WALT DISNEY :: ALL ABOUT MAGIC

Thanks to Jay Davis for sending me a link to this 1954 video of Walt Disney presents, "All About Magic"

EMC 2011 : THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN!

EMC2010 | DVD Boxed Set | 8 Discs from Essential Magic Conference on Vimeo.

Last year, we chatted with Luis de Matos, Marco Tempest and David Britland about their all new online magic Gathering, the Essential Magic Conference.

Thank goodness they are doing it again!

This years Essential Magic Conference will again be packed with magic experts and legends including Akira Fujii, Dani DaOrtiz, the Bucks, David Berglas, Rene Lavand, Lennart Green and more. Special guest David Copperfield (you may know him as one of your main influences in magic) will give a special presentation that includes answering questions from convention members. All in all, 33 speakers are part of this years conference.

Register now for three days of amazing magic. Registration is $90, and includes access to all sessions. Like last year, you'll also receive DVD copies of all the sessions.

If this is your first EMC, you can get access to all the sessions and this years conference for $135.

SO MANY WEIRD WORLDS

I recently received my copy of Ricky Jay's  new book, "Celebrations of Curious Characters.  I like it so much,  that I wanted to share this review from the New Yorker in which Ricky talks about his love of the subject matter:

I guess … good. I love the variety that I’ve been able to deal with in terms with my own life and interests, and I love the idea that if someone approaches me with some sense of recognition that I honestly don’t know from what it’s going to come. If it’s from the Simpsons or a film or a piece that I’ve written or a performance that they saw or a movie. I love that surprise. It’s quite wonderful!

MULLICA/TAYLOR AUCTION TOMORROW!

Just a brief reminder: the auction of magic memorabilia from the collections of Tom Mullica and Prentice Taylor begins tomorrow, May 22nd, at 10 am CST.

If you can't attend the auction in person, now is the time to log on to Liveauctioneers.com and bid. Once you've signed up, you can leave absentee (proxy) bids, or log on and participate live as the auction takes place in our Chicago gallery.

Absentee & Phone Bidding
Today is the last day you can arrange absentee and phone bids directly with Potter & Potter. Contact us via email, or give us a call at (773) 472-1442.

Good luck to everyone who participates!

MNW #314 :: WIN FREE STUFF!

Join us for the first ever Magic Newswire Meet-up on May 23rd at IMX 2011! Rudy Coby, Brian Brushwood, Banachek, Danny Garcia, Michael Ammar, CJ Johnson, Tim Ellis, Craig Mitchell, David Kaye, Cameron Ramsay, Scott Wells, Michael Ammar and more will meet you there! You can win any number of prizes including an Anything s Possible bottle from Jamie D Grant, yet to be released Erdnase cards from Conjuring Arts, copies of Jay Sankey's "Bending the Real", The new Tarbell Course from Trickshop Magic, Rudy Coby's complete Magic Experience, a free pass to the upcoming Essential Magic Conference and so much more! Even if you don't attend you can win!

Share the following link via Twitter, Facebook, Email or whatever. Send me an email with a link to your post at MagicNewswire@gmail.com and you may win a copy of Jay Sankey's "Bending the Real," on of the Conjuring Arts Research Centers new Erdnase decks, an "Anything is Possible" bottle from Jamie D Grant, or a complete Rudy Coby Experience Package! Here's the link: http://bit.ly/IMXPRIZE IMX 2011 MEETUP:


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DAVID BLAINE EATS GLASS

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HOUDINI LETTER

WIRED Magazine recently took a peek of the NYPL's "Celebrating 100 Years" artifact and research collection exhibit.

Harry Houdini's letter to the New York Public Library accompanied his contributions to the institution's collection of books on "legerdemain, magic or hand-cuff tricks.

The curators at the New York Public Library have spent a century amassing the library's extensive research collection-everything from 4,300-year-old Sumerian cuneiforms to Malcolm X'S briefcase.

Now the library is putting a vast selection of that stash on display in Celebrating 100 Years. The exhibit opens Saturday at the NYPL's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, which is celebrating its 100th birthday.

T11 INSIDER #19 :: JUST IN TIME

BANACHEK BUSTS BUNK BRACELETS

From the CBS Early show:

JAMY IAN SWISS MEETS MR. DEITY