Magic and Illusion

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C.Clarke

Magic Bookshop

TV Shows

• BBC TV Series - The Magicians (January 2011)

Publications

• Magic Week(UK Magic News)
• Magic Magazine (USA)

Associations

• Academy of Magical Arts (Magic Castle, Hollywood, CA, USA)
• The Magic Circle (London, UK)
• Society of American Magicians (USA)

Resources

• All Magic Guide

Notable Illusions and Routines

• Blast Off (Penn and Teller)
• Death Saw (David Copperfield)
• Dove Magic (Lance Burton)
• Flying (David Copperfield)
• Levitating Woman (Lance Burton)
• Losander's Floating Table
• Sawing A Woman In Half (Transparent box version - The Twins)
• Spirit Cabinet (Falkenstein and Willard)
• Metamorphosis (The Pendragons - routine also known as Substitution Trunk or Sub Trunk)
• Orange Tree Illusion (Paul Daniels - original mechanism)
• Vanishing Elephant (Paul Daniels)
• Vanishing Elephant (Lance Burton) [there is a solution to this online, which is incorrect]

Suppliers

• Aaron Smith's Magic Depot
• International Magic - London's Magic Shop
• Practical Magic - UK Mail order
• The Magic Company - UK Mail order

Illusion Designers

• Paul Kieve Magic for Theatre
• Jim Steinmeyer

Performers

• Criss Angel
• David Blaine
• Derren Brown
• Lance Burton
• David Copperfield
• Paul Daniels
• Harry Houdini
• Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin
• Penn & Teller

 

• The Grey Man