Astrojax: this could be a fun way to kill some time this summer, I will be picking one up for sure! Seems like these things have been out for a while, they are hailed as a cross between a Yo-Yo and Juggling. There are some sample videos and a forum. Also check out the video of Thom Stead [26mb mpa] an Astrojax Player who helped promote them in the UK. You can also visit the UK site which gives details of stockists.
Handlordz Member Videos: various members of Handlordz have submitted video clips of flourishes.
The Straitjacket Circus: are a modern Circus performing group. Watch video clips of their performance.
Magicpitch: the new products website of Gazzo and Gary Animal, selling the cups and balls, pouches, wands etc.
Alan Warner Mini Magic: a site by Digital Cheetah showing the mini-magic of craftsman Alan Warner, such things as flight of the falcon, twister, prison block, wonderland door and cover up. See photos of all his creations, read the effect and also get a chance to order them.
Fortune-Telling With Playing Cards: An article by Richard Webster on how to do a quick reading using a normal deck of playing cards, includes a link to his book Playing Card Divination for Beginners.
Free Paper Models from FreePaperToys.com: links to lots of different models, airplanes, animals, buildings, cartoon characters, puzzles, dolls, science fiction etc. The Origami link is well worth a look as it lists lots of other interesting sites.
Canon 3D Papercraft: Origami and Chiyogami (paper with a coloured pattern), make a Dog, Fish, Crane or Samurai Helmet and download coloured paper patterns to print and use as origami or wrapping paper.
Joseph Palmer's Paper Airplanes: make models such as the PL-4 Hybrid, PL-2 Gullwing and the PL-1 Joe's favourite. Apparently unlike the common 'dart' designs, these planes are designed to have lift; if you throw at a point on the ground about 10 feet away — they will fly up.
Stackview: a new program from Nick Pudar that allows you to explore variations of various actions to a stacked deck. Allows you to do shuffles, poker deals, faros and even control selections from the deck.
Jay's Journal: Hear Ricky Jay every week on LA Radio Station KCRW, here you can also find the archives of all shows, Ricky talks about a number of things including as you would expect weird performers and performances.
Hit or Stand: Blackjack Game and Trainer, written in Flash, you get to play Blackjack and the computer teaches you based on your moves and shows you what is right and wrong. If your interested in Blackjack then some other links are Stanford Wong's BJ21 forum, where you can read the free forum or subscribe. Blackjack 2002 gives you rules, tips and terminology. All About Blackjack talks about card counting, shuffle tracking, the social issues and strategies. Finally Black Jack Info offers a basic strategy engine to calculate custom charts.
All this searching was inspired by my tinkerings with Bob Farmer and Harold Cataquet's Black Jack stacks that have been appearing in Bob's new Flim-Flam corner in Genii an excellent stack that acts like the Jonah 10 Card Poker deal, which has just been exposed in The Telegraph in an article trying to debunk Derren Brown of all things!
All this searching was inspired by my tinkerings with Bob Farmer and Harold Cataquet's Black Jack stacks that have been appearing in Bob's new Flim-Flam corner in Genii an excellent stack that acts like the Jonah 10 Card Poker deal, which has just been exposed in The Telegraph in an article trying to debunk Derren Brown of all things!
Deck of Cards: Worth1000 is a photoshop competition site where people doctor and manipulate photos, they don't take bad photos so this is high quality stuff. See how people have incorportated card suits into photos, also check out Deck of Cards 2 and Deck of Cards 3
Shuffle, Cut & Flip: the problem, to unshuffle a deck of cards, the solution a C computer program. Read all about the problem and the way that the winner solved it.
Devin Balkcom: wrote a thesis proposal [PDF 500k] on robotic origami folding, he then went ahead and built the robot, which you can see in action in this quicktime movie [QT 14MB].
Antony Gerard FFFF 2003 Pictures: Antony has posted 312 pictures from this years 4F convention, also check his Lectures page for other excellent photos of lectures and conventions.
Star Wars Origami: for the actual models look at the Gallery and there is also a great Origami Basics tutorial.
LEGO Tarot: A deck of Tarot made from lego figures. Also of interest might be Vertigo Tarot, Vampire Tarot, 80's Tarot, Hello Kitty Tarot, Star Trek Tarot and Pomo Tarot.
Copperfield Videos: some short clips from David Copperfield TV shows from courtesy Dr Jakks, includes the infamous Torn Asunder.
