
What’s the Deal With Hack Lines?
Are you the only one who could deliver that line? Avoid hack material by scripting magic that’s unique to your character.
Krystyn Lambert is a mentalist named "one of the best mystery entertainers in the world" (Penguin Magic). With her UCLA philosophy degree, she carved a niche between metaphysics and magic.
Are you the only one who could deliver that line? Avoid hack material by scripting magic that’s unique to your character.
A former Magic Castle Junior member takes a fond look back at her formative time in the club's program.
Leaving clues for your future self in the tried, test, and true form: the notebook. As Krystyn Lambert says: "For 16-year-old me, keeping notebooks was easy. I was constantly scribbling down ideas, whether it was documenting a move I was working on or the premise of a joke."
Through his incessant pounding and banging, Frisch resembles Sisyphus. They both accept the meaninglessness of their respective “punishments,” whether it’s a boulder or a red ball rolling down the hill.
Magic depends on reality to make the impossible feel real. In this piece, a magician-philosopher explores how magic can awaken us from nihilism.