by Conjuring Arts | Jan 22, 2015 | Artifacts, Curious and New, Magic News
Our friends at Cool Hunting stopped by looking for some rarities. Please watch the whole clip but starting around 1:37 there is a short jaunt over to Conjuring Arts. Cool Hunting Video: A Tour Of New York City’s Rarities from Cool Hunting on Vimeo. If you would...
by Noah Levine | Dec 11, 2013 | Articles, Curious and New, Magic News, Research
We recently made friends with a ninety-five year old Magic Circle member named Fergus (Gus) Anckorn. Gus caught our attention not just because he is a skilled and experienced practitioner, but because his abilities as a magician are woven into an unbelievable tale of...
by Conjuring Arts | Dec 4, 2013 | Curious and New, Magic News
This is definitely one of the most amazing things we’ve seen in a long time, and it is all 100% real! And we have always thought that doing hardcore sleight of hand is difficult!
by Ricky Smith | Jun 10, 2013 | Curious and New
Impossible feats of balancing are marvelous and have been closely associated with magic for many years. Some excellent feats are described in Prevost, and you, no doubt, probably learned a few at some point in one of your early magic books or have seen a friend or...
by Ricky Smith | Dec 1, 2011 | Curious and New
A pretty interesting method for reading someone’s mind is the subject of this video. Basically the researchers have studied the brain activity using an MRI while showing the participants a number of videos. They then used the brain activity they collected while...
by Ricky Smith | Apr 28, 2011 | Curious and New
In this demo they use the front facing camera on the iPad to track a person’s head, as the person, or screen, is moved around, the image is adjusted to give a three dimensional effect. Pretty nifty. What magic effects can be done? Will someone ever secretly...