It's clear that at Vanishing Inc, we're a big fan of Alex Elmsley. He was an amazing thinker and a pioneer of close-up magic. This 2 DVD set is from a lecture and workshop that Alex gave in England during his final few years with us. It was filmed at Colin Rose's house and was attended by my friend...

The problem with magic “legends” is that, so many times, they don’t live up to the hype. Ours is the first generation of so-called video magicians, and we live in a world where we have access to lots of footage of all our favorites. But going back thirty years, legends were made of hearsay...

Alex Elmsley's Dazzle is probably the greatest packet trick of all time.Five red-backed jokers are shown. One of them is set aside, and replaced with a blue-backed joker. The other red-backed jokers magically change color to match the blue stranger. One of the blue-backed jokers is removed and...