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Saturday, January 20, 2007
Who do you think is the best?
Now you can vote on the best world magician, for that you just need to send us a comment telling us who is the one you are going to vote, and why do you going to vote on him (or her).
Every month we will see who is the magician that have more votes, than after a 4 months period we will know who is "The greatest world magician".
S.S. ADAMS
Soren Sorenson Adams
DON ALAN
Don Alan McWethy
ALDINI
Alex Weiner
ALEXANDER
Claude Conlin
ALI BEY
David Charles Lemmy
ALI BONGO
William Wallace
STAN ALLEN
Stanley A. Sokulski
THE MYSTERIOUS ALMA
Oswald Henry Bishop
WILL ALMA
Oswald William Bishop
ANVERDI
Antonius de Vries
BALABREGA
John Balabrega Miller
CARL BALLANTINE
Meyer Kessler
BEN ALI BEY
Max Auzinger
MOHAMMED BEY
Leo "Sam" Horowitz
BLACK HERMAN
Benjamin Herman Rucker
BLACKSTONE SR.
Harry Boughton
SIGNOR BLITZ
Antoni Van Zandt
BOSCO
Leon Bosco
CARL BREMA
Karl Brehmer
KUDA BUX
Khuda Bakhsh
JOHN CALVERT
Elburn Madren Calvert
THE GREAT CARAZINI
Jim "Jay" Williams
CARDINI
Richard Valentine Pitchford
CARTER THE GREAT
Charles Joseph Carter
CHANG
Jose Pablo Jesorum
CHUNG LING SOO
William Robinson
KEITH CLARK
Pierre Cartier
JUDSON COLE
Milton Greishaber
DAVID COPPERFIELD
David Kotkin
DE KOLTA
Joseph Buatier
DE LA MANO
Zell Dreitzehn
DANTE
August Harry Jansen
DAVID DEVANTE
David Wighton
T. NELSON DOWNS
"Tommy" Nelson Downs
ADE DUVAL
Adolph Amrein
JARDINE ELLIS
Duncan Loren Campbell
ENARDOE
Edward O. Drane
FANTASIO
Ricardo Roucau
DR. FAUST
David Hoy
OTTOKAR FISCHER
O.F. Marteau
AL FLOSSO
Albert Levinson
IMRO FOX
Isador Fuchs
JOSEPH GABRIEL
Joseph Gabriel Wierzbicki
GALI GALI
Mohamed Mahguob
THE GEORGIA WONDER
Lulu Hurst
KARL GERMAIN
Charles Mattmueller
PAUL GERTNER
Paul Gaertner
HORACE GOLDIN
Hyman Goldstein
GOODLIFFE
Charles Goodliffe Neale
JACK GWYNNE
Joseph McCloud Gwynne
ROBERT HARBIN
Edward "Ned" Williams
HARDEEN
Theodore Weiss
ROBERT HELLER
William Palmer
CARL HERTZ
Leib Morgenstern
PROFESSOR HERWIN
William Humpage
PROFESSOR HOFFMANN
Angelo Lewis
MAX HOLDEN
William Holden Maxwell
PROFESSOR OTTO HORNMANN
Otto Horn
HARRY HOUDINI
Erich Weiss
JEAN HUGARD
John G. Boyce
RICKY JAY
Ricky Potash
WALTER CERRETTA JEANS
Walter Janes
FRANK JOGLAR
Milbourne Christopher
JOSEFFY
Joseph P. Freud
KALANAG
Helmut Schreiber
TONY KARDYRO
Anthony Barbato
KAR-MI
Joseph Bryant Hallworth
HARRY KELLAR
Heinrich Kellar
JACK KODELL
Jack E. Koudelka
ANDRE KOLE
Bob Gurtler Jr
AL KORAN
Edward Doe
SIR FELIX KORIM
Brewerton H. Clarke
LAFAYETTE
Siegmund Neuberger
LA VELLMA
David J. Lustig
LE GRAND DAVID
David Bull
NATE LEIPZIG
Nate Leipziger
THE GREAT LEON
Leon H. Levy
PAUL LE PAUL
Paul Braden
LEVANTE
Leslie George Cole
LES LEVEEN
John Lesley Barlow
DR. H.S. LYNN
John Wesley Simmons Lynn
MAGIC CHRISTIAN
Christian Stelzel
M.S. MAHENDRA
Frank B. Sterling
MAX MALINI
Max Breit
ED MARLO
Edward Malkowski
MARO
Walter Truman Best
MARGERY
Mina (Mrs. Leroy) Crandon
MAX MAVEN
Philip Thorner Goldstein
NEWMANN
C.A. George Naeseth
NICOLA
William Mozart Nicol
NIKOLA
Walter J. Obree Smith
DELL O'DELL
Nell Newton
OKITO
Theo Bamberg
OVETTE
Giuseppi Olivio
JONATHAN PENDRAGON
Claude Yarbrough
THE PROFESSOR
Dai Vernon
RAJAH RABOID
Maurice P. Kitchen
GREAT RAYMOND
Maurice Raymond Saunders
DR. KORDA RAMAYNE
Robert Nelson
WILL ROCK
William George Rakauskas
CARL ROSINI
Johan Rosen
PAUL ROSINI
Paul Vucic
ROY
Roy Horn
JOHN SCARNE
Orlando Scarnecchia
P.T. SELBIT
Percy Thomas Tibbles
SENATOR CRANDALL
Clarke Crandall
SIEGFRIED
Siegfried Fischbacker
SILENT MORA
Louis Jerome McCord
SILVAN
Aldo Savoldello
SLIDINI
Quintino Marucci
P.C. SORCAR JR.
Prodip Chandra Sorcar
P.C. SORCAR SR.
Pratul Chandra Sorcar
SI STEBBINS
Will H. Coffrin
COLONEL STODARE
Jack Inglis
TALMA
Mary Ann Ford LeRoy
TAMPA
Raymond S. Sugden
PRINCESS TENKO
Tenko Hikita
DAI VERNON
David Wingfield Verner
VICTORINA
Joseph Bryant Hallworth
LEN VINTUS
Melvin J.G. McMullen
VIRGIL
Virgil Harris Mulkey
VON ARX
Charles Albert Nicol
PETER WARLOCK
Alec Bell
TOMMY WINDSOR
Thomas L. Lowry
LUNG TCHANG YUEN
Joseph Ovette
David Blaine
Criss Angel
Daniel Garcia
and more...
José Pedro Gaff (born in 29th September,1992, in Europe, Portugal, Porto) is an
Portuguese illusionist and stunt performer. He made his name as a performer of street and close-up magic.Peter began his career by bringing street magic to the public, performing card tricks and illusions such as levitation or bringing dead flies back to life. He used a small camera crew to record his act live in front of everyday people providing the basis for his television specials.
With its strong focus on spectator's reactions, Peter Gaff brought wonder to unsuspecting pedestrians without the use of the typical magic props used by other magicians.Day people providing the basis for his television specials.
I am a street magician and i am doing a dvd training about levitation.
I know very tricks of street magic and i am able to teach you some tricks, for that you just need to subscribe.
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Friday, January 19, 2007
effect: the magician takes out a card and sets it on fire without even touching it!! method: what you nee
d to do this trick is a card, cotton swab, that liquid stuff that people use to start a fire in barbeques, and an old eyeglass lens. first you dip the swab in that liquid stuff, but only a little bit. then you smear a little bit of liquid stuff on the center of the card. now it's magic time.you can do this trick on a sunny day on the steet or a stage with really powerful lights. first let someone observe the card and show your hand empty. when they're done, take the eyeglass lens out of you pocket ( but put it in your pocket first ) then put it between you thumb and index finger. adjust the light on where you put the liquid stuff, do a little Criss Angel breathing, and let the card ablaze.this is a totally awsome trick but be careful with fire, try it out ( if your parents let you ) and tell me what you thought of it.
effect: You take a balloon, fill it up with air, and tie it. You take a tooth pick and poke it in the balloon. Then you push it totally through the balloon so it is inside the balloon. The balloon has no air rushing out of it and it can be inspected by the audience.Secret: You use a normal toothpick and a normal balloon. This is not set up in any way. You fill up the balloon in front of the audience, but when you tie it, you will notice, after you tie it, there is a part of the balloon that has little air in it. This is right next to where you tied it. So gently poke the toothpick through there, and push it all the way through. There should be no air coming out, if there is, cover the hole up with your finger for a few seconds and it should go away. The toothpick can even be marked or anything. You just need to know where to place it. After, pop the balloon and show them the toothpick. Go confuse your friends!
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Criss Angel
Career as an Illusionist
Criss Angel has filmed two seasons of his hit A&E television show Mindfreak. He is currently working on his third season. He has created daring demonstrations, which has incited some to guess at how they are done. They include walking on water, building floating, and cutting himself in half in a unique way. Criss Angel has won Merlin Magician of the year a record three times: 2001, 2004, and 2005.
Competition and popularity
Fans of Criss Angel have compared him to similar street magician David Blaine, to the point of assuming there is a rivalry going on between them. However, Criss has indicated that he doesn't see any such rivalry existing between them, noting that Blaine had come to visit him and offer his support
during his 2002 Oasis stunt.In a November 2002 issue of the New York Post, Blaine was quoted as being weary of the lesser-known Criss Angel's taunts, and challenged Angel to attempt to match Blaine's efforts to survive without food or water (a challenge Angel did not accept and that Blaine attempted on his own).
Legitimacy
Some of Angel's levitation tricks have been explained by Criss himself, notably on a DVD which is available for purchase from his official website store. The levitation featured on the DVD was an original invention of Jacob Spinney. Angel often claims that several of the levitations, teleports and demonstrations of telekinesis he performs are done through the power of the mind, body and spirit attained through meditation. Some of the other methods are well known within the magic fraternity and have been performed previously by magicians such as David Copperfield, David Blaine and the Pendragons. Angel is writing a book entitled Mindfreak: Secret Revelations from the Master of Surreality. Many viewers and critics allege that Angel is only a "video illusionist," using camera special effects, post-production effects, forced viewing angles, and assistants acting as amazed spectators for the TV audience[citation needed]. Many magicians who perform magic without camera tricks resent these methods while others simply see them as modern tools of magic on television[citation needed]. Criss Angel himself claims he does not use camera trickery, and had made an attempt to debunk these rumors during the second season by introducing a "Spectator's Point of View camera", a handheld video camera given to a what he says is a random person in the audience to shoot the action in any way he or she wants. However, the camera has seemingly fallen out of favor as the second season continued, only showing up very sporadically. He has even revealed the methods for some of his tricks to viewers at home, (although the effects are usually very simple such as making a toothpick disappear, or making a styrofoam cup float.) Angel guest starred on an episode of "Las Vegas" in which he says "If it's real, it's not magic!".
Musical career
Criss Angel was in an industrial rock band called Angeldust, which he started with Klay Scott (now known as Klayton of Celldweller) after Klayton's previous band Circle of Dust broke up. Angeldust released an album called Musical Conjurings from the World of Illusion in 1998 and performed in Madison Square Garden. He has also released several more CDs as Criss Angel.
In a more recent tone, Criss Angel created the video MF2 featuring Sully Erna, the lead singer of Godsmack. The video debuted on Yahoo! videos.
Musical Conjurings from the World of Illusion is being re-released and can be pre-ordered from Criss Angel's site Criss Angel Store
Monday, January 15, 2007
David Blain
David Blaine
David Blaine (born David Blaine White on April 4, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York City, USA) is an American illusionist and stunt performer. He made his name as a performer of street and close-up magic. His father was Spanish-Puerto
Rican and his mother, Patrice White, was Jewish of Russian origin.
Magic Career
Blaine began his career by bringing street magic to the public, performing card tricks and illusions such as levitation or bringing dead flies back to life. He used a small camera crew to record his act live in front of everyday people providing the basis for his television specials, David Blaine: Street Magic, David Blaine: Magic Man, and David Blaine: Mystifier. David's first television special, David Blaine: Street Magic revolutionized the way magic is both performed and portrayed on television. With its strong focus on spectator's reactions, David brought wonder to unsuspecting pedestrians without the use of the typical magic props used by other magicians. Since its initial airing in 1997, magicians all over the world have tried to emulate and duplicate David Blaine's raw approach to the art of magic. With the copycats close behind, and a goal of changing people's perceptions of what is possible, David turned his attention to stunts and feats of endurance:
Premature Burial
Beginning on April 5, 1999, Blaine spent seven days buried inside a glass coffin at the bottom of an open pit in front of a New York City building provided to him by Donald Trump. Water was poured in, filling the hole, before an acrylic glass top was placed over it as a cover. The surrounding area was covered in dirt. Passers by could watch him 24 hours a day. He emerged on April 12 on schedule. In a homemade video, a shadow on top of the coffin forms a cross, which Blaine comments on in his book.
Frozen in Time
On Monday, November 27, 2000, Blaine began a stunt called "Frozen in Time," which was covered on a TV special. Blaine stood in a closet of ice located in Times Square, New York. A tube provided him with air and water while his urine was removed with another tube. He was encased in the box of ice for 61 hours, 40 minutes, and 15 seconds before being removed [1]. The ice was on a stand, with space between the ground, and the ice was transparent, to prove he was inside the ice the whole time. He was taken to the hospital immediately after being removed because doctors feared he was going into shock.
Vertigo
Blaine's next stunt was called "Vertigo." He was to have started training for this particular stunt in Los Angeles, California, and was scheduled to board an American Airlines flight from JFK Airport to Los Angeles on September 11, 2001 at noon.[citation needed] Due to the terrorist attacks earlier in the day and a nationwide shutdown of airports, Blaine was forced to delay his training.[citation needed] On Monday 22 May 2002, Blaine performed the stunt in Bryant Park, New York City, where a crane lifted him onto a 90 ft (27 m) high and 22 in (56 cm) wide pillar. He remained on the pillar for exactly 34 hours and 23 minutes without food, water or anything to lean on. With his legs weak from standing atop the pillar for so long, he ended the feat by jumping down onto a landing platform made of a 12 foot (3.7 m) high pile of cardboard boxes.
Mysterious Stranger
On October 29, 2002, Random House published David Blaine's Mysterious Stranger: A Book of Magic. Part autobiography, part history of magic, and part armchair treasure hunt, the book also includes instructions on how to perform card tricks and illusions.
The treasure hunt, Blaine's $100,000 Challenge, was devised by game designer Cliff Johnson, creator of The Fool's Errand, and solved by Sherri Skanes on March 20, 2004, 16 months after the book's publication.
Above the Below
On September 5, 2003, Blaine began his 44-day endurance stunt sealed inside a transparent Plexiglas case suspended 30 feet (9 m) in the air over Potters Fields Park on the south bank of the River Thames in London. The case, measuring 7ft by 7ft by 3ft (2.1 x 2.1 x 0.9 m), had a webcam installed so that viewers could observe his progress.The stunt became the subject of much press and media attention, due to many people going to the site to watch and engage with Blaine. For example, Page 3-style girls from various male-oriented magazines flashed him. It got big attention from the media when eggs that had been thrown from the crowd were cleared from the box, when he was meant to not communicate with anyone. British documentary makers Richard Gordon and Lauren Hannon reported in their documentary Below the Above that five people lived below Blaine to show their support for what he was doing.Blaine emerged on schedule on October 19, murmuring "I love you all!" and was quickly hospitalized. He appeared gaunt and he claimed to have lost 54 pounds (24.5 kg) during his fast.
Drowned Alive
On May 1, 2006, Blaine was submerged in an 2.4 metres (8 feet) diameter, water-filled sphere (isotonic saline, 0.9% salt) in front of the Lincoln Center in New York for a planned seven days and seven nights, using tubes for air and nutrition. He concluded this event by attempting to hold his breath underwater to break the world record of 8 minutes, 58 seconds. Blaine also tried to free himself from handcuffs and chains put on him upon coming out after the week in the sphere. He seemed to have trouble escaping from the last of the handcuffs. Blaine failed in his attempt, only holding his breath for 7 minutes and 2 seconds before showing signs of distress and being pulled up by the support divers. Even if Blaine did hold his breath for longer than 8 minutes and 58 seconds, his attempt would not have been recognised because AIDA officials were not invited to the event, nor did the conditions meet their requirement for a official world record. Also, experienced freedivers, including former world record holder Eric Fattah, have commented that it is likely Blaine performed the stunt on a breathhold of oxygen-enriched air, instead of regular surface level air. Fatah points to video evidence (the sphere was closed prior to Blaine submersion and a loose SCUBA breather floating inside) and the lack of visible contractions typical with oxygen-enriched breathhold.
Blaine did claim to have succeeded in setting a record for being fully submerged in water for more than seven days straight (177 hours), however this record is as yet unrecognized by any record-keeping institution.
Blaine underwent multiple short hospital visits after the stunt ended and has entered an agreement with doctors from Yale University to monitor him in order to study the human physiological reaction to prolonged submersion. During the stunt, doctors witnessed skin breakdown at the hands and feet and liver failure.
In an interview on the Howard Stern Show on Sirius satellite radio, Blaine spoke of the week-long fasting he did before the "drowning alive" stunt, to avoid having to be concerned with defecation. For urine, he wore an external, condom-style catheter.
Revolution
On Sunday, November 19, 2006, Blaine announced his next stunt. He told reporters that he would be suspended 50 feet in the air while strapped by shackles inside a giant gyroscope. His goal was to escape from his shackles after the gyroscope had been spinning for 16 hours. The gyroscope was constantly spinning at a rate of eight revolutions per minute while hanging above an empty lot in Manhattan near Times Square.
Blaine's latest stunt began Tuesday November 21, 2006, with Blaine declaring, "This one's exciting for me. This one's a fun one." After spinning in shackles in the gyroscope for two days, Blaine emerged with a crash only a half hour after being allowed to try. As a result of his success, Blaine led 100 children selected by The Salvation Army on a shopping spree at Target. Each child received a $500 gift certificate from the retailer.
Blaine said the stunt was particularly important since The Salvation Army had provided him with clothing while he was growing up.
"This challenge is close to my heart," Blaine said.