Thursday, November 19, 2009

Devil's Elevator - Effect

Pete Walterscheid is, by his own admission, "The World's 41,532nd Greatest Magician". Pete considers himself a serious student of sleight-of-hand and commonly performs without the use of gimmicks.. This particular effect is very well done and Pete tips the method at the end of the video. See if you can figure it out..

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Arthur Benjamin 'Mathemagic' video

Mathematician and magician Arthur Benjamin combines his two passions in "Mathemagics," a mind-boggling presentation of lightning calculations and other feats of mathematical abilities. He also guesses a few birthdays. Watch the video and learn how he does it..

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Title sequence from the movie 'Shade'

Watch the title sequence footage from 'Shade'. This feature film was directed by Damien Nieman and starred Sylvester Stallone, Melanie Griffith, Gabriel Byrne, Thandie Newton, Stuart Townsend and Jamie Fox.

The amazing card work was performed by the director, R Paul Wilson and Jason England.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Ernesto Planas Parasol Act

Highly visual and entertaining parasol act by Ernesto Planas.. Watch and try to figure where the parasols are produced from..

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Rasheda Ali interviews Mac King

Mac King.. one of my absolute favorite performers. Simple, direct, and entertaining. This is an interesting interview, with Rasheda Ali asking the questions of Mac.. Spend five minutes with an original..


Thursday, May 28, 2009

False Cuts - tutorial

Watch this nice tutorial on performing a false cut. Although there are certainly many ways to cut a deck of cards and retain the original positioning, some are much more do-able than others. I think you will like this one.



Card Magic Trick Tutorial: The False Cut - Click here for street magic

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Video Illusion Using a Cellphone.

THE CHALLENGE: Guess how he did this. The clip was shot on an I8910 HD phone, a new camera phone just released by Samsung with an 8 megapixel camera that can actually record and output video in HD format. It was shot in one take, with no post production or special effects of any kind. I know this because (I know how it was done). Try to figure it out before you begin reading the comments..