Steven Blair`s blog of magic & life

Well hello to all my people in interwebs land who read my blog. Its me again back with a video not sure if you will enjoy it or not its up to you. If you don’t enjoy it its your fault not mine.

What’s in the video I hear you ask. Well let me answer that for you before you watch. As some of you will know in magic there’s a plot called Any Card At Any Number (ACAAN for short and sometimes known as the Berglas effect) which was made famous a number of years ago by David Berglas a number of years ago and has been kept a secret until recently when it was published in a book by written by David Britland and published by Jim Steinmeyer called The Mind & Magic of David Berglas (which I believe is now out of print 3 months after its release but I may be wrong)

The main idea of Any Card At Any Number is that a card is thought of, a number between 1 and 52 is thought of, and finally the named card is revealed at the predicted position in the deck.

Here is some good ACAANS I have came across some hands off (hands off means magician “doesn’t” touch the cards) and some not . One of my favourites to perform is one of the first magic tricks I ever learned and to this day I still perform it regularly. Another good ACAAN is one by a magician called Danny Garcia titled CAAN which can be found on one of the first 3 projects he did.(think its disk 3 not 100% sure). Last ACAAN I really recommend is one by Matt Mello which can be found on the first disk of his 2 DVD set Modern Metalism (really recommend the DVD set). Really like this one because its so simple and I have had great fun performing. There are a few more I like by Steven Tucker and Wayne Dobson. Well I think that’s enough information on ACAAN`s if you want to know where to buy any of the stuff I have mentioned then leave me a message and I will be more than happy to sort you out with the source.
　
I have always been a fan of self working and hands off Any Card At Any Number. So I thought I would make this comedy video based on the Any Card At Any Number so please enjoy and have a Happy Halloween.

Well hello to all my people in interwebs land who read my blog. Well I haven’t posted anything on here for about 2 months. So I think its time I posted something.
　
Below you will see a little comedy video I put together after messing around with a really old magic trick that I hadn’t done for ages and I thought it would be a good idea to get it out and work on it and maybe show some friends or family it.

After messing with the trick for about 2 hours I started to think what will the spectators think . And after thinking about that for the best part of half an hour I started to be silly and made what the spectator will think (a card held together with sticky tape).I took a photo and posted the photo on my facebook page.I got a lot of good feedback from it so from that photo I decided to make this video for a little bit of fun because I thought it would be a laugh.

After a late night of brainstorming for the video. I went to college and was still thinking about the awesome idea. I then messaged some magician friends and asked them for a quote for the best ever torn and restored card. That night I spent about 2 hours making a storyboard and it was ready to piece together.

The next day I finished college at 1pm and had half of the day free so instead of doing nothing I decided to film the few clips needed for the video. I then spent around 3 hours editing the video (ok I know theres not much editing but I am easily distracted).

Well that’s enough from me for now.

Enjoy the video all feedback is welcome be sure to share my blog/video to your friends.　
　

Haven’t posted anything in over a month. I feel as if I have neglected my blog for a while.
Here’s what’s been going on. I have finished college for this year in which I passed my course (yeah go me) and I will be starting the next level of my degree (if you can call it that) in September.

I Recently got back from a two week holiday in the Bulgarian resort of Slanchev Briag (translated in English to Sunny Beach) in which I visited lots of nice places such as the historic town of Nesebar and the lovely city of Istanbul. You can see the photos of this on my personal Facebook page. I may do a separate post about my short trip to Istanbul sometime soon.

Since my last post I have created a fan page for Steven Blair Magician link can be found below.(click the photo)

Well that’s about it really nothing exciting has really happened in the way of magic apart from winning the Kilmarnock Magic Circle General Magic Competition but only just won it there were some great acts that entered. I will be posting a video sometime over summer of a trick I have been working on for a while now. I may film some live magic performances if I get the chance to and post them on Youtube and my on here.

Well that’s enough for me. Let me know about what you have been up to over the summer in the comments below.

Related Links
Holiday snaps
Info on Slanchev Briag
Info on Istanbul
Info on Nesebar
Facebook fan page
Kilmarnock Magic Circle　

This is just a quick post to say that my blog now has a domain name. This will make it a lot easier to remember and also will save me using tinyurl on twitter ( Be sure to follow me @steveoblair ).

The new link for my blog is www.themagicofstevenblair.tk/ 　

Besure to share the good news and also comment below with what you would like to see posted on here.