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Shock magic is a genre of magic that shocks the audience. Sometimes referred to as "geek magic", it takes its roots from circus sideshows, in which 'freakish' performances were shown to audiences. Common shock magic or geek magic effects include eating razor blades, needle-through-arm, string through neck and pen-through-tongue.
General Magic was an American software and electronics company co-founded by Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, [1] and Marc Porat.Based in Mountain View, California, [3] the company developed precursors to "USB, software modems, small touchscreens, touchscreen controller ICs, ASICs, multimedia email, networked games, streaming TV, and early e-commerce notions."
The Geek Code was invented by Robert A. Hayden in 1993 and was defined at geekcode.com. [3] It was inspired by a similar code for the bear subculture - which in turn was inspired by the Yerkes spectral classification system for describing stars. [4] [5] [6] After a number of updates, the last revision of the code was v3.12, in 1996. [7]
In January, PCI Gaming altered the proposal by substituting one subsidiary, Wind Creek Miami, LLC, for Gretna Racing, LLC, a different wholly owned subsidiary, as the principal entity to acquire ...
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American motion picture visual effects, computer animation and stereo conversion digital studio that was founded on May 26, 1975 by George Lucas. [9] It is a division of the film production company Lucasfilm , which Lucas founded, and was created when he began production on the original Star Wars , [ 10 ...
Mark Wilson was the son of a salesman and he spent much of his youth traveling with his parents as his father moved about on business. He has said his interest in magic began when he was eight years old and saw a magician named Tommy Martin perform at a hotel in Indianapolis, where the Wilson family were staying at the time. [3]
Magikist lips sign formerly located alongside the Kennedy Expressway at Montrose Avenue in Chicago. Magikist was an American rug cleaner manufacturer and cleaning company. . After the parent company went out of business in 2001, the name was sold and is currently used by a Canadian manufacturer of pressure wash equip
Magic Solutions International, Inc. (known as Magic Solutions) was a company that specialized in help desk automation and asset management software. Based in the East Coast of the United States, the company emerged as an unplanned spin-off from a computer systems integrator, and was later considered one of the East Coast's most successful independent software vendors of the 1990s.