dgmagic - UK magic blog by magician Dan Gifford

Thanks to everyone at Thames Valley Magicians Guild for the warm welcome on Wednesday night.

I was there presenting my close-up magic lecture ‘High Impact Magic’ (you can find out more about my lecture here), which I think went down well. We’ll see if anyone comments on this post.

If any of the magicians there on Wednesday is reading this, the notes for my business card production effect are available on this page. I’d welcome any feedback on the write up and whether it makes sense or not.

We’ve been decorating (I’m sure I’ve mentioned that before) and our latest job is the kitchen. Unfortunately magic isn’t real and I just can’t click my fingers so it is done. At the same time I’ve had a lot of magic work so it’s been pretty hectic and the blog has had to wait.

One of the best (and worst) things about the internet is finding things you aren’t really looking for. Today I stumbled on [this page ->http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/cs4fn/mathemagic/brentmorris.php] (more…)

[Maximum Presentational Impact->http://www.mental-list.com/blog/?p=33] - a great presentational idea by Stuart Cumberland.

I know magic by definition is not logical, but there still has to be some reason to what you do. Why would you magically increase the value of a banknote and then turn it back?! (more…)