I'm actually really proud of this handling. I hadn't actually heard of the Interchange plot until Michael Feldman's routine hit the net. Naturally, I loved it. What I didn't love was the lack of visual nature to the changes. They were amazing changes, yes, but they just didn't fit my style. So I developed my own handling of the routine. It is still heavily based off of his routine, and I credit him completely for much of it. What I thought was an amazing touch was the false count I do at the beginning. It's such an easy thing to do, yet it is incredibly disarming. Anyways, enjoy!!
Friday, November 8, 2013
the change to my interchange
I'm actually really proud of this handling. I hadn't actually heard of the Interchange plot until Michael Feldman's routine hit the net. Naturally, I loved it. What I didn't love was the lack of visual nature to the changes. They were amazing changes, yes, but they just didn't fit my style. So I developed my own handling of the routine. It is still heavily based off of his routine, and I credit him completely for much of it. What I thought was an amazing touch was the false count I do at the beginning. It's such an easy thing to do, yet it is incredibly disarming. Anyways, enjoy!!
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Friday, November 1, 2013
Boogers in presentation
Before you have the card pushed flush in twin peaks, talk about a magician you once saw that used his own boogers to mark cards.
Seriously.
Do it.
Seriously.
Do it.
Eight best Close Up Magicians (Of Our Time) (According to me)
This list is extremely hard to do, as there are so many average close up guys, or good close up guys, but never The Best. That is, except these eight.
1. Juan Tamariz
This is an obvious choice. I mean, here is a man that actually does what we magician's pretend to do- magic. He is a wizard, far and away ahead of his time compared to the rest of us. For those that need gimmicks, you give Juan a deck of cards and an hour in front of an audience, and he will have them more astonished than if they went to a Copperfield show. Amazing Guy, and one that I look up to each and everyday I perform.
2. Dani DaOrtiz
This is the second in the list of "fucking wizards", and another fantastic performer to watch. The reason he is second rather than first is that, to me, sometimes I think magician's get more enjoyment out of his work than laymen. This is O.K. with me, because the way he works, he can do the exact same thing for magicians and laymen, and fool the shit out of both of them, all while saying "I don't know, I don't know!" Incredible magician that I learn from each and every time I see him work.
3. Lennart Green
Now we come to the magician I find the most entertaining to watch, bar none. He has the perfect mix of funny, mysterious, challenging, intriguing, and downright entertaining to captivate an audience for hours. Which is the other beautiful thing about Lennart: he seems to have this absolutely endless repertoire of original sleights and ideas, effects and methods. He is ever creating, ever innovating, and ever thinking. If there is one guy I would want to be when I grew up, Lennart would be it.
4. Tony Chang
This man is my personal hero when it comes to close up card magic. His work has this modern vernonesque quality about it that is just unmatched in other workers today. He doesn't need silly props or fancy gimmicks. Just his two thumbs, thick glasses, and a pack of cards. It should also go to note that he is quite the humorist, often inserting word play and limericks into his presentations. It's quite wonderful, I do declare. We need more Tonys (Tonies? Tonis?) in the world.
5. Helder Guimaraes
Innovation squared is this mans middle name and his claim to fame is efficiency in card magic. Tony Chang, of note, also does this, but Helder does it on a different scale. Two completely different performing styles that really diverge from the same modern thought path of card thought. Helder has a way of really making you believe what he is doing is magic. His magic has an effortless quality about it, and everything is done for a reason. He doesn't cut the cards unless he has a good reason for it, and I completely respect, admire, and am a student of, that process of simplification via justification. Don't get me started on the Double Undercut.
6. Derek Delgaudio
What's so fascinating about Derek is his ability to be a complete legend, yet stay relatively mysterious. He has a show that I would kill to see with number 5 on this list, but the reason I love Derek so much, is because to me, he is what Ricky Jay would have been had he been born in our time. His unmatched skill with a deck of cards, coupled with his creative ideas, as well as a sort of shy, skilled character that he plays absolutely perfectly. All cardmen should strive to be more like derek. Or at least dress like him. the man has style.
7. David Williamson
So here we have this guy who could blow 90 percent of fellow magician's out of the water in regards to BOTH technical skill and shear entertainment. Dave's lecture was the first lecture I ever had the luxury of seeing, and it wasn't just the ideas he had. It was the way he presented himself. He literally did whatever he wanted, and people ate it up! He really is incredibly gifted, with a sense of humor unlike any that comedy or magic, has ever seen.
8. Daniel Garcia
Just squeezing in the number 8 spot is Daniel Garcia, the man I call father. With one of the most insanely creative repertoires I have ever seen out of any magician, as well as fantastic, bro-like personality, life is magic for him and his audiences. I think it's a wonderful thing how he can make his spectators feel. We should really learn a lot more from Daniel than how to lose hair, or what the most visual method is for a trick. We should learn that it's the magic moment that matters, it's what you frame to your audience. He can do this better than almost any young guy I have seen to date. Keep on rockin, man.
1. Juan Tamariz
This is an obvious choice. I mean, here is a man that actually does what we magician's pretend to do- magic. He is a wizard, far and away ahead of his time compared to the rest of us. For those that need gimmicks, you give Juan a deck of cards and an hour in front of an audience, and he will have them more astonished than if they went to a Copperfield show. Amazing Guy, and one that I look up to each and everyday I perform.
2. Dani DaOrtiz
This is the second in the list of "fucking wizards", and another fantastic performer to watch. The reason he is second rather than first is that, to me, sometimes I think magician's get more enjoyment out of his work than laymen. This is O.K. with me, because the way he works, he can do the exact same thing for magicians and laymen, and fool the shit out of both of them, all while saying "I don't know, I don't know!" Incredible magician that I learn from each and every time I see him work.
3. Lennart Green
Now we come to the magician I find the most entertaining to watch, bar none. He has the perfect mix of funny, mysterious, challenging, intriguing, and downright entertaining to captivate an audience for hours. Which is the other beautiful thing about Lennart: he seems to have this absolutely endless repertoire of original sleights and ideas, effects and methods. He is ever creating, ever innovating, and ever thinking. If there is one guy I would want to be when I grew up, Lennart would be it.
4. Tony Chang
This man is my personal hero when it comes to close up card magic. His work has this modern vernonesque quality about it that is just unmatched in other workers today. He doesn't need silly props or fancy gimmicks. Just his two thumbs, thick glasses, and a pack of cards. It should also go to note that he is quite the humorist, often inserting word play and limericks into his presentations. It's quite wonderful, I do declare. We need more Tonys (Tonies? Tonis?) in the world.
5. Helder Guimaraes
Innovation squared is this mans middle name and his claim to fame is efficiency in card magic. Tony Chang, of note, also does this, but Helder does it on a different scale. Two completely different performing styles that really diverge from the same modern thought path of card thought. Helder has a way of really making you believe what he is doing is magic. His magic has an effortless quality about it, and everything is done for a reason. He doesn't cut the cards unless he has a good reason for it, and I completely respect, admire, and am a student of, that process of simplification via justification. Don't get me started on the Double Undercut.
6. Derek Delgaudio
What's so fascinating about Derek is his ability to be a complete legend, yet stay relatively mysterious. He has a show that I would kill to see with number 5 on this list, but the reason I love Derek so much, is because to me, he is what Ricky Jay would have been had he been born in our time. His unmatched skill with a deck of cards, coupled with his creative ideas, as well as a sort of shy, skilled character that he plays absolutely perfectly. All cardmen should strive to be more like derek. Or at least dress like him. the man has style.
7. David Williamson
So here we have this guy who could blow 90 percent of fellow magician's out of the water in regards to BOTH technical skill and shear entertainment. Dave's lecture was the first lecture I ever had the luxury of seeing, and it wasn't just the ideas he had. It was the way he presented himself. He literally did whatever he wanted, and people ate it up! He really is incredibly gifted, with a sense of humor unlike any that comedy or magic, has ever seen.
8. Daniel Garcia
Just squeezing in the number 8 spot is Daniel Garcia, the man I call father. With one of the most insanely creative repertoires I have ever seen out of any magician, as well as fantastic, bro-like personality, life is magic for him and his audiences. I think it's a wonderful thing how he can make his spectators feel. We should really learn a lot more from Daniel than how to lose hair, or what the most visual method is for a trick. We should learn that it's the magic moment that matters, it's what you frame to your audience. He can do this better than almost any young guy I have seen to date. Keep on rockin, man.
What's awesome about that triumph
is figuring out just how in the hell you are going to clean up afterwards....
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