Ron Bauer's Private Studies Series: A companion site to Ron's manuscripts, you can see details of each manuscript, download video clips of the moves involved, purchase the scripts and check on promotional offers.
2 Years On...
Wow... it has come around again, today the blog is 2 years old, and I am cough..25..cough..
As you can see the blog has a new template which I have been testing for the past couple of days, and it now runs on the Nucleus Content Management System.
Please let me know if you have any problems with the template or the new system.
I've been very happy with Blogger, but I just felt that having a PHP host and not running my own CMS was a bit of a waste, and it also gives me better control, and more flexibilty, and in a months time Nucleus will also run the HMC site.
I can't honestly believe that this blog has lasted two years, sometimes posting has been sparse (although I don't think a week has lapsed that I haven't posted something!?) and as I keep saying I don't really do this for anyone but myself, to keep track of Magic links, although if anyone else happens to look in you are More than welcome. I don't think I really want too much attention or publicity for the site, if people happen to stumble across it thats great, and thats how it should be I think with a blog of this nature.
So here is to another year running on this new system, and new look, next is to get the HMC site up and running. Please take your time to look back over the two years of archives, and I will try and blog as much as I can today between the beer and partying!
As you can see the blog has a new template which I have been testing for the past couple of days, and it now runs on the Nucleus Content Management System.
Please let me know if you have any problems with the template or the new system.
I've been very happy with Blogger, but I just felt that having a PHP host and not running my own CMS was a bit of a waste, and it also gives me better control, and more flexibilty, and in a months time Nucleus will also run the HMC site.
I can't honestly believe that this blog has lasted two years, sometimes posting has been sparse (although I don't think a week has lapsed that I haven't posted something!?) and as I keep saying I don't really do this for anyone but myself, to keep track of Magic links, although if anyone else happens to look in you are More than welcome. I don't think I really want too much attention or publicity for the site, if people happen to stumble across it thats great, and thats how it should be I think with a blog of this nature.
So here is to another year running on this new system, and new look, next is to get the HMC site up and running. Please take your time to look back over the two years of archives, and I will try and blog as much as I can today between the beer and partying!
Be a Genius
Card Memorisation: Learn to memorise playing cards, this site will teach you the Bob Farmer Playing Card Mnemonic System as published in his Flim-Flam column. You can then go on and learn a trick utilising your new found power! It is also worth checking out the rest of the site for other mental and memory tricks, tips and links.
Cap Cuts: Some RealMedia videos of Flourishy Card Cuts.
The Magic Den: Brand new card magic booklets at very cheap prices, also watch video clips and learn some new sleights and tricks.
Expert Magic: A new magic site with polls, forums, videos, chat and a newsletter. The site sometimes crashes my browser, not sure if its a problem with the quicktime movie, but just be warned, other than that its a good looking site.
Playing with Matches: A cool little bit of business with a book of matches, shows you how to light a match from a matchbook with one hand.
The Joining: is Jeff Pierce's ring on rubberband manuscript, that you can download as a PDF for a small payment.
Aaron Fisher: is a 26 year old card magician, who is about to release his first book 'The Paper Engine'. Find out the scoop on the book, and order it and his International Lecture video online.
Simon Aronson: has a new site address, now .net instead of .com. Find out about Side-Swiped, a marketed version of 'This Side Up.' Also read his Linking Ring Biography. Lastly don't forget to visit the Magicians Only section for two new tricks with the Aronson Stack and to download his 'Memories are Made of This' lecture notes.
Cold Reading Strategies Word Document: This Word Document is written by Chris A. Roe from the University College Northampton and is a very well researched paper on Cold Reading, setting out all the different strategies that are used. If you don' t have Word you can use the Google HTML copy.
Magic: New Tricks of the Trade: Short MSNBC news article on what could possibly be the magic of the future.
Card Flourish of the Day: I can't seem to find this in the archive, I should have blogged this before, but anyway an archive of AVI movies of various cuts, changes and moves which ran over a six week period.
Magic Jack: Discover some neat tricks, and hidden pages on Magic Jack's website.
NeoMagie: A new French website started by Julien Ortin that deals with Magic and Mentalism. Great if you can read French or just use Altavista's Babelfish translator.
Jump-O-Ring: Mats G. Kjellstrom has written a new e-book on a neat rope and ring move that is similar in effect to the classic Monkey Bar, couple that with the low cost of $4 and you have yourself a bargain!
Kurupted Kards: Some nice video clips of flourishes, passes, and tricks.
