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nairbles New user 92 Posts |
People on the Café keep referencing out of date material.. Do people go out and buy the January 1921 issue of The Sphinx? I see it for sale online for 15 bucks. are newer magazines better, worse or the same? Which is a good magazine to subscribe to then?
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jcards01 Inner circle Waterloo, IL 1438 Posts |
Currently Magic Magazine, Genii, are very good. If you belong to IBM, you get The Linking Ring automatically which is also very good.
Jimmy 'Cards' Molinari
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Brad Burt Inner circle 2675 Posts |
Magic as a hobby generates a huge amount of literature. At one time it generated the most associated literature excepting only Model Airplane construction! The evolution of magic is seen in the writings of its proponents and much of the best material has appeared over the years in magazine of one kind or another. Private publications like Pallbearers Review, Ibidem and Apocalypse offer some of the best material ever put to paper and the ability in the last few years to buy full folios for a fraction of the original cost is quite amazing.
If you want to get some cutting edge upper level stuff the quarterly Antimony is stunning. For general purposes both Magic Magazine and Genii offer an excellent monthly selection of both historical information and excellent tricks, technique and routines. Best,
Brad Burt
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NeoMagic Inner circle I have... 2017 Posts |
Some of the "older" magazines are slowly making their way onto CD... The Phoenix is one example... a superb resource, packed to the rafters with tricks of all kinds... I wrote a mini review here.
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Payne Inner circle Seattle 4571 Posts |
Magicians tend to be a trendy lot. They're always on the outlook for some new cutting edge trick which some big name magician found buried in a fifty year old publication
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sethb Inner circle The Jersey Shore 2719 Posts |
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On 2006-06-16 14:05, nairbles wrote: People on the Café keep referencing out of date material.. Do people go out and buy the January 1921 issue of The Sphinx? I see it for sale online for 15 bucks. are newer magazines better, worse or the same? I'm not sure what you mean by "out of date material." Particularly in magic, just because something is old does not mean it is obsolete. In fact, generally the reverse is true, because many good magic tricks have been around for hundreds if not thousands of years, with each new generation adding improvements to them. The newer magazines provide new handlings and presentations; the older books and magazines provide older handlings and historical perspective. I have found that both can be very helpful in designing your own presentations and routines. SETH
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Brad Burt Inner circle 2675 Posts |
What he means is OUT-OF-PRINT material. And, of that, there is a surfeit. Best,
Brad Burt
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Lee Darrow V.I.P. Chicago, IL USA 3588 Posts |
Out of print is a LOT different than out of date, but anyone can make a typographical error - heaven knows I have made my share over the years!
But just because something was published in 1938 or 1939 doesn't mean that it is irrelevant to today's audiences. There's a little compilation of material out there that, if you can get your hands on it, has more useful material per page than almost anything I've seen in years - and that's a book called "Chap's Scrapbook" by Frank Chapman, who was the author of 6 Bits and 20 Stunners With a Nail Writer. It has material in it that is being used today - like a trick where a live moth is produced (David Blaine did that one on TV), just as an example. So, if you can find it - GRAB it! It originally sold for about $4.50, ran about 100 pages or so and was a compilation of the 24 isues of his magazine from the 1930's and early 1940's. Some of his stuf was SO good that Warner Brothers used his presentations in several Bugs Bunny cartoons! It's THAT good! Lee Darrow, C.H.
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