The Magic Memories (223)

Hello everyone!

Today’s topics are: Happy New Year; The Magic Memories 2025 – The Collected Blogs; Schedule for The Magic Memories 2026

These are The Magic Memories 223, gone online Sunday, January 4th, 2026, at 0:07h sharp.

All The Magic Memories from 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025,  including the Magic Advent Calendar from 2020, can be found HERE.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone – and good luck for 2026!

The Magic Memories 2025 – The Collected Blogs

This is the first installment of The Magic Memories 2026, and it will be shortest and longest of this year.

If this sounds to you like a paradox, well, it is… similar to the Gozinta Box, in my opinion one of Lubor Fiedler’s most brilliant inventions, at the same time highly ingenious and immensely practical, as it can be used at a table for a small audience, but in its larger version also plays big and can be appreciated even in a large theatre.

It certainly is one of my most cherished memories to have been on the same stage in Hollywood with Lubor when in 2011 he received the Creativity Fellowship from the Academy of Magical Arts, and the Literary & Media Fellowship was bestowed upon me.

Talking of Lubor’s great invention: Here you can see Doug Henning adapting the idea of the Gozinta Box to the large stage – very similar to the small model where a sponge ball is produced at the end, with a “little” twist… CLICK HERE to see it.

And here is Paul Harris’ take on it – CLICK HERE.

Anyway, back to the initial paradox, the short and long one… I have just spent two days on compiling a PDF that contains all the thirteen blogs of 2025, with all the photos and links working, all is searchable, for a total of 142 pages.

I have made a few corrections, small additions, and streamlined the layout to the best of my ability(limited!) abilities. I apologize for any mistakes and inaccuracies, and you are welcome to let me know of any gross errors, which I shall then correct and put at everyone’s disposal in The Magic Memories 224.

Although I set myself a time limit in woking on this project, which did not allow careful editing, I have nonetheless looked into dozens of entries here and there, and I am surprised at how many different topics I have been able to discuss, many at a fairly detailed level. To quote Ricky Jay: “This is such an extraordinary feat, that I am forced to mention it myself!”

I should be pleased if you take a moment to scroll through the PDF and be reminded of items you have overlooked or forgotten. Regardless of your interests and level in magic, I am confident that there are several items over the year that will find your favor; I recommend you extract whatever you find interesting to you, and with it create a new PDF to occasionally reread. For this, and other tasks, I think having it all together in one single PDF is useful.

So, without further ado, and with my best compliments for the New Year, to read and/or download the PDF Roberto Giobbi’s The Magic Memories 2025 – Collected Blogs, CLICK HERE.

Yes, the PDF is my gift to you, free of charge, and you may send it around to your magic friends.

Schedule for The Magic Memories 2026

Provided major force does not prevent me from doing so, I plan to continue to share The Magic Memories with you on the first Sunday of each month, going online at precisely 0:07 o’clock. Also, as before, I will not send you an email (with few exceptions), so you will have to proactively go to the web shop www.robertogiobbi.com and click “News”, or click the link for The Magic Memories to get a list of all past issues.

The Magic Memories for 2026 are scheduled to go online on these dates:

• The Magic Memories 223 on SUN, January 4, 2026, 0:07 o’clock
• The Magic Memories 224 on SUN, February 1, 2026, 0:07 o’clock
• The Magic Memories 225 on SUN, March 1, 2026, 0:07 o’clock
• The Magic Memories 226 on SUN, April 5, 2026, 0:07 o’clock
• The Magic Memories 227 on SUN, May 3, 2026, 0:07 o’clock
• The Magic Memories 228 on SUN, 2026, June 7, 0:07 o’clock
• The Magic Memories 229 on SUN, 2026, July 5, 0:07 o’clock
• The Magic Memories 230 on SUN, 2026, August 2, 0:07 o’clock
• The Magic Memories 231 on SUN, 2026, September 6,  0:07 o’clock
• The Magic Memories 232 on SUN, 2026, October 4, 0:07 o’clock
• The Magic Memories 233 on SUN, 2026, November 1, 0:07 o’clock
• The Magic Memories 234 on SUN, 2026, December 6, 0:07 o’clock

Very best wishes,

Roberto Giobbi