Juggler and sometime magician Neil Stammer has been on the run for well over a decade. The FBI used a little magic of their own, though, to finally catch the fugitive. By applying state of the art face recognition software to the photo on his fake passport, they were able to track Stammer, wanted on charges related to a child sex abuse case, to Nepal. Read more about it in The Guardian coverage.
Congratulations to Billy Hsueh for his recent win of the Pacific Coast Association of Magicians Gold Medal Award of Excellence for Close Up Magic. We wanted to post a video but, believe it or not, we could not find one! Billy, if we missed something drop us a line. Also congratulations to Mayan Vaidar Sha for his win at cups and balls competition at the first International Magic Conference in Hyderabad. Mayan Sha presented the traditional Indian style of the famous effect.
Speaking of PCAM, there was a nice little feature on 15 year old magician Jason Verners in The Goldstream News Gazette, who won the Junior Close Up category. That’s Jason above from his 2012 International Youth Magic Championships performance.