Posts Tagged ‘gimmicks’


How to do magic trick #14 – The Magician’s Choice

Hi! It has been a long time since my last post. Life is busy, especially when I have not fired my boss. I’ve sold my life for a wage. Furthermore, I believe in only putting up genuine and quality content in this website. I bet you cannot find any website on magic that gives you [...]

Read More...

How to do magic tricks #13 – Four Key Principles

I have just concluded my series on misdirection and I was looking through my earlier postings, namely, “How To Do Magic Tricks #7 – Principles and Techniques Used in Performing Magic”. In that articles I mentioned about the four principles of how to do magic tricks, namely, “The Principle of Force”, “The Art of Misdirection”, [...]

Read More...

How to do magic tricks #8: Tony Slydini – The Master of Misdirection

Tony Slydini, an Italian, was born in the year 1901 and passed away on 1991. He was a master at the art of misdirection. He used solely sleight of hands and misdirection to perform his own brand of magic tricks without the use of any gimmick. For 55 years in performing magic, he has never [...]

Read More...

How to do magic tricks #6: Where and how do I begin?

photo credit: trialsanderrors If you are doing card magic or coin magic, there are many sleights that you need to master before you could progress to the more professional magic tricks respectively. If you were to wait for yourself to perfect these sleights, you would have probably lost interest or given up magic by then. [...]

Read More...