The Big Blind Friday Ep.11

Dark Magic, filming new releases, actionability and more

Hey Owen,

It's Friday, which means a new episode of Big Blind Friday's ! We're on our 11th episode and we almost can't believe how fast time has passed.

At the end of the year we're going to do a bundle with all of the newsletter posts so everyone can have access to them at any point. We're thinking about putting them together in a nice pdf format so you can add it to your collection. More on this to come!

In the meantime, here are the 5 things we felt were worth sharing this week!

1. Quote Of The Week ✍️

“Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.”

— Edward Albee, "The Zoo Story"

💥 2. November Competition CLOSED

That's it folks! Out November magic competition has come to a close!

Good luck to everyone who participated and sent in videos or commented on our post on IG. We will go through all the submissions and announce the winner next week!

📚 Organizing Magic by Actionability

How do you react when you read a new trick? Do you learn it, save it for later or skip to another one?

How do you read a magic book?

All these questions are discussed in this week's blogpost.

🎭 Dark Magic 1939

Just stumbled upon this short movie in which John Scarne makes an appearance demonstrating some tricks in a magic shop. Sadly, the full movie cannot be found, but it's storyline is quite interesting.

Summary

Scarne Performs Cups and Balls

Scarne Performs Rope Trick

📹 Real Magic with Siri

Did you know Cameron Francis wrote a magic fiction book together with his friend Stuart Jaffe called "Real Magic" ?

This book features self-working card magic from Cameron's mind that the reader can do at home.

We featured one trick from this book this week on Instagram by having Siri ! perform it on camera.

See Siri Perform Magic

This past week we filmed 2 releases with a new guy on the block. This is someone no one has heard of before, but that is packing quite a punch. We'll be revealing his identity in the future. What we can tell you now are the 2 releases he will have: "Color Heckler" and "The Sheffield Slide". We're very excited to share both of these with you in the coming future!

Hope you all have an amazing weekend everyone and see you next week when we have plenty of other magic news to share with you!

xoxo

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The BBM Christmas Stocking - Packet Tricks

This includes a huge bundle of goodies for the packet trick lover in your life! What do you get? A Christmas Stocking filled with: John Bannon's Fractalicious - set of special gaff cards & dvd Cameron Francis' Nitrate - a backwards B'wave with gaff cards Steve Rowe's Gumfounded - a packet of gum turns into a magical prop! Liam Montier's Gafftacular - 6 packet tricks with ALL the gaff cards provided The Elmsley Count Project - huge, double DVD set on false counts and displays - perfect for the packet trick connoisseur Supa Chupa Scoopa - an incredible transposition between their selection and your lollipop! Bicycle Karnival Fatal Deck What a BARGAIN!! Don't say we don't love ya!!

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