May 17, 2008
THE UNSEEN HANDS OF JOHN GAUGHAN
An excellent article profiling illusion maker John Gaughan appears in the New York Times Style Section under the title “Magicians Ask: What’s Up His Sleeve?”. “That Mr. Gaughan, 68, is not easily found befits an artisan who has spent most of his life creating large-scale illusions for many of the world’s most famous magicians and illusionists: Siegfried & Roy, David Blaine, Criss Angel,David Copperfield, Doug Henning, Mark Wilson, Ricky Jay. Yet while Mr. Gaughan’s artistry has, for instance, helped Mr.(Criss) Angel seemingly jump through the body of another man, Mr. Gaughan doesn’t get the glory. In the world of legerdemain, his are vital but unseen hands.”
The Brooklyn Eagle salutes one of their own with a profile of David Blaine today, his 35th birthday (April 4th.) “At the age of four, he saw a magician perform magic in a subway and he decided to buy his first trick from a Disney shop — the pencil through the card trick,” says the author of Blaine’s budding interest in magic. In 1996, 
David Blain has been getting an earful of advice from Rolling Stone’s rocker Keith Richards. After hearing to Blaine’s plans to attempt to break the world’ record for sleep deprivation later this year, Richards offered a warning to the magician by telling reporters that he thought that he had managed to stay awake for more than nine days back in the 70’s thanks to some chemical assistance. He reveals, “On the ninth day 
Students at Muhlenberg College in Allentown Pennsylvania were pleasantly surprised by the appearance of street magician David Blaine during a lecture hosted by his friend William Kalush on Wednesday. Kalush, the author of the 2006 book ”The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero,” was present at the school to deliver a lecture on his, and Blaine’s favorite topic, Harry Houdini. The lecture was part of 
