Category: Meeting Minutes

Now that the new library has opened in Burien, the members voted to return to the Burien Library starting in September.

Larry Dimmitt started off the evening with a mentalism effect called Fat Man. He had Dan Kennedy riffle shuffle a deck of cards and then Dan dealt thirteen cards on the table. Larry then asked Dan to hold the thirteen cards in a spread, and Larry was able to name each card, one by one, using nothing but the power of his mind.

Ed Loveland performed Bruce Bernstein’s PSI-Deck. Ed fanned a deck, placed a rubber band around the middle, and then asked two spectators to take a peek at one card in the deck. Ed was able to divine which cards both men had seen. He then dealt the cards one by one on the table and asked a third member to say stop. The selected card matched a prediction which was in a sealed envelope held by the third spectator.

Zinger was up next. While telling the story about the origin of the silver thaler, or dollar, in Joachimsthal Bohemia, he showed us four silver dollars and proceeded to push them through the back of his hand, one at a time.

Jim Earnshaw displayed some fine coin magic using two fifty-cent pieces. He vanished the coins on invisible Sky Hooks and brought them back, using an effect he learned from John Carney. He ended with Carney’s Slo-Mo Coins in which he slowly made coins disappear and reappear.

Mark Paulson showed us a three-coin vanish he had learned from a Joshua Jay lecture. He displayed three fifty-cent coins in his right hand and one by one he took them with his left hand and made them magically disappear.

Our last performer was Dan Kennedy, who presented a short mentalism effect utilizing three cards with a blue, a red, and a yellow circle on them. He asked Mark to think of one of the colors. After naming the color, Dan revealed to us that he had correctly predicted which color Mark would pick.

 

Larry Dimmitt began the June 4th meeting performing a mentalism effect. He brought out a blank deck of cards and asked Mark Paulson to draw a shape on it. Without looking at the cards, Larry was able to duplicate the shape Mark had drawn. Next, Larry did a mental effect in which he had Mark write down the name of any historical person he would like to have dinner with. Larry accurately read Mark’s mind and came up with the name, Kellar.

Jim Earnshaw performed John Carney’s Exchanged, Expanded and Extracted, a routine with silver and copper couns and a handkerchief.

Ken Marsh showed us an effect in which a ring is placed into a box, a rod is inserted through the box, and the ring is shown to have mysteriously appeared on the rod. He then performed “Future Mental”. While his back was turned, Ken asked Jim to pick any one of three colored balls, show it around, and place all three in a small box. Ken deduced which ball was chosen.

Hugh Castell borrowed four cards and did a three-phase routine in which two of the cards were turned over in his hands, but when he turned the whole packet over they were all face down.

Mark Paulson performed Larry Becker’s Ultimate Matrix. Freely chosen cards formed numbers which opened a combination lock which held three of the club members’ rings. Mark then brought out a yellow, blue and red stick, each containing random designs. Mark turned his back and asked Hugh to select any single design on all three sticks, get a mental image of the design, and then mix up the sticks in his hands. After Hugh covered the designs with his hands, Mark passed his own hand over the sticks and was able to divine which of the images Hugh was thinking of.