I’M JUST A CHILD IN THE BAFFLING WORLD OF COMPUTERS and for some unknown reason my web site has been unavailable for some considerable time bringing up a horrifc healdine that said – FORBIDDEN! I know nothing and explanations from the computer intelligensia (my nephew Martin Avis – he’s brilliant and makes his living out [...]
Posted on September 26th, 2009 by John
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NOTHING ON THIS BLOG SINCE DECEMBER. No I haven’t retired, demised or emigrated. Firstly I had a lot of work, magic, publicity and design over Christmas and I was churning out a blog almost on a daily basis prior to that. I did not get many responses, messages etc from magicians so I eased up a [...]
Posted on March 21st, 2009 by John
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RECENTLY I WROTE THAT I WAS GOING TO PUT OUT a monte routine originated by Jack Avis that involved three like cards and a queen that mysteriously appears and disappears during the effect. In itself it’s very good as Jack showed it to me but I did it for a close friend, Tom Whitestone (an excellent magician [...]
Posted on December 8th, 2008 by John
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BEEN WORKING AWAY RECENTLY AND LAST WEEKEND I went to the International Convention organised by the MacMillan family. A great weekend of magic both close-up and stage with the accent on international. This is a trend that was started by Ron MacMillan who was well in touch with magic and magicians all over Europe and other parts [...]
Posted on December 8th, 2008 by John
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A FEW GAPS IN THIS BLOG but we are now back on stream and able to announce that shortly we shall be releasing two new routines. One is just about the best Mix and Mingle trick I have ever found in many years – I use it all the time. Very visual and it looks impossible I [...]
Posted on November 13th, 2008 by John
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I SAW A CRACKING SHOW LAST WEEK - for the second time in a month it was that good. La Cage aux Folles, a musical about a gay nightclub on the Riviera and the family problems of two gay parents and a straight son wishing to marry the daughter of an anti-gay goverment official! Great fun and outstanding [...]
Posted on November 12th, 2008 by John
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YOU DON’T GET MANY ONE MAN SHOWS IN MAGIC these days so it’s interesting to hear that Circle magician Ivor Cole is presenting his “Mirrored Images” a programme of baffling mind illusions on Sunday 23rd November at 7.30pm. Not the first time he has presented this show having appeared previously at The King’s Head and again at [...]
Posted on November 9th, 2008 by John
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SORRY FOR THE LONG GAP SINCE MY LAST BLOG. Been on a big promotion for Christmas for a leading Jeweller and Silversmith and only just finished. Normal service will be resumed forthwith.
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Posted on November 9th, 2008 by John
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I HAVE LONG BEEN AN ADVOCATE of the philosophy that magic is not about secrets – it’s about performances. Not just my belief but that also of such giants of magic and theatre presentation as John Fisher, Pat Page, Jeff Hobson, Richard McDougall and Bobby Bernard. It’s the basis of the KISS lecture that I [...]
Posted on October 29th, 2008 by John
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IN GOING THROUGH SOME OF THE PERSONAL EFFECTS JACK AVIS left me, I have found a whole mass of new notebooks in which are recorded many of his original thoughts on card and close-up effects with many routines, ideas and exchanges with some of the world’s greats. Give me a little time but what I [...]
Posted on October 19th, 2008 by John
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