In a new feature here at iTricks, we are going to highlight one video per day from what’s been added in the last 24 hours on the new and improved iTricks.TV. For today’s pick, the combination of insane card moves and the natural elements takes the prize over Penn and Teller explaining sleight of hand, Lu Chen’s dove act and not to mention more Jerry and De’vo.
If you have a video you want to see on iTricks.TV, make sure to send it to MagicVideos@iTricks.com. Keep your eye on iTricks.TV for our constantly updated feed.
At lunchtime, or when he is walking the halls of his workplace, Roy Raphaeli’s colleagues often beseech him to do a magic trick. Usually, he obliges. “I take the opportunity to show people my new stuff and see how they react,†said Mr. Raphaeli, 23, a Brooklynite who works for a mail-order camera retailer.
While Mr. Raphaeli, known professionally as Magic Roy, has been entertaining people with card tricks and sleight-of-hand since he was 5, he does not perform at birthday parties or casino showrooms.
Instead, Mr. Raphaeli’s stage of choice is the Internet, where he has posted 30 short video clips to Metacafe, a Web site that pays video creators based on how many viewers their work attracts. So far, Mr. Raphaeli has earned more than $13,000 from the site, where his most popular card trick has been seen 1.4 million times.
What goes unmentioned, in an otherwise comprehensive piece, is the kind of audience one spurns by taking videos off YouTube and how that’s affects a possible move beyond the online video market not to mention how easy it is to spoof views on these sites. Still, an absolute must read if you’re making magic videos for internet distribution.
For those who haven’t noticed, iTricks Magic Videos is old and busted. The new hotness is iTricks.TV.
You can get to it the same way (the tab above right here will work) and it will still provide all of your favorite magic videos and some of those who’d never see otherwise. The only difference is, thanks to our new cadre of video scavengers, we have way more of it.
Remember, you can still submit anything you want for our archives, including your own stuff, by emailing us.
How comprehensive is iTricks.TV? Have you ever seen Charles Barkley hold is breath longer than David Blaine? Well neither have we, but you can watch him fail by clicking play on the box below.
From iTricks regular Eddy Ray comes a behind the scenes look at Teller’s haunting Shadow illusion. It features interviews with Jason Alexander as well as P and T. It also shows a few pics of teen Teller, worth the price of admission alone.
It seems that Virtual Magician Marco Tempest has spurned YouTube for upstart video hosting clearinghouse LiveVideo. His new series Magic4U featuring simple tricks for beginners is available only on LiveVideo as are his newest episodes of his popular PhoneCam Magic series. Make sure you watch the above clip until the end for the “reasons why” he switched including one salacious request at the end. Thanks to iTricks regular Derek for the tip.
For those who don’t remember, one of the first joys of iTricks was the groundswelling of good natured if hilariously bizarre parodies that sprung up around the Swiss magician. They haven’t stopped and we can only hope they migrate to LiveVideo as well.
Click after the jump for a look at Tarco Mempest, who not only has several parodies but also a short film and animated trailer.
natural elements takes the prize over Penn and Teller explaining sleight of hand, Lu Chen’s dove act and not to mention more Jerry and De’vo.
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