Magic Sites Galore

Saturday, August 26, 2006

Magician-Entertainer.co.uk

Magician-Entertainer.co.uk is another site of mine.

I created as a place where I could put more detailed information about magic and having magicians at events, info that doesn't really fit on my main site. I've recently added a page about wedding entertainers.

It also has info about other magicians so I send people to this site if I am already booked up.

Monday, August 21, 2006

devoted.to/derren is an unofficial Derren Brown fan site. The best bits on here the links to sites about NLP, ESP, coercive persuasion, brainwashing, etc.

You too could be a master mentalist.

Also there is a link to a page of Derren Brown interviews. I've heard a couple of interviews with Derren on BBC radio which were very interesting.

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Midlands Magician Dan Gifford Profile Page

This is a site of mine, a profile of Midlands and UK Magician Dan Gifford.

It's a basic profile of me, with a bit about my experience as a magician and the types of events I perform at. I wrote this site a while back when I realised you can get free web space on Google pages.

It took me no more than 30 minutes to create these pages using one of the built-in templates and it doesn't look too bad. (I think)

You can even add Google Adsense to Google pages. Sounds like a recipe for spam...

Saturday, August 05, 2006

Blog Review: West of Utopia

Magic Utopia: Blog Review: West of Utopia

The last couple of posts on the Magic Utopia blog have highlighted a few magic blogs that I had never seen before.

There are quite a few blogs on magic if you care to look and a good list can be found at the magicforge blogosphere tracker. (Thanks to magic Utopia for highlighting Magicforge as well!)

I tend to prefer magic blogs that stay on topic, i.e. magic related stuff, although my main magic blog does go of topic occasionally. Too many people use blogs to moan about life in general.

Anyway, back to magic websites! A blog that is always magic related, in fact always magic trick related, is Cardopolis.

Practice Not Included

www.practicenotincluded.com is a very basic site (in terms of design) about sleight of hand card magic. You need to know a little bit about magic to get into it and then you find the site explains some basic card moves and tricks.

(You don't need to know much to get into the site, in fact a search on Google would probably find the answers easily. Not really sure why people bother with this type of secret question password.)

The moves explained on the site include the double undercut and Braue reversal, and classic tricks like You do as I do and Twisting The Aces. The explanations aren't bad, especially those accompanied by photo's.

A good site for an intermediate card magician.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Street Magic

This is a very informative page about street magic by a guy called Ace Starry (what a great name!)

I've thought about performing some street magic myself - it's a good way of getting some promotional footage if nothing else - and Mr Starry provides some great tips. It's the sort of information you only gain from experience.