( But you can watch too )
I mentioned a few days ago about the idea of a causal premise and I just wanted to drill down and explain what I meant by that for regular readers¹. For the uninitiated all magic tricks have a premise. Well most magic tricks have a premise.
Okay, I’ll go so far as saying good magic tricks ought to have a premise.
Continue reading “Correlation vs Causation
or How are you doing that?”
Once a year, thousands of magicians descend upon a town in northern England to… erm… hang on…
What actually goes on there?
Card tricks I guess?
Lectures maybe.
I dunno.
They descend upon Blackpool to waste money and learn nothing.
It is, in many ways, ‘fun’.
Continue reading “Eyes Like Black Pools
or Friends in Low Places”
I’ve been watching a lot of Star Trek recently; not only the new series, Discovery, but also the ill fated series Enterprise. Star Trek: Enterprise was set a century before the original series and as such had the burden of retrofitting the existing canon into its plot.
I lack the encyclopedic knowledge that many people think I possess but there are three episodes which in conjunction have a fascinating quality which a lot of magicians would do well to pay attention to.
So you might have come here looking for a magician (and you found one) but if you were looking to hire a magician, I’m not the one.
For the last couple of years I’ve been having trouble with my health which has put me on indefinite sick leave from work, and whilst I can still perform like I used to I require a kind of entourage with the knowledge to assist should things go sideways for me. This has made doing paid gigs a pretty much impossible feat but I can still perform with the clubs I’m in, since I’ll have a number of friends backstage to keep an eye on me, and occasionally I join in on the Bifrost Cabaret at Nineworlds, again because they have a super attentive backstage crew.
One day it might be nice to host my own show, since I could bring a crew with me in case it all goes pear shaped, but that’s a task for the future.
For now this blog is here to share my thoughts on various magical matters, and the world in general. maybe one day I’ll even have tricks to release. Who knows?