NPR's Carl Kasell Does Magic

Roaming around the interwebs, I ran across a YouTube video of legendary NPR newsman Carl Kasell performing Scotch and Soda. Kasell has been the voice of NPR's morning newscasts for years, but most may know him as the announcer/scorekeeper for NPR's news quiz show, "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me!" which is recorded weekly right here in Chicago.

I need to make it down to a taping one of these days...

Warning comes Sept 18th!

Kostya Kimlat's WARNING caused a sensation at the recent MAGIC Live convention. It will soon be available to dealers worldwide exclusively through FUN Inc!

WARNING will be available to dealers starting this Friday, September 18. Get your orders in fast, people - this one's going to go quick!

Here's the official scoop:

WARNING is an incredible new magic effect that is fast, visual, direct and amazing. Pick up a lighter, peel off the "warning" sticker, light it, and in a flash of fire the sticker has instantly returned to the lighter! WARNING is easy to learn, fun to practice, and addicting to perform. A completely organic magic trick that will get screams from your audience, WARNING "generates waves of excitement without you having to say a single word!"

It's the perfect ice breaker for any magician, a stunning close-up trick for the bar, street, banquet or corporate boardroom.

Reviews from Professionals

"Visually Stunning!" - David Williamson

"...The impossible in a nanosecond." - David Regal

"So off the wall and visual - what a great idea!" -Chad Long

"Fun, fantastic, f@$&!#% unbelievable!" - Daniel Garcia

"Generate waves of excitement without saying a single word!" - Gregory Wilson

"Organic and Logical. It's as perfect for a dark, loud bar as for an elegant dinner party." -Michael Ammar

"!WARNING is visual, direct, easy to do and looks like magic. It's going into my repertoire right now." - Joshua Jay

John & Tomas on iTricks Clinic TONIGHT!

Tomas and I are the special guests on iTricks clinic tonight, broadcasting live over the web at 8 pm Eastern/7 pm Central.

Tune in, ask us questions. After the introduction, we don't have any material prepared, so help us keep it going!

Click here to view!

Coming Soon: Steve Fearson Exclusives!

I had been holding back on some really good news, and I'm finally ready to announce it: FUN Inc will now be the exclusive distributor for items from Steve Fearson!

Steve is the man behind the Fearson Thread Hookup, Fearson's Fantastic Floatation, and the brains behind David Copperfield's Laser Illusion.

We're very excited to be working with Steve. We'll be bringing two of his products, the Master Levitation System and his Legend DVD to the FUN Inc website very soon. Stay with us for the latest developments!

The ORIGINAL Easy Money

In the last few years, there's been a deluge of releases of the same effect - Turning $1 bills into $100 bills. All of these recent releases all vary in method, but all are based on one original idea: Patrick Page's Easy Money.

Finally, we are able to release to the magic community a DVD featuring noted magician and author John Lovick. Lovick's book "Switch" reads like a complete treatise on magic with bills, so he was a natural choice to host this program.

John goes into great detail on how to perform the trick, how to construct the gimmick, and includes a bonus of his Slow Motion Bill Transposition. This broadcast quality DVD includes over-the-shoulder angles to make following along as simple as possible.

Now available at a dealer near you!

Sometimes Inspiration Strikes

...and you just have to write it down. A challenge to create a magic-related limerick was posted on a forum, so I came up with a little ditty:

I love to do magic for all.

"It was fun," I'll always recall,

but the fun quickly stops

when my chop cup gets dropped

and I have to go chasing the ball!

/fridaysilliness.

Sturk makes the rounds

My new side gig working on The Newest TOPS seems to have generated some interest out in the magic blogosophere. I just completed interviews with both iTricks.com and The Magic Newswire. Take a listen if you want to hear me pontificating on modern conjuring!