Kingpin Magic Co.

A blog about magic and magicians.

Saturday, 30 January 2010

 

Lots of New Magic

We have lots of new magic in stock.  Old favourites such a the Money Maker, and Glorpy, to new favourites such as the Boris Wild Marked Deck, Pat Page's Everlasting Rope and John Cornelius' Pen Through Anything.  These are all great tricks, that can be performed anywhere, and are totally reliable.

There are many versions of Glorpy and Pen Through Anything available, but most are copies.  We sell the original. 

The same goes for the Boris Wild Marked Deck.  There have been a variety of systems over the years, and until this deck came along, we used the late Ted Lesley's system.  Boris Wild has taken Ted's idea, and brought it into the 21st Century.  Here's a nice clip of Boris performing:



Thursday, 28 January 2010

 

David Nixon and the Mellotron

David Nixon and his father in law, Eric Robinson, owned the company that produced the Mellotron in the 60s and 70s.  The Mellotron was the first instrument to use sampled sounds, and was used by groups as diverse as the Beatles and Black Sabbath to Kanye West.  Remarkably, a clip of David playing the Mellotron is available on Youtube!  Here it is:


Saturday, 23 January 2010

 

Tomas Medina's Cardiologist Deck

FISM World Champion, Shawn Farquha, recently featured Tomas Medina's Cardiologist Deck as part of his performance on the American TV chat show, Ellen:



This really is a superb trick.  The package includes a DVD and special deck.  On the DVD, Tomas teaches a variety of ways of using the deck.  Check out our shop for this item.

Wednesday, 6 January 2010

 

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all our customers!  After much messing about, we finally seem to have managed to get this blog to coexist with our website---at least for today.

To celebrate, here's an interesting video clip of David Nixon:



For those of you who don't know, David Nixon was a magician who had his own TV show on British TV in the 60s and 70s.  Edwin Dawes and Stephen Short have written a book about David, published towards the end of last year, and available from Amazon.

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