dgmagic - UK magic blog by magician Dan Gifford

A couple of weeks ago, I had great pleasure in seeing the lecture of Jim Pace at the Leicester Magic Circle.

Jim is an experienced close-up magician from the US who was touring the UK with his lecture, leading up to the Blackpool convention last weekend.

He demonstrated a number of great effects obviously born from experience in real world situations. In particular, there was a great effect where he borrows a napkin from a table and produces a drink from beneath it. Hmmm, so what? Well the drink belongs to one of the people at the table!

As a bonus, we were also introduced to Dennis Friebe, a young magician who is helping Jim out on his lecture tour. Dennis showed us some of his ideas, which were very well thought out and effective.

You can visit Jim Pace’s website at www.jimpacemagic.com (he sells some great items) and Dennis Friebe’s site at: www.dennisfriebe.com.

I am now the webmaster for the Leicester Magic Circle website.

I’ve used Wordpress (the same blogging software I use for this site) to power the LMC site as it makes managing multiple users and adding content really easy. Wordpress is very flexible and easy to modify once you get to know it.

The basic information is up at the moment and our Secretary is adding announcements. Hopefully, other magicians in the circle will get involved and we’ll add further information such as links pages and a members only area.