It takes a lot of people to make this site and we’d like to raise of imaginary glass of champagne to them. To everyone who read a post, wrote a comment, reviewed a product, found a magic video and sent it in or were a guest on one of the podcasts we wish you a happy 2011!
Of course, we’d also like to toast the man who makes it all possible. Thank Andrew Mayne in the comments and rest assured, we have some cool stuff coming in the new year. Until then, enjoy the evening!
Tonight, we will be joined by some of our favorite people as we remember 2010 and crown our iTricks Trick of the Year with your help! Email in your nominees for the best trick released in 2010 to iTricksStaff@Gmail with the subject line “2010 Trick of the Year.”
It all begins at 8 p.m. and will run for as long as it needs to.
Tonight! Live! Front page! 8 p.m. ET! Happy Old Year!
Are Barry & Stuart too hardcore for mainstream television?
They assure The Scotsman that they are not. In fact, their placement on BBC’s new Saturday night magic series The Magicians has given them a biggest budget to pursue some of their more grandiose visions.
For example:
“Working on this, we’ve been able to pull them out. In each show, there’s something disgusting, weird or gross. But then there are other things that feature simply because they’re interesting.” He reveals that they’ll be employing an infrared camera to explain how a person is made to “appear” in a cabinet.
“There’s some blood too though,” Jones enthuses. “And a lot of stuff I wouldn’t recommend trying at home.”
We could not be more excited to see this routine (after it is uploaded to YouTube since we cannot see it live).
According to co-founder Biz Stone, Derren Brown stopped by Twitter HQ in Northern California yesterday. Although there is no footage of his visit (who knows if he even did any magic for the tweeples) it does mean that DvB is Stateside. Could it be vacation? Meetings for future American projects?
Let the baseless rumor mongering begin!
Straight outta Compton (not really) comes William Draven to pick your brain and foam your mouth with today’s column.
Now wait just a minute before all of you close up magicians out there tar, and feather me for that blasphemous title, please allow me to preface this article with this… I don’t think that all card tricks are boring. Just about as much as I don’t think that all magicians are boring, but there certainly are some that are worse than others, and I mean to imply that to both, card tricks and magicians as a whole. I think that with a little effort, there are steps that we can take to insure that our acts don’t become boring, and that’s what I’m going to discuss with you today.
If you think about it, every single card trick we know as a collective follows the same plot. Select a card, remember the card, lose the card, find the card, rinse and repeat. Sure you argue we have things like XCM, but those aren’t really card tricks are they? That’s more like card juggling.
Our new iTricks.TV Editor Crow has poured through the years worth of noteworthy magic videos and found his favorite. Enjoy!
The iTricks TV Feature Look to close out the year of 2010 Has taken a lot of time and thought to pick the one video that stood out from all the rest. Every one of them were so great, But I have to give it to Laser Man. Theo Dari has taken the art of magic and SyFy to a whole new level with his simplistic moves he makes bends light with his bare hands as if he communicates with this glowing stream of power.
Theo first discovered the art of magic in Paris, France 1992; being a computer engineer with the love for science fiction he practiced the classic 
arts of magic. After Magician Jeff McBride perform his act with mask and lights and having the idea of a SyFy Magic Act he started moving his practice into a whole new vision that has never been done before.
In 2003, the Laserman act received international acclaim. Theo was honored with the Silver Wand Award at the Monte-Carlo Magic Stars and later that year he received a highly coveted First Place ILDA Award for Special Applications at the ILDA (International Laser Display Association) conference in Brussels – the equivalent of an Oscar in the world of lasers!
The popularity of what has become Laser Man has created mass demand in 2005 Dari created the troop of LASERMEN his “replicants” that he trained him self that travel all over the world to promote his creation.
In 2010 over huge buzz and anticipation for Disney’s TRON: Legacy created a vast knowledge for the cyber punk aspect in the world. To build the anticipation even more for the movie at Disney’s California Adventure on the Hollywood Pictures Backlot at night the street transforms into the out of this world experience that is ElecTRONica. You plug into the Grid and experience all sorts of entertainment that could only have come from the movie, so who better to have joined in to this experience then LaserMan himself.
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