Paranormality
It’s been a week in which, between lurking various forums watching several pitched battles between mystery entertainers and men with…
Southlake Medical Research
(February 2011) A Horror themed walkthrough experience. Southlake Medical Research is locked down following a biohazard alert. Can you escape…
Putting the tricks back into magic – Sleights of Mind: Magic and Neuroscience
I’ve been spending the last few days trying to like the Sleights of Mind. I simply can’t. I’m not convinced…
Gift Magic (2)
A book all about generosity we can find in magic; how we can be generous in our performance and also how we…
Gift Magic (1)
>I’ll probably blog about Gift Magic soon, in the meantime I wanted to share this from one of the chapters; I…
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
>Being a meandering ramble about not going to Blackpool Convention and my ongoing attempts at not being drawn into the passive consumerism…
Illusion for ‘Spring Awakening’.
(January 2010) For a production of Spring Awakening the director required a headless body and a bodiless head to manifest…
Things that go bump in the night: Fact, fiction and the audience in séance performance
[Ongoing] Joint authored project with Madelon Hoedt.
An Evening of Enchantment with Dr. Todd Landman
12 February 2010 · 19:30 – 22:30 – The University of Huddersfield Come explore unobserved worlds and take a mysterious…
Dircks’s phantasmagoria.
[Current] An attempt to re-create Dirck’s Phantasmagoria. (Joint authored project with David Wainwright)
The Magicians – BBC One
>Let’s start the year with a hastily written bit of rantage … The Magician is a maker of miracles, the…
Throw Six to Start
(December 2010) “an enchanting effect based on the games of our childhood” in The Mystic Menagerie Issue 3. Available from…
Magic and the M-Word
Magic and the M-Word (2010). Co-authored with Madelon Hoedt. Essay for the collection published by Psycrets. Publication date: tbc.
How Psychic Are You?
October 31st 2010″Psychic Tests and interactive fun with Dr Orlando Watt”
The Mystic Menagerie Issue 2
> The communication orb seemed to throb gently in front of the Magician, its diffuse blue glow straying into the…
Doomsday
>It’s great to have a note in my diary that says May 8th is “Doomsday”. No I haven’t been privy…
An Evening of Metaphysical Magic
An Evening of Metaphysical Magic Deja vu? Coincidence? Statistical Probability? Or something more? Date: Thursday, 04 February 2010 Time: 19:30…
An Evening of Metaphysical Magic
> It’s going to be an exciting year with the first Magic event of 2010 scheduled February. We are very…
Horror
>It’s been a hectic term at University and as usual my thinking about magic took a back seat (I really…
Lavater – The Shadow of History
For one night only – 13th November 2009 – 7.30pm. The noted physiognomist Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801) returns for one…
Lavater – The Shadow of History
>For one night only – 13th November 2009 – 7.30pm. The noted physiognomist Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801) returns for one…
Invocation
> I’ve had a fascinating time indulging in a close reading of Invocation/New Invocation magazine the seminal publication for Bizarre…
Electronics for Magicians (review)
>Electronics for Magicians by Jon Thompson At The Amazing Meeting Seven this year there was a fascinating presentation by Steve…
Performing Fabulous Monsters: Re-inventing the Gothic Personae in Bizarre Magick.
Taylor, Nik and Nolan, Stuart (2009) Performing Fabulous Monsters: Re-inventing the Gothic Personae in Bizarre Magick. The Ninth Biannual Conference of…
‘Bizarre Magick.’ [Performance]
A walkaround performance illustrating Bizarre Magick (July 2009) at The Ninth Biannual Conference of the International Gothic Association at Lancaster…