Wired 10.09: Hacking Las Vegas: A Wired article about MIT students and their card counting exploits in Vegas.
KismetMagic.com: A new message forum that is the start of Nexus, the complete communication site for Magicians. The forum at the minute has a lot of sub-forums including regional forums.
Card Flourishes.com: A new card site where you can watch, learn and discuss card sleights and flourishes.
Magic Television: Some great archive footage of TV Magicians such as Copperfield, Blaine and Siegfried and Roy. See Copperfield perform the Kenner T&R Card that started the trend!
Strictly Underground: Magic, Mentalism, Bizarre, Spooky Death and Escapology Resource.
The Virtual Magician: Marco Tempest's new TV series that is soon to appear on Cable/Satellite.
Stunners-Plus!: Pre-Order Larry Beckers re-print of Stunners with lots of new material.
Jose Bento: A nice site with a few good video clips to watch, things like Floating Lifesaver, Pen through Bill, Linking Cards and Invisible Palm.
Speed Stacks Inc.: Home Page for the Leader in the Sport of Cup Stacking. Not Magic but would probably make a great follow up to dice stacking, or to the cups and balls! Watch the video on the site its very cool!
Mark Burger : Elegant Magic for Magicians. Mark makes great looking wallets, pouches, wands, billiard balls and some wood turned items.
Card College 1 E-Book: Chris Wasshuber's e-book version of the first Card College book. This CD contains video clips showing Robert Giobbi performing every sleight from the book. It differs slightly from the Hermetic Press series as it is taken from the German version.
I think this kind of e-book is a huge breakthrough for magical publication, the amalgamation of hypertext, with its links and search features, coupled with the visual nature of the video clips is like combining hard-copy books with a video, yet bundled into one handy CD format!
I'm sure there will still be a lot of people that prefer hard-copy books, and to some extent I still do, but you cannot ignore this very important growing medium.
I think this kind of e-book is a huge breakthrough for magical publication, the amalgamation of hypertext, with its links and search features, coupled with the visual nature of the video clips is like combining hard-copy books with a video, yet bundled into one handy CD format!
I'm sure there will still be a lot of people that prefer hard-copy books, and to some extent I still do, but you cannot ignore this very important growing medium.
TrickList: Tricklist.com is a magic directory of magic including card tricks, coin tricks, illusions, routines and more, for all standards and types of magicians to learn from and help others with.
