Mat Ricardo (@matricardo) is an incredible showman, magician, and film maker. I really enjoyed his newest video, "A day in the life of this autistic person" and thought y'all would too. There are parts I really connected with and parts that seemed totally foreign, but as he says in the video, "If you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDSv51Tu07s #autism #magic #magician

"As the lobby mushroomed with figures of felt, wood, and PVC tubing, they formed a great chorus of flopsy and glabrous creatures that would not shut up."

Mina Tavakoli for n+1: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/planet-puppet/

Mattia Flip is an #Italian professional #magician who visits #Ukraine #children and shows them #Magic tricks

Watch (50 Second) Insta Reel, Source: U24 Gov UA

I’m rereading Ian Sansom's “Paper: An Elegy”. This time I’m struck by yet another teenage boy’s dismal and tragi-comic experience of origami in 1970s Britain (see also David Nicholls and Don Paterson) and another appearance by Robert Harbin. From chapter 10, A Wonderful Mental And Physical Therapy:
“Harbin was a conjuror who had become fascinated by paper folding as a kind of trick or show... on television he would simply sit at a table, address the camera familiarly and directly, and talk you through the making of a model, step-by-step. He made it sound easy. Watching Harbin I think I realized that paper folding was in some profound way about making things smaller and simpler, and as a teenager I perhaps had the sense, like a lot of teenagers, that I myself wished to be smaller and simpler, to be able to disappear almost, to enfold and enclose myself and to become something different, and of the essence. Unfortunately, although I had Harbin’s book as a guide, I soon discovered that there was no actual origami paper to be had in Essex in the 1970s. Indeed, in our house, there was hardly any paper to be had at all. My father would occasionally smuggle some A4 sheets home from work, and I would cut these down into squares, but it was too thick and too white to be able to make satisfactory models. I eventually found that carbon paper was much better for folding, except that it left your hands blue-black; so throughout the mid-1970s I fought a long and lonely battle with paper, attempting to fold mucky, flimsy dolphins, and birds, and dogs, and weird little pointless boxes. I never could do Harbin’s turtle.”
#origami @origami #magician

Yesterday, I revamped my "James Merlin" page, promoting my wares as a #magician in #Cambridge and #London

Now it's live, I expect to find that elusive spelling mistake that I know *must* be in there :)

https://jamesmerlin.com/

Um... careful what sorcerer you hang out with.

#sorcerersapprentice #sorcerer #wizard #magician #mages #fun

Commission for @InvincibleSugar
and her cutie OC Barimé Serívis
She's Elizabeth's Richochet. She hates being treated as a child. She is not.

#Introduction

What's up everybody, I'm beezy. You can also call me thelinuxfraud, if you'd like. I make videos over on #youtube about #linux, #privacy and #security and plan to do some other things in the future. I dig #infosec and #cybersecurity but I am not an expert at all. I don’t even work in tech or anything like that, it all just interests me. Outside of #tech related things I love #film, #movies and #photography. I used to be a #magician too so that was nerdy. I'm happiest while sipping a glass of #bourbon and playing the #guitar

Have you ever been approached by a #magician on the streets? How was it?

#introduction

Hi folks - My name is Scott Starkey, living around the Lafayette area. My day job is a Groovy / Java developer for Purdue. Is it possible to have too many creative hobbies? I'm a part-time professional magician & mentalist (i.e. a probably fake mind-reader); I speak Esperanto; I'm a game designer and illustrator. I'm a Freemason. My favorite candy is a Zagnut bar.

The saddest thing about my job I always leave to last when sorting a late magician or magic historian’s library. The files of loose magic research. Usually 95% get absorbed into my files, but it’s always tough to break apart and distribute papers so integral to someone else’s passion and thought process. #magichistory #magician

Amazo!
#Ants #Magic #Magician #HiddenPictures #Illustration #KidLitArt #Illustrator #ChildrensBooks #MastoArt

Vintage Taft the Magician Poster
#magician #illusion #Taft #magic #illusionist #vintage #poster #ART #VintageAdvertising

My #introduction: I’m a white settler heterosexual cisgender male, so I don’t have to deal with a lot of first-glance prejudice.

Being a #writer is part of who I am. By profession, I am a #techwriter of documentation and online help for software. My hobbyist roles are #actor and #mentalist (#magician) but you might want to keep in mind that in both those roles, it’s all about pretending.

I live in #Ottawa #YOW but I am from the part of Atlantic Canada known as #Newfoundland and #Labrador.

My new book’s out now! It’s my second about the iconic magic and joke firm Ellisdons. I’ve had some hand-stitched boxes made for them by a traditional box maker here in Sheffield.
Genuinely not sure if I’m aloud to post a plug on here, need to check that. So in the mean time, it’s rubbish don’t buy it. Here is where you shouldn’t buy it: tinyurl.com/eands2