Magic Sites Galore

Monday, July 24, 2006

All Magic - Magic Show

At the moment, if you search for 'magic' on Google the top result is a magic the gathering site, www.wizards.com. I'm not linking to it here, it has plenty of backlinks - 9,430 of them - a very popular site.

Number 2 is allmagic.com (only 111 backlinks). This is a well designed site with a lot of good content. There's usually some good effect ideas, although often old techniques you've heard of but never used, but also good articles and media about other areas of magic such as routining and marketing.

The product reviews are a little odd, they all seem to be very positive.... Maybe they just review the good stuff?

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

The Phantom Notebooks

Now, there are quite a few magic and magician's blogs out there, but one of the most entertaining is The Phantom Notebooks by the Smiling Mule.

It's supposed to be 'Personal notes on magic and sleight of hand' and there are a lot of interesting posts about sleights and magic philosophy, but the best entries concern Bish the Magish - Glen Bishop. They have something of a fued going.

Although Mr Bishop appears to have removed his half of the vitriol from his main blog, there is still plenty at his blog number 3.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Official Derren Brown Site

www.derrenbrown.co.uk is the official site of Derren Brown. It's one of those slightly annoying flash sites where you don't quite know where to click, and when you do, you don't know what's going to happen.

Still, it looks great and certainly has an eerie, mysterious feel to it. Of course, Mr Brown doesn't have to explain to people that he performs at weddings, parties and barmitsvahs.

Has an interesting links page. See if you can find it.

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Marked Cards

This is an interesting site about marked cards - www.cardsorcerer.com.

If you delve deeply, it tells you how the various types of markings work, including ways to detect them on a pack of cards.

There are also some card trick methods on the site (not that original, but a few god ideas) and some links to videos - unfortunately they weren't working.

Some of the stuff is expensive though, there's one card marking system on this site for $900!