Leveridge, Mark, et al: Magicseen Volume 6 ©2010 Mark Leveridge, Graham Hey, Phil Shaw & Peter Salter Digital e-Zine Available as an e-Book from Lybrary.com

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Comments: Magicseen magazine is headquartered in the UK and the editorial content has a European focus. It is published 6 times per year.

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Contents:

Magicseen 31 Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2010; 68 pages
Cover: Marc Oberon
7 Welcome – editor’s letter
8 Letters
9 News
10 Lots of Magic: Just Like eBay For Magicians website review
12 In The Phonebox with Throwdini: interview
16 Tim Shoesmith Life’s One Big Drama!: interview
22 50 Years Of The Bristol Day of Magic (Paul Prager): article
26 Steve Wyrick Real Magic? (Benoit Grenier): interview
32 Dealer’s Booth: Vanishing Inc
34 The Young Contenders: A look at the Young Magicians’ Club
36 Marc Oberon Going For Gold! (Graham Hey): cover article/interview
42 Magicnewstv Carry On Screening! (James James): article
44 State of Play (Mark Leveridge): a look at kid show entertainment in the UK
50 Reviews
50 - Spoonaround: Axel Hecklau: effect
50 - Sleuth: Michael Murray: effect
51 - Experience The Magic of Jon Allen: John Lovick: book
51 - Underhanded: Paul Brook: e-book
51 - Anniversary Tango: Zane: effect
52 - One In The Hand: Paul Brook: effect
52 - A Clockwork Apple: Chris Mayhew: book
53 - Mister Meech’s Merged Mail Outs: Oliver Meech: book
53 - Make It Magic: Stage: Arthur & Leslie Stead: music CD
54 - Repertoire, Volumes 1 & 2: Ben Williams: e-books
54 - Anomaly: Bob Solari: book
55 News
56 Wayne Fox The Tables Are Turned: interview
60 News
60 Masterclass
60 - My Signature Trick (Ian Adair)
62 - Citizen Cane (Jon Allen)
64 The World of Fake Coins, Part 4 (Craig Petty)
64 - Copper Silver
66 Advertisers
66 Listings
66 Next Issue
66 Back Issues

Magicseen No 32 Vol 6, No 2, May 2010; 68 pages
Cover: Gaetan Bloom
7 Welcome
8 Letters
9 News
10 Brad Manuel
13 Ramana
15 Patrick Page
18 Dave Allen
24 Coin in Bottle
28 USA
34 Gaetan Bloom
42 Paul Stone
46 So You Want To Be A Mentalist
50 The Magic of Sri Lanka
53 Wayne Dobson
54 Mike McClean
57 Chris McDaniel
58 Masterclass
60 Reviews
66 Next Issue

Magicseen No 33 Vol 6, No 3, July 2010; 68 pages
Cover: Kockov
7 Welcome
8 Letters
9 News
12 Arthur & Leslie Stead's guide to using music in your act
14 Simon Lovell: Magician, ex-Magician, Magician!
18 Interview with Joaquin Ayala: from Mexican teenager to Las Vegas superstar
24 El Loco: a magician's rebirth
29 Profile: Cool young magician Stephen Williams
30 The Essential Magic Conference: Background & Preview
34 Kockov: A Russian Original - interview
36 Jasper Blakeley, the man behind the Monrokvian character
42 Magic in Hungary
46 An interview with Sandy Marshall, author and son of Jay Marshall
48 "Siegfried & Roy: Unique in All the World": The story behind the book
52 Masterclass
52 - Coin Bottle, Bottle Coin (Andy Clockwise): Knocking an American half dollar through a bottle shrinks the coin to half-size; knocking it out again causes it to grow three times its original size
54 - The Price Is Right (Ian Adair): a "Just Chance" effect using bar codes
55 - Watchers (Lewis Jones): A word test, based on the 500+ page Dean Koontz novel, "Watchers" The effect uses up to 60 freely-selected page numbers, from which one page is selected The performer then divines information about a chosen passage on that page
56 - Who's Under the Blanket? (Andy Clockwise): This is a children's party game that incorporates music and guessing which child is secretly covered by a blanket Lots of fun for 5 to 25 minutes
57 - BCA (Bernard Sim): A four-coins across routine with no extra coins; no table required
58 The World of Fake Coins: Part 5
60 Reviews
60 - Andy Clockwise's "Cheque Mate"
60 - Gaetan Bloom's "Bloomeries"
60 - Ponta The Smith's "Sick"
60 - Bob Solari's "Swami Secure"
61 - Mark Lee's "Drift"
61 - Patrick Redford's "Prevaricator DVD"
61 - Will Tsai's "Tsunami Project"
61 - Bob Solari's "Fan See Card Rise"
62 - Matthew Garrett's "Monty the Spiv"
62 - Robert Osterlind's "Challenge Magic DVD"
62 - Bob Swadling & Nicholas Einhorn's "Pro-Flite"
62 - * Jeff Stone's "Stone Frixion Fire DVD"
63 - Bob Solari's "Right and Wrong"
63 - Noel Diamond, Mike Caveney, Ricky Jay and Jim Steinmeyer's "Magic 1400s-1950s"
63 - Alexander 'Sandy' Marshall's "Beating a Dead Horse"
63 - "Between Three Minds" DVD
64 - Bob Solari's "Incredible"
64 - Pieras Fitikides' "Twitter"
64 - Mark Southworth's "Tin Opener"
64 - Chris Kenworthey's "Mastermind"
65 - Andrew Regnauld's "Feckin Spiders" (eBook)
65 - Mathieu Bich's "Reversible"
65 - Bob Solari's "The Omega Gimmick"
65 - Nick Langham's "Royal Command"
66 Advertisers / Upcoming in Next Issue / Back Issues

Magicseen No 34 Vol 6, No 4, September 2010; 68 pages
Cover: Rafael, Belgium's king of cool The feature article showcases the many acts (from Comedy Dove to Vampire) of Belgian stage magician Rafael
7 Welcome
8 Letters
9 News
12 George Luck's interview of Finnish cardician Miika Pelkonen
14 Impossible Bottles (deck of cards in bottle) discussion with master craftsman Phil Evans
16 Grumpy Old Magician whinges
18 A guided tour of the Magic Circle library
22 Brian Caswell talks about magic trick descriptions
26 An introduction to Dove Magic: Advice from experts Lance Burton, Tony Clark, Scott Penrose, and Brian Sefton
30 Rafael
38 An interview with TNA wrestler and amateur magician Desmond Wolfe
40 Mark Leveridge's review of "The Essential Magic Conference": A Live Internet event featuring performances, lectures, talks, and discussions by 33 top professionals
42 A review of Peter Clifford's magic show "Peter's Friends"
43 In The Phonebox: A short discussion with magic creator and magician Jamie Daws
44 An interview with magician and mindreader Chris Dugdale Chris has worked for Lance Burton and performed for everyone from Angelina Jolie to HM the Queen
50 The magicseen MEGA-QUIZ!: A contest comprised of 30 questions about the first 30 issues of magicseen
52 Masterclass
52 - Mark Leveridge's "Favourite Characters": Use four children's story characters to give any four tricks a coherent theme
54 - Ben Prime's "Bias": An easy card move that can be used as a control, a force, a production, a memory demonstration or of deadcutting
56 An interview with escapologist, knife thrower, fire eater, glass walking Cynthia Morrison, AKA The Great Cindini
58 Stuart Millward talks about the ups and downs of running a 'bricks & mortar' magic shop
59 12 things you wouldn't want to hear a magic dealer say
60 Dealer's Booth: A profile of magic dealer Dave Forrest His website Full52com deals mainly with card effects and offers a selective list of exclusive effects, downloads, and videos There are also free video effects and Dave is interested in marketing other magician's worthwhile effects
62 Reviews
62 - Magigadgets utility device "Electro-Magic Squeeker"
62 - Gabe Fajuri's book "Mysterio's Encyclopedia of Magic and Conjuring"
62 - Gregory Ferdinand's packet trick with DVD "Trick or Treat in the Land of OZ"
62 - Merlinswakefield's puzzle/trick "Miser's Rings Magic Puzzle"
62 - Mat L'Anoire's PDF eBook "Nevermind, The Mentalism of Mat L'Anoire"
63 - Chad Long's close-up effect "Flash"
63 - Bob Solari's card trick with gimmick "Royal Opener"
63 - Gary Jones & Mark Bendell's mentalism effect with special cards "Thought Wave"
64 At A Glance
64 - Scott Strange's DVD "Odd Balls"
64 - Jeremy Pei's DVD "Powerful Rope Magic"
64 - Wayne Houchin's DVD "Control"
64 - Christopher Ballinger's utility gimmick "The Shark"
65 - Johan Stahl's DVD "Sleeveless Sleeving"
65 - Luis Otero's DVD "Cartificios"
65 - Paul Romhany's DVD "Lunch Date"
65 - Andrew Mayne's DVD "Inversion"
66 Next Issue

Magicseen No 35 Vol 6, No 5, November 2010; 68 pages
Cover: Jon Allen
7 Welcome
8 Letters
9 News
10 Kennedy
14 Magic Circle Results
16 Edinburgh Festival
22 Magicseen Quiz: The Results
23 Michael Ammar Lecture Review
24 Magicseen Advertising
26 Restaurant Magic: Part 1
30 Paul Talks Mentalism
34 Jon Allen
40 The Moral Dilemma
44 Andrew Melia
48 LADs 2010
50 Have a Look at My Package
52 Jack Curtis
54 Masterclass
56 Fabrini
60 Reviews
66 Next Issue

Magicseen No 36 Vol 6, No 6, January 2011; 68 pages
Cover: Andi Gladwin
5 Welcome: editor’s letter
6 Letters
7 News
8 Ian Adair Spreading the Word!: interview
12 The Web of Deceit Update: website reviews
12 - Discount Magic
12 - Kaymar Magic Company
13 - Mike Danata’s Magic Studio
13 - Dude That’s Cool Magic
14 - Magigadgets
14 - Zane’s Magic Shop
15 - Davenports Magic
15 - Magic Tricks
16 - Premium Magic
17 - Magic World
18 Magic Nevin
18 - Magic Book Shop
19 Great News! magicseen Goes Stateside!: announcement
20 A Day In The Life Of … Children’s Entertainer Paul Megram: profile
22 James L Clark: Man In A Suitcase!: interview by Graham Hey
30 Masterclass
30 - Pick ‘N Mix (Alan Chitty): coin effect
31 - Twisted (Wayne Fox): metal bending
32 Andi Gladwin Hope Springs Eternal (Graham Hey): cover article/interview
40 Turning The Tables (Mark Leveridge): How to succeed with magic in a restaurant Part 2
44 The Think Tank (Jay Fortune): article
46 Reviews
46 - Change: John B Born: effect
46 - Sleeve Star: David Jay: DVD & gimmick
46 - Sub Zero: Spidey: effect
47 - Sick: Sean Fields -
47 - The Page Boy Speaks: Patrick Page: e-book
47 - The Flip Shift: John B Born: book
48 - Meandering Matchboxes: Bob Solari: effect
48 - Slim: Craig Petty: DVD
48 - Lunch Date: Paul Romhany: DVD
49 - Steal This DVD: Eric Ross
49 - The Master Pushoff: Andi Gladwin: 2 DVD set
49 - Flexion: Jon Allen: effect
50 - Shoot Force: Shoot Ogawa: DVD
50 - Magic At The Bar: Chris Randle: DVD
50 - Above The Fold: Rich Aviles: book
51 - Nevermore: Dave Forrest & Mat L’Anoire: DVD or video download
51 - Torn 2 Pieces: Shawn Farquhar: effect
51 - Project Zero: Dave Forrest: 2 DVD set
52 - Double Back: Jon Allen: effect
52 - Impossible Envelope: Paul Stockman: effect
52 - Dealing With Magic: The Rise And Fall Of The Supreme Magic Company: Ian Adair: book
53 - Terrific-trix for Kid’s Shows: Ian Adair: book
53 - The 52 vs Joker Project: Gary Jones & Chris Congreave: DVD and props
53 - Cheating At Texas Hold ’Em: John B Born: book
54 5 minutes with … Axel Hecklau: profile
56 Paul [Stockman] Talks Mentalism!: Part 2: article
60 Self-Working Miracles!: comments about the best self-working card tricks from members of some chatrooms
62 Chris Dugdale: Magic & Mindreading: live show review by Mike McClean
66 Advertisers
66 Listings
66 Next Issue
66 Back Issues