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The Big Blind Friday Ep. 80

Your weekly dose of magic from around the world, from BBM

Hey Owen,


It's almost summer! Most people's favourite time of the year. What's yours? I like summer because everyone's outside at any time of the day and people seem much more joyful than any other time of the year.


A lot of stuff is happening in the world. From Tiktok getting banned in the US, to the Iranian president dying in an aviatic "accident" and much more, the world is not looking really well. Still, we must be strong for those around us and take care of our mental health. It's the only way to make the world around us a better place.


What we can do every Friday is give you a chance to recharge your batteries with some magic content from around the world. We hope the following bring you a smile, keep your hands busy or offer some food for thought.



Note: You can find all Big Blind Friday episodes here.


7 NEW IDEAS FOR YOUR AMBITIOUS CARD ROUTINE W/ BIZ

🎮 1. What happens if Tiktok is banned w/ Zach King


Zach King is known worldwide for his digital magic videos. In the following he shows what could happen if the US would ban Tiktok for good.


It's a short and sweet magic video that parodies many aspects of the content creator life.


Watch the satire

🪄 2. Hystory of Chicago-style magic


“He uses the crease between his belly and his leg (usually the right side) to hold cards, knives, etc., both coming and going,”


A FABULOUS account of how the Chicago-style of magic we all know came to be and the person that inspired other bars in Chicago to start featuring magic as part of their program.


It's a beautiful recounting of the Golden Age of Magic in Chicago. Made me jolly reading it.


Read it as well

📚 3. Family of magicians set to perform again – for the 16,000th time


It's always from India that I find the craziest newspaper titles with magicians. Remember the two blokes that rode motorcycles blindfolded for more tha 1600km ?


Here is a family of magicians that have performed over 10.000 shows over the span of 3 generations. What a feat!


Find out more

🃏 4. Magical Couple get judges to plan their wedding


Here's an interesting mentalism act. Two magicians have the judges over at BGT decide where they'll be spending their honeymoon next year.


After all decision are made, a video is shown that reveals that all the judges' choices have been predicted.


How do you think they did it?

💻 5. The first card tricks to appear in print ? 


The Conjuring Archive is well known in the magic community for preserving the history of magic and hunting down books to uncover further secrets.


In 2021, they discovered an intalian book from 1542 that had card tricks (with illustrations!) explained in it.


If you like magic history, this is pretty neat.


Read more about it here

🎙️ WE WANT YOUR STORY! 🎙️


We're want to launch a new series called: "Life As A Magician" where we feature the life stories of magicians from around the world.


If you would like to be featured, reply to this email and Biz will come in contact with you for a short interview. As a thank you for participating, we'll give you a magic download as a gift!

🤫 Did you join our Top Secret Magic Academy ?


A few months ago, we launched a FREE Magic Academy just for our Newsletter subscribers. If you want to receive 1 tutorial every two weeks from us just click the button below.


At this point, people have gone through more than 20 episodes of the Academy and are still in it for 6 more (the Academy runs for a whole year!).


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🦖 Magical Thoughts From A Dinosaur 🦖

(advice after 50 years of doing magic, with Jay Ungar)


Take the “You” out of “___r Show”! Anything that smacks of Ego, “Look-at-me”, or Ta-Da moments (unless done tongue-in-cheek) will turn off, and alienate your audience! “We came to watch your show; not, to be awed by your presence!”


Excerpt From

"Magical Thoughts From A Dinosaur"


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Three for Trio by John Carey

THREE kick-ass card tricks from John Carey.


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