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Issue Number: #1774
Date: Sunday 8th September 2024
Editor: Alan Watson QSM
www.watson.co.nz
E-mail: Editor@magicnewzealand.com
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Hi here is the latest news
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1.
Editor's Message
2. September Vanish Magic Magazine
3. Estates Of Magic Announces It's Final 2024 Sale And Clearance
4. Applications Now Open For The Melbourne Magic Festival
2025
5. No Stone Unturned - Paul Stone - Article 168
6. World Festival Of Magic, New Zealand Tour 2024
7. Magic Museum Bellachini - Episode 87
8. Tales From The Fantastic Magic Center - #99
9. Cards Of The Clan - John Carey #243
10. Triadic - Just Released
11. Underground Monsters
12. E-zine Archives
13. Privacy Policy and Copyright Notice
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1. Editor's Message
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2. September Vanish Magic Magazine
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Message by Paul Romhany - Editor Vanish Magazine
Now
Available as a VR magazine.
Available to enjoy and immerse yourself in with your Apple
Pro headset or Meta Quest. Enjoy 360 video and amazing new
technology. The future of magic is happening right now -
get on board with the world's most advanced digital publication.
Printed:
Vanish is also available as a printed magazine from www.paulromhanymagic.com
September
2024 - www.digitalmagazine.com
Our
feature artist is Chanelle Monroe - The world's only female
Métis magician delivers a performance that becomes
a vessel for Indigenous (Native American) and female empowerment.
Munroe, "The Mystical Trickster of Magic," shares
her message through the eyes of the Trickster archetype,
known across cultures for storytelling, pranks, passing
down generational life lessons and entertainment.
We
also feature the recipients of this year's Milbourne Christopher
Awards including past feature artists of Vanish Magic Magazine.
Full
Illusion Plans - Nigel Harrison has a full set of illusion
plans for an amazing appearance.
Tips
For Your Promotional Video: Samantha shares top tips from
a photographer on how to take great photos.
Magic
Live! 2024 - Daniel Chan shares tips on attending magic
conventions and what happened at Magic Live 2024!
Magic
Conventions - the schedule for the upcoming year around
the world.
Sleight
Of Design - Ryan Joyce takes an old brochure and shows how
to make it modern for current trends.
Conjuring
The Spirit World - exclusive interview and story about the
upcoming exhibition in Salem starting September 14th.
A
Small German - Louie Foxx shares a routine with a coin box.
A
Dynamic Sharpie - Product highlight and behind the scenes
about this amazing product.
Virtual
Reality World - Vanish is the first magazine (not just magic)
to move in to the world of Virtual Reality - Look at how
to do it and check out the videos.
Nick's
Tips - Trick - Nick Lewin looks at how to link your shows.
Colour
Bars - Illusion plans by Nigel Harrison
Magic
Reviews
Paul
Romhany
paulromhany@gmail.com
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3. Estates Of Magic Announces Its Final 2024 Sale And Clearance
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Message by Steve Varro (US)
Over
fifty items added
ALL
prices reduced in all five catalogues
Prices
will NOT be lowered again
LAST
catalogues for 2024
Go
to estatesofmagic.com
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4. Applications Now Open For The Melbourne Magic Festival
2025
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Message by Tim Ellis (Australia)
Applications
are now open for those wishing to produce a show at the
2025 Melbourne Magic Festival.
Our
dates, as always, coincide with the winter school holidays
July 7 to 19, 2025.
The
first week, July 7-12, will centre around our Festival Hub
at Arrow on Swanston and our 5 unique theatres in that space,
while the second week, July 13-19, will feature shows at
Satellite Venues like The Butterfly Club, The MC Showroom,
Storyville and more.
This
is so that magicians heading to the FISM World Championships
in Italy, will be able to do both: A week of shows at the
Melbourne Magic Festival from July 7 to 12, then a quick
flight to Turin and then enjoy the World Championships from
July 14 to 19 2025.
To
apply to present a show at The Melbourne Magic Festival,
go to https://melbournemagicfestival.com/producer-guide/
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5. No Stone Unturned - Paul Stone - Article 168
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Message by Paul Stone (US)
I
seem to have been travelling a lot recently and spending
an inordinate amount of time in airports. This week I experienced
both the good and bad sides of international travel.
I
disembarked a cruise in Reykjavik and had to endure absolute
carnage at the airport there. Poor signage, with hundreds
of people wandering around not knowing where to go and with
very little, if any, support from airport personnel.
Then,
after a couple of days in London, I arrived at Heathrow
Airport, anticipating the worst. It is normally a long check-in
followed by a hostile interrogation at security. As it turned
out it was the fastest and easiest check-in ever. It took
just 18 minutes from the time I arrived at the Terminal
until I'd checked my bag, and gone through security, and
was enjoying a cup of coffee.
Of
course, it had to get worse … and it did. Due to a
technical issue my Virgin Atlantic flight back to L.A. was
delayed, first by two hours, then by another two hours and
then finally cancelled altogether! So, another night spent
at the Hilton Hotel at Heathrow - actually quite nice -
and hopefully (I'm writing this in the airport!) all will
be running properly today!
Next
week I'll be in Myrtle Beach for the 'Magic on the Beach'
Convention where I'm looking forward to catching up again
with my friend Charles Bach.
Have
you ever noticed that after you've performed your latest
miracle, how spectators exaggerate what you actually did?
I recently performed the Chop Cup for a few friends. My
version is really short and fast, I don't hang about or
spend minutes building to the final loads!
One
particular friend talked about the trick for the next several
days, telling everyone he knew and each time, it became
an even more incredible trick. 'The ball vanished and was
here one minute and gone the next. Then out of nowhere he
lifted the cup and there was a tomato, which visibly changed
into a lemon!'
Just
brilliant! Who needs promotional videos!!
Sent
from Paul Stone
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6. World Festival Of Magic, New Zealand Tour 2024
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Message by Rosemarie McCarthy (New Zealand)
World
Festival of Magic, New Zealand Tour 2024 in conjunction
with Lions International
Headliner:
Mark Bennick, USA
Sunday
17 November Tauranga - Bethlehem College Performance Arts
Centre - 1pm & 4pm
Tuesday
19 November - Hamilton - Clarence Street Theatre - 4pm &
7pm
Wednesday
20 November - Palmerston North - Speirs Centre, PN Boys
High - 6pm
Tuesday
26 November - Invercargill - Civic Theatre - 6pm
Wednesday
27 November - Dunedin - Kings & Queens Performing Arts
Centre - 4pm & 7pm
Saturday
30 November - Christchurch - Haeata Performing Arts Centre
-1pm & 4pm
Wednesday
4 December - Rotorua - John Paul College - 6pm
Thursday
5 December - Napier - Taradale High School - 6pm
Saturday
7 December - Wellington - Riley Centre, Wellington High
School - 1pm & 4pm
Sunday
8 December - New Plymouth - New Plymouth Girls High School
- 6pm
Tuesday
10 December - Gisborne - Gisborne War Memorial Theatre -
6pm
Friday
13 December - Whangarei - Forum North Theatre - 6pm
Sunday
15 December - Auckland - Barfoot Stadium, Selwyn College
- 11am, 2pm & 5pm
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7. Magic Museum Bellachini - Episode 87
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Message by Wittus Witt (Germany)
Currently,
the Bellachini Museum is still showcasing an exhibition
on the theme of magic in the hands of women. However, I
am already working on the next exhibition, which will focus
on the cups and balls trick. It will be a comprehensive
presentation with numerous exhibits including books (of
course), posters, old graphics, prints, figures, and many
examples of different cups.
Among other things, I will display a book from 1514 that
depicts a cups and balls performer. I believe it is the
oldest example of the depiction of this trick in a book.
Another unique exhibit is a small mantel clock that shows
the performer with his three cups.
As
with the women's exhibition, a large companion volume will
also be published for this exhibition. It contains about
200 pages and is large format with over 200 illustrations,
some of which have never been published before.
I
am particularly pleased to have secured several guest authors
who have contributed wonderful articles. First, the two
active professional magicians, Helge Thun and Stefan Alexander
Rautenberg, who have been featuring the trick in their shows
for many years and have developed very beautiful, unique
routines.
They
talk about the fascination with the cups and balls trick.
Dr. Steffen Taut, a professional scientist, has also been
engaged with the cups and balls trick for years and has
researched the history of this 2000-year-old trick like
few others. Bill Palmer provides insights into his vast
collection of different cup forms, and finally, I was able
to reproduce some pages from the extensive Bob Read book
"The Oldest Trick in a Book."
All
in all, it's a grand book. You can get a preview of the
book here:
https://youtu.be/31hGjFBCw2w
So
long
Wittus Wittus
www.hamburger-zaubermuseum.com
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8. Tales From the Fantastic Magic Center - #99
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Message by Kent Cummins (US)
"The
Enchanted Garden"
Blackstone
was the first magician I ever saw, and in 1952 he opened
his show with "The Enchanted Garden." I don't
remember specific details (I was only nine years old), but
I do remember that he covered the stage with feather flowers.
It was amazing! He even covered one of his beautiful assistants
with a large cone and changed her into a gigantic Feather
Flower Bush.
A
few years ago, my teen-age granddaughter ("The Amazing
Adele") and I created a "Barbie Magic Show,"
and at one point, in a tribute to Blackstone, we changed
Barbie into a beautiful bouquet of feather flowers, using
an Abbott's Botania.
But
my favorite part of the Enchanted Garden was done in front
of the curtain, when Blackstone held a beautiful bouquet
of feather flowers. He plucked each bloom off the bouquet
and tossed it to the stage floor, where it remained upright.
(Each bloom apparently had a dart as a stem.) Then he made
the bouquet slowly bloom again. It was awesome!
Today,
I open my magic shows with my own "Enchanted Garden,"
a tribute to that world-famous magician whom I first saw
72 years ago at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio, Texas.
I change my cane into a feather flower bouquet, turn a Match
to Flower into a bouquet, and then perform my own version
of the Blooming Bouquet. I proudly display the bouquet,
but the blooms start falling off until there is just a bunch
of green feather stems.
But
I blow on the bouquet as the flowers slowly and magically
bloom.
I
then quickly disclose two large Botanias and take my bow.
Ta
Da!
The
Fantastic Magic Center is dedicated to preserving and sharing
the art of magic. But I can't do it without your help. My
Patreon account is the same place as my free weekly podcast:
www.FantasticMagicCenter.com
kent@magichotline.com
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9. Cards Of The Clan - John Carey #243
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Message by John Carey (UK)
Cards
of the Clan is a very direct, seemingly impossible fiveway
matching routine I simply love performing. If you can bottom
deal, you will use this. Remove the Ace through Five of
Clubs and the Ace through Five of Hearts from the deck and
openly arrange them in numerical order, Aces on top and
Fives on the face. Table each packet face-up in a spread
condition, as you point out each group is in numerical order.
Offer
your participant the free choice of either Clubs or Hearts.
Let's say that they want Clubs. Have them pick up that packet
and turn it facedown. You pick up the Hearts and do the
same. Say to them you will play something called do-as-I-do.
Ask them to copy you and reverse deal the cards into a face-down
packet. As they are doing this you bottom deal four times
and toss the last card on top. There's lots of cover here
and bottom dealing from a small packet isn't that difficult.
Next
ask your helper to pick up their packet and reverse deal
again, taking their cards back to where they started. Then
have them turn the top card of that packet face-up, showing
the Ace of Clubs. "So now we are in a situation where
my cards are out of order compared to yours. But, You see,
cards are very clannish and like to hang out together. Watch!"
Your
left hand takes their face-up card as your right hand takes
the top face-down card off it's packet simultaneously. Bring
both hands forward a few inches and drop the left hand's
face-up card as your right hand turns its card face-up beside
it to reveal a match of Aces. Repeat exactly the above with
the remaining four face-up and face-down pairs to conclude
a most startling matching or numerical follow the leader
effect.
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10. Triadic - Just Released
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Message by Chris Wardle, UK
TRIADIC
- Just released - A brand new book test by award-winning
creators Chris Wardle and James Ward.
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TRIADIC - A three-phase routine with three separate reveals!
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NO fishing, NO memory work, NO peeks, NO cribs, NO procedures,
NO guessing letters, NO codes, NO misses - a direct hit
each time and completely out of your hands!
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Very easy to perform, Chris Wardle and James Ward have done
all of the hard work for you, by creating a craftily-written
and devious book test which you can perform almost immediately.
It is completely self-contained, as the instructions are
'hidden in plain sight' in the final two chapters of the
book!
Using an innocent-looking poetry book, but you can divine
a significant word from the start of the poem, then go on
to describe the features, theme and tone of the chosen poem
and finally you reveal a significant word on the final line!
Multiple principles at play make this so easy to perform.
"I'm a force book junkie - I love them, I've owned
many of the best and now I have another corker to add to
the pile. The great advantages of this one are its size
- it fits into a back pocket or a handbag - and its style:
it appears simply to be a treasured book of poems. It also,
crucially, delivers three clear climaxes every time, so
if you handle it right it could establish your reputation
as a versatile reader of minds."
British Magic Legend, Geoffrey Durham.
"TRIADIC - Wow, is it ever devious! I can't wait to
perform it!"
Michael Breggar, magic creator and columnist in 'The Linking
Ring' magazine.
"This is a genius concept, executed brilliantly. This
poetry book is now a permanent fixture on my coffee table."
TV and radio presenter and magician, Matt Edmondson.
Available now from your favourite dealer.
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11. Underground Monsters
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Message by Geoff Williams (US)
American
comedy magician and part-time supermodel Geoff Williams
has released his latest set of lecture notes: Underground
Monsters.
Geoff's
fourth set of lecture notes contains some killer, and surprisingly-easy-to-do,
commercial material. something for absolutely everybody
(from close-up to stage performers), all skill levels, cards,
coins, rubber bands, silverware, and more.
It's
a 48-page manuscript with more than 70 graphics and illustrations.
The PDF file sent via email is usually $15 US but subscribers
who mention "Magic New Zealand" can get the pdf
right now for only $10 US (for a very limited time).
To
get more info and see a full listing of the twelve tricks
and moves in the notes (as well as Geoff's other offerings),
please visit http://GeoffWilliamsMagicProducts.com and click
on the "Books" button.
You
can also contact Geoff directly at Geoff@GeoffWilliamsMagic.com
with annoying questions or silly inquiries on subjects like
"how to purchase" or some such malarkey. Go ahead;
interrupt whatever he is doing (which probably isn't all
that important anyway).
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first three numbers (001) denote issue number, then the
date (Nov06) and the last figures the year (1999)
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