Let’s put aside the tactless title momentarily. Whether you’re in the New York Area looking for magic and entertainment for a party, a producer looking for magical hands for your next video project, or just stumbling around the web and randomly coming here, you might be asking yourself, “what the heck is this site?”
Let me sum it up: I love magic, and I strive to bring you magic in every way possible. If I can’t perform for you in person, I’ll bring you the very best (and sometimes worst) that magic from the internet, television and even history. So this little place is where all my magical thoughts seep out into what resembles a blog.
Modern science can be more magical than any illusion out there. If you could take a lighter and travel back in time a few hundred years, religions would be built around your ‘magic’ fire powers. And that’s barely even science.
But stuff like this — quantum levitation with magnets and liquid nitrogen is impressive even by today’s sordid standards! The levitation in the video looks like a post-production visual effect. Plus, the science behind it is so confusing, that we might-as-well just call it magic and watch in amazement.
Who’s the real headliner here? Watch this new promo video for Penn & Tellers new Discovery Channel show featuring the Mythbusters. The show will air Wednesdays starting October 5 at 10pm EST.
Does a lack of good magic have you down? Are you tired of having cheesballs and nerds scarring your guests
at weddings, corporate events and birthday parties? Do you feel just a little nauseous every time you hear the word ‘magician’?
Good Magician
Well Brooklyn Magician Vlad Kraven has just the entertainment you need! Having performed from Prague to Park Avenue, he’ll bring your NYC event to the next level of intrigue and amazement. Magic that is elegant, not embarrassing; mystical and not mundane; professional and not pathetic.
That’s right, for recession-proof rates you can have the coolest party on the block with an incredible New York Magician!
Act now to learn more about how jaw-dropping card magic, miraculous mind reading and breathtaking fire magic can amaze the guests at your next New York event.
Vlad Kraven, a New York Magician you’ll actually enjoy.
TV Magic programming note: DO NOT miss David Copperfield on The Colbert Report this Thursday, September 15, at 11:30 pm EST on Comedy Central. Mr. Copperfield does not do many talk shows, so this should be a real treat for all of us!
-This word/mind trick has gone viral over the last week or so. For the few people that missed it, here’s one of the versions I’ve seen floating around:
-Quick programming note: The weekly magic updates/loose ends have been phased out due to miniscule traffic numbers. People don’t really care about obscure magic trivia. That said, brilliant magic finds and info WILL continue to be posted here regularly.
Follow me on Twitter for the cool day-to-day magic: @vladkraven
There was a cool write-up in The Photo District News of the silent short film “Magic” that I was in earlier this year. Even I got a mention: “Vlad Kraven — even the name conjures up darkness and mytsery…”
Here’s a sweet music video just released across the pond by singer-songwriter Mike Marlin called “The Magician”. What happens when four magicians sit down for a game of cards? Well, not much card playing, but a lot of chicanery and some great visuals to boot. And the song is pretty awesome!
The magicians: Steve Dela, Dafedas B, Scott Perry, and Magic Singh.
It seems that there’s a magical connection in everything nowadays. Many that have seen Forrest Gump witnessed the mystical transformation of Lieutenant Dan (Gary Sinise) from two-legged actor to double-amputee. The illusion was amazingly convincing, and those guessing that it was digital editing are only partly right.
Enter Ricky Jay, magician extraordinaire. The famous scenes of Lieutenant Dan in a wheelchair were actually a specially designed illusion chair by Ricky Jay. The magic seat allowed Sinise to convincingly make his legs disappear with no amputation required.
There you have it — the little bit of Magic behind the classic Forrest Gump.
Meet Yorick Brown, a socially-challenged NYC Magician and escape artist. On July 17, 2002 he went from petty New York Magician to the last magician on earth. In fact, he became the last man on earth.*
With the exception of Yorick and his pet monkey Ampersand, every mammal with a ‘Y’ chromosome was killed by a mysterious virus. In this comic series, written by the brilliant and always-controversial Brian K. Vaughan, we follow Yorick on his transformation from socially awkward trick monkey to humanities last hope. Turns out that being the last man on earth ain’t all it’s cracked up to be — a lot of very crazy woman seem to think that there should be no men on earth and see their opportunity to finalize that goal.
Suddenly, his magic and escape artistry becomes more than a mediocre form of entertainment, but a vital survival skill. Escaping restraints, picking locks and sleight of hand turn out to be invaluable survival skills in an apocalypse. Who knew?
To join Yorick on his epic journey through the post-gendercide world and to find out how magic can save you in a disaster, make sure to pick up Y: The Last Man.
Rating: I give this book 4/5 psychopaths in a straight jacket.
Perfect for magic enthusiasts and those that want an alternative narrative to the zombie apocalypse.
*Yes, before you send the hate mail, there technically could be female magicians, but it makes the article a lot less fun if I start using senseless things like ‘facts’.
