I think it a rare student who might wade around in the shallows there and resist getting swept away into such glorious currents. If you haven’t yet consulted these two amazing websites, I encourage you to go and browse them. (Of course, this won’t stop the lazy from continuing to do just that, and in an ever-increasing flood. And creators, writers and publishers can check the record more easily to make certain that they are not mistakenly claiming, or granting, credit for creative work belonging to others. Performing artists can now research any plot-major or minor-and glean the benefits of studying the work of their predecessors, before they set out to develop their own approach. The other is Conjuring Credits, wherein “the history and origins of magical sleights, plots and concepts are examined and traced back to their known origins.” For authors and historians of the published record like myself, Behr’s resources provide priceless value in time, effort, and access to a range of knowledge and expertise previously stored in the brains of a small coterie of hard-core enthusiasts.
One of those is the Conjuring Archive, which offers a completely searchable archive of the contents of (at this writing) 1,618 publications, indexed with 73,993 entries. A cardician to the core, he is also a scholar of the literature, an IT professional in web development, and an accomplished part-time professional performer who has created not one, but two remarkable online resources for the world of magic. Since I read his first book Handcrafted Card Magic (reviewed in Genii, September 2007), I’ve gradually become a genuine fan of this soft-spoken, sly, smart, expert sleight-of-hand artist from Germany. But early in my dawning career as a mid-life professional, in a seminal conversation over a meal, Teller offered a then surprising observation, the truth of which I have returned to countless times over the years.Īnd this thought comes to mind yet again today as I sit down to write this review. In my many years as an amateur magician, from my seventh year to my twenty-ninth, I had long thought that talent was a relative rarity-a special gift of sorts.
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