BD E. posted an article on Ye Olde Magick Blogge - Jan 16, 2011, 5:32 pm
In response to a previous problem, I've decided to start a new blog that's basically dedicated to magicians in Vancouver. The goal is straightforward -- to offer a neutral venue for magicians in Vancouver to post a profile of themselves and link back to their website(s), Youtube videos, news article...
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BD E. posted an article on Ye Olde Magick Blogge - Dec 30, 2010, 8:55 am
There’s a magician by the name of Rob Matthies working in Vancouver right now with a company called Vancouver Birthday Party Rescuers, and he’s gaming search engines so that if you do a search on a Vancouver magician’s name with the word magician in it (eg: “Bob Jones magician”), then one ...
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BD E. posted an article on Ye Olde Magick Blogge - Dec 19, 2010, 3:39 pm
There’s a magician by the name of Rob Matthies working in Vancouver right now with a company called Vancouver Birthday Party Rescuers, and he’s gaming search engines so that if you do a search on a Vancouver magician’s name with the word magician in it (eg: “Bob Jones magician”), then one ...
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BD E. posted an article on Ye Olde Magick Blogge - Jun 4, 2010, 1:22 am
Just thought I'd post this here in case people were interested at all. Over at the new Ye Olde Magick Blogge I've been going through Royal Road to Card Magic chapter-by-chapter and annotating the content. If you want to read it, click here...
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BD E. posted an article on Ye Olde Magick Blogge - Jan 4, 2010, 11:58 pm
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BD E. posted an article on Ye Olde Magick Blogge - Jan 4, 2010, 11:58 pm
So, I'm resurrecting and relocating Ye Olde Magick Blogge over to the sleightly.com website. I already had a bit of a blog over there, but since the original purpose of that blog was just to try to promote the frozen magician directory project, it never got off the ground. It's been an interesting y...
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BD E. posted an article on Ye Olde Magick Blogge - Apr 6, 2009, 11:08 am
Sorry that there haven't been many updates lately. Truth be told, it almost feels like I've run out of things that are worth talking about. I think that between the Yin/Yang model for appreciating magic, the essays on exposure, and the 12 performing archetypes, I've pretty much tapped out whatever w...
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BD E. posted an article on Ye Olde Magick Blogge - Feb 3, 2009, 8:21 am
One thing that's important to note is that while there are instances in which Yin and Yang mesh well together, it is possible for there to be conflict between the two. For instance, there are two points in the "Strengthening Your Magic 'Yin'" which I believe to be fundamentally true, and those are t...
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BD E. posted an article on Ye Olde Magick Blogge - Jan 30, 2009, 8:07 am
If this whole Yin Yang theory has any merit, then it explains a hell of a lot. Go to the Cafe or any other forum, and ask people what they think magic is all about, or what magic should be about, and you'll get interesting answers. Observe these answers and you'll see that they frequently fall into ...
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BD E. posted an article on Ye Olde Magick Blogge - Jan 30, 2009, 5:57 am
This is building on the Yin Yang model for a presented magic effect -- it is an attempt to create axioms that will show how to improve the Yang in the model. A quick review: A magic effect, when performed, will have two aspects at work, first the nature of the effect (Yin), and second, the convictio...
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BD E. posted an article on Ye Olde Magick Blogge - Jan 30, 2009, 2:46 am
This is building on the Yin Yang model for a presented magic effect -- it is an attempt to create axioms that will show how to improve the Yin in the model. A quick review: A magic effect, when performed, will have two aspects at work, first the nature of the effect (Yin), and second, the conviction...
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BD E. posted an article on Ye Olde Magick Blogge - Jan 19, 2009, 7:24 pm
I'm test-driving this theoretical model for magic. This is based upon a discussion in which somebody talked at the Cafe about the importance of strengthening conditions, at which point people immediately responded of the potential dangers for doing so. Quoth from the Cafe... There's give and take. T...
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BD E. posted an article on Ye Olde Magick Blogge - Jan 13, 2009, 3:42 am
Just thought I'd make this announcement to other magic blogs out there. If your blog has got a newsfeed (such as RSS) and you'd like it listed on Ye Olde Magick Blogge's sidebar, let me know and perhaps we can come to some sort of reciprocal arrangement.
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BD E. posted an article on Ye Olde Magick Blogge - Jan 9, 2009, 4:24 pm
Taken from the old new blog... "After a conversation last night with Travis Bernhardt, Busker Extraordinaire, the realization dawned on me that perhaps none of you guys is as interested in the development of the Sleightly Directory as I am, so here are some Tommy Cooper videos." Spoon Jar Jar Spoon ...
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BD E. posted an article on Ye Olde Magick Blogge - Jan 9, 2009, 4:17 pm
In case people were curious, I ran a poll over at the soon to be defunct sleightly.com blog asking people what they thought was the best way to study Erdnase. Here were the results... What's the best way to study Erdnase? "Expert At The Card Table". Duh. (47%, 33 Votes) Darwin Ortiz's Annotated Expe...
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