Raymond Crowe will be on The Late Late Show tonight (July 15th) with Craig Ferguson

Wow I’m so excited to announce that it’s confirmed! I talked to Shawn Farquhar and booked his lecture for the Okanagan Society of Magicians on Sunday October 19th! Mark your calendars now, you don’t want to miss this.

You will see great effects like:

MatriXpress
Don’t blink or you will miss this lightning fast matrix!

MagiCd
Magic for the digital age …

Blown Away
A card effect with a commercial twist.

The Ultimate Invisible Deck
A deck of cards turns to glass …

Torn 2 Pieces
The torn and almost restored photograph

Signed Card in Wallet
It doesn’t get and easier than this …

Tagged
Signed card trapped by a security tag in your coat!

Photo Finish
A poker chip moves so fast it gets trapped in a photo

Deck Switch
Completely invisible deck switch!

Admission is going to be just $20 so there’s absolutely no excuses for missing this amazing opportunity to see one of the world’s finest performers give a magic lecture.

This lecture features Shawn’s most amazing real world close-up material. But- there’s more. On Saturday October 18th Shawn will be performing a public stage show in Vernon. Tickets will eventually be up for sale on http://www.ticketseller.ca. Right now the website is only promoting shows up to August and the show is in October. I’ll let everyone know once tickets are available.

If your a magician from the Okanagan area and you’d like to be a part of the Okanagan Society of Magicians please give me a call at 250.575.SHOW(7469) or email me at alikzam@gmail.com.

As the title says Justin Kredible will be on Rachel Ray tomorrow (July 16th) and 23rd.

I took the time and figured out how to solve a rubiks cube this past year. The reason I did is because I wanted to be able to solve a rubiks cube while blindfolded during my show. The cube is handed out, mixed up, I get blindfolded, the cube is returned, and then I solve it.

I haven’t had the opportunity to perform it too often just because it takes about 5-7 minutes to solve the cube, which is a long time for the audience to watch you. I still love the concept of the blindfolded cube solve and hopefully in the future i can include it in shows more often. I’m thinking I might also be able to include it in my evening school show program.

Anybody who really sets out to try can learn to solve a rubiks cube. Maybe not blindfolded, but, just the regular way. You can order a regular cube from amazon at the link below. To learn how to solve the cube this is the website I used.

The reason I mention all this is because today I came across some rubik’s cube ad’s that I thought were funny. (3 in total)

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On the Much Music website you can see some full episodes of Celebracadabra. Thanks to Murray for his facebook status message to keep us in the loop! Enjoy Comedy magic.

Today I was hired to perform at a lunchon type event at a private residence in the back yard. It started out fairly nice out, a little windy but nothing too bad. I’m glad I have lots of material in my mingling magic that’s versatile so that when the wind came up it was a non-issue, I still had lots of magic to perform. About halfway through the event it started to drizzle a little, then about 5 minutes later we got some heavy rain and wind. Then the tree in the neighbours yard fell over. The party was moved indoors and I continued to perform. Although the party goers were excited initially about the garden party, I was happy when we moved inside because it was much easier to perform and I had better attention from the audience.

When I got home about an hour later the wind still hadn’t left off. The winds ended up approaching over 100km/hour! Tree’s all over the city fell over landing on homes and power lines. About 500 homes and commercial buildings are without power now. Most of it is expected to be back up tonight though, with the rest of it being restored by tomorrow morning. The Kelowna Marina was hit really bad. The wind slammed the boats against each other and the dock causing about 80% of the boats to be destroyed. No serious injuries were caused by the windy day.

Thankfully the only thing that was destroyed on our property was a small lamp.

Okay this is my last post about Westside Daze, I promise! I just wanted to post two newspaper article’s from Kelowna Cap News that talked about all the years of me performing at Westside Daze, and a photo that was printed in the newspaper of me performing at the festival.

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As the title says Justin Kredible will be on Rachel Ray tomorrow (July 7th) as well as July 16th, and 23rd.

With all the people who are watching Celebracadabra in Canada now it seems like there’s more and more people talking about the judges that were on the show.

I saw Rocco perform live once in Calgary several years ago, but I was too young to know anything about him. I did pick up a couple of d’lights though and I remember playing around with them in the hotel room. The only trick I remember Rocco doing was something where he takes a dice and slams it between his hands and it goes flat. I can’t remember if there was more to the routine or anything. I seem to recall something about it appearing on somebodies shoulder a few times, but I honestly can’t remember.

I’ve looked for videos of Rocco performing online but most of them are really bad quality with poor lighting and camera work. I came across this video today of Rocco’s award winning act. He won “Most Original Magic Act” in 2006 at FISM.

Great stuff. I love the smoke in the glass, the appearance of the popsicle, the fruit, and the glass filled with confetti at the end. Just fantastic!

It also looks like all of the Celebracadabra episodes are available as a digital download from amazon now. If you missed an episode then it might be worth it to check it out:

For some strange reason I get lots of people ending up at my blog that are looking for a “magic bottle holder”. Well I searched around online and it turns out that there’s lots of cool ones out there. I posted about one that I saw in MAGIC magazine a few months ago.

Anyways, So I did a search for it on google and I came across this really cool one that they sell at Amazon.com. I’ve added it to my amazon wishlist. I really want to get a bunch of “magical home decor” to decorate my space.

Well you can download Presto in highquality from the iTunes store if you’re from the USA. Well I’ve got great news for everyone everyone else, you can watch presto online right here (no torrent needed!)

It isn’t really great quality, but its watchable

Edit: Well it looks like the video is no longer available. youtube says “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by The Walt Disney Company.” That was fast!

Edit #2: Looks like another version made its way onto youtube

Edit #3: Well it looks like that video got taken down too, but it seems that it just keeps getting reposted over at youtube. Just goto this youtube search page to find a full video that works.

Well there’s be lots of talk on the blogs about how amazing Wall-E is. But, here at the magicblog we’re more interested in the short film before the movie called “Presto”. Well if you haven’t seen the movie (like me) you can still buy the short film online for $2 from iTunes. Or you could spend $5 more and go see the short film and Wall-E in theaters. Although… I’m sure that was their master plan all along!

You can find more wall-e tid bits over at kottke.