I think it might be my referrer blocking the Café for some reason, I get a lot of refferer spam so have to block sites that try and get to mine, if you open a new browser window and type or paste the address in it will work.

Just came back from late night bar magic. Lucky enough to watch Gazzo's performance. The room was full of laughters. He's great. He also performed in the concourse outside dealers' room. Should have gotton a big hat....he worthes it.

And, I met Derren Brown in dealer room and luckily he didn't hypnotize me.

Only two days, already very tired.

I'm still tired from the FISM in Den Haag!

I can sympethise with that.
Only 2 days has gone of this one and Im allready exhused ...

Does anyone know who has qualified to the grand prix on Saturday from the micro-magic section of the comp? or is this something revealed at a later date?

w

FISM is documenting what happens on the convention. You will find the photos on this address: http://www.vistaphotoagency.com Here you can see all the photos day by day, and you can also buy any photo you want.

I would also like to know who has qualified card magic category too! If anyone has the latest information, please PM me. Thanks!

Helder of Portugal is the World Champion in Card magic.

All if you remove the http:// the link works....odd

Were the winners of micro magic announced yet?

Just got the grand-prix finalists for the close-up from the message board, as follows:

Martin Eisele - Germany - Micro Magic
Shawn Farquhar - Canada - Micro Magic
Helder Guimaraes - Portugal - Card Magic
Rick Merril - USA - Micro Magic
David Stone - France - Micro Magic

Check out what they did and more updates at my blog:

magician.org.uk

Thanks for the updates!

GO RICK! I am rooting for you!

Have the stage finalists been announced yet?

And the venue for 2009? I am sure many are eager to hear about those too.

Hi Lee,

I think the Stage competitors are as follows, although the sound in the Banquet was appalling, and couldn't hear:

Lee Eun Gyeol - Korea
Gaston - Germany
Sittah - The Netherlands
Pilou - France
Dai Binchun - China

2009 will be in Bejing, which despite some grumblings I am quite looking forward to, it will be an adventure anyway! BTW Jon Marshall says Hi! (we are in the same hotel room!)

Rich.

In the new Special Awards this year created by Max Maven, for people who contribute significantly to the art of magic in a non-performance category, the winners were:

Creativity & Vision Award (Appraising range of creation, not simply in terms of technical invention but also with attention paid to the larger conceptual views of the work.):

Nominees:
Gaetan Bloom
Lubor Fielder
Finn Jon
Dr Sawa
Jim Steinmeyer

Winner: Gaetan Bloom

History & Research Award (Recognising scholarship, assessed both in terms of academic depth and the manner and quality of the distribution of such information):

Nominees:
Vanni Boss
Magic Christian
Eddie Dawes
Christian Fechner
Bill Kalush

Winner: Eddie Dawes

Theory & Philosophy Award (Giving tribute to a person who has approached magic from a viewpoint that is analytical, academic, perhaps even spiritual):

Nominees:
Eugene Burger
Rene Lavand
Eberhard Riese
Juan Tamariz
Tommy Wonder

Winner: Tommy Wonder (collected by Dick Kornwinder)

Congratulations to all especially Hull's very own Eddie Dawes.

The next FISM will be in China.

Cheers

Dave

Thanks Rich - say hi back to Jon - I can't make the Edinburgh festival unfortunately!

Rick Merill is the new FISM Grand Prix Winner! (Micro Magic)

Congratulations to the first prize in micro magic Rick!

Rocco was also a winner getting the close up award for "The Most Original Act" -- I am sure he is D'Lighted