Our club culture offers a safe, supportive environment where members can try out new presentations and get positive feedback on how to make them better. Our November meeting found many members trying out new effects which revealed our unplanned theme of the month, “Pretty Close.”
Bill Murray started the evening with a new psychic effect where he had three spectators randomly choose cards and he divined what each card was. Well, he got two out of three. Pretty close. John Cameron unveiled a new effect he created using geometry and playing cards along with a Goldilocks theme. It was a fun effect but John only got two out of three cards correct. Pretty close.
Michael Jacobs wrote randomly selected numbers on a balloon that were calculated to arrive at the number nine which matched the prediction he had placed in the balloon. Fortunately Michael put a line under the nine in the prediction otherwise it could have been seen as a six which would have been pretty close. But in this case it was right on. Larry Dimmit hypnotized a half dollar that stood up and spun around on its own. This one was also right on.
Ralph Huntzinger shared some books by Tobias Beckworth and Max Howard to keep us thinking creatively. Roger Sylwester offered some magic VHS tapes that were grabbed up by the group. He also showed us some beautiful wooden wands.
Hugh Castell shared a story about his grandfather’s ring which visually changed into a quarter and then back into a ring. Ben Eskenazi showed us some mentalism by divining a word freely selected from a book. Chuck Kleiner showed a genie bottle and flying carpet where the genie left the bottle and magically returned when the bottle was place on the flying carpet.
Reymarx Gereda divided a deck in half keeping one and giving the other to a spectator. After numerous shuffles and cuts each half was dealt into four piles. All of the cards on top of Reymarx’s piles were kings. All of the cards on the spectators piles were supposed to be aces but only two were. Pretty close. Mark Paulson had three spectators each choose a page from a book. He divined two and missed the third one by five pages. However, he had a prediction that said he would miss one by five so it turned out he was both pretty close and right on.
It’s great being able to try out new magic and get positive feedback from peers. If you’re ever in Seattle come with your magic and play with us.