Murray SawChuck did a great deal to renew interest in the amazing magic of Marvin “Mr Electric” Roy with “>his video earlier this month. Here is a video released by the legendary magic dealer Joe Stevens late last year singing the praises of Marvyn; enjoy!
Here is a clip from David Sandy of IBM Ring 129… right here in Kansas City (which is more or less the home of iTricks Tower Midwest V2.0). What a great way to promote the Ring. Perhaps I will make it down there soon!
If you are in the KC area, visit Ring129.com. Otherwise, check in with the national site at Magician.org.
By and large we don’t post stuff that is purely promotional… it is a fine line sometimes. This clip from Saskatoon based Tyler Golding (and friend) of Seven Of Spades Magic impressed us with its low tech cleverness, though.
In honor of the epic return of Mystery Science Theater, here is the original host (victim?) and creator Joel Hodgson talking about the new style of puppetry used in the latest season with the good folks from The AV Club.
The revived version of MTS3K is available on Netflix.
The Society of American Magicians just posted this video of George Schindler, who received a Lifetime Achievement Fellowship from the Academy of Magical Arts this past weekend, explaining why he feels the world needs magic.
Learn more about the Society of American Magicians on their site.
Culled from the live tweets of the official Magic Castle Twitter account, here are last night’s Academy of Magical Arts Awards results (in order of tweets):
Creative Fellowship: Sebastion Clergue
Parlour Magician of the Year: Handsome Jack
Close Up Magician of the Year: Mike Pisciotta
Performing Fellowship: Luis Piedrahita
Special Fellowship: Dr. Edwin Dawes
Special Fellowship:Franz Harary
Literary/Media Fellowship: Dr. Lori Pieper
Award of Merit: Bill Smith
Award of Merit: Milt Larsen
Lifetime Achievement Fellowship: Fielding West
Junior Achievement Award: Collins Key
Stage Magician of the Year: Tommy Ten and Amelie Van Tass (The Clairvoyants)
Lecturer of the Year: Rob Zabrecky
Lifetime Achievement Fellowship: George Schindler
Magician of the Year: Derek DelGaudio
Masters Fellowship: Ger Cooper
Congratulations to all of those nominated and to the winners. You can read all of the tweets related to the awards at #magicawards2017
Chris Ramsay recently posted this very nice introduction to card throwing for anyone harboring dreams of throwing cards like Gambit or that one guy* in Jackie Chan’s City Hunter movie. You can always see more of Chris over on his website.
*Leon Lai as Kao Ta