Twisting The Aces: EVERYTHING You Need To Know
Twisting the Aces is one of card magic’s original and most classic packet effects. Best of all, it’s completely impromptu, extremely visual, and relatively simple to learn. Let’s face it… You can only do so many “pick a card” tricks before your audience gets bored. Once you’ve mastered some of the basics of card magic…
10 Easy Ways to Measure Your Magic
Sometimes it can be tough to know whether or not the magic you’re sharing with the world is any good – and how you can improve it. So, just for you, we created this chart: 10 Easy Ways to Measure Your Magic. We hope it will help magicians everywhere be able to tell whether or…
John Guastaferro: 2 Killer Close Up Strategies
There are countless magic theory books available in the world, and almost as many theories as there are magicians. Often, the same theory, concept or idea is published by different people, with a few minor changes, or even no changes at all. So when we heard about the work John Guastaferro was publishing – specifically…
Professional Magician Steve Barcellona Takes Us BACKSTAGE!
Unless you’ve done it yourself, it can be almost impossible to imagine the amount of work that goes into preparing a Stand-Up Magic Show! Our friend, top magician Steve Barcellona, recently shot an AMAZING video to share the experience with you: Steve has decades of experience as a professional stage entertainer – and he’s got his…
6 Must-Have Trick Decks for Every Magician
Trick decks are NOT a replacement for essential sleight of hand skills. Phew! Glad we got that out of the way. That being said… Did you know that pretty much every professional magician – even the ones famous for sleight of hand – use a ‘special’ deck every now and again? And contrary to popular…
Magician Fails: They Happen to the Best of Us!
Magician fails do happen! Have you ever looked at a magician you admire and thought ‘Seriously… do they EVER have an off night?!” The truth is: absolutely, 100%, yes! The best professionals in the world admit there is no such thing as a perfect show every time. Between different audiences, different locations and different circumstances…
Magic Lessons: The REAL Kind
Magic lessons find us anywhere if we look. In this 35 minute pure content video interview with Aaron Fisher, you’ll find funny, profound and bizarre magic lessons you could only learn from a lifetime spent in the company of master magicians. In this uncensored interview, you’ll get stories that have never been revealed to anyone…
30 Magic Books That Can Change Your Life: Your Ultimate List
Share As a follow-up to our popular ‘Non-Magic Book’ post, we’re offering you this wonderful piece written by Jamy Ian Swiss; a list of entirely magic-related books anyone who aspires to be a great magician should read and more importantly… why. Jamy Ian Swiss is a top professional in magic – you can check out…
How David Williamson Handles a Very Unreasonable Client
We hear a lot of legitimately ‘out of this world’ adventures from our CC members… in our private Conjuror.Community Facebook group, but what this client expected David to do was a new one for all of us. Check it out, in David’s words: “Years ago I was working for a client in New York City for an…
The Best Magicians in the World Recommend One Non-Magic Book
It’s easy to find magician’s recommendations for the best books to pick up when we want to learn a certain type of magic. But what about when we want to know more about how and why the best magicians in the world think the way they do. Or how they view the world in such…
