The Illusionist had the odd luck of coming out at about the same time as The Prestige. Seems odd that two films about slightly mad magicians in top hats would hit the screens so closely. The Prestige had the good fortune to have a rare performance by David Bowie as Super Genius Nikola Telsa. I liked both of these movies, but they both left me wanting a bit more as well. In The Illusionist we have the standard-issue star-crossed lovers, a rich girl and a poor boy, who are soon forced apart. Our hero, the boy, wanders the world and…
Category: magic
Jay Sankey Magic Anyone Can Do-Sort of
Jay Sankey is a professional magician that I had never heard of until I got interested in doing magic myself. He does magic card tricks, street magic, slight of hand magic, and close up magic. Being one of those people that feels he can master just about anything in a couple of hours, tops, Amazing Magic and Mentalism Anyone Can Do! sounded right up my alley. And it is. Volume 1 and 2 are filled with a number of really cool effects-don’t call them tricks, that’s one of the tips. This is easy magic as well as amazing magic.Jay himself…
Juggling, Magic and The Path Not Taken
In the seventh grade I checked a book out of the school library on juggling. It was an odd little book filled with cartoon diagrams and curved arrows indicating where the balls were to go. I bought a can of tennis balls to juggle with and in three weeks of chasing boucning balls all over the house, I learned to juggle. The book also covered clubs, rings, and fire-all of which I juggled with a fair amount of success. And yet there were still no calls from Ringling Brothers.Not that I really expected there to be. A few years later…