All Magic Tricks Revealed

Penn & Teller - Young and handsome. Here at the Illuminated Showman we follow the exploits and thoughts of the dynamic duo Penn & Te...

Last night as I couldn't sleep I remembered I had been pointed towards a link to a clip about Magician Nate Staniforth by Brian Daly. SO...

pho photos © LOUISE CHIN e IGNACIO ARONOVICH In 1998 I found myself thrown into a crazy world of street performers, freaks, homeless people,...

After a freak, sneak, peek into the Carnival archives only a few days ago with the fine collaboration twixt Carnival Cinema, C. W. Stoneki...

This fine piece of fusion art is created by Hamish McCormick the brain and power behind Carnival Cinema. Over the last 11 years this fine fi...

"Character is created by encountering and overcoming failure." After a comment from a fellow Craft man I thought I would divulge s...

Character is created by encountering and overcoming failure.  

Pic by Rob Woodcox . Showman is made up of two words; Show and Man. (So far I hope I have lost none of you.) Both are equally important aspe...

A sign that you have become a Master Showman is: When nervousness no longer exist. There is always a particular energy present before a show...

For any artist who has ever had their dreams broken, who has not found an audience, who has given so much of their heart but not gotten an...

For those of you who don't already listen to Ira Glass's This American Life might not know the man talking in the film clip below. T...

Derren Brown, Master Showman. The fact that the new arch deacon of British atheism even contemplates the idea of creating  religious experie...

"The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail , whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick." Charles Darwin It is circular...