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...In the video posted in this article, Slydini performed a total of 3 magic tricks. The precious thing in this video is Dick Cavett’s introduction to Tony Slydini and his ingenuity in performing magic. The first magic trick that lasted until 4:30, is some sort of a representation of the “Paper Balls in the Hat” [...]
Read More...In this video, you will watch how Tony Slydini performed 2 of his tricks, namely, the “6 Coins Routine” and “The Helicopter Card”. For each trick, he performed it twice, each time with a slight variation. It is a basic rule in performing magic that you do not repeat your performance of a magic [...]
Read More...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...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...photo credit: cesarastudillo People learn magic for different purposes. The basic motivation for learning magic is that magic amazes and intrigues other people and ourselves. If you perform a magic trick to your friend, the usual response you get is “how did you do it?” The first motive of that response is to satisfy a [...]
Read More...If you are interested in learning how to do magic tricks, you must watch the movie “The Prestige” directed by Christopher Nolan which was released in 2006 over and over again. The story is about two magicians, “The Professor” Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and “The Great Danton” Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman) who turned from friends [...]
Read More...photo credit: trialsanderrors With the proliferation of the internet and online video from YouTube, many people have been uploading the secrets to magic tricks on the internet. As a result, many people have searched the internet for secrets to magic tricks. Among these people who surf the net for secrets to magic tricks, many of [...]
Read More...photo credit: shimgray In this blog, I intend to share what I have learned about magic. The types of magic, where to learn magic, the process of learning magic and how to perform magic. If you intend to learn magic, you will first have to choose what kind of magic do you want to learn [...]
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