur. I live in the UK, and am married with no kids or venerial diseases. …

One habit tends to be common accross magicians, especially young inexperienced magicians like me: Going through cards at a stupid rate. Weather I am practicing deck springs or presure fans, or if I am working out the kinks in a recently learned card fold or torn and restored effect, decks don’t last me very long. I tend to go through five or six decks of bikes a month. And when I am importing them from the US or England, and paying the postage price that goes with a heavy brick, …