The iTricks New Tricks Bulletin is compiled by Eddy Ray. Send any listings for your new effects to NewMagic@iTricks.com for inclusion. Remember to check our New Magic section for a constantly updated list of new products
This weeks new magic review might need an exterminator thanks to Yigal Mesika’s new effect called Tarantula. David Regal brings us his latest book properly titled, “Approaching Magic” and Mindlapse productions reveals their latest release… all of this and more, let’s dig into it!
Tarantula (With DVD) By Yigal Mesika:
Check this out: You’re in a normal setting – maybe a coffee shop, a classroom, even a party. You borrow a friend’s ring and hold it very fairly – nothing to hide. Suddenly, you give it a gentle horizontal spin and slowly move your hands away – the ring is now floating. Imagine that it continues to spin – without you touching it! The ring hovers up and down above your hand, from one hand to another, and slowly lands on your own finger! Now get this: You instantly repeat it, and end up with the ring floating onto the spectator’s own finger! Sounds impossible? Believe it or not, it’s easy to master! This levitation has it all. It’s fun, mysterious, edgy, and leaves a strong emotional impact.
Availability: All Major Dealers
Price: $75
Approaching Magic By David Regal:
Bills, beer, socks, envelopes, DVDs, coffee cups, baskets, boxes, borrowed rings, portable darkness, pieces of paper, paperback books, a bulletin board, a glass canister, a wand, a pencil, and a marshmallow…plus Cards & Coins.
Availability: All Major Dealers
Price: $75
Armstrong Magic DVDs:
Jon Armstrong has made a living with his quick wit and a deck of cards for most of his life and the material in his exciting new DVD series is right out of his working repertoire. Learn how to turn boring card tricks into entertaining card magic!
Availability: All Major Dealers
Price: $35
Impromptorn From Dee Christopher Magic:
A signed card is cleanly torn into 4 pieces and restored in the cleanest manner piece by piece. But that’s not all, the card’s creases are then slowly and visually ironed out with surgical precision leaving the card back to it’s original state!
The iTricks New Tricks Bulletin is compiled by Eddy Ray. Send any listings for your new effects to NewMagic@iTricks.com for inclusion. Remember to check our New Magic section for a constantly updated list of new products
April Fools Day is tomorrow and those hellspawn Barry and Stuart teamed with BBC3 to create one doozy of a viral video prank. Check out the clip above which details the effect, the method and is even laced with the squeals of an English girl who becomes convinced she has psychic powers.
To do our part, we’re going to do a post about the actual video you need to perform the effect straight up tomorrow. We’re not going to approve any “THIS IS A JOKE!!” comments for 24 hours so those who want to punk their friends via iTricks can have their fun.
We don’t know what’s gotten into the David Copperfield show lately, but the venerable act just keeps popping into the Ticket News.com Vegas Top Ten. This week, it charts at #8.
Yesterday, YouTube suspended the account of the James Randi Educational Foundation. Communication with the home office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida revealed that they are hard at work on the problem and should have it resolved sometime soon.
Although the JREF has had recent issues (YouTube-centric and otherwise) in the past with old foe Uri Geller, there is to this point no evidence that he’s had any involvement in the suspension.
Hopefully, much more on this before the day is out. Keep an eye on Randi.org for an official announcement.
For those new to the iTricks party, we’d like to take this time to declare in the interest of full disclosure that iTricks Publisher Andrew Mayne is a former employee of the JREF and Editor Justin Robert Young was a former intern of the foundation. Also, we did a podcast with Randi.
Recorded in front of a live internet audience on BBLiveShow.com we have our favorite East Texas guests. Did Bill Kalush always know that his Houdini book would turn into a movie, as was announced this week? Is Allison “Willow” Hannigan a Scam School fan? Is David Blaine using his Twitter account right?
