Magician and endurance artist David Blaine will donated the coat off his back and performed magic tricks for people who donated coats to the 20th Annual New York Cares Coat Drive on Monday, December 22nd. The event took place at Noon, mid-park near the Christmas Tree at The Pond at Bryant Park. After donating his own coat, Blaine went coatless for the event to highlight the challenges the homeless face during the dead of winter. Now through the end of December, New Yorkers can donate adults and children’s coats at The Pond at Bryant Park and at hundreds of locations throughout the five boroughs including all NYPD Police Precincts, Grand Central Terminal, New York Penn Station, the Port Authority Bus Terminal, Oz Moving and Storage locations, the US Coast Guard Recruiting Station, Janovic Plaza Paint and Decorating Centers, and Time Warner Cable stores.
New York Cares Coat Drive -- one of the largest of its kind in the United States – collects more than 80,000 winter coats each year. Since 1989, New York Cares has collected more than one million coats and distributed them to homeless shelters, agencies serving seniors, and community organizations supporting people in need throughout the city.
This is a bit of a departure from the usual magic fare that we offer up, but something that I'm certain most of our readers will find enthralling nonetheless. AdobeCards.com is a demonstration of the type of complex flash content that it is possible to generate with the Adobe Creative Suite. It may take more time than normal to load but is well worth the wait. Use your mouse and drage the slider at the bottom to different points on the timeline to see what happens. Drag all the way to the right for the complete animation. Enjoy!
It's been five years since the illusionist-detective Jonathan Creek vanished from British television, but the Times Online reveals his return on January 1st, 2009 in an interview with creator David Renwick. "Of course, Creek wouldn't be Creek without the tousle-haired main character. But can he weave his anti-magic on viewers again? Renwick has few illusions about reviving popular TV characters: “People say, Oh Jonathan Creek's coming back. Fantastic.' And then they watch it and go: ‘God, what a mistake.' Which is what happened with One Foot in the Grave. So I tend to expect the worst.”
Grasso's Magic Theatre, Philadelphia's first and only full-time performance venue for magic and the variety arts is now open for business. With year-round live performances for all ages, as well as private and group instruction on the performance of magic, we invite you to come suspend your disbelief and engage your imagination. In addition, Grasso's has announced that they will begin hosting a Bartender's Magic school at which mixologists can learn the skills or restaurant and bar magic.
Not John B. Pyka according to a press release recently distributed. Following a discussion related to the various possible identities of the Masked Magician at Magic Cafe, one of the places where the allegations were posted, John posted a press release from which the following is excerpted:
"The rumors started circulating quietly at first" says John, "Tim Deremer in Canton OH was the first to voice speculation when the TV series first aired on MyNetwork, and it has gained steam since then." While John admits he is a controversial figure in the world of magic, he states that the rumors are false. "I am not the Masked Magician" says John emphatically. "I am a lot of things, but I am definitely NOT the Masked Magician."
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