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Lynn Serafinn • The 7 Graces of Marketing: how to heal humanity and the planet by changing the way we sell
At a time when the Victorians prided themselveson science and rationality, the two quiet young men from Buffalo, New York began a confusing debate about just how honest a magician needed to be or could afford to be.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
capitalism designated the moment when the concept of merchandise extended beyond industrial products, to include art works and people. The mercantilization of the world: everything becomes a consumer product, everything is bought and sold, available on the great market of endless demand. The reign of generalized prostitution, of selling, and sellin
... See moreJohn Howe • A Philosophy of Walking
Houdini soon became magic’s most recognizable figure—and one of the most egotistical. He publicly boasted that no magician could fool him if he saw the effect three times. Many magicians tried and failed to best the king of their craft. That all changed in 1919, when a young man approached Houdini and asked to show him a card trick. He had Houdini
... See moreIan Frisch • Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians
His specialty was convincing each person that they had witnessed a near catastrophe.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
This is the nightmarish reality that Marshall McLuhan and Wyndham Lewis and others foresaw: the creation of the public as herd.