April 2011 Minutes

Jim Earnshaw started off the evening with a ring to impossible location by David Regal that got a good response from all. J.R. Russell performed a torn and restored cigarette paper by Patrick Page that had a great kicker ending when the second hidden paper he was using to explain the trick was restored as … Continue reading “April 2011 Minutes”

Jim Earnshaw started off the evening with a ring to impossible location by David Regal that got a good response from all.

J.R. Russell performed a torn and restored cigarette paper by Patrick Page that had a great kicker ending when the second hidden paper he was using to explain the trick was restored as well.

Samuel Shaefer performed a couple of nicely polished transposition effects involving signed dollars as well as signed business cards. He also performed a nice piece of mentalism where a thought of person’s initial appeared on his arm.

Mark Paulson did a nice piece of mentalism where he was able to predict which image of a painting a person chose. Mark usually uses nice physical revelations for his tricks instead just written messages which make for a very nice presentation.

Hugh Castell did a nice production effect where an image of USB drives on a flat card appeared in his hands. He followed this production with a nice color changing knife routine using the two color USB drives instead or knives. The two tricks flowed well together.

Ken Marsh showed a a paper and dice trick where the spectator rolled a dice and Ken would snip a corner off of a folded piece of paper and after unfolding it had the same number of holes as the die roll.

Roger Needham performed a very funny routine involving an origami “pink African ooh-ahh bird” that ended in a card revelation inside a magically produced small egg. Roger’s performance was very professional and polished.

John Cameron performed a mind reading routine with a special deck of cards. The spectator was asked to make various free selections and John was able to correctly name all five cards the spectator chose as well as describe the special art work on the cards.

Larry Dimmit did a nice prediction effect where he had someone stop at a page with various images on it that turned out to be the match to his predicted choice in an envelope.

Roger Sylwester performed two different versions of torn and restored newspaper that were both very clean and magical.

George Zuk performed a nice ink reading card trick where he would tell you the card in his hand simply by feel.