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Magician Marco Tempest Talks 'Open Sorcery'

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 25, 2012 @08:57PM from the despite-the-cheesy-music dept.

bLanark writes "The BBC have a piece about illusionist Marco Tempest who uses technology to generate magical illusions. As he says in the interview unlike most magicians and illusionists he shares his techniques in an act that he calls 'open sorcery.' The techniques include using iPhone apps, and high-speed digital cameras. There is a growing band of people using and contributing to the field."

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Re:Open? by PixetaledPikachu · 2012-03-25 21:22 · Score: 4, Insightful

The hypocrisy is strong with this one.
If you are using an IPhone... stop your bitching and preaching about "open".
why not? An open source windows application is still an open source application
Re:Open? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-25 21:52 · Score: 3, Insightful

If we're going by that logic, literally no software is free. You have to buy a computer, after all!
Have the Magicians' Alliance been informed? by tosh1979 · 2012-03-25 22:29 · Score: 4, Insightful

I thought they'd be all over it!