Oct 31, 2012

Master magician Harry Houdini made a living wowing audiences and escaping from death-defying situations. But this day in 1926 the Great Houdini was unable to cheat death one more time and succumbed to peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix at age 52. “Harry Houdini is famous for his incredible feats of magic,” says historian David C. Ward of the...

Aug 12, 2012

Big Thanks again to Ivan Amodei for submitting this article to TDD. Share your comments with him in the comment section below and try and convince him to become a regular contributor here on TDD!! Do you want to get started in Magic? But if it is a secret, underground profession, how does one actually seek out the techniques, secrets and information needed to...

Aug 11, 2012

The Bag O’ Tricks is a contest created by Shawn Farquhar for the PCAM convention. He came up with the idea for this contest during one of his cruise ship gigs, when as they were loading his equipment onto the ship, the gear tipped over and fell into the ocean. Losing all of his equipment and having just starting a long tour he had to come up with an entire...

Aug 6, 2012

The very first Tony Eng Memorial Peoples Choice Award was given out at this years PCAM 2012, and will continue to be given out each PCAM to follow. This award is voted on by the people and features the 1st place winners of the competitions from the convention. The winner this year won a plaque and $500! In case you weren’t there, here is the award...

Aug 5, 2012

Videos and Photos from PCAM 2012 we be appearing on TDD over the next week or so. I got so much footage and so little time to edit, but I will post what I can as I can. I hope everyone who I got to meet there had as wonderful of a time as I did. The lineup was every better then expected to be, we all got to see a great moment in magic History as Michael Dardant...