Ran into your RU-vid channel... was on the cover of magic magazine in 1999 when l was in the industry... was another Era and spent 2 decades doing it for a living... touring was great at the time but only a small chapter of my life...
I loved the episode. I have a somewhat large collection of both bound and loose magazines and enjoy flipping through them to read interesting stories and effects all the time. In some ways, the magazines can act as a Reader's Digest for magic. You can flip through, pause for a while to read something that catches your eye, do further research or just move on to another fun anecdote. I have been fortunate in purchasing many of the bound magazines that were published in the late 1970s through the 1990s or so., many of which are now out of print. It seems nowadays, a publisher is more likely to publish the collected columns from magazines instead of the entire magazine itself: The Vernon Chronicles, Magicana, Talk About Tricks. I certainly would be in favor of bound volumes of the entire magazines, especially if the magazines had a limited audience and weren't readily available (such as The Crimp by Jerry Sadowitz). However, as the number of magicians is itself a small number in the scheme of things and then the number of magicians interested in purchasing these is even smaller, it may not be financially feasible for a publisher to do so. However, as Jeff said in the video, I would definitely encourage more magicians to seek out these volumes and others for both the effects and the snapshots of years gone by. Somewhere, either in a comment to an earlier Erudite Magic recording or elsewhere, I listed a large collection of bound magazines (and also ones available on CD-ROM put out by Miracle Factory).
I got into magic and wanted to start working and various people told me to get magic menu. I now tell people the same. It’s a great resource and anyone can find something they will do/use in a working environment.
@@EruditeMagic yeah. Been performing walk around magic full time for nearly 12 years. Main thing magic menu taught me was the approach and how to leave groups/tables.
Awesome overview of some fantastic magazines! Need to do a second video down the road on some of the other great ones: Swami/Mantra, Chronicles, and Ibidem spring first to mind.
I find the Legendary Kabbala very dense and dry with a lot of advanced (unexplained but referenced) techniques. I usually give up after a couple of sections and pledge to give it another shot down the road when I'm a better magician. I like The Collected Almanac very much and Apocalypse's reputation precedes itself. Now, if I can only stumble across another volume besides Vol. 2 that's affordable!
It makes us a better illusionists if we can go through these dense and dry readings, it is a personal opinion though, or maybe I am a masoquist, but I find 99% of the times that any gimmick or contemporary routine have the very bottom foundations from these very dense and dry readings, I am becoming old, too. :)
I'm not sure if I agree with you completely. I understand the sentiment, but by the same logic, audiences would be better if they sat through dry and boring presentations 🤷🏻 I appreciate you sharing your thoughts, however!
Current favorite is the Disclaimer, which I've mentioned on here a few times. It's online, but if you go with the $12/month subscription, you get a hardcover volume each year (pdf only is $6/month). My favorite defunct magazine is Penumbra. I am trying to complete the set through eBay. The Queens by Bill Goodwin is the goal routine I'll put in enough work to master some day.
@@EruditeMagic I've always been fascinated by bizarre and geek magic, and when I was a kid there were a several old issues of "Swami" laying around the old magazine bin at "Riley's Trick Shop" in Chicago that I would always peruse on my monthly trip to the magic shop... When the collected volume came out in '97 I just had to have it! There are two or three tricks in that big book that I still do to this day. No doubt there is a lot more I could mine from those pages as well! The same goes for the Sphinx. Always a bunch of yellow and gray pamphlets that nobody seemed to care about but had that whimsical old time art just like "The Jinx"... Spinx's style was difficult for a young kid to work through, but I certainly enjoyed looking at all of the old ads and seeing the names of magicians that I would see on instruction sheets for other old magic tricks that a kid with $5 lawn mowing money could afford... When I got older, I was obsessed with Ted Annemann and the fact that he started "The Jinx" because Mulholland wouldn't sell him "The Sphinx" magazine (Jinx/Sphinx... get it? ) so I had to know more about it... The folios of original Sphinx magazines got harder and harder to find (not to mention mustier and smellier as time went on...) When a digital copy of the entire run of Sphinx became available on lybrary dot com I jumped on it, and have been enjoying digging thru its 50+ years of magic and history!
