by Conjuring Arts | Jun 12, 2015 | Articles, Magic News, Research
Magic, Magic, Magic, and Its History “the hook for my show is the history of magic. I’m an academic at heart.” By Mark Segal | June 11, 2015 – 1:47pm Allan Zola Kronzek is not your stereotypical magician. During a recent conversation at his house in Sag...
by Jon Racherbaumer | Jun 9, 2015 | Articles, Curious and New, Flibberty Gibberty., Magic News, Research
TWO SIDES OF THE SAME CIRCLE Almost forty years ago I wrote a short piece on a shop-worn term magicians regularly use: effect. This was a word that crept into our informal lexicon, supposedly because it’s preferable to “experiment” or “trick.” The old-fashioned...
by Jon Racherbaumer | Apr 27, 2015 | Articles, Curious and New, Flibberty Gibberty., Magic News, Research
OF DIVERSE PETIE JUGGLING KNACKS: Mulling Over Moves “Push on—keep moving.” -Thomas Morton What is a move’s role in the performance of magic? Shouldn’t “moves” be defined in ways more meaningful than previously defined? What would David Devant have thought...
by Jon Racherbaumer | Feb 23, 2015 | Articles, Curious and New, Flibberty Gibberty., Magic News, Research
PERSONS, PLOTTING AND A WISHFUL WELL Plot – A sequence of events in a play, novel, movie, or similar work. Magicians palaver a lot about plots and plotting. Then they usually ask questions regarding “presentational plots” and the effects/affects these plots are...
by Jon Racherbaumer | Jan 30, 2015 | Articles, Curious and New, Flibberty Gibberty., Magic News, Research
Conjuring Arts is very proud to have Jon Racherbaumer writing an exclusive periodical for us. FLIBBERTY-GIBBERTY will appear from time to time and at Jon’s whim. F IS FOR “FAKE” AND “FUTILE” Magicians are in a unique position to be cavalier about fakers and...
by Conjuring Arts | Jan 16, 2015 | Magic News, Research
In honor of our 10th Anniversary we’ve decided to give a free article away. One of our feature articles in this, the 19th issue, is about Tyler Wilson’s great discovery of The 52 Wonders. This rare little pamphlet shares some interesting commonalities with...
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