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Shin Lim, the 2015 FISM Champion of close-up magic is coming to The Society of American Magicians Assembly V1.1's virtual lecture stage. This is your chance to pick the brain of a multi award winning, two time fooler on Penn and Teller: Fool Us and a creative force in magic. Just send us your...

The Society of American Magicians has an online assembly. It had been up and running for a year now and is free for all members of the S.A.M.. Over the last years live lectures have been presented from Dan Harlan, Franz Harary, Danny Orleans, Michael C. DeSchalit, Jamie D. Grant, David Corsaro...

I went to pick up a new pill organizer when I see a four pack of bikes. Two are red and two black standard face Rider backs. So if you are looking for something a little different there ya go.

So Teller sued a magician who stole one of his effects and was selling it. This is a great day for magic creators...

Conjuring Arts is selling a brick of decks where one is a deck of nuggets. http://shop.conjuringarts.org/store/pc/Card-Variety-Box-c152.htm?utm_source=Conjuring+Arts+Master&utm_campaign=7991a8abe3-Variety_Box2_24_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_99e18d300c-7991a8abe3-407111573 So if you...

The other day this email went out to the IBM SAM and others... Dear friends I am writing to let you know that the love of my life, my beloved husband, best friend and partner Aldo has suffered a catastrophic stroke. Sunday afternoon paramedics rushed him to Munro Regional Hospital in...

I'll admit, I'm a magic child of the 90's. In the 90's packet tricks were all the rage. You couldn't swing a stick with out hitting a book magazine or lecture with out some sort of packet effect. So they hold a soft spot in my heart. When I find one that is this good well yeah I'll use it. So...

People are always asking if they should put their effect on the wire only to be told that ti;s not original. Or people posting effects on youtube and not doing the research to see if it is new. Here is Garrett Thomas and Mathieu Bich talking about how to tell if it is new and original enough to...

There have been more than a few threads here where people post their "new" effect or move only to be told that it was from the 1890s to today. That someone else has been doing it for decades only to have them say well I still came up with it. Well Teller of Penn and Teller sued someone for not...

This week over on the Conjuring Arts they have the Mail Order version of the Tarbell Course as a free PDF. That is over 1200 pages of all types of magic. Cards coins thimbles cups and balls ropes. Close-up, parlor, and stage. History, theory, staging ect ect. So if you do not have the Tarbell...

I had picked up a few sheets of these a couple f years ago, but now no one seems t have them. Does anyone know if they stopped making them?

My mentor gave me a set of the Andrus pins back in the 1990's. Lately I have seen a few guys using "soft pins". Is this something you make or is it a set you buy? If it is something you make anyone have a how to on it? i have a bunch of the three inch blanket pins and could like to use them.

I picked up the Royal coins but they are light and feel plastic to the touch. I know there are the real ones on ebay but trying to track down the 38.1 mm for the dollar size and 30.61 mm half dollar size. Any helpful links or places to start?

After a break while getting my life in order I have been rebuilding my book collection. I picked up the Bobo book to start back into coins. What other books for DVD's should i look at to supplement what I can learn from this book?