Aaron K Smith | |
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 Smith in 2012 | |
| Born | December 10, 1976 US |
| Occupation | Writer, inventor |
| Website | MRGADFLY.com |
Aaron Smith (born 1976) is an American writer, illustrator, and inventor of magic tricks. [1]
Aaron K Smith | |
|---|---|
| Smith in 2012 | |
| Born | December 10, 1976 US |
| Occupation | Writer, inventor |
| Website | MRGADFLY.com |
Aaron Smith (born 1976) is an American writer, illustrator, and inventor of magic tricks. [1]
Aaron Smith was the creator and managing editor of Mr. Gadfly, Journal for Card Magicians, from 2001 to 2002. [2] [3] [4] [5] Mr. Gadfly gained notoriety among magicians as the first magic magazine with a forum devoted solely to its content, wherein readers could communicate directly with the magazine's columnists. Mr. Gadfly was also the first magic magazine published in both electronic and print formats. Magicians subscribed to the print edition and received the electronic issues free. [6]
Aaron Smith is the founder of The Magic Depot, [7] [8] [9] a magic trick retailer in Oklahoma, and Gadfly Magic, [10] the production company for his more than one-hundred products currently distributed to magicians worldwide. Much of his earlier work is now out of print.
Though a silent partner at the time, along with Gerald Kirchner and Ryan Pilling, in 2004 Aaron Smith founded the now defunct Magic Broadcast. Magic Broadcast was the first radio station devoted solely to magic. The station quickly grew to six satellite offices operating in three countries, the U.S., Canada, and the U. K. [11]
Some of Aaron Smith's magic productions include Mind Leaper (1999), Silk Through Card (1992), Behold the Scarabaeus (2006), Poor Boy ZipTie Escape (2009), STAT Bloody Tongue Skewer (2010), Mental Marker Special FX Pen (2010) and Mental Marker FX Juice (2012), Borrowed & Tied (2011), Flight of the Bubble Gum (2011), Wand Scrolls (2012), Flight Force Five (2012), Poor Boy Billet Knife (2008), and the Old World Siberian Chain Escape (2013) and Ankle Chain Quick-Connect (2013). Aaron Smith introduced the Wizard PK Ring to the U.S. magic community in 2006 on behalf of its inventors. [12] He also negotiated permission for the term "PK" from Magic City, who became the first U. S. magic jobber for the Wizard PK Ring and Vortex PK Ring product lines. [13]
The crime thriller, "No Family For Cannibals - Episode One," was released in July 2014 as part of 412C Season One, under the name Aaron K Smith. ( ISBN 9781310272745) [14] [15]
Persi Warren Diaconis is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. He is a Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University.
The BR Standard Class 8 was a class of 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive designed by Robert Riddles for use by British Railways. Only the prototype was constructed, named Duke of Gloucester. Constructed at Crewe Works in 1954, the Duke, as it is popularly known, was a replacement for the destroyed LMS Princess Royal Class locomotive number 46202 Princess Anne, which was involved in the Harrow and Wealdstone rail disaster of 1952.
King-Kok Cheung is an American literary critic specializing in Asian American literature and is a professor in the department of English at UCLA.
The Society of American Magicians (S.A.M.) is the oldest fraternal magic organization in the world. Its purpose is "to advance, elevate, and preserve magic as a performing art, to promote harmonious fellowship throughout the world of magic, and to maintain and improve ethical standards in the field of magic." To promote these endeavors the S.A.M. presents awards and fellowships in recognition of outstanding achievement in the Art of Magic.
International Brotherhood of Magicians (I.B.M.) is an organization for both professional and amateur close-up and stage magicians, with approximately 15,000 members worldwide. The headquarters is in St. Charles, Missouri. There are over 300 local groups, called Rings, in more than 88 countries, largely concentrated in cities of the United States and Canada. The organization publishes a monthly periodical entitled The Linking Ring, which features tricks, coverage of shows and events in the magic community, and interviews with magicians.
Robert Zabrecky is an American actor, author, magician, and songwriter. His career began as a musician while being the front man for the band Possum Dixon. In the later years of his career, he has found success as a magician, actor, and author.
Maxine Leeds Craig is a professor in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Davis (USA).
The Linking Ring is a monthly print magic magazine published by the International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM) for its members since 1922. It is based in Bluffton, Ohio. In 2007, Samuel Patrick Smith, a magician, author and publisher based in Eustis, Florida, became executive editor of the magazine.
Andi Gladwin is a British magician, speaker, and publisher. He has appeared on television, has lectured for magicians throughout the UK, US, and Europe and written/published books on magic. Gladwin is a Member of the Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star and was granted the Maskelyne Literary Award from the prestigious club.
Matthew T. Kapstein is a scholar of Tibetan religions, Buddhism, and the cultural effects of the Chinese occupation of Tibet. He is Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and Director of Tibetan Studies at the École pratique des hautes études.
Hilton Obenzinger is an American novelist, poet, history and criticism writer.
Sam Julius van Schaik is an English tibetologist.
Karen Ellen Smith is an American mathematician, specializing in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. She completed her bachelor's degree in mathematics at Princeton University before earning her PhD in mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1993. Currently she is the Keeler Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. In addition to being a researcher in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, Smith with others wrote the textbook An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry.
Leslie Kanes Weisman is an American architecture educator, activist and community planning department official. Weisman was one of the founding faculty members of the New Jersey Institute of Technology School of Architecture in Newark, New Jersey. She was also one of the founders of the Women's School of Planning and Architecture.
Kirin Narayan is an Indian-born American anthropologist, folklorist and writer.
Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously she was an Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is trained in literary critique, and does work in Caribbean Studies, Black Diaspora Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and Pop Culture Studies. She is the author of Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature, and Ezili′s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders. She received the F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality at Harvard for the 2018–2019 school year. Her latest work Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism was published in November 2018. It is based on her course at University of Texas Austin entitled Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism, which launched in Spring 2015.
Siobhan Roberts is a Canadian science journalist, biographer, and historian of mathematics.
Judith Veronica Field is a British historian of science with interests in mathematics and the impact of science in art, an honorary visiting research fellow in the Department of History of Art of Birkbeck, University of London, former president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, and president of the Leonardo da Vinci Society.
Mo Moulton is an American author and historian of 20th century Britain and Ireland, interested in gender, sexuality, and colonialism/postcolonialism. They are a senior lecturer in the history of race and empire at the University of Birmingham.
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