Latest Magic News – February 14, 2004Inside MagicMagic News Updated Daily for the Professional Magician

Happy Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day and welcome to the one place on the web where you learn not only about a man who likes to minister the gospel, carve wood and perform magic as well as a man known in his secret life as Mr. X – The Math Magician.

They’re both in the news today but that’s not all. It’s more than St. Valentine’s Day — it’s Teller’s Birthday!

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Bob Bishop is Mr. X the Math Magician

Bob Bishop

Bob Bishop is more than a math teacher, he is Mr. X the Magician. He uses his magic to teach children in Boise, Idaho with the goal to ?make magic fun and help get rid of the math stigma.?

Mr. X?s philosophy is based in the reality that he has the children in his class for just a little while. ?“A lot of what I’m trying to do is change attitudes toward math. In the short time I’m with the students, I’m not going to teach tons of concepts.”

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Happy Valentine’s Day

They’re both in the news today but that’s not all. It’s more than St. Valentine’s Day — it’s Teller’s Birthday!

Bob Bishop is Mr. X the Math Magician

Bob Bishop

Bob Bishop is more than a math teacher, he is Mr. X the Magician. He uses his magic to teach children in Boise, Idaho with the goal to ?make magic fun and help get rid of the math stigma.?

Read the television news story of Mr. Bishop here.

Mister X – The Math Magician

Mr. Bishop uses effects such as ?Fast and Loose? to demonstrate the need for mathematics. During a game of fast and loose, Bishop produced a single chain and proceeded to fold it into a series of loops.

Students were asked to pick a loop and place their finger inside it. If they had guessed correctly the loop would stay around their finger. However, if they guessed incorrectly, the loop would slip away.

“You will win if you know mathematics, but you’ll lose if you don’t,” Bishop said.

Students learned how to follow the loops and determine the correct place to put their fingers.

Read the Idaho State Journal story about Mr. Bishop?s efforts to teach magic through math or the other way around here.

Finally, check out Mr. Bishop?s website here.

A Silent Version of Happy Birthday, Please

Penn and Teller’s Magic & Mystery Tour

Happy Birthday to Teller, the silent partner with Penn and Teller is 56 years old today!

The banner depicted in the graphic, is from Penn and Teller?s CBC documentary Penn and Teller?s Magic and Mystery Tour. You can see the webpage for the documentary here.

Magic and Ministry Come Together in Bob Bracilano

Magical Moments

Magic and Ministry come together when Bob Bracilano, former Director of Men at the York Rescue Mission celebrates his 25 years of ministry with a presentation called, ?God and Country? tomorrow (Sunday) at the Chapel of the York Rescue Mission in York.

Mr. Bracilano is a member of the Fellowship of Christian Magicians and the North American Association of Ventriloquists.

Check out the full story in the York (Pennsylvania) Daily Record here.

Mr. Bracilano has an incredible talent at wood carving as well as a love for magic. He has brought these two loves together in some amazing wood carvings featuring magicians and classic illusions.

Check out Mr. Bracilano?s Magical Moments website here.

Your First Time Before Classmates

Congratulations Gage Burger!

A very nice, little story about Gage Burger, a fifth-grader at South Bend?s Battell Elementary School, performing one of his first shows for his school. It rekindles fond memories, at least in me, of the first time on stage ? even if it was just on a table rolled out by one of my teachers.

Check out the full story here.