Halloween is huge in this industry, so we’d like to tip our beat-up bowler hat (we’re going as Charlie Chaplin) in the direction of all the iTricks readership digging pre-November macabre.
We’ve also got a little treat for you, our own evil genius Andrew Mayne has a walk-through for a fun little effect for all of the Mac folks that have the new OSX operating system, Leopard. As pictured above it allows you to terrify friends and family by appearing as if you’ve died and climbed out of your body in spirit form like Jake Busey in Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners.
I know what you’re saying, if that’s the treat, where’s the trick? Well, we’re not doing a iTricks.TV Pick of the Day. How do ya like them (possibly razor-infused) apples?
Mischievous mentalist Derren Brown continues to spread his influence across the globe like so many Risk pieces. He takes his Trick Of The Mind series to South Africa tonight for a Halloween debut. In the first episode he conjures up some tasty magic for Michel Roux Jr. and baffles a butcher, a baker and candlestick maker.
In case we have any South African readers, you’ll be able to catch it on BBC Prime. Also, there’s a pretty cool episode of Rome on too. Andrew Mayne does a really killer Kevin McKidd impression.
• If you didn’t catch our other post Penn and Teller are going to be dominating TV and radio over the next few days including tonight on David Letterman when they will perform two tricks never done on television before.
• Phenomenon will be a two-hour affair this evening where they will cut two the the following four: Jim Karol, Ehud Segev, Gerry McCambridge and Eran Raven. The remaining six will performing including “woman in red” Angela Funovits, Guy Bavli, Mike Super, Wayne Hoffman, Jan Bardi and Jim Callahan who the commercials indicate will “talk to the dead.”
• In magic movie news, Death Defying Acts will get a January release date and Wizard of Gore was picked up by Dimension.
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For each episode of Mindfreak’s third season we will run down what went on during the show, what we knew was going to happen and some facts that may or may not be of any use to anyone. Are you ready? Click AFTER THE JUMP!
The Bad Boys of Magic are going to be chatting up a storm over the next three days. With a five year anniversary at the Rio to celebrate they will be seen on these outlets throughout the following 72 hours.
Halloween
• The Late Show With David Letterman11 p.m. EST The official site says they are going to be performing two tricks never seen on television. Bonus.
November 1
• Opie And Anthony Show7 a.m. EST hour Penn will talk to the Opie, Anthony and Lil’ Jimmy Norton. They have had a field day with the David Copperfield story so expect a few questions on that.
• The Morning Show with Mike and JulietCheck local listings This is on FOX stations nationwide.
November 2
• The Glenn Beck Show7 p.m. EST Penn is going to do the full hour with the bombastic conservative talker on his CNN Headline News show. A must see for those who love P and T’s Bullsh!t.
We’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Joshua Jay on the Magic Week in Review a fewtimes and it just so happens to be his birthday today. So in his honor we give you the above video of his “cornered” magic. It joins, the trailer for his Live In Sao Paulo DVD as our favorite clips uploaded in the last 24 hours.
Get all the fun of FISM without being there! We pointed this out in a Magic Chatter chatter a few weeks ago but it really deserves it’s own post. Ellis and Webster, the team behind the Magic Unlimited blog are now offering reformatted journals from FISMs past in the cleverly titled FISMReports.blogspot.com. Take this entry from the award ceremony at the Stockholm event.
Speaking of lectures… David Jones and Nelson both told us that the Armando Lucero lecture was sensational! In fact we heard that most of the lectures were very good. The only problem is that you can’t see lectures and the competition, you need to make a choice. (And as was pointed out on another forum, there were plenty of lectures for the 500 people who were free when 2000 people were watching the Stage Competition, but comparatively nothing for the 1800 people who couldn’t get in to the 700 seats in the Close Up Competition rooms.
We’ve never been to a FISM, but these seem to give a pretty good impression of what one would be like. Enjoy.
Thanks to The Magician.org.uk blog whose post brought this back to our attention.
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This weeks new magic review features the new issue of Street Magic Magazine with Jay Sankey filling the cover. Also this week you will find the Crystal Car, Bubbler by John T. Sheets and so much more. Let’s dig into it!
Ice From Water By Andrew Gerard:
The performer places a clear glass of water on the table. With sleeves rolled up and both hands shown empty, the performer reaches into the water and pulls out his hand in a closed fist, opens it, and ice appears… Again, the performer shows his hand empty, reaches into the water, closes his hand and produces more ice… a third time he reaches in, this time producing a HANDFUL of ice!
This is an effect that looks like a REAL miracle. There is NO other effect of this kind that can match this one.
Comes complete with gimmick and 5 page instruction booklet
Availability: All Major Dealers
Price: $75
Some Tricks By Anthony Owen:
Anthony Owen is the BAFTA award winning producer of The Secret World of Magic, The Quick Trick Show, Monkey Magic, The Greatest Magic Tricks in the Universe, Dirty Tricks, The Real Hustle, Marc Paul’s Mind Games, Magick, Thomas Solomon: Escape Artist and Derren Brown’s specials and series’. He has also created material for David Copperfield, Paul Daniels, Geoffrey Durham, John Lenahan, Dominic Wood and many others and is a columnist for MAGIC magazine.
Availability: All Major Dealers
Price:$19.95
Street Magic Magazine October/November 2007 Issue:
This issue’s Feature is Jay Sankey, one of the most prolific creators in magic. Take a wild ride inside the mind of this enigmatic and somewhat reclusive Canadian.
Jamie D. Grant hits us up again with some great products in action with Magic Friday, and also nails down a fantastic piece on drug abuse. Plus much more.
SM is a magazine for the thinking magician—for artists who don’t want to fall in line and be like everyone else, but want to stand out from the crowd and be proud of who they are, where they are going, what they accomplish, and the legacy they leave behind. SM is about you and we prove that by featuring magicians of all levels. You don’t have to have been dead for 70 years to get the cover.
Also featuring a column by iTricks’ own Justin Robert Young.
Availability: All Major Dealers
Price: $8.95
Cars are Crystal, Handwriting get Sneaky and Sheets shows us The Bubbler AFTER THE JUMP (more…)
